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Convergence of communications

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The radio news today stated that Frontier Communications was down…internet and phone service, so if the listeners were being served by that company, they would be out of service until Frontier came back online.

They went on to say that the police in the town of Huntington were affected by this, and if people needed to contact the police, they need to call the Indiana State Police and then they gave an 800 number to call.

WTH?  Can you imagine the chaos this has caused?

It’s another glaring example of the dangers of consolidating all communications into one company.  Even if I had the money, I would not have all of my phone, internet, and cable service from one provider.  (I’m saying that without checking into what’s available in the area–I briefly looked at what was available when I moved here, but haven’t lately–so for all I know, there isn’t separate service available.)

When one company has all of that, and they fail for whatever reason (no reason has been given for Frontier’s issues), it can have serious repercussions, as with a fire breaking out, or someone having a heart attack and cannot call “911” or a crime in progress…and on…

Why is consolidation never considered from the consumer’s point of view??

Numbers of importance

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(Okay, feeling a little more lucid today…back to business…)

People who starve in America per given year.

More statistics on the world here.

More debate about the *cough* non-issue here.  Repeat after me:  “If you don’t acknowledge there’s a problem, then there’s no problem.”

Deaths from prescription drugs here--a whopping 100,000 people die every year from prescription drugs and 2 million are seriously injured…but you wouldn’t know that by the lack of attention it receives.  I’m sure that the drug companies buying advertising on the TV networks has *nothing* to do with the lack of sunlight on the issue.  /snark

But those same TV nooz stations will begin (if they haven’t already, since I’m cable-less, I don’t know and I don’t have time to search the web to find out) their onslaught of dire warnings to the American public on the upcoming flu season and how they better get on the stick and get those poisonous vaccines shot into their already beleaguered bodies.  The radio stations here are doing their best to get the hype going on West Nile again…today they announced that horses have died of West Nile, so owners are being urged to get their horses vaccinated.  Wanna know how many horses have died?  Three.  Yep.  I wonder if those horses die from the vaccine if it will be duly noted and reported to authorities? Nah, we can’t have that.  That would be responsible and accurate.

Other deaths by pharmaceutical companies here.  Keep the kleenex handy.  A story of a mother’s heartbreak over the belief she was doing what a good mother does…

More on vaccine deaths here.    Note the similar blanket excuse of SIDS. Here’s a site that blames the parents (mother) for SIDS…oldest trick in the book–that way, she’ll feel guilty for being a poor parent instead of questioning the vaccines the child received. More blaming here…by National Polite Republican.

More parents’ stories here.  But the public is going to be urged to put this poison into their children…and then be blamed if their child dies as a result.  This is criminal.  I can’t even read them all because it’s just too hard.

I’m struggling with this issue with my own kids now–they’ve been brainwashed to believe vaccines are okay and I’m being an alarmist.  I’ve seen how they have affected a sibling’s grandkids and how the child changed dramatically after receiving these horrible shots.  I can’t convince my kids that there is a connection.  I don’t have grandchildren yet, but I’m trying to prevent a tragedy.

And thanks to Senator Frist, you can’t touch Big Pharma.   Profit$ without penalty nor accountability. More here.

…let’s not forget Frist killing kittens for “medical research”.   Paragraph here:  http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/bill-frist/

And more here.

And speaking of cruelty to animals, the FW radio stations were reporting this morning that allegedly a man had tied a firecracker to a kitten’s tail, and it appears that he allegedly threw the kitten into a fire.  The story went on to say that the man’s girlfriend owned the cat and she was quoted as saying that the boyfriend was complaining that the “cat was always around.”    Sounds like a great guy. /snark

 

Michigan

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(A side note~ A funny thing about the migraines is that a song will usually pop into my head. This time it was “We all live in a yellow submarine…a yellow submarine…a yellow submarine…”  (Yellow Submarine, The Beatles)  Haha.  It’s funny now but not so much when I’m lying their like a slug in pain…)

I’m still feeling rather puny and foggy-brained, so I’m not posting any more than this post–
One of the residents of the building has left copies of Muskoka magazine out for the rest of us to enjoy.  This particular month’s magazine just has me drooling…

They talk about a couple who lived on Lake Muskoka (that has got to be a Native American name.  They inhabited the area before the Europeans took over.)  Anyway, this couple had made plans all their life to build their own dream home on the lake and it looks and sounds wonderful.

Michigan itself is a beautiful state.  They actually treasured their trees, unlike Indiana, which couldn’t plow them down fast enough…and *still* has not learned the lesson of what has been lost.  If you take a look at a real time map, you’re able to spot Indiana without anyone even drawing lines–compared to Ohio and Michigan, we are devoid of trees.  There’s a little scrap of land here that must resemble what Indiana once looked like before paved roads and skyscrapers took over–it’s like walking back in time…

…and it’s being threatened with closure (probably some greedy developer wants the land to build more condos…)

Speaking of which, the Muskoka magazine featured an article on a 70-acre (?) spread that once was home to a sanitorium, long since closed.  Can you imagine?  They once actually cared about mentally ill folks (and the ones with tuberculosis) in a setting that was peaceful and serene…

And now they’ve hired a new head honcho who wants to…wait for it…demolish the buildings and…well, we don’t know what they want to do with the property, because the article just dances around what they’re planning, but where have you ever heard of a $$$ dollars man seeing the value in nature and leaving it undeveloped??

I mean, the properties listed in the back of the magazine are prime real estate–they actually have an island for sale for $13,000,000.  Of course, if this is too salty for you, they also have some for the *cough* poor folks in the $3-9 million dollar range…

…so…you can see what is going through this head honcho’s mind without the article even stating the obvious…the property has been left alone since 1994, and they just hired this guy and he immediately wants to tear the buildings down (not really a problem, unless they’re in the way of building something…but since they will cost millions to tear down, there will be money coming in to cover it, n’est pas? (gah, I hope I spelled that right–long time since high school French class )

So…a serene untouched area will be once again devalued for the very natural state that gives it value.  Makes complete sense to me. /snark

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And speaking of serenity for the mentally ill–the state hospital I used to work out was like that, also.  Of course, we didn’t have a lake or as many trees on the property, but it was still maintained in a way to give a sense of peace and serenity.  It also was self-sufficient back in the day.  They had their own bakery, their own farm to grow their food, and I think they may have even had their own butchering, but I’m just guessing at that.  That all went away with the reforms of the mental institutions.  They threw the baby out with the bathwater.  I think it would be so much more gratifying for a patient to help in farming than to sit around all day watching mindless TV.

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And speaking of things popping into my head–I thought of something that I wrote on a blog many years ago–

It’s the same blog that I had my answer deleted after I said that Hillary Clinton was no “Shirley Chisholm”…

There was a guy that the blog owner liked, so he frequently guest blogged.  He was obsessed with the behavioral psychologists, and one in particular really irked him.  He was always writing blogs against this guy’s research.

One day, he wrote a blog on how this guy was studying the human will.  He asked the question “Why would anyone try to determine if there is a human will?

To which I replied:  “Job security??”

🙂

Close to home

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I was listening to the whiners last couple of days–and the talk was about the Obama political ad on the guy who lost his job after Bain Capital took over the company and eventually closed it (?).  He lost his job and his wife didn’t want to worry him with finding a breast lump.  When they discovered it, she was Stage IV and died after 22 days.

I’ve debated whether to say anything, but decided last night to out with it–

I discovered a couple of lumps in my breast in late June.  I’ve had them before, but this was kind of a shock because it’s been over ten years since I’ve had one.  The last one, I was in college, and didn’t have insurance then, either, BUT I could afford to get it biopsied.  It was benign.

I’m thinking this is benign, too, because it’s movable and soft (they characterize cancerous ones as being hard and immobile).  I can’t remember how long it took for the other breast lump to disappear, but I’m thinking six months is how long it took.  It’s hard to remember.

Anyway, the whiners are blaming the woman for not seeking treatment earlier…even though she didn’t have health insurance and whatever healthcare she got, it would have to come out of pocket.  They obviously didn’t have the money, and she didn’t want to be a burden to them…especially if she were treated and still succumbed to the disease.

I can understand her sentiments by my own situation and seeing my father struggle (he’s now in Indy for a month while they radiate/chemo him to death).  My sister is making arrangements for him to go to a nursing home after he is released–he’s clearly not able to take care of himself, but he’s fighting it.

On the other hand, for my situation, even if I had health insurance, I wouldn’t go through chemo or radiation or having my breast removed.  I’ve seen too many people die from cancer after going through that misery of throwing up, losing their hair, laying on a couch all day because they have no energy to do anything else…

Like I’ve said before, if it’s my time, I’ll take a trip to the Grand Canyon and die in a place of beauty and spirituality.

[UPDATE: 3.26.18 — This post was written before my awakening.  God has provided everything we need to battle cancer and any health ailment.  I don’t believe chemo or radiation ever helped someone recover, since chemicals and radiation both destroy the immune system.  It’s not that the patient recovered from the artificial treatments, but that they recovered in spite of the treatments.]

The Farm Bill

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Alliance for Natural Health has this report up on the Farm Bill. (hat tip to organic consumers).

From the article:

The aforementioned Farm Bill riders would outlaw any EPA review of a genetically engineered crop under the Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act. This terrible legislation would ensure that no agency other than the USDA (which is decidedly pro-GMOs) will be allowed to provide analysis of the impacts of GMO crops. Further, the riders also establish extremely short deadlines for approval of GMOs. If the crops are not reviewed and approved within the extremely short timeline, they would default to immediate approval and commercialization.

So…if this is true, then there’s an underhanded reason why Obama is urging the passage of the Farm Bill–given that he appointed Vilsack as Secretary of Ag, who is a Monsanto toadie…yeah, well, it’s real hard not to think Obama is doing their bidding...

(Note that Methinks They Lie also brings up the Shirley Sherrod fiasco…yeah, that was a great move. Not.)