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–Rush Limbaugh, Wednesday
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Where is all this oil that would be available if someone somewhere would just allow it to be drilled?
Is it in my backyard?
Is it under 1000 meters of water?
Is it trapped in rocks and sand?
Where is it?
And don’t tell me ANWR. All the oil in ANWR would last about 6 months – net.
and Rush could cop to an insanity plea and get away with it.
Not only is it amazing that two of the largest branches of the Federal Govt manage to come to an agreement about ANYTHING, but for Veterans filing a claim for disabilities, this is off-the-charts HUGE.
Once this is implemented, a disability claim could be processed in HOURS instead of months. When a Vet claims to have been hurt in combat (or anywhere else), VistA is powerful enough to find that entry in seconds, including lab results, X-rays and any other diagnostic imaging.
No more sorting thru warehouses of old records! WooT!
(PS – Pres Obama, mandate that VistA be made open-source code software, and given away in partnership with the Mozilla foundation. Let developers continue to make installers for every OS, which will make the transition to Electronic Health Care records that much easier!)
This will be the catalyst needed for the standardization of electronic medical records for the private health care system.
VistA is the world’s most widely used Electronic Health Record software. Since it’s available for free via FOIA request, several other non-VA facilities are using it, in 10 different states (to include David’s home, Hawaii.)
And it works – it automatically flags a pharmacy order if it conflicts with another drug that may have been prescribed by another provider. This is common for when a Vet is being seen for PTSD, and then goes for a physical health issue. If the Medical doc prescribes something that might cause an interaction with a drug prescribed by a clinician, then it automatically changes it (or flags it) without letting the Medical doctor “see” his pysch records.
And every record is accessible to anyone on the system, provided they have the correct permissions. Veterans who were evac’d to Houston from New Orleans during Katrina had all of their records available for review, including Xrays, CAT scans and lab results, even though the N.O. hospital was under water.
It’s free and it works – why isn’t this good?
Fewer jobs for programmers.
Fewer jobs for record keepers.
Fewer jobs for malpractice lawyers.
</snark>
Even the reporting in it is good (not awesome like Windward, but pretty darn good).
Make it Win7, Mac OS and Linux compatible, with a slimmed-down installer that skips a lot of the imaging stuff (most offices don’t have a CAT or PET scanner to interface with.)
If we can’t get it on Mozilla.org as an open-source project, why not do it yourself?
1. For areas far from a VA facility do they use private medical practices? If so, connecting directly into the VA system using their own copy of VistA would be a big advantage & cost/time savings.
2. You need to add a module to submit charges to private insurance companies. Add that as a commercial product and then they all have to come to you.
…because the VA will bill your private insurance for things, because you can get health care for non-service connected injuries. Sometimes they bill your health care for the stuff they are supposed to cover for free, but it only happens on occasion.
And yes, private facilities do cover VA care in remote locations. The telemedicine and mobile van programs are expanded to try and reduce this, but it happens.
I think it’s still a good idea to distribute VistA for free, since everyone would have an EHR program.!
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
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Have yet to see a Tomahawk with a baby formula payload, and we’ve fired 120+ into Lib-yuh thus far…..
beats all hell out of needing a quiver full of raisons d’jour — see also: Bush, Cheney, Iraq
for putting boots on the ground.
From last nights Ed Schultz show:
This Administration needs to be up front about this. It is a shame that we missed taking out Qaddafi in ’86, and taking him down now is a good thing. But the current leadership came in on a wave of anti-war sentiment, so they feel they have to edge in sideways incrementally to where they want to get to.
The clip’s title is misleading however – there is no flip-flop.
As Sestak says in the clip, “I didn’t support this intervention.”
and “If I were the President I would admit I had erred” in thinking he could get rid of GoDaffy without using ground troops.
He also says that if someone became President he thinks that new guy or gal should ‘extract’ the US from this Lub-yuh folly.
I also see Big Ed, whom I usually like, has finally given up refering the Lib-yun rebels as ‘freedom fighters’ as he was doing earlier in the week.
Most of Special Ops is running around AFPAK, as Petraeus continues McSpook’s policy of hit teams running around knocking off various figures in the Taliban regime.
A Stryker Brigade could probably single-handedly chase Gaddafi’s forces back into his compound, but most of their vehicles are either deadlined from being beat to shit in numerous deployments, or still in AFPAK.
A real mechanized tank or infantry brigade would take 3-4 weeks to get to the Med from Europe, provided they weren’t in deadline status with broke-dick vehicles and exhausted troops.
I can see the French govt, which seems dick-hard on flexing their military muscles for the world press, to send their military units, poss. along with a few British units. Considering that they’d face a mostly mercenary army that would bail the moment things looked bad, it might be who does end up with “tracks on the ground.”
As for mechanized brigades going into Lib-yuh, let the French do it since they’ve got such a hard-on (to continue your metaphor) about GoDaffy. They ought to be pretty tanned, rested and ready by now…and have much more of a vital national interest in the matter than we do.
I heard, and I’m paraphrasing, “I’m against using the military in Libya, but if I was in charge I would take out Ghadaffi with military force.”
Wait what?!
He said he feels the President ‘erred’ in deciding to intervene. And that if he was President he would ‘extract’.
(But he said if he was Obomber – having already made the initial mistaken decision – he would say to the country, “Look, we made a mistake. We need to match our military assets with the policy objective, and use those assets to target & remove GoDaffy.”)
Too bad he’s not in the Senate.
What is this country coming to?
Unbelievable and just plain stupid. I hope they get a hell of a lawyer to file on their behalf and make the state pay the attorney’s fees. I bet they would win!
http://www.ibtimes.com/article…
The guy in the video received the letter, telling him that if DOT had to remove it, he would be billed, and that they would impound the thing until the bill was paid.
looked REAL dangerous sitting down there at the end of that cul-de-sac.
Looks like a classic example of a case in which mediation among neighbors would have been the better way to go. Rather than the gu’mint adhering blindly to a strict interpretation of the law.
Next time the neighbor’s dog gets loose, call the dogcatcher instead of the neighbor.
and in Delaware maybe it depends on the DelDOT ‘dogcatcher’.
One size doesn’t always fit all.
Damned when they strictly adhere to the law.
Damned when they interpret a law some other way than what you want.
And, damned whenever it chooses to apply leniency and discretion.
State Line, you and your people are the most priggish, boring, narrow-minded, insulated bunch of one-trick ponies . . . sometimes it would be nice if you even tried to learn one new song.
Damned when they can’t use common sense.
BTW April Fools is for jokes, son — it’s not meant as a tribute to the way Teabloggers live every day of the year.
Single payer health care, publicly funded or not- common sense
Progressive tax structure – common sense
Solidly funded public education, well maintained roads, bridges and public infrastructure, and respecting the one resident one vote: common sense
btw: who are ‘my people’ anyhow?
and don’t really work. How do you like me now?
especially since you gave me yet another reason as if one were needed not to listen to M. Rosen.
nice vid. 🙂
people with “raisins”
http://bentobjects.blogspot.com/
in lieu of brains.
(That, and, I couldn’t find any gu’mmit hatin’ raisins on Bentobjects.) ;~)
For the record, I think the Tea Party is for the most part (not entirely) comprised of know-nuthin’ nativists, the proudly ignorant.
The sort who are always present in American society, who but become particularly ‘twitchy’ at times of increased social crisis.
The basket was positioned so kids using it would be shooting from the street. Letters were sent, etc. One wonders if there had been accidents. I remember when we got a stp sign in my old neighborhood after a fatal auto/kid accident that wasn’t even judged to be the driver’s fault. Kid darted out on bike without looking. Not high speed but nobody wore helmets then and it was a fatal head injury.
The official did lie when she said he could keep it, though.
Government can’t – and shouldn’t try to – protect us from every possible eventuality in life. And thereby wring the life out of our neighborhoods.
Silly by-the-book gummint overreach.
And if proper notification was sent this level of hysteria on the part of the home owner seems a taste extreme. He could have moved it.
Not making any value judgement on whether or not they should have come up with the rule in the first place. As I said, would be intereted to know some history, such as possible tragic accidents, complaints from motorists over kids in non-cul-de-sac streets with same situation, etc.
That’s what always used to get a stop sign put up on a side street in the ‘burbs back in the day. Maybe putting up a stop sign after a rare fatality was overkill then too but it was pretty typical. I don’t think the officials involved handled the situation very well either.
Sober, fit, skilled operator driving in light traffic, cloudless, sky dry and clear roads, with new tires, and exceeding the posted speed limit.
Traffic signal with inop actuator loop, red in the middle of the night, stops motorcycle who chooses to run the red light.
I could on and on and on where laws that make sense sometimes make more sens to be broken. But they are still broken laws.
The question of kids playing in the street is an easy one for me. Don’t.
Likewise, seatbelts, boosster seats, helmets, vaccinations, annual physical exams: do.
well okay, two more: “self responsibility”.
stfu.
you’ve been drinking, haven’t you?
have a great night! (sleeeeeep now…)
Rather than letting government officials make judgement calls, everything is written very specifically and then enforced by the book. We’d be better off if a city official had said that there was no need in this case to enforce the law.
With EVERY municipality and county in the country facing huge shortfalls, this is just a waste of money.
Got this in e-mail from Progress Now or something. Hope it was way over because there will be searching with a fine tooth comb to disqualify.
http://m.lacrossetribune.com/n…
You sometimes have problems with lots of sigs getting tossed out when dealing with paid signature collectors who aren’t interested in taking the time to make sure, as best they can, that the signatures they collect are legit. Also people respond much more positively when you can say I’m not a paid stranger. I’m a neighbor and I’m doing this as a volunteer because it’s so important to me and here’s why.
in other countries.
Why is it they insist on cutting government at home, but demand complete US government control in Iraq and Afghanistan?
war profiteer and mercenary corporations?
for the corporate elite. Oh, and lots of devotion to babies before they’re born. As soon as they pop out, if they chose the wrong parents (hey it’s a free country, silly babies) they’re on their own for healthcare, decent education, etc. Don’t you just love all those posters and billboards about how the most dangerous place for an African American baby is in the womb? They’re concern for African Americans is truly touching. Damn those abortion loving liberal racists!
The complete US government control in Iraq and Afghanistan is not for helping the poor there, it’s for fucking them over more efficiently.
Why does any military action have to always result in a regime changing war?
Why do people think the US has to be in charge of the military forces in Libya?
Why is it hard to understand that we want Ghadaffi out of power, but we don’t want to use our military as the main tool to make that happen?
Why can’t people understand that our military’s role in Libya is to work with the U.N. in enforcing a no-fly zone? That’s it!
Poorly focused edcuational experience.
Misinformed educators, parents and community leaders.
Such as it always was.
I just really keep hoping they were different answers.