Some of us who’ve been around for a while know Kender’s story, but let me share a little bit about what I know that makes this bleg urgent.

He’s caught in the system; having had a problem with his kidneys since he was a little boy. He is smaller because he went through those health problems as a child, and today, he can’t make too much money - because if he does, he has to forego the much-needed government benefits he needs to survive and get his life-saving medical treatments. Without dialysis, he would die.

His last kidney transplant failed. He has so far had two of them, as far as I know.

That part pretty much sucks, but he pretty much takes it all in stride. I find that amazing; I am constantly amazed by Kender’s unfailing resolve.

He did have a moment recently when he hit a low and said he was going to suspend treatments, that he saw no hope of going on, that he was going to write a note to his son, and just shrivel up and die….but that was short-lived.

You can understand how someone who lives with this condition every day might have a low day now and then; even healthy people with no problems go through that.

Now, his ’significant other’ relationship is over, and he finds himself without a home. He had a pretty nice set up with her, he had a home dialysis machine and she was his assistant backup in case something went wrong in the process; which can happen sometimes. Sometimes the patient passes out; but any number of things can happen in the process of putting in the needles, etc.. But the main point is, when he’s doing his own dialysis at home, he’s not at the mercy of the ‘unit’s’ schedule, and he feels better; not to mention the fact that he doesn’t have to find transportation to and from the unit.

At any rate, this lady still has his dialysis machine. He moved in with someone temporarily, but needs to get back there to collect his belongings, but more importantly, get his dialysis machine, and he needs his own place to live, which is another expense that is much more expensive up front, but will be manageable once he pays those up front expenses.

All of these things take money, and he has no vehicle, which is another factor which is going to prevent him from doing what he needs to do.

Now, we have had a generous offer out of Florida where a woman is willing to give her motor home to Kender, if we can find a way to get it to California. So we’re working on several ideas to get it from Florida to California; one of which is an old-fashioned daisy chain.

We have an offer to help out from Alabama, and another from Dallas, Texas, and Kender’s dad is in Arkansas - and he’s willing to pitch in. The motor home will take about a quart of oil a day traveling that far, and I’m not sure about gas mileage, but these are all things that will cost - but it’s the cheapest route to get it to where it needs to go.

Updated stops…

See the preliminary map and stops, here.

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So take a look at the map and let’s see if we can get that vehicle over to him. Insurance and tags are paid for and the transfer will happen once it’s in California, which was also very trusting and generous of the owner.

He needs some cash - to put some of his stuff in storage, to raise money for his new place, and a number of things that I’ve already mentioned, and he is between a rock and a hard place as far as being able to do it for himself, and that’s where you come in. Please contribute whatever you can; time is of the essence here; he needs to get his stuff; particularly his dialysis machine.

Kender’s plan is to get on his own two feet so he can move forward from here. Every now and then it helps to get a leg up.

So please go to his website and donate what you can.

Click on Kender’s Musings and donate through the paypal button in the left hand sidebar.

Update: Kender tells me that being tethered to a unit’s schedule robs him of his freedom, and he doesn’t feel as good when he goes through their dialysis procedure as when he does it at home.

being back in a unit has proven I don’t feel as good on a machine in center
and mentally I cannot lose my freedom again
and frankly I simply must find a way to make this work or I will lose my machine and I am not sure that I can handle that again….
and if every person who stopped by just left 5 bucks we would be doing ok

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It’s interesting how the Illinois election people tried to pull a fast one on this, but you know they’re fighting all efforts to have a Constitutional Convention - Illinois tried to pull a fast one; actually several fast ones. They included false and misleading ballot language as the question (a 2-paragraph narrative for a yes or no question), and also included unconstitutional and completely false instructions to voters in an attempt to steal the election.

See this at the Capitol fax blog. An excerpt:

The AP now has a story up…

A judge has ordered Illinois election officials to temporarily stop mailing absentee ballots and create a flyer to hand to voters on Election Day because of “misleading” and “inaccurate” language on the ballot.

Circuit Court Judge Nathaniel R. Howse Junior ruled Wednesday the flyers should explain how the language, which deals with a referendum on a constitutional convention in Illinois, is biased. He ordered lawyers to return Friday to discuss specific ballot changes. [emphasis added]

So, not only are voters to be given a new question at the polling place (and via the mail) and advised to ignore the question on the original ballot, but they are also to be told how the original question is so biased. Interesting.

I’m expecting the judge’s order soon.

Wow, this is incredible; two finds that have the seem chilling theme.

Bob Owens at the Confederate Yankee shows the Kindernacht video, with its historical counterpart.
And Van Helsing shows that the Leather Pride festival supported Obama with the creepy Obey posters.

At the confederate yankee:

Bob notes that we can expect this to be pulled due to copyright infringement and compares it to this:

Van Helsing didn’t point to the historical counterpart of that, so I will…

Judith Reisman, in her review of the very thorough Pink Swastika.

I heard from Larry, he’s in Michigan, he’s on his way to Grand Rapids for the Obama rally tomorrow.

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Larry’s doing his blog talk radio show from the road at 7:00 Central.

You can listen to it live on this player or go to the link for the show.

What’s really odd to me is…it shows 10/1, but the link is for 10/2. I’m not sure why it doesn’t jive.

Check Larry’s blog and Citizen Wells’ blog for updates.

Can the world get any wackier?

Of course, as Jim says at Gateway Pundit:

These “get out the vote” events flagrantly violate the tax exempt status of these participating mosques which are strictly prohibited from supporting or endorsing any kind of partisan political activity.

But “illegal” doesn’t stop the Obamanots.

What I’m wondering is…what is “appropriate attire” for one of these mosque get out the vote events?

Or maybe toned down and more like a representative from CAIR.

Any way you look at it, the ‘get out the vote’ initiative at the mosques in the swing states is illegal.

But that rule hasn’t stopped any of the other supposedly non partisan 501(3)(c)s from supporting Obama now, has it?

In related news…

Obama’s Controversial Chicago Church May Lose Tax-Exempt Status for Campaigning for Him

“Churchgate:” Obama Misused Tax Exempt Church Resources for his Campaign

The IRS Should Pull Barack Obama’s Tax Exempt Status

Has Obama’s ‘Mentor’ Violated US Tax Laws?

Obama Thugs Threatened to Yank Group’s Tax-Exempt Status Unless They Disinvited Palin (Plus: My First Official Non-Ironic Important Action Alert and Pretty Vicious Rant) - Ace

I took a day off today to take care of some things that needed attention; one of which is - my car’s muffler was dragging on the pavement, and the engine light was on. So after we took it over to the car place, I road home with my husband in the truck.

And when we got out, my husband showed me how the neighborhood has “blessed” our vehicle:

From the left hand side of the truck, the keying marks go all around the vehicle. (more…)

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