Here’s a small, insignificant item about Greenbats twisting Australian law in order to get the mayor to rip up 12-year-old Cherry Trees along the Cherry Tree Walkway in Memory of Australian Vietnam Veterans.

http://www.hinet.net.au/~ozgrunt/platoon.html

1/ Read a bit (Its there, on that ONE PAGE, but there is more if you’re interested)

2/ Email the Mayor to express outrage; urge separate land for the Greenbats

3/ Forward the link to friends, QUICKLY!

We only have until the 17th to keep the Cherry Trees from being uprooted to spite Aussie veterans and demean Australia. This is the Bowral Vietnam Memorial Walk. Let’s get busy online for these Aussie vets who fought alongside America in Vietnam!

(Website is home to Tony ‘Oink’ Blake)

Medical Competition Works for Patients

By John Stossel
Health-care costs overall have been rising faster than inflation, but not all medical costs are skyrocketing. In a few pockets of medicine, costs are down while quality is up…

He has to compete for his patients’ business. One result of that is lower prices. And while the procedure got cheaper, it also got better. Today’s lasers are faster and more precise.

Prices have fallen and quality has risen in other medical fields where most people pay for care themselves, like cosmetic surgery. Consumer power works — even in medicine.

A little history lesson.  If you don’t know the answer make your best guess.
Answer all the questions before looking at the answers.

Who said it?

1) “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

A.  Karl Marx
B.  Adolph Hitler
C.  Joseph Stalin
D.  None of the above

2) “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the
few, and for the few…… And to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.”

A.  Lenin
B.  Mussolini
C.  Idi Amin
D.  None of the Above

3) “(We) …can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something
has to be taken away from some people.”

A.  Nikita Khrushev
B.  Josef Goebbels
C.  Boris Yeltsin
D.  None of the above

4) “We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up
a little bit of their own … in order to create this common ground.”

A.  Mao Tse Dung
B.  Hugo Chavez
C.  Kim Jong Il
D.  None of the above

5) “I certainly think the free-market has failed.”

A.  Karl Marx
B.  Lenin
C.  Molotov
D.  None of the above

6) “I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the most
profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched.”

A.  Pinochet
B.  Milosevic
C.  Saddam Hussein
D.  None of the above

Go here to see the answers.