June 13, 2013

Well this is gonna be fun.

My Dentist just sent a letter stating that he is no longer a provider
for Delta Dental, basically saying I will be responsible for the difference
between what he charges and what Delta pays.

I really do not want to look for another dentist I like this guy.

June 10, 2013

understand UAW is strking Bell.

Do not have a link.
a friend who lives in Ft Worth told me.
anyone knows anything about this?

June 6, 2013

NBC news confirms judge orders 10 yr old girl added to adult lung xplant list.

http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/05/18779741-judge-orders-girl-added-to-adult-lung-transplant-list?lite

By JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer, NBC News
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary to suspend existing organ allocation rules to give a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl a better chance at a life-saving lung transplant.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Baylson told Kathleen Sebelius to direct the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, or OPTN, to make an exception to the so-called "Under-12" rule as it applies to Sarah Murnaghan, who has end-stage cystic fibrosis, for at least 10 days, until a hearing on June 14. That move means that the girl can be considered more quickly for organs as an adult, instead of being limited to the pediatric transplant list.

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"For us, this means that for the next 10 days, Sarah's placement in the queue for adult lungs will be based on the severity of her illness, and she will not be penalized for her age," parents Janet and Francis Murnaghan said in a statement. "We are experiencing many emotions: relief, happiness, gratitude, and, for the first time in months: hope."
Their elation was echoed by Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who advocated on behalf of the family.
"Finally, we have some positive news for Sarah and her family," Toomey said in a statement. "I applaud today's ruling and am grateful to Judge Baylson for quickly issuing his decision on such an important matter."

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But the ruling immediately raises concerns about fairness -- and the risk of more lawsuits, said Art Caplan, director of the division of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. While it's admirable that Baylson chose to try to help Sarah and others, the decision threatens the integrity of the nation's existing organ allocation process, he said.
"It is not clear why everyone now waiting at the bottom of any transplant list would not seek relief in federal court," Caplan said. "Unless the judge has reason to think the lung distribution rules are simply a product of age discrimination and nothing more -- which seems highly unlikely -- then this becomes a troubling instance of non-doctors deciding who is the best candidate to receive a lung or other scarce medical resource."
OPTN officials were working to schedule an emergency meeting to consider the issues, a spokesman said.

more at the link

June 1, 2013

wife went to the store and got back some one dollar bills

one was marked "wheres George.com"
before I go there, is it a malware site?
or something strange?

June 1, 2013

woody harrelson claims to be a anarchist.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2013/05/woody-harrelson-im-an-anarchist-165139.html

yeah it is politico ....


Who needs government? Actor Woody Harrelson says we’d be “just fine” without it in the latest issue of Details magazine:

DETAILS: You've said that playing a cop has made you more sympathetic toward the police. Did playing Steve Schmidt in Game Change make you sympathetic to Republicans?
Woody Harrelson: I like Steve Schmidt. But I tend to not like politicians, because it's a subtle form of prostitution. Or maybe not so subtle.

DETAILS: So you dislike Democrats as much as you dislike the GOP?
Woody Harrelson: It's all synchronized swimming to me. They all kneel and kiss the ring. Who's going to take on the oil industry or the medical industry? People compare Obama to Lyndon Johnson, but I think a better comparison is between Obama and Nixon. Because Nixon came into office saying he was going to pull out of Vietnam, and then he escalated the war. A lot of us were led to believe that Obama was the peace president, but there are still, I think, 70,000 troops in Afghanistan. Corporations like Grumman are so powerful that—I don't know, is this the kind of s--- we want to talk about? It's making me depressed.

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DETAILS: Do you want to get more involved in politics?
Woody Harrelson: No. I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.