Racism and Double Standards in the Media

In case anyone who reads this does not know it, I am so conservative I squeak.  I am also a lifetime member of the NAACP.  Such a seemingly dichotomy is not as unlikely as the news media would make it seem.  It is interesting to explore this now that the media has given yet another leading democrat a pass on racism.

Doubling Down For Disaster with Stimulus II

The US Congress, along with President, Barak Obama, and their counterparts in the Federal Reserve are doubling down in their gamble on government spending. 

Despite the quantitative failed results of trying to stimulate job recovery through government spending and expansive monetary policies by central banks our government is insisting that we take the same old tried and failed....

Global Warming Meltdown

The Climate Research Unit [CRU], which has been very instrumental in climate melt down research, confirmed that the very embarrassing emails published on the World Wide Web were authentic.  These notes back and forth between academics at Colorado University Climate Institute and others around the world, reveal scientists discarding, deliberately misinterpreting, and then finally altering data from lab and instrument reports.  They did so because the data did not support their preconceived conclusions.  This is not the "Scientific Method".  It follows almost a year to the day the revelation that Dr. Hanson of NASA had been caught doing the exact same thing.

Hanson was caught publishing temp data for October, 2008 that was unartfully created or copied from the September data.  That is, Hanson published the warmer temps recorded in September as October data.  When the real October data was published it was discovered that October temps in North America were record lows.  Hanson who is a political scientist put in place by the NASA oversight committee of Congress was caught trying to make a case for global warming despite the data that showed cooling.

Rene Descartes is rolling in his grave.  Decartes was the scientific philosopher who admonished the world to question everything.  "Methodic Doubt" was the name he gave to his philosophy of doubt.  Poor Descartes was murdered by poison by his hosts in Stockholm because of his adamant belief in the method.

In a fit of irony some of those who are now accused of cooking the global warming data are from...Stockholm.  This news is getting little play in the US press.  It is believed that this is partly due to the fact that very few Americans really trust the "global warming" scientists anyway.  So, many journalists are not "wasting" space with a" ho hum" 'dog bites man' story.  The other reason is that most journalists do not understand math, statistics and how they are manipulated by scientists with a socio economic agenda.  So when raw data from scientists are posted they need to have other scientists explain what the big words mean to them.

What do you read Katy Couric?

The real question is not what do you read the question is do you understand it?

Here are some interesting links if you want more:
Herald Sun
Hot Air
Global Warming hoax
Climate Research Unit
Still Waiting for the Greenhouse to appear by John L. Daly

These disturbing data sources were published by Russian hackers who gained entry when an alleged insider gave them key codes for access.  However, given the recent hack into the FAA computers by assailants unknown to disrupt air traffic during President Obama's trip home from Asia and hacks into Pentagon computers by China that disabled parts of our defense system,  we may also have real problems with our security that are far more dangerous then the temperature on the White House veranda on a balmy August night.  Our security has never been more insecure and it is frightening.

How Much Does Medicare Cost?

     No one really knows how much the new health care measure will cost but one clue is to look at the past. 

Both political parties agree that Medicare is a model of success for millons of senior citizens, all of whom have no choice in health care.  Our Federal Government allows no private alternative to this socialized form of health care.  But how much does it actually cost each subscriber?  We went to the Kaiser Institute to extrapolate and compile the numbers from several statistical abstacts from the government itself.  The findings are stunning...

Obama wants Fair Elections

     President Barak Obama is delaying his decision on continuing support for the Afghanistan government.  His plan is to wait until after a legitimate election so they can demonstrate that the government has broad regional support from the population.  Obama wisely notes that the government needs to have popular support in order to implement change and craft new programs.

   Can we expect the same consideration here in the United States?

     In recent years we have had ACORN and affliated organizations charged with employees criminally violating election laws.  We have been entertained by reports of votes from Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Jack in the Box, and several ACORN workers who admitted to voting multiple times using real and fictional names via absentee ballots and bogus voter registrations.

     Once again, today, we have an election that should belong to the Democratic candidate based on past voting patterns, overwhelming numbers of registered party members, and campaign spending [50+ million by the incumbent to less than 12 million by the challenger].  But despite these advantages the candidate of the little people, Billionaire former Investment Banker, Jon Corzine, is in a statistical dead heat in the opinion polls.  Yet it may come down to the same tactics used in Afghanistan for Corzine to retain his office. That is illegal voting and fraudulent counting processes.  Given the proclivity of the use of voter intimidation [the new black panther party incidents in 2008 in Philadelphia] and other such tacics used in 3rd world elections, will President Obama think twice before he tries to implement his new programs here?

      Or has democracy been replaced by power politics?  Is this the beginning of the rule of the power of the Federal Government over the ordinary citizen? 

medical economics

How much do they make?

 Versus how much they owe in loans for education!

The typical physician can count on a bill of nearly 400,000 for post secondary High School education costs.  While some educators may feel that this figure is high, many Physicians might argue that this is low because it does not factor in the costs of living during Internship and Residency.  Whichever, the true costs this is a high no matter which esoteric manipulation lowers or raises this number.

So what can a physician expect to make in the marketplace after the education requirements have been met?

Acording to a study by the Department of Health and Human Services the typical Family Practicioner can expect to make $138,000.00 in 2003 dollars [there are several studies which suggest that while physician billings have grown since that time real income has either remained stagnant or decreased slightly since 2003].

According to the American Academy of Family Physicians study on practice management the typical practice bills for 5720 total unique visits per year.  These visits generate average total billings of $483,500.00 [This represents billing of about $85.00 per visit].

But  the Physician only makes about $25.00 per visit in take home pay. Staff costs about the same amount [typically about 4 full time employees costing the practice with benefits about $33,000.00].  This leaves the overhead costs at about $35.00 per visit.

CME and CMS surveys and reimbursements confirm these figures.  Overhead costs include insurance, billing, collections, bad debt, reimbursement write-downs, rent, office supplies and equipment. 

But the real question is this?  Does a $400,000.00 dollar education investment for a $138,000 dollar job make economic sense?  How many patients will Doctors see per day after health care reform? 

Bill Carroll

Organized Crime?

Tim Allen of the online slightly Liberal opinion provider politico.com has written an article When the Exception Swallows the Rule  about the failures of the Campaign Finance law to regulate the fund raising behavior of elected officials in Washington.  

Then the Washington Post admitted that it has been selling access to Washington Lobbyists and their Union, Non profit, Special Interest and Corporate clients.  Access cost $250,000.00 per attendee at special off the books and record Salons which were held at the publishers home.  The "fee" provided the lobbyists clients access to White House top staffers along with law makers and staff from the hill.

How the fees were then distributed and "shared" is unclear and still developing.  But it is increasingly clear that as our system is returning to the ancient system of centrally controlled economic and political domination of individual activity with government power, our politicians use the power they have for their own financial gain.

One only has to consider two such politicians [one from each party] who started their political careers poor and worked exclusively in public office but then retired as multi millionaires.  Where did they get the money?

Consider the two Presidential nominees of the 1996 presidential election.  Bill Clinton, taught in law school served as the Attorney General of Arkansas, then was the Governor of the State, and ran for Federal Office as a multi millionaire.  Robert Dole was so poor that his family lived in the basement of a rural home in Russell, Kansas  After his education was completed Dole served in state and county office until he was elected to Congress in 1960. 

How did these two become millionaires?

No one really knows.  The Clintons expalined it by referring to Hilary's investment activity but almost all of the Clinton investments were losers.  One possible explanation is the above referenced news about selling access and politicians accessing their excess campaign cash for personal use.

Political campaigns are big business and those who are involved in them make millions in conducting them and in raising the campaign funds.  We all know that both Pat Buchanon and Ralph Nader have been perennial independent candidates for President.  Casual observers ask why?  But the news media with the Washington post being one of the longest lasting leaders have never dealt with the reasons.  Why?

If the candidate gets access to his funds and if a Presidential candidate gets access to Federal Funds as some have in recent years.  That is one explanation that has never before been probed.  Maybe the Washington Post will tell us what the politicians did with the unreported cash they raised in their Salons.