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I have the answer! Make a new branch of the Military...The Medical Corps.

In order to practice medicine in the United States of America in any way, shape, or form, one would be required to be a member of this branch of the service. Standards of conduct and practice would be maintained, salaries would be controlled, retirement age would be set. These individuals would be MILITARY personnel and thus subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, needing to act accordingly and follow orders or find themselves the recipient of disciplinary action. There would be no private health-care providers, once retired they would no longer be doctors, nurses, or technicians.

All Tax Paying Citizens would have access to this service free of charge. Certainly taxes would go up and this idea does have some problems inherent, as would any other solution, however I think it is simple and far easier to maintain. In the long run it would work better and for each person it would be cheaper.

Comments PLEASE!...oh and pass it along too if you would, Thank You all.

Too late I pen this for you to read, yet it is never too late to feel. Would that I could have told you once more how much I love you, but you already knew it...and would that I could have hugged you once more as well, but the hugs given must suffice for the rest of my days. Everyone misses you now and broken we all are in your absence. I know only my own grief in your passing and it is according to no plan I would have ever endorsed, but I'm told God's plan trumps all so I must abide it (as if any of us has a choice) and pick up the shattered pieces of my heart and carry on. I do this for Mom and Dad, for Chris and Trina...but most of all for Abby. She will know you through us as we will see you through her and always remember. Though you are gone now from this place and dwell in God's Glorious Kingdom, the echo of your loving bright spirit resounds in all of our hearts. I count myself lucky to have shared in your life, and blessed to have your example to share with others...most especially your daughter who was the light of your world and who now brightens all of our hearts in these dark days. I trust that the shadow of grief will pass and the heaviness we all feel will lift eventually, but I pray not too quickly for in my tears I find strange comfort even as I know you'd tell me not to cry. My dear sweet sister, I love you to infinity and miss you without end.

Semper Fi -my brothers and sisters, Semper Fi!

on my fan-forum/ cooperative storytelling/ roleplaying game site





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Foreground: Frostbite, Cyclops, D'mnchyld, TuneUp

Background: Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Elixir(in a pool of blood), Haven, Shadowkat, Diesel, Belasco(hovering high above), and ten thousand demons

-oh my-

UUuggghh!

I had problems with my internet- and my fear of messing up a good beginning...I guess that might be my biggest contributing factor to why I procrastinate so severely.

Enough for my psycho-nessy

I'll just show the art

we'll call it day....Uh, day.... Day 8

(okay, so it's more than that but it's the eighth day of work so...)

DAY 7

Day 6:






this weekend was strange, worked saturday- felt ill. didn't paint, but I'm back to it now

sorry for the delay

Day: 5
(is it 5 already?)

you know guys thanks for your comments, sorry to not respond but time is a factor when i post most days now, life is spinning too strange to get a foothold, but thank you for your words. I'm actually not too upset with it, it's starting to form up on the canvas- 18X24 if anyone's wondering...and my cell phone camera is not too pitiful for the documentation of the work....

here's todays update

Day 4:

Day 3:

Day 2:





-just an aside... my work schedule has been adjusted leaving me some strange chunk of free time in the morning- I start my work day at 11am- so this work is done sometime in the morning and the hope is that if i can stay doing a little bit each day i might break my poor habit of getting 73% done a piece of art and packing it into some dark corner of my closet- never to be seen again....


well, maybe i can pull out some older works and actually finish them up too

I'm doing this more to keep me going on this project than anything else. I'm gonna take a picture of this painting every day until I finish it. It's a commissioned piece- love how that sounds...'A COMMISSIONED PIECE'- of an Adirondack Chair on a beach.

DAY 1:

so okay i like my warhammer 40k
my army: sisters of battle




a painting i'm doing 2'x4' (the progression):






I'll finish it whenever (no deadline- it's for me)

...amongst the crowd at the Pensylvania Renaissance Fair. Quite theatrical- explosions and blood packs and fire, oh my!

feeling sorta this way lately:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade


not sure why or what about exactly(and not in an overwhelming way)- but this really nails it, I must try to remember to include this in my vocabulary...it really says it just right.

hershey's bar -
with or without almonds?

grilled cheese sandwich -
with or without tomato?

m&ms candy -
with or without peanuts?

popcorn -
with or without butter?

hot dog -
with or without relish?

burger -
with or without cheese?

cereal -
with or without sliced bananas?

baked potato -
with or without sour cream?

swimming -
with or without bathing suit?

sex -
with or without condom?

pie -
with or without ice cream?

orange juice -
with or without vodka?

ice cream -
with or without sprinkles?

music -
with or without lyrics?

movies -
with or without special effects?

an end to this latest chapter of this thing I call my life... paid the last payment on my ex's bail bond tonight (my mom had signed - the house was on the line, so i couldn't default on the loan...) $5 grand- painful, but finished now...never again! on a brighter note AFI's top 100 movies aired on cbs tonight Three of my personal top five favorite black & white movie made the top 50 (to kill a mockingbird, king kong, and the maltese falcon) other films of note: STAR WARS(my all time favorite movie)got #13(coincidentally my lucky number-eh, go figure), WIZARD of OZ #10, Gone With the Wind #6, and #1...was...oh i can't wreck it for the west coast (but it was just what i was expecting) It's always great to watch this kind of a show that gives an overview of some wonderfuly entertaining films- it sort of connects you to past generations and pushes time out of the mind and plays right on your emotions (of course they pick the most memorable and moving scenes and with beautiful endorsements by our favorite movie stars of what they loved best) -it just makes you want to run out and rent a boatload of old movies and have the whole neighborhood over for movie night. I've certainly got a few movie ideas for the next intimate evening that comes my way. That'll be the start of the next chapter of this amazing thing I call my life...

hey i was just thinking about writing you...
it's deep knee thursday for me here (have i mentioned it to you yet?-where i take a lunge step instead of a regular walking type step with every step i take all day long from the moment i get up until the time i go to bed- great workout) and this day i will be fasting as well, so to make it a truly spiritual event..,
anyway i'm excited to begin this life a-new...i just feel really good today, in my backyard this morning i saw a weird creature forraging and looking around i think it was a beaver. Well, only by process of elimination do i think this since: -not a racoon... wrong shape and color, too big to be a squirrel although it was a rich reddish brown it was huge and the tail was too short, it had a fluffy-ier tail than i'd think a beaver would have, but there's not been much water around lately- we usually have this huge pond back there with enough water that a couple weeks ago a male and female mallard duck alighted on it's surface and swam around for the better part of the day, but the neighbor fixed the drain system...so it's been drier, not a dog/cat/or rabbit the ears were teeny tiny. In fact he looked very much like a huge chipmunk(and just might be...it is New Jersey!), but sorta flatter (not fatter but flat -er..you know) and his head was smallish in comarasion to his body but without the chipmunk markings and as big as a sack of potatos maybe bigger in fact...then...!...suddenly...
he looks up and bolts off under the shed in the back of the yard.
Then swooping down HUGE WINGS A-FLUTTER as she catches herself - a fantasticly lage falcon of some sort. Well, she missed him and she swung up through the air to perch upon the neighbors toolshed (which is positioned in the same general area as ours) and she waited, all the while i sipped my black coffee (no sugar -fasting remember...) and i realize this is "--mutual of freakin' omaha's wild kingdom--" right in my backyard...this is glorious!
and i took it as a sign to start on a new warhammer army - all trees and eagles with maybe the great stag (unmounted of course), and led by old what's her name---the elfqueen (who i'll have to sculpt from scratch since there's no model for her)- lotsa dryads and i'll see if i can include any other critters(i'll check the book when i go over there tomorrow) like badgers or wolverines or some little viscious biting things the dryads could toss at their foes (maybe some bunny rabbit scouts i could deploy way up there?) but lots of magic-LOTS...could be a blast((-yes i'll do pictures of all my stuff one day soon))
So, not only is the earth herself showing me love, but i'm almost done paying off some seriously crappy debt- my ex's bail(which i could knock out in one huge payment) and my old discover bill which (they were gonna take me to court over-meh-) i just finished paying off yesterday!!!
So next month i'll have some money finally(wish that i had my digital camera -that i haven't yet bought- with me this morning for the show out back) maybe i'll just go and get one this weekend cause i need one bad! life is too beautiful to not grab visual chunks of and share with friends...
lemmie get back to work this is enough to hold you over for now (i hope)

;)

ok, i've mentioned it before and what with all the hub bub about 30th aniversary of ***STAR WARS*** it's time i share my theory with the interweb.
in no way do i say this jokingly, but:

CHEWBACCA IS A WOMAN
you have to see that next time you watch (which i'm sure will be soon)- look at the interaction between chewy and han solo, watch for the friendly hug between chewy and leah- and whatever she says is always so catty- right???
she's like the long hair tall girl -remember her , from gym class- who could really have been an amazing athelete if she ever came out of her shell, she was mostly very quiet- but funny as hell if you ever got to know her...real biting wit.
now, here's the back story - han and chewy dated for just a little while and it wasn't working out but since she'd kinda fronted him alot of imperial credits she wasn't giving up her stake in the smuggling gig they'd started together.. so she's sticking around...yeah, i know the holiday special says she was married blah-blah-blah well, skip all that (except for the cartoon cause that was boba fett's first appearance and it was pretty wicked animation for what it's worth) so anyway you can look at all the movies and see how this theory is confirmed... she carries a purse, she uses a crossbow (who else ever did except that one BOND GIRL?) she's tiny by wookie standards, she picks up yoda in the pre-quel (minding baby, as it were) she's constantly getting yelled at by her ex-boyfriend Han, she's far more emotional and affectionate than you'd imagine a Wookie-guy to be (unless she truly was as i propose...a she).
granted, i know this is not what was intended by lucas- but it sure is fun to watch and know the truth- FINALLY.
I remember going to see it when it opened, huge bunch of kids(like ten of us i think) all piled into a green station wagon with that fake wood laminate on the doors(no seatbelts we were in the seventies - we were bouncing around and rolling all over the place...i was six years old), and we were gonna go play miniature golf. It was a birthday party and the little boy was turning seven, he called himself "Barky" cause he couldn't say his M's- he was a friend of mine from before i could remember, our fathers worked together and we were in the same playpen before we could walk or talk, and i remember he was sooooo pissed that we had to go to a movie because it was rainy...no one knew it would change the world, and movies back then kinda sucked...but i must have gone back to see it i think eighteen more times YES I SAID 18. Still to this day it resides in my dvd player STAR WARS (not episode four, cause i knew it before all that- to me it is sacred, i love that movie...Luke was my first crush!) so i say the chewbacca is a woman thing respectfully and i think that's why she didn't get a medal at the end of it but she did get the last line...cause face it, hairy scary and strapped with her crossbow and purse, she's will always be a diva!