FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

+K for all on the board tonight.

[Johnnie Red]

Thanks to everyone who made the Red Tie Gala such a great event Friday night! Hopefully we will have more posters there next year.

Any word as to whether Duffman was able to walk away from the BockFest yesterday without stumbling? No raccoon at the Waconia wild game feed last evening.

Start thinking about attending the EelPout Festival in Walker two weekends from now. Club Kego will be having a tailgate party on Leech Lake Saturday afternoon. All are invited.

[janesvilleflash]

Do I feel like crap or what. My eyes hurt worse when they are closed than when they're open.

[Klopenhiemer]

A little round of +k for everyone who has been posting in the last page. 

Happy Sunday!

[57Johnnie]

I think it is a great day when All Decade player for both the Vikings and the Broncos, Gary Zimmerman finally make is into the Hall of Fame. +k allaround on that 

[cobbernation]

Does anyone think the Giants can play as well as they did in week 17 tonight in the Super Bowl?

Prediction

NE-35
NY-24

[repete]

Ret, Bennie --

Sad duty to report on the Caps. But first, I need to say that no matter what happens to health care, the government should not even think about touching dentists, shouldn't even regulate, license or look at the toothpullers. By epiphany can in Row 0 (12 behind the benches) of section 100 at Verizon. Awesome seats provided by a dentist via someone's $1000 root canals.

The poor Caps had plenty of magic from Ovechkin, but absolutely no finishers. It was the  quietest 36-save shutout I've ever seen. Caps were "outshooting" Atlanta 25-9 when the Thrashers scored -- and they aded an empty-netter. Atlanta had nothing. They'd lost Friday and Wednesday and didn't have Kowalchuk.

Before every period, they announced Austin Grill would give everybody a pound of wings if the Caps scored 6. They could offer that deal if the Caps did it in a week.

Hopefully, they'll get their act together for a final 2nd half  run.

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

i am beginning to think the smiter maybe the miacmaniac, earlier tonight we were the only two on the board, i left for ten minutes and came back, we were still the only two on the board and i was a -1 in the karma department.

nope, I can honestlysay the only johnnie Ive ever smited is TDT (altho a few times I might have been tempted)

[snoop dawg]

Happy Super Bowl to everyone.  Went out and bought some...Hamm's.  Thought I'd give it another try.  Take or give the points....what a quandry.

Cold and rainy here today, 46 degrees and wet, again.  Oh, well, just an excuse to give this Hamm's stuff a shot. 

I think the culprit is from the NW  board.

[tmerton]

Spent yesterday working on our summer outing to BWCA/Quetico.  Can't wait.

Let's see - this week we have Ash Wednesday, NLOI Day, Waitangi Day and the start of the cabbage soup diet all on the 6th.  How much fun is that!?

As for the Souper Bowl, I'm rooting for the Giants but picking NE by 10.  I do not expect Eli to have another mistake free game.  Just can't happen.

Happy SB everyone.  Can't wait for the ads!

[Kilted Rat]

Glad to hear ya got some help out of the medical community before the government takes complete control of the healthcare system and ruins it completely!


Mark my words, if the US has Universal Healthcare, the number of applicants to medical school will drop substantially, the number of physicians will drop substantially and the quality of healthcare will plummet.

KR, I don't necessarily disagree with you on this, but what is the answer?  What system do we need, or what systematic changes do we need? 

Just as a point of reference, to understand how ignorant I am on this...in my simplistic and heartless insight into what's going on, it seems to me that too many people are being kept alive due to superior health care, well beyond their ability to pay for it on their own.

I don't know what the answer is, and I'm not going to pretend to! I just know that at the rate Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates are dropping (soon to go down another 10.1%) it will soon be not worth it for many docs to continue seeing medicare patients. Many docs already refuse to see medicare patients because they get often less than 25% of the money they would get from seeing a patient with private insurance. Why would anyone want to have a 30 minute visit with a 75yo who has diabetes, high blood pressure, and coronary artery disease and get reimbursed $30 by Medicare when they can see 2 younger persons with simple problems (i.e. pink eye or strep throat) and get paid $160?

Ideally, everyone goes into the medical field to help their fellow man (and woman), but 8 years of school after high school plus a minimum of 3 years of residency following that with an average debt of $300,000 makes is hard to be an idealist!

As far as why do other countries with socialized medicine have longer life expectancies, to assume it is strictly because of the quality of medical care is ridiculous, especially when you keep in mind that you are comparing the fattest nation in the world to countries here a large percentage of the population walks or bikes everywhere they go.

I'm thinking a $124mil bonus would screw up KR's personality. Let's make it a new set of tires for his car instead.

Sounds great to me! I'm in the so poor I buy tires 2 at a time and wait until they're on sale category!




I'm sorry for dragging this board into the politics of medical care. I learned last week that due to the combination of lowering reimbursements (primarily from Medicare) and sky high malpractice insurance ($500,000+), the number of Neurosurgeons has dropped from 4800 in 2000 to 2200 currently with a net attrition of 200 per year. Hope no one needs a brain tumor removed or a brain hemorrhage treated urgently!



I'm off to go watch the Super Bowl and see if the New England Cheatriots can beat the Giants and have a Perfect* Season. 

[Gray Fox]

Happy Super Bowl to everyone.  Went out and bought some...Hamm's.  Thought I'd give it another try.  Take or give the points....what a quandry.

Cold and rainy here today, 46 degrees and wet, again.  Oh, well, just an excuse to give this Hamm's stuff a shot. 

I think the culprit is from the NW  board.

I too, was not invited to a Super Bowl Party, but I plan on drowning my sorrows with some imported beer. 8)

If the smites are happening late at night, I would agree it could be from the NWC or SCIAC timezone.

In Dallas today we are in the 70's with no rain.

[57Johnnie]

Here in western Colorado we have blowing snow but not too cold. For TV this late afternoon and evening I have a choice of Death Wish 4 &5, Beverly Hillbillies, An American in Paris and a couple of Bridget Jones movies so I can easily avoid commercials with a little football thrown in or politics. I'm all set. 
I only wish they had some Tom & Jerry cartoons.

[tmerton]

For you gun guys.

[OzJohnnie]

Here in Oz it's a nice morning in the low 80's as we watch the SB.  Manning completes his first pass.