And the Yeti shows up too!

Someone thinks they have videotape of the Yeti running around in Poland.

Why is it that the picture is always blurry and taken from a long ways away?

Oh look! The Loch Ness Monster!

I don't use Google Earth but this is the second time I think someone has found an interesting thing that I've blogged about here. Someone thinks they may have spotted the Loch Ness Monster there. I don't know if it's true or not but it's an interesting picture nonetheless.

The real problems with the healthcare industry

Now here's an article that makes sense about the healthcare problems facing our country. It is written by a self-identified Democrat who has spent some significant time studying the problems with the industry. However it's a long article so I don't know who will have time to read it.

Some high points are:

• It doesnt make sense that people expect the insurance company (or government) to pay for routine care.
• Insurance makes the most sense for unexpected, big emergencies.
• There isn't a lot of real competition in the healthcare industry except for elective care items like LASIK eye surgery and cosmetic procedures.
• The lack of competition is largely driven by the fact that most services are not paid by the consumer of the service, the patient.
  
• At the end he suggests using a government option but only for emergencies over a very high threshold like $50,000 and using health-savings accounts for all other services.
• It would take a transition period to get to this point but it would be better in the end.

I've been thinking some of these very thoughts for a long time but never saw it written down so eloquently before.

They don't get it do they

Arkansas protesters shout down their blue dog congressmen

Well dressed protesters want to "hurt the president"

Carrying swastikas

The Natives Are Getting Restless!

Wow. It seems our nation's congress critters are up against some tough questions out there in the heartland.

Lloyd Doggett D-Texas 25th district (near Austin)

Arlen Specter D-Turncoat senator from Pennsylvania (do it fast?)

Tim Bishop D-New York 1st district (east end of Long Island)

Yes he was!

Anyone who still thinks Barack Hussein Obama wasn't born in the US making him "natural born" should go check the newspapers from August 1961 in Hawaii. A notice of his birth was listed in two different competing papers there.

Some say his birth certificate that has been released was faked and other such nonsense but it's hard to go back in time and place those notices 40-odd years after the fact just to create some sort of conspiracy.

Mythology of the Health Care Crisis

Apparently there are a few things we know that ain't so. Here are a few of them:

• Healthcare costs are soaring
• Canadian drugs are cheaper
• Socialized medicine works in some places
• Public insurance can co-exist with private insurance
• We can have health care without rationing
• Health care is a right