Displaying 19,351 To 19,380 Of 19,504 Comments In fact, why not fill the hot tub with it and invite some friends over? » Posted By AdLib On September 1, 2009 @ 11:00 pm Do both! You can fill the tub with it then get out and have a Chanel Mojito! » Posted By AdLib On September 1, 2009 @ 10:54 pm BTW, was just at Costco and they had a generic brand of Chanel perfume that comes in a wine box. Interested? » Posted By AdLib On September 1, 2009 @ 9:03 pm I am open to having a public plan for violent and sexy birthday party clowns. » Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2009 @ 6:40 pm I like my healthcare like I like my children’s birthday party clowns, violent and sexy. » Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2009 @ 2:11 pm First, appreciate the first hand POV on this and may I say, very impressed with the many sides of Questinia! It seems to be a system that has been indirectly remade out of neglect and greed then intentionally engineered to become what it is now. I remember way back that it was often said being a specialist is where you make the money. I also remember, from a patient’s standpoint, how doctors were stepping away from GP and becoming specialists. I’ve been fortunate to have PPOs but I’ve known that those in HMOs had to do the Multi-Doctor-Shuffle, mandated to go to a GP first then only being able to go to a specialist if referred by that doctor and the HMO. As you say, the GP was forced to act as more of a screener for the “real” doctors. The key revelation from the documentary for me was the insurance companies flipping from a policy of denying treatments to a policy of embracing treatments (which generated more revenue all the way around) and in doing so, escalated the raising of deductibles and premiums to cover their costs for doing so…and creating skyrocketing profits in that way. Sure wish I could get a client to pay me handsomely to provide a service then when it comes time to provide that service, the client has to pay for most or all of the cost of providing that service. (In a bad Russian accent) America, what a country! BTW, I don’t know that any of the reforms being considered will address this critical issue. As the documentary mentions and as would seem to be common sense, if GPs were paid on a par with specialists and were as plentiful and strong as their counterparts, their POV on patients would seem to be far better, seeing a variety of patients, conditions and treatments, than specialists who are experienced and focused in a much narrower field. If I have a severe problem in a specific area of medicine, I would go to a specialist first. But if I didn’t know what was causing an issue, an experienced , quality GP would be my first stop. It really isn’t so complicated to get this right and pay GPs like all other doctors so there’s not a disincentive to become one. I mean, come on, it’s not exactly brain surgery. » Posted By AdLib On August 30, 2009 @ 5:06 pm Great, I think you’ll really appreciate it. » Posted By AdLib On August 30, 2009 @ 4:44 pm Add to all the above that the strategy seems to be to hold off on everything that may be controversial until health care is past. ALl the changes we want and voted for seem held hostage to passing health reform and the longer it drags on, the longer the status quo stays entrenched. » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 2:13 pm I’m a bit pessimistic about politicians changing the doomed course the nation is on but at the same time, I still have the hope that people can step up as they did to elect Obama. I know FDR grew in office to become who he became. Maybe Obama will as well. His “get-along” and compromise approach with a party that only wants him to fail is making him look weak. Hopefully, as September rolls on, he will show that he has learned from his mistakes and misplaced priorities. Bipartisanship is secondary, what’s best for the American people is primary. » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 2:11 pm Whoa! Address it, man! I agree, writing has always been therapeutic for me too. Though I wouldn’t say no to a home jacuzzi. Sleep deprivation and the breathing issues, that’s a tough double header. Wanted to share with you a quote from a Green Lantern comic book, many years ago when I was a kid, it really stuck with me. GL was cornered and overwhelmed and said to himself, “A man who won’t be beaten, can’t be beaten.” He then of course overcame his foe/situation. Kind of zen-like for a comic book back then and IMO, true. If one does not accept defeat, one can’t be defeated. If only Al Gore had read that Green Lantern comic book American history would have turned out very different. » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 2:05 pm Sorry you’re not feeling well, hard to tell with all the great pieces you keep generating. Feel better, my friend. » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 1:00 pm Hey! Ya beat me to it!!! » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 11:41 am LOL! BTW, FWIW & FYI ROFLOL. IOW, VG. CU! » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 11:39 am The Kids Are Alright…except Tommy. But he got better. I think keeping the child inside us alive is wonderful and critical to being a healthy, creative and constructive person. And loving, who loves more fully and completely than a child? However, I don’t appreciate people who don’t grow up and act like children. Like those saying hateful things instead of “Nya-Nya” over health care. Bratty little kids that deserve a serious time out. Sounds like you’ve been on the right side of the age thing your whole life, lucky you! Keep it up!!! I’ll tell you a sobering moment for me, the first time a 20-something called me “sir”. Ouch! And I was wearing my Hannah Montana t-shirt and everything! Life like totally sucks sometimes, you know?!!! » Posted By AdLib On September 9, 2009 @ 11:15 pm As a fellow Arianna anti-fan, I would add that she made a very cynical political calculation when she did a complete 180 and became a liberal Democrat. Whether the Dems came to power or not, she saw a vacuum on the Liberal/Dem talking head side, liked the whole Hollywood and celebrity hook up it entailed and became the poseur she is today. There is more genuine outrage in an Astroturf town hall protester than I see in Arianna whenever she expresses herself. Being a liberal talking head is a means to an end for her and it has succeeded in making her a wealthy celebrity with the most popular faux liberal site on the web. » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 2:31 pm The absurdity of the corrupt banking system. In any other time than the derivative scam period, if you had money, you could get loans. If you didn’t have money, you couldn’t get loans…except credit cards with astronomical interest rates. So what is the bottom line? Banks will indeed lend to people who don’t have money but not at reasonable rates or by putting the cash in their hands which they could use to pay off more expensive debts. They instead only deliver “loans” when people buy things. See the social engineering here? And the Fico scores should be illegal because they are a key part of the enforcement of debt, just as you so rightly say. If you’ve been an extra-responsible person who pays as they go and hasn’t built up credit card debt, your FICO score is low. If you pay off your home loan, your FICO goes down. SO being responsible and spending within your means? You’re being a bad American! » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 2:26 pm So you may have an issue with the Goochy Fransh Perfyume I bought for you at great expense? » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 11:34 am You are a remarkable person KQ who talks the talk and walks the walk. Not to brag but just to illustrate how being an adult who reasons pays off, after 9/11 when the stock market crashed and only speculators profited while most Americans lost much of what they had, I decided never again to allow those weasels to rob me. So I switched over my 401k/IRAs only into T-Bill/Money market products. When this economic crisis hit, I didn’t lose any savings. I was content not to make huge returns in exchange for confidence that I would never lose principal again. The stock market is such a scam. The wealthy, corporate execs, board members and other insiders all trade info and make a fortune by buying and selling accordingly. And where does the money come from that becomes their profits? The public who trustingly invests in the stock market as if it is a legit enterprise. » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 11:20 am I had to clean my screen after the perfume bit! What I find absurdly annoying are the generations of right wing conservative teens who complete the cycle of being taught abstinence only, get pregnant, have babies, explain that abstinence doesn’t work then being paid off to tour the nation promoting the benefits of abstinence only. I suppose the benefits are primarily getting hired to deliver propaganda after becoming a teen mom. If you’re the daughter of an arctic politician, of course. » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 10:26 am Happy belated birthday! KQuark just celebrated his birthday too. BTW, as to your looking younger than your father, you wouldn’t happen to have a painting in your attic of yourself, would you? » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 9:55 am Not to mention, the proof is in the pudding and you can lead a horse to water but the paint on a Chinese manufactured toy train must be lead. If we left it up to individuals to figure things out for themselves, we’d be using all of our nation’s resources to confirm the story of Noah’s Ark. » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 9:52 am Very cool. There is a satisfaction to gaining perspective and wisdom as you get older and realize your younger self didn’t know as much as you thought you did. I mean, if I had, would I have worn my hair like that? » Posted By AdLib On August 29, 2009 @ 9:24 am The Case of the Abandoned Shopping Carts Gracias, Senorita! » Posted By AdLib On August 28, 2009 @ 6:18 pm Not only do I know that secretary, I know the Rear Admiral. » Posted By AdLib On August 28, 2009 @ 4:58 pm Can I tell ya somethin’? At least it ain’t Cream O’ Wheat. » Posted By AdLib On August 28, 2009 @ 4:57 pm I couldn’t forget them anymore than I could the Garbage Engineers Retirement Brigade of Illinois (GERBIL). » Posted By AdLib On August 28, 2009 @ 11:57 am I thought that Milk of Magnesia was just milk that kept you from forgetting who you were. Now I’m really confused…I need another tall frosty glass of Haleys! » Posted By AdLib On August 28, 2009 @ 11:55 am Now that’s the real “Mother’s Little Helper”. And the good thing with having kids is, if you run out of Valium you can always buy more from them. » Posted By AdLib On August 28, 2009 @ 11:53 am As a parent with a 6 year old, I have been and am around a lot of parents and what is indeed disappointing about some parents is their lack of resolve and/or maturity. Some of them far too often defer to their little children, allowing them to misbehave and in doing so, passively endorse a selfish and inconsiderate sensibility. Sometimes it’s out of exhaustion, sometimes out of wanting to be a “best friend” and not have their child mad at them and sometimes because they lose perspective that they are a parent who has both the control and duty to teach their child responsibility and other important traits so they will be a happy, successful and well-liked adult. As with architecture, you can only build a stable structure on a solid base. If you don’t do that as a parent, you can’t complain later when your child leaves a shopping cart in your driveway next to your emptied wallet. » Posted By AdLib On August 28, 2009 @ 8:11 am Absolutely, kids! And they’re always on my lawn no matter how much I yell at them in a crotchety John McCain way to get off of it. And their crazy hair and that loud music too. Why, I feel like shaking my fist in the air all morning, after my stomach settles down from that big bowl of Wheatina. » Posted By AdLib On August 28, 2009 @ 7:50 amComments Posted By AdLib
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