These are the good old days
Bensblurb #531 3/17/10...And top of the bloomin' green grass finally showing in my yard this sunny day! And may my dear ancestor Mattie Doolin (on my father's side) rest comfortably.
For these are the good old days!
“As they got older, my parents noticed to their dismay that their friends talked more and more about their doctors. According to my parents, nearly all of their friends liked their doctors. However, there was always something to complain about -- a personality quirk, a failure to return a call...Grievances like these tended to dominate the conversations that so annoyed my parents.
“If Obamacare passes, President Obama and the Democrats will become part of, and perhaps dominate, most of these conversations. Every excessive wait, every missed phone call, every postponed appointment will become Obama's fault.
This will be true even if the quality of the doctor-patient relationship does not deteriorate under Obamacare. It is human nature when something goes wrong to romanticize the past, forgetting that the same thing probably went wrong just as often back in the day. And, since most Americans, including the elderly, are reasonably satisfied overall with their health care, it will be easy to romanticize the past.”--by Paul Mirengoff, Power Line.
Romanticize the past? Not me. The girls in our day, however, were a lot prettier than those kids today. Absolutely.
“...Democrats are behaving as if, once they jam ObamaCare through, nothing else matters. It's like they'll never have to worry about being the minority party in need of constitutional checks and balances. A sensible president would of course step in and provide some adult supervision to a wayward party hell-bent on jumping off this cliff. But the problem is that President Obama believes in his own messianism too deeply for that...In his book Dreams From My Father Obama gives the distinct impression that his gifts are too great for the smallness of our political stage. He regrets not having been born during the civil rights era when the grandness of the cause would have measured up to the grandness of his ambition. He is in search of something big that will allow him to make his mark on the world as Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King did.” Forbes.com
Maybe it’s just as well that the giant asteroid struck, obliterating those giant dinosaurs from the face of the earth. After all, they had a large carbon footprint.
And by the way:
We’re here to help (as April 15 approaches):
Arriving at Harv's Metro Car Wash Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," says Harv's owner...
The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to the on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was ... 4 cents. Inexplicably, penalties and taxes accruing on the debt – stemming from the 2006 tax year – were listed as $202.31, leaving Harv's with an obligation of $202.35.--Sacramento Bee
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For these are the good old days!
“As they got older, my parents noticed to their dismay that their friends talked more and more about their doctors. According to my parents, nearly all of their friends liked their doctors. However, there was always something to complain about -- a personality quirk, a failure to return a call...Grievances like these tended to dominate the conversations that so annoyed my parents.
“If Obamacare passes, President Obama and the Democrats will become part of, and perhaps dominate, most of these conversations. Every excessive wait, every missed phone call, every postponed appointment will become Obama's fault.
This will be true even if the quality of the doctor-patient relationship does not deteriorate under Obamacare. It is human nature when something goes wrong to romanticize the past, forgetting that the same thing probably went wrong just as often back in the day. And, since most Americans, including the elderly, are reasonably satisfied overall with their health care, it will be easy to romanticize the past.”--by Paul Mirengoff, Power Line.
Romanticize the past? Not me. The girls in our day, however, were a lot prettier than those kids today. Absolutely.
“...Democrats are behaving as if, once they jam ObamaCare through, nothing else matters. It's like they'll never have to worry about being the minority party in need of constitutional checks and balances. A sensible president would of course step in and provide some adult supervision to a wayward party hell-bent on jumping off this cliff. But the problem is that President Obama believes in his own messianism too deeply for that...In his book Dreams From My Father Obama gives the distinct impression that his gifts are too great for the smallness of our political stage. He regrets not having been born during the civil rights era when the grandness of the cause would have measured up to the grandness of his ambition. He is in search of something big that will allow him to make his mark on the world as Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King did.” Forbes.com
Maybe it’s just as well that the giant asteroid struck, obliterating those giant dinosaurs from the face of the earth. After all, they had a large carbon footprint.
And by the way:
We’re here to help (as April 15 approaches):
Arriving at Harv's Metro Car Wash Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," says Harv's owner...
The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to the on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was ... 4 cents. Inexplicably, penalties and taxes accruing on the debt – stemming from the 2006 tax year – were listed as $202.31, leaving Harv's with an obligation of $202.35.--Sacramento Bee
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