Thursday, November 25, 2010

How to start fixing Health Care in Alberta

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The subject of Health Care is raising it's head again in Alberta, due mainly to the recent firing of the "cookie monster", Mr. Stephen Duckett, who recently made a complete fool of himself when he tried to get away from answering some reporters questions with his now famous "I'm Eating My Cookie" remarks. For a man who was earning in excess of $600,000.00 per year, this behaviour was laughable.

But instead of dwelling on the departure of the cookie monster, lets start to look at the Health Care system in general and what we can do to try to fix in, or at least try to save some of the money that continually gets sucked into this black hole, with no improvements to ever show for it. Health Care dollars take up to 50% of the Provincial budget in this province. The same can be said for virtually every other province in this country also. And it is expected to just keep growing, with no improvements expected. So how can the system be fixed?

I will start this off with One example, and maybe you can let me know of some more that can get added in future columns here.

We have machines in the medical system that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each for diagnostics in this province that sit idle for 2/3's of the day here, every day of the week, while we have waiting times for diagnostics of 6 months to 2 years. MRI's are a perfect example. It can take you over a year to get an MRI. Yet these diagnostic machines sit idle 12 to 16 hours a day. These machines should be operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The technicians operating these machines need to start working shift work (if you want to keep your job), however the shift process gets worked out, so that these machines are always working. The wait times will virtually dissappear in a year.
I understand that the stumbling block to this starts with the union contracts negotiated prohibiting this from happening. Well Mr. Government Minister in charge, it is time to get tough with these unions and tell them in no uncertain terms, these kinds of things have to start changing, NOW, otherwise your union employee can go find another job if he doesn't like it.

This is one small step to help correct a failing health care system in this country. I am sure there are hundreds, if not thousands of other suggestions out there that could "FIX" our system. We just need the guts to actually do it. If you have any ideas, let me know.
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

My Filipina Wife Part# 10, She's Pregnant, It's ALL my Fault

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Much to my surprise and eternal happiness, we found out last week that my lovely wife is Pregnant. Her period was late about two weeks so we took a pregnancy test. It came up negative. Two more weeks later, still no period. Another week goes by, still no period. Now the little lady is starting to feel sick. Each day she wants to throw up, then she is fine, for an hour or two, then she wants to throw up again. So we do another of those at home pregnancy tests. And what do you know but it comes up positive. Now i am at work at this time while the wife stayed home sick that day. So i get the call at about 10am that morning. She says to me "honey, there is two lines on the pregnancy test, but one is dark and one is very faint, maybe it doesn't mean anything, hummm". Of course i am exstatic but she is a bit worried, so i stay calm and tell her i will stop off at the drugstore on my way home and pick up another test, just to be sure. I look at the test she already took that day and yup, it is positive. There is no denying it honey. But we will do the test again in the morning.
Well, the next morning we do the test, and sure enough it's positive also. Sorry honey, but two seperate tests from two seperate stores, it will be next to impossible that both these tests are defective. Guess what Babe, your PREGNANT.

And thats when the fun starts. Now, everytime she feels sick at night, guess what, ITS ALL MY FAULT. She feels tired, it's all my fault. She wants to throw up, it's all my fault. She can't eat supper, it's all my fault. She feels terrible in the morning and it's all my fault. Her boobies are sore and it's all my fault. Everything that makes her misserable for the next 12 weeks will all be my fault. Of course i will only smile and agree with her, which sometimes makes her want to smack me, but guess what, we are having a BABY, so i don't care if its all my fault.

I am sure anyone else out there whose wife is having or had a baby had to or is going through this also, where everything is all your fault, so i am not alone in this. But it just seems more intense when your wife is a Filipina woman. It may have to do with the fact that she is so far away from any family support at this moment, and is scared for what is coming up. So i do understand. But sorry honey, you know its YOUR fault too.....

So i did the only real thing i could do to alleiviate her suffering. I went out and bought the first box of diapers. hahahahahaha I mean, you do have to be practical at a time like this you know. Diapers are expensive, and they will be used. So start buying this stuff now, i say.

We are having a BABY...... WOOOOHOOOOO..... I LOVE YOU BABE
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Monday, November 15, 2010

Pacquiao, Argueably the Best Ever

ARLINGTON, TX - NOVEMBER 13:  Manny Pacquiao (...Image by Getty Images via @daylife

Me and the wife sat down on Sunday night for the Pacquiao / Margarito fight. Now myself, i always would hesitate before i dished ot over $50.00 for a pay per view boxing event. It's not that i didn't like boxing or anything, quite the opposite in fact. It was always just the thought of paying so much to watch it. But since i married a Filipina woman, i have gotten every pay per view for the last three years to watch Manny Pacquiao fight. Maybe what turned me off before was paying for the Mike Tyson pay per views, only to watch it end in the first or second round all the time. The let down was always so great because there really were no serious opponents for Mike.
Now there is a total difference sitting down watching the lighter weights fight. The action is much faster paced. The punches are always flying. It is great to watch.
But lets look at Manny Pacquiao for a moment. The man has to be argueably the best boxer in the history of the sport. He has done things no other boxer has ever done.
Manny has won titles in Eight weight classes. He has won ligitamite titles in four periennial weight classes. And if you have watched any of his last four or five fights, he has totally destroyed his opponents, most of them bigger men than him.
Margarito outweighed him by seventeen pounds and stood close to 5 inches taller than him. He looked the bigger and stronger man. What happened? Manny took him apart like a machanic stripping an engine. It was beautiful to watch. I heard the interpriter for Margarito's corner saying that "he doesn't hit hard, he can't hurt me". The next round i saw Manny hit Margarito in the body with a beautiful body shot, and Margarito was never the same for the rest of the fight. Many could hit him at will. Return five punches for every one he received. It was just Awesome.
It was the same when he fought Clotty. Clooty hardly threw a single punch. He just covered up and tried to protect himself from the onslaught. And Clotty was the much bigger man. Manny destroyed him.
The same goes for Ricky Hatton. Knocked out in the second round? Or was it the third? It doesn't matter. He thought Pacquiao would be easy. He got knocked out for his trouble. And Oscar De La Hoya was the same. Manny put on a clinic of boxing finesse and destroyed Oscar, pushing him to retirement with the loss. Cotto was hit so hard and so often he didn't know what happened to him.
What do all these fighters have in common? They were all bigger men than Manny Pacquiao. He was not supposed to beat any of them. He was too small. But he destroyed ALL of them in such a display of boxing not seen in ages. For a smaller man to so destroy such bigger larger foes, it leaves you to wonder? Exactly who, in the history of boxing, could be called greater than Manny Pacquiao???
In my mind, as of right now, Manny is the greatest boxer of all time. Pound for pound, or any other way you want to look at it.
The one match i do want to see, more than any other right now, would be Manny Pacquiao versus Floyd Merryweather Jr. This fight should have happened already. But as a fan looking from the outside, it looks to me like Floyd is scared of Manny. Floyd like to think of himself as the best, pound for pound, in the world. Well sorry to tell you this Floyd. Until you step into the ring and face Manny, and soon, you do not deserve that title. Manny has taken it from you, and earned it. You need to beat Manny to get it back. I don't think you are good enough.
In my mind, Manny Pacquiao is THE BEST THERE IS.
Congrats Manny.


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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Obama in Jakarta, Kissing Muslim Ass

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America, Home of the Free, Land of the Brave. At least that was how she used to be. Now America has a President who seems to go out of his way to lower himself, and America also, down on bended knee, all the better to kiss the Muslim Worlds ASS. Mr. Obama just can't seem to stay upright on his feet when he deals with the Muslim world. Where has the STRONG America gone to?

Even as Mr. Obama bends down and puckers up, the Muslim world still demands that it is not enough. America, and the rest of the Western world, must do more to show they care about the Muslim way. The west must do more to understand the Muslim World. The West must do more to show they understand how evil they have been.

It is time Mr. President, to tell the Muslim World, that maybe THEY have to do more, to curb the violence which eminates from their societies. Maybe THEY must do more to show they want to join the rest of civilization, and bring their countries, and their religion, out of the dark ages and into the 20th century.

It is time for the american people to tell Mr. Obama that they are tired of their president kissing muslim ass. You are tired of america looking weak to the rest of the world. Get off your knee's Mr. President. Grow a pair of balls. Do you need some inspiration? Look to the Canadian Prime Minister, who stood up recently and told the world, we will not close our eyes and pretend antisemitism against Isreal is ok. We Denounce it, we stand with Isreal against ALL who want to destroy her. He showed a pair of balls. Where are yours, Mr. President?
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Poor Omar, ooops, Poor Ronald

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Poor little Omar, Ooops, I mean poor little Ronald, a Canadian Citizen, sitting in a Montana jail awaiting execution for murdering two amreican citizens. The silence is completely deafening of the bleeding heart liberal left in this country crying out for his repatriation to Canada, to serve his time in a canadian jail, to be coddled and papmered until he can be released after serving 1/3 of his sentence. Where are they? How come nobody is in the streets chanting for his release, like they are with Omar Khadr?? Where is the Liberal Media with daily stories on why he needs to be brought back to Canada, instead of being put to death in America? Is it because the papers are NOT showing a picture of Ronald Smith when he was a child? He does not look "cute" enough? Where are you CBC??????

Just in case you don't know, Mr. Ronald Smith is a Canadian Citizen convicted of murdering two native americans in Montana, and now sits in jail awaiting his exocution there.

Although i say let him rot there, you do the crime then live with the time, i have to wonder why our bleeding heart liberals are not front and center demanding his return to Canada. Where are these Liberal and NDP and Bloc MP's, who so eagerly stood up in the House of Commons, and DEMANDED the Conservitive government do everything in its power to bring poor little Omar Khadr back home, now that a Canadian citizen is due to be executed in an American Jail? I heard so very many times from them that it didn't matter what Omar did, he is a Canadian citizen, and that a canadian is a canadian is a canadian. Where is that zeal you showed for Omar now, when it comes to Ronald Smith? Is he not a Canadian? Is a canadian a canadian is a canadian????? Or is that only for the cute ones??? Poor Ronald. No newspapers will post his baby pictures, so he could look cute too, and have everyone crying over his impending death. Tough luck Ronald. Live with it. Or die with it. It is what you deserve.

For the bleeding hearts here. Hypocrites. But at least i thank you for that. Ronald does not deserve our pity or our tears. He is a convicted murderer. Just like Omar. I hope he rots too.
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Obama Gobsmacked

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It is pretty hard to argue against the fact that last night President Obama was GOBSMACKED during the mid-term elections last night in America. A word to the wise when it comes to a politician, watch out for voter anger. It can come out of nowhere when you take the voting public for granted.

After the Election of two years ago, with Obama and the Democrats riding in on a tidal wave of support, the electorate was assumed that they would put up with anything. After all, Obama was worshipped like a god. A politician could vote for anything Obama wanted, because look at the support he had. The public was stupid, they would tolerate anything, because Obama chanted his mantra of "change".

The problem was that the change Obama chanted was NOT the change the President enacted. The people wanted change in how their government did things. Change in how the government treated the people. Unfortunetly that was not what Obama delivered. The people wanted less government, Obama gave them More government. The people wanted the economy worked on. Obama worked on health care. The people wanted less government spending and to get a handle on the deficit. Obama pushed the envelope on spending, with deficits in the TRILLIONS of dollars.

So what happens when, after promising so much change and delivering so very little? You get Gobsmacked by the American voter. Thats what happens.

The left will say that the "Tea Party" did not have much of an impact last night. The American people said "what"??????? Of course the Tea Party was hugely responsible for last nights beating. The Tea Party is just a name for the publics anger. The Public was ANGRY. This group gave the public an outlet to express that anger. It may take a while for the public to finally say "enough is enough", but when they do, great changes happen. Last night enough was enough. Lets hope the people elected last night, representing the publics anger, understand their responsibilty to the public who elected them. If not, then you will see another great change in two years time.

I think back to two years ago, when Sara Palin was picked as running mate for the Republican ticket for President. In the ensuing election battle, and after the election up until now, the mainstream media in the united states were writing Mrs. Palin off as a brain dead nobody. To this day she is derided and belittled in the media. Well, i would have to say Sara Palin had a HUGE hand in what transpired last night. Mrs. Palin was the biggest supporter of the Tea Party movement. Her hands were all over it. She was front and center. Her face was everywhere where the Tea Party was mentioned. Do you STILL thing she is a nobody?

I will hazard a guess right here and right now, that Sara Palin will either be the next Republican Presidential Candidate, or she will be the NEW Tea Party Presidential Candidate. And if so, she will be the next President of the United States of America.

Now, if only this same anger will sweep across my country of Canada, and sweep the Liberals and NDP and Bloc off the electoral map, so we can enact change here also, then we could all be happy.



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Monday, November 1, 2010

Obama, what happened??

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It was just two short years ago when Obama mania was sweeping across America, and Canada, and the world for that matter. People were falling all over themselves to praise the man. There was going to be a revolution sweeping America. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for World peace for god's sake, without doing a single thing.

Now, two years on and what has happened to Obama mania?? Where are the adoring fans, grovelling at the feet of their hero? What the hell happened??

People are FINALLY seeing the man for what he is. They wanted a man of change. They got a spendthrift Liberal. Now that the people are finally seeing what they got, they are realizing that this is not what they voted for. This is not the kind of change they were expecting. The American people are getting their first look at a possible nanny state and they do not like it.

The problem is that America would have seen this coming if they were not so afraid to look at the mans policy record BEFORE the election. The problem is that because they were dealing with a Black Man, nobody wanted to be called a racist if they said anything against the man. There was barely ANY reporting of what the man stood for while he was in office in Chicago. When his views on his chich and pastor were brought up, people closed their eyes and ears and it went away. No one wanted to hear it. So it wasn't discussed, lest you be branded a racist. It was the first time i can remember in American Politics where this blatent hands off approach was ever given to a presidential candidate.

Now two years later, and people are waking up. This Liberal nannie state wannabe creater is finally being seen for what he is, and the people are not happy. You simply cannot be spending trillions of dollars more than you have, year after years, and expect the people not to notice. Well the people of America HAVE noticed. This notice has given birth to the Tea Party, and it will destroy the Democratic Party's power after the mid-terms in two days time.

What happened Obama?????
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Omar Khadr's return to Canada

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The plea deal is done, the guilty plea is in, the jury's verdict is handed down. What it all means is that Mr. Omar Khadr, the Coalition's poster boy over the past three years, will soon be back on Canadian soil, quite possibly walking around as a free man, in less than 3 years. Now how is that for justice?

The bleeding hearts in this Country still stand up and defend this self confessed terrorist, though you hear quite a bit less from the coalition. The Liberals have since gone mute on Mr Khadr since he pleaded guilty. The Bloc have gone silent. Even the NDP has virtually muted themselves since Mr. Khadr said "i did it". But that muteness is still a long way from holding Mr. Khadr to any kind of account or blame. There is no calls from any party in the coalition for Mr Khadr to be held accountable for his actions. They have just taken down the poster they used to wave in the air before his guilty plea, and put it in the closet for now.

So now our favorite self confessed Terrorist son will do one more year in Guantonimo, before being transferred to a Canadian Prison to serve the remainder of his 8 year plea deal sentence. (Funny how he can go from a 40 year sentence to serving 8 years for Murder). Of course after arrival in Canada the Canadian Judicial system will then kick in, (the system where criminals are treated better than law abiding citizens) and he will be paroled for time served. It is truely a disgusting state of affairs.

I truely hope our Canadian Government has some kind of plan to keep the human piece of garbage out of this country. What a travesty it will be if he is allowed out as soon as he gets here and is then allowed to sue this country for millions of dollars. I would say that he should not be allowed to sue anybody seeing as how he has pleaded guilty, but this is Canada you know. The bleeding hearts here will be drooling all over themselves trying to find a way to coddle poor little Omar.

We are certainly in for quite the show here in the next couple of years. May poor Omar rot in hell. Oh, and send his family there too. They are no better.
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