Thursday, March 23, 2017

The plague of Great Britain's steeplechase.

Back in January 2017, a racehorse by the name of Ypsilanti demonstrated the issue clearly. It would seem as though the steeplechase hurdles have become soft. The horses run through them rather than jump over them.

Maybe that is why Americans prefer horse racing without the hurdles. Less cheating.


Ypsilanti won that race, too. It is all physics. If one runs touching the ground one covers more ground. Ypsilanti seems to have figured that out. Ypsilanti just wants to get back to the barn. Oats, hay, comfort. 


Socially known in The Sawth as "Poor White Trash."

When I worked in health care in North Carolina there were basically two type of male personalities for the under-educated, the holy man and the tragic man.

The holy man would live a far longer life even into his eighties and nineties. The tragic man would live to his mid-forties or early fifties. The categories were both extreme personas.

Quality of life for both were supported by poor wages and long hours. The holy man would work hard, often 2 to 3 jobs, no sacrifice was too much for his family because his rewards lie after his death in heaven. He doesn't drink alcohol, it is evil, eats what is prepared by his spouse, his children are to do well in school IF THEY WERE SMART ENOUGH. If the child could not achieve in school it was expected they would fall in to a deeply religious lifestyle of their father because he was blessed with a good woman who loved her children.

The tragic man lived "wide open." He drinks alcohol, frequently an alcoholic, eats fried food, "What is organic?", has sex with pretty women and is an absent father. He pays child support and drinks to forget he misses them. He smokes tobacco, chews tobacco, doesn't attend church, can be homeless from time to time because holding down a job is sometimes difficult, he is considered a man unable to cope with his own reality by his family. His friends, if he has any, are alcoholics that has sustained loss repeatedly. They are Caucasian.

These are the angry people. There are two sides as you can see. One is tried of lazy bums and their welfare and food stamps getting women pregnant without responsibility. The others are tired of being called bums and supporting programs they will never receive a benefit. They voted. They voted with abandon for a Human Molotov Cocktail. Both of these stereotypes have been harnessed for politics out of hate and fear; both extreme feelings; and for the differences in their lifestyles they vote the same and primarily for Republicans. Both lifestyles are of misery, toned by prayer or altered consciousness. I don't believe it will ever change. It is too far gone. The state governments are highly corrupt and the people vote out of empathy or indifference so long as they maintain the status quo.

There is no moral content in either lifestyle. There is no quality of life. There is just life and suffering with a choice of coping. These people are suffering from human rights abuse, but, are too self-righteous (pride) to see it for themselves and fight those who try to bring about reality or the truth. It is too much for them. It's been generations.

If anyone thinks there will be sympathy for these folks and health care will be left in place by Republicans, you would be wrong. Republican dogma states, these people have the liberty to live the life they want and die as they will. They don't care if they bring the country down with them.
...According to the 2015 edition (click here) of America’s Health Rankings, North Carolina ranked 31st in the nation.
 The burden of premature morbidity and mortality reflected in our ranking highlights the need for improvements in population health. More than two-thirds of all deaths annually in North Carolina are attributed to chronic diseases and injuries. 

The North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics has listed the top five causes of death in 2014 as cancer, heart disease, chronic lung disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. 

Based on the latest America’s Health Rankings report, North Carolina’s challenges are large disparity in health status by education, low per capita public health funding and high infant mortality rate. Our state’s low prevalence of excessive drinking, high immunization rates among adolescent females for HPV (human papillomavirus) and high immunization coverage among
children are noted as strengths.
The burden of premature morbidity and mortality reflected in our ranking highlights the need for improvements in population health. More than two-thirds of all deaths annually in North Carolina are attributed to chronic diseases and injuries.
The North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics has listed the top five causes of death in 2014 as cancer, heart disease, chronic lung disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.
Based on the latest America’s Health Rankings report, North Carolina’s challenges are large disparity in health status by education, low per capita public health funding and high infant mortality rate. Our state’s low prevalence of excessive drinking, high immunization rates among adolescent females for HPV (human papillomavirus) and high immunization coverage among
children are noted as strengths....

March 24, 2017
By Christopher S. Rugabeer

A sobering portrait of less-educated middle-age white Americans (click here) emerged Thursday with new research showing them dying disproportionately from what one expert calls "deaths of despair" - suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol-related diseases.
The new paper by two Princeton University economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, concludes that the trend is driven by the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with a high school diploma or less.
The economists also argue that dwindling job opportunities have triggered broader problems for this group. They are more likely than their college-educated counterparts, for example, to be unemployed, unmarried or suffering from poor health.
"This is a story of the collapse of the white working class," Deaton said in an interview. "The labor market has very much turned against them."
Those dynamics helped fuel the rise of President Donald Trump, who won widespread support among whites with only a high school diploma....

This is a global charasmatic movement that government has not been completely effective in ending the attacks. People have a right to save their own lives.

This photo provided by Clint Payne shows his sister, Melissa, and her husband, Kurt Cochran. Kurt Cochran was among those killed in the London attack March 22, 2017 and Melissa was seriously injured.



March 24, 2017 

The British man (click here) who killed four and injured 40 in Westminster yesterday was a middle-aged career criminal called Khalid Masood. 

The 52-year-old "lone-wolf" attacker, who was living in the Birmingham area, has a series of convictions for assault and other crimes but police insist no intelligence suggested he was about to unleash a terror attack.

 Kent-born Masood has never been convicted of terror offences, although Theresa May revealed this morning that he had been on MI5's radar a number of years ago. 

Masood was a married father-of-three, an English teacher and a religious convert who was into bodybuilding, according to Sky News.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said this afternoon: "Masood was also known by a number of aliases. He was not the subject of any current investigations and there was no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack....