" ON THE WAY TO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, WE'VE STOPPED OFF BRIEFLY AT HMOS"

I quoted that Insurance executive in an article I wrote for a regional business magazine in Phoenix about 30 years ago.
     It took me that long to find out - he was right. As a free-lance reporter for a half dozen business magazines and feature publications in the four state area, I wrote and followed up on trends like this one. Strangely, I would live long enough to suffer under the consequences of his predictions.
     We are currently being nagged to death about "HEALTH CARE' at the Federal Level. PAY ATTENTION, FOLKS.  As a young adult, I remember a visit to a family doctor cared for my young wife, talked with us for a half hour, implanted a Lanteen Cap, (you figure it out) chatted some more about the 1918 flu and pocketed the $10 fee he charged.
      Today, the HMO I belong to shuffles me off to a Nurse Practitioner (plays at Doctor) who takes no chances, refers out to "expert MDs" who can, and that is like pulling horse teeth, while telling me that I don't have something, not that I do.
       The real Docs are stretched so  thin, they dump  routine stuff on the nurses (ear wax, sore throats, minor cuts and abrasions, skinned egos, etc) and I find, as a result, the NPR - the lady Nurses subbing for the docs, are overwhelmed.
        They say they work 13 hours a day, are given their own assistants and their next door offices are filled with people who last names are " Narwal, Deepa, Castenada, and Yongho."  More girls than guys are in college today, population trends are down in the USA, there are no masses of kids in our streets anymore, but our ladies are active, trying to get a better education, better future.
         We are importing more foreign doctors, so look for the stranger in your future. And LONGER WAIT TIMES, both for appointments and in their office. PS, ever wonder why Canadians come down here for medical treatment? If we keep this HMO/Socialized medicine March toward the sea going, we may go north. They sometimes have to list their appointments 8 or 9 months in advance.
          Let's hope our new foreign doctors learn English real, faster and " better-ist."
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DANA LOESCH and the N.R.A.

I am a dedicated NRA member long before DL came along. I don't know much about her but as a beautiful, long tall, drink of water, she's easy to fall in love with.
      Until you read her book, Hands off my Gun. Beautiful, yes, but a hard as nails, tough cookie, back country, chew you fingers off to the knuckle kinda-girl.
      From a life-time of marketing and sales promotion, it was a stroke of genius for the guys at head office to have her at spear point. Good job. For the consumer, men and women, disabuse yourself of the notion that she is the gentle, sweet socker mom with loving kiddies in the station wagon at the ball field.
     I doubt it. More tough as shoe leather, she knows her stuff, .22 to .45 caliber and beyond, and thanks to her tough raisin' back home in the hills, it has been a good background for her in the NRA, probably marriage and the kids. When she says, keep your hands ' OFF MY GUN!! "  I think it's good advice. I'd take it.
    Read the book.
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AUSTRALIAN GUN CONTROL and HILLARY

Remember during the campaign Hillary's Umpeenth  speech about guns, somebody asked her how she felt about ' AUSTRALIAN GUN CONTROL"? ( they had just outlawed private ownership, demanded civilian surrender of guns upon pain of awfulness), and Hillary said, " I'LL HAVE TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT."
     Flash forward to today:  Australia gathered truckloads of everything that shoots. Tons of the stuff, pictures everywhere to prove it. Burned, crushed, buried, gone. OK?
     That was quite a while ago. The leftist government down under made the same tired old argument our Democratically run large city governments make - turn 'em in, you'll be safer. ( sure...like Chicago, tightest gun laws in the USA)
     Some smart ass University types conducted rigorous studies on crime rates before and after the "GUN-CONFISCATION!!"  Purpose? Did the government's demand to loot the public's self defense of all their firearms actually lower the rate of crime in Australia?
     After extensive scientific research, the answer was recently published. Guess what it was?
     Nope. Not one bit.

###                                           Wyatt Earp

His Protege

" CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?" Reginald Denny

Feminists: bad enough when Freidan got us rolling, split men and women up, looking at each other over barbed wire fences. Divorce rates up, kids confused, angry, husbands hanging out in psyche's offices, NOW, the femmes are so splintered, they're hollering at EACH OTHER. Wanna "tussle" with a feminist? I imagine you gotta pass a test first.
      Politics, we're split up worse than ever. At the half time, the score is: " THE LIONS THREE, THE CHRISTIANS ZERO." Who would have believed the Democrats would be so vicious about Hillary Clinton losing??
      Gunfights.....the crowds go nuts. Gunplay in America is outta site, the crowds go wild. Nowhere do I see as the NRA says, " the good guy with a gun" steps forward and saves the day. Have you? There are plenty of chances, too, but where are they?.Arguments for gun control all say the same thing: COMMON SENSE GUN CONTROL. Next time you read that, ask yourself this question: WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?
     There are enough guns in our country for everyone to have at least ONE. About 1/3 of the states now allow most people to carry them hidden without a license or a permit. Every one of our Continental Founding Fathers basically said we would be nuts to every give up our fire-arms. We'd be crazy to do it, and should fight the impulse.
     So, where are our heros? Some states, some school districts even allow teachers to arrive at school packing handguns One assumes they do so discreetly.
     The public insanity loosed since the election continues to baffle me, as it should you. A school principal declares " what do we tell our children!!" (good God, lady, GET A GRIP)  The public persona making all sorts of acclimation of Senator Bernie Sanders an avowed Socialist, when Venezuela is crumbling as we speak under the yoke of that very same governance. NO ONE IN OUR COUNTRY HAS EDUCATED OUR CITIZENS AS TO SOCIALISM AND WHAT IT WROUGHTS. In Venezuela, there are food riots, bank failures, police riots, shootings, civil disturbances as art form, death and destruction.  And, our children laud Bernie as something different in the American political system, something WE SHOLD REALLY TRY.

THE MEDIA (??)

Let's get REALLY serious for a moment: the "fake" media. Our president leads CNN and that night-tand most all of the other media broadcasts stories about them for weeks.
     Te tie up the airwaves ( ime joke of a channel MSNBC, around by the nose, with these ' tweets,' and print what seems to be longer than migraine headaches, babbling about how grossed out they are at his "in-" presideantialness.
     Gimmie a break.
     Here in Tucson, we have the Arizona Daily Star, far left, hippie-style newspaper loaded with 60's style wanna-be protester news writers sucking on the toes of Pearl Jam on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado than anything they've done so far, but here they are, in Tucson, cactus and head, trying to make their bones.
     Today's headlines, ABOVE the fold?  The City is digging up new ways to tax residents for water consumption.
     Never mind North Korea draws ever nearer to a atomic rocket launch into our back yard, the Border Patrol reports some ISIS incursions 60 miles south of here. and that we live in the 6th poorest town in America with a Democratic City Council, none of which has ever heard of a college course called " ECONOMICS."
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