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A PATH TOO FAR? Wireless Health Care:

In the future, diseases such as cancer won’t sneak up on people, becoming evident only when it’s too late to intervene. That’s because you won’t visit your doctor for an annual checkup. Wireless devices in your home will keep tabs on your medical status every day, as you go about your daily routine. The technologies necessary for producing devices such as a smart medicine cabinet or a smart toilet—wireless connectivity, personal cellular devices, pervasive sensing technologies, social networks, and data analytics—are mature enough. A high-tech medicine cabinet envisioned by researchers would track medications, warn about potential drug interactions, reorder prescriptions, and check expiration dates. It could also interact with other devices such as digestible computer chips with built-in wireless transmitters and blood pressure and glucose monitors to indicate whether your current prescriptions are effective. This type of intervention, says the New England Healthcare Institute, will result in improved health for patients, plus an annual savings of up to US $290 billion—the cost of drug-related complications.

Thanks, but I have no desire to be a wired automaton controlled by 'health care professionals'.

COMPROMISING? Democrats Scramble for Votes on Jobs Bill, May Split Legislation Into Pieces.

MILTON R. WOLF: It's the math, stupid. If you aren't depressed yet, you will be after reading this.

MORE GREEN TURNS BROWN: Ford pulls the plug on compact hybrid SUV.

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING: Aimless Obama Walks Alone.

SURPRISE! "President Obama over-promised and under-delivered on the single most important challenge of his Presidency ...."

HAVE THE DEMOCRATS GONE FREAKIN' NUTS? Do they really want to be associated with what is essentially mob rule? I don't think working America is going to take this lightly.

REENGINEERING AFGHANISTAN:

[O]ne of the most serious problems, according to analysts, officials, and engineers interviewed in Afghanistan and the United States, is the incompetence of USAID, an independent U.S. government agency that receives guidance from the Secretary of State. It is the dominant development organization in Afghanistan, and it has, according to these observers and even its own internal documents, made major missteps in every significant electrical construction project it has undertaken in the country.

This is a long, detailed article, but the one thing that stands out seems to be true of all 'do-good' organizations.

DOWN WITH EVIL CORPORATIONS!

CALIFORNIA BANS: Unloaded guns and teenage tanning sessions -- but not things that can do real harm.

HEH. Krugman schools his army (follow his link).

OBAMA COALITION uncoalescing?

ARE DEMOCRATS INSANE? Democrats Offer Solidarity to Wall Street Protestors.


On the plus side, there will be plenty of employment for SEIU, Teamsters, and other unionists to pick up the trash.

YOU ONLY THOUGHT YOU HAD PRIVACY: Another Major U.S. Medical Data Record Breach -- 4.9 Million Patients Affected. Which is why I will continue to oppose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_recordElectronic Health Records until they are encrypted and locked with a password available only to me.

WHY MIGHTY OAKS from little acorns grow: the tree rats bury their stash. If each squirrel were to eat 100 acorns each, I'd still need 1,000 squirrels to clean up the yard.

PAUL JACOB on Occupied America: I do want to work with every willing American to end the occupation of our constitutional, democratic republic by a political class filled with mucky-mucks from Wall Street, and other boulevards, who wallow in bailouts and special privileges bestowed upon them by the power-obsessed politicians on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue."

I can applaud the thought, but I doubt that "Occupy Wall Street" is the place to start.

The one thing that seems to be common to all 'do good' organizations, government and non-government alike, is that politics trumps practicality every time.

HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED: The top 10 programming languages. I used to be a very good programmer, and now I don't recognize a single one.

"THE POLITICAL RACE CARD ought to be ... an ugly memory -- something no decent voter, activist, or candidate would dream of brandishing." Don't bet on it.

THE WISDOM OF A $12 HAIRCUT: it's all about caffeine and sugar.