Posted on 07/02/2019 10:06:43 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Medicine isn’t perfect by any means. And I am happy for people who don’t have to take it, or can find natural alternatives.
For example, I have been trying melatonin, but it only provides some help.
I don’t advocate taking the profit motive out of medicines. If anything, I believe there should be more minimized, streamlined and effective regulation than the FDA provides, coupled with tort reform.
Everywhere the profit motive has been leveraged, it has been effective. And every time we have the government taking the lead role, it is a boondoggle.
I am all for a better middle ground on all this, but I think people who have it out for “Big Pharma” are simply not thinking it through.
Funny about St. Armands. I stopped on the circle this morning to grab a coffee after dropping eldest son at Mote. It's the first time I'd been there since the village idiots we elected put in paid parking. Took me five minutes to figure out the machine and then it asked me for my license plate. Had to trundle back to the car to look at the plate muttering the entire distance about the collective IQ of the city commission. Cost me as much to park as it did for my coffee. The more people who relocate to SRQ from California and "up north," the more lefty our local politics become. Even so, it's still a great place to live and raise a family.
Can't believe your little one is eight now. The time, it passes quickly.
My best to you and yours!!
They really DO have THE best tramisu in the entire USA!
Okay,now imagine what your experience with the damned parking meter would be like in the pouring rain, with wind, and the road a lake, due to lousy drainage! Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggg!
Still and all, I suppose it was worth it, more or less, to have dinner at Le Colonne.
FYI...the Le Macaron, up that block, is really good and the varieties of macarons and other French pastries are amazing!
Hey...not only is the Grand entering 8th grade, but at just turned 13, he's 5'10" and growing like a weed. It's really hard to believe/accept how grown up he is now.
Yes, the more the damned lefties move in, the absolute WORSE things get; even in the little town we live in, up here. The traffic is now shocking and almost as bad as Manhattan or Chicago and don't get me started on property taxes!
Tort reform. Oh, how I remember when that was a Republican idea whose time has come! What happened? Bought off by the lawyers?
That mortality rate for stillborn deaths (which are not counted in any other western country) has The Guardian in orgasms each and every day. It convinces the “skulls full of mush” that America is an evil country that doesn’t care about women or children. Never once have they pointed out the difference in statistics to their readers. That kind of fakery is what’s made AOC the girl she is today!
Yeah...probably.
Geez, we live in such a litigious society, it is crazy. My grandfather accidentally ran over his wife (he remarried at 86 and was still driving, put his foot on the gas thinking it was the brake as she walked up the lawn to the house) and she had to have her leg taken off. Her lawyers were urging her to sue my grandfather.
“It isn’t personal...it’s only the insurance that pays” or some such argument.
That sounds like a likely story to me!!!
Holding them accountable for their failings, expecting better corporate ethics, and questioning their choice of go-to chemicals (when other options are available, as is the case for products like weed killers) — is not the same as asking them to stop their services outright.
Oh, I assume you’re against DDT as well. Or do you use the products created by Monsanto or GMO products but only want other people not to use them? I’m speaking as a spiritually exhausted person, mind you.
I just believe when consumer vigilance and demand is high enough, companies make changes which ultimately benefit us and eventually result in profits for them if they play according to the long term. Like: McDonald’s stripping the use of calcium propionate in their bread buns and sorbic acid from their cheese.
Monsanto is currently settling trials in the billions of dollars due to farmer deaths from non-Hodgins lymphoma linked to weed killer glyphosate. Which the country of Austria has just banned. (Apparently German company Bayer is also being implicated for its use.)
Nothing wrong with either of those preservatives. Mickey D’s is too jumpy when activists get activated. And the word “linked” is so suggestive and yet so elusive in pinning down causes of cancer.
I hit this thread from a search for “GMO foods” just now . I, along with Yaelle (I think) agree with you and was stunned at the vicious reactions of some freepers. Boy, this place isn’t what it was 20 years ago. You’re absolutely right about Monsanto.
(Also really liked your post about Sarah a few days ago and was disgusted at the adolescent infighting that wrecked it)
Yup, not the same place.
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