Today's post is brought to you by my friend Megan ... who recently wrote this and i love it and i wanted to share it with you. "The economy is just terrible," says the man in the long Starbucks line as he checks his iphone. "I know," the woman, also in line, disapprovingly shakes her head side to side. She shifts her armful of shopping bags as the line pushes forward places her order. Though I couldn't make out what she said, she seemed the Gingerbread Latte with whip type. Or maybe hold the whip this year, the economy all. It reminds me of two things ... no, three things.
#1 This thing that Rollins wrote about men being like coffee and women being like martinis, it is awesome and you should check it out ... i'm not sure which of his books it's in but if you just read tham all (like you should anyway) you'll see it.
#2 That the whole Starbucks phenomenon is terribly annoying and i wish it would go away ... can i please tell you the size of my desired drink in english? And could you not correct me in italian? That would be great.
#3 Too often we forget that while we have problems in our lives, other people are not eating this WEEK so that their children can have a little rice or bread or fruit ... while we wish health care were streamlined and more affordable other people wish that there was a doctor within 500 miles of their village when their child was sick ... while we wish the troops could come home other people are being shot at and bombed and burned ... and by other people i mean MOST people.
Ok, some of you aren't paying attention to what's going on in Yemen... and by some of you i mean everyone in the world. About a month ago a war broke out there where the government army attacked the northern part of the country where a bunch of rebels were hanging out. I was fascinated because Yemen borders Saudi Arabia and is across from our pals Somalia and chaos there could block Suez canal passage and all sorts of bad stuff. So here's how the media handled it... Day 1 - War started, Yemen attacks rebels with helicopters and artillery. Day 2- Refugees try to flee to Saudi Arabia and are stopped by the Saudis at the border ... 100,000 with no food and water and no villages to go home to Day 3 through Day 30- NOTHING! Total news black out, like it never happened ... and i searched for it, i mean i spent hours looking at every news site i could find, even foreign ones. Day 31- US bombs Yemen al-qaida training bases.
So apparently the war has escalated some, now there are seperatists fighting the government in the south and the rebels fighting the govenment in the north and al-qaida, it seems, was hiding under the 60 women and children that we hit with missles from Navy warships. No really, they were, because we said we hit our target and the people standing next to the dead people seemed to think that mostly we blew up some women and children. So that's the next war we're going to be involved in, and the best part is the Saudis never let the refugees in and they couldn't go home due to the fighting so i'm sure the 100,000 or so found all kinds of food/water/shelter in the middle of a desert. No really, i'm sure that they are fine. When the UN peace keepers arrive in Yemen it will be to "promote stability" and to inforce the "rule of law" ... another prophetic moment! Never mind that the people who live there seem to dislike the government enough to go to war against it, never mind that we have never cared about Yemen before ... we NEED to help them. The news blackout was so that people didn't think we were joining a revolution on the side of the establishment, so that we could pretend we were getting involved to continue the "War on Terror" not just because we're proping up an unpopular, corrupt regime cold war style because it serves our economic intrests.
And i decided to write a health care bill, don't worry, it's not 2000 pages long.
All insurance policies are hereby portable, if you leave one company for another or to be self employeed or to be "downsized" your insurer will be required to offer you the policy that you already had at the same price, if your employer was paying part of the expense the insured will be required to pay the full amount in order to continue coverage.
An acceptable retail price will be established for hospitals, there are no $500 asprin or $275 bandaids anymore.
Lawyers hereby can no longer incite people to sue their doctor and malpractice limits can be capped by the doctor so long as his limit is published where the patients can see it and make informed decisions.
Doctors will here by make medical decisions and insurance companies will pay for those decisions, doctors will be subject to audits and reviews of their practices to root out corruption and statistical anomolies ... no corporate insurance monger will deny commonsence treatment or diagnostic test due to the possible cost . Insurance is supposed to be a risk for the insurer not the insured.
And last but not least the morbidly obese will not be treated for heart disease, unless telling them to walk home and eat vegetables counts as treatment ... no longer will you eat twinkies and chicken fried steak in front of the TV after each of your 6 bypasses before finally dying of a massive heart attack. And while we're on the subject of treatment for the undeserving, intentionally injecting yourself with a lethal dose of heroin is not cause for treatment, it is a sucessful suicide that should not be interrupted. We don't catch people in midair when they jump off buildings ... some people should get what they want ... and before you boo me answer me this, why did noone care about them before they tried to die? Drug addicts are shunned and sent to prison and treated like human refuse ... right up until they almost die, and then they've valuable. Don't worry, tomorrow they'll be back on the street and soaking up all the scorn you have to dish out. It's just like the abortion debate; when are we going to realize that the legality of abortion is not the problem? Drugs are not the problem, crime is not the problem ... the problem is that your daughter doesn't know that you love her, or she doesn't even know you; the problem is that you raised your son to be a coward that disrespects women and is afraid to face up to real consequences, the problem is that the once invincible sense of community that was a dominant force in most of this country is dead. So i say let them die and you say put them in prison so that you don't have to deal with them, the broken people that you created. If you don't want 16 year olds and 20 year olds to get pregnant out of wedlock don't wait for them outside of the Planned Parenthood ... it's a little late at that point. If you want girls to wait until they are married and decide to have children to get pregnent then you might want to get involved when they're about ten ... if you want people to stop taking drugs you might want to go ahead and get involved before they start shooting up and let them know that you care, that life is worth living. So that's the health care bill. It would save money and be more effective. Any suggestions or comments?
Aparently i forgot that this was the "new" blog and slipped into the old blog there for a minute ... sorry about that. So in other news the big get together in Denmark was a total bust, what a surprise. I am shocked that China doesn't want to limit their pollution, and the united states and england don't want to pay billions to Africa ... never saw that coming. And the repubilcans are trying to block the vote on the health care bill ... thhe bill as it turns out has not even been finalized yet, so the people you elected and pay for are arguing about what "might" be in a bill that they might see at some point in the future ... ain't government grand?
Oh and the title was totally a teaser, but it would be really funny if Amy Winehouse came out and said she was with Tiger ... at least i think it would be funny.
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