Words to Ponder
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. -Eric Hoffer
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. -Anaïs Nin
Obesity Tsunami
More than half a billion people, or one in 10 adults worldwide, are obese -- more than double the number in 1980. Obesity-related diseases account for nearly 10 percent of U.S. medical spending or an estimated $147 billion a year.
Except for smoking, obesity is now the number one preventable cause of death in this country. Three hundred thousand people die of obesity every year.
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Category Archives: Politics
New Rules Patriot Edition | Nov 14 2008 | Bill Maher
Last night was the HBO Real Time season finale with Bill Maher. He ends with his new rules. If you are easily offended than you probably don’t want to watch.
A Week Later
Sorry for my absence but boy what a week it was! The end to the nastiest election I have seen in my lifetime. We had a few days to bask in the victory of President Elect Obama, and watch the … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Politics, Travel, Weather
Tagged 2008 election, Barack Obama, Poco, Sarah Palin
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Fitting Quote on Election Day
"I look forward to a great future for America, a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. . . . And I … Continue reading
I’m Not Making This Up
The night before the election the phone is ringing and the flyers are being delivered. On the Democratic side the phone calls are from a real person and the flyer put on the front door handle is hung by a … Continue reading
The Cellphone Effect
I nabbed this from Nate Silver over at FiveThirtyEight if you haven’t checked out his site you should, Electoral Projections done right. These are Barack Obama’s leads in the likely voter models presently included in the Real Clear Politics average, … Continue reading
Hello from Maryland
Greetings from Maryland. I made good time driving out here on Saturday, 525 miles in 8 hours with only one pit stop. From MI, OH, PA and then into the Maryland the fall colors were spectacular! Too bad I can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Rants and Rages
Tagged 2008 election, Barack Obama, General Colin Powell, John McCain, Poco
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Tuesday Random Thoughts
Three weeks can’t get here soon enough for me. I am tired of the news focusing ONLY on the election and the economic bailout. I am beginning to feel disconnected from the world. Case in point…the California wildfires which merits … Continue reading
Campaign Quote of the Day
Sen. John McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis said he sees no reason why McCain or his staff should comment regularly on the declining stock market, saying that he doesn’t know what they would say. “It doesn’t mean we don’t care … Continue reading
What if Romney…..?
There is one thing conspicuously missing from my white GOP neighborhood this election…..SIGNS in peoples front yards supporting their candidate. The previous 2 elections they were plentiful, the majority for Bush but a decent amount for the Democratic candidate. Yet … Continue reading
Debate Night
Is it asking too much for a clean debate tonight? We’re all tired of the BS Sarah Palin has been peddling since the weekend accusing Barak Obama of being a terrorist. Do you think we’re all that damn stupid? Obama … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics, Rants and Rages
Tagged 2008 election, AIP, Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin
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