You will remember that
something sat uneasy with me when Dr Levy said he wouldn’t mind if they
developed drugs only rich people could afford them, even if the average manual
laborer out there can look forward to dying of a heart attack at age 62 as a
reward for all his work. Now they have a
dozen new cancer drugs just approved by the FDA and apparently they are all
miracle drugs and work quite well. The
trouble is the average price of them is a hundred thousand a year- - which
gives many people the choice of staying alive and going bankrupt, or accepting
the alternative. Many people believe
this is unfair, and that these drug companies owe it to the people of America
to bring the prices of their medications down, since these drugs sell for
double the cost here as opposed to other industrialized nations. Rush Limbaugh wouldn’t care, though. He’s the man who said “I don’t see why people
need health insurance. When I go to the
doctor I just write out a check”. My “playing
the over-population card” comes from the likelihood that rich people use drugs
such as viagara and testosterone to stay manly and verile and then go on to
impregnate women young enough to be their granddaughter. I will say that in the Romney fashion- - they
do “share the wealth” with their offspring.
And in this they are more virtuous than my own parents. But you have rich people, who use most of
the world’s resources anyhow- - and will pass laws guaranteeing we won’t get
more ecological energy sources. And they
are more studly than their poorer bretheren and go on reproducing to a
fantastic age. It’s been said the rich
get preferential treatment for organ donations, such as a liver. The rich are able to get remedial surgery for
things that are their own fault, such as Rush Limbaugh’s cochlear implants- -
caused by his Oxyconten use. Yesterday
Mario was talking about how economists have demonstrated that having a vast
inequity between the rich and the poor in general is unhealthy both for society
and the economy. And people like Romney
don’t have to worry about “whether they make sound economic decisions” because
special laws are in place just for them rigging the game so that they can’t
lose no matter what they do. Of course now there is another new form of
cancer therapy involving electro-shocking the cancerous growth to death. If that worked, wouldn’t they have discovered
that a long time ago. Apparently the
procedure, admittedly painful, creates “memory cells” that remember what a
cancer cell looks like and go after it to kill it. Now if we could just do that with the tea
party. I don’t think it’s out of turn to
say that Rush Limbaugh- - when he dies, will be one of the least mourned men on
planet earth this side of Ebonezer Scrooge.
But as I have pointed out even Ebonezer did not have the abiding
loathing of poor people that Rush Limbaugh has.
These rich people of course use religion is just another “fix” in their
lives. I wondered why Rush Limbaugh got
all flustered over a seven year old giving a Thanksgiving prayer at a family
dinner. And the kid talked about the
pilgrems and the Indians and teaching the white man to farm and stuff so he
could survive in the new land. Rush was
outraged. I guess Rush just believes the
Pilgrims just prayed and food just dropped out of the sky- - no doubt on the
best antique china & sterling silver place settings.
Monique reminds us that
New Years 2014 is exactly two weeks from today and that it’s time we gave 2013
its walking papers, it’s two week’s notice.
Of course that’s when the employee gets booted out of the office right
then before he or she can steal all of the thumb drives and other corporation
secrets. I went for coffee both in the
morning and in the afternoon and in the morning we had some kind of German
chocolate cake for a snack. For lunch we
had a corn dog, and I had someone’s coleslaw, and we had “Chinese” soup, and a
banana for dessert. Then it was Nicole
Sandler, and Mario was on just now at three talking about Foster home agencies
and how the Private ones are 33% worse than the government agencies as far as
molestations and things are concerned, and that this is a human tragedy that is
really more important than what is happening in the beauros at City Hall or the
Dept of Water & Power.
Nicole
was on and of course I watched the soap opera.
Stephanie Miller has been playing these “Dispatches from the War”
excerpts with the formal Civil War style letters, and the downcast violin playing. They’re a real hoot. As of now- - Kate and Gabriel and Samantha
know that Sunny knows their secret- - and Justin knows that his son is
desperate to talk to him about something big, if not entirely informed as to
what it is. So far the bottom hasn’t
fallen out of the high temperatures though it does seem to be threatening
rain. I think we’re just about caught up
about now. I am not a happy camper
about this flu thing going on now for two and a half weeks already. Based on prior experience- - right now I
don’t have the vaguest idea when this malaise and cough will be done with.
Yesterday was Pope
Francis’ birthday. Actually according to
my parents- - I was expected to have been born in December 19th. There is considerable evidence against my
being any time in either December or January for that matter. In fact sifting through the evidence, I have
concluded that I was born around March 2nd or 3rd of the
next year. Of course everyone likes o
make up their own history. First there
are nine planets, then there are eight.
They go back and give actors honorary Oscars- - just to say that they
gave them one, even though technically “didn’t earn it the way everybody else
does”. Mormons go so far apparently as
to dig up Holocaust victims from their graves, baptize them. It seems most every TV Evangelist has some
high “Honorary degree” from some presteigious University”. We won’t even talk about the grade averages
of college football players. But if the
poor or disadvantaged should ever be given such a break or “do over” by a Court
Ruling or something- - you know people like Rush Limbaugh will raise his fat
ditto of a head in protest. Now due to
some Court Ruling- - a thirty eight year old man will be pardoned or paroled or
something for a crime committed when he was sixteen. The crime seems to be accessory to the second
degree murder- - as I understand the law.
But they called it murder one at the time. Who
would have guessed that after over a hundred years of usage- - trans fats are
the most dangerous thing since Polonium in food. People change their legal last names because
it’s to their political advantage to sound more “Ethnic”.
Tonight for dinner we
had baked chicken and corn, and these whipped sweet potatoes, with yellow
Jell-O with fruit in it for desert. I
went to the bakery for a large coffee. I
got an egg sandwich with my medication at the med room. We learn that there was a power ball lottery
winner last night. There were two of
them but one winner hasn’t shown yet.
But the Vietnamese short owner back in San Jose was awarded a million
dollars. The math is a little screwy
though because as I count it- - half of six hundred million is three hundred
million- - but apparently the winners pay half of their winnings in income
taxes. Since it’s a government award to
begin with, claiming the pay-out is twice what it actually is, is just another
kind of Lie, as I see it. And apparently
Governor Christie engages in political vendettas against his opponents and so
closed down a certain bridge, and also blocked construction of a major tunnel
that would have greatly eased traffic congestion- -and in general brought more
commerce to the area.
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