RANT: WebMD pockets Feds’ money to pimp Obamacare

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/12/webmds-healthy-deal-with-obamacare-millions-of-dol/

Concierge medicine: WebMD pockets millions from feds to promote Obamacare
By Jim McElhatton-The Washington Times Tuesday, November 12, 2013

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WebMD says it doesn’t believe it had an obligation to disclose to its broad consumer base its $4.8 million contract with the government. The company says the contract, while awarded to WebMD, went through its Medscape platform, which provides continuing education to doctors in a password-protected portal and is run independently from WebMD’s news operation.

But a key senator disagrees.

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I agree!

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RANT: 1M Californians

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/11/12/calif-insurance-commissioner-more-than-1m-californians-having-insurance-cancelled-due-to-obamacare/

Calif. Insurance Commissioner: More Than 1M Californians Having Insurance Cancelled Due To ACA
November 12, 2013 3:10 PM

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS Sacramento/AP) — Health insurer Anthem Blue Cross of California has agreed to a two-month extension of about 104,000 individual policies after failing to give the required 90-day cancellation notice, state Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced Tuesday.

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Can it get any worse?

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VETERANS: Armistice Day is sad

Monday, November 11, 2013

As a vet, I don’t want to be “thanked for my service”.

I am ashamed.

We still have girls and boys in harm’s way without a clear strategy.

I am reminded of the Irish song “Willie McGee” with the line “did you really think this was the war to end all wars”.

Heinlein, in “Starship Troopers”, that only vets should be police or “civil servants” or in political office. When I was young, I thought him extreme that only vets should vote because they would have the stones to fight.. Voters usually required politicians to have served in the military. Then, Bill Clinton came along. Now that I am old, I’m convinced he didn’t go far enough. Only vets voting would be a good start. But, we really need more. The vets should as a body — like the Senate — have veto power over the use of Armed Forces.

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RANT: Does the sun rise tomorrow?

Monday, November 11, 2013

“I’ve lost her all over again. I’m so sad that I don’t have her. But I’m so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?” Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) in “Cast Away” (2000)

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Why does this make me so sad?

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RANT: Smoking in a hospital?

Sunday, November 10, 2013

HOSPITAL PATIENT SMOKES IN BED, STARTS FIRE, DIES

 
UPI 11/9/2013 6:51:02 AM

BALTIMORE, Nov. 9 (UPI) — 
A hospital patient in Baltimore died Friday after starting a fire while smoking in bed, fire officials said.

 

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For thise who have read my biography of Frau Reinke, I tell the story of how she was put in an overflow ward at Saint Peter hospital and some bozo was smoking. When the staff did not ever care to fix the situation, I call the Fire Depoartment. That crusty old New Brunsiwck Fire Cheif certainly cared!

 

When I read this story, I gave myself a patt on the back. It was many years ago. I forget the date. And, whle Frau Reinke was majorly POed at me, I never felt bad. 

 

Now I feel proud of that decision!

 

Laff! I bet wherever she is she is still POed about it.

 

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RANT: “Try” is the worst word

Sunday, November 10, 2013

“NO! … Try not! … Do or do not… there is no try.” (To do it justice, you must say the word try with all the revulsion and disgust you can put on it. Like you were talking about a rapist, a child murderer, or a politician!) — Yoda (Fictional character from George Lucas’s “Star Wars” movie)

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POLITICAL: What about the doctors?

Saturday, November 9, 2013

http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/11/the-big-obamacare-story-that-hasnt-surfaced-yet/

The Big Obamacare Story That Hasn’t Surfaced Yet
By Hunter Lewis
Wednesday, November 6th, 2013

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It’s even worse than a jammed website, canceled policies, and rising policy prices. The policies may also not be what they seem.

In the first place, exchange policies typically restrict the hospitals and doctors you can use. In New Hampshire, for example, 10 of the state’s 26 hospitals are excluded from exchange policies and this takes out all the doctors affiliated with those hospitals as well.

That’s bad enough, but there is worse. In many of the policies, doctors will be paid significantly less than what private insurance has previously paid or that would be paid in other private policies sold outside the exchanges. This means that if you lose your doctor because he or she is no longer included in the policy coverage, you will not only find your doctor choices limited. You may also find that the doctors who are included don’t want your business.

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The doctors can’t be drafted into this socialistic experiment.

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FUN: What do you call a fat old white guy injineer when he goes out on a date after 45 years?

Friday, November 8, 2013

Awkward?

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FUN: Gambling game — pull tabs

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Cars game:

Winning car: $100 (15 cars)

One $50
Three $25
Three $20
Five $10
Twenty $5

Progressive depending upon game.

675 tickets sold at $1 each

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For each race, $100 is held out and added to the progressive pool,

So for example, last week, #7 was a $500 progressive. If #7 was the winning car there was a $500 adder. #2 was a $400 progressive.

I won with one of my three other holders, #10.

Then $100 is added to the #2 progressive to make it $500.

When I was playing, I got the #2 and #7 and one $25 and one $20 and two $10 and two $5. At that point, I stopped playing. I believed I had the largest portion of the value winnable.

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TINFOILHAT: A front-entry wound of JFK means more than LHO!

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/rare-zapruder-footage-multiple-jfk-assassins/?cat_orig=us

WND EXCLUSIVE
RARE ZAPRUDER FOOTAGE: MULTIPLE JFK ASSASSINS
Confirms testimony of doctors who treated Kennedy

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The basic logic of gunshot wounds apply: entrance wounds tend to be small, bullet-size holes, as the Parkland Hospital emergency room physicians observed in JFK’s neck wound before the incision was made for the tracheotomy. Exit wounds tend to be larger, such as the grapefruit-sized, gaping wounds the Parkland Hospital emergency room physicians observed in the back of JFK’s head.

Crenshaw’s testimony was so damaging to the Warren Commission’s conclusion that those who maintain Oswald was the lone assassin have attacked him. The American Medical Association claimed in a press conference held in New York City on May 19, 1992, that Crenshaw was not n Parkland Hospital’s Trauma Room One at the time emergency treatment was provided to President Kennedy.

Crenshaw sued the AMA, winning in 1994 an out-of-court monetary settlement that ended the case, substantiating Crenshaw’s claim.

The Warren Commission did not call Crenshaw to testify.

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Why is this important?

“I want the truth! I’m entitled to it.”

“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson

It’s often been asserted that there is a tyranny inside the Government. A gang within a gang. Unelected and untouchable.

This inside cabal killed the popular young President because he was going after peace. And the military industrial complex that Ike warned about would lose in a peace.

The Johnson’s were up to their elbows in dirty dealing. (Not that the R’s were saints either.) Like most politicians ever known. 

If the Warren Commission was a whitewash, then it’s time for the truth to come out.

The whole tale they weaved doesn’t make sense. 

Argh!

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