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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Minnesota Wild hope to halt their losing streak at four straight games on Monday night as they play host to the Philadelphia Flyers.
The Wild are coming off getting swept in a home-and-home set versus the Colorado Avalanche. They dropped a 3-1 decision at home on Friday -- the club's third straight regulation loss -- before salvaging a point with Saturday's 3-2 shootout defeat in Denver.
Minnesota got two goals in the final 3:27 of the third period to force overtime, with Matt Cooke getting the rally started before Mikko Koivu's tying goal with 5.7 seconds left.
However, Koivu was one of three Minnesota skaters stopped in the shootout, while Ryan O'Reilly had the lone goal of the tiebreaker as he beat Josh Harding in the third round.
"Some nights you just face a hot goaltender," said Koivu. "We got that tonight."
Harding had 23 saves for Minnesota, which has been outscored 11-4 on non- shootout goals over its skid.
The Wild are looking to avoid dropping five in a row for the first time since Feb. 28-March 6, 2012.
Harding, who started both games of the home-and-home set, lost his only career start vs Flyers, giving up five goals on 34 shots faced on Jan. 17, 2012. Niklas Backstrom is 1-3-0 with a 3.73 goals against average in four career starts versus the Flyers.
Philadelphia opened up a six-game road trip with a 3-2 shootout win over the Nashville Predators on Saturday. It was the Flyers' second straight win overall and improved them to 8-2-1 in the past 11.
Vincent Lecavalier notched the lone goal of the shootout and Steve Mason made 34 saves. Claude Giroux and Sean Couturier scored in regulation, with the latter's tally coming with 6:54 to go in regulation to tie the game.
"It's nice to get a win in the shootout. I'm not a big fan but I'll take the two points," Mason admitted. "It's a huge step. Even without our best effort, to come out and get a win is huge."
Mason is 4-6-1 with a 2.79 GAA in 11 career meetings with the Wild.
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CORUSCANT — Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed in a firefight with Imperial forces near Alderaan, Darth Vader announced on Sunday.
In a late-night appearance in the East Room of the Imperial Palace, Lord Vader declared that "justice has been done" as he disclosed that agents of the Imperial Army and stormtroopers of the 501st Legion had finally cornered Kenobi, one of the leaders of the Jedi rebellion, who had eluded the Empire for nearly two decades. Imperial officials said Kenobi resisted and was cut down by Lord Vader's own lightsaber. He was later dumped out of an airlock....
"For over two decades, Kenobi has been the Jedi rebellion's leader and symbol," the Lord of the Sith said in a statement broadcast across the galaxy via HoloNet. "The death of Kenobi marks the most significant achievement to date in our empire's effort to defeat the rebel alliance. But his death does not mark the end of our effort. There's no doubt that the rebellion will continue to pursue attacks against us. We must and we will remain vigilant at home and abroad."
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I don't know who created this page, but it's simultaneously awesome and offensive. The United States is like the Galactic Empire, HA! The United States isn't that awesome.
Unless it's the real reason we are trillions in debt, we don't actually have the force. Though I will concede somebody learned the Jedi mind trick back in November '08.
Nobody has any lightsabers, unless you count these...
I mean, really, they look like soft serve ice cream...and who's afraid of frozen treats?
Al Gore, and his global warming minions are the only real American Stormtroopers. Even though they're a bunch of weiners, they're not clones, but if we wanted to get super technical then their intellect is pretty artificial.
Also, it was SO hilarious when the Vader mantle was hung around Cheney's neck, but hanging a guy like Vader around the neck of a black president is super racist. To say nothing of the hanging reference.
I fixed the picture so people don't focus on how racist it is to equate the blackness of Darth Vader to a president like Obama.


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Tuesday night was a big night for Obama and an historic night for gay rights proponents. Alas, after the issue had been presented to state voters 32 times, Maine and Maryland both voted by a 52-48 percent margin to legalize gay marriage, adding to the total of states that have approved same-sex marrriage which include: Vermont, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and the District of Columbia. Maine's new marriage equality will take effect 30-days from now on December 7, while Maryland's will take effect on January 1, 2013. (Update: As of this afternoon, it's been reported Washington State voted to pass Referendum 74 allowing same-sex marriage!)
This isn't shocking as a 2010 poll showed that more Americans supported gay marriage than opposed it and this past year President Obama publicly endorsed same-sex marriage. Other celebrity activists openly took a stand on gay marriage this year including Anne Hathaway who donated all the proceeds from her wedding photos to a marriage equality group, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson who announced his engagement to fiance Justin Mikita in a YouTube video along with the launch of a new organization, Tie the Knot, which sells bow ties to raise money for marriage equality.
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Stories from people who were children during World War II and the objects in this exhibit animate the past and inform us of a time when war took over daily life. "Retrospect is a very interesting thing," says Ruthie Kallnder. "At the time I don't recall any of the information we got as being propaganda," but the government tried to influence children to make "necessary" sacrifices. Propagandists made the war a battle between good and evil, democracy and fascism. They also asked children to share in the war effort. In response, many children took on more responsibilities. Ruthie explains that boys and girls felt "if that's what it was going to take" to win they "were willing to do it." The memories of the people in this exhibit and their wartime actions show the power of propaganda's messages and its lasting affect on their lives. Propaganda posters, children's books, and classroom assignments demonstrate how propagandists reached children and involved them in the national war effort.
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is one of the most important works in the genesis of modern art. The painting depicts five naked prostitutes in a brothel; two of them push aside curtains around the space where the other women strike seductive and erotic poses—but their figures are composed of flat, splintered planes rather than rounded volumes, their eyes are lopsided or staring or asymmetrical, and the two women at the right have threatening masks for heads. The space, too, which should recede, comes forward in jagged shards, like broken glass. In the still life at the bottom, a piece of melon slices the air like a scythe.
The faces of the figures at the right are influenced by African masks, which Picasso assumed had functioned as magical protectors against dangerous spirits: this work, he said later, was his "first exorcism painting." A specific danger he had in mind was life-threatening sexual disease, a source of considerable anxiety in Paris at the time; earlier sketches for the painting more clearly link sexual pleasure to mortality. In its brutal treatment of the body and its clashes of color and style (other sources for this work include ancient Iberian statuary and the work of Paul Cézanne), Les Demoiselles d'Avignon marks a radical break from traditional composition and perspective.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon marks a radical break from traditional composition and perspective in painting. It depicts five naked women with figures composed of flat, splintered planes and faces inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks. The compressed space the figures inhabit appears to project forward in jagged shards; a fiercely pointed slice of melon in the still life of fruit at the bottom of the composition teeters on an impossibly upturned tabletop. These strategies would be significant in Picasso's subsequent development of Cubism, charted in this gallery with a selection of the increasingly fragmented compositions he created in this period.
Picasso unveiled the monumental painting in his Paris studio after months of revision. The Avignon of the work's title is a reference to a street in Barcelona famed for its brothel. In Picasso's preparatory studies for the work, the figure at the left was a man, but the artist eliminated this anecdotal detail in the final painting.
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Curator, Ann Temkin: This painting is titled, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, "The women of Avignon," and it's Avignon Street in the city of Barcelona where Picasso was a young artist. The demoiselles d'Avignon are actually five prostitutes, and these are five women—obviously naked—and they're looking at us as much as we're looking at them.
The very early studies show a sailor walking into this curtained room where the ladies stand and the woman on the far left now has the traces of having been that man entering the room, and you even feel a certain masculinity in the sort of sculptural carving of her body and the way that very large foot is stepping toward the others. It almost seems like its a build-up of geometric forms, and if you look at the chest of the woman at the very top right, you can see one of these cubes making up the space underneath her chin, thus the name Cubism.
One striking aspect of this painting is the way this stage on which these women are painted is almost looming out at the viewer. Rather than feeling like these women are nice and safely set back in some kind of room that you are peering into, I, at least, feel like the women are almost piled atop of each other and piled in such a way onto the canvas that they almost could step out of it at the viewer. It's part of the desire of the painting to confront you physically, psychologically, as well as intellectually, with everything that's going on in it.
Director, Glenn Lowry: This painting was restored in 2003 and 2004.
Conservator, Jim Coddington: Demoiselles d'Avignon has traveled around a bit, from studio to studio, while in Picasso's possession. There's a certain amount of wear and tear, and just the natural aging process.
The painting was first restored in the late 1940s. The varnish was put on in the 1950s to afford protection from dirt and grime. The reason it needed to be restored now is that the varnish had discolored and was muting the bright, vibrant palette of Picasso and was also diminishing the crispness and vitality of the brush strokes. And also some of the retouching that had happened over the years no longer matched the surrounding original paint. By retouching, I mean areas where original paint has been lost, and a restorer has simply retouched the lost areas. And over time, sometimes, those retouchings do not match any longer, and therefore throw off the balance of the painting as well.
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The Girl in Pink Dress
There was this little girl sitting by herself in the park.
Everyone passed by her and never stopped to see why she looked so sad.
Dressed in a worn pink dress, barefoot and dirty, the girl just sat And watched the people go by.
She never tried to speak.
She never said a word.
Many people passed by her, but no one would stop.
The next day I decided to go back to the park in curiosity to see If the little girl would still be there.
Yes, she was there, right in the very spot where she was Yesterday, and still with the same sad look in her eyes
Today I was to make my own move and walk over to the little girl.
For as we all know, a park full of strange people is not a place for young children to play alone.
As I got closer I could see the back of the little girl's dress.
It was grotesquely shaped.
I figured that was the reason people just passed by and made no Effort to speak to her.
Deformities are a low blow to our society and, heaven forbid if you make a step toward assisting someone who is different.
As I got closer, the little girl lowered her eyes slightly to Avoid my intent stare.
As I approached her, I could see the shape of her back more clearly.
She was grotesquely shaped in a humped over form.
I smiled to let her know it was OK; I was there to help, to talk.
I sat down beside her and opened with a simple, 'Hello'
The little girl acted shocked, and stammered a 'hi '; after a long stare into my eyes.
I smiled and she shyly smiled back..
We talked until darkness fell and the park was completely empty.
I asked the girl why she was so sad.
The little girl looked at me with a sad face said, 'Because, I'm Different...'
I immediately said, 'That you are!'; and smiled.
The little girl acted even sadder and said, 'I know.'
'Little girl,' I said, 'you remind me of an angel, sweet and innocent.'
She looked at me and smiled, then slowly she got to her feet and Said, 'Really?'
'Yes, you're like a little Guardian Angel sent to watch over all the people walking by.'
She nodded her head yes, and smiled.
With that she opened the back of her pink dress and allowed her Wings to spread, then she said 'I am.'
'I'm your Guardian Angel,' with a twinkle in her eye..
I was speechless -- sure I was seeing things.
She said, 'For once you thought of someone other than yourself.
My job here is done'..
I got to my feet and said, 'Wait, why did no one stop to help an Angel?'
She looked at me, smiled, and said, 'You're the only one that could see me,' and then she was gone.
And with that, my life was changed dramatically.
So, when you think you're all you have, remember, your angel is Always watching over you.
Like the story says, we all need someone...
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Relax your mind and humble your heart to focus on Christ. Allow God to be the only person on your mind while you read this prayer. If we can take the time to read long jokes, stories, etc., we should give the same respect to this prayer. Friends, who pray together, stay together.
Dear Lord, I thank you for this day. I thank You for my being able to see and to hear this morning.. I'm blessed because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God. You have done so much for me and You keep on blessing me. Forgive me this day for everything I have done, said or thought that was not pleasing to you. I ask now for Your forgiveness.
Please keep me safe from all danger and harm. Help me to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me make the best of each day to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.
Let me not whine and whimper over things I have no control over. Let me continue to see sin through God's eyes and acknowledge it as evil. And when I sin, let me repent, and confess with my mouth my wrongdoing, and receive the forgiveness of God.
And when this world closes in on me, let me remember Jesus' example -- to slip away and find a quiet place to pray. It's the best response when I'm pushed beyond my limits. I know that when I can't pray, You listen to my heart. Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others. Keep me strong that I may help the weak. Keep me uplifted that I may have words of encouragement for others. I pray for those who are lost and can't find their way. I pray for those who are misjudged and misunderstood. I pray for those who don't know You intimately. I pray for those who will delete this without sharing it with others. I pray for those who don't believe. But I thank you that I believe.
I believe that God changes people and God changes things. I pray for all my sisters and brothers. For every family member in their households. I pray for peace, love and joy in their homes that they are out of debt and all their needs are met.
I pray that every eye that reads this knows there is no problem, circumstance, or situation greater than God. Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight. I pray that these words be received into the hearts of every eye that sees them and every mouth that confesses them willingly..
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Enjoy Life....Stay Focused....Thanks Much For Being,My Friend.
This morning when God opened a window to Heaven ,He saw me and asked My child what is your greatest wish for today? I responded, Please take care of the 1 who is reading this message & their family & their special friends. They deserve it & I love them very much. The love of God is like the ocean, you can see its beginning, but not its end.
ANGELS EXIST but sometimes, since they don't all have wings we call them FRiENDS.
Your life is like a cake .
The cake has something Bitter(chocolate), Sweet(Sugar), Raw(eggs), and Tasteless(Flour).But when you put it all together in the fire of the oven it comes out wonderful. Look at your life then see what God has done as the cake.
He will make it wonderful.
Keep adding God's ingredients and it will come out wonderful.
May God bless you this coming year in all that you do.
If your cake looks like one of these,
remember God loves you and won't give up on you~ Your friend and supporter, SweetLucy I wish you a Happy and Blessed 2010!
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This poem is very sweet.
If I could catch a rainbow
I would do it just for you
And share with you its beauty
On the days you're feeling blue.
If I could build a mountain
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A place to find serenity,
A place to be alone.
If I could take your troubles
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But all these things I'm finding
Are impossible for me.
I cannot build a mountain
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- e-Patient Dave deBronkart
- Nashua, NH
- United States
Change Advocate for Participatory Medicine / Let Patients Help, Society for Participatory Medicine
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"WHY is the patient the most under-used resource in healthcare?? How did that happen?" (Follow-up to LIVE TED Conversation July 27)
"e-Patient Dave" deBronkart is an advocate for patients being "E": empowered, engaged in their care, equipped, enabled, educated, etc. As described in his talk from TEDx Maastricht, he beat a near-fatal cancer, supplementing his great medical care by using the internet in every way possible.
Today, as blog manager and volunteer co-chair of the Society for Participatory Medicine, he has studied the social, technical and sometimes political factors that make healthcare ignore the potential of patients contributing to their care.
In his TEDTalk, he quotes senior physicians who have said for decades that patients are the most under-utilized resource in healthcare.
Why is that? How did it get to be that way? Is change valid? Why now, and not 20 years ago? And what can we do about it?
Watch the talk, and come back to discuss. *Your family* will be affected someday.
ADMIN EDIT: e-Patient Dave has requested that we keep this conversation open for 1 week. After 2pm ET July 27, he will periodically check in to answer questions and respond to comments.
Jul 27 2011: If you have a bunch of kids on a playground and you don't TELL them to do whatever they want, they will stick to very specific activities or ones they saw before.
If you have a bunch of patients and you don't TELL them to ask questions, tweet each other, talk about their concerns, etc. - making a "safe zone" for patients - they will follow whatever the person ahead of them did. (see also: reports of people following the white lines on a road, rather than the path of the road)
Jul 27 2011: Whitney, another "thumbs up" - create a "safe zone" for patients, giving them PERMISSION to go crazy :) talking to others. My physician, Dr. Danny Sands, encourages other docs to break the ice by ASKING "Have you looked up anything medical online?" He says it's like introducing questions about drug use and sex so the patient knows the topic is not off the table and he's willing to discuss it.
I love the "safe zone" metaphor.
Chris Mason
Jul 27 2011: interesting analogy whitney. reminds me of some of the ken robinson ted talks about how we're trained to be good rule followers and not good critical thinkers in many education systems.
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Jul 27 2011: Ken Robinson is a very smart man! ;)
It was traditionally VERY disgraceful to question someone's statements in front of them. Now we are asking people to do so for the greater good. Quite a change for the rule followers of the day.
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Jul 27 2011: I think following the person ahead of you without thinking first is awful.
I agree with you on the discussion front. When facing bladder cancer as a family, we turned to a very small message board community of patients and practitioners all swapping support and interpretation of results/outcomes among one another. At times, I needed the other daughter-caregivers to educate me. At times, I needed the patients to educate me. At times, I needed the practitioners to educate me on making a decision or understanding a finding. The forum has now blossomed and formalized to be more helpful and more robust but it was an eye-opening moment for me to see that people WOULD come together when they needed it most.Jul 27 2011: > We shouldn't be divided into patients and doctors fronts.
Exactly! I'm volunteer co-chair of the Society for **Participatory** Medicine - see the description at the top of www.ParticipatoryMedicine.org - "a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners." It's about the collaboration, the partnership.
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Jul 27 2011: Nafissa, that's a SHARP set of perceptions. You get some prize, on my planet.Jul 27 2011: My MD, Dr. Danny Sands, is one of those who prefers proactive patients. ("E-patients: empowered, engaged, equipped, enabled, educated...") But many docs prefer passive. How could things have evolved that way?
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Dianna Kane
Jul 27 2011: A doctor I work closely with is fond of saying that these days, he's everyone's second opinion. Google is their first. Patients are coming in with computer print-outs of diagnoses they think they might have, so that, on top of having to discuss with the patient their condition, the doctor also has to spend 10 minutes of that 15minute slot convincing the patient that they don't have the thing they found on the internet. There's a downside to "empowered" patients when we don't have to the tools to properly diagnose and care for ourselves, and I think this sort of behavior actually comes as a result of patients wanting to get a jump start on their very short, very stressful doctor's visit.Jul 27 2011: Dianna, yes, dealing with printouts can take more time, especially if patients don't know what they're doing. But data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that the vast majority of US adults ARE routinely seeking medical information online. And Time magazine had an item in January http://e-patients.net/archives/2011/01/is-the-culture-budging-time-reports-that-informed-patients-can-help-doctors.html where Dr. Zachary Meisel reported that a patient's smart printouts helped him reach the right diagnosis more quickly.
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Dumb questions are dumb questions and always will be. Do we tell patients to just shut up? Not gonna happen. (It may help to think about it in pediatric terms: do docs want parents to stop trying to understand their babies' conditions?) I say no; the solution is to enable, train, empower, teach the patients.
Tracie Evans
Jul 27 2011: I think the docs just got used to patients being passive, thus the family of the patients took note, continued the trend and the docs continued their part. Ditto Nafissa. My mom screamed and kicked and that is what I do.
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Jul 27 2011: I also see your point Dianna, especially your last sentence; In my country I know that I have 10 minutes with my GP when I make an appointment. The way these appointments are scheduled are structured in a way to fit you out with a lable as soon as possible.
A specialist has a bit more time, but by the time you see him or her you have been living with your health complaints or illness for weeks (or months) while waiting for your appointment. Ample time to have a look online to try and make sense of what is happening to your body. It is not a hobby to visit dr. Google. It is done because you are being scared, confused and worried.
It might help if my GP when referring me would point me in a direction of solid good information about my condition or complaints. Even if my complaints are not yet properly diagnosed. Aknowlegde the fact that I probably will go online, and guide me.Jul 27 2011: I agree with Ragna, and would add that doctors may feel undermined by the internet, so feel a need to be even more assertive than they did before (if that's possible). They may also know that many patients, particularly more educated people, seem to trust their doctors less than they used to - there has been so much publicity about doctor error and conditions that originate in hospitals, it's not surprising that people are wary.Jul 27 2011: Julia, re docs feeling undermined by the internet:
There's an important distinction here. In one view, docs are trained in at least two different things: medical FACTS and medical THINKING. As I mentioned in my talk, my PATIENT COMMUNITY had facts that many oncologists don't. But that doesn't make the patients oncologists!
It's no longer realistic to expect anyone to know everything. More than 3,000 medical journal articles are published every day now, and besides, physicians are increasingly pressured to see more people. (In the US, the average family doctor has about 2,000 patients now! Imagine how many conditions s/he must manage.)
In contrast to that, a patient or family has a far more limited set.
That's why the video doesn't say "down with doctors" - doctors saved my life! (See my anniversary post last week http://epatientdave.com/2011/07/23/thanks-to-you-who-saved-me./.) It ends with the chant: Let Patients HELP.Jul 27 2011: "But the problem is patients do not know how much they are capable of. "
Exactly.Jul 27 2011: i think demographics are changing as culture is for (e) patients as in empowered patients. a lot iot is in the open already, a lot is not yet. things will change in this decade, and technology will boost things in an exponential way
Many docs like pro-active pat, but often they find inaccurate info on the web. as HC institutions we have to look in the mirror and clear things in our own "home" first, by putting it online in an understandable way, in a findable way, in a timely manner..
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Jul 27 2011: nope worldwide. More and more people grew up with using a mouse, used to asking for things they want, not so in a "waiting" position then a lot of people receiving HC nowadays.. Don't you agree ?
Sarah Wilcox
Jul 27 2011: Nafissa, you're absolutely right about patient empowerment. We're entering a new phase of engagement, whereby it's essential to an individual's good health to be involved in their care and the cost of those services. i've worked in health care for 25 years, and there are several types of doctors and patient segments that run the spectrum of engagement.Jul 27 2011: Nafissa you are very right with " this is something needs to be tackled from both sides: how we educate and train our doctors & how we encourage and educate our patients." I have way too much experience with Dr's completely disrespecting how very MUCH I know about my very complex case & preferring to diagnose something 'easy" they "know" & can be sent away medicated... Patients DO need to be educated & empowered--because no one can really know how a patient feels but that patient! IT USED TO BE you went to a Dr & then TOLD THE DR how you feel. For many years now..you go to a Dr, that Dr reads lab tests that may not even be YOURS...& then tells YOU how you feel...often missing the boat altogether...Patients who are mostly NOT trained in knowing how their own body functions go away believing what the Dr said...sometimes relevant sometime not..& usually being medicated...
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Jan Kremer
Jul 27 2011: Maybe we should skip the word patient. Let's talk about TIFKAP, The Individual Formerly Known As Patient!
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Jul 27 2011: Hey Jan !! good to meet here as well (our TIFKAP as in Professor ;-)Jul 27 2011: Let TIFKAP's help to improve Healthcare !!Jul 27 2011: In my experience, it's not just the patient, but the patient records that are underutilized. During my last three ER visits, all because of kidney stones and infections, the ER doctors largely ignored both me and the file and tried other diagnoses before treating the cause of record. The kidney ailment was easily verified by ultrasound, but the doctors wanted to check my gall bladder and non-existent appendix. One even accused me of being an alcoholic and tried to diagnose me with pancreatitis.
Jul 27 2011: Kitty, if I could hit thumbs-up 12 times on this, I would. You're right about the patient records. In fact the vast majority of HC in my experience has little to no clue, day to day, of how to make use of the medical record. MOST records contain outright errors - one of my x-ray reports identified me as a 53 year old woman!
Jul 27 2011: I thought electronic recordkeeping would help, but one of the nurses told me that, in this very new hospital, they had compatibility issues between the palm-top devices they purchased and the recordkeeping software, so they can't even use the portable system. Someone bought a fancy barcode reading system, and it is so cumbersome to use, it wastes time.
Hospitals need to be far more tech savvy.
Jul 27 2011: Shiny cool tools is not always the best approach.Jul 27 2011: Yes yes, Kitty: as electronic records start to roll out in healthcare (a truly massive industry) there will be some LONG periods of adjustment. It took the banking industry 10+ years to get it right - some of the early websites were comical. Healthcare is bigger, and the data is far more complex, so it will be IMPORTANT for us to keep an eye on our data - and our moms' data, and our kids' data..... PATIENT ENGAGEMENT.Jul 27 2011: Agreed, John! (Good to see you here!)Jul 27 2011: Just like it goed for some doctors and nurses : listen to what's needed. This goes for industry as well, a lot of push things hit the market that nobody asked for, but is send and showed to staff and administrators. Then brought into practice and not being used. so start with listeningJul 27 2011: And it took 2 months to get them to fix it - they're not accustomed to patients pointing things out, and not accustomed to LISTENING to patients. It's all part of the same cultural question in this conversation: WHY are patients under-utilized?Jul 27 2011: But what do you do if your records for a 6 year span are lost? Or even with this wonderful idea of EHR, the lights go out?Jul 27 2011: Hey Dave -- my feeling is, this situation came up, in part, because it's just really hard to start the conversation about data with your doctor. Neither patient or doctor is comfortable with this yet; I know I'd have a hard time knowing where to start. Can you share some strategies for starting the conversation about data with your own physician?Jul 27 2011: I agree, Shawn, patients became complacent - like a child in a classroom. Doctors became the teachers and we became the students. We didn't ask questions or poke around for more information in an effort to not be disrespectful to those in the field. Similar to what happens in some religious communities and practices.
Jul 27 2011: Great point, Whitney and Shawn, about us becoming complacent.
Jul 27 2011: I also think data and awareness has made us more complex and complicated. You used to call for the doctor, they triaged things and we all went on about our agrarian lifestyle. A patient like myself, with asthma, wasn't educated on lifestyle changes to improve health...prevention didn't really exist (ie: don't play with dust bunnies). Diagnostics and the rapid pace information flows at now are impressive. No single person can stay on top of it, so we need to re-educate people/society to embrace the ability to say "I don't know but I'll look into it"Jul 27 2011: I agree as well Whitney, and the relation that we pay homage to people held of high esteem like doctors, clergymen, and government officials that surely wont do you wrong makes us lay back, even when red flags are sounding off everywhere.Jul 27 2011: I'm a designer and I see this issue in the medical area from a design point of view. I ask myself (as a patient) questions like "Why not making that clinical history more usable for me?" "Why *my* medical information is just useful for the doctors?" "Why aren't we more involved in the decisions about our health?". If we -the patients- are the source and the end point of the decisions that doctors make based on our information, why can we be part of that system?
Designers and doctors can work together in order to think of a new paradigm for the healthcare service!
PD:Sorry my english! I'm from Argentina.
Jul 27 2011: YES YES YES, Eugenia! Design firms like Ideo are getting deeply involved in redesigning the care transaction. Also, WIRED editor Thomas Goetz gave a great TED talk about applying good graphic design to medical data. I'll paste in the URL in my closing statement.
Jul 27 2011: Thank you! And yes, I think the change is about to come. Great conversation by the way!
EDIT: I just saw your presentation here in TED and let me tell you that you are a brave man! I admire you!
Jody Schoger
Jul 27 2011: Dave,
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I have a lot of thoughts about the necessary and essential transition we're experiencing now.
1) Culture - away from he "Dr. Welby" system where one person knew all. For complex and chronic illness it takes a team of people working together - not one individual.
2) Physician training - reading Siddartha Mukherjee or Atul Gawande shows how the "physician centric" system developed. Changes are in progress and as a rule, are we finding younger physicians more willing to work with their patients? I hope so.
3) Empowment - we see the role of advocacy in the breast cancer movement, starting in the 70's. We also see how it can go overboard when emotion overrides evidence. I can't stress enough how deeply I encourage women to seek info, ask, ask some more, and learn. If we aren't engaged in our own health, how can our docs give us their best advice?
4) Portable info - check and double check. Agree on errors. I found them on bills, in reports, in a lot of places. People check their bills but not their medical records?
Just a few thoughts...
Jul 27 2011: agreed +100 !
Add to that the ambition that we i.e. took at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre to embrace patient, family and informal care INTO then HC team, and we will have a eCo system in stead of an eGo system ;-)
Jul 27 2011: We need more stories like this, too:) That is a good one.
Jul 27 2011: hat's why i am so glad that we were able to give Dave a stage and our friends here at TED picked it up. This truly IS changing HC at present We have had numerous requests for the video, and contacts and/or vision behind our REshape (www.radboudreshapecenter.com) steps. Not only in or own University Hospital people are using TED vide's (like Simon Sinek's or Daniel Krafts' or Dave's to address needed change. The power of TED for healthcare is awesome. Shift STARTS to happen Jody ! (r)evolution coming up !Jul 28 2011: Um, Lucien, I think in your late-night haste in the Netherlands, you got that backwards. :) You meant:
"... to embrace patient, family and informal care INTO the HC team, and we will have a eCo system instead of an eGo system ;-)"
Jul 28 2011: tnx Dave right ! Have corrected the way i normally state this ;: http://www.slideshare.net/lucienengelen/lucien-engelen-keynote-doctors-20/20Jul 27 2011: So, I'm starting to see one answer emerging over and over here, re "WHY are patients underutilized?" One answer: because WE DON'T SPEAK UP, STAND UP, ACT UP and ASK FOR IT.
Marley V
Jul 27 2011: I once had a doctor who would answer any question... if you could ask it. He ran in and out of the room so quickly he was sometimes gone before I came out of "wait" mode and into an active analysis. I finally dealt with it by planting myself in front of the door as soon as he walked in. Once he COULDN'T leave, we were able to actually discuss problems.
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I understand the pressures on him, but why should this be necessary? Shouldn't the process start with an assessment and move forward from there? Should an assessment be "Well, she's upright and breathing, she can't be too bad. Next patient!"
Jul 27 2011: > I planted myself in front of the door
LOVE IT!! That's being proactive and empowered!
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Tracie Evans
Jul 27 2011: You are correct Nafissa, patients do trust the doctors too much. Just think if Dave had not done any research. We would not be here today speaking with him! You may not have to be a skeptic as much as just ask some questions.Jul 27 2011: Starts with taking up stages, using SoMe, write articles and tryo find ways to be head. Of all era in history patients now have the most tools ever !Jul 27 2011: Less than 5 minutes ago: Sadly this is very true my mum passed away from Cancer 15 years ago. SHe knew something was wrong and the doctors kept telling her that is was nothing to worry about. She went to several doctors and indeed trusted them even though her gut feeling was that something was clearly not right. If only she had the online communities back then that we have now. It would have probably empowered her to speak up, voice her concerns and ultimately would have saved her. SO I truly believe it is emportant we help patients feel like they are worth listening to.
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Jul 27 2011: Absolutely. I'm sorry about your Mum, too. How can doctors determine someone's treatment if they don't listen? It boggles the mind, doesn't it? But I know how often this happens. I'm talking with a 38-year old, recently diagnosed w/rapidly developing cancer, who PUSHED and argued for a mammogram because she felt "something was wrong." That persistence, that argument probably saved her life.
Jul 27 2011: Thank you, you are too kind. I think my mum's story is one amongst many sadly.
I think in some bizarre way there is still some sort of 'tabou' between the patients and the doctors, and even between patients sometimes. This is why I think 'anonymous' online communities could potentially be life saving as people are more relaxed to talk honestly about what they are feeling and where and what exactly they think is wrong. This is especially the case with 'non-commercial' deseases, the ones ones is to 'ashamed' to talk about.
She definitely did the right thing in pushing, it is her life after all, she is fighting for.Jul 27 2011: But is that really ALL? Not standing up or failing to act? This has to be a two way street, there is something else we may be missing, but what?Jul 27 2011: Not all patients are assertive... those that are not assertive are NOT STUPID. They just don't speak up. The attitude that we MUST be assertive to get treated as a human is OLD.Jul 27 2011: Like the "unspoken" best practice we all adhere to within #hcsm - if you are an office that won't email with patients (and hopefully you also tweet/text/etc) for appointments, refills and labs - then we are moving along to the next office that will.
We, as patients, need to do the same. If you aren't getting what you need from your practitioner - FIND ANOTHER ONE. Create the demand for better healthcare. The pack will follow.Jul 27 2011: I agree that patients don't always prepare their information, and don't always speak up. But clinicians don't always listen, and don't make time or room for the patient to ask when the patient is ready. For example, a serious diagnosis is usually greeted with shock by the patient, and questions are only formulated much later. Is there a handout from the doctor, including written information summarizing the condition, treatment options, prognosis, and resources for help? In the hospital setting, one of the best resources for this is the medical librarian. Some forward-thinking hospitals are including their librarians in the team, as they can follow up with print information, websites, support groups, etc. when the patient is ready.Jul 27 2011: http://www.imaginaria.com.ar/05/0/cat2.jpgJul 27 2011: I think it starts out with your starting position. Patient and physicians need to share and work together. It is like being on a climbing wall. You need someone to check your equipment, and secure your line. Though your role might be different, your goal is the same.
The sharing part is the part that needs to be taught. Taught to the workers in healthcare ánd to patients.Jul 27 2011: It is very common for a physician to think they know much more than the patient, but things are changing fast. With medical knowledge expanding exponentially, access to it on the internet, and especially with patients having access to each other, I believe we in the health care system have to change the actual system structure of how we care for patients and each other, and include them (actually ask them to be invited) on to teams and work together in a systems approach.
I believe it is the structure of our individual physician practice and the hospital hierarchy and vertical department system structures that cause the patient to be such an underutilized resource.
Jenna McAsey
Jul 27 2011: very well considered Bruce - thank you. The speediness of medical service is really a large piece of the imbalance it seems to me - A buddhist teacher put it this way 'Speed is the enemy of mindfulness. The antidote is being appreciative and observant of life's every detail.'. - Sokyam Rinpoche. This is hardly available in the 15 minutes generally provided.Jul 27 2011: I don't think of myself as an expert on medicine. I am an expert on ME, and on the experience I had with a particular illness. And as an expert on me, I want my clinician to consult with me, not dictate at me.
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Dianna Kane
Jul 27 2011: I think one contributing factor to patient dis-empowerment are the constraints that our insurance system puts on the time that doctors can spend with patients. There's very little time for doctors and patients to really talk!
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Jul 27 2011: Dianna, that is a great point. If patients and doctors are pressed for time and patients are underutilized, how can they become effective collaborators in health care?
Jul 27 2011: Lindsey & Dianna, this "insurance constraint" issue is exactly why concierge medicine (direct pay, unlimited services for a flat rate) is coming back into fashion. The more expensive insurance gets, the more people are saying "screw the system." And as a child of the Sixties, I have no objection to that. :)Jul 27 2011: AND, btw, concierge medicine is no longer just for the rich, e.g. $10k/month. I know a group of docs whose members mostly charge < $150/month for unlimited office visits AND most prescriptions are free, bundled into it.


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Thanks I am still working on it but right now the customer installer is almost double the size of the original, it was messy, and didn't work right. The only thing it did was put most of the files and registry entries where they needed to be. Neither WMP10 or WMP11 would run right after using the installer. I used the update.inf files to figure out what went where and what needed to be registered.
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Yes it is. I cannot get WMP11 to hide the controls in fullscreen mode for some reason but I haven't tried much to fix it. One nice touch is that DVD's automatically run in fullscreen.
Is that third screenshot the fullscreen mode?
It runs really well for a beta. It uses between eleven and fifteen megs of memory (playing wma files) when visable and eight megs in mini mode. It is a little slower opening media but its not bad. The new search feature is nice, it searches as you type. One odd thing I found is if I use high quality mode most (of my) divx files do not play correctly.
That looks really nice. Does it run well?
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Unfortunately I don't know yet. The batch file I used won't work for most other pc's because it's based on the speed of the pc. The batch file switches a file mid-install and if the timing isn't perfect you end up with one of two error messages.
So whens the link gonna be Up?
I'm not sure on this, Sorry.
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Is it ever implied anywhere exactly what happened to Doc Hudson between the events of Cars and Cars 2? At I've point one of the characters says something like "doc would've been proud of you". I assume the reason for the character's exclusion is because Paul Newman didn't get signed up.
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Paul Newman died in September 2008 and, although the pre-production on Cars 2 was already in full swing, he was either too ill or already passed on before it came time to do the voice acting.
The scene you mention in your question is a touching homage to the legend that was Newman.
That said, it would have been nice if George Carlin (Fillmore) (and Joe Ranft (Red) for that matter) had been acknowledged in the same way instead of being replaced.


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Oct 26, 2006
Website that lists the angles and other dimensions of the NXT parts?
a reader brought up the question where to find information in the web about angles and dimensions of NXT parts.
Does anybody know about a site that lists these things?
Peeron doesn't, does it?
5 comments:
- Steve said...
This page has some info most people don't know...
- Oct 26, 2006, 10:53:00 PM
- eric said...
BrickLink does a reasonable job at cataloging dimensions. They have recently added NXT parts.
- Oct 26, 2006, 10:58:00 PM
- Jaguar said...
I belive CMU put up ProE models of all the NXT parts, it should be quite easy to dimension these and throw drawings up if anyone is really intrested. I'll do it tonight if have some time.
- Oct 27, 2006, 12:15:00 AM
One of the best sites for this information I have come across is
Look under Technica and then Element List by Class.
I have used it as a reference for a long time but unfortunately it hasn't been updated for a couple of years.
There is a lot of other interesting information on this site as well.
- Oct 27, 2006, 9:52:00 AM
- jaguar said...
I put up some drawings that have the exact dimensions of the various NXT LEGOs over at Motocube.com for those taht are intrested.
- Oct 30, 2006, 3:09:00 AM


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Drinking the Deficit-Reduction Kool-Aid
It was the centerpiece of the president's re-election campaign. Every time Republicans complained about trillion-dollar deficits, he and other Democrats would talk jobs.
That's what Americans care about—jobs with good wages.
And that's part of why Obama and the Democrats were victorious on Election Day.
It seems forever ago, but it's worth recalling that President Obama won re-election by more than 4 million votes, a million more than George W. Bush when he was re-elected—and an Electoral College majority of 332 to Romney's 206, again larger than Bush's electoral majority over Kerry in 2004 (286 to 251). The Democratic caucus in the Senate now has 55 members (up from 53), and Republicans have eight fewer seats in the House than before.
So why, exactly, is Washington back to obsessing about budget deficits? Why is almost all the news coming out of our nation's capital about whether the Democrats or Republicans have the best plan to reduce the budget deficit? Why are we back to showdowns over the deficit?
It makes no sense economically. Cutting the budget deficit—either by reducing public spending or raising taxes on the middle class, or both—will slow the economy and increase unemployment. That's why the so-called "fiscal cliff" is so dangerous.
In the foreseeable future, our government has to spend more rather than less. Businesses won't hire because they still don't have enough consumers to justify additional hires. So to get jobs back at the rate and scale needed, government has to be the spender of last resort.
The job situation is still horrendous. Twenty-three million Americans can't find full-time work. Less than 59 percent of the working-age population of the nation is employed, almost the lowest percent in three decades. tNearly 5 million Americans have been out of work for more than six months. The 40-week average spell of joblessness is almost three times the post-1948 average.
And even those who have jobs are finding it harder to make ends meet. Jobs created since the trough of the recession pay less than jobs that were lost. The median wage is 8 percent below what it was in 2000, adjusted for inflation. And wages are still heading downward: Average hourly earnings in October were 3.1 percent below what they were in October, 2010.
This isn't just an ongoing tragedy for 23 million Americans and their families. It also robs all of us of what these people would produce if they were fully employed—roughly $2 trillion worth of goods and services that won't be created this year.
These folks would also be paying taxes—and they'd require less unemployment insurance, fewer food stamps, and less public assistance than they do now. According to estimates by Bloomberg News, the total cost of those lost tax revenues and the extra social spending is more than twice what taxpayers will shell out this year to pay interest on the federal debt.
In other words, unemployment is hugely expensive. Debt, by contrast, is relatively cheap. The yield on the 10-year Treasury is only about 1.7 percent. Creditors worldwide are willing to lend America money that won't be repaid for a decade at the lowest rate in living memory.
So why are we debating how to cut the deficit when we should be debating how best to use the cheap money we can borrow from the rest of the world to put more Americans to work?
Because too many Democrats inside and outside the Beltway have ingested the deficit Kool-Aid that the "serious people" on Wall Street have been serving for two decades.
And the president has been all too willing to legitimize their deficit obsession by freezing federal salaries, appointing a deficit commission, and now that the election is over, going back to deficit-speak.
A month after the election Obama was on Bloomberg Television saying business leaders need "a deal on long-term deficit reduction" before they'll increase hiring.
That's just not true. Before they'll increase hiring they need customers.
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Sat, 2012-12-15 10:09
The first sentence of this article is a joke. Obama wasn't elected on a platform of jobs. Obama was elected by repeating over and over that the "rich" must "pay their fair share." That's it. Oh, and making Mitt Romney out to be a monster.
Spending is the problem. Not revenue.
Anyone with two eyes and the will to see things as they are can see this.
Sat, 2012-12-15 11:03
Re "Spending is the problem. Not revenue."
In FY 1983 during the Reagan recovery, spending was 23.5% of GDP, taxes were 17.5% of GDP and the deficit was 6% of GDP. In FY 2012, spending was 22.7% of GDP, taxes were 15.7% of GDP and the deficit was 7% of GDP.
In other words, despite LOWER spending last year than under President Reagan, the deficit was higher because tax receipts were too low.
Sat, 2012-12-15 14:55
Reagan was president from 1981 - 1989. Why would you pick 1983 as your example year? Oh yeah, I see...because that was his worst year.
Reagan inherited a recession nearly as bad as Obama did. Unemployment rates actually peaked higher for example. But under Reagan we had a major recovery take place. Under Obama we mainly got people giving up looking for work. Reagan's massive spending also ended the Soviet Union which allowed Clinton to benefit from the end of the cold war. I'm still looking for something we got under Obama's spending...
On to Obama...2 years into Obama's Presidency his spending was 25% of GDP. And from the charts I'm looking at today it's 24%. So Reagan beats every year of Obama. I don't know where you got your number but a simple google is showing me multiple charts based on CBO figures showing numbers higher then yours.
I have no problems indexing taxes with percentage of GDP. I agree they should be higher which means they need to raise everyone's tax rates. Sorry but taxing 1% of americans isn't even going to scratch the surface...there just isn't enough of them left after the Obama recovery (most "rich" people nowadays are being created in other countries, not in the US anymore...). Likewise spending should be indexed to GDP with 20% being the maximum. However we won't be seeing that in my lifetime...
Sat, 2012-12-15 10:52
The problem with most discussions of the fiscal cliff is they discuss HOW to cut future deficits, i.e. the mix of spending cuts and tax increases, but they don't discuss WHEN to cut the deficit. The danger of the "fiscal cliff" is that current law calls for too much deficit reduction, too soon. The cliff is about WHEN, not HOW.
Mr. Reich is correct that we should continue fiscal and monetary stimulus in the short run until the economy fully recovers from the Great Recession. Only then should we phase in significant deficit reduction.
We can see the success of this approach historically:
-We set post WW II records for spending as a % of GDP in FY's 1981, 1982 and 1983, not stopping until ALL of the 2.7 million private sector jobs lost in the downturn of 1981-82 had been recovered. Only after the jobs were recovered did we reduce spending and raise taxes. The recovery continued after we reduced the fiscal stimulus. Government spending in FY 1983 at 23.5% of GDP was HIGHER than last year's 22.7%. In practice, President Reagan was more of a Keynesian than President Obama.
-In contrast, we tried to reduce the deficit in 1937-38 before we had fully recovered from the Great Depression. The result was a double dip recession. This is the approach House Republicans and the Tea Party have been championing for the last 3-4 years.
Mr. Reich is INCORRECT that we need to continue fiscal stimulus for the "foreseeable future." It is possible to estimate how long we need to continue fiscal stimulus.
We lost 8.8 million private sector jobs as a result of the Great Recession between 2/08 and 2/10, more than three times the lost jobs in the early 1980's. Since 3/10 we have recovered 5.1 million private sector jobs--more than enough to recover from any recession since the Great Depression--except this one. The jobs recovery is happening. It is just not complete yet. (See http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001. To highlight the loss and the recovery, set the date range from 2008 to 2012.)
Looking at the graph, it will take about another two years to fully recover the private sector jobs lost due to the Great Recession. Therefore, we should continue fiscal stimulus in FY's 2013 and 2014 and begin phasing in significant deficit reduction beginning in FY 2015. We might need to adjust this somewhat if things change, but FY 2015 provides a pretty good answer for WHEN to begin deficit reduction.
Sat, 2012-12-15 12:01
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of
it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
~ Benjamin Franklin
Sat, 2012-12-15 14:07
Keynesian Deficit spending did NOT work in the 1930's when there was 40-50% unemployment (25% men and 20-25% woman who, then, didn't do paid work--as compared to today)--why would it work today? Clue..it's not working.. $5 Trillion Dollars in deficits in recent years, and your only explanation is it wasn't enough" why do so many over intelligent people miss the obvious, and have no commonsense? You remind me of Lester Thurow , who said, in the 1980's "when japan was going to take over the world" again no common sense. There is always a "lack of demand" in a recession--that's why it''s a recession--artificial Government demand is no answer--the last 3 years have proven that again and again. The Stimulus program did zero, except debt, the federal Reserve saved the day
The reason for joblessness and slow growth is Your favorite person(President Carter--sorry I mean Obama) is the most likely reason--endless more regulations business bashing and other non productive left wing nonsense
Sat, 2012-12-15 14:34
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Sat, 2012-12-15 18:39
Mr. reich and I do use that word lightly are you out of your Fnnn mind? Money is cheap and we haven't spent enough? Of what, China's money? I am sure you have no kids to support any longer and can give a F about us struggling to take care of our own!!!! You limbs reap what you sow and are a complete disgrace and failure of moral and financial compass!!!
Sun, 2012-12-16 07:23
Robert, you are far better educated than I but also far "stupider". In isolation your debt addiction may have some merit, though I disagree with the magnitude you would advise; but......... we live in the real world. Deficit and debt are killing us at an ever increasing rate.
Your solution is like an old person who has been on blood thinner for 20 years, has an accident, is gushing blood and you want to double the thinner dose so as to preclude a stroke!
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Have you heard about the Dogs Against Romney pack? (Not a traditional PAC… do you know any dogs
who throw money around for attack advertisements?) This quickly formed group of canine crusaders is furious about what is being called "Crate Gate". Have you heard about this story?
The Boston Globe first reported on this travesty back in 2007 and now that Mr. Romney is the GOP frontrunner, the story is gaining legs.
Some years ago, when Mitt Romney had a full litter of his own babies at home, the family was on a 12 hour road-trip to Canada with their Irish Setter, Seamus. The Romney clan will not verify details, but this much is known: Poor Seamus was tied to the roof of the family station wagon for the 12 hour drive!!
Until this story, I had never heard such an awful tale (or tail) of disrespect towards a canine family member. I say disrespect because "animal abuse" sounds so harsh, but I suppose in this time of candidate's full-disclosure, we shouldn't sugar-coat such acts.
Can you imagine having the mindset that thinks it's ok to strap a dog to a moving vehicle for 12 hours? If you wouldn't trust a man to watch your dog, you probably shouldn't trust him to watch over your country.
Political pups are uniting across the country to bring light to this awful abuse of trust. Yes, we doggy children trust in our humans to care for us as they would care for a small child. Do you think Willard (Mitt's given name) would tie one of his own human children to a car rooftop? I shudder to think of the answer.
Even worse, it is reported that out of fear Seamus dirtied himself on that rooftop and at a service station Mr. Romney took a hose and washed down the car and the dog (while still strapped to the roof!). What sort of person treats an eternal soul this way?
This scene, while horrifying, makes me think of the iconic "National Lampoon's Vacation" movie where they tied their deceased Aunt Edna on the top of the car. (If you'd like to relive the hilarity of the moment from the movie, click here.) Sure, it's funny when Chevy Chase behaves this way in a sophomoric (albeit, funny!) movie, but a man who wants to be POTUS?
Furry angels like myself, look down (quite literally!) on this type of abusive behavior. Little does Willard know that his millions of dollars in tithing to his church doesn't make up for this incident. He must openly admit his animal abuse and apologize. I've met Seamus and he doesn't think Romney is fit to President (or dogcatcher).
"I Ride Inside" is the motto for Dogs Against Romney. Who else is joining this pawesome pack?