Get Well Sammy & some other silly thoughts.....

Thoughts and payers go out to Sammy Maniscalco ....he had surgery at one of the top notch foot & ankle specialty clinics..and is already on target to be 100% for next year, his senior season at Bradley.
Get well Sammy, we miss you!

Quote: "Heading to Charlotte"
http://twitter.com/#!/Maniscalco_5/status/21631443612471296

Quote: "Big day tomorrow...time to get some sleep"
http://twitter.com/#!/Maniscalco_5/status/21791261786644481

From Sam's AAU Coach Mike Mullins...
"Shout out to Sammy after successful surgery in NC yesterday-Rest up heal up and stay up !GET WELL"
http://twitter.com/#!/wolves10/status/22760867200237568



Here's a new thought.......check out these recent articles........
All point to the fact that people are getting way more medical tests and treatment than they need........

Too many and unnecessary tests and Xrays and scans?
http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2011/1/4/clinical-decision-support-tools-can-help-eliminate-unnecessary-imaging.aspx

Too many and unnecessary heart stents?
http://www.latimes.com/health/bs-md-stent-patients-20110102,0,3198564.story

Too many and unnecessary (and tremendously expensive and troublesome) heart defibrillators?
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D9KHN4501

Too many and unnecessary admissions to hospitals and surgeries?
http://www.aishealth.com/Bnow/hbd010611.html

Too many medical procedures, inpatient, outpatient, and all kinds??
http://www.thestar.com/article/908547--canadians-unnecessarily-being-put-under-knife-report


Well.....this all might surprise you, but it's getting a little crazy in the medical industry and it seems maybe some in the profession and being a little overaggressive in their "marketing"!!
I actually talked with a gastroenterologist yesterday who said their whole group sets a target for how many scope procedures they want to accomplish by the end of the year and they strive like crazy to hit the target...in other words they do as many scope procedures in the upper and lower gut as they can to rack up the billing and revenue and hit the desired target...

I guess it doesn't matter if the patients maybe don't have anything wrong with them or maybe really don't need the procedure...that's irrelevant since they want to reach that lofty target number so they can brag they are in the top 1% of all gastroenterology groups on their numbers and statistics...

Hmmm...I'd say just maybe all these stories go hand in hand...maybe it should be BUYER BEWARE and people should just stop saying no to irresponsible and greedy doctors.......
Wise up a little -- just because you're insured for those things doesn't mean you should have them or should want to go through them...
Use a little intelligence and stop letting people jack you around in this regard. I would welcome a more informed and educated public on this issue.



Sign of change -- it took a little longer than promised...
http://drudgereport.com/hr.jpg



Lastly -- there was once a time when the Neanderthal humans were thought to be sub-human and possibly a species of part-man, part-monkey/primate that maybe we "evolved from".
But -- of course as any honest evolutionist would now readily admit, that thinking was totally wrong and that Neanderthals were fully HUMAN, although, like Pygmies, their general bodily structure was a bit different from ours.
BUT -- we know they lived in groups and families, cultivated food, hunted in organized groups, had religions and superstitions, made clothes, jewelry, and even had ceremonies when they buried their dead. They were pretty much like we are today except shorter and not as well educated in any organized fashion.

So the thinking on Neanderthals has obviously changed a lot over the years, and it's now changing even more...
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-neanderthals-20110101,0,573797.story
Uh, oh...Neanderthals are in the news again....
Seems the Neanderthal humans are a total enigma..

Why did they look so odd and die out?
Enough digs have now shown they were smart, created jewelry, had some scientific expertise, made their own musical instruments, hunted in organized groups, had a well organized social structure, leaders, pets, and lived as families and probably married, etc...and ...
Now a new article blowing away all the misconceptions about their diets and why they died off..

In fact, now genetic testing proves maybe they didn't die out, but instead intermarried with middle-easterners and their looks gradually changed to what Europeans look like today!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/07/neanderthal-dna-found-in-_n_567177.html

(BTW -- that link shows even more media stupidity in that the title says Neanderthals were a separate and extinct species...
Hmm..if that's the case how could they interbreed?? So obviously the guy making the article's title just stupidly made that up....duhhh...where have we seen that before??)

So -- if everything the "evolutionists" and "scientists" are telling us...seems to get totally revamped and changed just about all the time, then why aren't more people skeptical?? I sure am skeptical....seems they never get it right...and just when they say they do...along comes more evidence that proves them wrong and then they re-do their theories!!


OK -- so where am I leading?? Just another example of something that the "experts cannot explain".
Here it is FWIW ------


This is piece of a larger puzzle that evolutionists won't talk about..

--at every single level of the geographical strata (the evolutionary record of evolution) when they dig...every level has ABUNDANT NEW life forms evolving rapidly that weren't there in the lower levels....

Lower strata have worms & jellyfish..
then suddenly enormous numbers of new species of invertebrates and shellfish appear
then some vertebrates, lizards, fish, then more and more
in each level of the evolutionary and geological record..

ONE unbreakable rule about the fossils and geological strata is this...
at each level continuing descendants of every life form from earlier strata exist in abundance but at each level TOTALLY new things suddenly come into being...
Sure some things die off -- BUT NEVER does an entire line of organisms disappear....AND there's constantly new forms of life that appear...like adding new branches to a tree...which is how the "experts" conveniently draw it up!

BUT -- now we have the exception...it appears the "tree stopped growing"!
There's no more "Totally new"!!!

About 50 Million years ago the dinosaurs were gone and mammals were proliferating.....then along came primates then by 5-10 million years ago - the supposed precursors of man, and then earliest man by 3-5 million years ago.
The Neanderthals were 500,000 to 1,000,000 years ago -- so they say....
BUT then somewhere about 5-10 million years ago - evolution basically stopped, and except for higher education...we are exactly the same as our ancestors several million years ago...and there are NO NEW forms of life at all in the past 5 or so million years..

NONE -- so evolution has stopped.

If we all died today and left fossils....
then in a 100 million years if someone dug us up...and kept digging down to the lower strata...the one thing that'd say is that all those different strata show constantly appearing (or evolving) new life forms (even tho there's no transitional form showing gradual changes)...until you get to about 5 million years BC...then evolution totally stopped...

Not a single NEW, different, or significantly "improved" life form of any kind has appeared since....something clearly unique and different and quite unexpected and surprising must have happened...

Obviously this is a serious problem for the evolution experts...
since different unique animal and even plant types appeared suddenly and in enormous numbers and variations throughout all of the fossil record...
every new level, every new era and strata has tons of new life forms...all the way up 'til the past 5-10 million years then it all comes to a total grinding halt and changes completely cease...nothing new!!

So why??? Why has there been no evolution or advancement of life forms since then...
Even the fossils of humans they find are a lot like us today....same type of bones, same number of fingers, major organs the same...etc...

and...
fish are still fish...
insects are still insects,
birds are still birds,
mammals remain the same...not even within a species do we see changes...like we did with horses, elephants, giraffes, etc..in the fossil record..

This is a total stumper for the evolution experts and they ignore it and won't talk -- pretending it isn't even an issue for discussion...
But shouldn't we see the current life forms continuing to evolve?? Shouldn't something about the humans and horses, and elephants that have lived in the past 5 million years have advanced?? Maybe some should be growing extra eyes or maybe wings?? Isn't that what's been happening in their theory all along, but now it's NOT happening.

If evolution is the rule of nature, then BY RULE it would have HAD TO continue -- so some force needs to be identified to explain why it came to a total halt.

This is as significant as if the sun came to a halt in the sky and did not move.....they would have to recognize it as a clear happening that refuted their previous beliefs that it all keeps happening by natural laws of evolution.

So I am open to any suggestions on this otherwise I'd have to stay skeptical that just maybe some of the theories put forth are a little lacking.