Why I use duct tape instead of band-aids

Ins. Co. & CEO With 2008 Total CEO Compensation
Aetna, Ronald A. Williams: $24,300,112 Cigna, H. Edward Hanway: $12,236,740 Coventry, Dale Wolf: $9,047,469 Health Net, Jay Gellert: $4,425,355 Humana, Michael McCallister: $4,764,309 U. Health Group, Stephen J. Hemsley: $3,241,042 Wellpoint, Angela Braly: $9,844,212
* about 3/4 of a Billion Dollars for SEVEN People
**Gee..... I wonder if they get 'sick leave' as well...... and!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lobbyists Spend Millions to Influence Health Care By Dan Eggen
Drugmakers, hospitals and insurers continued to pour millions of dollars into lobbying during the second quarter of this year, hoping to limit the damage to their bottom line as lawmakers and the Obama administration wrangle over landmark health-care legislation. New disclosure reports that began arriving Monday in Congress showed familiar players at the top of the health-care influence heap, including $6.2 million in lobbying by the dominant Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and $4 million by the American Medical Association. Many health companies and associations increased their first-quarter lobbying expenditures, sometimes dramatically. The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association upped its lobbying expenditures by a full million, to 2.8 million dollars in the second quarter; GlaxoSmithKline's spending jumped from $1.8 million to $2.3 million; Novartis grew from $1.4 million to $1.8 million; and Metlife Group reported $1.7 million, up nearly 50 percent. Allstate, which spent less than $900,000 on lobbying through March, boosted its spending to more than $1.5 million from April to June.
*** of course you have to spend money to make money..... boy& Howdy!! Sociali-nazism would just plain stop all that free enterprize lobbying...

Remembering Presidential Leadership

Blood Drive!

I'll do anything for free cookies and doughnuts! The last time the blood drive was in town I was interviewed on local TV..... one of those "where ya from..how ya doing...why do YOU give blood" kinda local-color things. I just deadpanned for the camera..." I only donate because of the free cookies", and then rather forgot about it.

Later, that same night, I am at a concert at the river and a complete stranger comes up to me and said, " I know you! You're the guy on TV who donates blood for cookies!"

Boy, was I proud.

I hope they have the peanut-butter ones today.

I only do it for cookies.

Hmmmm

Age does not protect you from love.

But love,
to some extent,

protects you from age.


Anais Nin

Have a good weekend.... I am

...going to burn and consume the flesh of animals ..... and drink the fermented amber waves grain! ( then maybe crawl up a purple mountain or two)

I believe in evolution..and

... in other news, a friend in Colorado sends a photo of his new pet human.

Everybody have a good holiday.

Break me UP!

OK. I am not the most 'tech-type' person around ol' Dodge City..... I am getting there, though, and am proud to report I can now tie my own shoe laces...... but I read something today and I gotzta make my own comment.... and I have to relay how it all came about.... bear with me.

So I'm reading the blogs today.... and I go to http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/ where the esteemed Tengrain ( Graves, you Swine!) had posted this nifty link and tidbit about Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream celebrating Vermont's recognition of Gay Marriage.

http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/20090901ice_cream_company_fetes_gay_marriage/srvc=home&position=also

(see, I doan know how to make cool links)

Anyways.... I support whatever two consenting adults want to do..... whether it is getting a couple of beers or getting married.... or sharing some ice cream.... ain't no deal as far as I'm concerned. But what broke me up, big time, is at the bottom of the article from the Boston Herald is a quote from a dude called Brian Camenker of some quazi-moronic group called MassResistance.org who must either really not like ice-cream or gay people or both ..

(my guess is he has a long list of things he doesn't like and further believes that no one should like the things he dislikes) ...

..and the article quotes good ol Brian

"It’s a bad idea, especially because I think they’re just doing it to rub it in that Vermont has legalized gay marriage,”

which kinda breaks me up; I get this visualization of celebrating a marriage by rubbing ice-cream on your marriage partner. (which I think is a good thing. Gees, my heterosexual marriage could have use more ice-cream rubbing!) Now at this point I am thinking good thoughts about ice-cream, and some really nice thoughts about Ben&Jerry's... and making a mental note to stop at grocery after work.... but I am a bit curious about http://www.massresistance.org/.... and as I know that a bear does shit in the woods, I thought I would tip-toe over there and see what kind of shit they have there.... and what flavors.

WOWSERS!! What a fun little spot! I found.................

The Coming Nightmare of a “Transsexual Rights and Hate Crimes" Law in Massachusetts:Why Bill H1728 Must Be Defeated....

which the good folks at MassResistance feels is interfering with their God-given right to discriminate, hate and bash!

and...

Brutal fascist tactics against citizens

The homosexual movement cannot achieve their goals without eventually resorting to brutal tactics of intimidation and even terror. After lying and personal demonization, this is always the next logical step. And it will continue -- and escalate -- as long as the population is unwilling to fight back.

.... oh, shit! Brutal terrorist homosexuals! Damn! Ya know, there's one in my office! He was really really intimidating the other day when he asked to borrow a dollar!~ It probably will escalate ... I bet he asks to borrow two bucks next week!~

Transgender activists, cross-dressers swarm State House at July 14 public hearing.

Wowsers! Sounds like killer bees! Better call Orkin!

OK. I have had enough. Of fear, and hate, and bile and bigotry, bullshit....

If I really want something to fear I can worry that Grizzly Bears will migrate to Wisconsin and start delivering Chinese food.

Now that is something we should all be concerned about.....

Chinese Delivery Bears!

I gotzta get some ice cream on the way home tonight!