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[sgreger1]

Here is a new video I just made from my new 2011 Kosmokrater CD.

This song is so filled with win. Please, everyone listen to it. It's awesome in every way.


/harness the power of the under-dwellers!!!

[justintempler]

Well I think it's safe to say that we added Nazi time travelers to the mix. I hadn't heard that one before. Tom, enlighten us on Nazi time travelers please, we are dying to know

Didn't you know? Tom was a Nazi timetraveller from the year 2505.

[tom502]

sgreg- I am glad you like my song, thanks. The new material is getting positive feedback. I'm going to work on the CD cover this monday and use a Vril saucer for the cover art. The time travel thing was in reference to Die Glocke, the Bell, which is said to have been a time machine, which, I think, was one of the first designs to have come from Aldebaran via the Vril Society. I have a song called Die Glocke also on the new album.

[Crow]

This song is so filled with win. Please, everyone listen to it. It's awesome in every way.

[tom502]

Well, if you're a Taylor Swift, or Katy Perry fan, you may not like it.
But if you like Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger, or Burzum's Filosofem, you might.

[raptor]

Varg is a joke.

[Crow]

Well, if you're a Taylor Swift, or Katy Perry fan, you may not like it.

I only know one of those names, and that's only because of the whole "Kanye West" incident that the news was going on about at the time. That should show what I know about music today.

But hey, different strokes for different folks I guess... I just wouldn't classify that as 'music'.

[lxskllr]

Well, if you're a Taylor Swift, or Katy Perry fan, you may not like it.
But if you like Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger, or Burzum's Filosofem, you might.

That's why I don't give feedback on your music. I'm not a Taylor Swift fan, but your stuff is too far away from what I listen to, and I'm not qualified to give you feedback :^)

[truthwolf1]

WE had pork,ham, potato salad and Nazi kraut for lunch today.

[lxskllr]

I love Nazi kraut. BigLots has been pretty reliable carrying imported German sauerkraut, for ~$2 per pound. Both me, and my daughter eat a bunch of it :^)

[dreed2]

Oh no mate, nothing free about the NHS. When you do the math it's insanely bad value for money.

Ps. All the horror stories you guys hear about TRIAGE is true too. If you go to the ER with a busted bone or something otherwise none life threatening you'll be waiting for hours whilst those with alcohol poisoning skip the line.

I have health insurance and went to an ER in the US with a fractured elbow from an accident on my bicycle. Took about 10 hours to even get a doctor to look at me (I was in excruciating pain because it had affected a nerve in my elbow), because of all the uninsured people using the ER to get free healthcare. The hospitals can't turn people away if they don't have any insurance, so everyone without insurance goes there for anything from a sore throat to a fever. Some people were only in there to get pain killers for their addictions. People were crying and screaming in pain, with no doctors or nurses taking care of them. It was a nightmare.

[raptor]

I have health insurance and went to an ER in the US with a fractured elbow from an accident on my bicycle. Took about 10 hours to even get a doctor to look at me (I was in excruciating pain because it had affected a nerve in my elbow), because of all the uninsured people using the ER to get free healthcare. The hospitals can't turn people away if they don't have any insurance, so everyone without insurance goes there for anything from a sore throat to a fever. Some people were only in there to get pain killers for their addictions. People were crying and screaming in pain, with no doctors or nurses taking care of them. It was a nightmare.

Our System Works.

People who think such are the same sorts of people who would be perfectly OK having their fellow Americans go without healthcare.

[dreed2]

Our System Works.

People who think such are the same sorts of people who would be perfectly OK having their fellow Americans go without healthcare.

I agree. If the system works, then why can't people with healthcare get healthcare when they need it?

[lxskllr]

Didn't you know? Tom was a Nazi timetraveller from the year 2505.

Vid Clipped

Thanks for posting that JT. That finally got me off my ass to watch Idiocracy. That's funny stuff, yet somehow a little scary :^D

[Darwin]

Although the demand for healthcare ever increases it does not automatically follow that the supply of same will increase considering how slowly the medical profession responds to such demand. Or can respond really. A medical educational process that is measured in the better part of a decade is simply not able to respond in a rapid fashion to increases in demand. That situation is not likely to improve a whole lot if prospective MDs start to get the impression that the end point of a hideously difficult and expensive medical degree is essentially being forced into what for all practical purposes will be government service. The doc supply does slowly change in response to demand in "normal" times but however coercive the government can be it can not force people into a medical profession that will be more and more characterized by stagnant regulated incomes, ever increasing paperwork, and ever greater demands that every action they take be economically justified. Even if government were to pick up the entire cost of a medical education if the above conditions still loom at the end of the process the MD pool is bound to either stagnate or decline.

Supply lags demand already and the system has responded with such measures as certifying Nurse Practitioners and Physician's Assistants who have limited diagnostic and prescribing authority and so can gap fill to a certain degree. Anything more serious needs a genuine MD and whatever fill-in measures are adopted a greater supply of degreed professionals will be sorely needed by a large expansion of the system. And after all even MDs can overlook many things to a patient's detriment and lesser trained, much lesser in most cases, personnel will be more prone to this human frailty. In short the waving of rhetorical magic wands, in the form of gigantic omnibus health care bills, by the political class can not and will not be able to address this reality. It is difficult to see how implementing a vast new architecture of regulatory control over the medical system will somehow lure more people into the the profession. Lowering standards to the point where such as NPs and PAs eventually form the bulk of health care personnel is rather less than confidence inspiring in an age of ever increasing complexity in the medical arts.