8/19/17

POST 372 A "STIFF UPPER LIP" DON'T LET THE MACHINES BREAK YOUR HEART!

HI,

SINCE THIS BLOGGER  HAS SPENT THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS DEALING WITH AN EYE PROBLEM AND LOSS OF CLEAR VSION IN HER RIGHT EYE, IT SEEMED TIME TO TACKLE THE PROBLEM OF MODERN MEDICINE  SELDOM TOUCHED WITH A 19 FOOT POLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

"MODERN MEDICINE"  INCLUDES MUCH OF THE WAY IT IS HANDLED AND  CARRIED THROUGH. SOME OF IT IS VERY SATISFACTORY AND SOME OF IT IS THE SAME AS THE YEARS BEFORE AND SOME OF IT IS NOW DEPLORABLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOPS--

A WORD DISCOURAGED WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH MANAGEMENT !!!!!!!!!!

LET'S START WITH THE WORST ASPECTS FIRST !!!!!!!!!!!! BEFORE THIS BLOGGER TURNS CHICKEN !!!!!!!!!!!!! CLUCK..........CLUCK..........CLUCK !!!!!!!!!

THIS BLOGGER ABSOLUTELY ABHORS THE "EFFICIENCY" AND MACHINES  OF MOST SPECIALISTS' OFFICES THESE DAYS.  THEY ARE NOW THE HEART OF THE BUSINESS !!!!!!! LET'S SAY YOU ARRIVE AT THE PRESCRIBED TIME AND SIT FOR HALF AN HOUR OR MORE WHEN YOU ARE FINALLY CALLED. YOU THINK, IF INEXPERIENCED, THAT YOU CAN NOW TALK TO THE DOCTOR ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WRONG--WRONG--WRONG.

YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY TO MEET YOUR ........FIRST OF MANY MACHINES !!!!!!!!!!!! THESE MACHINES ARE EACH DESIGNED  TO TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR INSTEAD OF YOU. AFTER ALL, ALL YOU KNOW IS YOUR DISCOMFORT OR PAIN OR WHATEVER WHICH YOU  CAN ONLY REPORT IN SELF-PITYING TONES AND NEVER RELAY ACCURATELY TO THE DOCTOR.  HOWEVER THE MACHINES WILL EACH DELIVER ACCURATE,  STRAIGHTFORWARD INFORMATION WITHOUT THE TEARS AND ARE THEREFORE PREFERRED BY DOCTORS FOR ASSESSING YOUR ILLESS WHICH IS PROBABLY MAJOR TO YOU (AFTER ALL YOU HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT) AND FAIRLY MINOR TO HIM OR HER (AFTER ALL THE LAST PATIENT HAD REAL PROBLEMS) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO YOU, THE PATIENT, ARE RUN THROUGH THE GAUNTLET OF MACHINES INCLUDING A PHOTO MACHINE THAT WON'T ASK YOU TO "SMILE PLEASE" SINCE IT'S NOT YOUR SMILE THAT WILL BE  DIAGNOSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AFTER THIS TIME CONSUMING AND DISCOURAGING EXPERIENCE IF YOU FINISHED MACHINE HEAVEN, YOU ARE SEATED SOMEWHERE TO AWAIT THE NOW TERRIFYING INFO THAT WILL DECIDE YOUR NEXT FATE.  BY THE TIME THE DOCTOR SEES YOU, YOU WILL BE PROPERLY COWED BY THE SERIOUSNESS OF YOUR ILLNESS AND WILLING TO BELIEVE ANYTHING HE INTERPRETS THE MACHINES AS DECLARING ABOUT YOUR LIFE AND MAYBE DEATH OR  BLINDNESS OR DEAFNESS OR WHATEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OKAY,  MAYBE THAT'S A BIT MELODRAMATIC BUT IT CERTAINLY IS NOT CONDUCIVE TO  THE POSITIVE OUTLOOKS HEALTH EXPERTS ARE ALWAYS BALLYHOOING IN ALL THEIR ARTICLES ON YOUR HEALTH AND WELLBEING !!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS BY NO MEANS UNUSUAL TREATMENT BY SPECIALISTS AS MORE AND MORE JOIN THE RANKS OF "MACHINE DEPENDENCY" !!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD FORBID THAT ONE OF THESE "MIRACLE METAL GADGETS" SHOULD EVER DELIVER A WRONG SCENARIO TO JOHN DOE WHO PERHAPS GOT MARY-JANE'S OVARY MACHINE TESTS INSTEAD OF HIS GONAD SURGERY RESULTS. OH LORDY--LORDY WHAT A THOUGHT !!!!!!!!!!!

NOW DON'T THINK I CONDEMN THE MEDICAL FIELD FOR WANTING TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND BE CAREFUL OF YOUR HEALTH BUT AT SOME POINT ONE WONDERS WHEN "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" ????????????????? WHEN DO WE REACH THE END OF PATIENT PATIENCE AND NECESSITY AND DOCTOR DESIRES ?????????????????? CAN WE DETERMINE THAT DIAGNOSIS IS BETTER THESE DAYS THAN WHEN WE RELIED ON THE KINDLY, CONCERNED DOCTOR WHO NOT ONLY DIAGNOSED BUT COMMISERATED WITH US EVEN REMOVING A SPLINTER AND SUGGESTING WE KEEP THE WOUND COVERED SO IT WOULDN'T GET INFECTED ?????????THIS BLOGGER WONDERS IF THAT  GENTLE KINDNESS ISN'T MISSED AND IF IT OFTEN MADE UP FOR AN OCCASIONAL POOR DIAGNOSIS OF MINOR THINGS ??????????

SURE, WE NEED  REALITY FOR THE MOST PART BUT SEND BACK ONE MACHINE AND MAKE SPACE FOR THAT KIND OF INTERACTION PATIENT TO PHYSICIAN !!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GET IT NOW SOMETIMES WITH A GENERAL PRACTITIONER BUT UNFORTUNATELY HE OR SHE WILL SEND YOU TO A SPECIALIST FOR THE REAL, DOWN AND DIRTY--SMELLY????DOWN AND SMELLY ????? SCARY???? DIAGNOSIS WHERE YOU SPEND THE RESULTING VISIT BEING WORN OUT BY MACHINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THAT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOUR HEART!!!!!!

CHEERS, CONNIE

8/11/17

POST 371 BE SIGHTFUL ABOUT FREEDOM!

HI.

PLEASE FORGIVE TYPING ERRORS. HAVE HAD EYE PROBLEMS AND HAVE NOT BEEN GOOD AT PROOF READING FOR AWHILE.

THIS BLOGGER IS AS USUAL ALWAYS SURPRISED THAT THOSE GIFTS WE TAKE FOR GRANTED LIKE OUR EYESIGHT ARE SO SURPRISINGLY IMPORTANT TO US ONLY WHEN WE HAVE PROBLEMS. THE REST OF THE TIME WE TAKE IT FOR GRANTED AND
THINK IT'LL ALWAYS BE THERE.

UNFORTUNATELY WE ONLY MISS WHAT WE DON'T HAVE AND DON'T EXPECT TO LOSE. FREEDOM'S THE  SAME STORY.  WHEN YOU'VE ALWAYS ENJOYED IT,  IT'S HARD TO CONCEIVE OF LOSING IT. OR EVEN UNDERSTANDING THAT MOST FOLKS IN THE WORLD  LIVE UNDER SOME SORT OF CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT.  A LOT OF THEM DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT  FREEDOM IS LIKE SO CAN'T TELL IF THEY WOULD PREFER IT TO WHATEVER THEY ARE USED TO NOW.

CONSISTENTLY THOSE WHO HAVE HAD IT AND LOST IT SOMEHOW--REALLY WANT IT BACK !!!!!!!!!!!!! HARDSHIPS AND ALL. IT'S  NOT SURPRIZING. FREEDOM AFTER A FORM OF SLAVERY IS LIKE A GULP OF SWEET, COOL FRESH AIR AFTER A HEAT WAVE. THERE IS A DESIRE TO TAKE GREAT GULPS AND SAVOR IT AND SAVE IT.

AGAIN, WE DON'T MISS IT UNTIL IT'S GONE AND WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T ENJOY OUR PRECIOUS GIFT SO THEY DON'T CHANCE LOSING IT OUT OF IGNORANCE AND CARELESS  BEHAVIOR. THAT USED  TO BE EASIER THAN IT IS NOWADAYS BECAUSE WHEN THE NATION WAS NEWER WE HAD MANY IMMIGRANTS TO PASS ON THE PROBLEMS THAT EXISTED IN THE PLACES THEY CAME FROM AND THAT DID NOT EXIST IN A FREE SOCIETY. THEY NEVER LET THEIR CHILDREN FORGET THAT NO MATTER HOW BEAUTIFUL THEIR FORMER LAND, THERE WAS A SHORTAGE OF FOOD, JOBS, AND PEACE. THE LAND WAS MOST OFTEN CONTROLLED BY GREEDY MEN WHO DID NOT ALLOW FREEDOM  OR AN ESCAPE FROM WANT. THEIR LEADERS TOOK IT ALL AND LEFT NONE FOR TTHE DOWNTRODDEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT'S WHY THIS BLOGGER FEELS IT'S A MISTAKE TO LOSE  HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SCHOOLS SO THAT STUDENTS AT LEAST GAIN AN IN INSIGHT INTO THE PROBLEMS IN LANDS THAT BASICALLY LIVE UNDER CONTROLS OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER. SOCIALISM SOUNDS GOOD UNTIL ONE REALIZES WHAT AMOUNT OF FREEDOM IS LOST FOR MUCH LESS GAIN AND SOMETIMES NO GAIN AT ALL WHEN THE PROMISES FAIL TO MATERIALIZE. PROMISES ARE EASY TO MAKE BUT OFTEN  IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP EVEN FOR THE MOST SINCERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FREEDOM PROMISES ONLY ONE THING--THE RIGHT TO TRY TO DO AS WELL AS YOU CAN AND LIVE IN AS MUCH PEACE AND HARMONY AS YOU CAN MANAGE. IT'S NOT A GIVEN BUT A RIGHT THAT DEPENDS ON YOU TO PRESERVE AND CHERISH FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS.

MUCH AS THE GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO SEE MUST BE PRESERVED BY OURSELVES, WITH THE HELP OF THOSE WHO THANKFULLY SELECT A PROFESSION OF HELPING OTHERS PRESERVE IT. BECAUSE THERE MUST ALWAYS BE THOSE WHO MAKE A PROFESSION OF PRESERVING FREEDOM AND CHOOSE TO HELP OTHERS PRESERVE THEIRS. THE ARMED SERVCES, THE COURTS AND THE LEGAL STAFFS INCLUDING THE LAWYERS, POLICE, GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL CHOSEN BY US TO HELP PRESERVE THAT WHICH WE HOLD DEAR !!!!!!!!!!!

REMEMBER THE KEY WORDS ARE HELP US  PRESERVE--NOT  PRESERVE IT FOR US. HELP US PRESERVE FREEDOM AND ALL ITS BENEFITS SO THAT WE CAN PASS IT ALONG  TO OUR CHILDREN AND OTHERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!  IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY AND MY RESPONSIBITY AS A WRITER TO REMIND YOU TO PAY YOUR DUES FOR FREEDOM  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT'S LIKE YOUR EYESIGHT !!!!!!!!!!           ONCE IT'S GONE COMPETELY YOU MAY NEVER REGAIN IT. !!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T RISK IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO WWHAT YOU CAN WHILE YOU ARE STILL FREE AND SIGHTFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  BE SIGHTFUL ABOUT FREEDOM !

CHEERS, CONNIE

8/5/17

POST 370 ASSURE TRUTH IN THE PRESS!

HI,

THIS BLOGGER NOTED THAT SINCE CRITICS COULDN'T ACCUSE PRESIDENT TRUMP OF WRONG DOING, THEY HAVE DECIDED TO CRITICIZE HIS METHOD OF VOCAL DELIVERY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOW HE HAS BEEN ACCUSED BY HIS CRITICS OF EITHER BEING A TYRANT, A CRASS EXPONENT, OR A RUDE, UNPRINCIPLED IND1VIDUAL. IT IS AMAZING TO ME HOW MANY ADJECTIVES CAN BE USED BY THE PRESS TO "PRESS" THEIR CASE OF DISLIKE !!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT THEY HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY PURSUING "WEBSTER" FOR MONTHS NOW WITH THE HOPE OF BRINGING PRESIDENT TRUMP DOWN !!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUCH OF IT IN ANY OTHER PLACE THAT SPEECH WASN'T PROTECTED BY FREEDOM WOULD BE HELD TO BE SLANDER/

FORTUNATELY FOR US AND UNFORTUNATELY FOR TRUMP'S CRITICS THE ACCUSATIONS ARE GETTING SO RIDICULOUS THAT ONE CAN HAVE A GOOD LAUGH AT HIS ACCUSERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOWEVER, THAT DOES NOT RELIEVE THE PRESS OF A VERY BAD PRECEDENT THEY HAVE SET IN USING THEIR WRITING EXPERTISE  IN A LOOSE AND DEPLORABLE MANNER MUCH LIKE A PROSTITUTE USES SEX T0 ENSNARE.

 RULES FOR THE FREE PRESS WERE DEVELOPED MANY YEARS AGO DURING THE DAYS OF THE GARBAGE THEY CALLED NEWS.  THE RULES WERE ESTABLISHED
BECAUSE IF THE PRESS DID NOT FOLLOW TRUTH AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE, THE PUBLIC WOULD LOSE THEIR TRUST. THE LAST ELECTION PROVED HANDS DOWN THAT IT HAD LOST TRUST OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RARELY HAS THIS BLOGGER SEEN THAT MENTIONED !!!!!!!!!!

THE PRESS HAS SPENT THE MONTHS SINCE  THE ELECTION TRYING TO MAKE THE PUBLIC BELIEVE THAT THE VOTERS MADE A MISTAKE AND NEVER ONCE  THAT THE PRESS WAS JUST DOWNRIGHT WRONG !!!!!!!!!!!!!! AS YOU KNOW EVERYONE IS WRONG SOME TMES BUT IF THEY FACE UP AND ADMIT IT IN SOME WAY, OTHERS CAN OVERLOOK IT.

BUT UNFORTUNELY THE PRESS HAS BECOME A LAW UNTO ITSELF AND PRETENDS IT DOES NO WRONG. WHEN YOUNG, INEXPERIENCED REPORTERS PICK UP ERRONEOUS NEWS FROM THE NET PEOPLED BY NEWS SOURCES FROM OUR ENEMIES, THEY ARE NOT CONDEMNED FOR THEIR LAX BEHAVIOR !!!!!!!!!!!!! IN MANY CASES THEY DO THIS CONTINUALLY RELISHING HAVING NEWS NO ONE ELSE HAS EVEN IF IT IS NOT TRUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT !!!!!!!!!!!! IT ISN'T REALLY NEWS !!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S FICTION AND SHOULD BE PUBLISHED AS A SHORT STORY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR A NOVEL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR A DAMNED LIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AND ALTHOUGH MEMBERS OF THE LEGITIMATE PRESS SUSPECT IT OR EVEN KNOW IT, NO ONE DOES ANYTHNG ABOUT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY ???????????????

THERE'S AN ANSWER TO WHY AND IT MAKES SENSE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU CHALLANGE A FALSE NEWS STORY, YOU GIVE IT PUBLICITY AND THE WRITER A CHANCE TO FIGHT BACK AND POSSIBLY GIVE MORE CREDENCE TO IT AND LOTS OF PUBLCITY. THAT'S WORTH A FORTUNE IN ADVERTISING TO THE "PHONY DO-BEES" !!!!!!!!!!!! WHO TAKE ADVANTAGE TO THE  "NTH" DEGREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ONE OF THE REASONS THAT SUCH STRONG STANDARDS AND RULES WERE SET UP FOR THE PRESS WAS THE NEAR  IMPOSSIBILITY OF REFUTING THE LIES TOLD BY
WRITERS IN THE PURSUIT OF THEIR BELIEFS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS BLOGGER BELIEVES THAT THE INTERNET IS A CONSTANT SOURCE OF POLITICAL DRIVEL AND LIES SO IT IS TIME TO REVIEW AND PERHAPS CHANGE SOME HARD HELD BELIEFS ABOUT "FREEDOM OF THE PRESS". SINCE THE  WRITERS WILL NOT POLICE THEIR FELLOW WRITERS OR THEMSELVES, CITIZENS MAY HAVE TO DEMAND IT OF THE PRESS CORPS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF THEY STILL REFUSE TO DO SO   WE MUST LOOK FOR OTHER METHODS OF CLEANING UP THE MESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIKE EDITORS NOT ALLOWING INFORMATION IN STORIES FROM THE INTERNET UNLESS IT IS LEGALLY VERIFIED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EDITORS KEEPING A STRONGER  HAND ON REPORTERS WHO CONTINUE TO TAKE THE EASY WAY TO A STORY, ETC.

BUT MORE THAN THAT A TIGHTER CONTROL BY INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING WITH  STRONG EMPLHASIS ON THE MORALS AND RULES OF BEING A PUBLISHED REPORTER AND THE ACCURACY NEEDED TO MAINTAIN THE TRUST OF THE PUBLIC. THIS BLOGGER KNOWS OF NO OTHER PUBLIC TRUST TREATED SO LIGHTLY.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC FROM WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING PRIMERALLY SINCE THE NET HAS BEEN AVAILABLE TO POST WHATEVER DRIVEL (INCLUDING MINE) THAT PEOPLE WANT TO SPREAD. WHEN IT WAS JUST IN OUR BACK YARD, CONTROL WAS POSSIBLE UNDER THE OLD RULES.
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NOW IT IS NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF WE ARE TO CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IN A FREE PRESS THEN NEW STEPS HAVE TO BE ESTABLISHED  AND MEDIA OUTETS IN OUR COUNTRY DESIGNATED TO ENFORCE THEM. FREEDOM WITHOUT RULES AND PRINCIPLES SPELLS "ANARCHY" AND DESTROYS THE BEST OF INTENTIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOUR BEST PROTECTION FOR "FREEDOM OF THE PRESS" IS CHOOSING TO GET INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS OF SECURING SOME LAWS THAT DO  NOT INHIBIT FREEDOM BUT DO MANDATE ETHICAL RULES OF BEHAVIOR BY EDITORS BY LAW WHO MUST  DEMAND TRUTH FROM REPORTERS OR LOSE THEIR POSITION ON THE PUBLICATION IF AN ARTICLE IS PROVEN PHONY. THEN LEGALLY FINING THE PUBLICATION BY LAW FOR THE LOSS OF PUBLIC TRUST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TOUGH ???????????? IT HAS TO BE WHEN THINGS GET THIS OUT OF HAND !!!!!!!!!

CHEERS, CONNIE