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UPDATE III: More proof that it's all about the health care industry bottomline.
"One of the nation’s largest providers of kidney dialysis deliberately wasted medicine in order to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in extra payments from Medicare, a former clinic nurse and a doctor are charging in a whistle-blower lawsuit." Read The New York Times, Lawsuit Says Drugs Were Wasted to Buoy Profit.
UPDATE II: Speaking of health care industry profits, "the nation’s bloated annual health-care tab would swell by more than $4 billion" after a company raised the price of a medicine from $20 to $1,500 per dose. Read the Washington Post, Critics slam cost of FDA-approved drug to prevent preterm births.
UPDATE: "In a world where the two parties' top priority on health care was providing answers for the uninsured and cost control, an argument over the best way to do health-care reform would be a very healthy thing. But that's not what we've got. We've got the Democratic Party, whose top priority is to try and solve our health-care problems and who've shown their commitment to that by moving steadily rightward over the last century in a bid to pick up Republican support for some sort of solution, and the Republican Party, whose top priority is that we shouldn't do whatever the Democrats are proposing and have proven their commitment to that by abandoning previously favored policy proposals as soon as the Democrats demonstrated any interest in adopting them."
Further prrof that Republi-CONs want to repeal the new law to protect health care industry profits.
1. The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rear view mirror.
2. Four wheels might move the body... but two wheels move the soul.
3. I'd rather be riding my motorcycle and thinking about God than sitting in Church and thinking about my motorcycle.
4. Life may begin at 30 but it doesn't get interesting until about 95 . . . mph.
5. Midnight bugs taste just as bad as noontime bugs.
6. Sometimes it takes a whole tank of gas before you can think straight.
7. A bike on the road is worth two in the shed.
8. Young riders pick a destination and go, old riders pick a direction and go.
9. When you are riding lead, don't spit.
10. Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at 75 mph can double your vocabulary.
11. I've never seen a motorcycle parked outside a psychiatrist's office.
And Finally:
12. Only Bikers know why dogs stick their heads out car windows.
Not to Stevie Wonder.
Big time! That's why I'm sleeping with your best friend.
No way! You look least fat in that outfit!
I guess there's not much point in asking if you mean fat with an 'f' or phat with a 'ph.'
No hablo ingles.
Yes, but it also makes you look like a pricey hooker, so things balance out.
No, but taking it off sure does.
Okay, listen: What's important is that you not focus in a negative way on the comparison I am about to make.
Not if you were travelling at the speed of light.
Yes, but in my country obesity suggests prosperity.
Let me jog around to your front and take a look.
Whoa! A talking couch!!
May I consult the Iraqi Minister of Information before answering that?
UPDATE III: Why can't the fat lady get a job? Globalization. Read The New York Times, Is There Hope for the Unemployed?, which compares employment growth in "those sectors whose output is traded across international borders (the tradable sectors) and is thus subject to competition from foreign producers, and those sectors whose output is not traded across international borders (the nontradable sectors)."
UPDATE II: "Our failure to create jobs is a choice rationalized by an ever-shifting set of excuses." Read The New York Times, No, We Can’t? Or Won’t?, which notes:"The economy isn’t fixing itself. Nor are there real obstacles to government action: both the bond vigilantes and structural unemployment exist only in the imaginations of pundits. And if stimulus seems to have failed, it’s because it was never actually tried."
UPDATE: "The nation’s economic woes boil down to this. Compared with a healthy economy, about 7 million working-age people and 5 percent of the nation’s industrial capacity are sitting idle, not producing what they could. The economy is growing again, but at a rate — less than 2 percent in recent months — that’s too slow to keep up with a population that keeps increasing and workers who keep getting more efficient." Read the Washington Post, Why it doesn't feel like a recovery, which includes a great interactive graph showing the the output gap.
Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
Some days you're the dog, some days the hydrant.
Being healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Kissing: Uptown shopping for downtown business.
Hell hath no fury like the lawyer of a woman scorned.
People never grow up; they just learn how to act in public.
I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you
In a nuclear war, all men will be cremated equal.
"The Big Government Blowhards. The talk-radio jocks are not in the business of promoting conservative governance. They are in the business of building an audience by stroking the pleasure centers of their listeners.
They mostly give pseudo Crispin’s Day speeches to battalions of the like-minded from the safety of the conservative ghetto. To keep audience share, they need to portray politics as a cataclysmic, Manichaean struggle. A series of compromises that steadily advance conservative aims would muddy their story lines and be death to their ratings." (Link added.)
UPDATE: As noted before, and discussed yesterday on the Dennis Prager Show, "[t]he Middle East fell behind the West because it failed to produce commercial institutions—most notably joint-stock companies—that were capable of mobilising large quantities of productive resources and enduring over time."
Sorry Tammy, but modern commerce would not exist with only Mom and Pop stores.
UPDATE: "If your heritage is non-African, you are part Neanderthal." Read Discovery, All Non-Africans Part Neanderthal, Genetics Confirm.
UPDATE IV: "Superintendent Tim Wyrosdick told WUWF radio, 'Nothing in the revised consent decree changes what employees could or couldn't do.' (See the differences yourself at: http://bit.ly/pJuOA2)." Read the Pensacola News Journal, Liberty Counsel 'win' in the bank.
UPDATE III: Ransom paid, lawsuits dismissed. Read the Pensacola News Journal, 3-year Santa Rosa school prayer battle is over.
Read the competing press releases from the ACLU and Liberty Counsel.
And to read the court documents, click here.
UPDATE II: The court has ruled on Liberty Counsel's motion for a preliminary injunction and the School District's motion to dismiss. To read the order and some of the other court documents, click here.
UPDATE: If you suffer from insomnia, the local school district lawsuit court documents have been updated.
Calories are the little bastards that get into your wardrobe at night and sew your clothes tighter.
I think my closet is infested with these little guys.
When I was a kid, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. And I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage, and extremely burned biscuits in front of my dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed! Yet all my dad did was reach for his Biscuit, smile at my mom and ask me how my day was at school.
I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember hearing my mom apologize to my dad for burning the biscuits. And I'll never forget what he said: "Honey, I love burned biscuits."
Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked his biscuits burned. He wrapped me in his arms and said, "Your momma put in a long hard day at work today and she's real tired. And besides, a burnt biscuit never hurt anyone!"
You know, life is full of imperfect things. And imperfect people. I'm not the best at hardly anything, and I forget birthdays and anniversaries just like everyone else. What I've learned over the years is that learning to accept each others faults and choosing to celebrate each others differences, is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship.
So please pass me a biscuit. The burned one will do just fine! And remember, life is too short to wake up with regrets. Love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who don't.
"Since 1980, the debt ceiling has been raised 39 times. It was raised 17 times under Ronald Reagan, four times under Bill Clinton and seven times under George W. Bush. Congress is currently in a contentious debate with the White House on whether to raise the ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline, which would make the fourth raise under Obama.
Local Business Shout-Out: Navarre Beach Fishing Pier, 8579 Gulf Blvd, Navarre Beach, 850-936-1794, the gulf's longest fishing pier.
Follow-up: Was it déjà OJ all over again?,
Fact-free fantasies: don't be duped by the Birthers, including our very own Pastor Dred Scott (you may remember the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, which asserted that African Americans were "beings of an inferior order" who "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." That ruling declared that African Americans could never be U.S. citizens and therefore could never be President), and
Wonder what the deniers have to say about the heat wave, or the drought;
Local and regional: hasta la vista beach booze ban, until next time, grab your guns, Evers (R-NRA) is having town halls, surprise surprise surprise NOT, another investigative report by another Fl newspaper about local events here in NW Fl, Florida's bridge to nowhere is broke, school district lawsuit update, ransom paid, lawsuits dismissed, and hello globalization, good-bye jobs, Clearwire jobs headed overseas, that makes two county employers, Lumber 84 in the Santa Rosa County Industrial Park is closing;
National and international: I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget, don't hold you breath because the Republi-CONs Con the Tea Party, there'll be no $100 billion budget cut, and let's admit the obvious, the Republi-CONs are not serious about deficits, and remember, we went from surplus to debt, Republi-CON style,
Phoney deficit hawks
Call the Republi-CON bluff on the debt and the deficit,
Is the debt ceiling constitutional?,
To balance the budget, end tax expenditures, better known as tax deductions, which amounted to about $1 trillion in 2009,
Beware unintended consequences of government shutdowns, like no beer, ("Minnesota may just be the [minor league] version of the major league crisis to come in Washington if debt talks fail"), Bachmann's opinion to the contrary,
To balance the budget, do nothing
Name that Florida Republi-CON,
Another Republi-CON tax myth bites the dust,
Will the Naive-ocrats play the chumps again, and accept McConnel's "Pontius Pilate Pass the Buck Act of 2011"?
Let play you choose: who gets paid (and who doesn't),
Let's play the Republi-CON game of 'spot the contradiction', can you explain the Republi-CON contradiction as regards the economy, the debt ceiling, or deficits, or national security, or health care costs, or or even jobs
Who is your favorite 2012 GOP candidate, or do you have a favorite not-yet-a-candidate?, or none of the above,
President Sexpot?
CSI dog poop,
Giving new meaning to navel gazing,
Another Republi-CON myth buster, no the government isn't banning incandescent light bulbs
Racial and gender desegregation, equal opportunity for working-class families, single-payer universal health care, excellent child care and educational opportunity, and salaries that limit income inequality. Name that beloved American socialist organization,
Health care lawsuit update,
Big brother is watching you,
and 'The Great Stagnation' and our broken political system;
Fun stuff: questions a dog might ask God, did you ever wonder . . ., the liquid nitrogen burger, paraprosdokians, the Y Generation, Husband Day Care, and cute little cats in 'It Could Be Worse';
and
Donate to a good cause: help the friends of a former instructor at the Naval EOD school at Eglin Air Force Base, Gunnery Sgt. John Hayes, who was detachment company gunnery sergeant from June 2007 to June 2010 and taught several courses and was recently wounded in Afghanistan.
