In my experience a man never folds a tee shirt at all but get them competing on this one and the results are quite excellent.
YouTube - How to fold a tee-shirt perfectly
Friday, October 30, 2009
Blogger: One Cʘsmos - Post a Comment: "Anonymous Mind Parasites said...
" Whew, thank you from the depths of the horizontal/vertical axis!Like cockroaches and sunlight you've had us running for cover for years.
In the beginning we didn't mind surrendering a few of our more obvious brothers and sisters but lately you've been getting dangerously close to the queen mother.
Now that we have the government of the most powerful nation on earth run entirely by the Elders of The Parasitical Society we are quite content with your decision to take a long vacation.
Pretty soon, after the international meeting of the Global Elders of The Parasitical society, or what you know as the United Nations, our country will embrace Sharia law and you/we won't have to worry about your silly blog.
And to the blasphemer Petey and the notsofunny Dupree...we have a special place waiting for you!
Hey Van, jp,Will et. al.... we know where you pray.
Happily and sincerely,
The Local So-Cal Chapter of
MPCA
Mind Parasites Craving Anonymity"
10/28/2009 11:39:00 AM"
" Whew, thank you from the depths of the horizontal/vertical axis!Like cockroaches and sunlight you've had us running for cover for years.
In the beginning we didn't mind surrendering a few of our more obvious brothers and sisters but lately you've been getting dangerously close to the queen mother.
Now that we have the government of the most powerful nation on earth run entirely by the Elders of The Parasitical Society we are quite content with your decision to take a long vacation.
Pretty soon, after the international meeting of the Global Elders of The Parasitical society, or what you know as the United Nations, our country will embrace Sharia law and you/we won't have to worry about your silly blog.
And to the blasphemer Petey and the notsofunny Dupree...we have a special place waiting for you!
Hey Van, jp,Will et. al.... we know where you pray.
Happily and sincerely,
The Local So-Cal Chapter of
MPCA
Mind Parasites Craving Anonymity"
10/28/2009 11:39:00 AM"
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Letter from A Physician September 08, 2009
This letter is from Dr. Zane Pollard. He operates at Children's Health Care of Atlanta.
Google him, Snopes verified below. As my friend Joan would say, do I have to do everything for you folks? He pretty much confirms what many doctors that I have spoken with are saying about the unintended consequences of this bill the Obamamaniacs are trying to hurry through.
Friends: I have been sitting quietly on the sidelines watching all of this national debate on health care. It is time for me to bring some clarity to the table and, as your friend, by explaining many of the problems from the aspect of a doctor.
First off the government has involved very few of us physicians in the healthcare debate. While the American Medical Association has come out in favor of the plan, it is vital to remember that the AMA only
represents 17% of the American physician workforce.
I have taken care of Medicaid patients for 35 years while representing the only pediatric ophthalmology group left in Atlanta , Georgia that accepts Medicaid. Why is this? For example, in the past 6 months I have cared for three young children on Medicaid who had corneal ulcers. This is a potentially blinding situation because if the cornea perforates from the infection, almost surely blindness will occur. In all three cases the antibiotic needed for the eradication of the infection was not on the approved Medicaid list. Each time I was told to fax Medicaid for the approval forms which I did. Within 48 hours the form came back to me which was mailed in immediately via fax and I was told that I would have my answer in 10 days. Of course by then each child would have been blind in the eye. Each time the request came back denied. All three times I personally provided the antibiotic for each patient which was not on the Medicaid approved list. Get the point-rationing of care.
Over the past 35 years I have cared for over 1000 children born with congenital cataracts. In older children and in adults the vision is rehabilitated with an intraocular lens. In newborns we use contact lenses which are very expensive.. It takes Medicaid over one year to approve a Contact lens, post cataract surgery. By that time a successful anatomical Operation is wasted, as the child will be close to blind from a lack of Focusing for so long a period of time. Again extreme rationing. Solution - I have a foundation here in Atlanta supported 100% by private funds which Supplies all of these contact lenses for my Medicaid and illegal Immigrants children for free. Again waiting for the government would be Disastrous.
Last week I had a lady bring her child to me. They are Americans but live in Sweden as the father has a job with a big corporation. The child had the onset of double vision 3 months ago and has been unable to function normally because of this. They are people of means but are Waiting 8 months to see the ophthalmologist in Sweden . Then if the child needed surgery they would be put on a 6 month waiting list. She called me and I saw her that day. It turned out that the child had accommodative Esotropia (crossing of the eyes, treated with glasses that correct for Farsightedness) and responded to glasses within 4 days, no surgery was needed. Again rationing of care.
Last month I operated on a 70 year old lady with double vision present for 3 years. She responded quite nicely to her surgery and now is Symptom free. I also operated on a 69 year old judge with vertical Double vision. His surgery went very well and now he is happy as a lark. I have been told - but of course there is no healthcare bill that has been Passed yet - that these 2 people because of their age would have been Denied surgery and just told to wear a patch over one eye to alleviate the
Symptoms of double vision. Obviously cheaper than surgery.
I spent two years in the US Navy during the Viet Nam war and was well treated by the military. There was tremendous rationing of care and we were told specifically what things the military personnel and their Dependents could have and which things they could not have. While in Vietnam , my wife Nancy got sick and got essentially no care at the Naval Hospital in Oakland , California . She went home and went to her family's private internist in Beverly Hills . While it was expensive, she received an immediate work up. Again rationing of care.
For those of you who are over 65, this bill in its present form might be lethal for you. People in England over 59 cannot receive stents for their coronary arteries. The government wants to mimic the British plan. For those of you younger, it will still mean restriction of the care that you and your children receive.
While 99% of physicians went into medicine because of the love of medicine and the challenge of helping our fellow man, economics are still important. My rent goes up 2% each year and the salaries of my employees go up 2% each year. Twenty years ago ophthalmologists were paid $1800 for a cataract surgery and today $500. This is a 73% decrease in our fees. I do not know of many jobs in America that have seen this lowering of fees.
But there is more to the story than just the lower fees. When I came to Atlanta there was a well known ophthalmologist who charged $2500 for cataract surgery as he felt the was the best. He had a terrific reputation and in fact I had my mother's bilateral cataracts operated on by him with a wonderful result. She is now 94 and has 20/20 vision in both eyes. People would pay his $2500 fee. However the government came in and said that any doctor that does Medicare work can not accept more than the going rate (now $500) or he or she would be severely fined. This put an end to his charging $2500. The government said it was illegal to accept more than the government allowed rate. What I am driving at is that those of you who are well off will not be able to go to the head of the line under this new healthcare plan just because you have money as no physician will be willing to go against the law to treat you.
I am a pediatric ophthalmologist and trained for 10 years post college to become a pediatric ophthalmologist (add two years of my service in the Navy and that comes to 12 years). A neurosurgeon spends 14 years Post College and if he or she has to do the military that would be 16 years. I am not entitled to make what a neurosurgeon makes but the new plan calls for all physicians to make the same amount of payment. I assure you that medical students will not go into neurosurgery and we will have a tremendous shortage of neurosurgeons. Already the top neurosurgeon at my hospital that is in good health and only 52 years old has just quit because he can't stand working with the government anymore. Forty-nine percent of children under the age of 16 in the state of Georgia are on Medicaid so he felt he just could not stand working with the bureaucracy anymore.
We are being lied to about the uninsured. They are getting care. I operate on at least 2 illegal immigrants each month who pay me nothing and the children's hospital at which I operate charges them nothing also.. This is true not only on Atlanta , but of every community in America ..
The bottom line is that I urge all of you to contact your congresswomen and congressmen and senators to defeat this bill. I promise you that you will not like rationing of your own health.
Furthermore, how can you trust a physician that works under these conditions knowing that he is controlled by the state? I certainly could not trust any doctor that would work under these draconian conditions.
One last thing, with this new healthcare plan there will be atremendous shortage of physicians. It has been estimated that approximately 5% of the current physician work force will quit under this new system. Also it is estimated that another 5% shortage will occur because of decreased men and women wanting to go into medicine. At the present time the US government has mandated gender equity in admissions to medical schools. That means that for the past 15 years that somewhere between 49% and 51% of each entering class are females. This is true of private schools also, because all private schools receive federal funding. The average career of a woman in medicine now is only 8-10 years and the average work week for a female in medicine is only 3-4 days. I have now trained 35 fellows in pediatric ophthalmology. Hands down the best was a female that I trained 4 years ago - she was head and heels above all others I have trained. She now practices only 3 days a week.
Zane Pollard , MD
Attributed by Snopes: snopes.com
==============================================================================
The information contained in this message may be privileged and/or confidential
and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended
recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the
intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution
or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this
message and deleting the material from any computer.
===========================
This letter is from Dr. Zane Pollard. He operates at Children's Health Care of Atlanta.
Google him, Snopes verified below. As my friend Joan would say, do I have to do everything for you folks? He pretty much confirms what many doctors that I have spoken with are saying about the unintended consequences of this bill the Obamamaniacs are trying to hurry through.
Friends: I have been sitting quietly on the sidelines watching all of this national debate on health care. It is time for me to bring some clarity to the table and, as your friend, by explaining many of the problems from the aspect of a doctor.
First off the government has involved very few of us physicians in the healthcare debate. While the American Medical Association has come out in favor of the plan, it is vital to remember that the AMA only
represents 17% of the American physician workforce.
I have taken care of Medicaid patients for 35 years while representing the only pediatric ophthalmology group left in Atlanta , Georgia that accepts Medicaid. Why is this? For example, in the past 6 months I have cared for three young children on Medicaid who had corneal ulcers. This is a potentially blinding situation because if the cornea perforates from the infection, almost surely blindness will occur. In all three cases the antibiotic needed for the eradication of the infection was not on the approved Medicaid list. Each time I was told to fax Medicaid for the approval forms which I did. Within 48 hours the form came back to me which was mailed in immediately via fax and I was told that I would have my answer in 10 days. Of course by then each child would have been blind in the eye. Each time the request came back denied. All three times I personally provided the antibiotic for each patient which was not on the Medicaid approved list. Get the point-rationing of care.
Over the past 35 years I have cared for over 1000 children born with congenital cataracts. In older children and in adults the vision is rehabilitated with an intraocular lens. In newborns we use contact lenses which are very expensive.. It takes Medicaid over one year to approve a Contact lens, post cataract surgery. By that time a successful anatomical Operation is wasted, as the child will be close to blind from a lack of Focusing for so long a period of time. Again extreme rationing. Solution - I have a foundation here in Atlanta supported 100% by private funds which Supplies all of these contact lenses for my Medicaid and illegal Immigrants children for free. Again waiting for the government would be Disastrous.
Last week I had a lady bring her child to me. They are Americans but live in Sweden as the father has a job with a big corporation. The child had the onset of double vision 3 months ago and has been unable to function normally because of this. They are people of means but are Waiting 8 months to see the ophthalmologist in Sweden . Then if the child needed surgery they would be put on a 6 month waiting list. She called me and I saw her that day. It turned out that the child had accommodative Esotropia (crossing of the eyes, treated with glasses that correct for Farsightedness) and responded to glasses within 4 days, no surgery was needed. Again rationing of care.
Last month I operated on a 70 year old lady with double vision present for 3 years. She responded quite nicely to her surgery and now is Symptom free. I also operated on a 69 year old judge with vertical Double vision. His surgery went very well and now he is happy as a lark. I have been told - but of course there is no healthcare bill that has been Passed yet - that these 2 people because of their age would have been Denied surgery and just told to wear a patch over one eye to alleviate the
Symptoms of double vision. Obviously cheaper than surgery.
I spent two years in the US Navy during the Viet Nam war and was well treated by the military. There was tremendous rationing of care and we were told specifically what things the military personnel and their Dependents could have and which things they could not have. While in Vietnam , my wife Nancy got sick and got essentially no care at the Naval Hospital in Oakland , California . She went home and went to her family's private internist in Beverly Hills . While it was expensive, she received an immediate work up. Again rationing of care.
For those of you who are over 65, this bill in its present form might be lethal for you. People in England over 59 cannot receive stents for their coronary arteries. The government wants to mimic the British plan. For those of you younger, it will still mean restriction of the care that you and your children receive.
While 99% of physicians went into medicine because of the love of medicine and the challenge of helping our fellow man, economics are still important. My rent goes up 2% each year and the salaries of my employees go up 2% each year. Twenty years ago ophthalmologists were paid $1800 for a cataract surgery and today $500. This is a 73% decrease in our fees. I do not know of many jobs in America that have seen this lowering of fees.
But there is more to the story than just the lower fees. When I came to Atlanta there was a well known ophthalmologist who charged $2500 for cataract surgery as he felt the was the best. He had a terrific reputation and in fact I had my mother's bilateral cataracts operated on by him with a wonderful result. She is now 94 and has 20/20 vision in both eyes. People would pay his $2500 fee. However the government came in and said that any doctor that does Medicare work can not accept more than the going rate (now $500) or he or she would be severely fined. This put an end to his charging $2500. The government said it was illegal to accept more than the government allowed rate. What I am driving at is that those of you who are well off will not be able to go to the head of the line under this new healthcare plan just because you have money as no physician will be willing to go against the law to treat you.
I am a pediatric ophthalmologist and trained for 10 years post college to become a pediatric ophthalmologist (add two years of my service in the Navy and that comes to 12 years). A neurosurgeon spends 14 years Post College and if he or she has to do the military that would be 16 years. I am not entitled to make what a neurosurgeon makes but the new plan calls for all physicians to make the same amount of payment. I assure you that medical students will not go into neurosurgery and we will have a tremendous shortage of neurosurgeons. Already the top neurosurgeon at my hospital that is in good health and only 52 years old has just quit because he can't stand working with the government anymore. Forty-nine percent of children under the age of 16 in the state of Georgia are on Medicaid so he felt he just could not stand working with the bureaucracy anymore.
We are being lied to about the uninsured. They are getting care. I operate on at least 2 illegal immigrants each month who pay me nothing and the children's hospital at which I operate charges them nothing also.. This is true not only on Atlanta , but of every community in America ..
The bottom line is that I urge all of you to contact your congresswomen and congressmen and senators to defeat this bill. I promise you that you will not like rationing of your own health.
Furthermore, how can you trust a physician that works under these conditions knowing that he is controlled by the state? I certainly could not trust any doctor that would work under these draconian conditions.
One last thing, with this new healthcare plan there will be atremendous shortage of physicians. It has been estimated that approximately 5% of the current physician work force will quit under this new system. Also it is estimated that another 5% shortage will occur because of decreased men and women wanting to go into medicine. At the present time the US government has mandated gender equity in admissions to medical schools. That means that for the past 15 years that somewhere between 49% and 51% of each entering class are females. This is true of private schools also, because all private schools receive federal funding. The average career of a woman in medicine now is only 8-10 years and the average work week for a female in medicine is only 3-4 days. I have now trained 35 fellows in pediatric ophthalmology. Hands down the best was a female that I trained 4 years ago - she was head and heels above all others I have trained. She now practices only 3 days a week.
Zane Pollard , MD
Attributed by Snopes: snopes.com
==============================================================================
The information contained in this message may be privileged and/or confidential
and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended
recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the
intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution
or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this
message and deleting the material from any computer.
===========================
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Andrew Klavan on “How to Have Sex” – VIDEO � Snow Report Blog
Don't miss sex instruction by Andrew Klavan at
Andrew Klavan on “How to Have Sex” – VIDEO Snow Report Blog
Andrew Klavan on “How to Have Sex” – VIDEO Snow Report Blog
Breaking News | Latest News | Current News - FOXNews.com
KT McFarland spoofing playing Sec of Defense to President Obama and offering advice on how to get rid of Fox News. Get through the commercial - it's worth the wait!
Breaking News | Latest News | Current News - FOXNews.com
Breaking News | Latest News | Current News - FOXNews.com
Be sure to read the comments after watching Penn Jillette's honest and painful wake up call.
Penn Jillette -- "The Message Is the Message" @ AMERICAN DIGEST
Penn Jillette -- "The Message Is the Message" @ AMERICAN DIGEST
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Elites and Tyrants – by Walter Williams | FrontPage Magazine
"...The most authoritative tally of history’s most murderous regimes is in a book by University of Hawaii’s Professor Rudolph J. Rummel, “Death by Government.” Statistics are provided at his website: (http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/welcome.html). The Nazis murdered 20 million of their own people and those in nations they captured. Between 1917 and 1987, Stalin and his successors murdered, or were otherwise responsible for the deaths of, 62 million of their own people. Between 1949 and 1987, Mao Tsetung and his successors were responsible for the deaths of 76 million Chinese.
Today’s leftists, socialists and progressives would bristle at the suggestion that their agenda differs little from Nazism. However, there’s little or no distinction between Nazism and socialism. Even the word Nazi is short for National Socialist German Workers Party. The origins of the unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism did not begin in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. Those horrors were simply the end result of long evolution of ideas leading to consolidation of power in central government in the quest for “social justice.” It was decent but misguided earlier generations of Germans, like many of today’s Americans, who would have cringed at the thought of genocide, who built the Trojan horse for Hitler to take over..."
Elites and Tyrants – by Walter Williams | FrontPage Magazine
Today’s leftists, socialists and progressives would bristle at the suggestion that their agenda differs little from Nazism. However, there’s little or no distinction between Nazism and socialism. Even the word Nazi is short for National Socialist German Workers Party. The origins of the unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism did not begin in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. Those horrors were simply the end result of long evolution of ideas leading to consolidation of power in central government in the quest for “social justice.” It was decent but misguided earlier generations of Germans, like many of today’s Americans, who would have cringed at the thought of genocide, who built the Trojan horse for Hitler to take over..."
Elites and Tyrants – by Walter Williams | FrontPage Magazine
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Dr. Sanity
Okay, so I lied. It's not all, folks, there are some I know you will miss if I don't point you in the right direction. I insist that you read the whole thing. With love, natch!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
THE POSTMODERN NARCISSISTIC DILEMMA AND THE PRISM OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: OR, How to Stop Thinking and Serve the Utopian Collective
Here is what kids learn today about Christopher Columbus:
Kids Study the Dark Side of Columbus
Jeffrey Kolowith's kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer's picture on a timeline through history.
Kolowith's students learn about the explorer's significance — though they also come away with a more nuanced picture of Columbus than the noble discoverer often portrayed in pop culture and legend.
KEEP GOING - READ IT ALL - THIS IS IMPORTANT STUFF!
Dr. Sanity
Sunday, October 11, 2009
THE POSTMODERN NARCISSISTIC DILEMMA AND THE PRISM OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: OR, How to Stop Thinking and Serve the Utopian Collective
Here is what kids learn today about Christopher Columbus:
Kids Study the Dark Side of Columbus
Jeffrey Kolowith's kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer's picture on a timeline through history.
Kolowith's students learn about the explorer's significance — though they also come away with a more nuanced picture of Columbus than the noble discoverer often portrayed in pop culture and legend.
KEEP GOING - READ IT ALL - THIS IS IMPORTANT STUFF!
Dr. Sanity
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Hi Friends,
Because I started this blog to see if I could and because I wanted to boss around my friends and family and share with them read who I enjoy reading. All those links you see here are some of my favorite originals who can write, educate and make me laugh. If I don't link them all, they do. Pretty much you all know who to read if you are so inclined at this point, and if you don't , well, that is your loss.
Now seeing my dear Mom on her journey to the next world in New York.
As my friend Mizze sez, "That's all folks".
Love and Peace through Strength,
Gecko
Because I started this blog to see if I could and because I wanted to boss around my friends and family and share with them read who I enjoy reading. All those links you see here are some of my favorite originals who can write, educate and make me laugh. If I don't link them all, they do. Pretty much you all know who to read if you are so inclined at this point, and if you don't , well, that is your loss.
Now seeing my dear Mom on her journey to the next world in New York.
As my friend Mizze sez, "That's all folks".
Love and Peace through Strength,
Gecko
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
