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Gov. Shumlin assures us that business will rush in to VT 'cause our single payer plan will be so much cheaper!Meanwhile, a law is being passed to allow illegal aliens to get a VT driver license.

Molinari,

In Vermont we're eschewing wasteful competition and handing over control to the smartest people in the room.

E.g., the VT giverment contracted with Dr. William Hsiao, the genius who gave Medicare the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, which was going to fix the Medicare system.   

Misthiocracy, why should we bother  with air ambulances when we can just call on 

DHART (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team).

We have much better health planning. Backwards New Hampshire instead has health resources!

Senik also claimed there was only one Ricochet member in Vermont. He forgot to count me!

B.Y.: I have an "expired" iPad version of NRO.  I successfully renewed Ricochet last night, but I can't log on to NRO on th aPP.  (I used my Ricochet credentials, since there's no way for NRO to know that my old NRO credentials were related to ricochet!)

Could you send us a link on how to do all of this, please?

Form follows finance.

We inherited a 3-year-old French Bulldog from our too-busy-to-really-give-him-a-good-time-in-Manhattan son.

He has only barked five times in my presence. (His funny-shaped snout goes with a poorly-developed larynx, making it dangerous for him to be around water bodies without a Doggie Flotation Device.)

He has totally charmed my wife with his cuddling and purring. (A cross-dressing cat?)

He seems to be less intelligent (or trainable) than the mongrel mutts we've had in the past. Is this idiocy caused by inbreeding, or is it merely Gallic intransigence?

As a native Hoosier stranded for 30 years in Vermont, I'd love to have Lugar as one of my senators.

However, I'm glad to see him gone from the Indiana delegation.

My late father once quoted M. Stanton Evans as saying that you could always count on Lugar to vote the right way, except when it really mattered!

As a retired pathologist, I agree with Doctor Bean about avoiding the consumption (and handling without gloves) of mammalian neural tissue.

I remember eating squirrel one time. It reminded me of chicken, except you had to avoid biting down on the lead shot remaining in the meat.  

So make sure you extract all of the lead from the meat to avoid both mental and dental damage!

Whatever!

COULD WE USE DRONES TO HELP AMBULANCE CREWS IN THE BOONIES?

How about using drones to provide communications for ambulances transporting seriously ill patients over spans which lack cellular communication?

I live two hours from the nearest cardiac catheterization lab, and weather here prevents medical helicopter flights several dozen days per year, particularly in the winter. During the two hour (or more in severe weather) ambulance ride, there are significant stretches where the ambulance loses contact with Medical Center expert help.

I've wondered if drones could act as communication relay repeaters circling overhead to provide communications-- including telemetry-- for transporting critically ill patients when weather precludes the use of choppers.

Kim Kardashian for President.  Now that's a campaign you can really get behind!

Please tell me that the punctuation error in the title of the Uncommon Knowledge podcast (viz., "Political Quotient's") was committed by an I.T. person rather than by one of the scholars!

James Lileks referred to Jimmy Carter as a nuclear scientist. I believe that it was Edward Teller (on a Firing Line episode with Bill Buckley) who made the point that Carter was a nuclear engineer, and that there were two types of engineers-- one type designs the machines and the other type runs the machines.