The book itself is all about such inhuman indignities both as a “resident”of the long-term care facility as well as a “guest” at a middle school cafeteria when we 343 aged, frail, individuals were ejected from a church where we were initially bussed from the institution, “Miracle Center” and left to suffocate in a sealed bus container in the parking lot of the church. Physical intolerable cruelty was magnified by endless instances of “nursing personnel” yelling and talking down to the helpless,elderly patients who were denied food, water, sleep, and prescribed medication and doctor mandated care. My background as a Biology major at college and my employment at a local hospital in the northeast gave me a unique perspective on overall patient care. But nothing remotely prepared me for the absolutely inhuman treatment that we “residents” received from a wide variety of medical “professionals” during my 4-month residence at the “Miracle Center’ institution, nor the abomination of a totally bungled, criminally negligent transport between the “skilled” nursing facility, the unsanctioned church destination, and finally, what we all called the “cafeteria-from-hell” where we were forced to ride out the brunt of the devastation from the hurricane. As traumatic as all of the transportation experiences; before, during and after the hurricane so disgustingly were, that treatment we all received in our facility rooms was even more inhumane and tragic. I made every effort to report these flagrant abuses of basic human indecency to the proper state medical authorities, but they as well as the institution itself always seemed to be hell-bent on covering up, dismissing. or otherwise denying that such atrocities even took place. I desperately reach out to readers from all walks of life to spread the word about the dismaying reality of what truly happens daily and incessantly in these “butcher shops” all across the United States of America and, indeed, around the world. You’re hearing this from someone right in the thick of this obscene and criminal nightmare from hell with the hope that someone, somewhere, is in a position to stop it before more innocent elderly lives are lost!

This is a short book that was originally called forth by a double anniversary, the centennial of the Fulton steamboat and the three hundredth anniversary of Hudson’s great discovery. The author has had the benefit of a long experience with the places which he describes, and his family has enjoyed unusual advantages through personal acquaintance with many of the river captains. After describing Fulton and his great invention, the author passes on to the development of the river navigation. He recounts the gradual evolution from the primitive crafts of the early nineteenth century to the palatial steamers of the present. He gives miscellaneous data relating to the monopoly of traffic, to disasters of historic importance; he includes a few anecdotes, and concludes his text with a brief narrative of Hudson's voyage and the projected memorials.

A collection of ballads, poems and lyrics by singer-songwriter balladeer David Lear (The Nob Hill Billys, Faith River Worship, The Que) with most entries written while living on a farm outside Austin, Texas.

Clairvoyant thriller about a down and out car salesman whose marriage is on the rocks. He begins seeing nightmarish images of future killings occurring to people around him. In trying to help, he goes to the cops only to become the main suspect in a cat and mouse chase while body count rises. Written in screenplay style by balladeer David Lear and film maker Michael Germaine.

EVER SINCE THE FEDERAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996 HUGE RADIO GROUPS HAVE TAKEN THEIR EYE OFF THE BALL IN SERVICING WHAT THEY CLAIMED WERE THEIR THREE MAIN CUSTOMER GROUPS: 1. THEIR LISTENERS 2. THEIR ADVERTISERS 3. THEIR EMPLOYEES THIS IS THE JOURNEY OF ONE PERSON THROUGH THESE TRAGIC TIMES OF THE DEMISE OF A ONCE GREAT INDUSTRY

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