Let's ask doctors about health care

Poll Finds Most Doctors Support Public Option : NPR: "Most doctors — 63 percent — say they favor giving patients a choice that would include both public and private insurance. That's the position of President Obama and of many congressional Democrats. In addition, another 10 percent of doctors say they favor a public option only; they'd like to see a single-payer health care system. Together, the two groups add up to 73 percent."

Communists... or something;)

The original Mac?

MAC PANEL computer tape (Dec, 1961)

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Ghost Fleet

Some of the hundreds of container cargo ships of the "Ghost Fleet of Malaysia".  The ships sit at anchor of the coast of Malaysia as the global economic downturn has left them without cargo to ship.

Do not tell these men and women about green shoots of recovery. As Briton Tim Huxley, one of Asia's leading ship brokers, says, if the world is really pulling itself out of recession, then all these idle ships should be back on the move. This is the time of year when everyone is doing all the Christmas stuff,' he points out.  'A couple of years ago those ships would have been steaming back and forth, going at full speed. But now you've got something like 12 per cent of the world's container ships doing nothing.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1212013/Revealed-The-ghost-fleet-recession.html#ixzz0R6CY9JND

09:09 09/09/09

Five nines.  (First one to mention that my camera's timestamp is set an hour off gets a prize.  Unfortunately the prize is scorn.)

Health Care Reform Explained

Can The US Air Force Save Darfur?

Can The US Air Force Save Darfur? — War & Health

I don't know, but its a good question.

10 pounds of lard

Lee Ogle Spelling Bee 2/26/09

9:46 Auditorium filling quickly. No wireless so this is a non-live blog.

9:55 Guy in front of me has a point and shoot 35 MM film camera.

Henri went out on alleviate in the third round in 13^th place.

conway twitty - its only make believe

Painting

Waffles

Will Leitch's review has to be better than the movie

The Will Leitch Experience -- FRIDAY THE 13TH:

"Jason should only be about killing stuff: That’s as complicated as he needs to be. I prefer to think that when there aren’t any teenagers around, Jason just hacks at inanimate objects with a battle ax, waiting for them to start spewing blood and sighing quietly when they don’t. Walls, lamps, picture frames, pianos, whatever."

The fools who run this place

DispatchPolitics : U.S. Rep. Austria blames Depression on Roosevelt Columbus Dispatch Politics:

"'When (President Franklin) Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression,' (US Rep Steve) Austria (R-MoronOhio) said. 'He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a Great Depression. That's just history.'"

Shouldn't a basic grasp of a country's history be necessary to be a member of one its parliamentary houses? Further, I wonder if right this second King could pass the citizenship test administered to people trying to become naturalized citizens. I would bet against him. Honestly, just based on the above statement, I would bet against him passing it.


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My daughter asks if he has teeth.

I've always wondered what this says about Brandy.

Why do so many sailors talk about her?

Mic in track

Remember searching Napster for "Mic in Track" to find MusicMatch Jukebox recorded audio? I do, and so does this guy. The difference is he still has the mp3z, and you can download them from him. Check the link for what the page's author calls "unique examples of audio vérité."

Stark Effect - mic in track

Some neat stuff.

On the 100-0 high school basketball game

Dear Micah Grimes,

You know normally I'm supportive of my fellow namesakes, but you really screwed the pooch on this one. If this report is even remotely accurate, you seriously screwed up and got the proper punishment.

Having been a coach on both sides of debacles like this (though not this bad obviously*), you deserve your firing You were running up the score. If you can't keep your team from doing something like this, you lack the discipline and judgment necessary to coach. If you lack the coaching ability to figure out ways to prevent your team from scoring quickly, you're not innovative enough to coach. You had kids shooting treys in the fourth quarter!

This was a ten round boxing match that should've been a second round KO, but the ref was powerless to stop it. The manager, you, instead of instructing your fighter to stand over his opponent for eight more rounds, told your fighter to go out there and wallop them while they were down.

Learn your lesson. Have a good life. If you truly see the err of your ways (and not that you were fired), I wish you success in finding another coaching gig, but know that you will always be the guy that ran the score up 100-0 on a school for kids with learning disabilities.

Thanks,
Micah

*Getting beat 14-0 in soccer is pretty dang close though.

On the ongoing "debate" about Gitmo

To favor due process is to favor Terrorists'; Rights - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com:

"It's not really 'complex' to understand this: the fact that the U.S. Government accuses someone of X does not mean that they are actually guilty of X. That's true even where 'X = Terrorist.' That's why, in America, we have these things called 'trials' and 'due process.' Sometimes the Government is wrong. Sometimes it is inept. Sometimes it is corrupt and tyrannical. Therefore, these things we call 'checks' are necessary before we assume that Government accusations are true and before we allow the Government to put people into cages for life. We don't actually know that someone is a 'Terrorist' until a trial, with due process, establishes that the Government's accusations are true."

I wish I'd thought of that

BobHarris.com - Get These Motherf***ing Geese Off This Motherf***ing Plane

Bob Harris on "Sully's Splash"