Friday, July 31, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Why there will be no real healthcare reform.
Most people (including myself) do not understand the issue and are not going to really try to get the real picture. Many, if not most, are simply going to repeat what they have heard from the echo chamber they exist in.
The media is influenced by big pharma, health insurance companies, and every organization that makes money off the current system. If you doubt this watch Fox, CNN, and MSNBC for any hour of any day and count the number of commercials that are health related. Do you think for a moment that they are reporting the real story when MOST of their revenue comes from the health industries. How much money do the proponents AND those who are quietly standing in the background letting reform fail get from the health care industry? No one reports that.
Those who are adversely affected by the current system are powerless...they only provide anecdotal cover for politicians who pretend to be working on reform.
The media is influenced by big pharma, health insurance companies, and every organization that makes money off the current system. If you doubt this watch Fox, CNN, and MSNBC for any hour of any day and count the number of commercials that are health related. Do you think for a moment that they are reporting the real story when MOST of their revenue comes from the health industries. How much money do the proponents AND those who are quietly standing in the background letting reform fail get from the health care industry? No one reports that.
Those who are adversely affected by the current system are powerless...they only provide anecdotal cover for politicians who pretend to be working on reform.
Monday, July 20, 2009
A Giant Step......
40 years ago we landed on the moon but I did not see it. I was at Virginia Beach with college friends working in a restaurant...Neptune's Corner I think. A Greek family owned the establishment. This was an old world family, the "women" lived in Greece because American society would have surely corrupted them and the sons only spent the summers at the restaurant. The waitresses were seen as slaves and under no circumstances would we be allowed to leave to see the FIRST MEN LAND ON THE MOON. Looking back I am not sure why I didn't just leave but we had to pay rent, Oh well I think we heard it on a radio.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
life is good
It's another beautiful day in the "Pitt". we have had great weather this summer but a little rain would be nice.
Getting a handle on those white flies.
Watching Le Tour de France and finding it really exciting. My brother rides L'Etape du Tour tomorrow. It takes the route of stage 20 of the Tour. I hope he makes it up Mont Ventoux. Good Luck Bruz!!!!
Getting a handle on those white flies.
Watching Le Tour de France and finding it really exciting. My brother rides L'Etape du Tour tomorrow. It takes the route of stage 20 of the Tour. I hope he makes it up Mont Ventoux. Good Luck Bruz!!!!
Saturday, July 18, 2009
...and that's the way it is.
I am saddened that Walter Cronkite is no longer here. I feel like he was part of my family. We watched him every night and there was just something about him. He took you with him and believe me there were places to go in the 60's and 70's... the killing of JFK and the funeral, the civil rights movement, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam war, the anti war movement, and the politics. If you remember Cronkite as an unbiased, just report the "facts" journalist you do not remember Cronkite. It was Walter Cronkite who saw the futility in the Vietnam War by 1968 and said so on his news broadcast. He did not scream and call anybody an idiot, he just calmly said what he believed to be the truth and a nation listened and realized that he was right. President Johnson said at the time that if he had lost Cronkite he had lost the country. Walter was appalled during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago at the antics of Mayor Daley. He made this very clear as he anchored CBS's coverage from his booth high atop the convention floor. He loved the space program and did not hesitate to show it. He almost jumped out of his chair the night John Glenn won the senate seat in Ohio. I can see his face right now smiling. He did not take me to the moon but that's a story for Monday, the 40th anniversary of the first men on the moon.
The world seems a little less comfortable.
The world seems a little less comfortable.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
White Flies!!???
My garden has been attacked by white flies and I am sure this has been caused by Obama. Everyone should check their yards for these WHITE flies immediately. They have proven impossible to get rid of and are on their way to wrecking havoc with every living thing in the backyard. Oh to go back to the days when there were only harmless black flies. Oh Obama!
As soon as I get over this I will comment on the Senate Judiciary Committee and its Latina fetish.
As soon as I get over this I will comment on the Senate Judiciary Committee and its Latina fetish.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Cap and Trade...
Sarah Palin has an oped piece in the Washington Post this morning...yes Wapo. I know it hurts but that's what has happened to journalism. I read this editorial and if Palin wrote it I will eat my car. This is really getting ridiculous. I want Palin on a LIVE show to explain cap and trade and then take questions.
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