Got to love TEXAS

A friend Keith "Indigo Parrish" Goolsbey took these pictures in Spur, Texas which is east of Lubbock on Highway 70. His comments are below to the pictures.













Dairy Queen Ride Thru In Spur, TX.
I could not believe my eyes when I drove by this. Three kids on horses at the drive thru. Nothing is more Texas than this.


















Blizzards for our Horses

Girl : "We're riding the horses through the Dairy Queen!"
ME: "I've never seen horses at a drive thru!"
White Hat : "This is a RIDE thru now!"
ME: "Do you mind if I take your photo?"
WH: "You go right ahead. You put that on the INTERNET."


Got to love it.

Healthcare - Train Wreck in Progress

Over the years there have been so many good plans to solve the healthcare problem. Maybe someone needs to implement them.

February 6, 1974

Nixon's Plan For Health Reform, In His Own Words
President Richard Nixon's Special Message to the Congress Proposing a Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan. Powerful unions, such as the AFL-CIO and the United Autoworkers, lobbied hard to defeat the legislation.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2009/September/03/nixon-proposal.aspx

September 2009

There are so many things that can be done to improve our healthcare system and do not cost money or are relatively inexpensive. I believe that the first would be to stop the "murder" that occurs in almost all, if not all, hospitals in this country.

From The Alantic - "After the needless death of his father, the author, a business executive, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. It is a system, he argues, that is not worth preserving in anything like its current form. And the health-care reform now being contemplated will not fix it. Here’s a radical solution to an agonizing problem."
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care


January/February 2004 Atlantic

Information, Please
Sounds crazy, but one way to arrest the spiraling cost of health care would be to figure out what treatments actually work.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200401/brownlee


January/February 2003 Atlantic

The Overtreated American
One of our biggest health-care problems is that there's just too much health care. Cutting down on the excess could save enough to cover everyone who is now uninsured
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/01/brownlee.htm