Today is the 5th Blog For Choice day held in the blogesphere, an event historically held on the anniversary of Roe v Wade. Today is the 37th anniversary of Roe v Wade.

The topic is: What does Trust Women mean to you?

Simply, it means have enough respect for a women to allow women to make their own choices about what to do with their lives and their bodies.

As I have pointed out on this blog time and time again, women with money will always have a choice no matter the legality, but women who are not as fortunate from a socioeconomic standpoint will suffer most if Roe v Wade is overturned, they suffer the most when choice is taken away. Who is anyone to take choice from anyone else?

Exactly.

But there’s wisdom in women, of more than they have known,
And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own,

There are some wonderful blog postings on this topic at the Blog for Choice site, please check them out here

peace

Wonderland or Not.

“After months of collaboration on President Obama’s attempt to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, the insurance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Monday with a report warning that the typical family premium in 2019 could cost $4,000 more than projected.”

Well what a big surprise that is ..not.

This report has been dubbed at least partially questionable by Johnathan Gruber. Read ( New Paper Predicts Lower Premiums, At Least for Some). He finds some of the claims implausible.

There is enough truth in it to see that those in the middle are screwed. Damned if we do and double damned if we don’t. Enough in this report to make me, should be all of us, want to bite the very industry who commissioned the report.

We need to Nationalize this system of health care, remove the insurance industry from it altogether, and have them redirect their greed toward those who actually have the extra thousands of dollars a year to spend on exorbitant life insurance policies, private room, and spa coverage. like they did in Switzerland. Whatever the various public options out there now, they stink. “The Public Option”, or the alternatives out there currently, are messy jokes being played on us.

The economists, bless their little eggheads, all having insurance, tend to look at things from aloft, as if they are studying it under a microscope. The economy, and by that health care, merely a specimen they have no real vested interest in. Most of the economist we read rarely apply their theories in real life, and remember how badly they failed us over the last ten years.

Go with your Gut.

I hate not being able to do my banking on a day off.

Columbus Day pfffft. He did unleash a future of brutal Spanish conquistadors on the Caribbean though.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

a comments off, rest in peace production

peace

Wonderland or Not.

John made note of this new WAPO contest last week. Today, having received the email all subscribers get, reminding me that I could be America’s Next Pundit , I sighed. I asked why, to no one in particular, as I was alone in a Panera Bread in Chevy Chase, sucking up free wireless while waiting for a friend. I suspected the gentleman sitting at the next table in his Brooks Brothers suit, looking sheepishly from side to side as he typed, was answering WAPO’s plea. I hope for his sake he was applying for a job at some conservative think tank.

We need more pundits? WAPO is replete with them. Are they not willing to pay real journalist any longer, or is it that Americans don’t want real news? Don’t know what real news is? Is this a desperate attempt to get readers? And more than this, would anyone with an opinion of worth — backed with experience and working knowledge of any given subject — want to give that opinion for $200 per column? I don’t think so.

“Blogger Payola” news. (source, FTC Votes to End “Blogger Payola). I just love that term don’t you?

Stemming from the unintentional shoddy ethics of what some call “Mommy Bloggers” who pretend to use and love products in order to receive free products, or for a paycheck, there are some new rules being instituted in December by the one and only FTC. The full pdf offered at the CJR site is available here. Some bloggers complained they couldn’t trust their long time reads any longer. So now it’s about transparency.

I resign myself to transparency, and promise that when I tell you to read a post by Blogger A or Blogger B it’s because the post is worthy and the blogger is prime. It will never be because they pay me. How do I know this? Because I’ve asked them to pay me. They said no.

Not a nerve pluck, but a recommendation. From the Washington Post, believe it or not. An Op-Ed by Steven F. Hayward, a bit of an expert in conservatism, and not one of my favorite people, but still a worthy read. He asks, Is Conservatism Brain-Dead?

A worthwhile read, even if you already know the answer, and most of you do of course, know the answer.

I want to pass on good thoughts to someone I’ve never met. I’ve read about him often enough over the last 4 years, at Pia Savages Courting Destiny. She calls him Rafe, though I know not his real name. He is part of her life, and part of her writing, and for that I thank him. Consequently I have a bit of an attachment to his character, if not the real life entity.

Rafe suffered a ruptured cerebral aneurysm while lifting a treadmill and has undergone surgical correction, evacuation of the blood, and repair of the aneurysm. He is thus far doing well, but it is touch and go. My vibes are out there, so feel free to send your vibes along to Rafe. We are all characters in someone’s story, and we may all need someone’s thoughts some day.

peace

Wonderland or Not.