Just me

In reading over my last post I've decided that a mental evaluation might be in order. My struggle with continuity is an ongoing fight that I usually end up on the short end of. Seems like I had a couple of good points in there but they weren't necessarily points that followed logically with the previous statements. Of course the title was "non sequitur". My adherence to the spirit of the title was, however, largely unintentional. Rather than deleting the post I decided to leave it as a reminder to try to give these postings a little more forethought.
When in college I delivered a speech in speech class about eye care. To establish myself as someone who has a unique perspective on the subject I was going to mention, early in my speech, about an accident that occurred when I was 7 leaving me blind in my right eye. That point was going to validate me as someone whose comments on the subject of eye care should be heeded. After a nervous few minutes in front of the class my ordeal was over and I was listening to the next poor sucker deliver his or her speech. Several minutes after taking refuge at my seat it hit me. I didn't mention the fact that I had been left blind in one eye as a child. Wow, how could I forget that. It was the very point that would have given people a good reason to listen to me. Similar scenarios have played out over the years as I have attempted to teach or discuss pros and cons of ideas with others. So last week's post was a pretty good indication of how things unfold in my head. Maybe I will try to go back and develop each of those disjointed ideas more fully sometime. I believe each of them, I simply didn't support my position on them. They just sort of came out like bumper stickers.
OK, now here are a couple of new entries in my pocket calendar. (sorry if I've mentioned any of these before)
1) The EPROM programmer we have at work will check the chip to make sure it has been erased because it won't take a new program if it hasn't. This process is call a "blank check". I'm planning on explaining this to my brother before shining a flash light in his ear and saying, "yep, she's blank alright".
2) Someone who stands out in a crowd could be called, "distinctified".
3) there's a 24 hr. "Family Dining" restaurant that also advertises as smoker friendly. I noticed they changed their sign recently. I think the only way to work the idea of family into the crowd I saw in there on one 2 am visit, is if you were thinking of starting one.
4) In Michigan, day-care facilities have union dues taken out of the government subsidies they receive. They have no choice in the matter.
5) Friday Feb. 12, 2010, there was snow on the ground in all 50 states.
6) This is a nice story. The organization in England that tells old people they are not "eligible" for certain procedures because it wouldn't be good use of resources is the National Institute of Clinical Excellence. N.I.C.E.
7) When no one responds to a passionate email you sent around you might say, "my email fell on deaf eyes".
8) I made up a couple of governmental bureaucracies so I could sound important when I talk to total strangers. They are: the Society for the Preservation of Non-Stick Cooking Surfaces, and the Federal Name Spelling Administration. I'm thinking of making some laminated badges to lend some weight to my ruse.
9) Resistance is futile, voltage is everything.
I'm so glad we had this little chat. Now go find something worthwhile to do.

non sequitur

I'm not sure I spelled sequitur correctly, nope, oh, well, you'll never know since I've corrected it now. Guess I pulled one over on you, huh?
Ever notice how common it is to have people comment on how important their good health is. Yea, we've had a pretty bad run of luck lately but at least we still have our health. You're only as old as you feel and I feel like I'm in my 20's. We never had all the things we wanted in life but we had our health. Why is it that something that is so important it seems to transcend every other aspect of our lives is something we don't want to have to pay for? We'll drive to a doctor appointment in our new 20,000 dollar car then complain that our co-pay went up from 10 to 15 dollars. Isn't something a little out of whack here? We are going to bankrupt the country so people who own nice cars, HD flat screen tv's and nice houses, and who pay no income tax, can push their health care on to the tax payers. We need to look at the many ways we can make our health care system much more responsive to peoples needs and more affordable without destroying our economy.
Here's what I think is actually going on. It's, I believe, a little like the man-made global warming situation. Intellectuals, (this is sorta funny so I have to tell you, I misspelled intellectuals) who are smart enough to think for those of us who aren't, figure they need to perpetrate these scare tactics in order to scare us into doing what they know is best for us. They are either lacking confidence in their persuasive abilities, or in the general public's IQ. You see, it doesn't matter that there is little evidence pointing to man's involvement in global climate change, what matters is that the smart people help guide this country to the right moral choice as pertaining to our consumption habits. We use entirely too much of the worlds resources, so we hand the world a tool to beat us over the head with. Man-made global warming to be exact. Health care, on the other hand, is a tool to move this country toward a more socialist disposition. We need to be brought in line with the rest of the world. No one country should be more successful or prosperous than any other country. It just isn't fair.
If employees were taking home the money their employers are spending on their health care they could purchase insurance on their own that would be much more appropriate for their needs and would often cost less than the employer is paying and would go with the employee if they found a better job or were terminated. Additionally, in the case of HSA's a nice nest egg could be accumulated over the life of a younger worker putting money into his account. In conclusion, if good health really is such a wonderful thing then I say to the American people, put "your" money where your mouth is, not mine.