unless, of course it's coming from Kate Smith. Or so say the Yankees and the Flyers - the Flyers going so far as to cover up her statue. Kind of like they've done down south with many of the statues of Robert E. Lee and others.
Easter Day explosions in Sri Lanka killed over 200 people and injured something like 500.
The Notre Dame fire was caused by an electrical short according to the Chicago news station I usually watch. And they said it with a straight face so it must be true.
Washington State is thinking about composting human remains.
San Francisco had 28,000 reports of fecal waste needing cleanup in 2018.
The measles outbreak is all over the news these days. While I certainly have sympathy for those poor kids, the only people who are going to be affected are those that refuse to vaccinate their children. When you roll the dice, sometimes you get snake-eyes.
I read an article in the New Yorker about the NRA. I was aware they were in financial trouble. The article does a good job of explaining how it happened. Apparently protecting our 2nd amendment rights isn't a very large part of their mission. Spending large sums of money on salaries and promotional firms seems to be job one instead.
Medicare is projected to go belly-up in about seven years - Social Security in about 15.
And don't forget about the latest outbreak of Ebola.
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The more I read and hear about the world as it is, the more I just want to start stringing the concertina wire around the old homestead here and just hole-up.
I'm on Medicare and it's a sweet deal as long as your medical provider will accept it. The Missus and I pay a little over $200.00 per month for supplement policies versus $1,800.00 per month we paid prior to that for health insurance. If we have to go back to that due to Medicare going belly-up, that'll definitely put a crimp in my retirement plans. With others, it could literally be deadly considering what the effect could be on the health care industry. The Missus and I will both be lucky to make another fifteen years, so the threat of Social Security going broke is not all that scary. Again though, there are a lot of people with SS as their sole source of income.
I've read lots of articles around on the internet and there seems to be a lot of people willing to take up arms if things get much worse in this country. The next presidential election looks like it could be the tipping point. I certainly can't predict the future but it would make sense to give it some thought and do a bit of risk assessment - kind of like the measles outbreak. Weigh the odds and ask yourself what happens if the shit does actually hit the fan. I'm back on the plan starting this week. Cutting back on the sweets, getting back on the bicycle, doing some strength exercises and doing my annual spring review of emergency supplies, etc. Scout motto: Be prepared.
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