My two-cents worth and then some. An online journal by LP Brown.
Do you spend all of your time on Facebook? Well according to this Business Insider chart based on Nielsen data, Internet users spent a total of 55 billion minutes using Facebook in the month of May 2011. Let’s do the math. That’s billion as in 55,000,000,000 minutes or 916 million hours a month.
So, if you assume Facebook has 750 million registered users, that’s about 1.2 hours for May 2011 collectively for each.
That’s a lot of Facebooking.
OMG! Jose Baez, the lawyer who represented the infamous Casey Anthony has agreed to assist with the defense of 50 year old Gary Giordano who is being held in an Aruban jail, suspected of murder in the presumed death of his 35 year old companion, Robyn Gardner. According to Giordano, Gardner went missing on August 2nd when the two of them went snorkeling. Gulp!
Incidentally, (or some might say coincidentally), Giordano took out a $1.5 million dollar travel insurance policy containing an accidental death clause on Gardner and named himself as beneficiary. Umm — that’s an aha moment.
Now imagination this – Baez is the lead attorney and clones of the Casey Anthony jury are selected for the court case. (I did say imagine it, didn’t I? Now streeeeetch your imagination a bit further.) All incriminating evidence presented is totally ignored and the case against Giordano is a slam dunk. I’ll leave the rest of this story to you to end it any way you choose.
Kidding aside, if Gardner was murdered, let’s hope that JUSTICE prevails. In the meantime, I cannot resist ending this post without including the following super clever statement by a commenter on another site, “Here we go again! Do you think Baez’s opening statement will be that Giordano’s father molested him?”
“Do you want to see something really scary?” That was a line from the 1983 film, Twilight Zone: The Movie. But that film is not the subject of this post. Healthcare insurance – specifically the lack of it – is more frightening than a sci-fi horror flick.
Various studies reveal that uninsured Americans are more likely than those with health insurance to delay seeking medical care. Often the only source – and sometimes the last resort – of medical care for the uninsured is treatment in the hospital emergency room. Because they lack health insurance that would enable them to get medical treatment, numerous uninsured Americans are dying daily from curable ailments or complications associated with preventable diseases. Furthermore, studies reveal that uninsured Americans are sicker and die earlier than those with insurance, and the uninsured are more likely to be diagnosed with a disease – like breast cancer – in the advanced stages, because they could not afford prescreening and preventive care.
If you have health insurance you may feel complacent about those facts, but ask anyone you know who is uninsured how they feel about those details and you may reassess your feelings.
Last week, Kyle Willis, the 24 year old nephew of musician Bootsy Collins died from a toothache, because he could not afford to have his infected wisdom tooth removed. Reportedly after suffering for two weeks with the toothache Willis developed severe headaches and facial swelling. He sought treatment in a Cincinnati hospital emergency room and was given two prescriptions; one an antibiotic, the other for pain. According to a relative, Willis could only afford to fill one prescription. He chose the pain medication. The pain ceased, but lacking the antibiotic, the infection spread to his brain and subsequently caused his demise.