Our school kids are lagging behind other countries in scientific studies; physics, geology, and math too. English proficiency is on a decline too, as educational experts wish to include ethnic dialects such as Ebonics into standard graduate requirements, as soon as those who practice Ebonics write the dictionary. History and ancient literature have been modernized to meet the ideology of elite ones who have become in touch with their deep feelings of how History should have been recorded. But you need not worry about the kids passing the tests, as no one is left behind.

After a few decades of mastering self-esteem training and eliminating playground bruised knees, Americans are still considered confused about bruised knees, elbows, how to sneeze, and how to get self-esteemed. We know that because Kathleen Sebelius is the cabinet level department head and she said “we have a lot of re-education to do”. She’s talking about all of us: Seniors, midders, 20/30 strugglers, teens and those right wing radical pre-Ks too. We all need to go back to school to relearn things, especially those things concerned with our health and respecting government authority.

Her department specialty is Health and Human Services, a very, very, highly important monopolistic agency that is very adept at informing us all what to do, when to do it and how in regards to our safety. She recently had a video about how to sneeze. Her job is “protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.” Now that includes things like the best way to exercise, the basics of eating right, how to maintain a healthy lifestyle, when to get a vaccination shot, what tests are needed to monitor your health, and all things pertaining to safety in the work place, at home, in a shelter or roaming somewhere.

With a budget of $845.4 billion you’d think she have someone on her staff to advise her to sit down and shut up, that Americans don’t need you to tell them how to sneeze. Every year the agency gets deeper in debt as our population keeps growing while they are concerned that there are too many people already. Wow. How does she sleep at night worrying about all that stuff? I had enough time keeping my four kids somewhat healthy, but how can she keep 300 million healthy? No one had to tell me that exercise was good for me, and that vegetables was better for my body than greasy french fries, and when a kid scraped his head and shoulder falling off the bike because he was playing an Evil Knievel trick then the kid learned a bit about bicycle tricks.

Where was HHS back then? PBS was not broadcasting sneezing hints.

Evidently, HHS feels we’ve been doing these things all wrong for generations now as we the people just don’t get it. We don’t exercise enough. We don’t eat right. We don’t maintain our health very well. We seem to skip the shots. We don’t know much about the tests we should take. We know nothing about keeping the workplace safe, the home safe, sound and healthy. We don’t train our kiddies very well in the right and approved tested methods of playground playing. Are we just stubborn or just plain dumb?

I guess she’s right. We have a lot of re-education to do. Just imagine what a country this would be if we all just fell in line and followed the advice of HHS. No fat kids. No skinny kids. No sick kids. No hungry kids. No hurt kids. No angry kids. No bullies. No gender specific kids. No one left behind. Every kid gets an ‘A” in self-esteem, bigotedlessness and playground activities.

Hmm? The government is as Moses readying to take us over to the promised land.

We the snoozing people over the years have been led to believe that progressives, also known as higher education academia, liberals, politicians called democrats (and many republicans too), and socialists were the experts continually providing us the people with all that expert advice on how we needed to live our lives.   They’ve said they had our best interests in mind.   Now we’ve learned that there really is a brotherhood of journolisters conspiring behind the scenes.   Independent news broadcasters?   Yeah sure, we bought that line.

You’ve seen the news broadcasts over the years telling us that the “experts” have discovered . . . . blah blah blah, and that . . . . blah blah blah was good for us.   It continues as daily soundbites.   Repeating something over and over will finally sink in and soon the “we the people” have become sheeple.  The progressive expert scientists have told us the world began with a big bang, but how can nothing make a bang?   From that we have had blah, blah, and more blah about how removing the Ten Commandments was about separating church and state and that it was really really good for us.  We were told that banning DDT would save the earth, but then millions died from malaria.  The progressive experts told us melting icebergs will flood our lands unless we abandon our vehicles and comfy lifestyles, but fill a glass with ice and water to the top and it don’t run over as the ice melts.  How many melted ice bergs will it take to raise 71% of the earth’s surface 2 feet?   Are the experts secretly building an ark somewhere?  Now, even a Christian denomination has accepted the . . . blah blah blah and are allowing gay priests to be sexually active. 

Experts?  Scientific studies?  How can a government funded scientific study be seriously taken as truthful?

So now the experts have a plan to provide health insurance for everyone, and it would save our health care system and . . . it will really be affordable for everyone, of course.  So say the experts.  It will revolutionize American health care.  No one will be without insurance.   You will no longer have to worry about a health emergency wiping out the bank account.   Children will be covered for all their growing up accidents, even gang members.  The ones with previously existing conditions will be covered removing the anxiety and decisions of paying the high cost of insurance or feeding the family.  Yes, it all sounds so morally right.  It all sounds so caring, so charitable, so timely.

Fast forward to 2042 and the headlines might read: American system of Health Care starts privatizing . 

The story will be similar to what is happening right now to the British system.

Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers.

The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished.   Read it all. . .

How long will it take our leaders, our experts to learn from others?  How long will it take we the people to insist that politicians adhere to the constitution?

A couple of headlines I ran across spiked my interest and outrage.  The interest was focused on the agency that awards the kind of money for the research projects that were in the headlines.  So I spent an hour or so reading various sections of this federal agency NIH (the National Institute of Health), part of the Dept. of Health and Human Services.

 

We’ve got a direct advantage over the pre-internet time when the average American had a tough time reading about the various departments of the federal government.  Where did we go if we wanted to know about the spending habits of any agency?  That information was not available to us.  Now we the people can visit the agency on line and check what  it is they do, how they do what they do and where they spend that kind of money. 

 

The NIH has roots going as far back as 1798 when the only function was the relief of sick and disabled Seamen.  No doubt, you’ve probably heard the phrase that once a federal agency is created it never goes away, but only grows larger and larger.  Over time the agency has grown into a massive mass of people researching for cures to any kind of health problem that makes it’s presence known, or is suspected of being a potential health problem for someone, anyone. The National Cancer Institute was established in 1937, a worthy endeavor, and since then 26 other institutes and Offices have been established. NIH is now under the direction of the current Director, Francis S. Collins, a Theistic Evolutionist. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act named the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is another office created inside NIH by with a budget of $500 million . . . to begin its expansion.  To make it sound less federalized, the PCORI was created as a non-profit corporation.  

 

Don’t you feel relieved?   Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.  I guess they’ll research how well we the people respond under the care of bureaucrats running the health care industry.

 

I don’t get the importance of the non-profit designation as every government agency is non-profit.  But that’s another book sized report.

 

The following headlines are what caught my eye today.  

 

U.S. Government Funded Study Establishing ‘Web-Based Sex Diaries’ for Gay Males As Young as 16   $250,000 sent out to University of Washington.

 

U.S. Spent $314,613 Studying Increase in Family Violence After NFL Upset Losses

 

U.S Government Spent $181,406 to Study How Cocaine Enhances Sex Drive of Japanese Quail

 

U.S. Spent $410,624 on Project to Teach Chinese Meditation to Cocaine Addicts

 

U.S. Has Paid $1.44 Million for Project That is Studying the ‘Social Milieu’ of Male Prostitutes in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi

 

Enough?  There’s many more.  The people at the NIH have too much time available sitting around big oak conference tables thinking of new ways to spend our tax money.  A letter is received from a college professor (scientist) with an idea to study the possible homosexual habits of butterflies, and the oak table conference votes and out goes our money.  They consider $400,000 as only a drop, so why not.  Next on the agenda?

 

Cutting the budget of the federal government is considered a difficult thing to do, but it’s infuriating to see our hard worked for tax monies spent so frivolously.   Studying male prostitutes in China?   Promoting condom use Among Intravenous Drug Users in Kazakhstan?   How do they promote that?  S400,000 to study Drinking and Sex Habits of Homosexuals in Argentina?   Give them the drinks first and then watch. The wrong team won the NFL, so study it.  Come on now bureaucrats, people of the NIH, think of we the people.  Oh, I forgot, they do think of us . . .  as the unwashed masses, the dummies, the infants who need to be told to come in out of the rain, to put that sun screen on, cover your head, watch your feet, wash your hands, tie your shoes, cover your mouth when sneezing, get your shots, wear warm clothing, wear cool clothing, drink lots of water, use baby wipes on door knobs, see your doctor, on and on. 

 

About time some of our leaders get the gonads to trim the heck out of these budgets to reduce the deficit and save the country. 

 

After November, in their spare time some NIH bureaucrat will think it a good idea to study the effects on the elite experiencing post-election stress syndrome. 

 

Obama has proved himself to be the golfingist president.  He has played more golf in his 18 month presidency than any other president played during their entire terms.  He plays even when the world thinks he ought to instead intend to business, leaving the tee times open for members.  He plays when Michelle is out with the kids, and plays when Michelle is home with the kids.  Yep, he’s an enthusiast of the game of golf.  Wouldn’t you like to know what those who have played a round with him would say about his golfing ability and strategy while navigating the obstacles?   What do the secret service agents think of his behavior and manners on the course?   They’ll never tell, as they are professionals doing the job of protecting our president, but it’d sure be interesting to hear them chat among themselves. 

 

Does he think of how the game of golf applies to the course of life?   Does he ever think of the rules and . . . golly ghee whiz. . . how sports are governed?   George Allen wrote a book titled “What Washington could learn from the World of Sports”, and I recommend it to Obama in particular and to all politicians and the bureaucrats running the country too, and our judges could learn a thing or two from the analogies.   Hey, it’s a good read for anyone.

 

Playing a round of golf is a game of navigation, a game of avoiding the hazards for the purpose of getting to the goal set before you in the least number of attempts.  The rules are clear.  They are the same for everyone.  The starting point is the same for everyone.  The goal is the same for everyone.   The obstacles affect everyone the same way.  No discriminating rules in golf, or any other sport for that matter.  No favors here or there. 

 

Put a diverse foresome together on the same tee and the rules apply evenly, the obstacles apply equally.  That’s fairness.  The maintenance crew is not out there moving ponds, trees, bunkers and the tall grasses so one player has it easier than the others attempts to avoid those obstacles.  The rules committee is not changing the rules during the round favoring one over another.  You’re on your own against the course and the best navigator wins.  You may think the other is there to intimidate and distract your “shots”, but there are those unspoken rules of governing that too.   Things like “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” keep the players acting in sportsmanlike conduct during the event, like remaining quiet and still while the other is playing his shot. 

 

Baseball has umpires.  Football has referees.  In tennis they are called referees too, and professional golf uses officials.   Unlike the other sports golfers are their own scorekeepers.   Golf officials are called upon by the golfers themselves to rule on a particular situation the player finds himself, not wanting to violate a rule and have to impose a penalty on himself.  Recreational golfers, like Obama and the rest of us at the local course must call penalties on ourselves according to the rules.  If one tries to circumvent a rule to save a stroke, like kicking a ball back in bounds, the others will eventually shun that rule breaker, never ever wanting to play with that person again, ever.  Nobody likes a cheat. 

 

Such should our law makers act.  So should the president of the US be thinking when any law is put forth on his desk considering that his job is to make sure all the rules (regulations) apply to all citizens, insuring that the new rules do not hinder the individuals navigation through life. 

 

 

The country does not need to create another federal agency when the federal debt is over the $13 trillion mark and climbing at the rate of over 3 million dollars a minute.  That’s $4.3 billion added per day.  Your share of the federal government debt is $42,800 and climbing by the minute.  Not a small sum in my neck of the woods.

Can it be paid off?   Ain’t no way.  Only once in our history has the US been debt free.   So what’s all the fuss about.  It’s natural for the federal government to operate in the hole.  Right?   We’ve all taken it for granted that it must assume debt because of the unexpected that will happen just around the corner.   Things like a war, or a hurricane wiping out a community, a tornado tearing up towns, or a flood like Katrina devastating millions.  Then the feds must act to alleviate the suffering of the people, which causes a drain on resources.   And we expect them to do their best protecting we the people.  

But this debt is not because of natural disasters, and just a small part of it is because of wars.   It’s the daily spending and expansionary programs that hurts.

We can and should hold the elected people accountable for this humongous debt.  But do we?   No, we just keep on putting them back into office election after election. 

 

So, we the people are responsible for this.  Huh?  You say.  Yes, we are.  We the people keep re-electing the ones who have added to this debt by piling on one pork barrel project after another, expanding the reach of federal power way beyond any common sense reading of the constitution.   What do we do?  We’ve applauded these people when they bring home the money for some “worthy” project in the home district.  The local news broadcast these projects as good news for the community, good for the local economy, long waiting for this and needed for that.  And then we the people send them back to Washington to get us more tax funded projects.  

Them days should be ending right now, this year, this November and then again two years from now, and repeated every two years from now on out.

How can the debt be kept from increasing?   Duh.  Stop spending more than taxes bring in.  Economics 101 calls it a balanced budget.

So, to get matters under control, a balanced budget amendment to the constitution would be a good place to start.

Second, stop creating new offices and new agencies.  Stop it immediately.  No new offices should be created under any other federal agency.  Put a freeze on new hires for new positions.   No new positions in any agency.  Just stop expanding the federal government.   Why should our federal government get away with creating a budget deficit so huge it’s unimaginable?   So huge, it is pushed off as impossible to do anything about.

We got to start somewhere.  Start with stopping the newest expansion.

“In June 2009, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) joined together to form the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, an unprecedented agreement to coordinate federal housing, transportation, and environmental investments; protect public health and the environment; promote equitable development; and help address the challenges of climate change.”   White House Blog.

A new bill ( S-1619 Livable Communities Act of 2009) was just passed out of committee that would create a New Office (the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC) under the current Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).   Introduced and sponsored by Chris Dodd (member of congress since 1974).

The purposes of this Act are–

(1) to facilitate and improve the coordination of housing, community

development, transportation, energy, and environmental policy in the

United States; 

(2) to coordinate Federal policies and investments to promote

sustainable development;

And 7 other purposes.  Read the PDF

This one must be stopped.  Read the bill and keep in mind that when any federal office or agency is created, it never goes away, it just keeps getting larger and larger with increased far reaching powers.   The Fedzilla gets bigger with more control.  It would be a good prognosis that 20 years from now this new office will have thousands of federal workers shuffling papers and telling local communities where and how to expand the city, even reaching out to the small 300 people bergs all across America.  The local mayor and council will have to get approval from the feds to zone land for building a new housing development.  Why, those homes must be energy efficient, they must be in a sustainable affordable planned community with bicycle trails, mass transit availability, schools within walking distance, shopping within a bike ride, parks for recreation meeting the goals of “healthy, safe, and walkable neighborhoods—rural, urban, or suburban”

 

They are the experts after all.  What do we know about building people friendly sustainable communities?  

 

We the people must put a stop to the spending habits of congress and the executive branch as well.  No new agencies.  Incumbents must be put on notice and sent back to civilian life ASAP.

 

ICE released the man on his own after being arrested twice for drunkeness.

The man suspected of drunken driving and killing a Catholic nun in Prince William County this weekend is an illegal immigrant who was awaiting deportation and who federal immigration authorities had released pending further proceedings, police said Monday.

The man, Carlos Montano, a county resident, had been arrested by police twice before on drunk-driving charges, and on at least one of those occasions county police reported him to federal authorities.

Read more. . . 

Hmm?  I was thinking that our federal government and the numerous agencies funded by our taxes are supposed to protect us average citizens.  When has all that changed?

Over the years, we the people have been led to believe that progressives, also known as higher education academia, liberals, politicians called democrats (and many republicans too), and socialists/Marxists were the experts continually providing Americans with all that expert advice on how we needed to live our lives.   They’ve insisted they had our best interests in mind.   They’ve insisted they had the evidence.  Just as we’ve seen in the UNIPCC temperature data to manufacture the GW agenda, the evidence was tampered with.  Now we’ve learned that there really is a brotherhood of journolisters conspiring behind the scenes.   Independent news broadcasters?   Yeah sure, we bought that line.   You’ve seen the news broadcasts over the years telling us that the “experts” have discovered . . . . blah blah blah, and that . . . . blah blah blah was good for us.   It continues on for weeks as daily sound bites.   Repeating something over and over will finally sink in and soon the “we the people” will fall in line and behave as sheep.

The progressive expert scientists have told us the world began with a big bang, but how can nothing make a bang?   From that we have had blah, blah, and more blah about how removing the Ten Commandments from schools was about separating church and state and that it was really really good for us to be quiet as there are those who might get offended.  We were told that banning DDT would save the earth, but the fall out of not killing mosquitoes was killing millions of people. The progressive science experts told us melting icebergs will flood our lands unless we abandon our vehicles and comfy lifestyles, but suspend a glass with ice and water in a bathtub and it won’t flood over the tub.  How many melted ice bergs will it take to raise 71% of the earth’s surface to flood stage?  Blah blah blah.   Are those experts secretly building an ark somewhere?  Now, even a Christian denomination has accepted the . . . blah blah blah and are allowing celibate homosexual priests to be sexually active.   Huh?  Scientific studies said they have an abnormal gene and can’t help it?  Experts?  How can a government funded scientific study be seriously taken as seriously scientific?

So now the experts have a plan to provide health care and insurance for everyone, and it would dramatically improve our health care system, and . . . it will really be affordable for everyone, of course.  So say the experts.  It will revolutionize American health care.  No one will be without insurance.   You will no longer have to worry about a health emergency wiping out the bank account.  Children will be covered for all their growing up wheezes and accidents, and gang members can get treatments too.  The ones with previously existing conditions will be covered removing the anxiety and decisions of paying the high cost of insurance or feeding the family.  Yes, it all sounds so morally right.  It all sounds so caring, so charitable, so timely.  How could anyone stand against such a utopia?   No worries from here on out.  The experts will take care of Grandma too.  Trust them.  The congressional committee “studies” confirm the experts.  

The story will be similar to what is happening right now to the British system started in 1948.

Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers.

The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished.   Read it all. . .

How long will it take our leaders, our experts to learn from historical accounts of what’s been tried before by previous “experts”?

Included in the economic stimulus bill of 2009 was this little gem: tracking your BMI, or to put it in more obtuse terms, your just plain obesity fat rating.

Last week, the effect of a little-noticed subsection of the 2009 Economic Stimulus Bill was revealed by Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Under section 3001 of the Stimulus Bill (on page 116 of 407), a new HHS Department was created called the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (HIT). The Stimulus Bill specifically gives the recently appointed head of this department, Dr. David Blumenthal, the objective of “utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014.”  Read on. . .

Seeing the opportunity to seize more power for her department, Secretary Sebelius, working with Dr. Blumenthal, released their “Standards and Certification final rule,” an expansive 228-page declaration of authority where, on page 61, they expound on their power to monitor every American’s body mass index, or BMI — a measure to estimate healthy body weight. 

Ah, so what?

I’m from the government and I’m here to help you maintain your ideal weight situation, so from now on we’ll be monitoring you, as the CDC experts have determined that your weight is just too much for your body frame, so we recommend you enroll in one of our sponsored weight reduction programs, free of course.  We’ll be in touch again next month to see how this is progressing.  Your doctor will process this information on your medical records also.  We are only here to help.  We do this to insure that all Americans are served fairly and equally without regard to race, sex, ethnic, religious, gender identification or legal status.   By the way, which group do you identify with?  Just for our records, of course, to insure there is no discrimination based on the previously mentioned groups, and to inform you that certain groups can get government assistance for fitness center memberships, and for adjustments to BMI index calculations based on race, gender, or sexual identification, because the experts have determined that certain racial groups have different ideal BMI’s.

The new regulations of the new national health care overhaul, part of which was included in the economic stimulus bill of 2009, includes what they call incentives to doctors and hospitals to get with the program of nationalizing our health care records.

The regulations, developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and issued by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, are the first concrete step for the government as it pursues the goal – first outlined in the 2009 economic stimulus law – of making all health care providers use the electronic record systems by 2014.

If doctors or hospitals do not comply and insist on using the traditional paper record-keeping systems, the federal government will penalize them by docking their Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, making it harder for them to stay in business.
If they choose to comply with the government’s plan, doctors and hospitals can receive generous federal subsidies – as much as $64,000 per doctor and millions of dollars for hospitals – as an incentive for installing the systems.  CNSNews…

Let’s be straight forward and just call those subsidies BRIBES.

Do you really think your doctor will pass up that $64,000 “incentive”?

Would you pass up a opportunity like that?

Will the hospitals have the integrity to let those millions go by the wayside to maintain our privacy?

It’s bribery plain and simple.   Another freedom of privacy goes down the proverbial drain pipe of big government mandates.

Where do they get the constitutional authority?

According to the thousands of University research projects being funded with the Recovery Act and Reinvestment Act funds, humans should expect in a few years to see an upbeat in the overall health of everyone that abides near and far.   The National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency, has received $21.5 billion of the $787 billion ARRA funds, which is being funneled to our University health research projects.   The labs will be busy.

You’ve got to give the agency credit for at least detailing the funding breakdowns so that average Americans like me can actually see where some of our tax monies are being spent in the name of stimulating the economy.  The $21 billion is going to Universities for research by professors, scientists and students looking to possibly discover a new cure for ADHD, and a host of other ideas the scientists have come up with.

For those who might be interested in the details, NIH has developed a clickable map with each states list of pork barrel funding projects along with the dedicated democrat researcher getting the funds and how much, the name of the project and purpose.    Just for curiosity, I clicked on my state, Oklahoma which has 79 different grants, compared to New York, which has 1571, North Dakota 20 ($2,674,788), but the winner is California ($917,499,705) with 2275 different research projects.   California just must be the center of health research.  These scientists must be thrilled to see all that money flowing out to their particular University, their particular lab.   These are the “shovel ready” projects for the reinvestment act that each state, each school put together that the governors, the city mayors, and University heads put together and had ready to hand to the Obama staff.

Here are a few samples:

U.S. Gives Yale Researcher $3.9-Million in Tax Dollars to Develop ‘Avatar’ Sex-Ed Video Game for Kids

U.S. Spent $2 Million on Study Promoting Condom Use Among Intravenous Drug Users in Kazakhstan

U.S. taxpayers are spending $12.2 Million getting University scientists to facebook with each other.

Taxpayers are spending $27 Million in Recovery Act Funds to Enhance Scientist and Resource Networking.

US taxpayers will spend $146,093 on A PROGRAM TO INCREASE LIVING DONATIONS IN AFRICAN AMERICANS.

Now here’s a goodie.

(CNSNews.com) –The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $181,406 this year to a researcher at the University of Kentucky to study how cocaine enhances the sex drive of Japanese quail.
“NIH’s two-year infusion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds will empower the nation’s best scientists to discover new cures, advance technology, and solve some of our greatest health challenges.”

The scientists receiving these grant monies are already employed, so the jobs part of the stimulus rhetoric does not apply here.   I guess we are supposed to be excited about how much the government cares for you and me by sending scientists into spiffy clean labs to find cures to all sorts of medical problems that are causing us all great strife.  Somewhat like today in Oklahoma where the temperature is hovering around 90.  Hot, yes.  But not really hot.  Humid, yes.  Very humid.  Listening to the radio news, the announcer keeps telling us that the heat index is 115.  Are we the people considered so stupid that we don’t know when to come in out of the heat?  Cold?  Rain?  Snow?  Thunderstorm?  Hey, I’ve got a health related study some scientists should undertake - - - How does the media news shape our physical/emotional well-being?

How did we manage to live, progress and invent all of our current technology back in the days when when we did not depend on the broadcast news to tell us how to navigate through our daily activities.   The federal government has enough to worry about in protecting me from foreign invasions than to pay scientists to research the daily sex drive of Japanese quail.