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| 21 Dec 2009 01:38:50 am |
| La Seguridad |
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The health care shakedown is finally coming down. You see the problem is that there are too many people who can’t afford health insurance. So what’s the solution? Pass a law making it mandatory to buy health insurance. That way when the poor people show up at the emergency room without health insurance not only will they be sick, they’ll be criminals. And, By God this country knows how to deal with criminals.
More photos on the way above. and no more comments below. Ha ha ha you trolls and scams. Not because I’m trying to “control the message” as Guy McPherson put it, but because I don’t have the time or desire to deal with it.
Me parece un beso como Berlusconi recibió. Fue un Berlusconi Beso. |
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| 30 Sep 2009 01:16:41 am |
| Los Medicos |
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Looking back on recent history, some time after the rise of the city of Ur and the fall of Troy, we see that somehow the money men got a hold of a lot of power and control, one example being our own Jekyll Island law of the Federal Reserve. A lot of that has come to fruition lately in terms of Goldman Sachs bonuses and other such open larceny of the people. They are in the business of making money, that no one can truthfully deny. Legal larceny is the best business to be in, after all. The Money Men slowly soak the people of their nickels and dimes that turn into billions in a few hands.
Now what better idea than to get into the health care business? Take advantage of our innate trust in medicine, our desire to live on forever, and use it to soak up a few more trillions, this time, in fees and overheads. What a gig, no? Aunt Betsy goes in for a checkup, gets a diagnosis of serious risk, a bunch of expensive tests are ordered along with additional procedures, Bess gets dinged for deductible and co-payments, while the new health care law “insurance companies” and “service providers” have a deal on the side. After several invasive procedures and pounds of patented prescription drugs (another old racket) Aunt Bess’ health really starts to decline. Then after a few more years of collecting mailbox after mailbox full of medical bills daily, Aunt Betsy passes away. What better way to cull the human herd than to strip people of their assets just prior to cremation?
This hypothetical model of an observation – that many old middle-aged people die with a bunch of medical bills in the mailbox – doesn’t need a conspiracy theory or even an bad intention on anyone’s part. It can happen naturally and organically, on its own accord. The hypothesis must, however, fit the data. And what data do we have? How about the number of middle class persons who die with their personal accounts mostly spent on medical bills? For the super rich, such things don’t matter. If there were a way for a billion dollars to bring you back to life then JP Morgan would be zombie JP Morgan. Oh wait, it already is. For the poor such things don’t matter either, in a sense, because they quite often never experience much of any medical care.
This hypothesis does predict that the new health law will eventually pass and pieces of it will be rigged to favor certain interests. Those interests will be on the receiving end of the money flow. It will all be perfectly legal because it’s the law. Monthly payments, co-pays, and deductibles will add up to a cool trillion. Payments will be affordable by most of the insured but nearly all of the risk will be borne by the public sector. That’s the public option. You will become more and more liable for the whole rigged system through your taxes and public debt. |
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| 16 Aug 2009 02:36:53 am |
| El curso |
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When the decision was made to grow Las Vegas, outward growth of the suburban model was implied, not upward growth with increasing urban population density. Reasonably priced suburban housing of the subdivision model required fairly large scale conversion of public land to private property. A tradeoff was that some of the money would be transferred to conservation efforts with the implication that both large tracts of single family housing and whole, intact, functioning desert ecosystems could exist together. This is the hypothesis we are testing, now that the subdivisions exist on the landscape; many upside down on their bank mortgages.
With the increasing human population came many of the benefits and problems the public land managers are now dealing with: gangs, graffiti, trash, illegal off-road travel, invasive species and so on. Some of the funding is used simply to clean up after these activities. More of the funding is expended on projects that are essentially perpetual maintenance needs, such as invasive species control. Other projects gather information, so that we know what the situation is. But there the project ends and actual mitigation requires significant additional funding. Gradually, then, but inevitably mitigating the effects of urban growth becomes dependent on continued urban growth.
Some trends are easy to track. The outward expanse of Las Vegas jumps out on satellite photos. The expenditure of SNPLMA funds is accounted for and the number of deliverables counted. Some trends are not so simple but seem real. The number and status of threatened and endangered species seems to be getting worse. The number and status of invasive species seems to be deteriorating. The health of ecosystems, if such a thing could be measured, doesn’t seem to be improving. Although cause and effect is impossible to prove, it seems based on the evidence that mitigation money doesn’t actually prevent adverse effects of large human population concentrations on desert ecosystems. No net unmitigated loss of habitat may be a good slogan but it’s not a fact |
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| 09 Aug 2009 01:36:08 am |
| La verdad |
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One of the endearing features of our world is its complexity. Hardly anything is as simple as we’d like to believe. In fact, a characteristic diagnosis of a demagogue is simple answers. “All we have to do is …” “if the democrats would only …” It’s popular, easy to understand, easy to believe, and seldom true. Case in point is the intersection of peak oil and the current financial situation. Peak Oilers predicted for years a collapse of the economy, financial first, once peak oil arrived. Then peak oil arrived cerca 2005 to 2008, The Bubble Years, and the economy pitched financials first into the pits right on schedule. But then a funny thing happened and oil on the market suddenly became abundant. We were once again awash in (relatively) cheap gas. Relative that is to the trillions squandered in our names spent bailing out the bankers. And an even funnier thing could happen. We could in fact be awash in cheap gas all the way back to the stone age. All that takes is an economy collapsing faster than the oil supply. Suppose the oil supply declines at 5% and the economy declines at 6%. The economy will fall away from the supply. Of course we don’t know what’s really happening now, whether peak oil is really here or not. We certainly don’t know what will happen in the future. And much is lost due to memory. No memory, no perception, no vision. !Qué lastima!
Lo del Mundo que me gusto más es la verdad. ¿Pero donde se la encuentra? ¿En el periódico del supermercado? “Dr. Phil is a Fraud” grita las titulares. Es verdad. Aun El Diablo puede hablar la verdad ¿Mira para la verdad en las noticias? Sí, será estúpido. Allá ver la propaganda solamente. ¿El Gobierno? No me hagas reír. Es maquiavélico. Todos parecen mientras.
Ahora tenemos el pico del petróleo enfrente la bancarrota de los bancos y colapso del mundo financiero. Hace mucho años unos pocos sabios dijo que la fin esta cerca del petróleo y esa podía conducir una descomposición mundial monetario. Lo y mirar, ha pasado. ¿Es verdad, correctamente? O no, nunca era tan simple. |
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| 02 Aug 2009 02:38:47 am |
| Buenas noticias |
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Tal vez sean buenas noticias, tal vez no. By now you’ve heard that the hard times are over and the good times are rolling again. Can’t you tell? For one thing the banks are back in the black thanks to our money and a little book cooking. As New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo points out:
Quote : “JP Morgan earned $5.6 billion, paid $8.69 billion in bonuses and received $25 billion in TARP funding. Goldman earned $2.3 billion and paid out $4.8 billion in bonuses, while Morgan Stanley earned $1.7 billion and paid $4.5 billion in bonuses. Each of those two former investment banks received $10 billion in TARP funding.”
Doesn’t that make you feel good? Something like five thousand Wall Street bankers got million dollar bonuses in 2008. If your unemployment checks are about to run out or if you’re still employed and decided not to retire because your pension is nearly gone all you have to do is think about those bankers and you’ll feel better.
I’ve often wondered how the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave would react if it were raped and pillaged. Now we’re finding out – like a pen of turkeys before Thanksgiving. Wait for the farmer to pour out more feed, get a little fatter, cluck and strut around, peck at other turkeys, and believe all is well. Pero muy pronto van a ser carne asada. Lo mismo como nosotros.
This isn’t just another opinion, it’s a testable hypothesis. As life gets harder for the peasantry the scams will become more open, the collusion of the politicians more obvious, and the payola more obscene. Why bother? It’s pretty much over for the herd. About all that’s left is the skinning and butchering. Even if we wanted to do something about it we couldn’t. Úsanos y nos han matando. |
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