Ranting

So it's like every time I go to the doctor there's something else wrong---high blood pressure, high glucose, overweight, arthritis, blah, blah, blah.  $200 for this test, oops what's your out-of-pocket, oh, we'll satisfy that with this test, don't need to give blood---bleeding dollars!!!!!!!  Take diabetes, they give you a stupid test, prescribe a monitor meter, tell you to test 3 X a day for 8 weeks, come back for a consult.  Insurance covers part of the meter but the freaking test strips are like $24.00 for 20 and that's at Wal-Mart!!!!!  And by the time of the consultation, the glucose count ain't even close to out-of-range (which is 120-140 before breakfast).  So it looks like the diabetes is now under control----of course, I didn't make any changes, just got a tattoo on my fingertip from the bloody tester.............Wonder what the doctor or nurses tests would have looked like if they'd been force fed a trillion milliliters of glucose suspended in syrup and had a blood glucose reading every hour for 4 hours.

So now my tri-glycerides and cholesterol are above normal range.  So we're looking at the diet.  I'm going to try some "heart smart" cereal for breakfast.  It's loaded with fiber and anti-oxidants.  Probably will taste like something scraped out of the Klingon Kats' litter box too.

Speaking of anti-oxidants, these are vitamins/minerals to limit the body's free radicals.  Tell you what, the way the news has been lately and some of the idiocy I've sen on t v and in those chain e-mails, we could use a whole lot more radicals freed!!!!

For instance, if capitalism is about winners and losers--a company either makes it or not, right?--why are we bailing out the losers??  But if government is about providing a minimum safety net for all citizens---no one should be allowed to starve or be illiterate in the richest country on the globe,right??-- how can they allow major employers to fail, causing the employees to lose their homes and ability to feed themselves and their families?  Ah, the paradox of capitalism in a liberal democracy. (Notice I won't get involved with health care here---it's pathetic enough that this country ranks below some third world states in child deaths per thousand population.)

So some Republican southern governors are actually advocating secession??  Now there's an apple that done fell several light-years from the tree.  If I recall my history, didn't the Republicans start as the party that elected some cat named Abe to PRESERVE THE UNION when the (same!!!) Southern governors wanted to secede...........

But the latest greatest is the flap over whether the CIA lied to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives.  Maybe they just mis-informed her??  Who cares!!!!!  CIA is a government agency, Congress is a government agency, you-name-it in Washington and it's probably a government agency.  After the last 40 years---Viet-Nam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Clinton, Iraq war----is there really anyone left who believes anything the government tells them without checking it out for themselves first??

Please give me back my bacon and eggs and sausage and free them radicals!!!!!!