Muda69

Not at all. It is still Democrat = Republican = Uni-Party. The only real difference between the two parties is whose money they want to steal to fund their big government schemes.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-vance-rubio-7c7ba6b99b5f38d2d840ed95b2fdc3e5 This country is going crazy.

https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanks-state-control-doctors-have-become-gods The report recommended closing schools, discarding competing therapies, and firing minority doctors that were considered substandard. “Medicine would never be a respected profession . . . until it sloughed off its coarse and common elements,” wrote Starr. Medical schools had been closing before 1910, with 20 percent shuttered in the four years before the report was published. Capital requirements for modern laboratories, libraries, and clinical facilities “were what killed so many medical schools in the years after 1906,” he wrote. Rothbard explained further: In all cases of cartels, the producers are able to replace consumers in their seats of power, and accordingly the medical establishment was now able to put competing therapies (e.g., homeopathy) out of business; to remove disliked competing groups from the supply of physicians (blacks, women, Jews); and to replace proprietary medical schools financed by student fees with university-based schools run by the faculty, and subsidized by foundations and wealthy donors. The burgeoning cartel meant “a skewing of the entire medical profession away from patient care toward high-tech, high-capital investment in rare and glamorous diseases,” wrote Rothbard, “which redound far more to the prestige of the hospital and its medical staff than is actually useful for the patient-consumers.” Abraham Flexner, according to Starr, “had an aristocratic disdain for things commercial.” The high-minded Flexner Report “more successfully legitimated the profession’s interest in limiting the number of medical schools and the supply of physicians than anything the AMA might have put out on its own.” The result: after peaking at 162 medical schools in 1906, by 1922, the number had been cut in half. The Flexner Report (a.k.a. Bulletin Number Four) recommended that the number of schools be reduced to thirty-one. Fortunately, more than seventy survived. Left up to Flexner, twenty states would not have had a single medical school. Legislators intervened. The report “was the manifesto of a program that by 1936 guided $91 million from Rockefeller’s General Education Board (plus millions more from other foundations) to a select group of medical schools,” according to Starr. Two-thirds of these funds went to only seven schools. Medicine made a great leap in the Progressive Era. “The transition from household to the market as the dominant institution in the care for the sick,” in addition to increased specialization of labor, “has created emotional distance between the sick and those responsible for their care,” Starr wrote, “and a shift from women to men as the dominant figures in the management of health and illness.” Mike Holly wrote in a 2013 Mises Daily piece: Since the early 1900s, medical special interests have been lobbying politicians to reduce competition. By the 1980s, the U.S. was restricting the supply of physicians, hospitals, insurance and pharmaceuticals, while [at the same time] subsidizing demand. Since then, the U.S. has been trying to control high costs by moving toward something perhaps best described by the House Budget Committee: “In too many areas of the economy—especially energy, housing, finance, and health care—free enterprise has given way to government control in ‘partnership’ with a few large or politically well-connected companies.” Part two of my procedure involved making two incisions to connect the wires from my brain to a battery that would be implanted to my chest. I arrived at the scheduled time of 12:30 p.m. The rep for the medical hardware to be placed in me told us the surgeon was running late. When my wife complained, the rep said, “He’s a busy man.” She replied, “We’re all busy. I’m going to complain.” He calmly said, “He won’t care.” When I rolled into the bright lights of the surgical center’s operating room, the clock on the wall said 17:45 (military time). The next thing I knew, I woke up in recovery. The surgeon’s physician’s assistant commented on how good I looked. A nurse who had spent the last four hours apologizing for how far behind they were helped my wife put me in the car. There was no sign of the surgeon. Another American medical success story. Government has ruined the medical industry.

The 2024 GOP Platform Promises To 'Make America Affordable Again.' So Why Are They Embracing Fiscal Insanity?: https://reason.com/2024/07/11/the-2024-gop-platform-promises-to-make-america-affordable-again-so-why-are-they-embracing-fiscal-insanity/ More proof of the uni-party. And politicians who are too chicken shit to truly change the federal government, effectively ruining this country for our children and grandchildren.

https://reason.com/2024/07/08/if-you-dont-trust-media-now-wait-until-its-government-funded/ This is just a bad idea. Full stop.

His name doesn't have to appear in the document. And we all know a politician not "officially" endorsing something is worth exactly squat. Do you personally support the changes to the executive branch proposed in the Presidential Transition Project (it's official name per the Heritage Foundation), specifically the proposition to reclassify thousand of federal civil service workers as political appointees?

It really won't be the NCC without Kokomo in it. The Wildkats are the heart and soul of that conference, bar none.

I have no idea what Mr. Levin's scientific credentials are, other that having a medical degree.

Sure. If there is not a candidate from any party that best reflects your views then either write in a candidate or don't vote at all. Voting for either member of the uni-party, even to just 'switch it up', helps to perpetuate the corruption of federal politics.

You do you. I refuse to vote for a convicted felon, regardless of their political party affiliation. And the GOP has truly reached the lowest of the low if they allow as such during their upcoming sham of a convention.

Yes it does. I have been camping the last several days, out of cell/data service, so I missed the debate. Just have been reading headlines. Doesn't sound good for Mr. Biden, and Mr. Trump was his usual blowhard self. I like the debate analysis from a newsletter I subscribe to. Some excerpts: America is truly in decline if Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump are the best we can come up with for POTUS. I won't be voting for either, as should any serious and sane person.

A mutant. And what is the worldwide percentage of humans born like this? Have there been studies done? Science does nothing of the sort.

That really wasn't that long ago. If I were an A.D. I wouldn't touch someone "in recovery" unless they had proof they had been sober for 5+ years. Too big of a risk. Do you really want a Shooter Fletch on the sideline in this day and age?

I thought a woman was an adult human female. Simple enough............

Cloverdale must be truly desperate to hire an alcoholic. What kind of teaching or administrative duties will Mr. Hart have?

https://www.engadget.com/congress-passes-sweeping-pro-nuclear-energy-bill-140035295.html Nuclear Energy is the real future, not wind and solar.

Thank you. I did no such thing.

If the shoe fits...............

https://deadline.com/2024/06/donald-sutherland-dead-1235978933/ Truly one of the greats. He will be missed.

Agreed. These schools may have a 4A-5A enrollment pool but their pool of available athletes is more in the 2A-4A range. There is also the case, as it is at Frankfort, where the majority of the available student "OMG! athletes" would rather play soccer than football. All part of the socioeconomic makeup of a school. Most families at FHS value the sport of soccer, and to a lesser extent baseball, as more important than American stalwarts of Football and Basketball.

From a weekly newsletter I subscribe to:

*ahem*: https://indianahsfootball.homestead.com/logs/Pioneer.htm#load 5A schools, but close enough for government work.....................

Looking at the Bears schedule they don't play another NFC North team until week #11. Not playing another divisional team until that late in the regular season is something you see every year, is it? It's like "AI" was making the schedule.

https://mises.org/mises-wire/problem-juneteenth Here! Here!