Archive for the 'Health' Category
Bookworm on Feb 01 2012 | Filed under: Health
Because our government isn’t yet doing enough, or costing enough, or interfering sufficiently in our lives, three researchers at the University of California San Francisco now recommend that the government should regulate sugar, just as it does alcohol and tobacco: A new commentary published online in the Feb. 1 issue of Nature says sugar is just as [...]
Bookworm on Jan 24 2012 | Filed under: Health
Alec Baldwin has undergone an amazing transformation in the last few months. This is Baldwin at peak pudgy: And this is Alec Baldwin today: What’s even more impressive than this transformation is Baldwin’s claim that he dropped all the weight in four months, primarily by leaving sugar out of his diet: Baldwin, who’s dating yoga [...]
Bookworm on Sep 27 2011 | Filed under: Health
Back in the 40s or 50s, Esquire Magazine, when it was still a magazine for gentleman, published some quite funny, if very risque cartoons.* One of them showed a gorgeous, voluptuous, obviously purely decorative woman talking on the phone in her apartment. Behind her is a kitchen piled to the ceiling with dirty dishes. It [...]
Bookworm on Sep 15 2011 | Filed under: Health, Rick Perry
What do you all think of the Gardasil leviathan attached to Perry? Bachmann went off the deep end when she said that the vaccination causes mental retardation, but I know there are plenty of conservatives (Michelle Malkin is a good example) who think that Perry’s attempted Gardasil legislation makes him unfit for office. Much as [...]
Bookworm on Aug 27 2011 | Filed under: Health
In Marin, a surprisingly large number of kids do not get vaccinated. This is because a lot of the yuppies here have hippie inclinations. They want everything natural. They spend a fortune on organic foods, think raw is always good, and consider vaccinations to be an unnatural and therefore dangerous activity. “Natural” is their God. [...]
Charles Martel on Jul 14 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Health, Media matters, Presidential elections, Truth
Interesting item from the New York Times today about a “mischaracterization” (what we knucklewalkers call a “lie”) Obama made during the 2008 campaign. The lede: “The White House on Wednesday declined to challenge an account in a new book that suggests that President Obama in his campaign to overhaul American health care, mischaracterized a central anecdote about [...]
Bookworm on May 25 2011 | Filed under: Health, Presidential elections
Paul Ryan seems adamant about not running, but boy! do I like him. This video perfectly exemplifies his highly intelligent policies and his extremely pleasant persona:
Bookworm on May 19 2011 | Filed under: Government, Health
I like to consider myself a true and patriotic American, but I have a confession to make: I hate baseball. Yes, I know it’s the quintessential American sport, right up there in Americana with Mom and apple pie. But I still hate it. I find it boring and surprisingly non-athletic. It’s such a static game. [...]
Bookworm on Apr 12 2011 | Filed under: Health, Medicine
My mother is very old. This means that she no longer actively contributes to society. Her working and child-rearing days are over. She lives off of her diminishing savings, a small pension and her social security checks. In a utilitarian world, she has no value. Because — thankfully — we haven’t yet reached that moral [...]
Bookworm on Feb 01 2011 | Filed under: Abortion, Health, Media matters
The MSM, Gosnell and Planned Parenthood all come together in a single post at The Anchoress’ place. Do read it. The MSM has many obsessions — that is, stories it covers relentlessly and obviously — but the moral collapse that so often circles around abortion is not one of those subjects. I continue to want [...]
Bookworm on Oct 27 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Health
Bad news for the rest of us, at least when it comes to medical care. Let us hope, therefore, that AJ Strata is right about the wave, because we need a countervailing tsunami to stop the wave Obama and the Democrats put into motion. By the way, let me add my voice to the voices [...]
Bookworm on Oct 05 2010 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Health
I was speaking the other day with a friend who is contemplating a different type cancer treatment, one that is neither chemo, nor radiation. She has reacted badly to both, so they simply aren’t an option for her. Her doctor highly recommends this third type of treatment, which he believes will provide an optimal outcome, [...]
Bookworm on Jul 21 2010 | Filed under: Health
Heritage for America explains that there is a legislative procedure for repealing ObamaCare — but we need 218 House votes to make it happen. That means that Americans have to rally at the polls this November. It’s not going to happen in Marin County, but maybe you can make it happen in your Congressional District.
Bookworm on Jun 30 2010 | Filed under: Health
I was thinking about government care today, not in terms of dollars and cents, but in terms of the human factor. Government health care imagines that all people will respond to situations in the same way, both physically and emotionally. But that’s not how people are. The medicine that makes one person feel wonderful has [...]
Bookworm on Jun 27 2010 | Filed under: England, Health
In a market economy, the marketplace drives the availability of goods and services. If there’s a big demand, the market will create a big supply; if the demand dries up, so does supply, as the market sends its resources elsewhere. Supply and demand, however, have no place in government controlled sectors of the economy. Although [...]
Bookworm on Apr 21 2010 | Filed under: Health
Last night, I was speaking with a liberal friend who actually works in the insurance business. During the run up to the health care vote, she and I had politely vigorous conversations in which I explained, over and over again, that, if penalties are lower than the cost of insurance, and if insurers must provide [...]
Bookworm on Apr 05 2010 | Filed under: England, Health
As the Soviet Union showed, by the time medicine is fully nationalized, careers in medicine have been reduced to the lowest status level, somewhere around street cleaning. Learning medicine and practicing medicine (including nursing, pharmacy, technical jobs, etc.), is incredibly time-consuming and, in a society that still has the gloss of being capitalist, costly. The [...]
Bookworm on Apr 04 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Education, Health, Religion
Readers of my blog know that one of my personal bête noires is liberal indoctrination in public schools. I blog about it frequently. My last outing on that subject was here, and I’ll get back to that in a little bit. First, though, I’d like you to see how one public school teacher saw fit [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2010 | Filed under: Health, Media matters
Howard Fineman was going along all right in a column admitting that the health care bill was politically dangerous for the Democrats and that Americans really don’t like it. Then he got stupid — and it’s the kind of stupid that either proves he has minimal gray matter in his cranial cage, or that he’s [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Communism, Health, Socialism
I warned people close to me (mother, sister, etc.) that Obama was a socialist and they laughed at me and (quite lovingly, because they’re my mom and my sister) called me “extreme.” I wonder if they would have laughed at Al Sharpton too, now that he’s finally let the cat out of the bag: Al [...]
Bookworm on Mar 23 2010 | Filed under: Education, Health
My daughter’s history teacher, when pressed by her students about Sunday’s health care vote, couldn’t keep her mouth shut. (Keeping her mouth shut would have involved saying, “This is a history class, not a politics class. You should ask your parents these questions.”) Instead, she blithely opined that “all civilized societies have universal health care.” [...]
Bookworm on Mar 22 2010 | Filed under: Health
I had an illuminating conversation with a neighbor this morning. She’s very pleased that health care reform passed, because “we’ll all have insurance coverage now.” This is an Ivy League educated woman, and that was her sole understanding of the monstrosity that just cleared Congress: “We’ll all have insurance coverage now.” The conversation got really [...]
Bookworm on Mar 21 2010 | Filed under: Abortion, Democrats, Health
I indulged myself today by staying assiduously away from the computer. If there was going to be a train crash, I didn’t want to see it happen. What’s really irksome isn’t that Stupak is the usual Demo ho (pardon my language), but that he was willing to sell his soul for the political equivalent of [...]
Bookworm on Mar 20 2010 | Filed under: Abortion, Democrats, Health
Stupak’s going to make his much awaited statement while I’m off working out. So far, he’s had a spine and has distinguished himself from other Democrats by actually letting a principle guide him. I suspect, though, that his 11:00 press conference will be a weasely explanation of why he’s caved completely on his pro-Life stance. [...]
Bookworm on Mar 19 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Health
Victor Davis Hanson sums everything up in one paragraph: The president is pushing legislation that a clear majority of the people dislike, and whose details neither he nor his supporters can explain in simple language. Its ends-justify-the-means passage will require legislative gymnastics that border on the unconstitutional, and in Orwellian fashion are designed to reassure [...]
