here I am in a familiar position before the crack of dawn, wide awake, writing thoughts down. Yesterday I was able to replace my lenses in my glasses and wow, I can see nearly normal again, the Ophthomologist said nearly 20/20 and he may be right. I think this a big one, it was difficult to navigate with my mid range vision all out whack. I do not watch very much television,I prefer to get my news from the internet, the day to day stuff important here from the radio and the international stuff from the News Hour on PBS. However, for some reason I had a regular broadcast news program on the other day and a segment was focusing on infant mortaliity in the US and we have the highest in the world. Does that even compute? It sure didnt to me. We are the wealthiest, yet we lose more babies under a year old than any other country? This ought to outrage every single soul alive. The bulk of these children aparently are lost to premature birth and this happens because the mothers are very young and many receive no prenatle care. The libertarian part of me wonders if we might not be sacrificing home for over there, of course things are a lot more complicated than that and I am certainly not qualified to ascess the state of the union. I am a huge proponent of the Fairtax ( Fairtax.org ) and obviously spending in this country has gone way out of control, the deficit has not been checked. Thats the end of my political commentary for today.
Always with love,
Tony.