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	7/5/2004

The Drugist

It's always fascinating to have my brother the Walgreen's pharmacist in town. Long ago, I learned that alcohol DT's can kill but, though painful, Heroine DT's almost never do. Also, nicotine refined to the purity of cocaine kills within seconds upon snorting.

Today I learned that the current marvelous drug plan for seniors costs the federal government nothing until 2006. It's a private affair until then. Get it now though because the $10 to $30 a month you are being asked to sign up on private sponsored plans is going to jump into the $100 a month range if you wait until the Feds step in.

Other sidenotes. More insurance companies cover Viagra prescriptions than birth control pills. (Rumor over the counter is because insurance companies are run by men.) The largest carrier, Blue Cross/Blue Shield covers 12 Viagra pills a month (at $10/pill)...on the basis that the average couple has sex twice a week or so. (I need to pursue additional discussions on this once my brother leaves tomorrow.)

11:39:15 PM

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Infomercial 911

In case any member's of the 7th District noticed my family and I spending $5.50 each at the discounted matinee showing of 911, let me give my 1st reaction: "One of the best infomercials I have ever seen. Would have been better if it was free to the public."

Today's 2:20pm matinee was not a sell-out at the Carosel on Battleground (about 75%) but it did get cheered by most at the end. The graphic photos of the real cost of war and the pro and con interviews with our soldiers were best. I think Democrat partisans are going to be extremely disappointed though if they think a Kerry victory in November means quick exit from "Bush and Halliburton's War" and our dozen or so military bases under construction in Iraq. As the votes on shifting war making power to the president and the Patriot Act indicate, Democrats are not going to be our nation's saviors. (Moore conveniently left out the fact that the wording of the Patriot Act, that nobody bothered to read, was a bi-partisan effort crafted in the main by the pre-911 Hart-Rudman Commission.)

Also, I think the montage of the Bushes holding hands with all those swarthy looking Saudis in strange costumes was over the top and in year's hence will be used by those pointing out the racism that was alive and well in supposedly enlightened circles of our day. Think back to those sinister Chinamen and Japs we had to worry about 60-70 years ago.

Can you imagine the outrage if a Republican partisan put together a story with a montage in a similar light of president Clinton and various sidekicks shaking hands with all their Chinese and Buddhist business associates?

6:54:30 PM

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