3 for 3 Friday: Chris Brown Own Up, Johnny Cash Rock Out, & A Tweet Answered

Read­ing:

About Chris Brown tak­ing on Oprah in the lat­est issue of Peo­ple. Brown is obvi­ously NOT ready to take respon­si­bil­ity for his actions. Get­ting upset because Oprah stated he needed coun­sel­ing for being abu­sive? Claim­ing that she should have given him some spe­cial treat­ment in this par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tion because he had “helped” her out? Is he kid­ding? Domes­tic vio­lence is a seri­ous prob­lem, Chris Brown grew up in a home where vio­lence occurred on a reg­u­lar basis. It’s not uncom­mon that kids who grew up in homes like this end up in sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tions as adults. Coun­sel­ing that addresses abuse specif­i­cally can help to break the cycle. No spe­cial passes on beat­ing your girl­friend up because you once sang for a char­i­ta­ble cause.

If you know of any­one who is expe­ri­enc­ing Domes­tic Vio­lence, check out the National Domes­tic Vio­lence Hot­line for help.

Lis­ten­ing:

Johnny Cash’s Amer­i­can IV: The Man Comes Around. I really love Johnny Cash. I have pretty much every­thing he has recorded, my Hubby never really lis­tened to him until I intro­duced him to the Man in Black, Hubby’s been a fan ever since. Johnny Cash was a com­pli­cated guy. When I think of him I think of the say­ing that sin­ners can make the best saints.

This is: God’s Gonna Cut You Down.

Watch­ing:

Watch­ing the response that I was given from @Disabilitygov to a tweet I sent about how the pro­posed health care reform addresses the needs of the dis­abled. It’s impor­tant to me to try to sort through all the infor­ma­tion out there on health care reform as I make an informed deci­sion about the process. Right now, look­ing at the finan­cial side of the plan, I just don’t see how the fed­eral gov­ern­ment can fea­si­bly wade into pro­vid­ing health care for all (even though I DO want every­one to have health care) given the long term fis­cal issues Medicare & Med­ic­aid already have and the issues that social democ­ra­cies in Europe have pro­vid­ing care (every sys­tem has issues, no sys­tem will be a fix to all prob­lems). BUT I’m still want­ing to get all the infor­ma­tion so I’m well informed about what’s going on.

Here’s the link for the video regard­ing the dis­abled per­sons within the health care reform dis­cus­sion: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Health-Insurance-Reform-and-Disability/

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