Did a great Job anyway.
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Own it...
This is a sad story anyway to approach it. It has gone out of control and must be resolved during the coming 20 years. It starts with the price-cost of medications, then go from there.
Monday, May 8, 2017
Run...*
Anthony Stokes, 17, was driving a car that matched the description of a car used to flee a home burglary, in which a masked person allegedly shot a gun at an 81-year-old woman who was home, Roswell Police spokeswoman Officer Lisa Holland told ABC News.
The driver allegedly refused to stop, and the police chased him. "The car lost control at an intersection, ran over a curb, hit a pedestrian and ran into big, metal pole," Holland said.
Stokes had an enlarged heart in 2013 and was given six months to live without a heart transplant. At the time, doctors said they wouldn't give him a transplant because of "noncompliance," which means they didn't think he could be trusted to follow medical directions.
His mother told ABC News, at the time, that she thought doctors made their decision to deny Anthony because he had low grades and trouble with the law. Stokes died from injuries sustained in the crash. Why running from the police? It always end badly.
Just a thought.
Expectency...
While life expectancy in the United States has grown overall in the last few decades, not all Americans are benefitting equally. New research finds significant disparities, with people in certain parts of the country living more than 20 years longer than those in less fortunate communities.
The reasons for the geographic disparities are complex, but the authors say a number of issues are at play. Risk factors including obesity, lack of exercise, smoking, hypertension (high blood pressure), and diabetes explained 74 percent of the variation in longevity, the researchers found. Socioeconomic factors, such as poverty, income, education, unemployment, and race, as well as access to quality health care also played a role. Choose wisely.
Drama...
Here's the simple love story of 15 year-old boy meets much older drama teacher in high school and eventually falls in love. His parents can't keep them apart, so years later the mother of three eventually divorces her husband and marries her former student. They flourish and then he runs for president when he's 39 and she's 64. And he wins.
It's much sweeter as a love story as presidential campaign than say, it could be the stuff of a criminal case in the US.
Can you imagine a politician with a personal life like Macron succeeding in the US? In France, it's met with a shrug.
First is that the husband is much younger than the wife, reversing the stereotype about older men and younger women. What's more -- they've been committed many years.
Plenty of people have pointed out that the difference in age between Macron and his wife, Brigitte, is about the same as it is for US President Donald Trump and his third wife, Melania.
Although Donald Trump was never Melania's drama teacher.
Centrism...
Minutes into his acceptance speech, Emmanuel Macron acknowledged the "anger, anxiety and doubt" among people who voted for his rival Marine Le Pen. By addressing her supporters so directly and taking their concerns so seriously, the new French president demonstrated that he knows his historic triumph has not crushed populism -- it has merely kept it at bay.
Macron's margin of victory, 66% to 34%, was decisive. His achievement, from the creation of a new party to the Elysee within a year, is extraordinary. Centrism, in all its forms internationalism, liberalism, Europeanism, Blairism, social democracy -- is back, it seems. In fact, it never really went away -- it's just that Brexit in the UK and Donald Trump in the US were such unexpected, disruptive and spectacular victories for populist causes that their noise drowned out the centrist background music.
Macron's victory has not eliminated at a stroke all the issues that Le Pen was able to convert into votes: immigration, terrorism, unemployment and identity.
Macron never held a political office before. Now he is ... Well, the saga continues.
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