Archive for May, 2010
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Once again I'm thrown into the realm the unknown. After several false starts it was decided last week to do a version of radiation therapy to try and kill the offending pancreas cells. In short I get to be guinea pig again as no one has tried this procedure on “healthy” (i.e., non-cancerous) tissue before. Well, someone has to be the first I suppose and if it works (75-80% chance of success is the guesstimate) then at least one of my medical problems will be mitigated. Here is a personal and sometimes humorous account of what's happened so far.
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Once again we hear the hackneyed and ubiquitous rationale “too big to fail” as governments bailout yet another irresponsible enterprise! This time it's a country, Greece. Looming on the horizon are Spain, Ireland, and California. Who knows maybe the entire economic system is threatened! When you think critically about the situation then several embarrassing questions immediately arise:
- Who's paying for all these these bailouts?
- How did we get in this situation?
- More importantly what can be done to fix things?
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Twas a rowdy group imbued with raucous laughter watching the black curling smoke lazily ascend into the bright morning sky above that cloaked hilltop mound. Indistinct chants and strange music filled the clear bright air with a fog of curious excitement. Crashing down the forested mound and spilling onto the meadow below the demonic sounds from the obvious debauchery floated across the meadow assaulting those innocents peacefully picnicking at that remote forest service site.
