Pat has...

.. a telescope for her bird watching.

It is set up in the Living-room looking out the sliding glass door.  She now has enough bird feeders for the entire population with a couple of miles.  We have started a instant raman noodle soup diet so we can afford to feed her Cardinals.  When Pat leaves the house to go to the barn for feeding Smiley she has at least 1 Cardinal for an escort.

In the picture she is bird and snow watching.  Kinda reminds me of 'Grandma Moses' eh?  We have been told we should expect upwards of a couple of inches today.  At the rate it is snowing now, I believe it.

I am starting to shop for a new (used?) Mac for Pat so she can have the benefit of the latest Operating systems since 10.5.8.  Her old laptop cannot run many of the updated/newer applications.  I'm thinking a refurb iMac or MacMini.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This probably will not surprise you.....

 

There are actually two messages here. The first is very interesting, but the second is absolutely astounding - and explains a lot.

 

A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International

Health Organization.

 

Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:

 

U.S. 65%

 

England 46%

 

Canada 42%

 

 

Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:

 

U.S. 93%

 

England 15%

 

Canada 43%

 

 

Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:

 

U.S. 90%

 

England 15%

 

Canada 43%

 

 

Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:

 

U.S. 77%

 

England 40%

 

Canada 43%

 

 

Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:

 

U.S. 71

 

England 14

 

Canada 18

 

 

Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":

 

U.S. 12%

 

England 2%

 

Canada 6%

 

 

And now for the last statistic:

 

 

National Health Insurance?

 

U.S. NO

 

England YES

 

Canada YES

 

Check this last set of statistics!!

 

The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.

You know what the private business sector is a real-life business, not a government job. Here are the percentages.

 

 

T. Roosevelt.................... 38%

 

Taft.................................. 40%

 

Wilson ........................... 52%

 

Harding........................... 49%

 

Coolidge......................... 48%

 

Hoover............................ 42%

 

F. Roosevelt................... 50%

 

Truman........................... 50%

 

Eisenhower................ .... 57%

 

Kennedy......................... 30%

 

Johnson.......................... 47%

 

Nixon.............................. 53%

 

Ford................................ 42%

 

Carter............................. 32%

 

Reagan........................... 56%

 

GH Bush......................... 51%

 

Clinton .......................... 39%

 

GW Bush........................ 55%

 

Obama..................... 8%

 

 

This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in private business!

 

That's right! Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell our bigcorporations how to run their business?

 

How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talkabout business when he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had one? And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers? They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers." They should have been in an employment line.