jacknife's Blog

It will never happen and maybe it should not happen.

Consider if you will an agreement between Haiti and the US and each of the fifty states that the US etc finance the building of prisons in Haiti. The work would be done by Haiti labor. In return Haiti would accept, confine, and feed prisoners of the US etc. In as much as our "Prisons" are considered places of rehabilition only those prisoners that could be rehabilated would remain in the US. All others would be sent to Haiti to be confined by them in prisons built under the above agreement. The cost of feeding, providing guards etc. would be paid by the US.

This will provide work for Haitians and remove a criminal element from our land. These prisoners would be returned to the US on compleation of their sentence.

When I watch the news each morning I see there is more people being killed in St. Louis than in Irac. Today a group invaded an Applebes while no one was killed that will be the next step.

Many will disagree with me and I am not sure this would pass the constitution but something has to be done.

I am in favor of photo ID. I think it would be especially useful in preventing voter fraud. Forty years ago when license fee offices charged forty cents and state charges covered the cost the state had to pay it would have worked. Today the cost is much higher and many will chose to trade their right to vote for a gallon of gas. License offices have adequate personnel for the work they do now. Even then we stand in line for long periods.

Recently I volunteered for the MOCHIPS program where a child is photographed, fingered printed, and a description typed all on a computer. The information is transferred to a small CD and given to the parents. As a side note none of the information is kept by the MOCHIP program.

I propose the same type of program but with the information stored on a card similar to a credit card. The equipment would be expensive but there are many organizations that could volunteer workers.

From time to time Channel 2 features Doctor Kandula. She is a dermatologist and I feel she is very good. I have known Dr. Kandula as a patient since she started practicing medicine in the St Louis area. I remember when she had her first child.

She has always impressed how important it is to watch for cancer of the skin. This stems from a former patient who waited too long and when the woman did come to see her it was too late. The woman died and Dr Kandula has always felt bad that she could not do anything.

Unfortunately Dr. Kandula has gone the way of many doctors today. She will no longer see anyone on social security. Some doctors will continue to see individuals who were their patients before becoming eligible for Social Security, some draw the line at 65.

Doctor Kandula is one of the latter. Through no fault of mine I am now seeing a different dermatologist.