Son of Sigh...

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The members of the Secret Service protect the President and high ranking

twits in the Bush Administration. They are usually identified by their dark

suits and earpieces connected to radios, or by the way they seem to always

be talking into their shoulders. They are also connected to the department

of the Treasury which handles things like counterfeiting and currency. When

you see motorcades going through Washington, D.C., you might even find these

folks running alongside the President's car.

 

We were told that the trainees for this branch drill at our high school from

time to time and that we should just ignore them. So, we end up with dozens

of adolescent-looking " trainees " standing around talking into their

shoulders. For some reason this irritates me - hence the desire to drop my

pants and moon them. However, given the current climate of this

Administration, I would not want to disappear into a secret prison

somewhere. So I ignore them and whine to you nice folks 8).

 

Cynthia

 

 

On

Behalf Of jo

Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:16 AM

 

Re: Sigh....

 

HI Cynthia

 

Maybe it's because I'm not American but I don't understand your post -

please enlighten me.

 

Jo

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" Cynthia Gadarian " <cgadarian

 

Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:00 AM

RE: Sigh....

 

 

> Thanks very much for the advice on Hindu, Moslem and Kosher diets.

>

> On another topic:

>

> In my long life, I have taught at many schools. I currently teach at a

very

> large public high school in Maryland.

>

> I have NEVER had this situation before. Our school is used for training

> little baby Secret Service Agents to become big boys and girls Secret

> Service Agents. Out of nowhere, a bunch of them will be in the halls,

> standing around speaking into their shirts and wearing headphones. We are

> instructed to ignore them. However, when one of these " training " events

> goes down, it is hard not to trip OVER them, since there are so many of

> them. I can just see the headline now: " Suspiciously large Vegan

> schoolteacher wrestled to the ground by fledgling Secret Service trainees

> for engaging in 'Trainee mooning' " .

>

> Cynthia

>

>

>

>

> On

> Behalf Of sheri lucas

> Monday, November 14, 2005 1:19 AM

>

> RE: Sigh....

>

>

> Hi Cynthia,

>

> I'm sorry to hear about your health problems. The last thing you need is

to

> be disrespected about your veganism!!!

>

> The examples you give suggets that the foods you will need must be liquids

> (more or less). Is this right?

>

> When I was in a hospital having my son, the staff was clueless but tried

to

> accomodate me. It turned out that many of the vegetarian meals were vegan.

> If your diet isn't really limited, that might be the case. They gave me a

> lot of bread and peanut butter. Eek. Is the hospital used to accomodating

> vegetarians? Maybe you could look through their meal plans and find out

> which of the staple items are accidentally vegan? Maybe writing a letter

> would help them to respect your position and better understand that they

are

>

> certain to have other patients with similar needs (e.g., people who follow

a

>

> kosher diet)?

>

> Sorry if this isn't terribly helpful. It's too bad that you need to worry

> about such an easily remedied problem! If the staff isn't going to budge,

> what is going to stop visitors from bringing food to you? That sounds a

> saner approach to me than going without, though I also like the Gandhi

> nature of your strike. You could put signs on the doors " Hungry patient.

> This hospital refuses to accomodate vegan patients. " That could get

covered

> by the media! That might change their tune. You'd think you were

> expecting them to offer you prohibitively expensive gourmet meals with

hard

> to find ingredients!

>

> Best wishes,

> Sheri

>

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