Canada's Wild-Fire

Some of the 80,000 residents who had fled Fort McMurray to Anzac after a mandatory evacuation notice were told just after midnight that they would have to move again.

"Buses are being assembled," authorities said in a statement, adding they were "going door to door " and urging people to "remain calm."

Six reception centers were operating within the province, officials said at a news conference.

More than 250 firefighters, helicopters and air tankers were fighting the fires that have extended over more than 24,000 acres. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced that a "Memorandum of Understanding" has been signed with the Canadian Armed Forces for air support to assist with transportation as needed.

Residents were advised by the Rural Municipality of  the changing weather patterns.

In the latest official estimates for Fort McMurray, the Beaconhill neighborhood has lost 70 percent of homes, Abasand 50 percent, Waterways lost 90 percent and around 30 houses were lost in Wood Buffalo. No injuries or fatalities have been reported.

Sad story. Let us be thankful as we celebrate Mother's Day.  Just a thought.

Yawn...

Cruz is out so is Kasich. Now what? Big Yawn for a week.   Just a thought.

Happy Easter

كل سنةوانتم جميعا بصحة وسلام

Takers...?

65-year-old Dr. Eugenio A. Menez was arrested at his home and charged with 15 felony counts of delivery of a schedule II controlled substance.

Three women told the police that Menez coerced sexual acts from them, including sexual intercourse and oral sex, in exchange for oxycodone and fentanyl prescriptions.

Police said Menez didn't deny having sex with the women, but he said it was unrelated to his writing of prescriptions.

Magistrate Hank Middlemas says Menez could face between one and 15 years in prison on each of the 15 felony counts.

The doctor was not charged with sexual misconduct but with writing prescriptions perhaps unnecessary. If these three women are patients with severe pain, then   No harm No foul.      

Just a thought.

Bernie Sanders???

Lucifer in the Flesh

In modern and late Medieval Christian thought, Lucifer is a fallen angel commonly associated with Satan, the embodiment of evil and enemy of God.

Ever proud, Lucifer convinced other heavenly beings to plot an insurrection and overthrow God to change the laws of nature.

“Lucifer in the flesh, ....... I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life," former House Speaker John Boehner said of GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

Rep. Peter King: "Cruz gives Lucifer a bad name."

"If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.” Lindsey Graham.

Think about it. He took Fiorina under his wings.????           Just a thought. 

Duffily Bag...!!!

Duffy entered the Irish “BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition" and presented a waterproof, fireproof sleeping bag and was noticed by the Mendicity Institution, a homeless charity in Dublin.

Mendicity offered her a deal: They would set up a workshop where service users would learn how to make their own sleeping bags and get paid for it.

 “They tested them out, made a few modifications to fit what they wanted and that's how the Duffily bag came to be.” The sleeping bags are being distributed at the Merchants Quay Night Café in Dublin and several were sent for migrants and refugees in Calais, northern France.

The sleeping bag workshop runs twice a week and is meant for long-term homeless who have no entitlements in Ireland. It’s providing them with a sense of achievement, of pride, for a product that they actually take from start and they actually see it finished. 

Sometimes they take on the role of helping the newer people training them so that helps them become responsible and stay sober. They are paid 20 euros (about $22.50) per session.

Duffy, still in school, works closely with The Mendicity staff but she has also moved on to other projects.

To whom [little] much is given much is expected.     Just a thought.

Safety Net....

From the Great Depression to World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt guided the United States through challenging times. He sought to help the American people in many different ways, including creating social safety nets for the elderly and the unemployed. In 1935, FDR signed the Social Security Act to provide aid to the country's most senior citizens and others in need. 

FDR considered the Social Security Act to be one of his greatest accomplishments. In a 1934 speech to Congress, he said that "I place the security of the men, women and children of the Nation first."

FDR believed that the American people deserved "some safeguard against misfortunes which cannot be wholly eliminated in this man-made world of ours." He accomplished this goal with the creation of Social Security. Let's learn more about the man behind these impressive achievements. 

Whoever is running on this promise today will end up the Leader of the Free World.

Just a thought.

Your Issue...

The so-called medical care index, maintained by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, rose 0.7 percent in April, "its largest increase since January 2007," . The overall Consumer Price Index, of which medical care is one of eight components, grew just 0.1 percent for the month.

The projected 6.5% increase in healthcare inflation in 2016 is almost half the cost growth of 11.9% in 2007, when PwC first started making its annual projections. The bad news is that 6.5% cost growth is wildly outpacing wage growth and is unsustainable over the long run in a country that already spends close to 18% of its gross domestic product on healthcare.

The overall rate of inflation in the larger economy over the past year was 0%. 

The Social Security incremental increases depend solely on the overall rate of Inflation which is 0%. Thus it will stay the same for this year. While the Doctors, the Hospitals, the Diagnostics, and the Medications are racing higher and higher.

Senior Citizens to Vote this issue for a President who can do something to cure Healthcare Cancerous Disease, the Cost.
Just a thought.

Woo...!

The death of a Texas mother whose body was found in her SUV with her hungry, thirsty children alive beside her has been ruled a suicide.  Thi Woo died of a self-inflicted overdose.

Her SUV parked in a Target store parking lot in the Dallas suburb of McKinney. The woman and children had been missing for three days. The children ages 1, 3 and 5.

The husband believed he needed to wait 24 hours until he file the report!!
Before the discovery, Brandon Woo told CBS  there were no family problems and he couldn't think of anything that would have prompted her to leave.
"She's a loving mother, a great wife. She's the most stable person you could ever meet," Brandon Woo said.

She is carrying one child, the older is clinging tight to her and the third is not far...
No mother would leave her three, very young children, like that unless there is something else going on.   So what is missing???????    Just a thought