Yesterday on TV I saw the announcement that the US Preventive Service Task Force recommended women not get mammograms until age 50, and then only every two years. This flies in the face of years of recommendations and public awareness campaigns aimed at early screening of all cancers, not just breast cancer.

Why the change? I would dare to suggest you are seeing a foretaste of Obama rationed healthcare. Think I'm alone? I'm not. Today on the way home, I heard Dr. Ilona Farr call in to the Dan Fagan radio show on KFQD 750 am radio. She said she has 25 women with breast cancer in her practice, and at least half of them had their cancer detected prior to age 50. Dr. Farr indicated this was basically the future, rationed healthcare and a lack of access to early screening.

I'd dare to take it a step further, wondering if Sarah Palin's comment about "death panels" might be coming true as we watch history unfold before us. Consider this: if you are not given access to cancer screening until age 50, and you end up being found to have an advanced cancer that might have been caught at age 45, do you really think doctors will recommend aggressive treatment, or go the cheap route and send you to a hospice to die?

Of all the things the government could be doing to provide Americans with affordable healthcare, I can't imagine a better value than doing early cancer screening, to stop a tragedy before it becomes unstoppable. I do hope and pray that if the socialist fantasy of universal healthcare comes to pass, at least it would air on the side of early detection and treatment, instead of yesterday's recommendation of what to this admitted total non-doctor appears to be "wait until it's too late."

I'm reading an article Ohio executions back on with 1-drug method. Very interesting reading. I forgot about it, but a few months back, there was a botched execution where techs were unable to find a vein in Kenneth Biros. Well, this time the State of Ohio prisons director Terry Collins has a one-drug injection method, which I don't see being any better since one still has to find a vein to inject, right? Anyhow, here is the nuttiest part of the article:

"Death penalty opponents hailed Collins' decision as making executions more humane but expressed reservations about using an untested method."

How do you test an execution method? Seems to me that conducting an execution is the test, ain't it?

Amazing. The socialist fifth-columnnist NBC news never once mentions Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Ft. Hood murderous terrorist, is a Muslim. They are instead doing a pondering on how this person could get access to handguns. They are going into more detail, perhaps they will mention Hasan is a Muslim? Oh, maybe they will now? They're giving a background on the guy. Nope. Now they're talking about the history of Ft. Hood.

Here, let me help you with what NBC refuses to say.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan is a Muslim.

There. News you can use.

I'm at home feelin' ill. Crawled outta bed. Turned on the TV. Decided to watch C-SPAN. Don't ask why, must be part of being ill. I'm watching the senator from Rhode Island, a Democrat, complaining about Republicans eating up time with filibusters. He spent a long time saying it, so he's pretty much a waster of time, too. It's a debate about unemployment benefits.

Mr. Democrat is saying the states hit hardest by unemployment are Rhode Island, Michigan, Nevada. Guess what? How do you say this politely? How's that Obama economics working out for ya? Enjoying your change? I thought not.

Now Sen, Lamar Alexandar (R) is on, and he's talking about how they are keeping the nation from becoming victimized by the Tyranny of the Majority. He's right. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona, Minority Whip) [what a short name! Makes it easy to campaign] chimes in, and they're tag-team blasting the Dems. Right on! His line? If the nation is suffering from unemployment, does more taxes on business make sense now?

This is what happens when you end up at home sick.

Sen. Jon Kyl is still going on about the debate on healthcare, rebuking the Dems in fine fashion, too. He asks, how much will the healthcare bill cost? Fine question, I think. Anyhow, this is now like a half-hour later, and on they go. I'm glad to see some Senators out there trying to keep our nation from descending into pure Marxism. Go on Senators Kyl and Alexandar!

I know I'm supposed to love my enemies. My wife and I read through the Beatitudes just last night. I kid you not, every time I set out to try to not loathe Barack Hussein Obama, it proves impossible!

So what is it this time? I can't blame Obama this time at all. He did nothing this time. And that's exactly the problem; he did nothing. He wins the Nobel Peace Prize. For doing nothing.

Nothing.

Did he bring peace to the Middle-East? Nope. In fact, he's probably, by his inaction, encouraging Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to go full-tilt nuclear and nuke Israel. While I'm glad President Obama has avoided the temptation to immediately cut and run out of Afghanistan and Iraq, I don't see how being Commander-in-Chief in the midst of a years-long war would engender any sort of consideration for a peace prize.

Perhaps it's the humanitarian angle. Did he unite people? I think not. Black and White America are more polarized than ever, with any disagreement with White House policy direction met with cries of "Racism!"

Economics? America has spent billions, no, trillions of dollars it does not have to produce the illusion of recovery. We are living the economic equivalent of enjoying the "honeymoon" period of maxing out all the credit cards before the bills come due.

According the the Nobel selection committee, they felt Obama has given people hope. Hope. Doesn't every scientist working on a cure for cancer, a cure for AIDS, a cure for diabetes, give people hope? Why not award them the Nobel prize? Well, perhaps it's bigotry, perhaps it's some class warfare thing, but folks expect scientists to deliver the cure before the accolades are handed out. Funny how that works.

What has President Obama done to merit the Nobel prize? What?