Health Care

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld Obamacare, I think it's about time that we all read what the entire bill includes.  I've been listening to both sides of the issue for nine months and I'm pretty sure that nobody read the entire bill. 

Sound bites rule.

Now let's read the reality and learn what it really has to offer.

No more excuses.

It's the law!

Live with it, you actually have no choice,but mainly learn what it says.

The truth is........America now has a national health bill in place. 

It only took 236 years.

I would think that the insurance companies would have supported this bill from the beginning.  I hope the new law has certain provisions for the discrepancies between cash payments and credit payments and between medicare charges and non medicare charges.

Does Barnes and Noble carry a copy of the law?

Fun band

Up beat stuff for a Sunday morning workout.

Probably messing with the wrong neighbor

It was reported yesterday that Syria shot down a Turkey fighter jet that, apparently, violated their air space over the Mediterranean.

Syria is a volcano getting ready to explode and bringing Turkey into the explosion is only going to create a much larger crater.

Syria has 21 million people.  Turkey has 76 million.  

Turkey has the second largest military force in NATO.

Syria has the second largest military in the Arab world behind Egypt.

Syria gets it's weapons from Russia (East)

Turkey gets it's weapons from the United States (West)

Syria is 75% Sunni Muslim

Turkey is 99% Sunni Muslim

These two countries used to be allies.

Thousands of people from Syria have taken refuge inside the Turkey border (500 miles) trying to avoid the chaos in their country.  Some of the refugees have formed their own anti-Assad organizations and are openly calling for his overthrow. So within the country of Turkey there are groups such as the Syrian National Council and others, who while being Sunni Muslims, are battling other Sunni Muslims in Syria.

Seriously, if the Muslims can't get along with other Muslims, and we all know that Sunni and Shi'a problems are fundamental to the very core of their belief systems, what's the chance of Christians and Muslims sitting down and having tea. And somehow 7 million Jews in Israel sit on a powder keg right in the middle of the mess...saying "it's not our problem."

AFTER 9/11, I SUGGESTED THAT A COUNCIL OF FAITH  BE ESTABLISHED AND LET THE WORLD OBSERVE AN ONGOING  TRIAL ON TELEVISION AND RADIO.

PUT RELIGION ON TRIAL!

ANY ORGANIZATION WHOSE BASIC CODE OF BELIEF IS THE DESTRUCTION OF ANOTHER ORGANIZATION IS FOUND GUILTY
AND
SENT
TO
THE
CORNER

The middle east is seriously out of control and as the Muslims move further into Africa, and it's not the same type of missionary work done by Christians because the Muslim's are carrying AK-47's, the problems for the rest of the globe will intensify.

In the meantime a huge rock, 340 tons, named  "Levitated Mass" will be able to be viewed, for $15.00, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

A ROCK!

$15.00!

Michael Heizer....artist extraordinaire. (try to find his city in Nevada on Google Earth)

A ROCK!

$15.00!

SYRIA, TURKEY, WAR PLANES, AFGHAN RESORT BOMBING, EGYPTIAN MILITARY THREATS TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND
A
ROCK

Big news day.

Is America the most wonderful place on earth....or what?

We are Disneyland to the rest of the world.

By the way, the entrance to the Museum might be a little more than 15 but I'm sure you get my point.  Student and Senior discounts probably apply....but parking will be another 10 bucks....at least.

I think I'll go see Brave and forget everything for two hours.  Once more Disney helps quiet the storm.

Hope I don't run into any Sunni's on the Promenade.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

I'm just not sure how this works

Larry Ellison of Oracle, the third richest man in America, just bought one of the small islands in Hawaii.
Lanai is 141 square miles and sets to the west of Maui. There are 3,000 residents.

Just a sidebar thought.....what Super Pac does Mr. Ellison support?

The island sold for 600 million dollars and was purchased from a company called Castle & Cooke.  Dole apparently had an interest because of their pineapple development, but didn't actually own the property.

Here's my thinking.   Can I actually buy San Francisco or Chicago?  Of course I realize that in my present financial situations I have trouble figuring out what to buy at the 99 cent store but that's not really the point.

Lanai is part of the Hawaiian Island chain and does that mean that only Oahu is the 50th state of the Union?  Can Bill Gates buy Maui?  And Warren Buffet.....Kauai?  Is the Big Island in Mark Zukerburg's future plans?

Now I fully understand the concept of buying property in any state of the Union but this seems different.

There's not a lot going on in South Dakota.....I wonder how much it would cost?

Now thinking on a bigger scale.  Maybe Castro would sell Cuba.  Hopefully one of the American icons could beat the Saudis to the punch. Has anyone asked Syria if they want to turn over their property to someone who can run the company a bit better.

Of course, as usual, I've gotten off track but I'm really confused how an island, which is part of our Union, could be sold....lock, stock and barrel.  Those 3,000 residents are going to be pissed when their eviction notice comes through.  Larry is getting ready to open a new NOBU restaurant in Malibu so
why not own part of the Hawaiian Islands.  With the prices they will charge at NOBU he could probably afford to build a tunnel from Lanai to Malibu.  A super conductor underwater transport system that moves around 1000 miles per hour.

Come on Larry.....step it up! 

It would be nice to see Mr. Ellison apply some of this amazing buying power to ideas that could benefit the planet.  Large solar, wind and other such projects. 

Just a silly thought.....

What if he's trying to corner the market on pineapples?

Two years from now a pineapple could cost $30.  Quick, get out and start buying them while you can.

We each buy two pineapples and Larry buys part of Hawaii.

The real question here is.....how often do we use Oracle's products?

Obviously way more than we thought.

Well, off to the 99 cent store to get some more sunglasses.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

I just feel like dancing

Cardio's over.

If you didn't get up and dance

Shame

on

you!

First time in my life

For the first time in my life my father won't be able to physically hear me say....."Happy Father's Day.....Dad." 

It's not a sad thought..............it's just a realistic thought. 

I'm so very fortunate that I believe in the existence of the Soul because when I say Happy Father's Day I'm 99.9% sure that he gets the message.

Maybe it's just a basic electrical surge merging into a translucent energy field of light, but I'm quite fine with any sort of connection.

Keep in mind that believing something is not knowing something, and there's always a small chance that I'm totally out of my mind and non-physical reality hallucinations are just part of my mo.

What does concern me.......is the small chance might be much larger than I think.

But in the meantime.....


HAPPY FATHER'S DAY........DAD!


Michael Timothy McAlevey

Quotes

Go chase down the sun
God will not care
perhaps you're the one
for whom it is there

I know I can't live without love
and I know I can't live without pain
but sometime in my life
I would like to know
that they aren't just one and the same

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;
 it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;
it is the finest of the fine arts.

You can't please everyone so you've got to please yourself


Everything should be made as simple as possible,

but not one bit simpler.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me

If you judge people, you have no time to love them

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail

These quotes are from the following people:    

Thomas Jefferson, Bob Dylan, Mother Theresa, Taylor Swift, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Michael Timothy McAlevey, Ben Franklin, Hoyt Axton, Albert Einstein and Ricky Nelson.

Obviously they are not in order.....can you put the quotes with the mouths? 

Michael Timothy McAlevey

A CLASSIC

This song is used so often that it we should be tired of it......but we are not.

It was used on the first show of Glee and it ends the "Rock of Ages" film. 

Tom Cruise actually does his own singing in the film and if you possess a sense of humor you will

enjoy yourself.

I would love to book the film at the
Aero Theater on Montana Avenue
and let everybody
sing along. 

That would be a fun night at the movies.

In the meantime....this song is easily one of the great rock anthems of all time.

And it doesn't matter who sings it.

And this video

and this song

are

timeless

From one extreme to another

The Big Bang is thought to have kick-started the universe about 13.7 billion years ago. At first, the universe was too hot and dense for particles to be stable, but then the first quarks formed, which then grouped together to make protons and neutrons, and eventually the first atoms were created. After about 500 million years, the first stars, galaxies and black holes began to take shape.
( word for word from http://www.space.com/)

Today scientists announced that they think they might be able to see those early moments.

Right after The Big Bang........... the comma was invented.

I realize this is going to appear ridiculous from someone who blatantly abuses the grammatical infrastructure of the English language, on a very consistent basis I might add, but have you thought lately on much information you  don't remember about the use of a comma. I doubt very much that this issue has caused you sleepless nights.  I, on the other hand, lay awake contemplating the rules of many endeavors, including, but not limited to, the following physical and mental exercises:

golf
grammar
prayer
meditation
baseball
script writing
color blending
Universal truths

I realize I should be directing thought processes toward the acquisition of increased monetary substance, but once one reaches a certain age, and that problem hasn't been alleviated, then one has a tendency to doubt its existence within the said personal universe. It's not that I wouldn't like to have financial security, it's just that it doesn't appear to be part of my physical DNA.  Of course I'm pretty stubborn when it comes to how it might be achieved, so that clearly is.....part of the problem.

AND THE SIMPLE FACT THAT COMMA USAGE BOTHERS ME MORE THAN BEING BROKE COULD POSSIBLY INDICATE A SMALL BRAIN TUMOR.

Of course, as you have clearly noticed, I like to play with the structure of a sentence (AND THE ENTIRE LANGUAGE, FOR THAT MATTER).......and the repeated use of these little spots......also known a Periods, when used alone, and called Ellipsis when used in sets of three.

I believe that names should be applied when using two,four, five, six, seven or eight of them.

I like using...........to separate my ideas and since I'm not being paid for any of my literary endeavors I feel that I have the right to do whatever the fuck I want.

You pretty much get the point I'm trying to make, when I'm trying to make a point......I think.

But I must confess that the use of a comma has always baffled me.  Not the obvious separation of dates and years and towns and states and names, but when using it with coordinating conjunctions and compound sentences.......I have a predisposition to, let's softly say, create errors.

I don't really care, but you probably do.

Let me state right here.....when I complete a script, I'm fairly certain that most of my grammatical errors have been corrected before binding.

Of course, I could be flat out mistaken in that particular observation.

The true beauty of the Internet, and there are a supreme number of beautiful tangents that one can state, when one is thinking about the Internet, is that you can type in the word comma and within 10 seconds there will appear 10,000 explanations on how, when and where to properly use the little freak.

I've noticed when using the grammar button that often times it doesn't know that I'm trying to say something, which might not be grammatically correct, but is substantively.........spot on.

At this moment you might be asking yourself.....didn't this piece start off about the beginning of the Universe?

Of course, you would be correct.

I needed a ploy to suck you in to the real, and much more important,  problems of the Universe.

Two very important problems are as follows; the comma placement and the simple fact that when they seperated the two gay lovers at Belmont Race Track,  for security reasons, the mojo was broken and the Triple Crown attempt was sadly ended.

Very few people, other than the owner and the trainer, realize that I'll Have Another and Lava Man are gay....and only time will tell if being a gay horse prevents one from performing their studly duties. Lava Man had his manhood removed as a three year old and went on to win $5,268,706.  He has been the non-stop companion for I'll Have Another until this last week when the officals at Belmont Park made all the contestants move to a seperate facility, without their pony companions.  It broke his heart and then, trying to kick his way out of the new stall, he damaged his leg.

Of course, you won't hear that story anyplace else.....but a few years from now when I'll Have Another keeps firing blanks, you will recall that I had the inside information.

On the very same day that scientist might have seen the beginning of The Universe, and I reminded you about comma usage.

What a day!

June 9, 2012

Have a great weekend.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Think big, far away and heavenly

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