HEALTH CARE ISSUE EXPLAINED TO THE HARD OF THINKING: Let's say you are sick, you have a potentially life threatening health problem. If you have money or good insurance, you live. If you are poor and have no insurance you die. I don't see the basis for a debate here, this is as good a way as any to get rid of the poor. We know the poor are a drag on us, they don't pay taxes so they contribute nothing for politicians to squander. They don't buy things so they don't help CEO's of major industries to buy another private jet or that coveted third Bently just in case one of the other two in the shop having it's ash trays emptied of Cuban cigar butts. Not to mention the fact that we have to avoid eye contact with them as they hold up thier pitifully unprofessionally printed cardboard signs at intersections. So where's the problem? Yeah, we will probably have to pay to bury them but that's the least we can do as a caring society.

I don't agree with Michael Moore very often even though he does have a nobel last name, but in his movie "Sicko" he interviews a doctor who I believe works in the UK. (I'm not going to sit through that damn movie again just to verify a few facts I can easily make up) This doctor is paid around $60,000 a year by the government. He owns a nice house, a nice car and says he is very comfortable but not rich. My doctor probably makes over $500,000 a year, has a 7000 sq foot house, a $100,000 car, a 50' yacht, and a decent 4000 sq ft cabin in the mountains. He also owns an interest in a couple of strip malls, three rental houses and a small 12 unit apartment building. Of course he has to charge $250 an hour for office visits of which he spends 5 minutes with you and his nurse, who is pulling down $12 an hour spends the other 55 minutes of your hour with you. He operated on me once and that was a $20,000 bill to my insurance company for his half hour of intense labor. So you can easily see the nations health care problem.

I was in the hospital overnight once, $16,000 for a bed, two meals an x-ray and an MRI, and my bad knee was acting up so I asked for something to wrap it with, the Ace bandage was $96. But hospitals are always asking for contributions and claiming to be losing money. Huh? Again the nations health care problem is obvious.


FAA MAY BAN LAPTOPS IN COCKPITS: After a recent incident with a Northwest Airlines plane, they missed their destination airport by 150 miles, the FAA may ban laptops in cockpits. Apparently the pilot and co-pilot of the flight in question were so engrossed in their computing they forgot to look out the window or answer their radio. A flight attendant did however look out the window and interrupted their computing long enought to tell the they missed the airport and were now over another state. I bet their faces were red.

GIANT MEATBALL STORY: No this isn't about Al Gore. A restaurant in Concord New Hampshire created a 222.5 pound meatball to set the world record. I don't have any idea if Al Gore ate it afterward, but it's possible.

Until next time...