What's in Store for our Public School Children? Which is Worse: Swine Flu or the Vaccinations?

Having grandchildren in public schools from coast to coast, I certainly want more certifiable testing of the vaccines under examination in laboratories (also) coast to coast.

Of course, there is to be expected more conjecture than certainty as regards the pandemic scare with which we are being bombarded just ahead of the "back-to-school" week in most of America ... but to threaten our children with as many as four (two for H1N1 and two for conventional seasonal flu) vaccinations whose combinatorial effects are largely unknown, seems a bit premature.

The only aspect of it all that will be spot on as regards to its being "on-time" is the minimum of $1,816,989,920 (roughly two billion dollars) that the vaccination program is estimated to cost!

Mediawingnuts' guess is $3.5 billion!

It's all in how you sell it, P-BO; stop saying "Public Option" and try ...

On for size!

See my recent posting for a broader look at possible "options" -- including a comment or two!

And while we're on the subject of reforming our health care in America .... what about the rest of the world? What are they doing?

Click on map to read legend

It was interesting to pop into the above graphic posted by the Daily Kos. They/it posted a very interesting map showing which countries have universal (or nearly so) heath care. Not having it are most parts of the Middle East; most of Africa; the Philippines; some areas of South America and the United States. Other parts of the world either have universal health care or are well on the way toward implementing it--China is implementing it as I am posting this. And about all we can say for ourselves upon viewing this current map (2009) is that we are barely keeping up with most of Africa and most of the Middle East--except for Iraq and Afghanistan, of course, whose universal health care is funded by ... you guess who.

Interestingly, U.S. spells "us"!!!

For the love of Jihad! Why make this Health Care Reform so %#$&@ complicated?

What I seem to be hearing coming from the Town Hall Meetings--click on the diagram to get e glimpse of what's on paper today!

Mediawingnuts believes deeply that we need to "reform" whatever it is we have out there that leaves fifty million folks without health insurance. But ...

Why all the subterfuge?

I can think of two options that would work and both of which would fit on one side of one sheet of paper.

1. Allow every American to have the same plan that Congress enjoys!

or

2. Expand Medicare to every living soul in America ... okay, insist on citizenship if you really want to pay through the teeth for later more serious problems.

Take your pick! I like the first one, but we could certainly live with either and, as P-BO has reminded us, the deficit will go through the roof if we stand around bickering for the next fifteen years.

Yeesh!

Mob Rule Does NOT Equate to "First Ammendment Rights"!!

Democracy in Action or Demagogues in Action?

Since when is an overhaul of health care (yes -- call it "Reform"!) and insurance reform NOT a good thing? From what I hear proposed on Cable Television (sans Fox Cable Network) and then compare that to how hospitals, doctors, prescription drug companies and Insurance companies dictate and handle the insured and non-Insured it is reasonable to me that it should be reformed.

The hollering masses in opposition to ANYTHING (!!!) somehow seem that they are just disagreeing with change -- simply to be disagreeable -- because their Republican party of NO tells them that anything the Democrats come up with will be injurious to their health. Huh?

I heard one of the CNN commentators say, "It's like the Tobacco lobby saying: 'Do not pay attention to the Warning label on the packs of cigarettes.' "

I personally hope to hear BOTH sides take a calm and educated look at BOTH sides of each aspect of any proposed reform -- and then make an educated decision as to what belongs and what doesn't belong in whatever bill ultimately is given to P-BO to sign. I just received my first medical bill that was NOT covered by my "former" (prior to lay-off) insurance.

I KNOW the pain!!! I missed by three days.

It takes more than a "Certification of Live Birth" according to the "Birthers" ... but this is all the proof I need.

This video is a few months old, but that doesn't make it any less authentic--and surely is more proof than any yellowed piece of paper (or parchment) that P-BO is 100% American!! We may not be able to get the White House to release a copy of the original Birth Certificate, but name even one Kenyan (or even a Canadian) who could pull this off on his first try.

As a small favor, "x" out the damned Google ads at the bottom of the video clip after they pop up! I haven't been able to erase them. Any ideas? Just leave me a comment and I'll fix the problem.

For Mediawingnuts, this is all the proof I'll ever need that Barack H. Obama is 100% AMERICAN!!

Hmm ... no, that's not Matt Drudge (the hat--remember?) giving my daughter and her husband a walk-through!

West Wing Door at White House

Gee! Without the Matt Drudge hat, my son, Tim, looks more like himself as he takes his sibling and sibling-in-law on a tour of the WH. The badges they are all wearing remind me of my days at Stafford Creek Penitentiary. For us, the contractors (like myself) wore yellow; the staff (guards, etc.) wore blue and the felons wore dark green. I notice that my son has a blue badge just like the staff at Stafford Creek--or is that green?

At Stafford Creek, volunteers and visitors wore red--just like my daughter and her husband who were obviously taking the tour, so to speak. Gee, with this photo, I can now say that I'm the proud papa of a member of the White House staff.

No pictures in the Oval Office though; that's where the rules stepped in as regards taking pictures.

Birth Certificates Can Be Tricky Things to Find. Just Ask Me--Who Has Yet to Obtain His Original (or Even a Copy) from Michigan!

We "birthers" believe that something akin to this (and all of its copies) together with John McCain's coming confession that he's actually Panamanian will put Sarah Palin and Joe Biden in the White House as Joint Tenants in a month or so

Hey, guess who's going to Kenya tomorrow morning (Obama's birthday, Kenyan time) to ... speak at the U.S.-sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum in Nairobi. The question in everybody's minds is: will she also stop by at Barack's birthplace (the "Bethlehem" of Kenya) to smile that special Hillary-was-right-after-all smile. Of course, she will then stop off at the Bureau of Records to pick up Barack Obama's "you-know-what" (his actual Birth Certificate) to insure that it's burned now and forever.

The big question is: What will Hillary have to give to Kenya to get that danged piece of paper--and all of the other documents (newspapers from the early 1960s, copies of the actual birth certificate (not a certification of live birth, which can be used as a substitute) that probably number in the hundreds, or at least as many persons who have had access to it over the past year or so, and heaven knows what else)?

Obama could put the matter to rest by releasing his actual birth certificate, which would show, among other things, the place of his birth and the doctor who performed the birth procedure.

Note: This information is not provided on the Certification of Live Birth.

The Unfortunate Forgery (Not Even an Actual Birth Certificate) Published on Obama's Supporters' Own Websites

Happy Birthday, President-cum-Possibly-Legal-Possibly-Illegal-Alien Obama!!!

Naw, I am pulling your legs ... For myself, I was finally convinced some weeks ago that P-BO is 100% American on the basis of newspaper clippings from both of Honolulu's newspapers. But the birthing conspiracy is just too much fun! :)

Happy Birthday for real President Barack H. Obama!