RANT: And what can we expect from “free” Hillary health care?

Friday, October 19, 2007

http://purelypolitical.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/13/1022861-the-nhs-wins-when-its-patients-die-telegraph?email=html

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Were it not for bad nursing, bad medical attention and bad administration, none of these patients need have died. Indeed, they would not have contracted C. difficile at all unless they had gone into hospital. So, after 150 years’ advance of education, technology, prosperity and science, we have lost what Florence Nightingale taught.

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Here’s a real life anecdote of gooferment healthcare!

We have “our” own VA, British National healthcare, Canadian Nation heathcare that serve as warning signs. Now our current semi-socialistic healthcare system admittedly has problems!

But those problems come from the gooferment involvement in the marketplace. It’s time to try a dose of “freedom”.

End the dole and allow people to be responsible for their own healthcare without gooferment interference.

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POLITICAL: can’t keep shipping little green pieces of papers

Friday, October 19, 2007

http://vtcommons.org/node/924

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Dear fellow Americans –

Instead of a nation that manufactures its own goods, the United States has become a nation of service providers, moving production “off shore” and relying on fossil fuel to transport its goods over long distances–an increasingly fragile supply line whether judged from an ecological, social, economic, or political point of view. While exporting jobs, we have also exported the skills and technologies for making the very products we depend on daily.

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Sustainable.

Don’t make me laff!

The various gangs in gooferment has made it impossible to produce anything here.

One wonders how the American experiment will end.

With a hyper-inflation? One thing is for sure, we will have to have an “industrial revolution” to bring good things to our own market. We can’t keep shipping little green pieces of papers for real stuff. That’s not going to work any more. What will?

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INTERESTING: the teaser doesn’t say

Friday, October 19, 2007

http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/#mea=168805

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Jay’s Monologue 10/16
A gift for Ann Coulter

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Now I like Jay Leno. But here’s an example of how the “old media” doesn’t get it.

First there’s a commercial for Intel. OK, have to pay for the clip, storage, and transmission. Then, 90 seconds of snips from his monologue.

Note that the teaser doesn’t say “part of”, or “excerpts from”. It says “jay’s monologue”.

Argh!

Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Do they think they are fooling people or that we are stupid?

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POLITICAL: A fair criticisim of the Bush administration

Friday, October 19, 2007

The Geopolitical Foundations of Blackwater
By George Friedman

 

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Blackwater, KBR and all the rest are the direct result of the faulty geopolitical assumptions and the force structure decisions that followed. The primary responsibility rests with the American public, which made best-case assumptions in a worst-case world. Even without Iraq, civilian contractors would have proliferated on the battlefield. With Iraq, they became an enormous force. Perhaps the single greatest strategic error of the Bush administration was not fundamentally re-examining the assumptions about the U.S. Army on Sept. 12, 2001.

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This is a very fair indictment of the Bush Administration. As is usual, the last war’s assumptions are paid for with a lot of blood and treasure. When the “leaders” are blind to the flaws in the assumptions, people perish.

Perhaps a President Ron Paul will cause a fundamental reevaluation of assumptions. No other candidate promises to do anything other than “more of the same”.

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