John Bolton
Lot's of good candidates for the vice presidency:
Victor Davis Hanson
Sarah Palin
Joe the Plumber
Friday, September 25, 2009
A Leader for 2012
K.R.'s ideal candidate to lead the nation going forward from the next presidential election is:
Lot's of good candidates for the vice presidency:
Lot's of good candidates for the vice presidency:
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Rulers Grab Raises While Stiffing Seniors
For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow a cost of living adjustment ("COLA") in Social Security retirement payments in 2010.
In fact, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation predicts there may not be any COLA for the next three years. However, the per person monthly Medicare insurance premium will be increased from the 2009 premium amount of $96.40 to $104.20 in 2010, and to $120.20 for the year 2011.
At the same time, Congress voted itself raises in the dead of night earlier this year. And bonuses were approved for their staff members, pages, etc.) Maybe we should make a fuss until they pay them back and refuse to take any more. They are way overpaid as it is.
These bums all deserve to be thrown out.
In fact, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation predicts there may not be any COLA for the next three years. However, the per person monthly Medicare insurance premium will be increased from the 2009 premium amount of $96.40 to $104.20 in 2010, and to $120.20 for the year 2011.
At the same time, Congress voted itself raises in the dead of night earlier this year. And bonuses were approved for their staff members, pages, etc.) Maybe we should make a fuss until they pay them back and refuse to take any more. They are way overpaid as it is.
These bums all deserve to be thrown out.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
You Might Be a Racist!
If you think that a czar is unconstitutional
. . . you might be a racist!
If you are opposed to a government run health care system
. . . you might be a racist!
If you think that it is unAmerican to bow before the Saudi King
. . . you might be a racist!
If you think that the stimulus plan has been an utter failure
. . . you might be a racist!
If you think that this administration is driving the deficit up at alarming rates
. . . you might be a racist!
If you think that this is a nation based on Christian values
. . . you might be a racist!
If you think that communism and socialism are NOT the solution
. . . you might be a racist!
If you value the 1st Amendment, but think that the media is state-run
. . . you might be a racist!
If you are sick and tired of the race card being played
. . . you might be a racist!
If you are a racist according to the current liberal agenda
. . . you might just be an American!
. . . you might be a racist!
If you are opposed to a government run health care system
. . . you might be a racist!
If you think that it is unAmerican to bow before the Saudi King
. . . you might be a racist!
If you think that the stimulus plan has been an utter failure
. . . you might be a racist!
If you think that this administration is driving the deficit up at alarming rates
. . . you might be a racist!
If you think that this is a nation based on Christian values
. . . you might be a racist!
If you think that communism and socialism are NOT the solution
. . . you might be a racist!
If you value the 1st Amendment, but think that the media is state-run
. . . you might be a racist!
If you are sick and tired of the race card being played
. . . you might be a racist!
If you are a racist according to the current liberal agenda
. . . you might just be an American!
Monday, September 21, 2009
The Gathering Storm
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and your taxes and your personal choice and your freedomSaturday, September 19, 2009
Who Is Crazier?
Choose between:
1. The homicidal maniac who escaped while on field trip (from a state hospital for the criminally insane) to a county fair in Washington State,
2. The authorities who let guys like him out on field trips?
Whatever your choice, I submit none of the above ought to be allowed to run around loose.
1. The homicidal maniac who escaped while on field trip (from a state hospital for the criminally insane) to a county fair in Washington State,
or
2. The authorities who let guys like him out on field trips?
Whatever your choice, I submit none of the above ought to be allowed to run around loose.
Emerging Truths
With the passage of time it is becoming clear that the pressure to enact health reform was due not to any crisis as most of the provisions of the various legislative proposals would not become effective until the year after the next presidential election. Instead, the urgency was due to the perceived -- and real -- necessity for rushing it into law before the truth about what actually is involved would become widespread.
Unfortunately for the proponents of unrealistic and unnecessary reform, that now is occurring -- as shown by this drawing back of the curtain and revelation of what lies behind it.
Also there now has been time for another writer to provide this straightforward analysis that sorts through the conflicting claims and shows who is lying and/or trying to deceive us . . . and, guess what, it's NOT Sarah Palin.
Unfortunately for the proponents of unrealistic and unnecessary reform, that now is occurring -- as shown by this drawing back of the curtain and revelation of what lies behind it.
Also there now has been time for another writer to provide this straightforward analysis that sorts through the conflicting claims and shows who is lying and/or trying to deceive us . . . and, guess what, it's NOT Sarah Palin.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Health Care's Freedom Factor II
What's going to happen to the privacy and confidentiality of every individual's medical records if or when government seizes control of the health care industry and/or the health insurance industry?
Experience has shown that any information in the government's data banks -- such as supposedly confidential data from IRS files -- can be obtained and made public by any politician interested in doing so and even by petty bureaucrats who troll through the files and are eager to share titillating stuff they find there.
Experience has shown that any information in the government's data banks -- such as supposedly confidential data from IRS files -- can be obtained and made public by any politician interested in doing so and even by petty bureaucrats who troll through the files and are eager to share titillating stuff they find there.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Letter to Three Parasites
Here is a letter that has just been dispatched to my district's member of the House of Reprehensibles and to each of my state's two U.S. senators:
As one of your constituents, I would appreciate answers from you to two questions:
1. Why have you voted for, and why has Congress appropriated millions of dollars to ACORN, an obviously corrupt organization that has engaged in illegal conduct for an extended period of time, going back long before the recent revelations about it?
2. Why have you and Congress heretofore tolerated and failed to eliminate from existing programs all the waste, fraud, and abuse that now supposedly are going to be eliminated to pay for health care/insurance reform without adding to the deficit?
I will look forward to your response and hope that it will not be merely a canned form letter.
Thank you.
As one of your constituents, I would appreciate answers from you to two questions:
1. Why have you voted for, and why has Congress appropriated millions of dollars to ACORN, an obviously corrupt organization that has engaged in illegal conduct for an extended period of time, going back long before the recent revelations about it?
2. Why have you and Congress heretofore tolerated and failed to eliminate from existing programs all the waste, fraud, and abuse that now supposedly are going to be eliminated to pay for health care/insurance reform without adding to the deficit?
I will look forward to your response and hope that it will not be merely a canned form letter.
Thank you.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Big Banks' Bailout Bonanza
Democrats like to claim they are the political heirs of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson but they either are ignorant of or dishonest about -- as well as confident that the rest of us will overlook -- the hostility of those estimable gentlemen to the concentration of financial power in large banking institutions.
With the financing and sponsorship of the federal government, the U.S. currently is undergoing a concentration of financial control in a few select hands in a way that the country hasn't experienced since Andrew Jackson, in the battle of his life, brought down the Second Bank of the United States.
Today, the Federal Reserve has arisen as the modern day version of that evil 19th century institution. It is the dominated handmaiden of the country's large money center and investment bankers. These institutions are benefiting hugely from having brought the nation's economy crashing down.
Look clearly at what has occurred:
* In the investment banking arena, Goldman Sachs was saved from collapse by an injection of taxpayer money from the public treasury. Its former competitors such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are gone, not having been the recipient of similar largess. They were allowed to fail and Goldman Sachs has been left standing alone, free from any significant competitors, atop and dominant in the investment banking field.
* In commercial banking, the big players -- Citibank, Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc. -- also were rescued with injections of public monies. Their smaller competitors were not given similar governmental transfusions. The smaller ones have been collapsing and are continuing to collapse at a rate unprecedented since the great depression. As they approach failure, the government steps in and either hands them off, liquidates them, and/or sells their assets to one of the biggies . . . and the big players are increasing their market share.
The net result of all this is competition free dominance of the nation's finances by a few large players. It is no wonder they are able to pay back the money the government pumped into them.
They have reaped huge rewards from their past (and continuing) political bribes -- aka campaign contributions -- and the transgressions that impoverished the rest of the country.
With the financing and sponsorship of the federal government, the U.S. currently is undergoing a concentration of financial control in a few select hands in a way that the country hasn't experienced since Andrew Jackson, in the battle of his life, brought down the Second Bank of the United States.
Today, the Federal Reserve has arisen as the modern day version of that evil 19th century institution. It is the dominated handmaiden of the country's large money center and investment bankers. These institutions are benefiting hugely from having brought the nation's economy crashing down.
Look clearly at what has occurred:
* In the investment banking arena, Goldman Sachs was saved from collapse by an injection of taxpayer money from the public treasury. Its former competitors such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are gone, not having been the recipient of similar largess. They were allowed to fail and Goldman Sachs has been left standing alone, free from any significant competitors, atop and dominant in the investment banking field.
* In commercial banking, the big players -- Citibank, Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc. -- also were rescued with injections of public monies. Their smaller competitors were not given similar governmental transfusions. The smaller ones have been collapsing and are continuing to collapse at a rate unprecedented since the great depression. As they approach failure, the government steps in and either hands them off, liquidates them, and/or sells their assets to one of the biggies . . . and the big players are increasing their market share.
The net result of all this is competition free dominance of the nation's finances by a few large players. It is no wonder they are able to pay back the money the government pumped into them.
They have reaped huge rewards from their past (and continuing) political bribes -- aka campaign contributions -- and the transgressions that impoverished the rest of the country.
Greatest Show on Earth: Put It on the Road Under a Big Tent to Balance the Budget
The House of Reprehensibles has made chastising one of its (minority party) members for indecorous conduct a priority item of business. At the same time serious transgressions -- real corruption and criminal conduct -- by the Ways and Means Committee chairman and other (majority party) members* are left slowly simmering on a back burner.
This is a hoot . . . simply hilarious beyond description. Were it scripted as fiction nobody would believe it.
They ought to abandon Capitol Hill, sell off the clown house atop it, and make the show a traveling one, with performances under a big tent. Just think about what a hit the bloviating buffoon from Boston would be as the ring master and Nasty Nancy as . . . oh well, best not to go there. In any event, ticket sales for the extravaganza would balance the budget and eliminate the deficit in short order.
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* Note: They truly are real members (if you get my meaning).
This is a hoot . . . simply hilarious beyond description. Were it scripted as fiction nobody would believe it.
They ought to abandon Capitol Hill, sell off the clown house atop it, and make the show a traveling one, with performances under a big tent. Just think about what a hit the bloviating buffoon from Boston would be as the ring master and Nasty Nancy as . . . oh well, best not to go there. In any event, ticket sales for the extravaganza would balance the budget and eliminate the deficit in short order.
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* Note: They truly are real members (if you get my meaning).
Let's See the Money Up Front
Politicians of the "progressive" persuasion once again are arguing that a massive new program they are pushing won't add to the humongous deficit they have created for future generations to pay after they are gone.
Their mind numbing mantra is that the huge bill will be paid from savings that will be realized by eliminating -- once again, the familiar chorus -- "waste, fraud, and abuse" from existing programs.
Never mind that such savings never materialize, and don't date ask why they heretofore have tolerated rather than eliminated all the "waste, fraud, and abuse."
Here is where we really could use a trigger. Let's insist that legislation enacting any new program provide that the new program will become effective only upon realization of the offsetting savings from first getting off of the "waste, fraud, and abuse" that is supposed to pay for it.
In other words, demand that they SHOW US THE MONEY FIRST!
Their mind numbing mantra is that the huge bill will be paid from savings that will be realized by eliminating -- once again, the familiar chorus -- "waste, fraud, and abuse" from existing programs.
Never mind that such savings never materialize, and don't date ask why they heretofore have tolerated rather than eliminated all the "waste, fraud, and abuse."
Here is where we really could use a trigger. Let's insist that legislation enacting any new program provide that the new program will become effective only upon realization of the offsetting savings from first getting off of the "waste, fraud, and abuse" that is supposed to pay for it.
In other words, demand that they SHOW US THE MONEY FIRST!
A Warning Our Rulers Would Be Wise To Heed
The following was seen on a number of posters, banners, and t-shirts at last Saturday's Tea Party rally in Washington, D.C.
We Came Unarmed
(this time)
(this time)
The Young Are Precious
Blessed are the young, For they shall inherit the national debt.
. . . Herbert Hoover
A Wise Old Farmer
A busload of politicians were driving down a country road when, all of a sudden, the bus ran off the road and crashed into a tree in an old farmer's field.
The old farmer, after seeing what happened, went over to investigate. He then proceeded to dig a hole and bury the politicians.
A few days later, the local sheriff came out, saw the crashed bus and asked the old farmer where all the politicians had gone.
The old farmer said he had buried them.
The sheriff asked the old farmer, "Were they ALL dead?"
The old farmer replied, "Well, some of them said they weren't, but you know how them politicians lie."
The old farmer, after seeing what happened, went over to investigate. He then proceeded to dig a hole and bury the politicians.
A few days later, the local sheriff came out, saw the crashed bus and asked the old farmer where all the politicians had gone.
The old farmer said he had buried them.
The sheriff asked the old farmer, "Were they ALL dead?"
The old farmer replied, "Well, some of them said they weren't, but you know how them politicians lie."
Saturday, September 12, 2009
A Question about Degrees of Culpability
The nation's press is attacking a member of the House of Reprehensibles who was moved by the rhetoric of the Chosen One to shout out "You Lie," thus engaging in boorish conduct that apparently violated the body's rules of decorous conduct.
Wouldn't it be nice if the members of the fourth estate examined the accuracy of what the target of their assault said instead of diverting attention from that question?
In weighing transgressions, might not a congressman engaging in impolite behavior be less serious and consequential than a president misleading the nation's citizens and the Congress on an issue of great public importance?
Wouldn't it be nice if the members of the fourth estate examined the accuracy of what the target of their assault said instead of diverting attention from that question?
In weighing transgressions, might not a congressman engaging in impolite behavior be less serious and consequential than a president misleading the nation's citizens and the Congress on an issue of great public importance?
Demand Answers!
For those frustrated by our out-of-control government, here is something every one of us can do without expending a great deal of time and effort:
Call the local office of both of your state's U.S. senators and your member of the House of Reprehensibles and demand that these "public servants" explain to you why their bodies have authorized sending taxpayer money from the public treasury to ACORN.
In doing this, don't be put off by any explanation that it was only in the last few days that ACORN was shown to be trying to assist in the establishment of tax evading brothels to be staffed by underage illegal immigrant prostitutes. The organization has a long history of corruption with an extended and well documented history of involvement in election fraud that apparently didn't in the slightest deter our rulers from appropriating our money to it.
Demand answers!
Call the local office of both of your state's U.S. senators and your member of the House of Reprehensibles and demand that these "public servants" explain to you why their bodies have authorized sending taxpayer money from the public treasury to ACORN.
In doing this, don't be put off by any explanation that it was only in the last few days that ACORN was shown to be trying to assist in the establishment of tax evading brothels to be staffed by underage illegal immigrant prostitutes. The organization has a long history of corruption with an extended and well documented history of involvement in election fraud that apparently didn't in the slightest deter our rulers from appropriating our money to it.
Demand answers!
How Bad Is It?
The economy is so bad that I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
The economy is so bad that CEOs now are playing miniature golf.
The economy is so bad if the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.
The economy is so bad Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.
The economy is so bad Obama met with three small businesses to discuss the Stimulus Package: GE, Pfizer, and Citigroup.
The economy is so bad McDonalds is selling the quarter ouncer.
The economy is so bad parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.
The economy is so bad a truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico.
The economy is so bad Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.
The economy is so bad people in Africa are donating money to Americans.
The economy is so bad Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.
The economy is so bad the Mafia is laying off judges.
The economy is so bad Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.
And, finally...
The economy is so bad Congress finally investigated the Bernard Madoff scandal.. (The guy who made $50 Billion disappear was investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!)
The economy is so bad that CEOs now are playing miniature golf.
The economy is so bad if the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.
The economy is so bad Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.
The economy is so bad Obama met with three small businesses to discuss the Stimulus Package: GE, Pfizer, and Citigroup.
The economy is so bad McDonalds is selling the quarter ouncer.
The economy is so bad parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.
The economy is so bad a truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico.
The economy is so bad Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.
The economy is so bad people in Africa are donating money to Americans.
The economy is so bad Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.
The economy is so bad the Mafia is laying off judges.
The economy is so bad Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.
And, finally...
The economy is so bad Congress finally investigated the Bernard Madoff scandal.. (The guy who made $50 Billion disappear was investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!)
The Sybiotic Relationship of Big Government and Corruption
Small government -- one limited in size and scope to what our country's founders contemplated and sought to provide for by the Constitution -- is likely to be clean and decent. It would not and could not do enough to make it worth buying.
Government swollen to what we have today inevitably breeds corruption simply because it is everywhere, doing everything and therefore very much worth influencing. Such a government always and everywhere inevitably will come to belong to those who one way or another can pay the most to buy control of it.
Government swollen to what we have today inevitably breeds corruption simply because it is everywhere, doing everything and therefore very much worth influencing. Such a government always and everywhere inevitably will come to belong to those who one way or another can pay the most to buy control of it.
A Law Too Far
Drivers on California's highways and byways can more often than not be observed to be using hand held cell phones despite a state law prohibiting them from doing so.
The law is being ignored or deliberately broken even though it is not a nanny state one such those requiring the use of seat belts and helmets -- cell phone use by motorists does adversely affect the safety of others on and along the roadways. Thus it is like the late (and unlamented) 55 mph speed limit, which also was commonly violated to the chagrin of would be rulers who arrogantly presume they can alter public behavior simply by enacting a law.
Those who pass such laws ignore the following bit of wisdom from Napoleon Bonaparte:
The law is being ignored or deliberately broken even though it is not a nanny state one such those requiring the use of seat belts and helmets -- cell phone use by motorists does adversely affect the safety of others on and along the roadways. Thus it is like the late (and unlamented) 55 mph speed limit, which also was commonly violated to the chagrin of would be rulers who arrogantly presume they can alter public behavior simply by enacting a law.
Those who pass such laws ignore the following bit of wisdom from Napoleon Bonaparte:
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
However, by so doing, feckless lawmakers actually serve the cause of freedom. Enacting foolish laws transforms normally law abiding individuals into outlaws. Widespread law breaking undoubtedly has a deleterious affect on society but coming to see themselves as outlaws is liberating for the law breakers -- they increasingly recognize and exercise their individual abilities to determine for themselves which laws deserve their respect and observance as well as those that do not.
Accordingly, lawmakers would do well to take into account both Napoleon's above-quoted maxim and its counterpart from Thomas Fuller:
Accordingly, lawmakers would do well to take into account both Napoleon's above-quoted maxim and its counterpart from Thomas Fuller:
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Health Care's Freedom Factor
Expanding the government's role in providing or paying for health care for the general public inevitably will lead to greater governmental intrusions into everyone's life because, as the saying correctly states: He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Nowhere is the truth of that saying better demonstrated that the enactment and enforcement of nanny state laws such as those requiring people traveling by automobile to wear seat belts and those on motorcycles to wear helmets. Those subject to these laws have lost the freedom to decide whether to take well advised steps to protect their physical well being. The laws are justified because individuals suffering injuries that could be avoided by wearing seat belts and helmets often are cared for at public expense -- therefore the public has a financial interest that justifies limiting the liberty of those who might choose to take the risk of suffering such injuries.
Similarly, if the government becomes responsible for providing or paying for our health care, it will determine that its interest in limiting that burden justifies increasing encroachments on, and control over every aspect of the lives of individual citizens that might adversely impact any individual's health.
Nowhere is the truth of that saying better demonstrated that the enactment and enforcement of nanny state laws such as those requiring people traveling by automobile to wear seat belts and those on motorcycles to wear helmets. Those subject to these laws have lost the freedom to decide whether to take well advised steps to protect their physical well being. The laws are justified because individuals suffering injuries that could be avoided by wearing seat belts and helmets often are cared for at public expense -- therefore the public has a financial interest that justifies limiting the liberty of those who might choose to take the risk of suffering such injuries.
Similarly, if the government becomes responsible for providing or paying for our health care, it will determine that its interest in limiting that burden justifies increasing encroachments on, and control over every aspect of the lives of individual citizens that might adversely impact any individual's health.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Extinguishing Private Health Insurance
Let's kill off all the private health insurance companies and here's the plan for doing so.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
They Call It Change but It's the Same Old Marxist Game Plan
Click on Image to Enlarge This 1934 Editorial Cartoon for ViewingTuesday, September 8, 2009
How Are We Doing?
"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."
Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775
Back Off the Cajuns
Everyone is always telling Boudreaux and Thibodeaux jokes, implying that Cajuns aren't smart.
Anybody who would build a city 10 feet below sea level, in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats . . . is a genius!
Anybody who would build a city 10 feet below sea level, in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats . . . is a genius!
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Mindful and the Mindless
The continuing financial crisis obviously is causing responsible people (and even some politicians) to focus on the situation. So, even in government, according to this report, some are coming to grips with reality. The financial crisis obviously is causing minds to focus.
At the same time though, as this other report shows, others -- probably a majority of the members of our political class -- clearly have no minds to focus.
At the same time though, as this other report shows, others -- probably a majority of the members of our political class -- clearly have no minds to focus.
What a (Government) Deal ! ! ! !
A vehicle getting 15 miles per gallon and traveling 12,000 miles per year uses 800 gallons of gasoline annually.
A vehicle getting 25 miles per gallon and traveling 12,000 miles per year uses 480 gallons a year.
So, the average clunker transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.
They claim 700,000 vehicles – so that's 224 million gallons a year.
That equates to a bit more than 5 million barrels of oil.
5 million barrels of oil is about 25% of one day's US consumption.
And, at $75 per barrel, 5 million barrels of oil costs about $350 million dollars.
So, we all contributed to spending $3 billion to save $350 million.
How good a deal was that ? ? ? ?
They'll probably do a great job with health care though!!
A vehicle getting 25 miles per gallon and traveling 12,000 miles per year uses 480 gallons a year.
So, the average clunker transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.
They claim 700,000 vehicles – so that's 224 million gallons a year.
That equates to a bit more than 5 million barrels of oil.
5 million barrels of oil is about 25% of one day's US consumption.
And, at $75 per barrel, 5 million barrels of oil costs about $350 million dollars.
So, we all contributed to spending $3 billion to save $350 million.
How good a deal was that ? ? ? ?
They'll probably do a great job with health care though!!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Norman Rockwell Must Be Rolling Over Instead of Amoulderin' in His Grave
Giving Narcissism a New Dimension
While Laboring Under Delusions of Adequacy
While Laboring Under Delusions of Adequacy
What "Free" Health Care Costs Candians
A Canadian newspaper has published this report on what Canadians pay for the "free" health care their government provides for them (if they survive the extended delays in getting it).
New Flash
Ted Kennedy and Michael Jackson now are eligible -- and have been registered -- to vote in Chicago.
Death Is Cost Effective: Another Report from the Annals of Government Health Care
London's Daily Telegraph has published a letter from group of experts who care for the terminally ill who claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.
In accordance with National Health Service guidelines introduced across England to help doctors and medical staffs in England can deal with dying patients by ceasing to provide fluid and drugs to such patients and putting them on continuous sedation until they pass away. The rub is that this approach also can mask signs of improvement in a patient's condition, according to the experts.
Consequently, the letter state, the scheme is causing a "national crisis" in patient care.The letter was signed by palliative care experts including Professor Peter Millard, Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics, University of London, Dr Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in Palliative Medicine at St Luke's cancer centre in Guildford, and four others.
"Forecasting death is an inexact science," they say. Patients are being diagnosed as being close to death "without regard to the fact that the diagnosis could be wrong.
"As a result a national wave of discontent is building up, as family and friends witness the denial of fluids and food to patients."
In accordance with National Health Service guidelines introduced across England to help doctors and medical staffs in England can deal with dying patients by ceasing to provide fluid and drugs to such patients and putting them on continuous sedation until they pass away. The rub is that this approach also can mask signs of improvement in a patient's condition, according to the experts.
Consequently, the letter state, the scheme is causing a "national crisis" in patient care.The letter was signed by palliative care experts including Professor Peter Millard, Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics, University of London, Dr Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in Palliative Medicine at St Luke's cancer centre in Guildford, and four others.
"Forecasting death is an inexact science," they say. Patients are being diagnosed as being close to death "without regard to the fact that the diagnosis could be wrong.
"As a result a national wave of discontent is building up, as family and friends witness the denial of fluids and food to patients."
Thuggish Is as Thuggish Does
The Obamapods keep describing town hall meeting as unruly mob scenes, but when mayhem erupted at a Thousand Oaks, California, demonstration an opponent of ObamaCare was the victim. The Associated Press reported:
Ventura County Sheriff's Capt. Frank O'Hanlon says about 100 people demonstrating in favor of health care reforms rallied Wednesday night on a street corner. One protester walked across the street to confront about 25 counter-demonstrators.
O'Hanlon says the man got into an argument and fist fight, during which he bit off the left pinky of a 65-year-old man who opposed health care reform.
The victim was treated at a local hospital where doctors still were able to reattach his finger without waiting for approval from a government oversight panel.
Ventura County Sheriff's Capt. Frank O'Hanlon says about 100 people demonstrating in favor of health care reforms rallied Wednesday night on a street corner. One protester walked across the street to confront about 25 counter-demonstrators.
O'Hanlon says the man got into an argument and fist fight, during which he bit off the left pinky of a 65-year-old man who opposed health care reform.
The victim was treated at a local hospital where doctors still were able to reattach his finger without waiting for approval from a government oversight panel.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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