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The Bomb What you don’t hear on the news The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) which limited US and Soviet Union to long-range nuclear arsenals of 6,000 warheads on 1,600 delivery systems expires on December 5, 2009 With the demise of START, Russia is getting a head start on Cold War [...] Sarah Palin nude So much has happened to poor Sarah Palin! Now she is faced with Bruce Elliott’s full-frontal nude painting of her. Usually, photographs of the painting are displayed with the private parts obscured – not on our site, however. We give you the “full Monty.” The original of the [...] Ye olde town crier Back in the days, the town crier was a person employed by a town council to make public announcements in the streets. The crier was also used for court or official announcements. Criers often dressed elaborately, by a tradition dating to the 18th century, in a red and gold robe, white [...] Obama President elect Barack Obama is now on the side of bailing out the auto industry. Well, only part of the auto industry. Executives of Honda Motor Co., Toyota and Nissan have stayed out of the bailout debate. Obama is in favor of rewarding incompetence with a plan that cannot possibly succeed. The “Big Three” automakers [...] Big, fast gas guzzlers (in bed with big oil?) GM CEO Wagoner “The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they’re big and fast.” This is a quote from Rick Wagoner, General Motors CEO. It is Wagoner’s analogy to the automobile industry – big, fast, gas guzzlers. Wagoner [...] |
US healthcare worst, and most expensive.
Japan’s health-insurance system covers everybody, including illegal aliens. It pays for physical, mental, dental, and long-term care. Japanese are the world’s most prodigious consumers of medical care; they see the doctor about 15 times per year, three times the U.S. norm. They get twice as many prescriptions per capita and three times as many MRI scans. The average hospital stay is 20 nights—four times the U.S. average. Cost: And yet Japan produces all that high-quality care at bargain-basement prices. The aging nation spends about $3,500 per person on health care each year; America burns through $7,400 per person and still leaves millions without coverage. Canadians live three years longer and are healthier than Americans, and the lack of universal health care in the United States may be a factor, researchers say.
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