Update

Sorry I havn't posted in a while. I have had writers blog-ummm...block.

Not much to report...life is kind of dull right now. Just work, school, eat, work, school, eat, sleep, work, school...you get the idea.

You need to read this all the way through.

OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heatall summer long, building his house and laying upsupplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's afool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. Thegrasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out inthe cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the witheringheat all summer long, building his house and laying upsupplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's afool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a pressconference and demands to know why the ant should beallowed to be warm and well fed while others are coldand starving.

CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant inhis comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can thisbe, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green."

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of theant's house where the news stations film the groupsinging, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the groupkneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview withPeter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share."

Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity andAnti-Grasshopper Act," retroactive to the beginning ofthe summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire anproportionate number of green bugs and, having nothingleft to pay his retroactive taxes, his home isconfiscated by the government.

Hillary gets her old law firm to represent thegrasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, andthe case is tried before a panel of federal judgesthat Bill appointed from a list of single-parentwelfare recipients.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing upthe last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug relatedincident and the house, now abandoned, is taken overby a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peacefulneighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican

Thanks to my good friend Jake for this story.

Pope Benedict XVI

The Pope Benedict XVI recently made a statement that caused more violence to erupt in the middle east. He quoted a Byzantine emperor from the medieval times who stated that some of the "prophet" Muhammad's teachings were "evil and inhuman"*

I am not racist and I am not a bigot, but what actions have been done that have disproved that statement? I mean, are the Muslims trying to say that bombing five churches in response to the Pope's remarks is not evil and not inhuman? Do they think saying 'convert to Islam or die' is not evil or inhuman? I think if they thought the Pope was wrong they would have a peaceful protest.

Also, where are the democrats who state that it is wrong to be in a war in Iraq? Why are they not speaking out against the muslim reactions to the Pope's speech?


*http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,214184,00.html

Is Medicaid an Insurance?

I am at a dilemma right now. I do not believe Medicaid should be classified as an insurance. When I think of insurance, I think of something where the individual, or the individual's employer, pays money to an insurance company. Medicaid is not payed by an individual's employer (it's paid for by me and my employer).

I don't know how many times I have patients who say, "I have insurance," when they have only medicaid. Something they are getting for not working and not being able to stop procreating. Now, don't think I am anti-medicaid/anti-poor people. I'm not. I think someone should be on medicaid only for a max time of 6 months, unless they are under 18 (I have no problem with kids being on medicaid), or someone who has an actual illness/disability (not ADHD/ADD/depression but advanced MS or severe Cerebal Palsy) and are not able to work.

What does everyone else think? Should Medicaid be considered an insurance?

I've figured it out!!!

I've figured it out! It's a government conspiracy!

The reason why people wear their pants half way down their butts is so it makes them harder to run from the police. The government knows that they won't be able to run very well if they are constantly pulling up their pants.

How to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity

Some of you may have seen versions of this going around. I have had this on my computer for a few years and do not know how I originally got it. Some of these I actually find tempting...

1. At lunchtime, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."
5. Put deceive in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over his or her caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
6. Finish all your sentences with, "In accordance with the prophecy."
7. Don't use any punctuation
8. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
9. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."
10. Sing along at the opera.
11. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
12. Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.
13. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.
14. When the money comes out of the ATM, scream, "I won! I won! Third time this week!!!"
15. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling, "Run for your lives, they're loose!"
16. Tell your children over dinner. "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."

State Fair

I went to the SC Upstate State Fair (or whatever you call it), and I'm afraid I wasn't that impressed.

I feel it was overpriced (food, cost for entry, and cost for rides). There were very few exhibits (no tractor-, horse-, oxen-pulls; no horse races; no 4-H animal competitions; very few animal exhibits period; and very few rides).

Also, their french fries were not homemade. They were the frozen, crinkle-cut stuff. They didn't even have any vinigar for the french fries! However, there were fried twinkies, fried candy-bars, and fried pickles.

One cool thing, though. When I parked, I parked next to a vehicle with the beautiful NH plates. They were getting out, and I found out they owned property in beautiful New Durham. They recently moved down here because the dumb zoning board wouldn't let them use their property for what they wanted to use it for.

Must get back to work...

P.S. Please vote in the poll to the left. I would like some feedback from some of my viewers.

-Leon

Reasons to call 911...(1st ed.)

1. To take your temperature. ($400+ thermometer...also we only carry rectal thermometers)

2. Someone is angry at you (why not call 911 and have them committed).

3. You fell someplace, took a cab home, and called 911 to go to hospital (although the cab is still in the driveway).

4. You're fatigued.

5. You're not sleeping well.

6. You're lonely.

7. You want to be seen faster.

8. You go to one hospital, get tired of waiting, and are waiting in your car to be taken to a second hospital.

9. You're drunk (alcoholism is not a disease...it's a lifestyle).

10. You've been sick for a week (and you want to go to hospital at 2am).

11. It's your first day on your new job and you don't like it.

This is a post

Couldn't really think of a better title for the post.

Not much happening down here lately- just work and school. Since today was Labor Day, I actually had off from school for tonight (never had that luxury at BJU), so I am at work. It hasn't been too bad today so far. I just got done with a reverse-24 hr shift in the city last night. I was awake for over 30 hours. Everytime I went to lay down dispatch decided to wake me back up. I got off work last night at 6:30pm, grabbed a bite to eat, and was in bed at 8:00. I slept until 5:15am and went back to work. Luckily, I was in Tigerville (Post 13/slow station), and was able to nap for a couple more hours.

Right now I am putting off studying for my A&P exam tomorrow night. Oh well, I still have a whole bunch more exams to go this semester. Maybe I better go hit the books...