It Just Doesn't Make Sense

     Way back when there was a slogan " Better Living Through Chemistry " It was started by DuPont to tout the wonderful things possible through chemical additives, fertilizers, herbicides, you name it. We liked it. Our crops were mostly pest-free and huge! Our food actually looked better, more colorful.       When you hear RFK Jr. mentioned, you think one of two things.  Either you think he's a rabid anti-vaxxer who's gonna take away your polio shots. Or you might hold some hope as I choose to do, that maybe, just maybe, he will get rid of some of the additives and CHEMICALS in our food and in or bodies. Hate the man or not. He's NOT gonna take away the polio vaccine or anything else. That's just what big Pharma want you to believe. They've tainted our bodies for generations. Don't let them taint your mind. It has always seemed to me that the chemical companies that make these harmful/helpful chemical compounds had a somewhat cozy relationship w...

      When I was a kid in the early 60's my dad, a WWII Naval Veteran, told me of his cousin who lived in the family homeland of Lyon, France. At one time my family was the French Royal Jewelers, and he was enormously proud of his heritage and eagerly joined the French resistance. He would protect his homeland and fight the Nazis on the streets of his hometown. As luck, or lack of it, would have it, he was caught by the Nazis and imprisoned. Now at that time Lyon was under the brutal control of a being named Klaus Barbie, aka "The Butcher of Lyon."       My dad told how he'd heard through family members that his cousin had been taken from the barracks of whatever camp they were in and taken by truck to the train station or railroad yard where they were to be shipped by boxcar to "The showers." for elimination. As the story goes, he made this terrifying trip not once, but twice on two consecutive days, and there was no room on the train. They just could...