Neanderpundit

about the fact that a lot of the people in positions of power in the churches (Catholic and otherwise) supported the health Care bullshit.

And there is a good deal of truth to that; there are a powerful lot of those retards who thought this was a good idea.

I’m willing to cut them a little slack however, for a couple of reasons people don’t think too much about.

Find the nastiest area close to you, be it the south side, or downtown Motown, or wherever. Drive around with cash sticking out of your pocket, and get mugged and shot.

When you wake up, you will probably be in a Catholic hospital, or at least a hospital affiliated with a religious group. The “for profit” hospitals tend to be in nice, clean, well heeled neighborhoods where the income is high. Why should they care for those people who can’t pay their bills?

Those hospitals have good trauma units. They generally have a good ER. Their ICU is usually well managed and well staffed.
And they don’t pull a profit, and they never turn anyone away.

Oh, they’ll do their best to bill everyone that shows up, but talk to the people that do the billing and see how often the hospital gets paid for emergent care. And a poweful lot of people in those areas use the emergent care as thir primary physician- illegals, the homeless, the dregs of society. The Catholic Church and many other religious organizations (And a much smaller number of non religious not-for-profits) are the ones who have been providing that care for a powerful long time, and their reward is increasing government interference in the way they do business.

So yeah. A lot of Catholic leadership has opined for universal health care. Why not? They’ve been providing it, for almost as long as there has been health care. I bet they’d like someone else to carry a little of the burden once in a while.

No, this does not excuse stupid, but I felt like it would be a nice idea if people actually thought of this.

Last night/yesterday afternoon I drove back from Danville on mostly freshly paved roads bereft of other traffic. My favorite talk station was too far away so I plugged the tape in and listened to the Ipod.

There are several songs on the Ipod that are… potentially dangerous, while I’m driving.

Santana, for instance. Pretty much guaranteed to make me push the skinny pedal to the floor, especially if the road is twisty.

The Who. This one for straightaways. This one for the roads on the map that never have straights. This one for dark and stormy nights, when you have to open the window and let the wet in and wash the cobwebs out of your soul.

These guys for hot summer afternoons with clear blue skies and long stretches of featureless roads through cornfields. Or this one for lots of long sweeping turns.

These are all naturals. Partner always knew that if he wanted me to drive like a maniac for five minutes, he could stick any of those disks in the player. What are your Drive songs?

We did confirm that the pond that had been stocked last fall was brimming with healthy and feisty hybrid sunfish. No such luck on the river. Might need to be there earlier in the day.