Kansas is the come back team. They were down bad to North Carolina and rallied to win. Even in that game I detected early strength in Kansas even before they were winning. In tonight's game Kansas was down thirteen points to Ohio State on red rather than that bright orange-red, with Kansas in white. Kansas rallied big with about five minutes to go in the game. But it was close. Kansas won 64 to 62. Kansas stole the ball on an in field pass by Ohio State. Then the Ohio State guy stepped over the line and invalidated the free throw. Kentucky was always slated to beat Louisville in my oppinion although CBS comentators split on who would win that game, just for debate's sake, I imagine.
O have had OCD in the past when I was younger. Perhaps even into the eighties I still had it. Sometimes when I go a long time without a cigarette I become either mentally disorganized, or else start displaying OCT symptums with compulsive "checking on things" or looking for things. If they can catch it in children, so much the better. Now they say it all comes down to a brain chemical, glutimine, that causes certain other "alert" chemicals never to "shut off" even when the problem is solved. The new autism figures have continually lowered the ratio. It used to be one child in 150 and then it was one child in 110 and now it's one out of every 88 children they say has it, and needs treatment, and the sooner that therapy is begun the better the prognosis. I think that's a good thing. Even if your child might be called "borderline" it's still a good idea to have them checked out.
Tomorrow is April Fools. As I understand the origen of the holiday it stems back to neo pagan times when the Christians regarded the pagan northern Europeans as "April fools" for their various spring or equinox rituals. Maybe it's something else entirely. Apparently Google always plays some practical joke on its readers on that day. Someone suggested that Mag Magazine celebrate the holiday by running nothing but really serious articles on that day. I don't know. Maybe they already do that.
Pat Buchannon thinks this whole "off the record" open microphone comment could hurt President Obama in the fall election with Romney. I think personally that we need to go ahead with plans to put the first two missiles of the European defense system in Poland and Rumania as scheduled in 2015. That's still a ways off. I don't see why Russia is bothered by it in the first place. If they aren't guilty of any designs on the West then they shouldn't be bothered. Some say the missiles are to protect us from Iran somehow, like Russia might side with Iran in an upcoming war. If this is the case, that's another reason why we need them.
It was the insurance companies themselves that pushed for mandentory health care. If you'll remember Candidate Obama was against it in the campaign, and made quite a few documented statements expressing those sentaments. Some may say "There is no distinction between the government buying insurance for you as in medicare, and ordering you to buy your own insurance. I see a big difference. It's like with eminent domain where government sides with major real estate developers to disposses people who live in middle class neighborhoods, but if they were kicked off their land then the city could raise more tax revenue from another owner. People have rights to their own property. And they have a right to keep their own money. Nobody can seriously claim that "regulating commerce" in the Constitution has the right to set some sort of an autocracy or whatever. Can the government dictate what foods you eat because some may be deemed too high in cholesterol and therefore "drive up medical costs"? Can the government mandate regular vigerous physical exercise as though this were Red China or Nazi Germany or whatever? No. "Settled law" should be respected. What the government is attempting to do is Unprecedented. There is absolutely no moral basis for it in the entire history of our country. You would think any President who saw that much of the Tea Party was formed in opposition to mandentory health care- - you'd think if that President wanted to be re elected he would give up on something so completely unpopular with the American people. That is unless President Obama himself is a little OCD on this issue. Accountents clearly state that this whole "healthy pool of new customers" will NOT lower insurance rates but rather the rates will and have ALREADY gone UP and not down. Many have pointed to really shoddy accounting practices here that would get a lot of people fired if they tried their tricks. As they say, figures don't lie but liars figure. Doctors don't want it. Obama says he's concerned about expenses of young people with their college loans. If he were really concerned he would not saddle young married couples starting out with the catistrophic costs old people encounter in their last few years of life, often their last six months of life. He's making criminals out of people who aren't doing and care to do nothing wrong, but just be good, responsible citizens, which is something Obama says he wants. Being penalized a thousand dollars a year by the government is not most people's idea of "helping them". The bill itself was only narrowly passed to begin with and then only after a lot of legislative tap dancing around procedural rules. From the git go it was unpopular and has never been anything BUT unpopular. People take too many drugs anyhow. It's just a beaurocratic nightmare Obama is setting up for everyone in the Health Care profession, and as far as I can see it's not to help anybody but only for his personal agrandizment.
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