Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label fabled homeland security

A top bus safety concern for disabled people

Hello concerned PennDOT managers, *  Thank you for providing this format for expressing our important road safety concerns.  * I have been living in Central Pennsylvania for two years now, after relocating here from Idaho.  Out there, I worked driving large trucks for twenty years, plus focused on aircraft safety at Horizon Air for six. In addition, I’ve worked as a newspaper opinion contributor, sometimes writing with a strong emphasis on highway safety issues. * As a disabled person, I’ve been working at Skills of Central Pennsylvania (Benner Pike) since early 2018, and am grateful for this type of productive work. From my house, I catch the bus to and from Skills most days and have made several noteworthy observations along the way. * A majority of my fellow bus passengers are also disabled and some don’t have much of a voice. I have sometimes noted safety concerns that fellow work colleagues seldom address (or maybe don’t notice), so I try to speak up for ...

Dreaming of Fabled Homeland Security

http://www.wrjournal.com/articles/2007/01/09/news/local_news/tstory.txt Looking for a break from the cold, I curled underneath my baby’s stove in her soul kitchen. As Ursa Major ascended over Queen’s Crown and shone through a brittle windowpane a hypnagogic reverie fluttered through my comatose state: A King perched high above worldly problems laid aside his bubble swatter in the ivory tower and descended to a secret room beneath the magic reservoir moat. Through a flat screen-changing mirror , he gazed upon happenings of the Realm, witnessing Twilight episodes of good commoners securing the homeland: A resort director bussing tables made certain that nothing went to waste. The President of a dozen banks polished off her pennies and placed them in a Leadville copper basin. An airline executive dashed across the ice to help unload a cargo full of skis. An attorney and his insurance executive shoveled snow off an elderly lady’s roof during their lunch break. The king rubbed his eyes in ...