{"id":17919,"date":"2014-03-11T18:11:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T01:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/?p=17919"},"modified":"2014-03-11T18:13:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T01:13:59","slug":"a-long-dayh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/a-long-dayh\/","title":{"rendered":"A long day."},"content":{"rendered":"

View 815 Tuesday, March 11, 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cTransparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama, January 31, 2009<\/p>\n

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightfully consider it an act of war.<\/p>\n

Glenn T. Seaborg, National Commission on Education, 1983 <\/p>\n

Christians to Beirut. Alawites to the grave.<\/p>\n

Syrian Freedom Fighters<\/p>\n

What we have now is all we will ever have.<\/p>\n

Conservationist motto<\/p>\n

If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan. Period.<\/p>\n

Barrack Obama, famously.<\/p>\n

I have spent the day at Kaiser, and I am exhausted, but all is reasonably well. I have had my last shot in the eardrum, and now we wait weeks to determine if it all did me any good. Meanwhile I will go out to COSTCO and get my hearing aids reprogrammed to see if that helps. I was hoping to do that today, but after the ear appointment I had an eye exam, and by the time that was over I\u2019d had enough.<\/p>\n

New glasses coming in a week or so. Cataracts getting worse, and that\u2019s the next thing I need to think about. At some point I\u2019ll have to have them done. Like most people my age, I learned that cataract operations generally leave you worse off than you were when you started. That is no longer true, as witness Larry Niven and his wife and others I know and trust, but it\u2019s still terrifying. I\u2019ll leave that undone for a while.<\/p>\n

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I mentioned this in mail last night. Of the people previously without health insurance who now have that under the ACA, a large percentage \u2013 30% is reported \u2013 are felons going into state prisons who are now, under ACA, eligible for Medicaid. As of not I have yet to hear from anyone who voted for ACA who knew that provision was in the Bill, so there is no one defending: it\u2019s like a act of God or a hurricane, except that I don\u2019t see how it got into the law without someone putting it there. Perhaps someone will step up and proudly claim credit, but so far no one has.<\/p>\n

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Collected web sites worth your attention: a mixed bag.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/178140\/feminisms-toxic-twitter-wars<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2014\/heres-real-bill-gates-windows-installation-debacle\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/feb\/19\/troop-left-to-fend-for-themselves-after-army-was-w\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jan\/20\/a-self-licking-ice-cream-cone\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/columnists\/christopherbooker\/10485281\/Baby-forcibly-removed-by-caesarean-and-taken-into-care.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/15\/health\/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html?_r=5&<\/a><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s dinner time. I have stories about the corruption of scientific publications. If you cannot trust the data you cannot falsify anything.<\/p>\n

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Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free. <\/p>\n

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