Obama-care: A fairy tale

This is a true story. A friend of mine with is a serious runner. He has not been a runner his whole life. In fact as I understand things, he was a big fat bastard until 3 years ago, when he started taking care of himself and running.

Anyway, he is a runner now. He ran the Cincy marathon and is looking forward to the Columbus Marathon coming up in a few weeks. In fact he is looking forward to running a half marathon in Dayton tomorrow morning. Not so fast.

Here’s the main conflict in this story: He started feeling a pain in his calf about a week ago. I suggested he had an injury. Unfortunately I was right. His doctor diagnosed (pre MRI, ultrasound, other tests) that he had a stress injury, fracture, or worst of all a blood clot! Today he was tested for these things, as of noon the doctors had ruled out blood clot (thank goodness) and were looking at the other options.

Every test was expedited. Every option explored. Why? My friend really wants to run. The medical team is working hard and fast to treat my friend. Because it is what he desires. The treatment is by default personalized.

My question is, how would this story play out under Obama-care?

Time to define lying. Again.

Once again I feel the need to point out that a lie is only a lie, if you believe what you are saying is untrue. So to reiterate:

1) Bush didn’t lie - you can debate WMD's but I think it's pretty clear GWBush thought they were there;
2) I don’t think Obama lied - He apparently changed the language just prior to his speech;
3) I don’t think Joe Wilson was lying - Joe didn't know Obama had just changed the bill;
4) Bill Clinton lied - He knew damn well what the stain on the blue dress was.

Clear?

Is it really 2009?

I heard a tale of professional malfeasance today I can only describe as unbelievable.

A buddy of mine is looking to hire two senior technical people to work in China. My buddy is an executive in an American software company that is opening a branch in China. As with all branch operations the manager is in place and is someone that has served time in the US and should understand how hiring works in the modern world.

Anyway, after a fairly significant search and vetting process my buddy has found the two candidates to whom he’d like to offer the positions. These two candidates are supremely qualified. These two candidates are also women. Female.

The manager in place raises three concerns with hiring these women. “One, we know that women aren’t really good at math. Two, we know that two women working in the same office will experience their cycles at the same time and fight. Three, I will lose face with my peers because they will think I am a fool.”

Really, the guy said this. My buddy explained to this fellow that the company they work for does not make hiring decisions based on race, religion or sex. So these two women will be hired.

I can’t figure out whether the manager is retarded or if China is so far behind the US socially that this is considered a reasonable attitude. Have we time travelled to 1926?

Silly Geese

I hate the canada geese. They're loud, they crap everywhere and they don't understand traffic. My brother (my brother!) tells me he finds the death of these geese to be a tradgedy as they 'mate for life'.

Brother, mating for life is a privilege for all species smart enough and dominant enough to be the supreme beings in any eco-system. Geese don't count. They wander in traffic and drivers (human drivers!) get ticketed for running them down.

This is yet another example of the government getting involved in nature and screwing it up. Creatures too stupid to avoid traffic don't get the privilege of mating for life. Cats, dogs, and octo-moms have litters. If the Octo-mom wanders out in traffic, does the poor driver who didn't see her get a ticket for exterminating a lesser secies?

Think about it. I'm gonna go run over some geese out on the golf course with my 4-wheeler.

My Space

A couple of weeks ago a very pushy lady came to the door of my home insisting on speaking to me. Because I am socialized (to some extent) I didn’t just slam my door shut in her face. I wish I had. She represented the local homeowner association. She then proceeded to take an hour of my life so she could fill out a form with answers she wanted. I now hate her.

Seriously, I do not think I am obligated socially or otherwise to open my front door. Now if the police come by, I’ll open the door. But from now on, that’s it. I’ve had it. I’m going off the mother loving grid. No more kids selling candy. No boy scouts, no football team raising money. No more. If that pushy old lady shows up, I’m tossing her off my front porch. I don’t know her, I don’t owe her. I’ve had it.

Oh yeah, keep your barking little crap factory off my damn lawn. I have a shot gun and I’m more than happy to shoot ANY animal on my property. They’re your pets, you clean up after them.

Next time up, why I hate those darn geese.

God Bless the WHO

The World Health Organization is making life better for me by calling the swine flu, the H1N1 virus. I refuse. I will continue to say swine flu.

Also, just to be clear, I will not stop saying retard or gay. If you aren’t as smart as the person sitting next to you, you know you’re a retard. We all do. Also also, I still refer to stupid stuff as ‘gay’. For example, referring to Swine Flu as H1N1 is gay. Anyone who does so is a retard.

Torture

Here we go.

The president released the memos, but not the results. The results are the intelligence. We can’t release real intelligence. However this does mean that the releasing of the memos is really pointless. Without all the data we can’t weigh whether or not the decisions made by the Bush administration were justified or not. We can only claim that we find ourselves “ashamed” the US engages in torture. This is akin to announcing the baseball scores without naming the teams. E.g. 5 to 2; 4 to 7; There’s not enough data, get it? Barak does.

So now Barak can go back on the world stage and say, I apologize for all Americans. Ain’t that grand? When one apologizes it means that one understands that what they did was wrong and that they won’t do it again. I guess Barak doesn’t speak for me and his next apology is clearly not on my behalf. If I capture an enemy combatant and I think the enemy has vital information, I will begin water boarding immediately. I mean without the results, I have no reason to believe it isn’t effective. Right?

Clinton Defense Policy

I see where Hillary is going to demoralize the Somolian Pirates by freezing their assets. What assets? They're attacking freighters from row boats. If they had any assets, wouldn't they invest in better pirate boats?

Way to go Hillary! I'm certain the Bill is going to bed early and drinking his milk every night you aren't home to supervise him. Yeah, suurre...