Category: Life and Other
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Shortage
Currently, the US is undergoing a baby formula shortage. The US was already experiencing baby formula shortages due to COVID related supply chain issues for individual formula ingredients. There are 3 major baby formula suppliers in the US, with these 3, including Abbott Laboratories, controlling 95% of the US market. Back in February, of this…
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Big Trouble
North Korea could be facing, may already be facing, a huge humanitarian disaster. The ugly head of Covid is striking. North Korea sealed its borders off in January 2020, at the very outset of COVID. In March 2020, North Koreans returning from out of the country (7,000 in total) were subject to a 40 day…
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Kid Hepatitis
There is a mystery liver disease that is affecting kids world wide. The map above, shows where cases have been identified. The World Health Organization (WHO) indicated, on Tuesday, May 10, that there were, at that time, 348 cases, involving kids. Of these cases, there were more than a dozen, in Canada, with 7 in…
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Say What?
This is a somewhat disturbing story. Mathew Brown was a student at Mount Royal University in Calgary. In January 2018, the then 25 year old student was at a party. He had been drinking with friends. Brown, and his friends, then began taking magic mushrooms. According to his friends, Brown, who was characterized as usually…
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Author?
If you go to my “About the Bird” page, you will notice that one of the tag words is author. That was my eldest daughter’s idea to put that tag word in. I started writing a chikdren’s book earlier this year. Doing this through a self publishing process. The actual writing of the book was…
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Cancelled Because of – Ahhh
Couple of months back I was out of town visting. One night I went to a live show with a husband/wife couple. As we entered, we were told the cost per ticket and that all proceeds would go to a facility that had been closed down due to COVID restrictions. When the wife of this…
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Absolute Scum
Got a call this morning, from an unknown caller, with the first three numbers identical to mine. Right away I knew it was a scam call. This one from the ministry of the attorney general. There was a warrant for my arrest. Hit the number to get a live person. In the background you could…
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Subconscious Bias?
I have not watched much news over the last couple of months. This is directly tied to what is happening in Ukraine. It is just too depressing. I know there are other news stories out there, such as the conservative leadership race in Canada and the ongoing joke that is Trump in the US. Part…
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MY FIRST POST
This is my very first post. As you can see, for now, this is a very basic blog site. On the right hand side of the site page you will see a tag (is that what you call it?) If you hit it you will see some details about me. I have currently been in…