Healthcare

For everyone bitching about the healthcare bill, think about this: Now, you can't be denied coverage because of a broken foot when you were a kid (true story). Now, your parents can't be denied coverage because of blood pressure medication (another true story). Now, your insurance company can't kick you off the policy because you got sick (way too many true stories). "But now people are forced to buy health insurance", you cry. People are forced to buy car insurance too. "But people can choose not to drive", you cry some more. Yes, but people can't choose not to live (well, I suppose they could just kill themselves at that...hopefully, one of those people will be Glen Beck). No, there won't be any effin' death panels or rationed care, nor will the country become a socialist state (as if the previous administration didn't do enough to make that happen). It amazes how some people will believe anything told to them by a "famous" person like "Sarah Palin" (the air quotes were meant to be facetious both times). People were up in arms over medicare, too, when it was enacted in the 60's, talking about the end of our society. Well, just try and get medicare repealed today. That's a political death sentence. You don't like the healthcare reforms? Great. Move to Canada. Oh wait, they have universal health care too. Um, England. Nope, they got it too. Sweden? Same story for most of Europe. In fact, for those of you that state "We have the greatest healthcare system in the world!"....well, we don't. We're generally ranked in the low 30's amongst developed nations in healthcare (We are beating the Russian Federation for all you neo-cons out there). We spend far too much money and get far too little in return. Is this bill going to fix everything? Prolly not. We'll likely have to revisit the issue again. But it gets the ball rolling in the right direction. Which is something those Republican nay-sayers NEVER did. Thanks for reading, you can now return to your regularly scheduled blog reading.

warmer weather is here

It was relatively warm Saturday. We went to the park with some friends and enjoyed the first warm weather of the year. We are definitely an outdoor family when the weather is warm. I can't wait till summer

Ads

So, I decided to put some ads on the blog in an effort to see if my ramblings will generate some income. You aren't required to click on anything, reading about me and my kids is still a free enterprise.

FYI - cold chicken nuggets? Not that good...

Out with some friends. While I don't see the benefits of making this a weekly excursion (I worked in a bar in my younger days and I don't miss it) I could do this on a monthly basis (well, every other month)

Potty Face

I mentioned in the last post that Emma makes a face when she doesn't want to go potty...




Pictures are worth a thousand words, so I'll let them speak for themselves....

Various pics

I finally uploaded pics from my camera that had been collected dust since Thanksgiving. I thought I'd post a few....

Emma and my sister. She really looks like her mother in this pic


Humorously enough, Emma makes this same face when I ask her to go potty (we're in the middle of potty training and it's not going well. This face is generally followed by the phrase "I don't want to")


We were playing around with the camera this morning, taking pics as we got ready. My little cut-ups. In the second pic, Emma is holding her favorite Christmas present, a harmonica. She is very musically inclined. She will burst out in song at the drop of a hat. It's like I'm an extra in a musical.