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After a recent airport security pat down left a bladder cancer survivor covered in his own urine, a cancer support group is making recommendations to travelers to stay away from future problems.

Retired unique education teacher and bladder cancer survivor Thomas Sawyer, 61, told msnbc.com that an aggressive pat-down by TSA officers at Detroit Metropolitan Airport left him covered in his own urine and humiliated. “Completely humiliated, I couldn’t even speak,” Sawyer said after the Nov. 7th incident whilst he was on his way to a wedding in Florida.

Like several bladder cancer survivors, Sawyer wears a urostomy bag which collects his urine from an opening in his abdomen referred to as a “stoma.”

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The majority of Americans think 1 really should show a state or federal issued photo ID in order to cast a vote on Election Day.  Why, then, are liberal advocacy groups like the NAACP and the Brennan Center opposed to such requirements?   According to these groups, such restrictive requirements would overtly disqualify millions of legal American residents.  A lot of would argue how these people are being marginalized simply because the documentation needed obtaining a state ID is hard to come by.  According to these advocacy groups, a photo ID requisite would unfairly affect minorities, low income people, and people with disabilities.

When you are born, the hospital problems a birth certificate.  Your parents are then required to pay around ten dollars to acquire an official state copy of this certificate.  If you ever attended a day of public school, your parents had to show your official birth certificate when registering you.  After your birth, a social security number and card are also issued and kept by your parents for safe keeping.  These are the only two pieces of official documentation required to obtain a state issued photo ID, so why then is it an unfair burden to expect individuals to acquire said ID?  How is it that these documents are “hard to come by” (at lease according to the Brennan Center)?  Do we actually have millions of legal citizens who have never stepped foot in public school?  Do we really have that many legal residents who have never applied for a job or filed income taxes?  I find it practically absurd that in order to legally work in this country a state or federal issued photo ID is required, along with the required Federal I-9 form, but requiring folks to show the exact same ID to vote is considered a hardship.

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Your child is struggling in school.  This could be with academics, behavior, socialization, emotional regulation, or physical development.  The 1st thing you ought to do is talk to your child’s teacher and ask if the teacher is seeing your child struggle as well.  School need to be difficult, but not frustrating and overwhelming.   Your child ought to be making what is known as successful progress.  This means that they are learning and developing at a steady pace and at the same rate as their peers.  If not, you could suspect a learning disability.

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