NC "End of Life Option" bill fails.....Arctic sea ice coverage shrinks to record low:

Ice and Glaciers going away! NOAA Report this week:

Ice coverage recorded in October was 32.2 percent below the 1981-2010 average, according to the NOAA, and the 10 smallest extents of sea ice coverage for the month of October have all occurred since 2007.                                                         

  

     The data also found Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, the Hawaiian islands and Oceania all recorded temperatures among the highest ever recorded for October in 2019, and the world’s average sea surface temperature ranked second-warmest ever recorded for the year to date, and a fraction of a degree colder than 2016’s record warmth.
                                                                                                                               

NC "End of Life Option" bill, HR-879 fails again: Not even allowed to be read on the floor.

A bi-partisan bill to give certified terminally ill patients 'the right' to determine how, when, and where they will die, was blocked once again by the Republican House Speaker and pressures from conservatives to not even allow the bill to read on the House floor. It died in committee. Eight US states enacted the law: Oregon, Washington, Montana, California, Hawaii, Colorado, New Jersey, District of Columbia

Huge pressure from the Christian Coalition and the Catholic Church - in concert with powerful NC conservatives convinced the Republican leadership not to even read the bill, much less put it to a vote. Over 70% of Americans polled, said they were 'in favor' of a dying patient to at least have 'the right' make the decision of how they will die, to allow them to 'pull the plug' - with loved ones present, plus a physician and a nurse in attendance.

     The end of life would come through a legal prescription of drugs (an overdose) approved by two different physicians. Canada already has the law in effect. Australia just passed the law two months ago. In Europe, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland have long had the law in effect.
So far, in the US, only 'Blue' states (Democratic) have succeeded in passing it.  The Republican Party 'fears' that even if ONE southern state succeeds in passing the law - a landslide rush by other southern states will follow. The Christian Coalition and the Catholic Church along with wealthy southern conservatives have, so far', 'keep the south in line."

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I will be publishing my book, "My Right to Choose, Dying with Dignity', 215 pages,  in the coming 4-6 weeks. It covers the entire 'Right to Die' movement starting in Switzerland in 1940 right up to the failed NC bill HR-879, just a few weeks ago. For more info on North Carolina's efforts here, go to the website: 'Dying Right', headquartered in Hillsborough, NC but in weekly conference with several other states among the 27 that are now also trying to pass this type bill.

Trust in US Government is fading:

    MSN report today shows that 68% of Americans have no trust  or 'little trust' in their politicians. This is up 9% from a year ago. While the president vowed to Make America Great Again the disparity in wealth between the top 1% and the median US household income grew wider than ever. The top 10% of US wage earners are doing well....Middle-Class, even those families with 2 or 3 children, those with incomes of over $100,000, are seeing budgeting pressures those they did not feel eighteen months ago. Wage increases are flat, not keeping up with the high-rollers that garner most of the headlines.

                                                                   

                                                    

Trump's Health?????????  Whutzzsup? Traditionally, a president's annual physical is announced days in advance to the press. Not his time. Late Saturday afternoon Trump clandestinely visited Walter Reed Army Hospital for 'partial physical'??? Could it be hemorrhoids and he did not want the world's press discussing them? We don't know what the reason was., 

Duke rises to No. 1 and UNC rises to No, 5 here in the early days of the new basketball season. Kentucky got flummoxed yesterday, losing badly to a totally unranked Evansville team.

HIGH DRAMA this Wednesday: Gordon Sondlond, EU ambassador is now like 'a deer in the headlights. He was caught lying under oath, twice changing his story about 'what he new about Ukraine and the extortion of the  Ukrainian president,

Opinion: I think – that after this week – about 60% of America will have decided Trump Must GO!