Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Rationing is just one example of the extraordinary lengths being taken to address the shortage, which health care workers say has ceased to be a temporary emergency and is now a fact of life. In desperation, they are resorting to treating patients with less effective alternative medicines and using expired drugs. The Cleveland Clinic has hired a pharmacist whose only job is to track down hard-to-find drugs.
Caused largely by an array of manufacturing problems, the shortage has prompted Congressional hearings, a presidential order and pledges by generic drug makers to communicate better with federal regulators.
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In 2011, prompted by emotional pleas by cancer patients and others who said the drug shortage was threatening lives, President Obama issued an executive order requiring drug makers to notify the F.D.A. when a shortage appeared imminent. The agency also loosened some restrictions on importing drugs, and sped up approvals by other manufacturers to make certain medicines.A law passed this summer contains several provisions aimed at improving the situation, including expediting approval of new generic medicines and requiring the agency’s enforcement unit to better coordinate with its drug-shortage officials before it takes action against a manufacturer.
Uh wait, I think I just got confused again. If it’s “caused largely by…manufacturing problems,” then what good does it do, pray tell, to go tinkering around with the regulatory machinery?
Our fiftieth birthday is in the very near future, so we’ll have to keep watching this for personal reasons. And, take solace as we review that very long historical list of product shortages that have been tempered and ultimately cured, by the swift action of regulatory agencies, which is exhaustively included here: .
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“…very long historical list of product shortages that have been tempered and ultimately cured, by the swift action of regulatory agencies, …”
Once again I’ll refer to Ayn Rand. THIS time to “We The Living”
Mindful of my brethern that keep reminding me that “But…but…That’s FICTION” when they explain why I CAN’T refer to ” Atlas Shrugged” every step that it comes to fruition, I TRY to explain the whole thinly veiled thingie to them, (pointing out very real phenomina like Stainless Steel (on the Chrystler bld., I think it’s been cleaned twice), actual Robber Barrons, the whole Edison v. Tesla thingie,) only to get the same “but…but…I don’t know about that stuff” after clarifying they have NO intention of actually reading. (kinda’ like SOME of those nastier Amazon “reader” reviews)
Yep, rationing gasoline by “cutting” it with corn squeezings, and simply calling it “fuel”.
You can cook with linseed oil RIGHT? There’ll be plenty of “appropriate” pharma for State run “rehabs”/K-12 boys/prison/armed forces/…RIGHT?
I’m guessing there’s no apparent forseeable shortage of the mind-altering variety, but “smart”, and “old people” drugs lag. Hell, even the “military complex could cover my (atonishingly short shelf life) NitroStat needs…for a gum’mint contract price.
The “latest” resolve to threatened “rationing” in the face of 2 out of 3 emboldened Socialist controled gub’mint “arms”, with really strong Hope and Change of the third, seems to be “reinterpretation” of patent/copyright protections (and OTHER property “rights”) I think that’s going to be as attractive amongst Pharma/Silicon Valley/ASCAP-MCI/Dow Jones Industrial folk as “reduced personal tax write-off loop holes” were/are to “Big Entertainment” (including “sports”) as an election talking point in (ie) California/NY/Illinois/Fla. .
- CaptDMO | 11/18/2012 @ 10:19oops, forgot.
- CaptDMO | 11/18/2012 @ 10:23In My Humble Opinion….
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But I could be wrong.
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