Comments by Let_us_think
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Posted on March 20 at 7:50 a.m.
Hate to be the pessimist but the story in the New York Times this morning is how 12 inches of rain got dumped in the last couple of days across the entire midwest and Ohio River valley. Everything's flooded up there, and it all comes down here.
Posted on February 29 at 3:32 p.m.
An idea--close the emergency room. This is the highway into the hospital for those not insured. Without the ER the admissions would come from the doctors' offices, the vast majority insured or of some ability to pay something. Uninsured coming to an ER are entitled to treatment under U.S. law.
This sounds hard, but life without NRH is not good for us. Adams County did not create the problem of the uninsured, but we do have to have adequate health care here. There's another emergency room in town. When NRH is in better shape the ER could be reopened.
A lot of money comes into our economy from NRH, money from Washington DC (Medicare), Blue Cross, and other insurances--money that stays in the county. Contrast this with a business like the casino--the money collected from this area leaves immediately for Las Vegas. The same holds for Walmart, by the way--the cash collected is deposited every evening in a bank in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Posted on February 9 at 8:01 a.m.
I'm in agreement the Democrat should be making more of an effort here. Quoting Lee about an autopsy often taking many months--well, I've done some autopsies during my medical residency and can tell you that the typical one takes only a couple of days, mainly to get the tissue samples processed and looked at. Seven months implies alternative testing of tissue samples or else a massively overwhelmed medical examiner's office in Jackson. Either way, the paper could have made more inquiries here. The article doesn't say anything other than an autopsy has been completed. And what is this comment about releasing results publicly only when the report has been filed? What does "filing" mean? How long does that take? With whom is the report filed? How many other autopsies have taken seven months? What has been their outcome?
One of the problems with the Democrat is that one has to read it the way Russians used to have to read Pravda--between the lines. We aren't so much informed as we are led to wonder and speculate and gossip.
Posted on January 15 at 7:52 a.m.
Forget the bookkeeping records; they're no good or we wouldn't have this problem to begin with. I'm with Natchez1--it's under the kudzu somewhere. Desperate times call for desperate measures. There's bound to be some Agent Orange left over. Time to spray the county and get to the bottom of this.
Posted on January 4 at 8:59 a.m.
This is a bit off topic but does highlight Mark Twain's popularity. My grandfather told me how he, at 9 years of age, was eating dinner in a Boston restaurant with his dad. A man got up from his table across the room and came over to stand by my great grandfather's table and then burst into song and did a dance. The whole restaurant had its attention on the man. When he was done my great grandfather nodded politely at him, and the man went back to his table. My grandfather looked at his dad and asked "What is the story?" His dad told him, "That man thinks I'm Mark Twain and wants to get into showbusiness." My grandfather showed me of a picture of his dad and damn if he didn't look just like Twain. I suspect my great grandfather may have cultivated the look, but it does show what a personality Twain was.
Posted on January 4 at 8:36 a.m.
Beammeupscotty--you may be missing the point. Obama just rolled a bowling ball into Hilary's pins, and the Clinton machine--the one that was unbeatable. Obama is now in the wind, a huge political force of change in thinking. He's inspirational to scads of voters--the kind with high VISA balances in single parent households with no health insurance. And to others as well who are ashamed of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. I'm not necessarily for him, but you've got to be in awe of a 46 year old with only 3 years behind him in the Senate, and black to boot, who can go out and change the entire nature of the campaign. You'd have to have a heart of stone not to be moved at the sight.
Posted on January 4 at 7:30 a.m.
I like that--"a nut religious fanatic." The problem with those candidates hanging their religion, whatever it is, out there like a Medal of Honor on a soldier's chest is that they (read Bush) think their opinions are inspired and shouldn't be subjected to rational evaluation. Facts be damned! Jesus Christ is my running mate!
Candidates should keep their religion private. Business and peoples' lives, freedoms and money are at stake. Decisions should be defended, and not based on religious inspiration or self-righteous, blind ideology, the kind that leaves us still in Iraq after five years with no goals.
Posted on December 28 at 11:26 a.m.
I think the 150 jobs comment by the mayor is wildly overstated. I think he's talking about jobs that were 7 miles away toward Ferriday now being relocated to Vidalia. That's really not net gain for the area. I work with Promise regularly. There will be extra jobs over and above those present now at the hospital because the patient census will be higher--but 150 jobs? No.
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Posted on March 27 at 1:54 a.m.
It's hard to get loans now with a credit crunch going on, especially for this kind of project that only works when the price of oil is at a high level. I suspect the problem is lack of definite financing. About 12-18 months ago the Wall Street Journal printed a long article, mentioning Rentech and other similar companies working with this kind of fuel. These companies were trying to get Congress to guarantee a floor under the price of their product in the event oil prices collapsed. To my knowledge they've never got that guarantee. The lack of this guarantee may be hurting their ability to get the financing they need.
On Rentech land deal postponed