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I knew this, but I wanted everybody else to know it.

READ THIS TO SAVE YOUR LIFE

I have had many CPR classes over the last few years but was never told this….. Have you ever thought about it ❤️

When you are alone and have a heart attack. What are you gonna do then?

A really good post that can't be shared often enough:

1. Take a 2 minute break and read this:

Let's say it's 5:25 pm and you're driving home after an unusually hard day's work.

2. You are really tired and frustrated.

All of a sudden you have chest pains. They are starting to radiate in the arm and jaw. It feels like being stabbed in the chest and heart. You're only a few miles away from the nearest hospital or home.

3. Unfortunately you don't know if you can make it..

4. Maybe you've taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn't told you how to help yourself.

5. How do you survive a heart attack when you're alone when it happens? A person who is feeling weak and whose heart is beating hard has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

6. But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very strongly! Deep breaths before every cough. Coughing should be repeated every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally.

7. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and coughing movements boost the heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. Here's how cardiac arrest victims can make it to the hospital for the right treatment.

8. Cardiologists say if someone gets this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.

9. FOR WOMEN: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. Rarely have crushing chest pain or pain in the arms. Often have indigestion and tightness across the back at the bra line plus sudden fatigue.

...Thank you, you're helping save lives by spreading this message.

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Funny Times

Do any of you take the Funny Times? A newspaper from the liberal side of politics, along with cartoons from every genre.

I got my copy today, and on the section called Planet Proctor,from Phil Proctor, there is a bit subtitled Pick Up Lines For Seniors.

Since these are copyrighted, I am going to repeat just two, which I found particularly funny. So I may go to a bar and use one, or both, of them.

"My teeth and I no longer sleep together, but you and I definitely should."

"Hey, sweetie! I've fallen here - can you pick me up?"

Copied from Pick Up Lines for Seniors, page 15, May 2024 edition.

carol in austin

#Planet Proctor #Funny Times #May 2024

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The trumpeter and prison

The trumpeter is deliberately doing and saying things that have been designated as no-nos in an effort to push the buttons of the judge(s) and lawyer(s).

Seems FOX has spread untruths about the jury pool, and the trumpeter has repeated in his own fingers on his social network these same untruths. He can be sent to Rikers Island. Problem is, as they see it, is the Trumpeter is allowed/required to have Secret Service people around him all the time. There are 24 in three separate groups of 8 each. Seems the judges are going to have to have the Secret Service folk figure out how to do that at Rikers. Or they can put him on house arrest, and the judges do not want to do that.

Eight wo/men every eight hours in cells? They are not going to go for that. A hall with rooms? Can that even be available at Rikers? Suites for VIPs? That would be grounds for other inmates to riot in the halls. What a dilemma. Well, he breaks the rules - why cannot they? Oh yeah, we are suppose to be the good guys, not lower ourselves to the trumpeter's level.

Things just get crazier.

carol in austin

#rikers #secret service #trumpeter

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I was this old when I learned another term

Remember my age when I learn what letters mean when talking about sex/gender. I use straight - tonight my friend told me what cis meant.

You never get to old to learn - because people come up with new slang/old meanings when talking about esoteric terms.

carol in austin

#cis #gender terms

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This was my home, the Golden Nugget was a hangout, and right across the street was the Horseshoe, owned by Benny Binion, daughter Brenda who was married to famous rodeo rider Bert France, cater-cornered the Fremont Hotel, where I was a change girl and where Wayne Newton got his first big break. Also in this street was where the original Oceans Eleven held its premiere, and I was one of hundreds out in the street all excited of it.

I remember it well.

carol in austin

April 1961. Golden Nugget, a city block in the distance, during construction of the casino’s wrap-around neon display designed by Kermit Wayne at YESCO.

“Another skyline change will be etched on Casino Center’s horizon with the installation of a new quarter-million dollar neon sign on the Golden Nugget … Installation of the sign should begin early in April, with completion late that month .. the sign will circumvent the building, extending down Fremont Street, and wrapping around the corner and continuing down Second Street” – Las Vegas Review Journal, 3/1/61. Kodachrome scan by VLV.

#Las Vegas downtown Fremont Street #Golden Nugget where lots of older CW musicians played.

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carol in austin

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Trumpeter trial

Frustrating am I, as are many I am certain.

The judges et al spent the first nearly 3 hours doing things that should have been done, or sitting until next week. 1500 prospective jurors sitting and wasting time while other things are done.

Frankly I think so many people involved are scared shitless to have to make any decisions. I am certain this is why all the principles involved are walking one step forward, three backward, because they are hoping the trumpeter will fall over from a heart attack, or embolism, or some other ailment before they have to made any decisions.

One person I spoke to today is liberal, and appreciates Biden himself, is not confident Biden will win. He thinks the trumpeter is going to win. Everyone I have spoken to about this very situation over the past few months, watching the dismissing tactics, and frustrated over all the delays, are thinking the trumpeter is going to prevail. I do not believe this, and others are hoping this will not happen. It just seems like so many have given up, no matter how much you and I are trying to stay optimistic.

Trumpeter said nothing like this has ever happened in our history, and that he is being persecuted for political reasons. Well duh. And I keep yelling at the television set that it is because we have never had to deal with someone like him in our history. I am trying to remain optimistic that people will gain some common sense.

I am trying to stop smoking - been without a cigarette for a week now (I have smoked for 66 years) - but I am going to fail. Because I am drinking too much whisky these days.

carol in texas

#trumpeter trial #i hope he does die if nothing else is going to happen #doubters grow some hair on your ..................

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Don't commit suicide. I have been there four or five times over the years, and while I am not satisfied with what is going on right now with the trumpeter and the men who obviously hate women, I am still independent, I believe I am immortal, and I think I still have a lot to offer, and to give, for years to come.

I'm on your side, sweetie, and beg you to hang on out there.

carol in austin

I'd care if the person I reblogged this from committed suicide.

Reblog this from anybody. literally. ANYBODY. even if you dont like them or even know them that well. YOU COULD SAVE THEIR LIFE.

#suicide #lots to live for' #hold on for others #let them see your strength

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Every time something comes up about Vietnam, it gives me a bad remembery. And I will then keep up the idea of Vietnam.

The one war with great losses that we lost. However, it is also the war where we created bad damage to another country

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I read this to a friend over the phone earlier. We both just laughed and laughed.

Turns out it is true.

When I saw this, I thought it was a joke.

But apparently it is real. What in the hell is the Hands off Our Home Appliances Act?

You can't make this shit up.

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Always George Takai

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I am so fed up with people who hate the Jews, who hate the Muslims, who have no clue what christianity means. To start with, christianity was bought about by catholic priests who fought against paganism by people who wanted men to follow their own beliefs, by catholoism, of their own beliefs against we, the pagans, of which I am definitely, and gave a human rabbi the name of their own faith to believe in heaven and hell.

No wonder those who follow Oulander that Cait would say Jesus H. Roosefelt Christi, a woman who would not know who Roosevelt was, but use his name to say the writers against those of us who are pagans, cut want to watch the naked Sam in all his glory,

I love Sam Heughn, I love his butt, I love his sexuality. It has nothing to do with what I believe about God/dess. I am a pagan, I believe in one God/dess over all, I believe in a number of lesser gods who rule over trees, arts and crafts, the oceans (and all water). I believe in a God/dess who rules over alls, but is not critical of anything that has to do with doing his/her rule, and being loving, kind, compassionate, who understands humanity and not being stingy over anyone.

Jesus, immigrants are loosing for a safe place to live. Immigrants are looking for a place where they are not forced to believe in an Inquisition. Immigrants are looking for a place where dictators are trying to live a life of freedom, of enough food, of enough of health care, (and where health care would be available to all who know their are healthy if they life a healthful life without hamburgers made of fake indigrants), of people who need to be taught how to life whole and wholesome lives.'

Everyday I learn of a new medicine with a new name that is suppose to help you with your nerves, your blood, your hair, your weight. What happened to the natural of life that earth gave you? Too many ads to let you know about bacon cheese burgers? What does that mean?

Maybe it would be best if we went back to the early ages, where we had to figure out how to feed outselves matural foods and make out clothes out of animal skins from the animals who gave us our food and our materials to become cloth to clothes ourselvs.

Just maybe we need to understand how we survive to today.

carol in austin

#early days' #survive by our wits #technology has taking us too far

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Cummittees for we older folks who are liberal and interested

I like the idea of communties, especially for we older folks.

I was born in 1940. My mother married my dad in 1938, after I was born, WW II started, my dad moved us to Los Angeles where my dad tried to join the military and join the war, he was not allowed in because of his wearing glasses, and me. We moved to Las Vegas, a brand-new town building up out of the desert and near Hoover Dam, where he was an architectect and builder, and helped to build Las Vegas out of the desert floor. My sister was born there in 1943.

My dad was getting known as a builder, and a great help to building Las Vegas. He also build a building to be used by the Church of Christ, which was my mother's religious leaning. After WW II was over, in 1946, men started coming back home, including several uncles, my mother's brothers, and my mother told my dad she wanted to take me and my sister back to Corpus Christi, TX, to see her brothers, my uncles. I remember well the train trips from Los Angeles to Corpus Christi, and the many servicemen that were with us. Yes, they loved this little girl of about 5 years old.

After a while, my mother refused to return to her husband, my dad. I am aware that my grandmother was on my side, felt sorry for me as I was definitely my daddy's girl, but of no use. My dad, as a man, was taken up by a woman in Las Vegas, and being a man during those days, was caught up with her. As my mother has informed him that she was not going to return, and Joyce tricked my dad into believing she was pregnant (it was learned later that she was incapable of having children), my mother allowed my dad to get a divorce. The church threw him out. My mother that he bitched that he would not even send her her iron. My sister and I lost all our toys and things because of the loss of our home. We did own our home in a place called Huntridge. I remember the house and the toys and the tub of water when both Patti and I got the measles, then the mumps, one after the other. I remember it all.

Moving forward a many years, my mother married a second time, then they had two children, and Patti and I were left behind as being not his children. In the meantime, we had been led to believe our daddy didn't want us any longer. Patti was young enough not to remember him, but I wasn't, and I was definitely a daddy's girl.

My sister caught fire in 1957. She was burned badly (she did survive, but that is a different story), and my mother contacted my dad. I never got over him, though I was angry because I thought he didn't want me, and after I got out of high school, I moved to Las Vegas to meet and be with him.

Joyce, his second wife, was not a friend of mine. One of her sisters had a daughter Sharon, who taught me how to smoke. I got my first job in Vegas, and lived a pretty good life. But I started drinking. I had my first child in 1961, went back to Corpus, had my step-father theatren to rape me because I had a child out of marriage, and I went back to LV with my daughter. I worked in some of the casinos as change girls, started drinking, and ended up at a dude ranch outside the city where I was a barmaid and a cook, and lived there. I was really drinking by then, had an abortion, had a second child, and moved back to CC in 1964. By then the 60s movement was in full stride. JFK had been murdered, and I was trying to raise two children by myself. I had a good job, but my drinking was out of hand, I gave my two children up to forage, and took over as management of a merchant seaman's bar in late 1964. During the year of 1965, I gave up my two girls for adoption.

Drinking alcohol was my choice during the next few years. I was all involved over the war in Vietnam, drinking, sleeping around, and moving from place to place in 1968. I had had a child in 1967, gave it up for adoption, moved with a couple of friends to Biloxi, MS, got pregnanted one more time, moved to Wichita Falls, TX, had a seond child in 1969, and finally moved back to Corpus Christi, where I tried to find work. I got there, but I didn't stop drinking, and eventually found another job, which I lost because of my drinking. I went to work as a change person, stopped drinking in 1973 because of the alcohol, moved to Austin in 1975, and got real work.

I was at the University of Texas for well over 22 years, and also worked in radio where I programmed Celtic music, and because of the p roblems of women being discriminated against women, finally went into early retirement in 2003. I did some cleaning of apartments for a friend of mine, but when it became difficult for me, stopped, and moved into assisted housing in 2009.

I served on the Board of Directors, put up with a lot of changes of the apartment complex, went suicidal (fourth time over the years), got psysological help in 2019, had a nervous breakdown in 2020, then Covid came along which kept me penned up, wrote my autobiography. In 2021, I started drinking again. I drink my scotch every day, not enough to get drunk (though that happened once because of some music and memories coming together) and drink a few drams every day. I was going to quit smoking, but decided I don't want to do that.

I fight all the time for my rights as a human being, as a woman, for fairness for all. I am a liberal Democrat, support a couple of organizations that help people, and keep up with politics, to my sorrow. I have found Acorn TV and British shows. It keeps me calm. I take an antianxiety pill, in spite of mixing it with alcohol. I have overcome suicide attempts, a life with liars about my father, been able to have him as a friend before he died in 1984, and never been in love or tied myself to anyone. I am independent, survive by my own wits.

And yes, I fell in love with Sam because he is the man I might have been able to survive with half a lifetime (mine) ago. And no, I use common sense, and I know he can not ever be in love with me, and in fact, does not even know I exist. There are reasons why he moved me so much,

If these communities are brought to reality, I know there are other folks in my age group who would be interested. I expect to live a long time. In fact, I have overcome so many things that I believe I must be immortal.

I love this site. It has people who believe as I do, that everyone is equal, has the right for their sexuality, their lifestyle, their habits, their hobbies, their caring for the general population. I love you all, so don't judge me for loving Sam.

Could have used him when I was his age that he is now, and I am well beyond.

Comments and criticisms welcome. But be careful unless you have walked in my shoes.

Carol in Austin

#bad childhood #evil parents #alcohol #cigarettes #sam heughan #scotland #biden #survival

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The Constitution of the United States of America

During the century that I was born into, the 40s and 50s, I got a great education. We studied the Constitution in classes called Civics in High School, and one semester was required in order to graduate in get a diploma.

When did this stop being a requirement? My sister graduated three years after I did, in 1961 (I graduated in 1958), but I don't know if it ws still a required study. I left home upon graduation and lived elsewhere (here my dad was).

In 1883, women had no legal rights. Blacks has no legal rights. God forbid anyone spoke about sexual aberrations. So it is understood through common sense that there needed to be changes in what is legal as America grew and transportation became easier and things had to change as changes came about in manufacturing and toldings and medicine and things we take for granted today.

Amendments came about when changes came along. Women got the right to vote. (these are not in order, they are just what came about). Blacks got the right to vote. Am amendment gave a limitation for how many years/serves a president or legislative senators and representatives came about. There are other amendments to give limitations to many abilities.

One must remember, though, that the Constitution separated church from state - that means nobody can be forced to believe any religion; that is left to the clergy/people, not he government. This country was founded against people escaping both religions, but also against Kings. The people are given the right to choose who should be our leaders.

The Civil War brought about two major changes. Women were given the right to own property, due to their husbands and sons going off to war and dying, and women got the right to keep their property. Blacks, of course, got their freedom, although it was done in a less than good way since nobody with good thoughts ever taught them how to be free, and caused some things to be bad about the freedom, until they learned how to be free.

Sexual aberrations really did not change much until the 1960s, when free love came about. But even then single women were not allowed to have birth control pills, and illegal abortions became a way of survival - except that survival was not easy with abortions by coat hangers, and evil doctors who had no idea what to do. I had a daughter in 1961, an abortion in 1963, then gave three more live births in 1964, 1967, and 1969. What can I say. I liked and enjoyed sex, and it was after the birth 1n 1969, I had a female doctor who gave me a prescription for birth control pills. All four of my chidren were given up to adoption.

But sex and birth and adoption, and right to choose, had, and have, no place in politics. These men who have taken over that right are trying to take us back to the days before the Civil War, and take the rights away from women, again.

I was taught in Civics about the three branches of Goverment - Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. East branch was supposed to be given to the people.

None of these were ever intended to be the right to govern by one sect over any other sect. That is why we the people are given the right to vote. Other than the Justice Department, which is not given by vote - EXCEPT by who we choose for president. And even then, it was never meant to be chosen by whichever party was in control over the legislative department.

And the legislative department(s) were meant to be chosen by vote, not by whichever party was in control. The Legislative Departments were intended to be for the good of the people, not a few people who lust for power over We the People.

What happened to fairness? What happened to what was good and kind and compassionate - and most important, what was right and legal, and what were wars fought for? Shall we be forced back to living in caves, hunting and gathering, and small groups of citizens in their own little enclaves. What happened to welcoming people trying to escape dictatorial governments, and then facing the dictators of the people of this, our fair (once upon a time) government that offered what this country was founded upon?

i despair over a group of people who apparently wanted citizenship to move backward. Perhaps it is time for another Civil War caused by people who want to get rid of the selfish, hateful, I-got-mine-to-hell-with-you and go back to being civilized as we were originally taught.

Get the government out of medical issues, out of religious issues, out of political issues, and get back to living by the Constitution, and the rights of laws.

Carol in Austin

#Constitutional Law #Citizenship #kindness #compassion #freedom

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Jail time

So the trumpeter is so fearful of being put in jail, behind bars, out of the public eye, that he is going to keep doing everything he can to make sure we all want to put him there. I suppose he feels like he is way above that, and can get by with everything nasty.

That is the kind of warped thinking that man does. Get meaner and nastier, and dare us to do anything about it.

Stupid is as stupid does.

carol in austin

#tumpeter #prison #stupidity