The Nittany Turkey

It’s been a long time since I’ve written about health care, but in view of some recent developments on my personal health front, I felt the urge to blow off some steam once again.

My neck and back have long been sources of pain and frustration. MRIs and X-rays at various times in the past have revealed arthritic changes that were causing the pain by impinging on nerves at various points. Thus, it was no surprise that after my most recent bout with a two-week painful stiff neck, with severely restricted head motion, an MRI revealed that I had spinal cord compression at C4-5.

The story here is how the medical industry handled this diagnosis and how I probably could have the diagnosis almost four years ago if my doctor of the time hadn’t been dismissive, for whatever reason.

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America’s darling, young heiress Paris Hilton, was sentenced to 45 days behind bars today. No, she was not convicted of producing a dull and boring porn film. Those charges are still pending. Our favorite 26 year-old party girl drove on a license previously suspended during a DUI episode. So now, she’ll be leading “The Simple Life”—literally—for a month and a half.

Paris showed up 10 minutes late for her trial. Great start! Go ahead and piss off the judge so you can be sure of getting the most stringent sentence possible. She will not be allowed to buy her way into the country club prison of her choice and she will not be accorded any vehicles for reducing the time served. She has the right to appeal. She’ll probably do that, further wasting the public funds.

Boy, did this idiot ever get what she deserved!

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Hey, if you want a compendium of great Hillaryisms, visit Gateway Pundit. The extent of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s potty-mouth and her abuse of the poor fools who work closely with her will amaze and astound you. Or maybe not! Some of her tantrums even make me feel bad for Slick Willie, who apparently took a few in the kisser at the behest of his darling, pissed-off wife.

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Rosie O’Donnell, a formerly funny comedian, who a while ago took over for Meredith Viera on ABC’s daytime soft-news/interview show The View, has been using that forum to spout off her irrational anti-Administration diatribe. Rosie’s mind is obviously defective, but her big mouth has been effective in overshadowing her softer-spoken colleagues on the show, particularly Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who appears to possess a superior intellect. (She’s also totally hot, or maybe it’s just that she’s improbably blonde and smart—whatever.) Disney/ABC should have canned Rosie long ago for her wacko crap, but apparently, they don’t mind a little notariety. Well, maybe they will, now that Rosie has indicted them as one of the four “big corporations that control the media in this country”—this, when she told her audience to go outside the U.S. for news about our country.

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OK, so I was bored and decided to create the odds for the 2008 presidential race. Yeah, I know, not all of these people have declared their candicacy and there’s the omnipresent possibility that a Draft Howard Stern movement will gain momentum. On the other hand, I thought