Al and Nick,
My confirmation email never came back to me and I've done a check of my filtered out spam too. I regisitered as hockeyref with you just like I did here and elsewhere. If you could check into this, that would be great. Thanks....
Leslie,
It's not the economic set up of a country that effects such invassions of privacy, it's a lack of protections of civil rights and how totalitarian it is. We have been slipping down that slippery slope that legal scholars warn about for quite some time.
First it was the FISA courts (did I get that right or did I butcher that one? ADD, sorry) secret courts that don't have to answer to anyone publicly. Then it was the destruction of even that little bit of a check on uncontrolled power via the Patriot Act which allows for no over-sight what so ever. We are setting up some very bad legal standing here and we citizens of good conscience need to really get mad and stand up to this CCHIT where ever it may be. It is like a bad sneaky infection, we must weed it out and bring it to the cleasning forces of sunlight for all to see.
Everyone, as many of you know I used to work in the media as a tech in theater and TV. We really need to think in terms of public awareness thru TV and newspapers. The carriers don't give two CCHIT's about what we think. I believe they actually get a sick sadistic pleasure from making our lives miserable. It's the public at large and a political will that scares the CCHIT out of them. Remember Harry and Louise???
How much money did they spend making sure that they didn't get their hands smacked for raiding the cookie jar??? Our money, all of our money, money the collected with a promise to provide quality healthcare via taking good care of a quality network of providers...I'm not the type to let them off the hook so easily. They spent our money to just to keep more of our money for themselves and to continue to hurt providers and patients via crumby policies and even worse reimbursements. We need to show these people for the robber barrons and carpet baggers that they really are. They use the media everyday to try and paint a feel good image of themselves, consumer psych, I know they taught it in my psych dept. Now there is some manipulative BullCCHIT. As we used to say (probably still do, but I don't live there anymore) in the beautiful Green Mountain state of Vermont...There were these teeshirts with a Yosemite Sam like character on them with a shotgun and the shirts read; "Off of my land, flatlander!" We need to escort these selfish, greedy SOB's off of our land. They have abused the public trust for their own gain at the expense of the greater good. Good-bye, plain and simple.
Question, what is the most correct spelling, CHITT or CCHIT??? Be well everyone.
Paul
