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Investors ask God’s workers to be less greedy

In Business, Economy, Faith, Inspiration, Life, Politics, Religion, Thoughts on November 20, 2009 at 1:16 pm

, CEO of Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street money machine people love to hate  said modern banking performed a vital function and described himself as just a banker ‘doing God’s work’.

Investors are asking Goldman to be less “greedy”, and are themselves wanting a bigger slice of the pie according to yahoo.com.  “Big shareholders at Goldman Sachs have asked the U.S. bank, on track to deliver $20 billion in bonuses, to pass more profit to investors after it quadrupled quarterly net profit, the Wall Street Journal reported.”

I wander what Blankfein’s boss, God, thinks about all of this? :)

Who and what are women going to believe?

In Economy, Faith, Inspiration, Life, Politics, Religion, Thoughts on November 20, 2009 at 12:56 pm

When I was a kid, they taught us in health classes we should have a physical every year. I was twenty-nine the last time I had a  physical and that was for a job.  I swore I would never go through that procedure for a job again and never did.

In the 1980’s I saw an interview with a general practitioner who was in his late sixties.  He said something to the effect,  “Given nourishment and rest, ninety-five percent of ailments are self curing. People want immediate relief so they see us.  The other five percent of ailments are what we are needed for.   For many cases you can tell if a person is healthy or not, by looking at their eyes, color of skin, breathing, and color and condition of fingernails.”  That made sense to me and I live by that.

It appears there are new guidelines for mammograms and pap smears.  Women apparently don’t need these tests as often anymore.  Having lived with a woman who had received dubious results from a mammogram and subsequent biopsies to finally discover the lumps were not life threatening,  I understand what kind of emotional torture this constant screening puts a person through.

Now that money is an issue, these “required” tests are not as important anymore.

Makes one wonder, how honest are those who we place our trust with?

Can’t get it out of my head

In Faith, Inspiration, Life, Politics, Religion, Thoughts on November 20, 2009 at 2:54 am

Have you ever read or heard something and it stuck?

It comes back when you least expect it.  A piece of wisdom, something out of the ordinary, which keeps on coming at you with a renewed truth.

Sometimes words fly around in my head and land when I least expect them to.  Then they demand I pay attention.

Makes me wonder why some things have more of an effect than others.

I don’t think I’ll ever figure me out, never mind anyone else.

Meanwhile the words keep landing.