Day: May 25, 2020

In 1936 Winston Churchill wrote a warning in an essay:
We must not be led into adopting for ourselves 
the evils of war in time of peace upon any pretext
whatever.  The word' civilization' means not only peace
by the non-regimentation of the people such as is required
in war.  Civilization means that officials and authorities,
whether uniformed or not, whether armed or not, are made to 
realize that they are servants and not masters.

Socialism or overweening State life, whether in peace or war,
is only sharing miseries and not blessings.  Every 
self-respecting citizen in every country must be on
his guard lest the rulers demand of him in time of peace
sacrifices only tolerable in a period of war for
national self-preservation. (End of essay)

Larry P Arnn, President of Hillsdale College continues:
the sacrifices that are demanded of Americans today 
may be necessary, but they must never become customary.  
The purpose of our government is to keep us alive, yes, 
but also to keep us living and working, as is our right.
Going forward, our best leaders will eschew political
gamesmanship and work to control our borders, fix our 
public health agencies, and end our dependence on China 
and other foreign countries for goods that are essential
to our national health and security.  We must prepare 
ourselves to face the next pandemic without surrendering
our way of life. Mr. Arnn's writings are presented by

Stanski 
May 25, 2020^

WHAT I LEARNED
The CDC was created in 1942 as 
the Office of National Defense 
Malaria Control Activities, and 
in 1946 was renamed the 
Communicable Disease Center.  
For many decades it focused 
its full efforts on its 
original mission:  viruses 
and communicable diseases.  
But by the 2000s, the CDC, 
like most executive agencies, 
had become largely independent 
of political control and 
lost its focus.  It had 
widened its work to include 
chronic diseases and addictions, 
nutrition, school health, 
injuries, and – a telltale 
sign of ideological corruption 
and mission creep – racial and 
ethnic approaches to community health.  
It is a logical fact that if you 
favor some people you 
must disfavor others.  

In 2007, the late Senator 
Tom Coburn issued 
a well-documented report 
entitled, “CDC Off Center – 
A review of how an agency 
tasked with fighting and 
preventing disease has 
spent hundreds of millions 
of tax dollars for failed 
prevention efforts, 
international junkets, 
and lavish facilities, 
but cannot demonstrate 
it is controlling disease.  
In the years since, there 
have been reports documenting 
multi-million dollar CDC studies 
on topics like the 
prevention of gun violence, 
how parents should discipline 
children, and chronic health 
conditions among lesbian, gay, 
and bisexual populations.  
In 2017 alone, the CDC spent 
over $1.1 billion on chronic 
disease prevention and 
health promotion, 
$215 million on 
environmental health, 
and $285 million on 
injury prevention – 
all purposes that are 
addressed by other 
federal agencies.  
That money could have 
been used to prepare 
for communicable diseases, 
including replenishment of 
our stockpile of masks 
and ventilators.  
In other words, 
it could have been used 
to do the work the CDC 
was created to do. 

These are words of 
Larry P. Arnn, 
President of Hillsdale College 
presented to you by

Stanski on May 25, 2020 ^

 
Looking through the window
                An overcast day
Your eyes glaze over
                For just a moment
 
The sun peeks through the clouds
                Light filters down
Shadows are erased
                Gloom leaves as your eyes clear
 
A small deer walks by
                With wet shanks
Possibly from the lake
                Where a drink was taken
 
Small birds fly by
                The cardinal lights upon a small tree
Its red matches an apple
                Resting on the ledge of another window
 
Looking out the front door
                I see the propane truck driving out my driveway
I know without looking that
                My vacation fund has just dwindled
 
I sit back down and
                Look out the window
With hope that something is there to see
                That will put me back in my groove
 
 
Stanski
May 25, 2020 ^