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NEW PR0POSED MEDICAL DATA BASE

Posted by Jay R on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:54:34 AM
February 11, 2009
 
I think that Democrats have made a good move by proposing a national medical data base to assist doctors apparently with government
assistance however we have to look at this mostly concealed plan a little more closely. I heard Nancy Pelosi give a positive but government speak disposition on the data base controversy on Fox this morning by quote. Is this data base free of being hacked or made penetrable which will compromise those patients who are afflicted with stigmatized illnesses and past procedures such as mental illness, sex changes, impotence, plastic surgery and just about any uncomfortable medical situation. There are always leaks in  any database. Even an arrogant doctor could let it slip. As we have seen lately, Nancy's colleagues may now be outed under this 1984 system. Just recently, privileged records of major celebrities have leaked from hospital computer records to members of the  Press by greedy workers looking for quick cash. 
 
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Jobs? What Kind of Jobs?

Posted by Jay R on Friday, February 06, 2009 10:58:39 PM
February 9, 2009

Obama is promising the creation of millions of jobs and he has been on that track for years now. As a copier salesman in 1973, I made about $200/week and had the life of Riley. Today, if you make $50,000 at whatever you do, comparatively speaking you are a piker. Still in all whether you are a bus driver or a painter, I'll bet you have been doing it a few years to be at that level. So there are now apparently going be millions of jobs that in a perfect world will allow people in the inner cities and the suburbs to meet their expenses. Then there is the issue of training, and expensive proposition for a company who naturally would rather hire someone who is working the job now or in the past. I do not believe this is possible. How are four million people going to mesh right into jobs most of whom have no clue how to do the jobs in question. More importantly, show me the money. Who is getting the real deal $75,000 and up and under what circumstances? Don't you think the big companies know where their ex employees are? Word gets out fast and a great percentage of empty jobs end up with the same laid off people and their relatives. If Obama can pull this off he is a class magician and I promise not to comment negative about his gargantuan plans in the future. You just have to wonder because I meet or come into contact with so many people that just do not have the personal skills to get good, high paying jobs. Out of the four million, where do the Leno, man in the street people go?

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"Say Goodbye To Hollywood"

Posted by Jay R on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:00:54 PM
February 4, 2009
 
Barack Obama's dime on the dollar to CEO's speech reminded me of that Billy Joe line in a nanosecond. We only have to review Steve Jobs at Apple and the recent media attention to the prospect of his retiring to realize the value of a top CEO to the conglomerates, the stockholders and our country. This was Obama preaching to the choir and placating the proletariat because the Obama economic staff fully realizes that this popular myth of huge pay to CEO's plays so well in Peoria but will end up being the causative agent of the Bill Gates, Mitt Romney, Steve Forbes, Carley Fiorina super people that intellectually are one in a billion and always succeed in creating jobs and wealth and IPODS are just going to take a powder. We could eventually experience an ex Sears manager running GE. As a stock player I'll pay a CEO anything if he can bring in 10 times that amount in value to the corporation and the stockholders. and coincidentally the economy. In the economic chain of evolution socialism follows a failed capatilism and then we have something following at least historically that I would rather  have others look up. You get what you pay for.
 
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Rush Fell Into A Good Thing

Posted by Jay R on Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:05:51 PM
January 29, 2009
The other day President Obama got snippy with Rush Limbaugh, Conservative radio spokesman. I saw the tiny dig Obama gave him as creating the very thing that a media personality like Rush can make hay on. I think that it was Betty Davis who said "I do not care what they are saying  about me, I just do not want them to stop talking about me". I agree, Rush Limbaugh, now equipped with an acknowledgement by the President of the United States for better or worse gets more publicity for the cause listeners and more limelight. I knew a New York State politician who told me 20 years ago that in the straight wins he accomplished by strong margins he never would mention the name of his opponent. In a similar fashion, movie critics will often neglect to mention the name of a small time actor that offended them  in a Hollywood restaurant. So I think the remark by Obama actually was of great value to Rush and if the President keeps highlighting our Republican Conservative personalities and commenters he will only elevate their message and personal status.

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We Want To Give Obama Time

Posted by Jay R on Monday, January 26, 2009 1:26:53 AM
January 25, 2009
I like Barack Obama and his outstanding family personally but I am beginning to see the pattern from Election 2008 rearing its head as we get past the pomp and circumstance and get down to business. First of all, this administration jackrabited into a scandal which is the last thing both Obama who is evidently not involved and a harmed country needed at this point. The first bailout showed many of the features that created it as the pork and the corporate largess refluxed back. Now the American people are being hit with big time numbers that are challenged by both parties and it's like throwing dimes into a wishing well. The war on terrorism is changing in a way that we do not quite understand. When our government puts out their solutions to our citizens in what they feel is expediency and  purport to address our probability of being thrown into the street, I think the public would like our feedback registered because it's  our tax dollars that will ultimately support any grandiose or ill conceived economic fix all. For now, this is a momentary conclusion, there is nothing to stop gas prices from going up again. If we are at layoffs, high unemployment, stagflation and a plummeting stock prices when and if we go back to high prices at the pump at the same time, I was a Boy Scout, I know how to pitch a tent. As I mentioned, as an individual I like and admire Barack Obama however I hope as I would with any Presidency in these troubled times that his plans are fruitful.
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Sarah Palin Needs A Little My Fair Lady

Posted by Jay R on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:09:11 AM
January 13, 2009

We are still talking about Sarah Palin in a big way which is a good sign for Ms. Palin as a future Presidential candidate. It is called continued interest by the public. The way I see it, she does require some image refinement so that she can appeal to voters all over the country who are not threaded to things Alaska. Another thought is that she should completely rearrange her apparent feelings and conduct toward animals. Shooting helpless mammals from a plane does not endear her to the millions of animal lovers that are also voters. There was also the turkey slaughterhouse event which did not serve to improve her image in this delicate matter. Notwithstanding all of this criticism, I believe she can be elected President at some time and do a great job. Ms. Palin has the intelligence, the political experience and the charisma to accomplish this and possibly with the woman vote in great  numbers. In order to seal the deal I believe she will need to use less blue collar vernacular, more Audrey Hepburn persona and no kitchen shots. If she is the same candidate next time, another Tina Fey will be swept in to hurt her chances and many Americans will not be able to sync with her candidacy.
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This Is Beginning To Look Like A House Of Card Falling Down

Posted by Jay R on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:42:21 PM
January 6, 2008
 
I like Mr. Obama as just another bloke that I am. I also feel that Michelle Obama has vastly improved her image since her primary mishaps and shown us that she is a wonderful First Lady who puts family first. Let's fact it, Mr. Obama is a good man, extremely brilliant as a Harvard educated attorney. Problem is, there is too much stuff, so to speak that has happened since he was elected and related to the transition that are according to surveys, making Americans nervous about the upcoming Obama Presidency. There are too many huge numbers being batted around which must be added to the bailouts. Windfall profits are gone for the oil giants. Millions of jobs are promised but we do not know their requirements and benefits nor even their categories. From the inner cities to Rodeo Drive, people need jobs that can support their families. Mantra word change and non-specificity is still an everlasting boa constrictor dating back to Primary Day one. The Democrats we were told would step in much earlier then was historically a precedent to at  least accomplish some advance planning. So the idea was not to leave the whole thing to Bush and Cheney. What we did see was distraction after same. I prefaced my remarks by indicating that I have the utmost fondness and affection for the Obamas, they are decent people. I must advise that in blog after blog wherever I traveled across the Internet as a published but journeyman freelance writer since the onset of the primaries I expressed in the clearest terms that I did not think Obama was presidential timber. For weeks now I have been hearing about the buyer's remorse of the MSM. Do you notice that they as a group are starting to be aggressive and zeroing in much more than the coddling days? I may be a small journalist but I am proud of my mentors plying their trade aggressively.
 
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Drill Baby Drill

Posted by Jay R on Sunday, January 04, 2009 2:10:12 PM
January 4, 2009
 
I cannot even dream of any tax increases for anyone in this country. Most Americans cannot deal with rising prices at the market and soaring household budget escalations. The windfall profit tax now skates away. Layoffs are hitting workers and executives rapid fire all over the nation. People are frightened. If a family loses a combination of jobs and health insurance they may advance into a shelter of hobos. I think much of our economic woes could be solved if we drill and drill until the cows come home. We would eventually be energy independent unlike the hypothetical research green power theories and alternative method conjecture like analysis that are fine but at least half of Americans will be somewhere else by the time we figure that one out. Buyers are already laying back on alternative cars because they have found out with a pencil and paper figuring out that considering parts that must be changed at certain intervals, you are not saving anything. Anybody that thinks that gas prices especially with proposed taxes piled on will never go up is in a dreamland. If we go up to $4.00 again, think about a Depression with all the other economic issues attached. Mr. Obama has a long road to hoe.
 
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The Media Is Not Looking Forward In This Scandal

Posted by Jay R on Monday, December 15, 2008 9:51:21 PM
December 15, 2008
The media continuously exonerates Obama and his staff from any involvement in a play for pay scandal and I will definitely buy that. If the tenacious prosecutor is replaced at sometime in the near future my ears would stand up. The media does not seem to be commenting on the fact that this issue has the propensity to endure. The darts in a month may be coming from different slingshots, with different players, based on different suppositions and allegations. Journalists since the scandal have become more aggressive and probing and distancing themselves from the coddling days of Election 2008.
 
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The Big Three Auto Bailout Is A Big Dice Throw

Posted by Jay R on Sunday, December 07, 2008 1:24:45 AM
December 7, 2008
Right up front, as a long time member of the CSEA, I do not wish to ever write commentary that would compromise the livelihood and benefits of any union members in our country. I purchased 100 shares in Ford at $5 because I thought at the time several months ago that I was buying an international conglomerate on a song. Ford has a plan to bring to America European style vehicles that have good mileage, are smaller in size and will have that international flair that Americans seem to go for. It may take two years to get this strategy going here in the USA. But we never bring up the fact that the auto buyers might be in the mood for something new and especially at lower price points and with equal mileage advantages as compared to the Japanese and Korean models. That would eventually swallow up so much market share that there would be nothing left for the Big 3 to achieve as far as a sensible profit. Car buyers anywhere lose their patriotism at the door when faced with a $10,000 savings, equal packages and much more reliability and sexy styling; you can imagine why the foreign cars sell better. I must complement GM on the Buick line which from day 1 has always served us well. The days of Americans being able to afford the Le Sabres, Customs and Park Avenues are not here today in this economic environment. The same goes for Lincoln Mercury from Ford, which I would buy (Mercury Marquis is a fabulous vehicle) today if I could afford it. I drive a Honda Civic, the MRSP under$18,000. Compacts today are much roomier for bigger men like me (190 lbs) so there is my opportunity to sit comfortably in a cheaper car than being forced to move up to a mid-size years ago because I was driving then with my left side against the door. Honda is an iconic engineering company with exceptional quality control. I have owned Camrys, Accords, Hyundai Elantra and now the Civic continuously since 1986 with only one minor part failure between all of them. My wife always drove Olds which I thought was a great division but I guess GM thought the group was old hat and closed it. They should know that our Cutlass Ciera was better than any car from anywhere but can we achieve a complement in 2008 like that one? I wish I could buy a Cadillac, that division is doing well with the country club set and the vehicles are high quality. In summation, I believe that Ford will prevail in this tent of speculation. The Big 3 has to figure out how to snare buyers like myself in the $18,000 range who are getting a substantial amount of amenities and good reliability histories for a lot less than equivalent American models. Look, the bail out had to happen because obviously, losing 3 million jobs at the juncture we are residing in now cannot be realized without Dante's Inferno catching up to us. The only caveat in my disposition is that
my union always was there for me so I will defer to others concerning opinions regarding unionization. This whole subject does remind me of my trips to Las Vegas thirty five years ago before I got married but I hope this bailout will turn out minus the empty pockets I came home with then.
 
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WHY ARE WE LISTENING TO OPIE?

Posted by Jay R on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:47:23 PM
December 2, 2008
 
Ron Howard was straightened out by Chris Wallace of Fox News who stood up at a meeting the other day and corrected Howard's ridiculous and unsubstantiated speech about the comparisons he drew between the Watergate years and the Bush Administration. This preposterous analogy is typical of a bored Hollywood actor or director who does not realize that political analysis or science requires credentials and specific university history in order to be taken seriously. Constitutionally, Ron Howard with few limitations can say whatever he wants. I remember Opie as walking through the woods with a fishing pole and whistling all the way with Andy Griffith. When I need a PSA test, I go to my urologist and not my chimney sweeper. Leave unto Caesar what is Caesar's. Additionally, Hollywood society and every one connected with what goes on out there since the talkies has never been associated with legitimate and moral conduct as opposed to other vertical markets. Therefore I would say that in these awful global and domestic times, maybe the Hollywood crowd should stick to reading lines and directing emotions. Stirring up the average Joe's out there with what amounts to delusional poppycock is not the job of movie people. Although I have had my issues with Chris Mathews and Charley Gibson I think that they are nevertheless the proper professionals to be addressing political matters in America and admittedly, I am sure that these credible newsmen will stay out of the director's chair.
 
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John McCain's Chances Tomorrow

Posted by Jay R on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:07:05 AM
November 4, 2008
 
I think Obama's views as expressed regarding the coal industry and it's compatible group of miners seems to be somewhat different than the tight situations he has endured throughout the contest. This was a direct hit, with no possibility of pulling a rabbit out of the hat, Houdini style and repairing the damage. The very blue collar workers that both candidates must convince that are now fuming are in states such as Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, which was tight before the cat got out of the bag. Worse yet, the statements were furthered from San Francisco, birthplace of his other blunder aimed at small towns. I think that this will be a tough one for John McCain but he is known as a relentless warrior and he is in it until the end. I saw the last polls tonight and they are astoundingly tight with McCain one up in Florida. Closeness, I believe, favors McCain-Palin because voters who will be indecisive once in the booth are more likely to pull the lever for McCain who is not the candidate who would bring up last minute doubts. This was a highly unusual and almost surreal voyage, Election 2008 and miraculously, even on election day there is this pit of the stomach anxiety in both camps and with the American people as well. You can make any electoral argument you want, we just do not know for sure.
 
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Where Is The American Medical Association In Obama Plan?

Posted by Jay R on Sunday, November 02, 2008 10:01:34 PM
November 2, 2008
 
Now I have never been to an Obama stump speech but because I watch Fox News every night, I am sure I have not missed more than one or to. Obama promises a health plan that he forgets to mention has not been signed, sealed or delivered. For all we know it is at this point ten pounds of air. I have never heard Mr. Obama even mention any potential opposition to his health care plan from the medical and pharmaceutical vertical market. Medical practices do not make the millions that they did years ago when computerization was lighter, staff was cheaper and union plans did not create a situation where a doctor can earn $30 or $40 net for a visit. How about a million dollars for malpractice insurance and legal costs and rent. Do you have an OBGYN in your area anymore or OBGYNs converted to GYNs to save\on liability? Obama has made a clear statement that he wants to spread the wealth and he has been dubbed Robin Hood. Do you think he is going to squeeze the doctors or the people that brought him in thinking that they would attain savings from Obama's proposed plan, yet to be an eventuality. I am not indicating that a doctor or a medical corporation in today's world are paupers, but if anybody is going to get theirs, my unofficial opinion is that Obama is going to grab it from the doctors and give it to the masses. The other thing is the lobbyists and pressure groups representing the medical groups and corporations are sure to carve up any plan offered by Obama should he be elected. It's funny, Obama has been spouting fire about a health care plan but I have no memory about his mentioning any opposition to it or the possibility that it might not pass for any definitive reason. Obama's base has never brought up this matter  although I would expect that all of them consider Obama's proposals to be a done deal.
 
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A Good Slice Of American Voters Are Going To Be Lemmings

Posted by Jay R on Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:43:45 PM
October 30, 2008
 
It is not my hope, it is my belief in as certain a fashion that you can imagine, that John McCain will be a 5 to 6 point winner on November 4. There was too much going on with Obama in the beginning and now there is stuff coming out that is patently revolting. The voters who have little education and fashion themselves as crusading idealists and envision Obama as their change maven (can be for the worse as well) are the lemmings that are the portion of the electorate that will be in the losing percentage. I have never in my life seen a media that coddles, protects and evades offering the truth to its readers as we have seen in their womb like treatment of Mr. Obama. Why are they to a newspaper, to an anchorman, to a commentator acting like this? There must be something in an Obama Presidency that puts a big gold coin or achievement certificate in their vaults. Hollywood is worse. I even saw a tape of Obama apologizing for his chronic lateness during his abrupt tenure in the U.S. Senate. To consider him as President is quizzical to begin with because of no experience as an executive, but assuming he gets there, what happens to the Jewish State? My best guess that based on what we already can surmise about Obama meaning his lukewarm history of support. Israel will have to take care of themselves. Obama's evident future policies of appeasement and diplomacy as he admits to, himself ,possibly threaded to the individuals he has surrounded at least his dinner calendar with  as reported almost exclusively by Fox News (The only source that is thorough on the Election) will not stop Israel from defending their nation . We have no way of knowing if we are going to see Obama, as the change up artist after a potential inauguration. Our system of checks and balances will not allow him to go over the top even with a Far Left group of supporters in the Congress. I still however, believe that the potato chip while watching TV crowd is going to be drowned out at the polls by the street wise, better educated in political matters and intuitive saviors who will vote for McCain-Palin slate and help the lemmings or lambs to the slaughter group from actually going over the cliff  along with the rest of us who made an informed decision.
 
The saddest part of all of this is that I was born and raised in upper Manhattan, in the City of New York, in America. Yesterday I started researching the pertinent subject matter concerning emigrating just in case. Someplace serene and definitely palm trees and warm ocean.
 
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It Is Not Unconstitutional For The Obama Campaign To Evade The Press

Posted by Jay R on Sunday, October 26, 2008 12:23:51 PM
October 26, 2008
 
Barack Obama and his campaign has been issuing cease and desist orders to the press since he warned them to stay away from Michelle in the primaries. They thrive on softball questions and as in the case of the Orlando Caper where Barbara West, a top journalist asked Joe Biden a tough one for a change about his assurances of a massive incident that would test a neophyte President, the campaign took decisive measures to lock out that portion of the press. All of this wimpy behavior is not unconstitutional at all, Obama does not have to answer any questions preferred by anyone unless he has been deposed. Joe Biden is a "cigar store Indian"in Congress where he has been situated for 30 years (we used to see them in the'50's as deadwood statues in Upper Manhattan candy stores) and he was completely insulting when he insisted that the reporter required a ghostwriter to craft her questions. That being said, neither candidate has violated Freedom of the Press or acted improperly  toward the press by being evasive or forcefully excluding them from interviews. Should Obama become President, this great country has checks and balances such as impeachment and vetoes to make sure that elected Presidents tow the line Constitutionally. High profile media people are, however, getting angrier as evidenced by their appearances on Sunday talk this Am. Obama and Biden are cutting off their nose to spite their face by stepping on the Lion's tail because then the Lion roars. There has always been a symbiotic relationship between the press and high profile candidates. A fauna example would be the shark and the sucker fish. Whatever the case may be, Obama is starting to ruffle feathers with the Press, this time covering Biden. Going into a first time Presidency, feuding with the Press is at the least ill advised and counterproductive.
 
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