Happy 4th week!

Seems a lot of people aren't working this week. Gives me more time to explore what's going on. A few snippets about the news reported today:

1) The Federal Government wants to spend $1 billion on nutrition education. Nothing ceases to amaze me. Nutrition hasn't changed since we were kids. The basic four food groups take care of our needs, if we eat properly and exercise, especially for children. If parents stopped pizza delivery and fast food meals, make their kids get out and exercise (perhaps use what thought processes and decision-making they have left), and mothers cook something nutritional (not out of a box), kids would be in better shape, along with moms. The government spending more money to tell us what we've known for years is a joke, and it's not even their responsibility. Once again, wake up parents! Adults already know what's nutritional and what's not. It's their decisions and choices they make for themselves, not the government's. Those are our tax dollars they're squandering again!

2) MARTA - article in the AJC about MARTA looking to upgrade their bus and rail systems. Good idea. One problem though, why are they looking to move their headquarters (again)? That would be costly where money is needed elsewhere. Looks as though the five-points area of downtown would like to use MARTA as a means of revitalizing a crime-ridden, somewhat rundown area. Can we say better law enforcement? The revitalization of Underground didn't do it for them, why would MARTA's headquarters do it? People on the north side of Fulton County have been begging for expanded routes, but MARTA doesn't see the need, though there are large numbers of people from that area using (and want to use) the system.

3) Some sad news - Bill Pinkney, the only original member of the Drifters, died yesterday. For those that don't know who he is (or the Drifters for that matter), he still performed with them, all the way up to Friday night at NMB (North Myrtle Beach). The Drifters are one of the best known R&B/Beach bands of all time. If you're not from the Carolinas/Virginia, you probably won't know much about them, but they had chart-topping songs back in the '60s.