Displaying 9,601 To 9,630 Of 9,743 Comments Cool I’ll check it out later. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 2, 2009 @ 11:27 pm You know Repugs always pick the last 2nd place loser. W was the only one who jumped the line because his name was Bush. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 2, 2009 @ 7:09 pm Maybe I should just boil it down to this. Repugs all lie and all cheat all of the time. Some Dems lie and some dems cheat some of the time. Some Dems lie and cheat all of the time. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 2, 2009 @ 1:30 pm It seems to me like we have three parties now. You have Republicans that are 100% corporate and you have two types of Dems. One more progressive wing and one wing of corporate Dems. I think it’s unfair to put Kucinich in the same boat as head of the “Blue Dogs” Ross. Or Sherrod Brown in the same boat as Nelson. I don’t even view the Democratic leadership the same. No way is Pelosi the same as Reid. The point is the only way to get more progressives in congress is for congress to succeed with legislation like universal healthcare with a public option. We all know what we are up against fighting corporate interests. But I don’t accept that as an excuse to stop fighting. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 2, 2009 @ 12:57 pm You are preaching to the choir. There is simply no value added with private healthcare insurance, none. All they add is cost. Ironically their is value added in supplemental insurance which many people on Medicare and VA care have. But only because if you want more than traditional coverage you should have to pay a premium for it. I fear with healthcare reform it’s now or never. History will repeat itself and Dems will lose congress in 2010 and have more losses on 2012 if they don’t pass healthcare. Romney will be the RNC candidate for sure the way they work and we will end up with Romneycare which is far worse than a public option. I know there are allot of ifs but reform needs to take it’s first big step now. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 2, 2009 @ 2:56 am Godspeed to the folks that are in the way of the fires. I just can’t imagine what they are going through. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 31, 2009 @ 7:35 pm I’m a scientist which makes me a skeptic. I even went into the climate change theory debate with a little bit of intuitive bias because while CO2 levels have doubled recently they are still relatively low. It’s like if you compare an ant and an elephant even if you add another ant the elephant won’t be affected by the additional ant. But I still researched much of the data in the public domain. I took me years and years to drop enough of my skepticism about climate change (which is a much more appropriate name than global warming) theory to accept it as a consistent theory. I still am open to new data and counter arguments but I have not seen anything that has come along yet to shake my scientific acceptance of the theory. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 31, 2009 @ 7:34 pm Cheney Says Torture Investigation “Offends The Hell Out Of Me” That’s right I’m fiddy cent. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 2, 2009 @ 6:48 pm See I knew you would catch that as well. 😀 » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 2, 2009 @ 6:29 pm AdLib you’re witty enough too. But I was referring to Q’s post. :snark: » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 2, 2009 @ 1:36 pm 😆 I don’t know what I would do without your wit. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 2, 2009 @ 2:46 am 😆 » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 30, 2009 @ 7:27 pm Nobody, nobody did damage to Americas’ reputation around the world than Dick Cheney. All the criminal behavior from the illegal Iraq war to torture started and ended with Cheney. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 30, 2009 @ 5:50 pm I know what you mean. There simply is no boundaries at all for right wing politicians to stop playing politics with every situation. Fucquis Chenem Diquat is definitely the king of that type of politics. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 30, 2009 @ 1:48 pm Still pretty low 15-20%. I’ve had some renal insufficiency as well but I’ve gone on O2 again at night and increased the dose of my diuretic which seems to have helped. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 30, 2009 @ 8:56 pm People are so simple minded in this country when I see someone say “single payer now” I just want to slap them because they make solving all the problems in our healthcare system sound like a solution you can put on a bumper sticker. Like you said not having enough PCPs is a huge problem and having doctors in debt is a huge problem. One reason France is the best healthcare system in the world is because doctors do not pay tuition. So obviously they don’t have the burden to make money like our doctors do. The other thing is delivery is being overemphasized in this debate. How the money is delivered to providers is the main problem we have with access but not all the problems we have with cost. Provider costs are a much bigger problem. Sure we should take profit and overhead costs out of our insurance delivery but that’s just the beginning. People also have no idea how much our mentality and culture needs to change for us to lower healthcare costs. We live in a society with minimal preventative medicine and wellness care. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 30, 2009 @ 8:51 pm We are making our reforms far too late. If we had made our reforms in the 60’s and 70’s like every other industrialized country did we would have a change of reform in one step. Now our problems are so thick it’s like peeling an onion. We can’t financially make all the reforms at once so instead we have to start peeling the onion. That’s the reason I don’t buy the argument that no reform is better than what some people call real reform. Because it’s going to take multiple iterations to fix the system. Kalima might attest to this as well but the more I look at the Japanese healthcare system the more I see how they reformed their system in steps because they started relatively late as well. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 30, 2009 @ 8:07 pm Yup adriamycine was the specific chemo drug that did the most damage but radiation didn’t help either. They still use it but they changed the protocol and added another drug to help mitigate the toxic effects of that specific drug. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 30, 2009 @ 1:59 pm Interesting life story. I knew you were my fellow formally trained sciency geek. I’ve personally seen a big change in the expertise level of primary care physicians and access to your PCP. When I lived in FL I had two very good PCPs the first one was the doctor who early diagnosed my lymphoma. But since I’ve been in GA I’ve had four PCPs. I had a good one at first but he moved his practice and I got this one PCP just out of residency. Even though she did chest X-rays she never diagnosed my enlarged heart, only my pneumonia. I cannot even be too tough on her because when I first went to the ER they mis-diagnosed my heart failure again. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 30, 2009 @ 10:13 am Cheers AdLib I’ll have to check it out later. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 30, 2009 @ 9:59 am I know this will sound morbid but you know what really implies we are becoming a banana republic; how many people died in Hurricane Katrina? The government does not even knows the exact number and most people probably don’t have a clue how many people tragically lost their lives. Based on wiki over 1,836 people died due to Katrina and the floods after Katrina I bring this up for two reasons. First that number of deaths is totally unacceptable for an advanced nation. Face it there was no plan to keep the people safe. Second and worse in a way if you can’t even count the dead anymore that is a major breakdown in our society. Only third world countries can’t count how many people die in such tragedies. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 29, 2009 @ 4:42 pm Me too. 😀 I agree. I don’t want to get into it more because it’s not worth it but I would like to see several of the folks who left FRT that were looking for a real alternative to HP come over here whether they left a while ago or just recently. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 29, 2009 @ 4:25 pm The media is a great part of our problem. All they want to cover is the latest outrage. But after a while even if that outrage is still happening they just drop it. I mean think about it. A major American city died and is not a semblance of it once was. Can you imagine that happening after the San Fran earthquake/fire or the Chicago fire? The root root of all our problems is we have an economy based on non-sustainable wealth growth. Government simply does not take in enough tax receipts to be effected after the Raygun presidency. CA use to be a progressive state and ahead of the rest of the nation until Prop 13 was passed and it’s had financial problems ever since. The relatively low high end tax rates just promotes greed and accumulation of wealth. What people never talk about is that if you can have capital just making more capital with very limited tax implications you are just going have an economy based on changing money. If you tax dead end wealth creation investors will start investing in businesses again to make money because due to the structure of businesses, especially manufacturing businesses you can gain real capital and have tax advantages that help society like tax credits for investing in green energy. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 29, 2009 @ 3:51 pm 😆 I don’t know. You can probably make a good argument on my last main post that art and culture changes our perception of reality more than science. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 29, 2009 @ 3:29 pm I love the GL. I was not a big comic book fan but now one of my zen releases is Anime. You’ve got to have things that get your mind off your condition. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 29, 2009 @ 2:42 pm Sorry I just thought you were responding to my last post but it’s my bad because it was in the thread and pertinent to all I had said. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 29, 2009 @ 1:52 pm Actually writing posts are therapeutic. Blogging can be filled with unnecessary stress if I let it stress me. I have had some more trouble breathing of late and some renal insufficiently so I’m back on O2 again at night and had to up the dose on my diuretic. It affected my ability to get to sleep for the last few weeks which starts the death spiral if I don’t address it. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 29, 2009 @ 1:30 pm I’m not going to attack your opinion. But I’m tired of the hyperbole of some others. You have every right to state your opinion. I just never thought things were going to be that easy to fix overnight and I also never bought into the right wing lies that the president was a socialist and wanted to end capitalism. Half the things I hear people complaining about are things the president never promised like ending the war in Afghanistan, not bailing out the banks and implementing single payer. So disappointment is all based on what you thought he stood for in my opinion. Most of all I still support the vast majority of what the president has accomplished and is trying to accomplish. No one is going to stop the bad behavior of corporations until people grow up like AdLib’s last post said. BTW your post also shows why it’s become difficult to post over there as well. I did not even mention anything about the president in my previous post did I? But you felt like you had to give me your opinion about him anyway. Almost every time I leave a post over there it’s like I’ve become the whipping boy for how some others feel about the president. I get all these response that have nothing to do with I posted from people. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 29, 2009 @ 1:23 pm Thanks at least I get to express my opinion without all the drama. I don’t want to go into it too much but just because I have not been feeling too well and have not blogged somewhere else for a few days was not reason for people to be presumptuous and post what they thought I was thinking and worse examined my intentions. I almost feel like I was de facto banned. I just don’t feel well enough for all the drama now. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 29, 2009 @ 12:33 pm The real said part is that since Bush did nothing to build the city it’s really too late. There was a window of opportunity to bring people back to New Orleans but that time has passed. I wish President Obama would do more but with so much other shit on his plate it’s just one of those things that falls through the cracks. While we are at it where is the fucking replacement for the WTC? Eight years after 911 and all we have at ground zero is a big fucking hole. Again we let the fucking terrorists win because of our own ineptitude. Until I am proven wrong I still don’t think our country can do shit anymore. Even when Republicans are out of power they bring such negativity and divisiveness to this country nothing is getting done. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On August 29, 2009 @ 10:43 amComments Posted By KQµårk 死神
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