Midazolam and Hydromorphone were used on Dennis McGuire last week successfully. The process took about 25 minutes. He was unconscious the entire time. There were a few gasping respirations which are to be expected. There was no sign of a struggle or distress. No reported seizure activity. The family was upset because of the agonal respirations and their lawyer, naturally, said the man suffered a terrible death. But from all descriptions things went very well. Good. Now, who is next?
Friday, January 17, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Let's Read The Omnibus Bill Before We Vote On It
Let's take some time and read the Omnibus Appropriations Bill before we vote on it. Then let's have discussions with both sides...debate the bill's pieces and parts. And then let's cut the inevitable pork out. In other words, let's get back to reasonable, responsible governance.
It is difficult to see how our Congress can expect us to agree to accept laws that were written in secrecy and brought to the floor two days before a vote... before anyone has time to examine the thing. With our government's recent track record voters cannot be expected to trust and accept. Bad things happen that way.
The Democrats have had their way in Congress and they blew it. 2014 is going to be a year for cleaning house. If only the ACA had been brought up for debate where all of it's pieces could have been examined we might have something that is working for everyone. But it was developed in secrecy and pushed through by a Democratic Congress. That is not the way the system was designed to work.
As for the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, let's please just take a breath and slow down and examine it.
It is difficult to see how our Congress can expect us to agree to accept laws that were written in secrecy and brought to the floor two days before a vote... before anyone has time to examine the thing. With our government's recent track record voters cannot be expected to trust and accept. Bad things happen that way.
The Democrats have had their way in Congress and they blew it. 2014 is going to be a year for cleaning house. If only the ACA had been brought up for debate where all of it's pieces could have been examined we might have something that is working for everyone. But it was developed in secrecy and pushed through by a Democratic Congress. That is not the way the system was designed to work.
As for the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, let's please just take a breath and slow down and examine it.
Friday, January 10, 2014
Current Events: White House Group Think Is Driving Us Crazy
Current Events: White House Group Think Is Driving Us Crazy: Amazed by the unending outpouring of bad ideas from the White House, I have come to the realization that we have and continue to be the ...
White House Group Think Is Driving Us Crazy
Amazed by the unending outpouring of bad ideas from the White House, I have come to the realization that we have and continue to be the victims of Groupthink.
Wikipedia's definition: Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an incorrect or deviant decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.
So, as long as his "People" are satisfied with decisions, he's ok with them, too. And we let him get away with them because he is a victim and must be defended.
The Democrats passed the ACA without a single Republican vote, based on poor assumptions and absent logic. Pie in the Sky thinking. Pie in the Sky because it is going to be an entitlement that makes SS and Medicare look like game of marbles. The Gorilla in the china shop is the cost, of course. Coming to bear, it will be shocking. One answer has already been floated. Single Payer System (U.S. Government) Take all retirement savings to pay for government entitlements in return for shares in banks...or something.
I can see those twenty something liberals in the GROUP endorsing that idea.
It's so preposterous it may not ever come up, but something huge and breathtakingly negative will happen when our credit rating is not only downsized but drops into a black hole. No country, not even the USA, can borrow it's way to solvency. Well, in the minds of Obama's neophyte Group of naive children, but not in the real world. Never.
Meanwhile, Obama's Group keeps on Groupthinking it's way to amazement with itself, and we keep running around in circles, responding to crazy ideas coming in machine gun fashion.
Wikipedia's definition: Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an incorrect or deviant decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.
So, as long as his "People" are satisfied with decisions, he's ok with them, too. And we let him get away with them because he is a victim and must be defended.
The Democrats passed the ACA without a single Republican vote, based on poor assumptions and absent logic. Pie in the Sky thinking. Pie in the Sky because it is going to be an entitlement that makes SS and Medicare look like game of marbles. The Gorilla in the china shop is the cost, of course. Coming to bear, it will be shocking. One answer has already been floated. Single Payer System (U.S. Government) Take all retirement savings to pay for government entitlements in return for shares in banks...or something.
I can see those twenty something liberals in the GROUP endorsing that idea.
It's so preposterous it may not ever come up, but something huge and breathtakingly negative will happen when our credit rating is not only downsized but drops into a black hole. No country, not even the USA, can borrow it's way to solvency. Well, in the minds of Obama's neophyte Group of naive children, but not in the real world. Never.
Meanwhile, Obama's Group keeps on Groupthinking it's way to amazement with itself, and we keep running around in circles, responding to crazy ideas coming in machine gun fashion.
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