Well, I wish I could say I’m surprised, but no…nobody is going to design a game and give it away for free…ain’t gonna happen without some benefit for themselves. No free lunches, folks.
Here we have another case of taxation without representation…since a majority of people want this invasion of privacy to stop.
Millionaires in Congress continuing the “Let Them Eat Cake” campaign…and look the other way while people go hungry…
Update on this post on the power grab/information grab by Pence and his henchmen.
I found this summary of the bill– as you can see, it does not outline what information is being gathered. It does not say who is receiving this information. It does not outline how this benefits children and education. And why does the state need to provide backup when schools routinely backup their own records??
As I wrote on Diane’s blog–
It looks like Gates has his dirty little fingers in this–gathering more information for…what? or perhaps I should say…who? What kind of information are they gathering? Who will benefit from gathering this information?
The bill does not tell us. Highly suspicious.
I also found this excellent blog by Doug Martin (you might recall he posted on firedoglake).
If passed into law, HB1320 will probably hand another $3.7 million of our tax dollars to a private company which will sell off personal and confidential information of students and families to companies out to market their products and agenda to them.
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This new move is not a new one. In fact, HB1320 was probably inspired by a model bill drafted for various states by the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate sponsored bill-mill behind the scenes in Indiana and across the country bringing us school privatization, attacks on the postal service and unions, and the infamous Stand Your Ground Law.
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Yep. This has the smell of ALEC all over it.
(this song was on my mind when I named this blog, fyi 🙂
We were treated to another spectacular cloud rainbow...
…this time, however, I was able to get a little bit of it captured with my cell camera. It was almost directly in line with our front door:
It’s a little hard to distinguish, but the little patch that looks white is actually the splash of rainbow. The sun was not cooperating. I was trying to block the lens from glare, but alas…
Anyway, I think the sun’s rays are pretty spectacular, too.
After once again being subjected to Robin Thicke’s rape song, Blurred Lines, at the Grammys, I feel the need to repost a couple of blogs on the misogyny:
Rape culture in living color. Degrading women as second class starts with media images. The media is a powerful messenger. Fear and Anger and Sex are the major influences in Communications and the media uses them well to influence the public.
Music has been a part of my life since I could remember, and the Grammy’s were one of the shows I used to watch regularly, but last night was a reminder of why I quit watching the awards show…it’s more about promotion of artists than promotion of music as an art. Because I don’t see that Robin Thicke and the others (including women) that sexualize women to promote their songs have a load of talent.
If one has talent, their music speaks for itself.
Good music stirs the soul….speaks to the soul…bad music is just noise to fill the airwaves.
And on a personal note~ I really wish Ringo would have sung “It Don’t Come Easy”…I requested this song for Christmas one year, and my thirty year old son liked it…it could have been a way for Ringo to reach the younger crowd, if he had introduced them to it….
The opening notes as they are played on the recorded version are beautiful and stirring.
**edited to take out video–oops, thought it was official. Apologies.
This week’s weather window has some absolutely stunning photos of winter serenity…although there is one photo of what looks like a mining operation…so yeah, color me confused….
Once again, Glenda Ritz is under threat of losing her authority granted to her by the citizens of Indiana….who voted more for her than Pence.
Calling all Hoosiers…send out emails to have your voice heard. Don’t let Pence become a dictator!
A discussion was started on the mercury support group about a member getting her mother to move in with her and get the horrible amalgams out of her mouth so she could detox.
I was happy for her and her mother. I related to her that my mother suffered from Alzheimer’ s that I am almost positive she was a Celiac and mercury toxic. But unfortunately, my own self diagnosis came too late to help her. I tried to convince my siblings that she was Celiac. This was about six months before she passed. They were saying she was too far gone at that point, and I am still questioning that–hell it was worth a try.
The nurse at her doctor’s office practically laughed at me when I called to request the doctor investigate a possible Celiac diagnosis. I tried to explain to the nurse about the neurological connection to Celiac and mercury poisoning… she politely listened, but I could tell she thought I was a nut.
My mother continued to eat breads, cakes, and cookies. My siblings were of the opinion that it was the one pleasure she had left in life…but my thinking was that pleasure was surely causing her illness.
Another member brought up the book, Grain Brain by neurologist David Perlmutter. I haven’t read the book yet, but I did catch him on PBS yesterday.
What he said stunned me–that a *cough* scientific “fact” has been disproven: That your brain does not regenerate brain cells. It does.
Stunning–we have been taught that our brains cannot regenerate, but Dr. Perlmutter states that aerobic exercise turns on the genes responsible for brain cell regeneration. He stated that DHA (fish oil) also does the same thing. I had experienced this myself, prior to mercury poisoning–I noticed about six months after beginning aerobic exercise how much better I felt and how much better my brain functioned. I started after the birth of my first child, and it was the only exercise that I enjoyed (I always disliked sit ups, push ups, etc. …b-o-r-i-n-g. And I disliked the competitive nature of gym class. We had a teacher once that punished the side that lost–since one side always had to lose, it was a ridiculous punitive action that made me hate gym class.)
Anyway, Dr. Perlmutter was basically stating everything I had learned from Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride on the GAPS diet…grains are bad for you. Period. I think Perlmutter goes into more detail about specific amounts of carbs to have…I’m just not comfortable with the mindset that one-size-fits-all. I think we are too individualistic and medicine still does not recognize that. They like to have us pigeonholed into neat little scientific packages when it has been shown, over and over again, that our bodies are unique and respond differently….as in the case of mercury poisoning…there are few symptoms that are alike for merc poisoning. That is why it is so difficult for them to diagnose–they can’t seem to wrap their brains around many different symptoms–some physical, some neurological–coming from toxin exposure.
Thoughtful poem on action not following feelings…you know what the world needs, but can’t work up the courage to do it…
::…besides, what can I do?::
Lots.
Eagle 
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