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Spin Zone / Jaybird Is Worthy
« on: February 05, 2016, 01:39:12 AM »
I just wanted to say that I really like this venue, I like that people can assemble to spout off and agree or disagree, and I appreciate that Jaybird has the cojones to go into the "den of infidels" to try to enlighten us.

While I may disagree with him on probably 99% of politics and/or religion, we are brothers in the air and I would gladly ride right seat with him any time.  This kind of fellowship may, in the long run, help us to overcome our disagreements.  Maybe,  Worth a try?

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Spin Zone / Perverse Incentives Are Ruining Health Care
« on: February 04, 2016, 05:07:45 PM »
One Doc’s Story

" Dissatisfaction and burnout among primary care providers—a function of larger and sicker patient panels, inadequate appointment times, more burdensome and tedious administrative tasks, and poor compensation—have been well documented.  The rewards of the doctor patient relationship and the intellectual stimulation of clinical problem-solving were enough to keep some of us in the primary care trenches.  But it was a close call.

With the introduction of CMS's unethical incentive and penalty programs, most notably the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and Meaningful Use (MU), an unpleasant practice environment was now an unacceptable one for me."

"The notion that PQRS promotes quality care rests on the flawed assumption that a bloated federal bureaucracy, CMS, can be nimble enough to produce quality measures that keep up with the rapidly evolving state of scientific evidence.  Reality contradicts that assumption. "

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Spin Zone / Re: Oregon Standoff goes Hot
« on: January 28, 2016, 09:44:57 PM »
When will they release the dash cam video?

Airborne Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAGxDWKrjPQ

It's pretty uneventful until the 8:14 mark when the white pickup truck with the bed cap suddenly tries to make a run for it.
 
Then, at the 9:18 mark the truck encounters a roadblock that had been put into place in apparent anticipation of the possibility of that move and plows off the road into a deep snow bank and gets stuck.
 
At about the 9:22 mark you can see the driver of the truck (Robert "LaVoy" Finicum) exiting the truck and walking into the woods with his hands up over his head.
 
At the 9:29 mark you can see Finicum suddenly reaching toward his waistband as if to draw a gun.  Almost immediately the officers closest to Finicum appear to fire at Finicum and Finicum falls to the ground.
 
At about the 14:48 mark the door to the truck opens again and at the 15:09 mark another figure emerges with his hands up over his head.
 
At about the 15:14 mark the figure drops something into the snow ahead of him while keeping his hands up over his head.  He then moves slowly around the truck toward the officers.
 
At about the 15:53 mark he appears to surrender to the officers and is taken into custody.
 
At about the 16:08 mark a third figure emerges from the truck with his hands up over his head.  He struggles through the snow and at the 17:00 mark surrenders to the officers and is taken into custody.
 
At about the 17:21 mark a fourth figure emerges from the vehicle and following the same procedure as the two before him he surrenders and is taken into custody at about the 18:26 mark.
 
At about the 19:30 mark officers approach the truck.  They then appear to search the truck.
 
Eventually the officers move in cautiously to inspect the apparently lifeless body of LaVoy Finicum.
 
The rest of the video is mostly just the officers milling about the scene and continuing to search the truck.
 

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Spin Zone / Re: Detroit is a lonely place
« on: January 28, 2016, 11:45:38 AM »
What a jackoff.

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Spin Zone / Bernie
« on: January 25, 2016, 02:10:13 PM »



It's nice to be able to post shit without getting banned.

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Spin Zone / Re: Sanders - his real purpose in the campaign
« on: January 21, 2016, 02:40:56 PM »
I think that if Hillary gets the nomination, Bernie is going rogue and will run as an independent.

Nothing would make me happier.  The Ross Perot of the left.

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Spin Zone / Re: Will This End the Clinton Candidacy?
« on: January 21, 2016, 12:32:01 AM »
Reagan wasn't electable.

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Spin Zone / Re: lovesick ex-boyfriend
« on: January 17, 2016, 09:20:50 AM »
Welcome to the Spin Zone.

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Pilot Zone / Airbus A-340 Shuts Down An Engine Inflight
« on: December 27, 2015, 05:26:37 PM »
Looks like a good CRM deal, cockpit video.

LINK

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Spin Zone / Re: Chicken
« on: October 30, 2015, 11:57:36 AM »
Lots of chicken and turkey plants here in N GA. Both Karen and I find getting behind the trucks full of birds on their last ride quite depressing and disgusting.

We live near a chicken processing plant, foul odors ride the winds on NW days.

You mean fowl odors?

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Spin Zone / Re: Feel Free to continue as you were!
« on: October 29, 2015, 10:04:31 PM »
Good to see you here.

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Spin Zone / Re: Cop was Fired
« on: October 28, 2015, 03:36:59 PM »
It's been reported that there is a video of someone striking the officer.

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Spin Zone / Re: NEW SZ Rules
« on: October 26, 2015, 07:05:57 PM »
I love the fact that they are so ...... svelte!


I am glad to see you here!  I may agree with you 5% of the time but you add a  lot to the discussion and make me think!

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