The AP reports that the World Heath Organization spends $200 million a year on travel, which includes business class air fares and swanky hotel rooms. Talk about waste! And we US taxpayers are a major funder! Compare WHO to others: WHO: UN-funded - 7,000 staffers and $200 million in travel UNICEF: UN funded - 13,000 staff and $140 million Doctors Without Borders: Not UN funded - 37,000 staffers and $43 million And WHO is complaining about not having enough money! Oh come on now!
New job, new activities, still walking. I have been most remiss in maintaining my blog. I've just had a lot of things going on! In early January I joined a walking group that gets together on Wednesday evenings. I thought it would be a great diversion from my solitary, routine neighborhood walks. They walk routes from 3.5 to 4 miles, around the downtown area, along the Reedy River and the zoo. They are a wonderful, diverse bunch of people, sorta like all my Corvette friends! I look forward to their weekly company and our occasional dinners afterward, sorta like my Corvette friends. As in most groups, there has developed a core of people who are the real heart of things, sorta like my Corvette friends, so after several discussions, we have taken up mountain hiking on Sunday afternoons. We started by going to Paris mountain, and have since included hikes at Jones Gap, Caesar's Head, and portions of the "new"/under construction Swamp Rabbit Trail. These hikes tend to be ...
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