I can't believe that Tom Coburn is a

Doctor! However I can count on him to weigh in on something he knows nothing about the - Shiavo controversy!

From the NY Times today

Doctors in Congress

an excerpt -
There are 12 medical doctors, 3 dentists, and 3 nurses in Congress, and most did not publicly invoke their medical experience during the Schiavo debate. Among them was Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma and a family practice doctor, who said in an interview, "I don't think you have to examine her. All you have to do is look at her on TV. Any doctor with any conscience can look at her and know that she does not have a terminal disease and know that she has some function.""

He is a terminal twit!

Entitlement Programs and Bush

I don't understand how Democrats oppose cuts in Medicaid calling for a commission to study it - there will not be cuts and the 2.5 Billion deficit rolls on!! 2.5 BILLION per DAY! $2,500,000,000.00!

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=21459

Either contributions Taxes increase or Benefits decrease or both - but if nothing is done America will be a has been debtor nation - with all leaving for more reasonable and hospitable countries.

Lament about Books on Tape

My first entry on a blog was about how much I love to listen to Books on Tape and how much I have learned over the years - on the 35 minutes to and from Florham Park to Clifton NJ! - MacArthur - Stonewall - Napoleon - A.O. Wilson - WWII deck hand on a cruiser in the Pacific - All of Sandburg on Lincoln and so on - well Books on Tape no longer rents books - they sugget you go to Audible http://audible.com ( I forgot how to do the link short cut trick - something like Shift + Control + A - but of course it only works sometimes.) Not so easy to understand - i purchased and Apple Mini Ipod 4Gig to listen to books - but there is more to doing it than just sitting and making a phone call - more to blog about tmw - pbh

Karen Hughes - Whistle Blowers - Private Accounts

Between this latest appointment -

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/brandnewday/archives/00000044.htm

The problems at the government agency designated to protect whistle blowers is now ude to a Bush appointee - a problem and concern it self.

http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?sectionid=1&id=6050

The above a two for link - good article and morons.org is looking for writers - I bet the pay is negligible.

I had three to post on today - the third is in the bald local blog a sphere - aha! remembered Bush ans Social Security! Private accounts! Are they an add on on or carved out of what we have already!

Two make this right - a high GAO officer testifying before H. of R. Ways and Means committee said in Today's dollars it is a 3.7 TRILLION $ problem - as an aside he mentioned that since he was there to talk about SS he would not say more about Medicare and Medicade except to say that that problem is a 25.0 TRILLION $ problem - in other words - the real gorilla.

Interesting exchange document on Fox's site:

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,150486,00.html

and from the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/15/opinion/15krugman.html

Health & Apple

I have been out of pocket for a bit. On 2/22/05 9am I had a stent implaced in the LAD of my heart - was 99% blocked - now zero blocked and I was only in one night. An incredible wonder. And I feel more alive - more energy etc. Hast la vista, Dios si lo permite. Gracias a Dios. y Dios te bendiga