Gov"t Needs to pay WATER in FLINT

       People should stop paying completely for their water in my opinion, in Flint Michigan. What would they be paying for? POISON ? Imagine if the water company no longer receives a dime ? They already pay-they have to go out to get water, no matter who is supplying it, costing gas and time.  The government should not only be ashamed, but a list of names of who is responsible for all of this should go out. Do any one of them live in FLINT? What are the rich government officials doing for their own water ?

Rikers 45,000. Per Prisoner

    That's the cost to keep one prisoner each year at Rikers in New York. By now that may have gone up. So I wonder why these no goods are being paid to work there? Why? First they break the law costing taxpayers, then go to prison and continue to cost taxpayers and yet the trash gets an education, free medical and dental, haircuts, prison clothes, showers-yes shower-waters cost money- food, phone calls. This is BS, yet we as citizens are told if we don't educate them, they will get out and repeat.
   I really believe, put them in an ARMY uniform and give them a real education by dropping this trash off in war zones. Go in cowrads, come out men. Prisoners are nothing but cowards who can't face life ! You want a free pass, defend your country you slime, and we also need to bring back the electric chair!

Alzheimers, US Ranks # Two Highest world wide-WHY?

    After seeing B. Smith on Dr. Oz yesterday I was curious about Alzheimer's, senility, dementia, call it what you want. We as an AMERICAN nation rank the second highest in the world. LOOK IT UP! WHY ? Why are we and about a dozen other countries so high with our citizens having Alzheimer's while most other countries are so very low.
    Having such a low rate with Alzheimer's means less medical bills, less personal care, less deaths and more. What are our researches NOT DOING that other countries are. We need to know ! We need to learn ! Now, not in a few years. Is this once again about money and med costs ? After all, many are old, so why bother ? But many young people are getting this awful disease in their thirties to fifties. We need answers now !
       A lady like B. Smith who gets Alzheimer's is in an odd way fortunate, only because she has money, so her husband/companion takes care of her in style. He makes sure she eats a healthy diet, works out, gets on a treadmill and socializes and also does reading/writing exercises as well as take her meds. Then there are those who don't have the money or insurance, so what happens to them? They will go into  a city nursing home. We know how most of those places are and we have heard horror stories. If you own a home, they go back five years and will take every penny you have left. Sure you should pay if you can, but isn't this part of whats wrong in our country?  So if you sold your home four years prior and possible gave money to your kids, gambled it, went on vacations and just don't have any left but can't prove what you did with your own money at that time, what will a nursing home do?
    What alternatives do we have?

New Story Schools in PA. Why Not Where You Live ?

       Today I had a tour of a New Story School in Lancaster Pa. Look them up, PLEASE ! these schools should be in every states in ever school district. Instead what happens is kids with extra special needs are sent to hospitals on a recycling  way any time they act up because they know how to get that break from school, know how to say just what will put them in a hospital. So what happens with their education? It causes a lapse, and they get behind. Or they will be sent to a residential facility.
    Keep your taxes in your own communities and demand to get a New Story where you live. Now, It doesn't have to be an actual New Story school, but a setting like new story in your own district in your state.
When schools have to send kids outside of the district to go to behavioral schools, your taxes will go up.

So support your schools by asking over and over again about implementing a New Story style facility within a building or building in your schools. This type of school has an autism feature and an emotional support feature. It also has an "apartment" set-up for life skills with a washer-dryer, bed, stove, fridge, kitchen cabinets, dishes and more. Students clean up at the end of every day. Their is a fun/game room,  sensory room, an outside play area, a small gym, a small cafeteria and kids pack lunches so they learn to use a microwave, a stove and whatever they need to assist with a lunch. They can take snacks, but no peanuts. as many kids are allergic. Staff are readily available. I saw one on one and Tss's are allowed.
  This is more than worth while. The High school piece-kids get to go to the grocery store and shop for their own lunch, using budgeting skills and I'm sure if parents can't afford that, there are other options.

Fight for this program. We also have many special teachers who are not valued enough who have worked with special ed kids and now not working. This would put every teacher back to work. Kids go a full day and parents are not called if kids need to be restrained to come and get them. The support staff handle this. It doesn't get any better for the kids who attend, the families who have these kids who need this kind of a school and the taxpayers who pay more to send kids out of the district to behavioral schools where mainly they just don't learn enough. They build football fields don't they? That's because football players are special kids. They build it on the school property. What about the kids who need to be,should be closer to home, and not have a 45 minute ride to go out of the district? Too bad they don't play football.

Millionaires, Please Donate to Five Children's Hearts

     On Dateline tonight, January 17, 2016 I am watching a family who discovered one child had cardiomyopathy and then another, and another and two more. All five children need need hearts ! The expense  of the meds they take is at least 75,000, not sure over what time period. I was so engrossed in this story.
   At the same time a little one was going to have a transplant and older child was admitted to the heart ICU.
Thank God for Organ Donors. So sad that a young child has to die so another child can live.

    Now Millionaires and Billionaires, open your HEARTS by opening your dollars. Help this family and more who have such giant burdens to try to pay for medical expenses, meds and more...Please
   I think the family name is Stacey and Jason Bingham, but you can easily check to make sure. They live in Oregon.

Doctor/Produce Bills-Blue Zones

       Inch by Inch I feel my jeans aren't as tight as they were a week ago. Grocery shopping has taken on a new meaning. I can buy a few turkey breasts, frozen of course, a bunch of apples that I never buy already bagged, pears which are great for you, and any other fruit and vegetables  that I know I will use fresh, and not waste. Buying frozen vegetables I also do with frozen blue berries, a few bags at a time
    The idea is eating better saves going to the doctor, as you are now healthier. You don't have to live in a BLUE ZONE to create a Blue Zone life. Blue Zone living is eating what grows naturally, move naturally, faith and friends/family. Sounds easy? It is, but not at first if you're used to eating like I was. too much pizza, eating out, ice cream, convenient store stops for coffee and whatever.
    We all can use to improve our faithful living. It does help as ell as a circle of friends and family. Choose those friends who think and eat and live like you do. Move  naturally means, you don't have to join a gym, but sure if you want to, do. Stock up so you're not tempted to eat out or buy quick meals from a convenience store. Good Luck...oh I almost forgot....those doctor bills piling up, the pharmacy costs,  and endless trips for the doctor and pharmacy-will just about disappear when you live a Blue Zone life.
Blue Zones come from areas where people have rates almost zero of cancer and heart disease. They are usually hot areas where fruit and vegetables are plentiful. You can buy what ever is in season, and you can also grow your own, even in apartments, on fire escapes, back yards, community gardens. Seek and ye shall find:)

Those Sitting BATHTUBS-$$$$$$$$

    Okay so we all have seen the advertisements for the sit down tub/showers. Notice they prey on the elderly as infirm. These advertisers count on retirees, good credit and the fact that old people don't know any better.
    Well take another look at the prices and interest. Then take another look at new showers. In today's market many shower makers have seats in them and anyone can add long handled hoses. Put a phone in your bathroom with a long wire, easy to pull off so u can dial, or put one close to the floor.
   Save your thousands of dollars, bank accounts, credits and interest payments. Just look at other options first. Don't let TV take your money by putting fear in you. Good Luck.

Bone Broth, Sauerkraut & Nuts, Advocados

       Convinced am I about this. I now roast vegetables, including cabbage. Cabbage, Kimchi, Sauerkraut is needed for a healthy gut, helps with weight loss too. The three items I listed will change how you feel, move and think. Bone broth is what people made for many, many early years and we need the good fat to balance things out, like nuts and avocados. Almonds are an awesome nut as are few others like walnuts. You can  pack them up and keep with you all day at work, trips, biking, movies and more. You can also freeze the bone broth but put it through a a sieve first, make broth cubes and when you want a sip of broth soup, bam, it's there. You really cannot go wrong and think about this as well. How Cheap is this all? Give it one month. You'll be very happy you did.

Muscle Maker Grill ! WOW, Undercover Boss

       I just finished watching Undercover Boss. I barely paid attention to name so all I can say is this:they guy who has owned it for two years now is a big softee. At the end when they showed him and Justin talking, suddenly the boss said, I have an idea for you...well I think that was an emotional spur of the moment blurt, but still a great one. He offered this young college kid his own franchise when he graduates and gave him money to boot helping now with books and expenses.
    Muscle Maker Grill  looks awesome and I wish they had them in Pennsylvania. But once I head north to relax a bit, I'll look up one in Staten Island or Jersey. Good Job Boss. Oh, that guy who is working 16 hours a day, you never really called him out on his lies.

A Jewish Dream

      I know ! A Jewish Dream ? How weird is that? I'm not even Jewish, but who cares.  So here it is: Suddenly I found myself in an apartment or house, couldn't really tell and i Was a teenager again wearing penny loafers which I did wear as a kid, and a long print dress, which I never wore. My hair was shoulder length and more curly at the bottom and I wore bangs. I never had bangs except as a five-year old.

     Well inside this home was gathering of a lot of people, all in their mid twenties to late thirties and me. Someone was missing, the old man. I didn't have any idea who the old man was or his relation to anyone yet. I walked around the people, looking and listening. Everyone was drinking, what they were drinking I couldn't tell. Glasses were clear. It was crowded and so much chatter was going on. Then the old man came in.
       He was so slender, wore a dark suit and shirt. He had a hat on and took it off when he came in. He was stooped over, but not sing a cane or walker. He was shaking his head and nodding, looking about. I went to him and asked why he was gone so long. Hands up he said, look, why would I want to be here? This is family ? We walked and sat at an old wooden table. I asked if he wanted something to eat. He took out another round hat and placed it on his head. He said, no, I cannot what they  have on plates, that every hand gas touched, so unclean.

      He asked me if I had a candle. I went to my room-oow I had a room-took out a candle, matches and gave to the old man. He lit the candle and said a prayer for family, old values and traditions. He took me to the refrigerator and showed me how the food was all scattered and then a hand reached around him grabbing lunch meat off a tray. The old man said, see, unclean. A man standing at the sink came to us and said hello dad, I'm happy you're here. Why said the old man, what is here for me anymore? look at what you have done to our Jewish family, traditions gone, dress gone, values gone, food gone. Have you forgot? The son looked sad, walked to the people in his home and asked everyone to leave. As they trailed out, he returned to his father and said, I'm sorry dad and I woke up as I was walking away in my dream.

My 9 Day Food Test

       I have had enough ! This didn't start out as a test, but looking at the past nine days, it seems to be that anyway. Stress, food, exercise, happiness, weight control, time management, all in one. But again, that didn't start that way.
     I take care of a child who has been in and out of schools, emotional problems and again waiting  for another school to be found. So he was away and it was time for him to come home again. This time going to get him, I wasn't s upbeat and hopeful as I usually was on other trips. My think was, here we go again and why am I still doing this?
    Anyway we arrived home and just managed the way to a few days before New Years Eve when I decided to grocery shop, like I haven't done in a few years. I also put my firm foot down, more than before. He would no longer spend my time because he put himself in this situation. He is a cute and lovable little guy, yet after two years, something or someone has to give and it felt like me.  Two day before getting him, I woke with a painful and stiff neck adding to my, well to my feelings about it all.
      Well I and he as well went on a plant based way of eating. This I tried three years ago and felt great, no kids in the house. In a month I lost25 lbs without feeling like I was trying. So here I went again and this time, was not buying different foods for this guy. He gained a lot of weight when he was away and he's short. So seven days pass, I lost seven pounds and then thinking I may be depriving him, buy some ice cream and pizza and a donut each. Horrible, just horrible ! Before I indulged I started to sleep better, keep better hours, was popping up off my chair, moving around like crazy.
    Then I indulged and God help me, I just wanted to sleep most of the day and my energy was zapped. I'm not joking. I felt like crap. Well this happened between yesterday and today. I don't want to move. I only want to sit and watch TV. I'm now finished with bring crap into the house for good.
  Tomorrow I wake up and eggs, sweet potatoes wait for me and I them. I made beef broth from a shin bone, have fresh vegetables. Imagine. I just can't wait. Roasted cauliflower ? Never thought I would love that before ice cream. I do.

Doctor Bills ? Apples ? ! CBS-Charlie Rose

            I know you've heard it all before, but I have never heard a newscaster say to a doctor, but isn't this all the same. On CBS my favorite morning relaxing show,  a doctor was on with another book. At the end of the chat, Charlie Rose asked what we were mostly all thinking-isn't this just more of the same and mentioned what it takes to just stay healthy.
   I've know forever, like we all do what it takes to be healthy-"WE" just don't use self-discipline. This doctor stated, Carbs at the end of the day. Because your sugar spikes so mainly better to have that happen at dinner time when you know it will go back down so you can get to bed relaxed. In his book he also tells what are the exact foods that are higher in protein, that we need early. I know, other books have that also.
     Seven days ago I started plant based-not fully-I know me. But I have now lost seven and a half pounds. I didn't, am not doing it for weight control, although to be honest, I look like  a female quarterback-lol
     I am doing this because I remembered how I felt three years ago when I was first shown a film at my sons father-in-laws home-OUR FOOD, ( not the film name) what we eat is horrible. I know we love junk and it's about turning your life, your hard earned money into what they were, are, both meant for, 
                                                                        LIVING !
       It's much easier to make a 5 qt. crock of chicken, use the broth after you chill it a day, remove the fat, and pull apart the chicken also the next day, and add bunch of fresh carrots, a bag of frozen vegetables. That fed me and my little guy six meals. He is 14. He ate apples, and I gave us both flat bread to share, not with every meal. I will do the same with beef, make my own broth rather than use store cans or waxed containers with preservatives.a
     PLEASE, don't think I won't have pizza, ice cream and mac n cheese-sometimes, maybe once a week, choosing between pizza and mac n cheese.
     So In closing-DECIDE, where will your money go ? To Build a big house for your doctor ? Food as Medicine, it's own preservative or to the doctors, pharmacies, and hospitals or nursing homes. DO you want to be an ABLED person or DISABLED?
    

Denton & Palant, Brave Cowards, Long Island

           I live out of New York, but am a New Yorker. The crime these two boys and that's what they are, boys committed, could have killed people. Andrew Denton who is 17 from East Meadow and Jacob Palant, 19, of  Syosset decided it would be fun to throw bricks at cars from an overpass above the Meadow brook state parkway in Uniondale on December 26, 2015.
     Two people were sent to the hospital with so-called minor injuries. Injuries do not always show immediately !
      What I want to know is WHY?  Yes, I realize crime goes on all the time and many are thrill seekers, like I think these two selfish, uncaring, unfeeling boys are. What if a family member happened to be in one of the cars and the car crashes, killing a family member of one of those boys?
   Here's my solution to crimes like these and let  kids know now: YOU will be joining the Military once you leave juvie for at least two years. This is for females as well, no reason not to.

St. JUDES Childrens Hospital Challenge !

     I have not been personally touched by St. Judes in a way that families are who bring their children there, and don't know anyone who has. But this makes it no less urgent.
    When I learned many years ago that St. Jude does not charge for  medical care, housing , travel or food, I knew that would always be my main charity. St. Jude started many years ago, 1962, at a  time when only twenty percent of children survived, now it's eighty percent. On average 94,900 children are treated yearly.
   
      How much do we spend on lottery tickets, cigarettes, latte? Magazines are so expensive and all of our personal hobbies and habits. We worry about fancy sneakers, brand name clothes, new cars, trips and things that would mean nothing if we lost a child. What if this was your child?
     I donate often, but now realize I got off track, so I will make sure to send a check monthly, on my birthday. They are asking for 19. a month. NINETEEN ! I know many cannot afford that, but many more can. People go to bars, have gym memberships, take cruises,  buy high priced furniture, and buy all kinds of lessons for their children, themselves, karate, music, art and more. Restaurants are filled with people eating out. Skip that once a month and send to St. Jude-I am.
    Maybe in a family members name,donate 19.00 monthly. please help St. Jude, a partner in hope.

By the way, I bought power ball tickets and I hope I win, if only to give half to St. Jude. After all, who needs that much money when it will benefit the lives of so many children. We have great doctors and research scientists.. Let's help them help our children.