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Some Seriously Silly Stuff

2011-12-14T13:01:00.002-05:00

Like a toddler having a melt down, our nation really needs a "time out" for Some Serious Silly Stuff. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was created by comedian, Jenny Slate, after she was dropped by Saturday Night Live for dropping the F-bomb on a SNL show. With help from her fiance, film-maker Dean Fleischer-Camp, Jenny created Marcel the Shell using things around the house and her comedic

Nebraska: Water, Cattle, Manufacturing and Tourism

2011-11-29T08:33:00.001-05:00

Nebraska's Sandhills have a unique beauty all their own. Expansive grasslands as far as the eye can see growing under beautiful enormous skyscapes. Most travelers totally miss it when crossing our country, thinking the entire state of Nebraska is but a wasteland! Loup River in Sandhills of Nebraska Almost all of Nebraska covers the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides filtered pure water to

Diversions of the Soul: The Road Less Traveled

2011-11-26T23:54:00.001-05:00

Dr. Susan Bodnar, a clinical psychologist teaching at Columbia University Teachers College, posted an article titled "Don't forget where you came from" at CNN's online: In America: You define America. What defines you? Dr. Bodnar's article kicked off very interesting comments discussing why our country is experiencing significant social division among the have-wannabes, the semi-haves and

Sex, Lies and Football at Penn State - Update

2011-11-20T14:57:00.001-05:00

An update to my post about Penn State's Football Fiasco on Nov. 15. Mike McQueary wrote in an email to a friend that he had stopped the rape of a young boy in Penn State's football shower room - just not physically. Okay, maybe he yelled, "STOP!" & Jerry Sandusky would not have been physically able to continue. The question remains - was the boy removed from the locker room by McQueary?

Penn State's Football Fiasco

2011-11-15T10:15:00.001-05:00

Penn State's football fiasco sucked all the air out of the national news rooms for a week. . . all because of retired defensive coach, Jerry Sandusky. One man who was able to fool a lot of people a lot of the time, but not all the people all the time. Big questions now swirl around who was not fooled, what did they know, when did they know it and effectively hid what they knew about Sandusky.

Flawed Politicians

2011-06-04T09:36:00.000-04:00

In "Lessons Learned from John Edwards' Iowa Campaign" (Blog for Iowa), Paul Deaton writes of his deep disappointment in... and what can be learned from... John Edwards' fall from grace. I felt the same way after Nixon, Reagan & Bush Sr showed their true colors... but learned only after they were in office. After being a Republican most of my life, I switched to vote for Jimmy Carter, but he was

Winter Diversion: Snow David

2011-02-10T11:59:00.000-05:00

World News: Diversion

2011-02-06T11:24:00.000-05:00

"As The World Turns" was a daytime soap opera watched religiously at one time. Today Tunisia then Egypt give new meaning to "as the world turns" on 24/7 TV news channels and especially the Internet's gazillion social network sites. Had enough? Click on the new video on the right for British humorous insight into how the rest of the world views the news. Of course there's always the Super Bowl

Winter Diversions

2011-01-11T15:54:00.000-05:00

My friend writes of their life in Nebraska's Sandhills, which I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do. She's funny and down to earth... no pun intended. Their life could be called simple, only it isn't really. It is a reminder of the hardships others endure without complaint and with humor. Another friend writes of Australia's devastation and her efforts to keep a grip on that famous Aussie

This, too, shall pass. . .

2010-11-30T19:39:00.000-05:00

And so it did. . . pass, that is. It has been a year since I last posted due to unforeseen health issues - after falling from the attic through my bathroom ceiling while looking for squirrels. Doing splits in mid-air at my age is no mean feat! Luckily one leg caught on the gas line to the furnace & a shoulder blade caught on a joist or I would not be here a year later to tell about it. As Elvis

Posted in 2009 & Posts Never Posted. . .

2010-11-30T19:18:00.000-05:00

2009 Posts on the Healthcare Reform Debate: Part I - Insurance control over physicians to increase profits. Part IA - Insurance CEO compensation from 2008 SEC filings. Part IB - Time for cooler heads to prevail. Part II - Physicians Support Health Care Reform. Part III - Confusion vs Facts Part IV - Progressives on Public Option Part V - Canadian Health Care System Posts partially written

Health Reform: Part V - Canadian Medical Care System

2009-09-05T22:46:00.000-04:00

Canadian Doctors for Medicare hosted a celebration of Medicare in Canada - a medical care system open to everyone in Canada. Some in the U.S. insist on calling the Canadian system 'socialist' but the Canadians do not consider it anything other than good common sense for the well-being of Canadians and Canada. Speakers at the celebration included a former Commissioner on Health Care, Health

Health Reform: Progressives on Public Option

2009-09-02T22:16:00.000-04:00

65 members of the House drew a line in the sand: no public option, no health care bill. The public option gives our country freedom from being locked into private insurance. Individuals and small employers would not be held hostage by private insurance with their high administrative costs driven by high executive salaries, bonuses and profits. The public option would expand Medicare to everyone

Health Reform: Part III - Confusion vs Facts

2009-08-28T00:44:00.001-04:00

No one shouted or booed at health care forums held last spring, which were aired on C-Span and made available online. People were rational in their concerns that ranged from access to costs to insurance. People expressed quite a bit of fear but not boorish behavior like the town hall meetings. People are now scared and want straight answers. Newspapers and news magazines would do everyone a huge

Sons of Maxwell: 2 | United Airlines: 0

2009-08-18T09:52:00.000-04:00

Need a break from all the blather about health/medical care - reform? Check out Sons of Maxwell's 2nd video taking United Airlines to task for breaking Dave Carrol's $3500 guitar (full story here). They plan to release a 3rd & final song & ask people to vote for their favorite on YouTube. Enjoy Song #2 in the sidebar!

Health Care Reform - Time For Cooler Heads To Prevail

2009-08-15T22:25:00.002-04:00

Senator Grassley spoke at an AARP meeting in Iowa & began by mentioning that both he & Senator Harkin, a Democrat, had worked for many years on legislation that affected the entire nation. He went on to say this has always been a bipartisan process in both houses of Congress & in the White House, and he had no reason to believe this legislation would be any different. HB 3200 was expected to be

Health Care Reform: Part II - Physicians Support Health Care Reform

2009-08-15T09:23:00.006-04:00

The MAJOR BATTLE over Health Care Reform is being fought between physicians and insurance companies, HMO's and PPO Networks -- not in town hall skirmishes. The nation's FAMILY DOCTORS believe our current health care system IS dysfunctional and that significant benefits in patient care and cost reduction can be realized from a system built on primary care and diagnostic skills. Now those 450,000

Health Care Reform - Part I-A: Insurance CEO Compensation

2009-08-13T13:12:00.001-04:00

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