If you have read this blog you can see I don't post very often. I only do it out of a slim hope that someday others will build a skill of thinking and pulling the facts out of what poses as news. Examples? Today's stories.
- Antibiotic Resistance Poses 'Catastrophic Threat' To Medicine, Says Britain's Top Health Official
- There's nothing new here!
- Read a book about 8 years ago how anti-biotic use in factory farms is causing anti-biotic resistance. They use tons of this stuff every day!
- Doctors still prescribe anti bacterials to kill virus.
- The knowledge that this could cause problems has been around for at least 15 years.
- Why on the farms BTW? The animals are kept in very unhealthy conditions and the anti-biotics help keep them from dying. Just as important, the anti-biotics along with a host of other chemicals and hormones (banned in most of the world, even Russia and China) help fatten the animals, like our chickens that blow up full grown in just 6 weeks. The chickens are fed arsenic for the same reason. Bon Apetit!
- Britney Spears' Butt Makes An Appearance At Soccer Game
- No comment
- Judge blocks New York City large-soda ban, Mayor Bloomberg vows fight
- Soda is a recent phenomenon in human history. It's very bad for you health. Growing up advertisements convinced you that you will have more sex, be liked by everyone, make more money, drive a better car, etc. etc. Sorry it's not true. Drink water - like we did for millions of years; unless you've already thrown away about half our science and believe the earth was created 6 thousand years ago. (Or another good religious idea - Copernicus and Galileo should be executed for saying the sun doesn't go around the earth)
- See why I sometimes think it's hopeless? I could write pages on just this topic. Soda was bad enough when it was just sugar. Then it was "high fructose corn syrup". Now it's genetically modified high fructose corn syrup. Thank goodness we don't have labels for GMOs as we might feel guilty as we blow up like the 6 week chickens (who also eat almost exclusively GMOs)
- School Maintenance Report Shows Need For $542 Billion To Update, Modernize Buildings
- "America's schools are in such disrepair that it would cost more than $270 billion just to get elementary and secondary buildings back to their original conditions and twice that to get them up to date, a report released Tuesday estimated."
- This story leads to thoughts of the economy, taxes, capitalism and more.
Just a short rant on what's called capitalism today and I'll go away. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. Not what Emerson actually said, but the phrase opens thoughts of what I call real capitalism. The concept is to build the best possible product, provide the best service, and people will buy from you and you'll make a good living. Over the last 20 or 30 years the "what you make" (profit) has eclipsed the "better product" idea. Profit and income are far and away number one. If you can find a way to cheapen/change a product or service to make more money, that has priority. I'm not saying there are no good products, what I'm saying is that as a culture we now give more importance to the profit than the product. Bought a pound of coffee lately? Apparently a pound is about 11 or 12 oz. now. I could go on and on whether it's insurance, off-shoring, Robots taking away employment...
Well I've got to pack for a 2 month trip I'm taking. Lot's of things to see and do, new things to learn, more adventures ahead, after all I'm only 70. Everything you know, you learned. Many of the things you learned may not be helping you accomplish what you want out of life, or some of these things may be hiding what YOUR values really are. Read my happiness and prosperity series and you may start to unravel some ideas you didn't even know you had.
