FACT CHECK: Distortions rife in health care debate

If I haven't posted this before, let it be known that I am very much in favor of everyone in Post-Modern Civilizations to have easy access to Health Care. Yes, that's the short version--you're welcome.

Although I'm not naive enough to beLIEve that wee humans will ever revert to a Paleolithic lifestyle (or anything even close, even in the event of a nuclear disaster), I still find study of Paleolithic (and Neolithic, etc.) humans to be quite fascinating and eye-opening ( Read more... )

C&P from here, reposted here for my own Worshiping of Sol ( Read more... )

What follows is a C&P from here. I'm reposting it in its entirety because I think it's so important. Most emphasis is all mine ( Read more... )

As I was reading up on the escalation of the Swine Flu to full "pandemic" status, I was also thinking about the newest article on Health Care Reform. And I was reminded of one of the easiest ways to help control the spread of this Pandemic. A way that will never be implemented, because it makes too much sense:

Giving people more paid sick time ( Read more... )

I just got the first bike I've had since I got my driver's license back in 1991-ish. I got a mountain bike because they're better for my back than my old standard of street bikes, and I like the idea of having something I can take on the trails--both paved and hiking--around here. Here's a picture, and I really like it. It also matches my silver ( Read more... )

After spending time with my dear brother atlas_mason and family last night--including a rousing game of homemade backyard mini-golf that I dominated--I walked the 2+ miles home. And this morning as I walked back to pick-up my car, I really started to enjoy the walk for the first time. Before I knew it, I was already halfway there ( Read more... )

I've been finding the aforementioned Marines saying to be of immense help in pushing myself past my physically lazy tendencies as I get my body back in the shape I want it to be in. I've been using my bodily pains as a Focus for precisely why I want to be in better shape. I have been using the Pain I experience almost as a Banishing of my ( Read more... )

This has occurred to me before, but I wanted to Earth it before it slipped from my Awareness again ( Read more... )

"Feelings of Anger, Bitterness, and Hate are negative. If I kept those inside me they would spoil my Body and Health. They are of no use ( Read more... )