Re: Wear It Proudly!
Dave Land wrote: On Jun 1, 2007, at 4:55 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: http://www.cafepress.com/globaldenier Am I the only one saw this and started thinking of fine fabrics? Dave Ah, so that's where my brain was trying to go with it! IOW, not quite, but almost. :) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Grade A
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: . . . stars, that is: Altair: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6709345.stm Planets: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/Retired_A_Star_Planets.html And you have to love the ad attached to the second article: Planets Browse a huge selection now. Find exactly what you want today. www.eBay.com Search on planets yielded 451 items. I want the tie-dye, but I just bought a bunch of belts on e-bay and probably should stop. (None of them were asteroid belts.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Michael Moore
Dan Minette wrote: But, the idea he is pointing to as the solution...nationalizing health...is not going to be the solution the way he says it is. Now, I think that some mix of requiring employers to provide a level of health insurance to employees (including pro-rated by hours for non full-time workers to stop the 39 hour phenomenon) and governmental insurance will be needed as part of the plan. But, this has to be balanced with an attack on rising costs. BTW, last I was aware, the cut-off for being able to get benefits in Texas was 30 hours, not 40. So scheduling employees for 29 hours on the last week they needed to work to qualify initially was a favorite tactic of a particular company at least one of my friends worked for. (If you realized what they were doing that week and fought hard enough, you'd get your 30 hours and your insurance after that, but you had to fight.) Then again, I stopped dealing with any of that sometime in 1998 or 1999. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Michael Moore
Charlie Bell wrote: On 27/05/2007, at 6:49 AM, jon louis mann wrote: workers. i much prefer moore's fact checking say to that of bill o'reilley or anne coulter. Anne Coulter checks facts? I thought she just pulled them out of her arse. And it's not like her ass is calibrated or anything, unlike some I could mention. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Now all that's needed is the wood chipper . . .
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Web registration tool digitizes books http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/05/29/blather.to.books.ap/index.html -- Ronn! :) Whoa, dude! Kewl! Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
BTW, I'm caught up for now. :D
The spate of e-mails is stuff I composed but didn't want to send until I reached the end of the thread. I'm still composing at least one more. And I think I need caffeine before I continue. :P Julia Sleep Deprivation Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: U.S. health care
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 10:21 AM Wednesday 5/23/2007, Dan Minette wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jon louis mann Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 11:04 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: U.S. health care Why do we behave the way we behave? What has become of us? Where is our soul? DUMPED ON SKID ROW - Hospitals drop homeless patients on the city's Skid Row, sometimes dressed in only a flimsy gown and without a wheel chair, even if they're not healthy enough to fend for themselves. Anderson Cooper reports on the practice known as hospital dumping. The first thing that comes to mind is that this is an expectable, albeit immoral, response to the mess that hospitals find themselves in with regard to treatment of the indigent. I have had some extended conversations with my brother-in-law (a physician who has a low income private practice in Northern Michigan (he sees a lot of Medicaid patients, and the area is very poor). We agreed that what is needed is a system in which everyone can get a Chevy, but you have to pay your own money if you want a BMW. I have heard in recent months on other lists reports of children (sometimes grandchildren or nieces/nephews, etc., of listmembers) who were born with multiple problems which required the baby to stay in the hospital for months after birth during which they had to undergo multiple expensive medical procedures of various sorts and in many cases will require extensive care once they are released from the hospital and will have to go back to the hospital several times for more procedures and/or care for unexpected crises caused by the problems they were born with. In some cases, such special care and repeated hospitalizations will have to continue for the rest of their lives (which in some cases will be cut short while in other cases they may live well into adulthood or even a full, normal life-span but will never be able to become a contributing member of society and in particular will always be a net economic drain). Even if the necessary care only lasts a few months (a year or less, maybe) and afterward the child is able to live an entirely or mostly normal life and grow up to become a contributing member of society, the costs for the care required during that first year or so may easily run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars (maybe even top a million dollars in some cases, particularly when the problems are due to multiple births and each of the n-uplets requires such care because they were all born with low birth weight). Such care is certainly in the BMW (or perhaps Ferrrari or Lamborgni) price range, but what should we (as a nation, a government, a health-care system, etc.) do about it? Let us presume as was the case in the cases I have heard of on other lists that the families are ordinary middle-class working people who when it comes to cars typically look for a late-model used Chevy rather than a new car of any type and certainly never imagine themselves owning a BMW (except perhaps in their daydreams when they win the Powerball lottery) and that no one can be considered at fault for the problems that the child was born with: the parents were as far as anyone knew or could tell healthy, did not smoke, drink alcohol, use drugs, work in a factory or other environment where they were exposed to toxic chemicals or use such at home or in some second job or hobby, did not engage in any other risky behaviors, did not have any known genetic defects, had early and regular pre-natal care (during which we presume nothing amiss was detected, or at least not until it was too late medically or legally to do anything about it), nothing untoward happened during labor and delivery, etc. How should such cases be addressed by the US health care system? Well, at present, any baby considered to be a micro-premie, i.e. 1200 grams or smaller at birth, gets whatever NICU charges the parents' insurance won't cover covered by Medicare -- but you have to apply to get that. So that's one thing that's being done. But, yeah, that can be a million dollars per baby in some cases. It's a lot more likely to happen in the case of multiple births. (Me, my Twin B was over 8 lbs. and we all went home after 2 days -- and if we'd stayed another day, it would have been because MY doctor wanted ME to, not that the pediatrician was concerned about either of the babies. I can't stand hospitals as a patient (or at least that one, aside from when I was born I've stayed overnight in exactly 1 hospital) and told the doc that if she really needed to monitor the platelet count, my husband could take me somewhere the next morning for a blood draw, but I really wanted to go home. She discharged me.) Julia ___
Re: U.S. health care
Dan Minette wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Arnett Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:57 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: U.S. health care You don't think there's a place for simple stories in the political process? Depends on the story. I would place Moore's story telling with the young buck buying steak with food stamps story. There was a documentary at the South by Southwest film festival (I think I got the name right) in Austin, by self-proclaimed leftists, on Moore. One tidbit about his technique is that he did get an interview of the Roger in Roger and me. It didn't fit his film, so he didn't include it. Yeah. SXSW. :) I know people who work it. If you're going to be heading to anywhere near downtown Austin on an evening when that's going on, parking is going to be a bear, unless you're going to someplace like Whole Foods or Book People that has its own parking garage. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Political Dementia
At 10:15 AM Saturday 6/2/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: jon louis mann wrote: Well, Kirk would be pleased, wouldn't he? :) As he would with jon's response re: Aliens . . . that ranks up there with, Nothing says 'Aliens, land here!' like a 9' pyramid! Julia Message from UFO, Solve your own problems... jon ...but then again, I guess just aboutall debate is when you are a Vice-Admiral of the Narrow Seas* http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1719448 Hmm, is that why seamen wore a 'peascoat'? (sp?) [You made me LOL in the computer lab, BTW.] Insert Old Submarine Joke Maru -- Ronn! :) i do not want to hear any seamen puns!!! usn musa maru So I guess discussing vasectomies is right out? Julia It will knot be tolerated. -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Political Dementia
i do not want to hear any seamen puns!!! usn musa maru So I guess discussing vasectomies is right out? Julia It will knot be tolerated. -- Ronn! :) my dad had one; didn't work, which is why i have a little brother. Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545433 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Political Dementia
Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 6/1/07, Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We send apprentices after fluorescent tube benders or skyhooks or a bucket of amps for grins. I've actually carried a bucket of amps before. Of course, they were not amperes, but small rf amplifiers like this little guy. http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/900mhz_500mw-3w_amplifiers.php Why they were unpackaged and in a large plastic bucket is another story... Sounds like one I'd be interested in. :) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Political Dementia
jon louis mann wrote: i do not want to hear any seamen puns!!! usn musa maru So I guess discussing vasectomies is right out? Julia It will knot be tolerated. -- Ronn! :) my dad had one; didn't work, which is why i have a little brother. Which is why they test awhile afterwards, to make sure it DOES work. (My friend D. told me about someone she knows who provides a sample every year, just to be sure) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
