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A pharmaceutical company lied! Oh, please tell me it isn’t true! How can that be when they have promised to play nice with the American public and give us breaks and good deals when it comes to us buying the needed drugs we need! Well, I guess anyone could make a mistake once. What? This wasn’t the first time? Really! You mean this is the third time; the forth time for the same offense? You have got to be kidding!? And the US Government is thinking they will do the right thing by us now and the Republican’s want them to make even more money? Wow, so where do we come in? You know, “we the people”? Is there anyone out there looking out for us because no matter who I vote for, everything remains the same.

After all, Pfizer does have to pay a record fine of $2.3 billion dollars and you would think that paying out that kind of money would be a deterrent; right? Well, if fines were going to deter them, why hasn’t the first 3 fines worked? When fines don’t work maybe incarceration will. Has no one in the justice department thought about sending someone to jail? Just a thought.

I’ve seen a bunch of pictures of people showing up at rallies and political engagements armed and ready for war. While it can be a little disconcerting if you come from some neighborhoods, I guess it really doesn’t surprise me at all. I don’t have a problem with law abiding citizens owning or even legally carrying a gun. I’d rather be able to see the gun than not but I guess that defeats the purpose of carrying one. I think the funny thing is that these gun toting Americans are the same gun toting Americans from the same places they have always been from; mostly rural America.

Though these people will tell you that “they ain’t scared of nothin’” the truth is that they are scared of a lot. That’s why they carry guns and I’m not talking about guns you hunt with! If a man walks in faith and is not afraid and isn’t out hunting, why does he think he needs to carry a handgun? I’m not talking about ownership of any type of guns but of insisting on carrying guns to public events. That old adage that “guns don’t kill people, people do” is better stated as, “guns don’t kill people, people carrying guns do”. I’m all for guns as long as they aren’t attached to people.

I recently took my wife’s car to get inspected so we could renew her tags. Since I waited until the end of the month I was forced to wait in a very long line. We were three lanes wide and 17 cars deep. (Yes, I counted) I happened to be in the middle row and I noticed that my line was not moving at the same rate of speed that the outside lines were moving so I started watching what was going on in the three inspection bays.

First of all, the outer bays were being run by women. The middle bay had a guy with a phone up to his ear the majority of the time, which I am sure slowed him down. By the time my car was inspected the one outer bay on my right was five cars ahead and the one on my left was three cars ahead. The difference was their systems. I was amazed at watching the middle aged lady to my right work. No nonsense as she did the same thing every time like clockwork. The young lady on my left had a little bit different system that just wasn’t as tuned as the other. The guy, on the other hand, had no system at all and it showed. If this is the future, guys better get ready to be out worked and out smarted by their women counterparts!

Labor Day came out of the union movement to honor those who have labored to build this country. The Central Labor Union celebrated the first Labor Day holiday on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. They held the second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883 but a national holiday celebrating labor workers did not come about until June 28 1894, almost eleven years later.

The national holiday is officially the first Monday in September in what started off as a huge celebration with parades and picnics in and around high intensive labor and industrial areas around the country. Today Labor Day is more about celebrating everyone who labors, unions or otherwise and though there are still pockets that celebrate with local parades, they are fading out. Some attribute this to the times and others to the cost of producing these types of events. Whether celebrating our nation’s workers in the traditional ways with parades and picnics or just taking an extra day off to rest and relax, we hope you enjoy your Labor Day this year!

I have been told for many years that I really don’t need my appendix, my spleen or my pinky finger. But I have always wondered if we don’t need them, why do we have them? If evolution is the reason we no longer have use of these body parts then I would think we would be born without them. Well, I just might be right!

There was a study done in the 70’s that showed war veterans who had lost their spleens were twice as likely to die from cardiovascular disease than those who had their spleens. They have now done research with mice and it is the same that mice without spleens have a harder time recovering form heart attacks than those who have their spleens. It seems that the spleen, though we can live without it, plays an important part in the immune system and its function is essential to repairing heart and other body tissue. So if they are now discovering why we should not discount our spleen, what other things will they soon discover about other body parts we are told we can do without? I guess our bodies are a lot smarter than we thought and the evolutionary process works whether we understand it or not.

I am all for free speech and being able to give your opinion on just about any subject that’s out in the universe as long as we know it’s your opinion and not mixed in or mixed up with facts. What I am having trouble with these days in our obsessed 24 hour news media is opinion seems to be taking the place of facts and we are finding out that people are reverting to down right lies when there are no facts to uphold their part of the argument. Unfortunately, these lies are scaring the ba-gee-bees out of some people.

Let’s take the so-called “Death Panels” in the proposed health care package for example. Every news organization, including those at Fox, has said there is no basis for the term “Death Panel” in the bill. It is simply counseling for end of life care so you and I can make the decisions for ourselves before we are in a place that we can’t. The same provision that was in a Republican sponsored bill for Medicare that passed in 2003. The term “Death Panel” is a ball faced lie yet we cloak it as “free speech” and pass it on. If it was about “someone” that person could sue for libel or defamation of character. I think knowingly lying to the public should be against the law and if it’s not; why isn’t it?