Ten Fingers and Two Thumbs 08 28 2010
That is how it was taught when I went to school.
On the health show broadcast on the radio this morning a Doctor quoted the facts that there are 30 deaths a year from Salmonella poisoning versus maybe four a year from snake bites. What is the moral here? That you should be more careful in your grocery store than when you are hiking about out in snake country!
The same Doctor told how we really don’t know how kidney stones are caused. He attributed it to bad luck. He quoted the fact that kidney stones are ninety six percent calcium. I have often asked myself what is said to be in Cola drinks that dissolves calcium and leads to osteoporosis; phosphoric acid. I have ordered Orthophosphoric acid from Vitacost and plan on adding a little to the water that I drink to see if it will help dissolve the stones. I would drink the cola but it is high in sugar and sugar in addition to phosphoric acid is a good way to remove tooth enamel. Phosphoric acid listed for sale on the internet is mostly an industrial cleaner. I didn’t buy that. I bought a food grade product like that you see on the label of some Cola’s. I will let you know of my results.
In my mornings Investor’s Business Daily Newspaper there was an article about how a Combat Medic saved the lives of men in an ambush zone in Pakistan. His name is Sgt. Joseph Lollino. He provided first aid and formed a human shield around members of the convoy hit by a rocket propelled grenade and also returned fire until more heavy artillery arrived. My father was a Combat Medic in World War II and in Korea. How many of us would like to have a person of the integrity and character of one who would risk their life to save yours as your doctor. I would like to have a person of such integrity and character as my doctor. In fact why not make it a requirement that all Doctors are required to serve in active duty in the Military before they are allowed to practice in our country. Would this not lead to better doctors and a more efficient health care system?
I will go a step further with this thought as it would apply to lawyers also. A lawyer ought to do something that the public recognizes as good before he is allowed to practice law. Wouldn’t this lead to a more honest and crime free society? A healthier society to live in?
I also read that BP Amoco wants to retrieve the blowout preventer from negligently operated Deep Horizon oil well. To do this they would have to uncap the well again. They are likely to break it again and take attention away from any meaningful progress to our country. In another paper, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, I read how most in Louisiana feel that President Bush did a better job of handling the Katrina disaster than Obama did handling the undersea oil well disaster. It has been some five or six years since the hurricane. If my memory, which is better than a fed fat elephant, serves me correctly, people were living in cardboard shanty camps. There were mobile homes lined up to let them stay in and they were vacant because no one would let anyone use them. And President Bush would not build any permanent break wall that would protect the State of Louisiana from another Hurricane of such magnitude, the money and attention was all diverted to the Oil War. Are Bush and our “Stone Wall” conservatives waging a war against President Obama by putting forth such a pull that makes a very unfair comparison? The article even states that some of those who participated in the poll have not even gotten back into their homes today. Does this sound like a biased poll? BP Amoco the straight line successor to Standard Oil should be prevented from tampering with this well ever again. In fact if they want to tamper with it again they should be made to wait until the beginning of another Republican Presidency, that is how confident I am of their misplaced intent. I will go a step further and say that they are again a monopoly and should be broken up like the Standard Oil Company was decades ago. They wield their power irresponsibly for a company that plays such a large role in our countries energy policy to the detriment of our environment.
The Republican foray into politics is always the promise of lowering taxes. Any idiot that assumes Presidency of the United States of America can lower taxes with the stroke of a pen.
Before Doyle leaves the office of Governor he needs to provide us with a list of accomplishments for his successors to follow. Two that we can attribute correctly to him that are prominent to me today are the statewide ban on smoking in public places and mandatory recycling of electronic items. The latter prevents other states from dumping them in our landfills in Wisconsin. Those who love living in Wisconsin often attribute this to our Natural Resources. Other states use our landfills also. Do we really need Illinois dumping waste and foreign carp in Lake Michigan? Do we need waste from the affluent suburbs of Illinois potentially polluting our water table and natural resources? Let them figure out how to dispose of this in their own state. Wouldn’t that make one of the financial hubs of this country a whole lot more responsible. Won’t this recent ban on landfill disposal lead to products that work easier and last longer, in a word quality? Should Wisconsin be the dirty mop and water of Illinois?
Republican Behavior. The nature of irresponsibility is accusing someone of being responsible for something they had no responsibility for. This is not how solutions are made and implemented. And because blame is initially misplaced, solutions from this ideology are doomed to failure. Solutions based on misplaced blame are not solutions. They are the delusions of ineffective Republican Party and its Presidents to the detriment of our country.
The Friday August 20th 2010 edition of Investor’s Business Daily quoted President John F. Kennedy on Continual Learning, “The greater our knowledge increases, the more our ignorance unfolds.” And the Thursday August 19th edition created Earl Tupper the founder of Tupperware as writing, “Remember, the things which are so commonplace today would have been the ravings of a fanatic a few years ago.” And a historian Alan Axlerod commenting on Democratic President Grover Cleveland, in the Friday August 27th, “He knew capitalism depends on honesty, that it can’t survive amid rapid corruption.” In the Thursday August 26th issue the Newspaper informed me that, “To get to their favorite fishing hole faster, Arthur and pal Bill Harley mounted motors on their bicycles in 1901. A descendent of the Harley Davidson family, Jean Davidson was quoted as saying, “If the Harley-Davidson gentlemen with their strong Scottish work ethic were alive today, they would never allow skull logos on their bikes.” I think they would also go to great lengths to improve the image of Harley-Davidson to exclude biker gangs.
Harley Davidson is considering moving manufacturing operations out of state. Wouldn’t it be nice if companies were able to make their products in a plant site that could handle all operations? Wouldn’t there be less transportation costs? Wouldn’t there be less misalignment of parts issues? Wouldn’t there be less logistic issues? Wouldn’t there be higher quality if the company were able to contemplate and implement a manufacturing solution whereby it would not be relying on seasonal labor? Wouldn’t there be less issues of quality if employees were assured they have a job that pays them for their skill level for at least a full year? Isn’t that a contradiction to the standard of the Harley worker to say that a seasonal worker could do their highly skilled jobs? How are contradictions that are unresolved fulfill themselves? Will they have issues of quality that will damage their competitive position in the marketplace if they use “seasonal workers”?
My mother told me a story about a friend of hers in a small town who did seamstress work. The seamstress was getting very old and one day a man came and picked up his hemmed up suit, looked carefully at it and paid for it. When the women went to look at her sewing machine she realized that there was no thread in the machine or in the needle. She had may no alterations and yet the man paid her anyway.
Thomas Paul Murphy
Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy
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