News, Entertainment, Enlightenment
By William W. Lawrence Sr
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
–William W. Lawrence
Washington Post Idiot Journalism — The consequence of bad voting/bad journalism/bad education is happening as a Drudge link to a Washington Post article shows: Cancer clincs are turning away Medicare patients.
The Post is citing sequestration cuts — as expected from a Washington establishment propaganda publication — without mentioning the hundreds of billions Obamacare has siphoned from Medicare or considering the consequences of the $17 trillion debt that the sequestration attempts to address no matter how feebly. Quick quiz: what happens to the the purchasing power of a dollar when it loses half its value?
Further, the Post fails to consider the looming shortfall of primary care physicians as per another Drudge link to an AARP site that advocates replacing them with nurse practitioners. Hear that cancer patients? Nothing to worry about.
Commentators are raking the Post and the establishment over the coals for their hand-waving insensitivity and their attempt to use the crisis to gain more power.
And this leads us to the comment of the day from a doctor using the handle Joelhassfan4:
This
is disturbing on so many levels, no wonder there are already over 5000
comments and growing exponentially as I write. As a doctor, this is
exhibit A of why Abomination Care, ie PPACA has to be redone at the very
least. Polticians are not clinicians they have no clue how to triage,
and boy, will they be punitive at the drop of a hat!
Frankly, I
have said this at so many sites and no one seems to show any interest
in the perspective, but, I think we are ruled, not represented mind you,
by a growing percentage of antisocial scum. Look up in the Wikepedia
definition of Antisocial Personality Disorder, and apply it just to the
leaders of both parties, and you will see they meet at least 3-4 of the
qualifying descriptors.
Yeah, real leadership, go after people who are terminally ill. What a freadin’ precedent, from the President on down.
Incumbent = incompetent, just move around some letters!!!
Those seeking health information online has reached the saturation point reports eMarketer.com, noting that 87 percent of US internet users used the web for health research last year.
The website attributes the surge to an aging population — baby boomers, who are more familiar with computer technology than the previous generation, are turning 65 at a rate of 8,000 per day — but also and more significantly to the increased cost of healthcare.
“Health insurance plans with high deductibles have led to a decline in patients visiting their physician and an increase in patients putting off medical treatments,” eMarketer notes.
The firm cites an NPR poll taken last year that showed that three out of four people who said they were sick said that the cost was a “very serious problem” and nearly half said they felt burdened by what they had to pay out of pocket for care.
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: April hath put a spirit of youth in everything
William Shakespeare
Sarah Palin, Archbishop Remember Terri Schiavo — A National Memorial Mass in Remembrance of Terri Schindler Schiavo will be led by Archbishop Chaput, 5 p.m., Friday, April 5, at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.
It will be followed at 6:30 p.m. by a gala in her honor featuring Sarah Palin at the Philadelphia Marriot, 1201 Market St.
The event is sponsored by the Life and Hope Network.
For information and tickets, visit www.terrisfight.org/terri-s-day-201
or call 855-300-4673.
Hat tip Independence Hall Tea Party Association.
Sarah Palin, Archbishop Remember Terri Schiavo
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
Herman Melville
Phillies great Grover Cleveland Alexander was played by Ronald Reagan in the 1952 film The Winning Team.
Alexander was deaf in his left ear due to his World War I service as an artillery man. He is the only National League pitcher to reach double figures for shutouts twice in a career sharing the record with 16 set with the Phillies in 1916.
New York Times Reporters New Blondes — Due to the tendency The New York Times has developed in making extraordinarily boneheaded mistakes its reporting, author Andrew Klavan has suggested replacing demeaning blonde jokes with enlightening New York Times reporter jokes:
Here are our contributions:
A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and stops to entertain at a
bar in a small town. He’s going through his usual run of silly New York
Times reporter jokes when a big woman in the fourth row stands on her
chair and says,
“OK jerk, I’ve heard just about enough of your
denigrating New York Times reporter jokes. What makes you think you can
stereotype New York Times reporters that way? What does a person’s job
description have to do with their worth as a human being? It’s guys like
you who keep New York Times reporters like me from being respected at
work and in my community, of reaching my full potential as a person…
because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against
not only New York Times reporters but all reporters at large… all in
the name of humor.”
Flustered, the ventriloquist begins to
apologize, when the New York Times reporter pipes up, “You stay out of
this mister, I’m talking to that little f%@#*er on your knee!”
And
A New York Times reporter enters a bar and is soon joined by another.
They each order a beer clink the mugs and shout SIX FREAKING WEEKS!
A
third soon arrives. More beer is ordered. The toast is repeated: SIX
FREAKING WEEKS!! Finally a fourth and fifth arrive they get a table. The
order pitchers. They toast continually shouting SIX FREAKING WEEKS!!
Finally the bartender comes over and says “You people seem to be celebrating something. Do you mind if I ask what it is?”
The
lead New York Times reporter says “Not at all buddy. You know how
people are always saying that New York Times reporters are dumb as
bricks? Well, me and my friends got one of those jigsaw puzzles that
said four to six years and we finished it in SIX FREAKING WEEKS!!!”
Tea Party Seeks To Save Swindled Vet’s Home — The Independence Hall Tea Party Association has come to bat for Ray White, the 88-year-old World War II Army Air Corps combat veteran and South Philly resident who was swindled out of his home and possessions a few weeks ago.
He is now in a rehabilitation facility recovering from a broken hip and is looking forward to getting out, said Teri Adams of the Association.
“Because he has no housing at this time, we have been working with the VA and several Center City real estate agents to find him affordable housing,” said Ms. Adams.
She says that the total dollar value of what White has lost is $383,000.
“We have reached out to City Councilman Mark Squilla regarding whether Ray could reclaim his home. The Councilman’s staff has researched this and found a way that will allow Ray to appeal and quite possibly get back his home,” said Ms. Adams.
She also says that Sen. Pat Toomey’s office has found several federal benefits for White and is standing by to work with Ray to apply for them.
The Association held a fundraiser for White yesterday, April 1, at Tazla’s Restaurant & Bar in Center City.
For those who can’t make the event, please write a check payable to Ray White and mail it to:
Ray White
C/O Joe Eastman
2514 S. 10th Street
Philadelphia PA 19148
