http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:06:12 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:06:12 country that marched inevitably toward the Civil War.

But if that compromise hadn't been struck, would we be posting about politics in the United States?

Compromise is the nature of the beast.

I surely don't like what is happening in Congress right now but I know enough of politics to say ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/180 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:56:57 of what is so wrong about our so-called health care system?

In the rural south, deep in urban LA and now in New Orleans, thousands of people with no access to regular check-up based health care showed up and waited for hours just for a chance to be in proximity of a doctor. Nurses and aides hande... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/179 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:46:11 through a very tough time.

Sitting alone in a hospital room for ten or so days with everyone surrounding you wearing a mask so that they don't catch what you have is a little on this side of terrifying. Throw in the fact that they didn't really know what was causing my lungs to suddenly turn agai... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/178 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:49:11 Then it happened.

At about 11:15 AM I was starting to get a little agitated. I know the dedicated staff and people here at Fairview Hospital are doing the very best they can. In addition, compared with the personal I remembered encountering back in the days when I was still drinking (twenty-five ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/177 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:20:54 spike in COPED had taken me and, perhaps more important, where would that spike be when it settled back down into my new set of baselines.

Each time a new episode exploded upon a Fellow Copter such as myself, we are all acutely aware that loss of lung function has to be determined or, at the very... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/176 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:26:29 I'm waiting on the shots to take away the worst of the pain from my chest.

Tomorrow I am getting more work done, more scar tissued cleared.

The photos from inside my lungs show scar tissue on more scar tissue.

I am going under at 10:15 am and should be down for the better part of about an ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/175 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:32:06 The pain is coming under control and the vital signs seem to be stabilizing.

I have a fever, my PB is more often times normal and my Pulse/O2 is getting back to where is should be.

Even though I wear O2 at 3 liters when I am not well, the O2 level has been falling back toward 2.5 and will prob... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/170 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:58:06 I'm still totally discombobulate but I don't get that upset anymore...

Today though it was different. They opened me up and took a look see inside to see what might just be the matter.

The happy banter wasn't there, the possibility hung over the proceedings that this time, something could be ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/169 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:03:48 Couldn't sleep yet couldn't bring myself to stay up right and post all night long.

Did a lot of thinking most of it of the kind "If you had the Cancer, don't you think they would have found it by now?"

Silly boy.

The reason they are going to scope me is because I haven't stopped bleeding si... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/173 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:20:37 Well, to me it seems like a set back.

The taste of rust is now there all the time, not front and center, mind you, but lurking back there ready to pop out and tell me I am being far too optimistic.

I have a pneumonia, a bad one, that has taken up residence in my left lung.

The way it was e... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/171 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:33:47 The leaves have turned toward away from very vivid back to just plain vivid, still, all in all a nice view...

The overcast sky fits my mood this morning. I feel well enough to go home yet I know i isn't the best thing yet. I am going to have to administer home IV bags and it kind of scares me. Bu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/174 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:45:54 As I may have mentioned before, i can't sleep in hospitals, especially when I am coughing almost non stop and the staff is attracted to all of this commotion made more entertaining with quips from me channeling William Powell and Shecky Greene. It also helps that my sister, the nurse practitioner, w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/168 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:47:26 It is the same hospital, btw, where I was born almost exactly 52 years ago right now...

Anyway, I have had to piss so much that it seems as if I am back on a bender.

I was twenty-six years old when I gave up libations (man am I thirsty) and to that day, I am 52.

Been in the hospital since ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/167 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:55:07 103.50 fever, lots of coughing and lots of pain.

I hadn't been this sick in a long time. The night I wrote may last post about Joan Rivers I was up all night and still haven't been able to sleep for a stretch of house longer than .75...

But the good news,I don't have H1N1.

I have a very ser... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/172 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:43:14 What you are seeing is the equalization of currencies all through out the developed and developing world.

One of the main reasons that so much industry located off shore was because the dollar was so strong compared to all the other currencies that no one could afford to buy exported consumer pro... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/165 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:02:17 This applies mainly to abortion but can apply to any other situation.

Who am I to dictate to any woman, especially those I do not even know, that they can not have an abortion, use contraceptives or carry a baby to term.

If I want to have a say in what outcome may arise from a sexual relations... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/166 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:53:39 If you are on Medicare you may have noticed the outrageous difference between the cost charged to the patient and the amount Medicare will pay.

You may have a procedure that wholesales for say $250. The Hospital or medical billing center, keeps it on record as $250. Medicare says it will pay $36.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/164 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:57:40 whether or not President Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize...

The only people who can decide if the Nobel Prize was awarded correctly are the people that decide who wins the Nobel Prize.

That should be the only response from anyone when asked to defend Obama's prize.

If we keep arguing ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/163 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:32:01 Please remember how two men wrecked havoc for about three weeks in 2002 by randomly shooting people in and around DC...

One nut case can do a lot to scare the snot out of a community and put the whole nation on alert.

BTW, what bothers me most about all these ominous threats and the vitriolic ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/162 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:30:06 Looking over all the posts lately about family's falling into economic and emotional despair as they watched loved one's fade away for lack of an insurance policy...

It breaks my heart because I know of what they speak.

I delayed going to the doc way back in 1986 because I didn't have insuranc... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/161 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:15:55 South America is the only continent, outside of Antarctica, to never host an Olympics.

Sure Rio is surrounded by poverty and crime and despair, but it is also the center of a world wide power shift from the first world to the third world. Brazil is emerging as a power broker because of a stable g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/160 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:31:47 that voted against the Public Option.

Send copies of unpaid bills off to their office.

What a great way to make a point.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/159 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:37:20 after thought when it comes to the powers that be in Washington, on Wall Street and over at 30 Rock.

They don't fear us because they control the media, the message and the means to soundly trounce the hopes and dreams of everyday people, the 3M's.

Over 65% of the public wants a Public Option b... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/158 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:52:06 They are indoctrinating us...

Now they are sending the message to help the returning troops to get re-acclimated to civilian life.

They, *gasp*, want us to get all touchy and feeley about the vets.

That so like the socialistas that they are.

Every red-blooded American knows we ignore the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/157 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:11:01 publicly subsidized and, at worst, public owned with only minimum benefit to the community.

Even the practice areas for these teams are almost exclusively publicly owned for the benefit of the few elite athletics who, BTW, are almost certainly millionaires.

Now the real twist in all of this is... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WCGreen/156 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:18:44