I found another Anderson blog late last night: Mayor Buckwheat. Actually, he archives his newsletter at the blog. A good deal more funny than I have been of late (if ever) but I like sarcasm. Acting Mayor Smith, indeed. The only problem is getting the newsletters to load from the main site. Thanks to the Muncie Free Press and Google for finding this. Do read the Comments.
More seriously, the wife found a nursing blog In Our Own Words and then sent it onto me. From April 9, 2007 is this post, Healthcare Revisited: Changes Coming? The post contains links to all the healthcare proposals of the presidential candidates. I guess I never gave much thought about what nurses thought of universal health care. On this subject, the doctors always seemed to take up all the oxygen in the room.
Thank you, American Values Alliance | Practical voice for progressive values for adding me to their blogroll. I am not sure that my splenetic, long-windiness deserves the honor but I sure appreciate that someone is reading this blog. The site describes itself thus:
The American Values Alliance is a nonpartisan, web-based citizen's alliance promoting civil discourse, respect for evidence, and fair play as true American values.
The Alliance was formed to explain and affirm the core values of liberty, equality and human dignity that inform the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights....
Our current administration isn't just disconnected with the concept of rail travel, but rather just disconnected with the future. Such myopic dependence on a highway infrastructure is great for scoring short-term political points, but Governor Daniels promised us long-term vision and bold leadership, something completely lacking from the Major Moves deal.Then there is A Blog from Hell, an Indiana blog sure to offend or shock someone. Someone who writes posts as long or longer than me about Indiana, Nazis, religion, Indiana's "In God We Trust" plates, and he seems to have a bent towards philosphy.
Not from Indiana but I do like the opinions on DownWithTyranny!. Besides the site beat me to commenting on this week's Boston Legal. BL has become one fo the few shows I work hard to see. Whacked out lawyer show hiding some rather good satire and a hell of a political viewpoint.
here is a mashup of Google Maps and medical information: HEALTHmap. The site is a "Global disease alert map." Just a trifle I ran across today.
I know I poke at Congressional Republicans for not doing their job in checking the Executive Branch but reading the New York Times this morning I was thinking where has been the press? While the following is from OSHA Leaves Worker Safety in Hands of Industry, the "news" here just seems like the same old George W. Bush story. Just change the name of the agency and whatever might be the intended function of the agency.
Since George W. Bush became president, OSHA has issued the fewest significant standards in its history, public health experts say. It has imposed only one major safety rule. The only significant health standard it issued was ordered by a federal court.
The agency has killed dozens of existing and proposed regulations and delayed adopting others. For example, OSHA has repeatedly identified silica dust, which can cause lung cancer, and construction site noise as health hazards that warrant new safeguards for nearly three million workers, but it has yet to require them.
“The people at OSHA have no interest in running a regulatory agency,” said Dr. David Michaels, an occupational health expert at George Washington University who has written extensively about workplace safety. “If they ever knew how to issue regulations, they’ve forgotten. The concern about protecting workers has gone out the window.”
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