Discussing Freedom: October 2009

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Simple Health Care Reform

3 Simple steps to make health care more affordable. How come our congress critters can't figure this one out. Makes you wonder if they understand that they serve the people and that the people do not serve them.

Step 1: Remove the Anti-Monopoly Exemption for health care insurance companies.
Step 2: Change the market so that insurance companies compete at a national level. There are currently over 1400 different health care insurance companies in the USA. Only 5-6 offer insurance in my state.
Step 3: Tort Reform.

These 3 steps would make the market much more competitive, driving down prices and reduce costs as the cost of Dr.'s medical mal-practice would go down.

Friday, October 9, 2009

What a farce!

Barak Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. But for what? The nomination was submitted 12 days after he entered office and even if we give him the full time he has been in office... what exactly has he achieved? Just goes to show that the Nobel Peace Prize isn't all it is cracked up to be.

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The only thing that a reasonable person can determine is that the process is rigged.

The Cuckoo Bird

From Wikipedia:

Brood parasitism

About 56 of the Old World species and 3 of the New World species are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other birds.[12] These species are obligate brood parasites, meaning that they only reproduce in this fashion. This behavior has led to the entry of the term cuckold into the English language, which describes a man with an unfaithful wife. In addition to the above noted species, yet others sometimes engage in non-obligate brood parasitism, laying their eggs in the nests of members of their own species in addition to raising their own young. The best-known example is the European Common Cuckoo. The shells of the eggs of brood-parasites is usually thick.[14] They have two distinct layers with an outer chalky layer that is believed to provide resistance to cracking when the eggs is dropped in the host nest.[15] The cuckoo egg hatches earlier than the host's, and the cuckoo chick grows faster; in most cases the chick evicts the eggs or young of the host species. The chick has no time to learn this behavior, so it must be an instinct passed on genetically. The chick encourages the host to keep pace with its high growth rate with its rapid begging call [16] and the chick's open mouth which serves as a sign stimulus [17].

Female parasitic cuckoos specialize and lay eggs that closely resemble the eggs of their chosen host. This has been produced by natural selection, as some birds are able to distinguish cuckoo eggs from their own, leading to those eggs least like the host's being thrown out of the nest.[17] Host species may engage in more direct action to prevent cuckoos laying eggs in their nest in the first place - birds whose nests are at high risk of cuckoo-contamination are known to mob cuckoos to drive them out of the area.[18] Parasitic cuckoos are grouped into gentes, with each gens specializing in a particular host. There is some evidence that the gentes are genetically different from one another. Host specificity is enhanced by the need to imitate the eggs of the host.

Discussing Freedom

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Simple Health Care Reform

Friday, October 9, 2009

What a farce!

The Cuckoo Bird

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