Poor, brutalised Britain

<p>A new talking smoke detector, embedded in the flowerbeds, that harasses patients (legally) smoking in the garden of a psychiatric institution, warns them that they have been automatically reported. That is the topic that kicks off this article.</p>

Docs champion car smoking ban

<p>Predictably, Canadian physicians &lsquo;are calling for a country-wide ban on smoking in all vehicles carrying children, including private cars, to protect young lungs from the dangers of second-hand smoke.&rsquo;</p>

Hillary endorses national smoking ban

<p>The worst characteristics of the &quot;baby boom&quot; generation are embodied in Hillary Clinton.&nbsp; Self-righteous moral preening?&nbsp; You betcha.&nbsp; Rigid adherence to the dictates of &quot;experts?&quot;&nbsp; In spades.</p>

Canuck movie smoking ban campaign started?

<p>Canadians have been polled about whether or not they would support a ban of smoking in movies and 52 per cent said they would not. What&rsquo;s far more interesting than the poll results is what <em style="">isn&rsquo;t </em>said in the story; what apparently never crosses the Globe and Mail reporter&rsquo;s mind to ask.</p>

Focus on Canada Part III

<p>The unfortunate Canadian nation is continuing its march of repression, oppression, total control and fundamental moral inversion. Here are the latest examples – and warnings to other countries. Part 3 of 3.</p>

A ridiculous statement

<p>The hyperbole that forms today’s discourse is so over the top that most people don’t hear it.&nbsp; This obvliousness is a wise tactic since what is coming out of supposedly knowledgeable people is so absurd that ignorance is preferable.&nbsp; Dr. Elio F. Gagliano is still listening and although he, like everyone else is appalled at the baseless hysteria, is still willing to put the rhetoric under a microspope.</p>

It’s long overdue

<p><em>In a move intended to cut Medicare costs, improve billing accuracy, and prompt hospitals to improve the quality of patient care, payments for &quot;secondary&quot; diagnoses will end in October 2008. The new rule will cover eight hospital-caused conditions.&nbsp;<br />
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Perhaps this is long overdue: making the medical industry pay for its own mistakes.&nbsp; Medical error is the #1 cause of preventable deaths in America, as tax payers we should not be asked to foot the bill for their preventable errors.</p>

Focus on Canada Part II

<p>The unfortunate Canadian nation is continuing its march of repression, oppression, total control and fundamental moral inversion. Here are the latest examples – and warnings to other countries. Part 2 of 3.</p>