The Affordable Care Act Simply is Not Workable

Let me just cherry pick a few topics to post- - since there is still not much going on anyhow even after two days “off” from blogging.  The Affordable Care Act is toast.  Now there are up to a hundred million Americans who will be losing the health care insurance they like now, which is a far cry from the official 1.6% or whatever.  Judy reminds us that the system Obama has set up inherently CAN’T work.  Because any coverage a health care provider does not WANT to include but the government says the MUST inherently is going to jack up rates sky high- - so we get all of these 100% rate hikes.  Of course you now have old people buying maternity care and young people getting coverage for an elective hip replacement surgery.  And as Judy points out- - everybody has to take the drugs.  Judy points out that the figure for a cholesterol that was “too high” used to be 240, and that’s the figure I remember from long ago, but now that figure has been taken down to 190, and eight of the ten people on the FDA board are drug company spokesmen, making an obvious conflict of interest.  There is a whole new class of medications that I never heard of.  They are supposed to strengthen your bones in the case of osteo perosis.  But as Judy points out they do cause more bone hardening deposits, but only do it by not allowing the body to replace old (or dead?) bone with new “green” bone, and hence the bones become very brittle and break even more easily than before.  Of course Judy points out that we don’t even HAVE “health care” in this country.  We have crisis care, and if you have a symptom they just give you some drug for it and never dig to the bottom of what’s causing the actual problem.  Of course Judy says that any program designer could have designed a system at one tenth of the cost, that would work ten times as well.  President Obama promised us a new and reinvigorated web site roll out as of yesterday, but that didn’t happen.  Now more and more provisions of the Affordable Care act are being delayed and even liberals are getting fed up with the whole thing and realize that in its present form it will never work.  Also Meet the Press had some Catholic clergy on- - who stated that the Catholic Church used to be in the forefront of pushing for some sort of universal Health Care.  But if they are then going to say that a fetus by government mandate has to be destroyed,  Obama may have just blown a relation with the best friend on the subject he ever had.   There seemed to be a “Trash Obama” spirit in general on ‘Meet the Press” and now they say an agreement with Karzai fell through.  And also they are saying that Iran has made it plain to one and all that they have no intention of ever giving up Uranium enrichment or closing down any of their many centrafuges, which continually opporate overtime.  My hope is that new democrats running for congress next year would not be tarred with this general anti Obama brush (pardon the racial allusions) but would be judged by their own words spoken in their own campaigns- - and their own programs they propose.

Apparently November 29^th was the twelfth anniversary of George Harrison’s death and they played a lot of his songs including “Long, Long, Long Time”, “Not Guilty” (Anthology Version)  “Run of the Mill”, “Dark Horse”, “Simply Shady” , “Beware of Darkness”, “Don’t Let Me Wait too Long”, and “Blow Away”.   They played seven in a row of Mc Cartney- and the last song I heard was “Big Barn Bed”.   I’m going to be even harder on John than Chris Carter was when it comes to the composition of “In My Life”.  Paul Mc Cartney wrote the entire tune- - and most of the lyrics.  It was origionally John’s idea to write that kind of a nausgalgia song, but he didn’t get that far with it without Paul taking over.  They played side one and two of the American Rubber Soul album, whose anniversary is upon us.   We had lasagna for lunch and garlic bread and squash.  I got more lasagna from Teresa and even more when the seconds tray made it all the way around the room.  We had a banana for desert.

Here is another cherry picked topic.  From 8:30 to nine they replayed the Casey Kason top ten review or whatever of December first 1984.   This spawned a lot of interest in me of the cosmic origens of those groups.  As of now- - besides the many “cover groups” where the “Phill Collens group” has taken over other groups including “Behind the Sun”, “August” and “Journeyman” by EC, and some Foreigner stuff, and all three Don Hendley albums from the eighties, and that “Yes” album - - and obviously Phil Collins, other groups that are cosmically of the same origen are “Wham”, “Lover Boy”, “Hall and Oata”, “REO Speedwagon” and “Duran Duran”.   However originally I heard an even longer list, but the others on that list are from an outfit called the “Karn-Evils”, and obviously that term has been around a long time.  They are also called the “Bernadines”.   These groups include Eddie Money, Billy Squire,  J Guiles Band,  Maurie Head, Joan Jett.    This is the gamma star in “Aquilla” - - and it really is the third star in magnitude, and possibly the first time we have ever spoken of a “gamma” or third in order star.  The name of the star is “swooping falcoln” or something - - Tarzed or something.   Now we have corrections and modifications.  "Susie and the Banchees" and 'Pat Benetar' are both Agathenian groups.  And Gary Numan, Missing Persons, and "She Blinded Me with Science" are Berliners, as we define it.  Actually all of this stellar classification of rock groups even gets tedious for me.

This is a warm and sunny December 1, 2013 and I did not type yesterday.   However I did have the computer on yesterday morning for the Chris Matthews show.  It was kind of “the tea party’s greatest hits of 2013”.    Right now Houston and New England are playing, a game that doesn’t exactly strike my fancy.  As you might know the Houston Rockets are a federation team but the Houston Texans are not.  Last night at Mom’s I was getting warm in there and [name withheld] opened up the back door- - because we needed the cool air.  I’m glad to see that it really was warmer yesterday evening and not just my imagination.  Wendy had expressed interest in the USC and UCLA game but when I suggested we turn the game on about 6:30 you can just cue up the crickets sound effects.  When I got home about 8:20 the UCLA Bruins had just one and were slapping each other on the back.  The score was something like 33 to 14 or something over USC and it represents the first back to back win for UCLA in I don’t know how many years.  It was just before nine this morning I turned on Neil of KFI and they had some “Dynovite’ petfood commercial and I thought maybe I had the wrong station.  But Neil came on with a few closing words wanting to remind us that God has had no new words or message for the human race in the past 1700 years.  What this means is that a hand full of theologians will decide, of the words they accept of God- - just HOW the rest of us should live by their (the clerics) edict,  since they seem to be the ones entrusted to God’s secrets.  Therefore any message from anywhere where it’s claimed that it comes from God- - is viewed with the highest suspicion of Neil and Co.

Well I’ll say this- -  Thanksgiving meal would have flunked the Chef Ramsey test easily.  First of all they were hyping us to go down there at ten after like we couldn’t wait another second.  This in itself puzzled me knowing their propensity to delay.  And delay they did.  There was a “prayer before the meal” but the meal wasn’t forthcoming.  There was endless talk about what a wonderful place [this place] was to live and how wonderful the staff here was. They talked on and on for a half hour till twenty to twelve.  Marcia sang “To Sir with Love” and Marcia and Mary Jane sang “Heroes”.   We got our coffee and I new there was a definite problem when we got our coffee at twenty till, and the creamer didn’t dissolve.  The coffee was stone cold.  We did not get the rest of our meal till four or five to twelve.  The turkey was just scrappy pieces- - with kind of a watery flavor and kind of salty.  Personally I think the person that invented “brimming” turkeys ought to be hung, assuming that’s what they did.  There were mashed potatoes.  One problem.  Real mashed potatoes like you get it home, actually taste like potatoes.  It was mixed vegetables- - my least favorite of any vegetable.  We didn’t have any cranberry sauce at all.  And why do they insist here on serving this actually “mushy” or is it just “mush” turkey stuffing.  Dressing ought to be a whole lot dryer than this stuff.  If there were any green Jell-O on the plate, it would have been the best thing on the plate.  As it was, any salad at all would have improved this meal.  The only redeeming thing about this meal was the pumpkin pie and a drizzle of whipped cream, which fortunately was served promptly.  That got the taste of the rest of the meal out of my mouth and I could leave.  Once again it was warm mid day with blue skies and pretty cirrus clouds to look at.  I went to coffee in the courtyard both in the morning and in the afternoon.  They had the dog show on NBC as is their custom on Thanksgiving.  The Macy’s parade turns me off with all that commercial glitz and hype.