If You Didn’t Know: Why Bees Are Important.
If you didn’t know: Why bees are important.
Bees are important, they are! Bees pollinate a majority of plants, like flowers, that support animals and offer people substances; they pollinate fruits and vegetables that we eat. Without these plants, we would loose that majority of variety of fruits and vegetables and other substances that support our collective balanced diets. It’s that simple.
What’s not simple is the reason why we are loosing the bees. One reason is called colony collapse disorder. There are other reasons, we don’t know for sure what is the true reason or reasons. Sometimes what bees do is move en mass from one hive and form a new one. That seems to be happening all over the globe, in every climate and time zone they live, which is unusual. CCD. is seen as that.
Beekeepers are revolting against all reasons that could happen, and chemical manufacturers are removing their products from production. It’s seen that these cause bees to falter and fall off of flowers they are pollinating when coated with pollen. They cannot complete their pollinating.
It’s a big thing that is seen with kept bees and bees in the wild. Everybody is incensed with this worldwide phenomenon, because we don’t know why.
David Schaedler
10/12/15
More Posts from Ds13davi and Others
For my blog, “Robot roaches” this date.
Source: Google images
Should be titled, “As I understand the planned parenthood debate” or similar. People make their own definitions. You do have a lots of facts written in a large blog. I am all for you, maybe I’m just a newcomer.
Defunding Planned Parenthood explained
When more fuel is poured on the fire that is our national discourse on abortion, context starts missing. The question, often, is not as cut and dry as whether abortion should be legal or not, whether it’s moral or not or whether women should have a choice or not. It’s about how we can reconcile reducing abortions and making healthcare for all accessible.
As the country’s lawmakers determine whether to end funding for Planned Parenthood, which receives about 40 percent or $500 million from the federal government annually, it’s good to put things into perspective.
First off, I’m always amazed with how little sensitivity activists on both sides of the argument approach this issue. The left disregards the question of morality while the right disregards the question of choice.
The left will tell you that women shouldn’t be told what to do with their bodies. Maybe so, but 41 percent of women are pro-life. Those women seem to value morality over choice. The right will tell you that abortion in any circumstance is immoral, yet the truth is circumstances arise and in the real world the crippling, unsafe alternatives and the financial and social burden of raising a child for too many outweigh the short-term yet unspeakably painstaking choice to seek such a medical procedure, however invasive.
A couple truths here. 79 percent of the people who receive services from Planned Parenthood are low-income Americans who live 150 percent or lower below the poverty line. These people are on Medicaid or receive care indirectly through another government-funded program called Title X.
Another truth is that 95 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is not abortions. This has been debunked time and again. Numbers have been cherry-picked by conservatives and the claims have never aligned with reality.
Another truth, however, is that according to Planned Parenthood’s 2013-2014 annual report, the organization conducted 323,653 abortions. Respectable estimates say that this accounts for no more than 12 percent of all Planned Parenthood’s services. However, that is not a small number. For many who have the deepest convictions around protecting life in their view, this number is appalling. Even if you aren’t a social conservative, it’s a grim number.
The two things we don’t know are the circumstances in which these abortions were sought and how much revenue Planned Parenthood generates from these procedures.
So what does Planned Parenthood exactly do? 76 percent of their work relates to testing and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infections as well as contraceptive care. This is followed by pregnancy tests, prenatal care and cancer screenings.
The 1977 Hyde Amendment dictated that federal Medicaid funds could only be used to fund abortions in extreme cases like rape, incest or to protect the mother. Some states have expanded their own funding of Planned Parenthood and expanded the circumstances by which state funds could be used for abortions.
Defunding Planned Parenthood in the immediate would cut government spending. The problem is the consequences of less funding means a real probability of more unplanned pregnancies which leads to an increase in government spending because these people will at that point likely be eligible for Medicaid. Moreover, unrelated to active pregnancies, people who would have otherwise gone to Planned Parenthood for services like to treat an STI or receive a cancer screening would need to find another clinic. If those clinics are crowded, this can limit access to important services to both women and men.
These are all possibilities, yet how probable these consequences will arise isn’t clear. Those who are for protecting Planned Parenthood’s federal funding are not being modest about sounding that alarm.
On the political right, you have a very principled position. Something like, “I don’t want my tax dollars going to fund an organization that conducts abortions.” On the left, a more pragmatic position, “Women should have access to these services, so the government should help fund these services. If the government doesn’t fund them, then these bad things will happen.”
What has always gotten the political left support for funding anything is this “cause and effect” argument. “If we don’t fund this or regulate this, then this will happen.” It’s effective, frequently necessary yet creates a habit that lacks discipline and a mindset that often disregards more innovative approaches to solutions.
Those on the political right who support defunding may have determined that despite the preventative services that Planned Parenthood delivers, the organization’s continued support for abortion procedures is a non-starter. Is it truly that easy to hold that view even as someone who receives equal or better care someplace else? Or can we along with our lawmakers devise other ways all Americans can receive preventative care? These are both questions worth asking.
Like most topics and issues we confront as a nation, this is more complex than any presidential candidate, activist or cable news talking head has portrayed. At the very least, I hope this has made some sense and provoked some thought for readers here. I hope to revisit this issue again soon, perhaps with a proposal.
Kids, computers and the future
Having computers, learning computers and using computers is really good, but think of the consequences of future computing. For one, if computing power reaches planetary porportions, we are going to be in a mess with all the data that’s produced. Sure, they teach kids a lot, but think of that. We still must provide thinking power with the data to arrive at answers to the results.
Do we want designer babies? How about robots that do our thinking? Or aggressive cars on the road? Unmanageable laws? Automatic houses that fall apart. Food processors that decide not to do the work they were designed to. Stereos that change channels when we want one. Lights switching on in the middle of the night. Or units that power up when we want to save. Non-working self-tying “Back to the Future” shoes. The list is endless.
Computing is a resource, but in this time of global realization, for 10 billion people, all resources need to be managed, and managed better than we are doing right now. We could start right here. You might say, there’s nothing I could do or let someone else do it. What about using the connections to others we have now? Because now is when this will happen. Tell friends, talk is the one communication available to us we still have. Create a way to slow the juggernaut. Before it is too late.
David Schaedler
Image credits: Google images
https://plus.google.com/100212344229354267307/posts/b8ULRoULuXX?_utm_source=1-2-2
All the 16 things that occurred on 1/15/History.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/trump-address-congress.html?hp&_utm_source=1-2-2
Trump told media Tuesday, he's open to overhaul of immigration bill that would lead to legal pathways for undocumented immigrants, as long as they're not criminals. David Schaedler 2/28/17
THANK YOU!
Thank you Tumblr for letting me upload my (from Google images) photos in about a second. I recall when it used to take ... much longer ... and had to spend the time (who wants to do that?) fiddling and fidgeting, thinking of some mundane subject. Thanks for letting me do that!
David Schaedler
10/13/15
Source Google images
July
July is National Hot Dog Month. So when you’re toasting your dogs, you can say it’s in National agreement.
David Schaedler 7 25 17.
View On WordPress
1915 Today - The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
Trump's Immigration Ban
Trump’s immigration ban 1/28/17
Hundreds affected, thousands react to the personal affront to their families.
FEDERAL Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s immigration ban, (later hours, 1/28/17).
CALIFORNIA Attorney General Xavier Becerra is calling the immigration ban “overreach” and is exploring options.
HAWAII Attorney’ General says, “We believe the ban on immigration is unconstitutional”. California Senator Kamala Harris and Senator Elizabeth Warren receive over 5,000 likes and retweets of their displeasure of ban.
NEW YORK U.S. Senator Chuck Shumer demands a repeal of the policy saying it’s “unAmerican and unConstitutional.”
CHICAGO protesters erupted concerning this ban.
Across AMERICA crowds reacts and retort to the ban on immigration.
DS 1/29/17 8:00 am PST
JUMP Bikes
Check out @jumpbikes’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/jumpbikes/status/1045355331914805248?s=09
View On WordPress
