Thursday, June 18, 2009

Federal Medical Malpractice

National universal health care sounds so appealing. My employer provides coverage but I pay a big portion of the cost, and the cost keeps increasing. Why wouldn't I want the government to bail me out of this expense too?!

What the media and your power hungry representatives fail to show is how this model has failed in nearly every place it was attempted, and on top of that, the current plan is designed to force out all all other forms of health insurance and medical coverage.

To sum up what is going on, imagine if you were offered a free car insurance program that covered all your liability and comprehensive needs regardless of your driving record. You would jump all over that, cancel your current plan and be driving all over the road with no concern about your rates because, your not paying for it! Now imagine that to get this program affordable, the insurance program only paid a fraction of the actual cost of the body work or claims made on your insurance. Who would accept this insurance policy as payement? Nobody right? Well not if your the government was to force everyone to accept your coverage, and mandate all claims be covered at the terms the governments program dolls out as payment in full. Government run car insurance may be a fantasy but government run health insurance already exists and Obama plans to make it universal.

This is the latest wealth redistribution plan being pushed and everyone has a hand out ready for it. Insurance companies are eager to get the subsidy to look the other way. Hospitals are eager for a solution to pay for losses they get for caring for the uninsured so they have a hand out the the government. Dr's are stuck ither not practicing or accepting insurance terms. It's already the model used in Medicare & Medicaid, Dr's, hospitals and clinics just pass the losses they suffer off on other patient care costs pushing up eveyone elses costs and premiums. It is unsustainable, and once the private insurance plans are bankrupt, then the government steps in to take them over next.

While with one hand the Obama administration pushes "Green" and "Sustainable" living, the other blowing through the green on unstustainable policy and programs that will destroy our country, our world class medical system, while bankrupting our nation. Did we not learn a thing from the fall of the soviet union?

If you really want to understand this issue talk to your Dr. chances are he knows what would happen if we nationalized our health care system. Or read this blog, it has solutions not just rants. (Unlike Here!)

Monday, June 08, 2009

Getting UN-Wired

Wires and more wires, cables, jacks, dongles, adapters, splitters, and routers. I thought the wireless revolution was here?

This rant is about the gadget makers constant addiction to wires while they continually roll out new wireless technology. Why don't these wireless widgets free us from all the cables my new digital toys require? There is WiFi, Bluetooth, WiMax, 3G, CDMA, and new wireless video technolgy that has been around since 2008 and earlier. See Panasonic HD wireless solution.

Recently I finally dove in and purchased a TV with HD capability, guess what, more wires.. A HDMI cable is required to get the full effect of the HDTV, and low and behold, my digital camera can too connect to my TV, but alas, I need to buy another wire, a MINI HDMI cable!

I thought I had rid myself of so many wires, I got a dock for my blackberry so I just drop the phone in the nifty cradle and it charges. Yes it does have a wire that plugs into the wall, but the dock is just like a little stand, you just drop the phone in, and it charges reliably. Not little plugs to get aligned up and break off ruining the phone at the same time. The blackberry also syncs with my contacts wirelessly, using Google Sync, my email address book & calendars both online and in my pocket keep neatly synced up with out wires. Previously I have posted about my Eye-Fi card that wirelessly transmits my digtial photos to my online web-album and downloads them to my PC all without wires.

Ok, before you send me emails about the bandwidth required to stream HD video wirelessly and the neat wire organzation method you use, let me be clear, I know how and why there are limitations, what I am frustrated by, is why don't they come up with more creative solutions and why do I ither have to remove my camera battery to charge it, or plug in another wire. I want a charging dock for ALL my gadgets, not just my phone.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Eye-Fi Reunited

Today it arrived, my shiny new replacement Eye-Fi card. Ask and you shall receive, as long as you are buying from a company that cares about customer satisfaction. As previously reported, my Eye-Fi card was acting up, and when I called to see what the warranty was I was asked where I purchased it and what was wrong, then they authorized it's immediate return and replacement. Less than 2 weeks have passed since I called Eye-Fi service number and I am whole again. Now I need to login and re-activate the card so I can get back to taking pictures and once again give up the card reader and the wires.

Thanks Eye-Fi, Top notch customer service!

Buy yours today at www.eye.fi you won't be dissapointed, but I suggest you read my review here so you know what to expect.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Words Matter Don't Change the Subject

Words matter, they can change the meaning of a sentence, they can change our recorded history. If a historian writes about our war against terror, while our politicians try and change the words and their meanings, our history becomes meaningless. When they try to harden or soften a story by redefining the words that are used they not only bend the truth, they bend it into a lie.

The United States does not torture, however our enemy does. That's a fact, not an opinion. If we want to talk about waterboarding, instead of the quadrupled budget deficit and socialized economy then lets stick to facts not fiction. If waterboarding is torture, then we have tortured our own men and women in uniform. Special ops soldiers must endure enhanced interrogation techniques, exactly the ones we used to extract information from terroists that have saved lives. If Nancy Pelosi is so eager to attack Bush administration officials and CIA operatives who have given us seven years of terror free soil then why doesn't she call expert witnesses such as Navy Seals and Green Berit soldiers to testify about this so called torture method? Because it's political bull. Period. And when political bull bleeds into national security secrets it becomes treason.

The Obama spin machine has called war on terror a conflict with extremists, renaming terrorism as "man caused disasters", redefining everything from the word jihad to the word investment. If the American people and the complacent media don't begin to defend our words, our language, and our country's long history as the greatest nation, the nation itself will need a new definition. No longer will we be home of the free and the brave, but we will be the oppressed and the afraid.

Friday, May 08, 2009

Eye-Fi Review Customer Service


One of the top Google search keywords that drives traffic to this blog is my past review on the Eye-Fi wireless SD card, because it comes up in the first page of results. Since my purchase a year and a half ago it served me well and worked as advertised. Recently it suffered some trouble and stopped working or responding at all, and I could not even get it to function as a regular SD card. I called for customer service just to see what the warranty was, as I never read that stuff unless it's a high dollar purchase. Although my hold time was a few minutes, a live person, Joey, answered, heard my complaint, and without delay took my information and sent me instructions to send the card in for replacement. Within minutes I had a email with simple instructions on where to send it and what to expect in return. While I don't yet have my replacement, I am looking forward to posting about it when it arrives.

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Get your ISM

Saturday, May 02, 2009

An offer you can't refuse...

The BO Administration will use any means necessary to achieve it's goal of nationalization all while catering to the unions who backed the campaign.