Who is Santa Claus?

Poll results are in!

Okay here is the break down...

Who is Santa Claus?

A big fat guy in a red suit who's paid a lot of money to tell your kids what they want to hear  -hmmm, this would have been my guess, but I guess it's time to grow up. 0/0
A Christmas icon -2/9 votes here.  I should have allowed multiple voting.	2 (22%)
The representative spirit of giving -Now 6/9 chose this one.  My mature portion of me says your right on the money here.	6 (66%)
Other... - Votes 1/9...Uh, what did i miss here?

Get out of San Fran before it falls into the Sea!!!

Well, now Mr. Bit hot shot Attorney General of California decided to have some "deeper probing and  inner reflection into the Constitution".  Instead of fighting for the majority vote, he thinks the minorities really need to be seen as the victims here.  Personally, he needs to be run out on a rail.  But, I'm sure he's very much loved by the gay community. Is anyone else as sick as I am of hearing of those fighting for the minorities of this country?  

By the way, have I ever told you how tough it is for a white, middle of the road guy to catch a break anymore?  If I only had some Cherokee, or african american, or some latin blood in me!  But then again, I wouldn't know what to do with so much scholarship money being thrown at me.  

Lately in the press...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's attorney general has changed his position on the state's new same-sex marriage ban and is now joining forces with homosexual activists to overturn the results of Proposition 8.

 

In a dramatic reversal, Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a legal brief saying the measure that amended the California Constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman is itself unconstitutional because it deprives a minority group of a fundamental right. Earlier, Brown had said he would defend the ballot measure against legal challenges from gay marriage supporters.

 

But Brown said he reached a different conclusion "upon further reflection and a deeper probing into all the aspects of our Constitution.

 

"It became evident that the Article 1 provision guaranteeing basic liberty, which includes the right to marry, took precedence over the initiative," he said in an interview Friday night. "Based on my duty to defend the law and the entire Constitution, I concluded the court should protect the right to marry even in the face of the 52 percent vote."...

The whole article here

Talk about a foot in the head!

Did anyone else see this?!?  A good buddy of mine who's doing his residency in Colorado Springs sent me this news story.  Then I saw it in the news that same night.  

Little foot in brain story

Okay, medical time...

Don't forget to get your influenza vaccines!  The new guidelines have been sent out.  Ages 5-18 need to get their vaccines starting in September or as soon as the vaccine becomes available.  If you or your loved one is experiencing flue like symptoms... fever, chills, vomiting, night sweats, body aches (malaise)... then get to your doctor or the ER.  Tamiflu is still effective against the darn little virus.  It shortens the course if you start taking it within 48 hours.

Later Skaters

For the locals

Another comic I happened to run across about our current situation...

In leu of recent comments... a joke with a true punch line.

Here is a Joke sent to me with a special insight on the type of people certain political parties attract...  

Jesus and a Special Episode in a Restaurant

 

A Republican in a wheelchair entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee.  The Republican looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus sitting over there?"    The waitress nodded "yes," so the Republican requested that she give Jesus a cup of coffee, on him.   The next patron to come in was a Libertarian with a hunched back.  He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea.  He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus over there?"    The waitress nodded, so the Libertarian asked her to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, "My treat."   The third patron to come into the restaurant was a Democrat on crutches.  He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered, "Hey there, honey!  How's about gettin' me a cold glass of Miller Light?"  He, too, looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that God's boy over there?"  The waitress nodded once more, so the Democrat directed her to give Jesus a cold glass of beer.  "On my bill," he said.   As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the Republican, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed."  The Republican felt the strength come back into his legs, got up and danced a jig out the door.   Jesus then passed by the Libertarian, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed."  The Libertarian felt his back straightening up, so he raised his hands, praised the Lord and did a series of back flips out the door.   Then Jesus walked towards the Democrat.  The Democrat jumped up and yelled, "Don't touch me.  I'm collecting disability."

And you thought it was bad under G.W. Bush

Here comes the CHANGE people...

I love immigrants.  Heaven knows we all came from them.  However, times have changed.  They come over to work from the tierra madre, send back all their earnings, and in the mean while, abuse any governmental system possible without a thought to the rest of us.  Who pays for it? Yes, YOU do!  

Now, if I was in their shoes, I would probably do the same exact thing, therefore I can't blame them.  Having that said, we need to realize that they need guidance and process.  Looking at the bigger picture is essential.  Why you ask?  The government not only spends millions on teaching their children how to speak English, but billions in housing, food, and economy problems.  Economy?  Yes, lets mention the hospitals.  It is federal law as of 1986, that ALL hospitals whom supply Medicare patients (essentially all of them) have an open door approach to their Emergency Departments.  That means no one can be turned away.  Theoretically and ethically this makes sense.  However, like any mandate, it can be abused.  In California, the illegal immigrants use the ED as a clinic.  Sure, they are sent a bill for the huge cost of time and overhead to provide such amazing service topped by no other country in the world.  But do they pay it?  Heck no!  So, that's why you have hospitals in L.A. and surrounding areas suffering big time.  

Here is a good article which articulates some of the facts...

Illegals sink hospitals with you in them

 

In our case here at OSU Medical Center, we serve the indigent care.  There aren't many illegals due to recently enacted laws which scared them out of the state, but if our hospital closed and you sent those people with stuffy noses to other ED's around town, then... YOU suffer.  How?  Well, lets put it this way...you break your arm and go to a hospital which had a 4-6 hour wait.  Your thinking, man, my arm really hurts bad, but I'm not gonna die.  Well, neither is that snotty kid two chairs over with a fever.  Then, tag on two more hours because OSU closed down and there are tons of kids with fevers all around you.  Then they let the snot nose fever kid go first.  You faint a few times due to the pain, catch the flu while your there, THEN you're seen.  You see, it never seems all too bad unless YOU are affected, or know how closely you can be affected.  

 

I had a case not too long ago working up in a small town ER.  I had the rooms full with people in the lobby, it was shift change, I was working up TWO heart attacks, and an ATV wreck where the kid practically scalped himself on the gravel road.  I get two angry parents who call the administrator, who then calls me because they had to wait in the lobby for more than a half hour for their fever laden infant to be seen and given Ibuprofen.  I had to stop what I was doing, and go firmly explain the circumstances to these naive parents.  After two hours of overtime, washing gravel out of this kids head and putting the jig-saw puzzle of a scalp back together, I realize how easy it is to put a little more stress on the hospital systems and for care to become compromised for those whom so desperately need it.

So…

 

"Barack Obama is setting up his administration to be the most radical, pro-amnesty presidency in history.

 

He just announced that Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano will be his new Director of Homeland Security. Napolitano has been a vocal opponent of the border fence.

This came on the heels of Obama’s appointment of Cecelia Munoz, a high-ranking La Raza executive, to a key post. Munoz has been in charge of La Raza's legislative and lobbying efforts.  She will now be Obama’s Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and will serve as the chief administration liaison with state and local governments.

Munoz headed La Raza's campaign to give driver's licenses to illegals and pass the amnesty bill, the DREAM Act and the AgJOBS amnesty. The message is clear... 

          The Obama administration is now on a fast track to pass an amnesty bill while stopping or even reversing the border fence and other efforts to stop illegal immigration." 

Speaking of "change"... does change mean re-appointing the Clintons to high positions of power?  Yes, I said "Clinton's" with an "s".  Where one goes, the other follows.  There never is just one hyena found around a dead carcass.

The first thing I notice...

So, when you look at this picture without reading the words, what comes to your mind?

When I first saw the picture hanging up above the entry way of our hospital, I did a double take.  Maybe because I was used to Deb breast feeding Chase.  I still chuckle as I come to work every morning.   I think the title of it should be..."OSU, we nurse our patients back to life".