Life and death | Beth Byrnes

Thought proof

Posted on December 8, 2013 30 Comments

This past week CNN has been airing a special program about three people who apparently died and were brought back to life. All three had experiences of an afterlife that they viewed as being heaven. In all three cases, the physical death was for an extended period of time and they had similar experiences of […]

Whose values?

Posted on October 14, 2013 29 Comments

This is Columbus Day. I just heard that there is a movement to change this holiday to Native American’s Day. Sounds like a good idea to me. That made me think about a couple of things going on right now. For one, one of our three parties is holding their annual “Values Voter Summit” this […]

Doped and duped

Posted on October 9, 2013 20 Comments

Maybe a deal will be struck by the time this post goes ‘live’. Irrespective of what transpires (and I sure hope we will avert this debt ceiling disaster), what I am writing here still applies, as what underlies the latest fire drill has been brewing for decades. There is a pole shift taking place that […]

Health care for the privileged or for all?

Posted on October 3, 2013 6 Comments

Which would you prefer? I am pretty clear on what I would rather have. Health care must be recognized as a right, not a privilege. For the people who slavishly repeat the meme that our Federal government cannot provide any efficient service, I categorically disagree. There are at least five excellent examples I know of […]

We the sheeple …

Posted on September 24, 2013 9 Comments

Over the weekend, watching all my usual news shows, I was bombarded by talk of the looming twin crises of government funding and debt ceiling showdowns. The media, in their usual, ‘if it bleeds, it leads’ fashion, were stirring the cauldron again, instilling a growing sense of dread that something terrible is about to happen, […]