Category Archives: Health Care

Last Minute Women’s March Sign Ideas

January 21, 2017Activism, Art, Awesome Event, Ecuadorian, Environment, Feminism, Gay, gOD, Government, Green, happiness, Health Care, Inspiration, Latina, Lesbian, Love, Love is Love, north carolina, Political, Politics, Queer, The South, Woman Owned Business, WomenAlice Walker, Audre Lorde, be brave, Cara Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, March, Maria Emilia Borja, NC, Princess Leigh, Protest, recycled, resistance, Sign Ideas, Star Wars, Voltaire, Wilmington, Women's March, Women's March Sign Ideascara007

If you are anything like us, we can get real close to the time of whatever-it-may-be and then get what needs to be done, last minute style, done. Don’t get us wrong, we do it well under pressure. The Women’s March tomorrow is no different. We are going to wake up around 7AM to get our signs done. I did some image research and quote digging and came up with 10 good sign suggestions off the World Wide Web.

We go high.
Your silence will not protect you.
Nasty Woman
“Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities” Voltaire
Hate Kills
“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” Audre Lorde
Woman’s place is in the resistance. (in reference to Carrie Fisher…Princess Leigh….Star Wars. You get it.)
I am stronger than fear.
Truth matters.
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker

Get your recycled pieces of boxes, cardboard, old sheets and get to creating. We will collectively be with every human at every women’s march tomorrow. We love you.

Love trumps hate. Be brave.

Cara and Maria Emilia

What Can 19 Billion Do?

July 29, 2014Activism, facebook, Government, happiness, Health Care, News, Political, Social Media, whatsappbetter things for the world, evil facebook, evil whatsapp, facebook, not smart for the world, what can 19 billion do, whatsapp, zuckerberg suckscara007

Here are a few things that we could do for less than 19 billion. We can even do a couple of these at a time. Why 19 billion? Because recently Facebook just purchased the “Whatsapp” a texting app for that amount.

1. Making sure every man women and child would have clean running water – estimated 10 billion dollars.

2. UNICEF estimates that vaccinating a child against measles and rubella costs less than $1.50. That’s less than your coffee. And its worth more than a text. In 2011, over 400 people a day died from measles. Over a hundred babies a day were born with birth defects caused by rubella in 2008.

3. How about higher education!? Covering the cost of attendance at the Harvard College for one year for over 400,000 students. And that’s Harvard, a private, ridiculously expensive university.

4. 2014 National School Lunch Program Budget – 14 Billion. Hey, how about feeding something healthy to our kids?

5. Or how about cancer research. The enacted FY 2014 budget for National Cancer Institute is $4.923 billion. Or maybe, just maybe, making sure those 47 million uninsured Americans get some sort of health benefits.

I am sure that the owners of Facebook were told that the app had magical powers that let you travel through time, teletransport, and that there was only one in the world, and it wasn’t simply just a texting device, right? Right!?!?

Choose where your pennies go.

– Mensa

You Have a Yard? Like Flowers? Honey? Fresh Air?

February 16, 2014Activism, Bees, Clean House, Green, Health Care, healthy, How-Toaloe vera, areca palm, baby rubber, bamboo palm, bee flowers, bees, boston fern, chinese evergreen, ficus alii, flowers, Fresh air, gerbera daisy, honey, house plants, mass cane, pygmy date palmcara007

Change the world one bee at a time. :]

Breathe for almost free, no replacement filters necessary.

– Mushpa

Health Care 101… The New Obama Care Explained

August 29, 2013Activism, Gay, Government, Health Care, News, Political, Review, You Tubeaffordable care act, Cara Reynolds, health insurance, health reform 101, Maria Emilia Borja, Mushpa Y Mensa, obama care, understanding obama care, universal health insuranceMaria Emilia

Recently I’ve been looking into insurance, and understanding this new health care reform. Not being insured by a workplace, being self-employed and having one more year to be covered under my parent’s insurance, it is time that we get this new “Obama Care” straight.

Positives? We actually might have some sort of resemblance to decent (or almost barely there) health coverage in the Untied States. We are not to Canada’s or European standards, but we have to admit that for the country where we live in, where $$$ is power, this is a breath of fresh air.

Here is a small video that shows in 4 minutes how this new Affordable Health Care Act, will function.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZkk6ueZt-U]

Negatives? YES! It is still not UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE, by the people for the people. We will still run insurance through these huge corporations, and they will still be making profits on human health, and lives. The basis for all this system is STILL profit. Insurance companies will be able to control the market place, “The Exchange”, just like all other market places, are operated by economic incentives, and insurance companies will raise premiums if they find that they are not making business. 31 million new covered?…by insurance companies.

I am still a little fuzzy about this reform, but why should it be clear? It does not seem to be straight forward, and it is only a bandage to the sickness that health coverage is in this country. It is like trying to fight cancer with cough medicine and aspirin. It might get rid of the pain for an hour or two, but the sickness still grows.

Let’s hope that 2014 brings on positive results, and more awareness on what actually needs to be done….FIND A REAL CURE!

Here’s another video that explains further this new law.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmdbllWOOzs&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLBfqBziFkXIfmUHxQ0teDRppDa-VctX7c]

Frustrated but always caring,

Mensa