Rock On -Friday Thoughts

We'll only get good health care legislation when Congress is required to use the same system as the rest of us.

Global warming is here to stay until the onset of the next ice age. Let's put our efforts into how to work with the coming changes. For instance stop development in low lying coastal areas and think about getting some banana plantations started in Montana.
Caution: Wonk article

Spring is coming to the South. Yeaaaaa.

Watch this and smile.

Medal of Honor recipient Col. Robert L. Howard dies at 70

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012204550.html

It's All About Expectations

Wheel Chair Fencing

Help our get some TV coverage for fencing on the local news by going to the link below and clicking a link on that webpage.   Choose the Paralympic Fencing Program. Get all your friends to vote for it too.  Even if they don't live here.   Thanks,

 

http://www.wapt.com/surveyresults/22636977/index.html?taf=jac

I've Been Ahead of My Time

Taking an Afternoon Nap Makes You Smarter, Study Finds - Neurology | Alzheimer's Disease | Stroke - FOXNews.com

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It Makes You Happy

The Model T has new brakes and new gear bands. Starts and stops. That's a good thing.

Health Insurance Rates

This comes under the Duh! heading. Insurance companies are increasing their rates because healthier people are opting out thereby leaving the more costly, less healthy seeking insurance. Doesn't it stand to reason that if insurance companies were free to compete in all states that low cost leaders would emerge and more people (healthy & unhealthy) would seek coverage if the rates were more affordable so in the process the risk pool would expand and the insurance companies could remain profitable? Free the insurance companies to compete and let time and market forces make the adjustments in the best interest of consumers.

Or... spend more tax money to support an inefficient system.
Here's a really wonky but in depth report.

End of the week thoughts.

The Olympics....no do overs here. All or nothing. Hats off to all competitors, trainers & supporters.

Tiger Woods. Who? Oh yeah, rich guy with family problems. And why should I care???

A disturbed guy flies a small plane into a building. Watch the big brother types try to call for tighter regulation of general aviation aircraft. Over reaction predicted.

Apple iTunes store censoring apps that are deemed too risque due to complaints from users. Why are those being offended downloading those apps??? Why is iTunes gutless?

Over 60 degrees here today. Ya hoo!

Snowed in in Mississippi

Tried to go to Wyoming for Valentine's Day. Was concerned about the weather out there for travel. Didn't plan on getting snowed in  here.

The Little Death

Enough said.

92 Caddie vs 95 Buick

On the way to work today someone stopped in their lane decided to pull out into my lane. Ouch! 6000lbs. vs 3200lbs. A lesson in physics if not patience.

Gerard Alexander: Why are liberals so condescending?

Caution, heavy reading.

Gerard Alexander

The Food Chain

Hey! You! Taking the pictures! A little help maybe?

Ford

A friend sent me this. It's worth looking at:  FORD

Ford outdid themselves with this commercial. It looks like Ford is perhaps the only U.S. automaker that is not asking for a bailout or a handout at this time. They have now come up with a timely and heartwarming product commercial that would make Henry Ford proud of the company he founded in 1903.

6 Days Left

Global Warming Alert

It seems that a couple of years ago someone in the government decided that the tens of thousands of asthmatics in this country were depleting the ozone layer by using their Albuterol inhalers.

Who Dat Dog

Dogs are great.

Check out this one.

The Winners Are:

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners:

There Is A God.

Bless her heart.
Jaywalking candidate.

Who's That Avatar?

Check it out.

The Digerati

Here's the quote:

"Those Americans who resist the demands of the technological revolution will become the leisured class of the next century. These masters of the good life will not be the owners of cell phones. The'll be owners of everyone else's cell phone number"
 -Froma Harrop

Here's the source:

Welcome

"Don't kick a fresh turd on a warm day."

-Harry S. Truman

Don't know if anyone reads this or cares. That said, it's a good place to get things off my chest. Enjoy the ride friends.