Getting You Ready For Rationed Care

The recent mammogram guideline revisions are one of the first steps in rationing care to women.

A government task force said Monday that most women don’t need mammograms in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50 — a stunning reversal and a break with the American Cancer Society’s long-standing position. What’s more, the panel said breast self-exams do no good, and women shouldn’t be taught to do them.

Say what you want.

My gynecologist, the doctor who knows me best, not only encourages bi-annual mammograms but EXPECTS me to be doing breast self-exams. This is preventive medicine.

Breast cancer is just as, if not more, terrifying to women as prostate or testicular cancer is to men. We no more want our breasts carved like a turkey as you men want your bollocks nipped. In fact, it may be worse for us, as a woman without breasts is a little more obvious to the naked eye than a man without testes or a prostate. I mean, really, show me one man, without a prosthetic, that you know has no prostate just by passing him on the beach?

From the American Cancer Society:

How Many Women Get Breast Cancer?

The American Cancer Society’s most recent estimates for breast cancer in the United States are for 2009: 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer 40,170 deaths from breast cancer Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, other than skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer. The chance of a woman having invasive breast cancer some time during her life is a little less 1 in 8. The chance of dying from breast cancer is about 1 in 35. Breast cancer death rates have been going down. This is probably the result of finding the cancer earlier and better treatment. Right now there are more than 2½ million breast cancer survivors in the United States. Last Medical Review: 09/29/2009 Last Revised: 09/29/2009

 But. don’t believe the Cancer Society, a non-profit with millions and billions in research and statistics to support their findings. Believe the government, those low paid public servants. They are here to help.

WV Grows Amid Historic Unemployment

Many thanks to West Virginia Watchdog for the heads up on this one. If not for them I would never have heard about how great our state is doing!

Over a billion dollars has come to West Virginia thanks to the Recovery Act.

$2,387,321 of that total is going towards eight fictional Congressional districts: the 54th, 9th, 4th, 6th, 12th, 13th, and 00. Here are the Recovery Act success stories for these districts (located at www.recovery.gov):

• Three jobs were created in the 54th, 9th, 6th and 12th Congressional districts, which received $1 million, $439,296, $208,117, and $191,795 in stimulus funding respectively.
• Two Jobs were created in the 13th Congressional District, which received $111,732 in stimulus funding.
• Zero jobs were created in the 4th and 00 Congressional districts, which received $429,296 and $6,587 in stimulus funding respectively.

Say it with me now … Aaaalllll Rrriiiiiiiiiiggghhht!

Climate Change Can’t Wait – Will Wait

“…legal technicalities might otherwise distract the talks in Copenhagen…”

WOA!!! Hold on!  This is where I place a “phone a friend.” JDB - what is the legal definition of “technicality?” 

When people don’t get what they want in a legal battle they often use the term ‘technicality’ to imply that someone cheated to get their way. For instance, Bubba gets pulled over for speeding. The cop recognizes the guy as someone who stole his wayward b*tch girlfriend a few months before. So the cop decides he’s gonna search the vehicle and low-and-behold finds a crack rock. Bubba gets arrested.

[This is where I need JDB to tell me if my anagolgy is logical.]

So, Bubba is in front of the judge and the defender points out that the cop never secured a search warrant. He pulled Bubba over for speeding and nothing else gave the cop probable cause to do a search. Bubba wasn’t weaving, driving erratically [except for speed], didn’t smell funny – nothing that would give cause to search.  The judge throws the charge out.  The cop tells all his buddies that Bubba got off ‘on a technicality.’ The truth is, more specifically, the cop violated the law in order to arrest Bubba.

This climate change delay tactic is being used because the supporters can’t comply with rules or laws that govern ‘internationally.’ Somewhere someone is saying “You are going to take these actions or we will _______,” but they can’t under current rules. And guess who’s to blame?

“The problem is the United States, there’s no doubt about that,” Borloo, who has coordinated France’s Copenhagen negotiating effort, told Reuters in an interview.

“It’s the world’s number one power, the biggest emitter (of greenhouse gases), the biggest per capita emitter and it’s saying ‘I’d like to but I can’t’. That’s the issue,” he said.

But wait, further down the story:

It was not clear if China, now the world’s biggest carbon emitter, had backed the two-stage proposal in Singapore.

And, remember what I said about “technicality” being used to show failure to follow a law or rule:

“In Copenhagen, governments need to create a legally binding framework with an amended Kyoto Protocol and a new Copenhagen Protocol. Legally binding is the only thing that will do if we want to see real action to save the planet.”

What they fail to mention is the growing dispute regarding the global temperatures DROPPING over the past decade, the contribution sun spots play in global temperatures, and just why the glasiers melted a 15-thousand years ago.

Econ 101 And Marx

Capitalism: An economy in which the factors of production (such as land, capital) are owned by individuals; basic allocation decision are made by market forces.

Communism: A stateless, classless, economy in which there’s no private property and everyone shares in production and consumption according to individual abilities and needs.

Socialism: An economy in which all nonlabor means of production are owned by the state, which exercises control over resource allocation.

Market shortage: The amount by which the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied at a given price; excess demand.

Suppressed inflation: Inflationary imbalances reflected in nonprice forms (like market shortages and rationing) when prices aren’t permitted to rise.

Involuntary saving: Consumer saving compelled by shortages of consumer goods.

Centrally planned prices are used to achieve specific planning goals, for example, to discouage consumption of luxury (or unhealthy (tobacco)) goods or ensure access to necessities.  Resource allocations (production decisions) are determined by central planners (FDA) however; prices don’t function as conventional market signals.

According to Marx’s labor theory of value, all output was the product of the workers. Ownership of land and capital served only as a mechanism for “expropriating” part of labor’s (read also slaves and indiginous peoples)  rightful income. Once capitalists were sent packing everyone would share equpally in access to the means of production and the output it yielded. The abolition of private property implied that nobody would have the means of exploiting anybody else. There’d be no central authority – no state – because the only function of a state was to express and pursue the interest of the dominant class. (Hmmm Those who run our state (elected officials) are millionaires.)

However, he foresaw that a central government (the state) would be required for some time to give direction to the “new society.” The proletariat wouldn’t be prepared to embrace fully the basic tenets of communism, nor  would it have the “technical expertise” required to organize the means of production. In the interim, a central authority, a socialist state, would have to solidify class consciousness, reorganize property and production rights, and plan the transition to a truly communist society.

Why Are All The Goode Shows Cancelled?

Every time I start liking something it gets cancelled. It happens with shampoo, razors, deodorant (Try to find unscented!) and often TV shows. Here’s one I really enjoyed. But — Cancelled after 13 episodes

The Goode Family

 

 

How’s That Hope and Change Working For Ya?

So the Big O is going to change “business as usual”.  Right.  Good luck with that one.

So what do you have to say about Pelosi refusing to let the people read her health distruction bill?

[W]hen asked if Speaker Pelosi will leave the bill online for 72 hours after we see what’s in the rule, Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly replied in an email: “No; [the] pledge was to have manager’s amendment online for 72 hours, and we will do that.”

Apparently Pelosi’s agreement to leave the “final” bill online “at the very end” of the process wasn’t such a straightforward pledge.

Hiding their work from the people is Unconstitutional.  I wish I had the money to bring suit.

Get ‘Em While They’re Young …

ELEMENTARY EPIDEMIC: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama

Train-up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

 

Young captive minds, easily influenced, eager for direction, enlisted into a cult of personality focused on an individual who, other than being the first black president, has yet to accomplish anything of significance. 

Read ALL about it here.

Quick and Dirty

Ok, this is just a quick and dirty post to try to keep my mind off food. This return to standard time has my stomach clock screwed up.  Plus I have indigestion.  LOL

I’ve put back on abou 10 pounds over the summer. It’s a long story, but the short of it is I tried to switch my exercise time from 5:00 in the morning to something more normal. And, as many before me can witness, I always had somethign going on and was exhausted. So the exercise didnt’ happen and the weight came back.

So, with just the addition of 10 pounds, my back is hurting again, my legs are hurting – more, and I’m dealing with indigestion frequently.

So, yesterday I got back on the treadmill at 5. The stupid thing is about worn out and I can’t prop it up so it’s level any more. So I’m constantly walking on an incline. Because I’ve screwed-off for so long, I just about collapsed after 15 minutes.  So I waited till later in the day and got on the little stair maching thing I have and walked it for about 25 minutes or so. This afternoon I gave another 15 minutes on the treadmill.

I managed to pack my lunch today with enought good-for-me stuff to get me through till now. I have a very large beaker of water next to me why I try to hold off eating till my regular dinner time (6 p).  But I don’t think I’ll make it. I do have some work to finish and a meeting at 7. But I’m really distracte, so I’ll probably go ahead and eat then snack on something good, like veggies and fruit.

I dropped 40 lbs once, I know I can dump the 10 I got back plus the remaining 20 I needed to lose. I just have to kick myself in the *ss and do it.

Trick-or-Treat The Morning After

After a slow start, it was a very busy trick-or-treat evening. I had to break out the emergency stash before the night was over.  I was glad to see more true costumes and fewer lads clad in hunting gear and cammo face paint. There were a lot of Disney Princess costumes, and several higher end suits that could not have been purchased at Wal*Mart.

Didn’t have too many older teens, but did have a few that seemed a bit too tall to be begging for candy. Oh, then there are the babies. I did make a point to say “This candy is obviously going to be eaten by mommy and daddy.” But I said it with a smile to the NINE MONTH OLD. And then there was the 2-yr old.

I had one lady with her 2-yr old that set me on fire, figuratively. First she said “I don’t think he’ll come up the stairs,” referring to the five steps up to my porch.  Now, this little fella wasn’t handicapped, he was 2. So I looked at the little guy, held out a Reese’s Cup and said “Come get your Halloween candy.” He was a little skiddish. But then the mom went on to say “Oh, he’s 2, he can’t have peanuts. You know the doctors don’t want them to have peanuts yets.” “Ok,” I thought. “Well, I have Reese’s Pieces, Reese’s Cups …” “No. He can’t have peanut butter either.” So I dug around and found some Hershey’s Kisses.

Now, trick-or-treating is a simple process.  You beg for candy and someone gives you candy. You don’t make demands of the treating party. If you don’t want to go up 5 steps, don’t go in the yard. If you don’t want the candy trade it off to someone. I am not an entitlement program. I don’t HAVE to give you or your brat anything. But I do. Instead of being gracious that I would waste +$20 on candy and just give it out to strangers she expected me to cater to her child.

Now I set my sights on Christmas. I’m not forgetting Thanksgiving, but it is always more subdued. Mostly just one large dinner. I want some new Christmas decorations for my yard. I have a favorite 2-yr old who will really enjoy decorations this year.

Crybaby-In-Chief

“If I weren’t president, I would be happy to catch the shuttle with my wife to take her to a Broadway show, as I had promised her during the campaign, and there would be no fuss and no muss and no photographers,” he said. “That would please me greatly.”

Waaaa! Waaaa! I wanted to be President but I didn’t know people would be mean to me.  Waaa! Waaa!

Come on people.  When you decide to stand for any political office, you know you are like velcro to media and criticism lint. The dumb-*ss stood in front of millions and boasted how ready he was for the job. His followers railled against those of us who questioned his experience (yet his followers cried fowl when you compared his to Palin’s). I thought he was gonna “hit the ground running” and not be held up with all the learning curve shit.

Please.

Who minded the vege garden while they traveled the world? He’s got all the time in the world to hold photo-shoots on the golf course and basketball court, where’s his time for our soldiers? 

He  lifted the 18-year ban on media coverage of the return of fallen soldiers but only finds time to stop in to pay respects when he’s taking a beating over his delay on a decision to increast troops to Afganistan. The ‘patriots for peace’ screamed “Bush Lied Troops Died”.  Where are they now that the Big O is sitting with his thumb up his *ss now?

He’s all show and no substance. He’s a fraud.