Gosh, would ya give me a break...

I choose to follow tweets of many different people. I believe in listening to other view points it help's me be a better contributing member of society. One of the reasons I enjoy the BBC for news, I'm sure.

A person I follow on Twitter posted a comment about a "Categorical Exclusion" granted to BP by the Obama administration and his blog presented a snippet from fringeelements going on about "I smell a rat!"... the proverbial somebody said, somebody said... When I get forwarded trash talking in an email, I'm off to snopes.com or some such place. At LEAST I Google the pertinent points and try to read up on it.

So here's my take... The current Obama administration's MMS did grant the "Exclusion".

From this Washington Post report...

"While the MMS assessed the environmental impact of drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico on three occasions in 2007 -- including a specific evaluation of BP's Lease 206 at Deepwater Horizon -- in each case it played down the prospect of a major blowout."

In my opinion, it may have been someone in the Obama administration that signed that paper. However, it appears to me that it was based on information / assessments made by the preceding administration.

So... Gosh, would ya give me a break...

Health Care, My Two Cents...

Can for-profit companies be a better health care choice than the govt? Then what's wrong with having a public option? The better companies will make their products more attractive... Think FEDEX, UPS... versus USPS...

Personally, from my view point they (health care insurance companies) seem more like T-Mobile, ATT, Verizon, Sprint...

• For example, why am I settling for a phone service that...
• Has lousy voice quality
• Randomly will not complete a dialed called
• Sporadically will just disconnect my current call
• Charges too much for the amount of bandwith I'm REALLY using
• Is more about having features that use up minutes, like call waiting, 3-way calling, call forwarding...
  
• Sells services beyond the capacity of their network

opps, different rant...

For profit companies get focused on the 'for profit' and they forget about real service (it is just not that profitable), so my measley dollars can not influence them to improve. In my opinion, no amount of govt oversight, will have any real benefit to me. Instead of my costs going
down or the quality of my choices going up, 'the companies' will not change, my cost will go up (for govt compliance)

Washington, please give me a public option that forces the insurance companies hand to improve or get out of the game.

Gettin techie with it...

Attended the first Lamda Lounge meeting Thursday night. Saw some Groovy and OCAML code, all of it was interesting and I'm totally looking forward to the next meeting. If you're in the St. Louis area and can get by Apistry (might have hosed that spelling) Jan 8th @ 6PM come on by. Thirty plus uber geeks made it Thursday, you might like it. I do.

Me Meme

Via Eric, Via Mario

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.

Frown is based on user experience with phone camera. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Deep Thoughts

Okay, so I was mowing the lawn as I do most Saturdays (or Sundays) and I had a thought. I've had the chance to hear about the trickle down or trickle up economics and I've come to a place on that. I believe, in most instances, that a person's choice will entirely be based on if they will be the recipient or provider of the trickle.

New and Expanded

Ok, let's give it another go. I'm spreading out a little and hope to be intensive for a period to see what I think. Maybe someone will happen by and take an idea, or some such, forward from here and change the world, or not.

Hi Ho...

Well I try to write something every two months even when there is not that much to say. Life has been pretty simple, abundant and a little hot lately. Happens every year around this time, what's up with that? Not much to brag or complain about, but thought I'd say 'Hey'. Hey!

As Always...