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November 27, 2008
Chad's Legislative Agenda 2009Chadwick Meyer
"Do Not Mail" List: stop cutting down trees on my behalf!
True Price Disclosure for Health Care Providers: require the health care industry (including insurance companies) to conveniently provide the true cost of services so patients can be wise consumers when making treatment decisions. Currently it is nearly impossible to know what a procedure or test will cost before hand, without endless hours of abuse on the phone. Also, people who have no insurance and pay upfront, should receive the same price given to insurance companies, the ...
November 25, 2008
Palin's Turkey InterviewChadwick Meyer
I recently watched an interview of Alaska Governor Palin which was conducted in front of a macabre background of turkey strangulation. Liberals past this video around as if this affirmed how out of touch she is with society. And I do believe she is out of touch. But what I find interesting is that initially I reacted and thought, "How stupid is she? Is she so disconnected that she doesn't realize people will put off by the turkey that's being viciously strangled in the background?" But then it hit me. I'm a hypocrite. How unfair of me to ...
November 16, 2008
My Birthday WishChadwick Meyer
I wish the world was full of trees their giant trunks and spreading leaves swaying somber in the breeze fertile vast green endless seas
rugged features carved by age sagging branches sought for shade towering over all that's made by tiny hands that work then fade
I wish we hadn't cut them down felled the mighty cleared the ground quelled the ancient forest sounds what's easily lost is not easily found
now many lives must come must go before old groves again may grow before children's children's children know things worth loving grow ...
November 08, 2008
Hail ProgressChadwick Meyer
our world tamed well sea sky land industry bloomed more grand than planned add more to much it could not stand for hunger dwarfed the best of man
your lustful eyes never withdrew your wasteful living grew and grew and in proportion destruction too still all that mattered was me was you
rivers seas once teamed with life slowly emptied by butchers knife hills and valleys once fabled ripe gone trees gone stag hail modern life
excessive living without cost tragic mythic fragile lost bridges burnt before they're crossed warnings mocked and ...
November 05, 2008
Why Obama?Chadwick Meyer
I think Obama will make a great president, steady, wise, thoughtful, respectful of those he disagrees with, civil, eloquent, willing to say the hard thing, even when it's politically unpopular. He's shown a remarkable ability to understand complex issues, see through the smokescreen of special interest groups to advocate what's best for America as a whole. He wants to make America be a place that works for everyone, every race, every religion, ever creed, not just the wealthy elite who control the power or not just one dominant religious ...
November 03, 2008
One Day Women Must ChooseChadwick Meyer
In order for America to have an inteligent mature conversation on abortion, pro-choice advocates must be able to rest assured that women's rights are not under assault. Only then, will they be able to remove the blinders of ideology which have prevented them from having a dialogue about abortion so that they can admit the true barbarity of the actual practice, for better or worse. Perhaps then we can all come to a compromise that respects women's rights, while still protecting the civil rights of the unborn who have no voice yet in our ...
November 02, 2008
Hard to StartChadwick Meyer
seeking never finding barren mind pawing reaching missing ever blind same nothing there to give no breath for words to live still hoping in the promises of time
scratching scraping paper chokes the vine letters creep still upward to entwine adorn the page with ink parched parchment given drink words bloom into fair familiar rhyme
November 01, 2008
Reasonable LimitationsChadwick Meyer
As a followup to my previous article about limited choice in a national health care system, it's worthwhile to also mention that one of the problems with our culture which would poses a problem for our current private health system and would certainly need to be addressed for a public health care system is an endless appetite from consumers to demand treatment for every imaginable issues, critical or not. As technology increases, we have the ability to do more and more. We can alleviate symptoms, and prescribe drugs to minimize the side ...
November 01, 2008
When Choice Is Not an OptionChadwick Meyer
In a recent conversation, a friend mentioned that what he feared most about a nationalized public health care system was the threat this would represent to his choice, namely choice of doctors and health care options, which he feared would put his family at risk. I was reminded once again, how effectively Americans have been brainwashed. The well has been poisoned against public health care. We've been sold a lie about how it "just doesn't work" despite the fact that it actually works quite well in nearly every other major nation in the ...
October 15, 2008
The Contradiction of PrivatizationChadwick Meyer
One precious value of conservative dogma is the belief that the government always does things poorly. In other words, says the private company to the government, "whatever you can do, I can do better." This is supported by the general belief that competition improves efficiency and within the government there is no competition and thus a lot of waste. This is true often times. However I find it interesting that while privatization is the solution to nearly every problem (I've even heard conservatives advocate privatizing the roads), they ...
October 05, 2008
Please Pick a Slur and Stick with ItChadwick Meyer
The GOP's new darling, Sarah Palin, is now accusing Obama of 'Palling around with terrorists.'1 This adds to the long list of slanderous caricatures the McCain campaign are trying to make stick on Obama, in an effort to scare the American public, including the charge of being a 'liberal elitist'.2 I'm sorry, but please just pick one already. How can you be both liberal elite and a terrorist? Liberal Elitists are supposedly the godless, feckless, weenies that want big government. The likes of Ted Kennedy are not exactly the type of people that ...
August 01, 2008
Open Source DemocracyChadwick Meyer
It occurred to me this morning that someone (if I had more time I would) should develop a website community for open source democracy, along the lines of Wikipedia, a user contributed and edited plan for governing, which addresses a range of issues and formulates detailed and specific strategies for achieving real results, steps for building consensus, and political incentive to motivate our leaders to act. Essentially, it would provide the will of the people prepackaged and ready to implement by those in power.
It seems that politics in ...
July 31, 2008
Al Gore I Salute YouChadwick Meyer
On weekends, I try to make a little time for myself to emerge from my Gutensite haze and catch up on the world. I particularly enjoy science and environmental stuff so I regularly read technologyreview.com. They recently wrote a blog on Al Gore's Inconvenient Plan and gave it a pretty pessimistic prognosis. Some of the comments, as comments are want to be, purported some common misconceptions, while others brought up some positive points.
One commenter claimed that Al Gore was simply riding the popular wave of environmentalism for political ...
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