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I love reading in the comments over the past weekend how it was the awful unions that screwed their people of of 5000 jobs in Ohio. Over my tenure here at DL, unions have been blamed for so many things, but I figured it was time to remind you all that AMA is a pretty f’ing powerful Union that I hardly ever see anyone stopping to lambast.

Lest you people forget, they get to dictate how many doctors and for what speciality there can be each year. So their little supply and demand balance always just happens to work in their favor. Shocking right.

So, I read this article this morning and the 3rd Paragraph jumps out at me.

In an aging population, a shortage of doctors has created new demand for care providers like physician assistants and nurse practitioners — nurses with advanced training who can also examine and treat patients, make diagnoses and write prescriptions.

The article makes it seem like it is the aging population that created this shortage? Uh, like the Doctors didn’t know that our population was going to get older? Yes, those nuckleheads that have been given god-like complexes didn’t know that a few dozen MILLION citizens were getting older and going to need medical care. Please…spare me.

Overall the article is good and if I can push one of my daugthers to at least be a PA I’d be tickled to death. But to say that a shortage of doctors is due to some surprise that more people are getting older is a joke.

Howard Wolfson, a man responsible for one of the most poorly run campaigns in modern history and newly hired Fox News Contributor, now blames Hillary’s loss on John Edwards.

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With all this talk about Bret Favre going to play for the Jets I think we should all remember that Quarterbacks have little to no influence on how a team does.  Continue reading →

And I think Obama plays it much better.  For he weds the concept of celebrity with the reality that McCain has been embraced by the lobbyists and the special interests and President Bush, just as he has embraced them back.  Further these same evil Bush minions and special interests are running his low road campaign that has fully dishonored McCain forever.  

Excellent counterattack by the next President of the United States, Barack Obama.

…otherwise the Olympics have been pretty good.  

Of course, I still have my usual “grumpy old man” gripes about how beach volleyball is not a real sport (what next… dodge ball?) and the dearth of modern pentathlon coverage and the fact that professional basketball players are allowed to play, but all and all – so far so good. 

RE Bush:   He seems affable enough and the camera loves the guy.  If he hadn’t let terrorists attack us on 9/11 and then launched a war against a random country by lying about their ability to bomb us with nukes without planning for the occupation and hadn’t wrecked the economy through gross mismanagement hadn’t lavished corporate welfare on his pals in big oil, and hadn’t trashed the constitution and hadn’t turned the country into armed ideological camps – then he might have been an okay placeholder president.