Voice. Witness. Commentary. Opinion. Rant. Christian Catholic of Irish descent. Citizen of the World. Participant in the Democracy of the US. Angry but optimistic. Say what you think; I think what I say. Change your world yourself. Doesn't take a village; it takes you. "Right now, it's your tomorrow."-Van Halen...Yes, right now is our tomorrow, what are you waiting for? At least speak up so we can hear you. I will. Lincoln said he was "more concerned what the grandson will be than what the grandfather was"...not bad advice from a man who saved our young country. Van Halen and Lincoln quoted in the same About...I'm not even angry now, just inspired to speak up.
Health care is not the great mystery the pols are making it out to be. Competition. Quality ratings for health care systems. Transparency. Electronic Medical Records. Access to information.
Competition is good for everyone. Especially true with health care. The level of patient customer service will rise when health care systems, providers, and professionals are competing for our money. Even more importantly, industry standards for health care systems, providers, etc. If they are not being met, federal reimbursements don't get paid to them. Out of pocket costs for patients will rise and they'll go elsewhere. Why pay for something that isn't good? It's that simple.
Transparency. Across every procedure, every referral, and every prescription. A mathematical value to the % cost of plan payment and individual payment share. Why shouldn't all individuals have the right to negotiate "cash" rates for their health care? It's good biz.
Electronic records management. Efficiency, safety, and portability. Nothing else needs to be added.
Right now is is our tomorrow.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Be Loud
Be loud. Now. Be really loud.
In praise of our first community organizers in America. True servant leaders. Our Founding Fathers.
This is our season of Independence. Yes, the season of Independence. Tell someone and ask them to tell someone else. Viral is good food. We forget that from the first day the Declaration of Independence was signed much time passed until the last signature fell across the document months later. It was a season of courage and passion in our Founding Father's militant vision of what the promise of America could be.We need to honor them not just on one day but every day of the year and especially in the months that follow July imagining the ongoing struggle and risks they endured to see the Declaration fully signed and committed to.
In praise of our first community organizers, true servant leaders, I suggest that we be loud. Be emboldened by their courage and let our efforts shape little differences in our own communities every day.
I resent the tone that community organizer is spoken in when referencing President Obama. He didn't get my vote; won't in another 4. It deserves more respect regardless of your politics. There's a denigrating tone that community organizer is spoken in by far too many who are too smart to be so dismissive of such service. While I might not change my mind about President Obama, I respect his efforts on the street level serving the community. This isn't about the Obama campaign as mighty and effective as it was. This isn't about the chosen one's political nimbleness. The perception of community organizers perpetuated by media and candidate opposition does not recognize what it truly is, servant leadership. Perceptions drive realities and realities drive action. Lack of passion in their relative realities results in apathy. Apathy and community organizer do not share the same mindset. They are mutually exclusive.
The Community organizer.
It's not a just a tag, a resume enhancer...it's the very essence of American politics. It's the grass roots of the most grass roots efforts. In the community, doing the work that far too many who seek office are above. Looking into the faces of those whom they would represent if elected and actually serving them. Serving your neighbors and community for no better reason that to make your community better. What could be more American?
There's an honor to community organizing that we're missing in America...with the divisive partisan politics and sound bite driven 24 hours news and information...the message is lost, the meaning of what is said is being driven to keyword searches and summaries by politicized journalists who print all the news that's fit to print and all their opinion they can muster within their polarizing limits or word count defined articles. This is surely not just a liberal or conservative media bias that I reference. It is the loss of journalistic integrity at critical junctures in the political process when the talking head becomes the story and the story becomes the white noise of ratings. It is the lack of objectivity to recongize what is good that is happening in our country along side all that is falling apart. There is no glamour in good. It is mundane. It is not ratings. The good work, selfless acts of many, are overshadowed by the sensationlized stories of those whose 15 minutes were up years ago.
Be loud. Tell your children to pay attention. Tell your friend to watch the horizon. There's good stuff out there. Really good things on the horizon as they always are in a country that doesn't know how to stay down for long.
In praise of our first community organizers, our Founding Fathers-true servant leaders. It's the grass roots that defines America. Think about it for a moment. Our first community organizers kicked ass in a mighty inspiring way. They risked their fortunes and their lives to gain Independence. They were as grass roots as one could imagine. It's in their words, so eloquently written 233 years ago, that we need to look for inspiration for our next 233 years. Their vision for America was not altogether clear and we have failed at times, as a Nation, to live up to the promise of what America should be. But we will live up to it. Be loud. Really loud. Tell someone.
Be Loud
Be loud. Now. Be really loud.
In praise of our first community organizers in America. True servant leaders. Our Founding Fathers.
This is our season of Independence. Yes, the season of Independence. Tell someone and ask them to tell someone else. Viral is good food. We forget that from the first day the Declaration of Independence was signed much time passed until the last signature fell across the document months later. It was a season of courage and passion in our Founding Father's militant vision of what the promise of America could be.We need to honor them not just on one day but every day of the year and especially in the months that follow July imagining the ongoing struggle and risks they endured to see the Declaration fully signed and committed to.
In praise of our first community organizers, true servant leaders, I suggest that we be loud. Be emboldened by their courage and let our efforts shape little differences in our own communities every day.
I resent the tone that community organizer is spoken in when referencing President Obama. He didn't get my vote; won't in another 4. It deserves more respect regardless of your politics. There's a denigrating tone that community organizer is spoken in by far too many who are too smart to be so dismissive of such service. While I might not change my mind about President Obama, I respect his efforts on the street level serving the community. This isn't about the Obama campaign as mighty and effective as it was. This isn't about the chosen one's political nimbleness. The perception of community organizers perpetuated by media and candidate opposition does not recognize what it truly is, servant leadership. Perceptions drive realities and realities drive action. Lack of passion in their relative realities results in apathy. Apathy and community organizer do not share the same mindset. They are mutually exclusive.
The Community organizer.
It's not a just a tag, a resume enhancer...it's the very essence of American politics. It's the grass roots of the most grass roots efforts. In the community, doing the work that far too many who seek office are above. Looking into the faces of those whom they would represent if elected and actually serving them. Serving your neighbors and community for no better reason that to make your community better. What could be more American?
There's an honor to community organizing that we're missing in America...with the divisive partisan politics and sound bite driven 24 hours news and information...the message is lost, the meaning of what is said is being driven to keyword searches and summaries by politicized journalists who print all the news that's fit to print and all their opinion they can muster within their polarizing limits or word count defined articles. This is surely not just a liberal or conservative media bias that I reference. It is the loss of journalistic integrity at critical junctures in the political process when the talking head becomes the story and the story becomes the white noise of ratings. It is the lack of objectivity to recongize what is good that is happening in our country along side all that is falling apart. There is no glamour in good. It is mundane. It is not ratings. The good work, selfless acts of many, are overshadowed by the sensationlized stories of those whose 15 minutes were up years ago.
Be loud. Tell your children to pay attention. Tell your friend to watch the horizon. There's good stuff out there. Really good things on the horizon as they always are in a country that doesn't know how to stay down for long.
In praise of our first community organizers, our Founding Fathers-true servant leaders. It's the grass roots that defines America. Think about it for a moment. Our first community organizers kicked ass in a mighty inspiring way. They risked their fortunes and their lives to gain Independence. They were as grass roots as one could imagine. It's in their words, so eloquently written 233 years ago, that we need to look for inspiration for our next 233 years. Their vision for America was not altogether clear and we have failed at times, as a Nation, to live up to the promise of what America should be. But we will live up to it. Be loud. Really loud. Tell someone.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Be Loud
Be loud. Now. Be really loud.
In praise of our first community organizers in America. True servant leaders. Our Founding Fathers.
This is our season of Independence. Yes, the season of Independence. Tell someone and ask them to tell someone else. Viral is good food. We forget that from the first day the Declaration of Independence was signed much time passed until the last signature fell across the document months later. It was a season of courage and passion in our Founding Father's militant vision of what the promise of America could be.
We need to honor them not just on one day but every day of the year and especially in the months that follow July imagining the ongoing struggle and risks they endured to see the Declaration fully signed and committed to.
In praise of our first community organizers, true servant leaders, I suggest that we be loud. Be emboldened by their courage and let our efforts shape little differences in our own communities every day.
I resent the tone that community organizer is spoken in when referencing President Obama. He didn't get my vote; won't in another 4. It deserves more respect regardless of your politics. There's a denigrating tone that community organizer is spoken in by far too many who are too smart to be so dismissive of such service. While I might not change my mind about President Obama, I respect his efforts on the street level serving the community. This isn't about the Obama campaign as mighty and effective as it was. This isn't about the chosen one's political nimbleness. The perception of community organizers perpetuated by media and candidate opposition that does not recognize what it truly is, servant leadership. Perceptions drive realities and realities drive action. Lack of passion in their relative realities results in apathy. Apathy and community organizer do not share the same mindset. They are mutually exclusive.
The Community organizer.
It's not a just a tag, a resume enhancer...it's the very essence of American politics. It's the grass roots of the most grass roots efforts. In the community, doing the work that far too many who seek office are above. Looking into the faces of those whom they would represent if elected and actually serving them. Serving your neighbors and community for no better reason that to make your community better. What could be more American?
There's an honor to community organizing that we're missing in America...with the divisive partisan politics and sound bite driven 24 hours news and information...the message is lost, the meaning of what is said is being driven to keyword searches and summaries by politicized journalists who print all the news that's fit to print and all their opinion they can muster within their polarizing limits or word count defined articles. This is surely not just a liberal or conservative media bias that I reference. It is the loss of journalistic integrity at critical junctures in the political process when the talking head becomes the story and the story becomes the white noise of ratings. It is the lack of objectivity to recongize what is good that is happening in our country along side all that is falling apart. There is no glamour in good. It is mundane. It is not ratings. The good work, selfless acts of many, are overshadowed by the sensationlized stories of those whose 15 minutes were up years ago.
Be loud. Tell your children to pay attention. Tell your friend to watch the horizon. There's good stuff out there. Really good things on the horizon as they always are in a country that doesn't know how to stay down for long.
In praise of our first community organizers, our Founding Fathers-true servant leaders. It's the grass roots that defines America. Think about it for a moment. Our first community organizers kicked ass in a mighty inspiring way. They risked their fortunes and their lives to gain Independence. They were as grass roots as one could imagine. It's in their words, so eloquently written 233 years ago, that we need to look for inspiration for our next 233 years. Their vision for America was not altogether clear and we have failed at times, as a Nation, to live up to the promise of what America should be. But we will live up to it. Be loud. Really loud. Tell someone.
In praise of our first community organizers in America. True servant leaders. Our Founding Fathers.
This is our season of Independence. Yes, the season of Independence. Tell someone and ask them to tell someone else. Viral is good food. We forget that from the first day the Declaration of Independence was signed much time passed until the last signature fell across the document months later. It was a season of courage and passion in our Founding Father's militant vision of what the promise of America could be.
We need to honor them not just on one day but every day of the year and especially in the months that follow July imagining the ongoing struggle and risks they endured to see the Declaration fully signed and committed to.
In praise of our first community organizers, true servant leaders, I suggest that we be loud. Be emboldened by their courage and let our efforts shape little differences in our own communities every day.
I resent the tone that community organizer is spoken in when referencing President Obama. He didn't get my vote; won't in another 4. It deserves more respect regardless of your politics. There's a denigrating tone that community organizer is spoken in by far too many who are too smart to be so dismissive of such service. While I might not change my mind about President Obama, I respect his efforts on the street level serving the community. This isn't about the Obama campaign as mighty and effective as it was. This isn't about the chosen one's political nimbleness. The perception of community organizers perpetuated by media and candidate opposition that does not recognize what it truly is, servant leadership. Perceptions drive realities and realities drive action. Lack of passion in their relative realities results in apathy. Apathy and community organizer do not share the same mindset. They are mutually exclusive.
The Community organizer.
It's not a just a tag, a resume enhancer...it's the very essence of American politics. It's the grass roots of the most grass roots efforts. In the community, doing the work that far too many who seek office are above. Looking into the faces of those whom they would represent if elected and actually serving them. Serving your neighbors and community for no better reason that to make your community better. What could be more American?
There's an honor to community organizing that we're missing in America...with the divisive partisan politics and sound bite driven 24 hours news and information...the message is lost, the meaning of what is said is being driven to keyword searches and summaries by politicized journalists who print all the news that's fit to print and all their opinion they can muster within their polarizing limits or word count defined articles. This is surely not just a liberal or conservative media bias that I reference. It is the loss of journalistic integrity at critical junctures in the political process when the talking head becomes the story and the story becomes the white noise of ratings. It is the lack of objectivity to recongize what is good that is happening in our country along side all that is falling apart. There is no glamour in good. It is mundane. It is not ratings. The good work, selfless acts of many, are overshadowed by the sensationlized stories of those whose 15 minutes were up years ago.
Be loud. Tell your children to pay attention. Tell your friend to watch the horizon. There's good stuff out there. Really good things on the horizon as they always are in a country that doesn't know how to stay down for long.
In praise of our first community organizers, our Founding Fathers-true servant leaders. It's the grass roots that defines America. Think about it for a moment. Our first community organizers kicked ass in a mighty inspiring way. They risked their fortunes and their lives to gain Independence. They were as grass roots as one could imagine. It's in their words, so eloquently written 233 years ago, that we need to look for inspiration for our next 233 years. Their vision for America was not altogether clear and we have failed at times, as a Nation, to live up to the promise of what America should be. But we will live up to it. Be loud. Really loud. Tell someone.
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