Update: as of 10/12 the news is looking better. The HIV meds I’m buying on the black market are working and my viral load is coming back down. I’ve got a bit of a road ahead to get back to where I was before I ran out of money, but at least now the trend is heading the other way.
This fight over health care reform has left me shaking my head in consternation. I’m astonished that the people who are screaming socialism the loudest don’t seem to realize the irony in their objections.
If this reform doesn’t go through and these pills I’m buying off the black market turn out to be fake, my life expectancy is 18 to 20 months. I live in the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth, and yet I have to go to India to by medication to save my own life.
I’m not asking for a hand out. I’m asking for a life line, a chance to save myself. They would rather stand and watch me drown just to prove theirs is the right argument.
I’ve already buried friends who died for no other reason than they could not get insurance. I just never thought I’d be counting myself among them.
Pet Peeves of my own…so in a way I’m obsessing over something here but I believe it is very real.
Ut oh, It’s a Randy Rant!
Beware… I let loose with a VENT in this post. Someone get matches, I vented and its a stinker!
Christianity is under attack by Gays
The US is going to hell in a hand basket.
Why people should on me…a personal note to those who are trying to help…please don’t.
I’m a huge fan of Snopes and waste too much time replying to false emails and hoaxes sent to me by friends and family. Consider this a PSA
A note from Snopes.com
Snopes is the service that validate rumors etc on the web. Whether they are true or not.
To whom it all concerns:
Just a word to the wise. E-mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other municipality.
To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address.
Same with “prayer chains” — be wary!
Almost all e-mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards.
All it was, and all this type of e-mail is, is to get names and “cookie” tracking info for telemarketers and spammers to validate active e-mail accounts for their own purposes.
Any time you see an e-mail that says forward this on to “10″ of your friends, sign this petition, or you’ll get good luck, or what ever, it has either an e-mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and e-mails of those folks you forward to, the host sender is getting a copy. Each time it gets forwarded, then it’s able to get lists of “active” e-mails to use in spam e-mails, or sell to others that do.
Please forward this notice to others and you will be providing a good service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting 30,000 spam e-mails in the future.
(If you have been sending out the above kinds of email, now you know why you get so much spam!)
Check it out: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm