This is the weekly post where I celebrate the fact that I have successfully made it through another weekend without posting anything on Saturday or Sunday. I offer this up to those – like me – who need to catch……

helathcare

I swear I previewed my rant twice before posting..

Want a story about government helathcare – here’s one:

Last week, my knee started to give me trouble. So, I went to the doctor assigned to me by the wonderful government of the European Country I live in. The Doc (a very professional, well educated individual) looked at my knee (no x ray) and said I had osteoarthritis, handed me a cane and said there was nothing more to be done.

Let’s break this down to reality:
- No X ray (No reason to spend that extra money)
- No treatment (take a cane).

There are two reasons for these actions, the first is that penny pinching civil servants administer the health care system and the second is that the “cane” means I would be disabled. Getting the “cane” would mean that my monthly benefits check from the government would go up enough that I could quit working. The doc handing me the cane, for most Europeans, would be like winning the lottery.

Luckily, I am not European. Being an American, I do not consider a little pain in my knee to be a disability. That would be an insult to people who are actually disabled.

So, I got on the phone, called an Orthopedist in the USA who will do whatever medical tests are necessary to determine my actual condition and the causes, attempt to heal the problem and give me advice on how not the have a recurrence. It’s going to cost me some money – including a plane ticket – but, hey, I will actually receive helathcare instead of administration.

Anyone who thinks Euro-style healthcare is a better system has never lived here.

We looked at whether Al Gore’s global warming alarmism was just a scam to increase his already considerable wealth by misleading people desperate to find meaning in life with a bunch of faith-based lies. This time, let’s take a look at Obam…

Mr Obama said last week that it was “an aberration” that profits in the financial sector had grown so large over the last decade. It was ridiculous he suggested, that “25-year-olds (were) getting million-dollar bonuses, (and) they were willing to pay $100 for a steak dinner and the waiter was getting the kinds of tips that would make a college professor envious.”

The Telegraph

So, THE ONE DOES believe in trickle-down theory, and knows it works.

He just doesn’t approve…

Theres always a solution to a Gordian Knot but that does not necessarily mean that Occams Razor is it.

Well, that was hilarious…!!!!

On May 8th, 2009 at 2:12 pm, Jeff2161 said:

Well, you form a charitable trust and donate all sources of income to it. The trust then, pays your living expenses until you die when the proceeds, if any, are donated to the actual charities.

Then there’s the 30-35 billion he kicked in to Gates’s foundation…

) I am giving myself until June 1st to wrap things up and then I am wiping my current personae from the internet. (no symbolic meaning just a deadline)

) The Republican party, in its form today, has betrayed us and I will do everything I can to destroy its old guard and bring a new (old school) generation to the GOP. blah, blah, blah, vote republican because Dems are bad. Whatever…. Drug addicts need to hit bottom before they will save themselves.

) I shall become a chameleon and tout the Green Mantra while doing eveything in my power to reclaim my tax dollars from the government. Perhaps there should be a sudden flurry of 501(c) and fed/state Grant applications. Cant beat ‘em, join ‘em and control them.

)I will then do everything I can to destroy the next generation of the Democratic party from within and without.

) Domestic Violence emergencies are the worst calls that a police officer can respond to. Thats because if you try to arrest, lets say a husband/boyfriend, you can almost be certainly guaranteed that the wife/girlfriend/sister is going to jump back into the fight also. So just because Texas may talk of secession, dont think that another country ‘attacking’ California or Massachusetts or our government interests will not receive the full response of the southern states. (He’s not heavy, he’s my brother)

) Research the Harvard Business School and other graduate programs. Theres an interesting class – ‘Dynamic Markets’ that was tailored to those joining Hedge Funds.

) Theres always a solution to a Gordian Knot but that does not necessarily mean that Occams Razor is it.

) Our system had been taken over by corruption – not ideology. Education and research by everyone, is the way to take back the power. Its time to pay the piper, but one doesnt pay the ferryman until he gets you to the other side (ok, that was just gratuitous)

Im going snowboarding now, please talk amongst yourselves for the rest of the weekend.