On the eve of dad’s day, daughter leaves home for her post graduate medicine study. So, ….
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Happy Father’s Day, Folks
(yeah, yeah, that includes moms too / sheesh)
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Good morning amk and happy Father’s Day to you and all todders!
GM and thank you, vetivera. You’re up early!
Never went to bed. I work night shift in MAT/OBS. No new dads overnight.
Thank God for that ? 🙂
A doctor, huh?
Mine is pulling an all-nighter today.
No RN. Neonates are my specialty. Congrats on your daughter though. Medicine is richer for the contribution of women.
Thanks vetivera. Medicine field is richer by all women. EOS.
My goddaughter is a surgeon, with a year left on her residency. We’ve had very interesting discussions of the state of American health care. She says that most of the developed nations (and some Third World) pay for all medical training. It varies from country to country of course, but there is always a component of a period of time you ‘serve’ where you’re needed.
Her point: if young American doctors weren’t saddled with crippling debt, many more talented young people would choose to become doctors, particularly women. And if the crippling costs of a medical education were effectively eliminated, doctors would choose what the LOVE to do, rather than what they have to do to pay off their loans and make their ‘investment’ worthwhile. Read: less dermatologists and more doctors in rural areas and better general practitioners.
Her assertions were confirmed. I remember reading about a study about 5 years ago about the choices women make in the medical field. It was not about apples-to-apples: a female cardiac surgeon compared to a male cardiac surgeon, for example. The study said yes – women doctors make less than male doctors. But it was because, if given the opportunity to make a choice, women chose to work in low income clinics, charity medical work like Doctors Without Borders, family medicine. They were willing to serve their community through medicine, rather than just make money. That is, if they could afford to make those choices.
This.
There used to be a program where the government would reduce your debt for every year you spent serving in an underserved community. It’s one way they got doctors onto Indian reservations. I don’t know how many took advantage of it, though.
The scholarship program was renewed in the ACA bill. For four years service in an undeserved community you get tuition and a stipend for four years of medical school. I had a National Health Service scholarship and served 4 years at a Bureau of Prisons facility. Indian Health Service also counts.
Thanks, I thought so. One of my favorite shows, Northern Exposure, was based on it. I wonder how many eligible people take advantage of it.
Very thoughtful commentary. I do agree that medicine should be available for those with the aptitude and desire and the training should not be crippling. Over the years I have seen committed MD’s in both genders, but I am not in the US system so I don’t know what motivates. I believe many, male and female start out with the desire to serve but overwhelming debt does drive a different agenda. Congrats for your daughter. You must be filled with pride for her achievements.
Happy Father’s Day AMK!!
Thank you, gb. Hope you are doing well.
I’m good. doing just fine.
You going out today? Is your son home?
Great. Nah, son is having semester exams next week and hence is staying put in the hostel. Mebbe wifey and me will cook up something.
Cool.
Happy Father’s Day to amk and all the TOD dads! Take a bow – you deserve this special day!
Thank you, CTGirl.
“Take a bow” – It’s a trick, isn’t it ?
Come on dad, you deserve it (along with the wifey, of course!) 🙂
🙂
LOL! I think my Dad lives by that one for sure! 😀
That was definitely the case in my parent’s home.
Good Morning TOD Early Birds!
Happy Father’s Day Amk!!! I wondered when you would be doing another post. Thanks!
Enjoyed the Father’s Day toons and pic of the Dad-in-Chief.
Hope you fathers get the same appreciation and special treatment mothers get on their day. 😉
Thank you, swb. Yes, the past few weeks have been hectic in amk household. And other bt’s have been doing a wonderful job.
Good morning and Happy Father’s Day.
Dee Dee Bridgewater – Song For My Father
Luther Vandross – Dance With My Father
Happy Fathers Day to all. Thanks amk for the toons! Congrats on first Vitivera. 🙂
GM CM. The toons were rustled up in a hurry.
They were funny, that’s what counts. 🙂
🙂
But didn’t you read the ‘statistics’ put out in OH by their RWNJ Lt. Gov, who is in charge of insurance in the state?
Rates will got up 88%!!!! screamed the headlines.
Later on, Edison worked with JP Morgan and was hell bent on DC power only.
And he invented the electric chair. 😦
My research for work has led me to a little background on Edison. He was a son of a bitch when it came to business, screwing a lot of inventors including Tesla. He made a verbal agreement with Tesla for some important invention (I admit I forget which) to pay him $50,000 when it was finished. When Tesla tried to collect Edison told him, “You don’t understand American humor”. He did this sort of thing throughout his career.
This does not detract from his obvious genius and one of the great quotes of all time: “Invention is 10% iinspiration and 90% perspiration”.
But a ruthless son of a bitch nonetheless.
Good one!
Now Al gore is pressing the President on carbon rules calls Keystone an atrocity . Yesterday, it was Sanders who said the same thing.
Well Al, you’ve gone all in on criticizing the Prrsident trying to undermine his authority with all these statements everyday.
But, if Hillary wins, if…, will you do the same to Her?
And God forbid, if Christie wins, will you slam him every day, as well?
Check this out? In minutes, Senators chambliss, Rubio, Udall,and dick Cheney on the Sunday shows,
Wow!
That’s getting both sides of the story?
Oh I left out Rep Bobby Scott? Who is he?
Jovie,
They don’t want anyone on who might confuse them with facts.
“….. they matched him a with a recliner and a TV” 😆 😆 😆
Mooooooorning Amk, mooooooorning everyone! Love the toons Amk, what a highly delightful post to wake up to! Thank you kindly Sir – and a happy father’s day to ya!
UT will be your R&S host this morning while I fail to get any work done.
By the way, you know my dying hard drive? It just burped. Seriously 😕
Take a look at this chips
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/305777-gop-to-constituents-questions-on-obamacare-call-obama
Just what are we paying the GOP members of congress for?
Gawd, they’re vile people.
“Given that we come from Kansas, it’s much easier to say, ‘Call your former governor,'” said Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R), referring to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “You say, ‘She’s the one. She’s responsible. She was your governor, elected twice, and now you reelected the president, but he picked her.'” Huelskamp said.
You’re right Jovie, what on earth are these creatures being paid for???
We have to educate people on Obamacare help them out in October.
Exactly Jovie, it’s depressing how ignorant people STILL are about it
The Repubs can feed this BS to their low information voters. I wish that the Administration would have a booklet printed and sent to every household explaining the benefits of Obamacare,. But, will low information voters read it? No, they won’t because they like to cut of their nose to spite their face….pathetic.
The only way some will wake up to the facts is when they see friends, family, and neighbors reaping the benefits. They won’t believe anything except their own poisoned sources of information.
Hopefully the Dems will be on the ball enough to campaign on the fact that the #GOPs in question didn’t have answers and couldn’t be bothered to get them so people should vote for those (Dems) who knew how to answer credibly. 🙄
Morning and thank you, chips.
You’re not supposed to ‘burn’ hard drives.
Ooooooh, I’m coming VERY close to doing just that! But! I think everything is saved now on to a couple external drives, was trying to treble-save a few things to be sure, to be sure, but the burp suggests that might not be possible.
Overwork firefox, overwork the ‘puter.
wimmin/smh
A little bit of work and the hard drive expires. As I suspected, my computer’s a boy. 🙄
Supporting evidence, CC? 😉 😉
COMPUTERS – A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.
‘House’ for instance, is feminine: ‘la casa.’
‘Pencil,’ however, is masculine: ‘el lapiz.’
A student asked, ‘What gender is ‘computer’?’
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether they thought ‘computer’ should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.
The men’s group decided that ‘computer’ should definitely be of the feminine gender (‘la computadora’), because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
2 The native language they use to communicate with other computers is (THIS GETS BETTER!) incomprehensible to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
The women’s group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine (‘el computador’), because:
1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
2. They have a lot of data but still can’t think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.
THE WOMEN WON!
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::cough:: ::cough:: 🙄 Naturally.
And that is a DADDY!
Happy Father’s Day to all Obama supporters who are Daddys…..Remember, there is a difference between a Father and a Daddy… A.Father is a biological state and a Daddy is a state of love……..Off to clean up all the giblets of sticks, leaves, and trash left by the storm Thursday that left me offline for days…..
Glad to see you back, kathryn!
The Sunday show this week has Jeb Bush as the Father’s Day Sunday spotlight!
Holy smoke!
Happy Father’s Day to our President and Vice President. And to all the other wonderful fathers out there. Happy Father’s Day to.Thank you, Bless you.
😆
Ha Ha Ha. See the government is good for something. 🙂
Good news- Rubio says that this President has bungled the Syria situation and then was asked what would he do.
He says, he would identify the rebels on the ground, make sure they’re not Al Qaeda, support them. Then he says, in so doing hopefully This will lead to Assad being over thrown. Then he says, that the friendly forces can then take over.
It’s that easy!
And most if not all, is what this President is already doing.
Lol!
The fact that Rubio was even asked WHAT ‘HE’ WOULD DO is remarkable.
Who ask him? The ones who is just as stupid as these Republicans. The media.
Setting him up to look presidential. They have a long, hard road ahead on that one.
Jovie, people like Rubio are stupid jackasses, they are trying to please their stupid racists “I Hate Obama” base. They never have a positive word to say about this President.
Gooood Morning everyone…..
Great toons and congrats to you …AMK….wishing you and all the TOD DADS a wonderful and heartfelt Father’s Day!
my granddaughter and my son-in law went to a daddy/daughter dance last night….it was so sweet…he was smiling from ear to ear and she was beaming….proud…and so was I..smilin
The Strength of a Father cannot be understated….Patches!! .
Thanks pf. Great to know your granddaughter had a great time,
Happy Sunday everyone,
Amk, thanks for the toons…what a fun way to start the day! Happy Father’s Day to all of the TOD Dads and, of course, our Father-In-Chief.
Amk, although you’re spending Father’s Day w/o your daughter present, I think she has given you one of the greatest gift a child can give a parent and that is to make you proud.
I am posting a song dedicated to the Dads (posting it through Twitter since I don’t know how to post on a blog).
she has given you one of the greatest gift a child can give a parent and that is to make you proud.
So true. Thanks, WilTal.
Good morning and Happy Father’s Day to all the wonderful dads out there! amk…GREAT R/S this morning:) Put a smile on my face from the start…thank you for this treat!
Thanks df. Glad to see your million dollar smile. 😀
Oi! Why does DF get a greeting like that and I get a photo of a hard drive on fire?
Link?
Show me the money first.
Still a buck short.
Greedy.
wrong animal.
LOL. That;s me alright.
HA! amk is easy, but he’s not cheap! Morning, Chips:)
🙂
😆 😆 God, that was fast! 😆 😆 😆
:):) I just saw this…was smooching on the father….
Great toons amk! Happy Father’s Day Everyone! 🙂
That’s beautiful Dudette!!!!
Thank you dear! 🙂
Are you in the pic, Dudette?
I am indeed! 🙂
It’s just a gorgeous happy photo Dudette, thank you for sharing!!!
Thanks! We’re in Okinawa running around in a field on a sunny day. Mom took the picture. I actually remember that day.
Sweet! Really sweet. Thanks for sharing that beautiful moment with us.
Hi Dudette,
Looks like we have a sun-shinny day on tap in the Atlanta metro area.
This is simply lovely!
Yep, I’m so glad. I’m planning to go enjoy some of it with Dad later this afternoon. 🙂
Like!
🙂
Just Lovely Dudette….. 😎
Beautiful, Dudette! Which one of those lively girls is you?
Wonderful NYTimes editorial on Obamacare. Timothy Egan—titled:Million Anecdote Baby.
Except for the requisite schadenfreude swipe at POTUS——passive presidency—— this article tells the truth about 30 Million+ happy new Americans.
This article is directly below bitter hag’s latest screed and huge photo of The Clintons.
NYTimes is no better than Fox news. Polite propaganda .
Still, the Egan piece gets it exactly right and I hope someone at TOD with skills can list it for all of us to savor.
That’s it, thank you 57and female
Not a father. Not sure if I’d ever want a kid too much work and mess. Yet I respect the fathers that do have kids such as president Obama.
🙂 Well…then you can thank/encourage a dad today!
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/06/16/rise-and-shine-happy-fathers-day/
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/06/14/2162911/fathers-who-care-for-their-children-are-penalized-at-work/
We spend too much time talking about wanting equality/ fairness…talk about the importance of family, but seems like we have a long way to go
America does not have their priorities right. Penalize working moms and dads, penalize women who don’t have children, sports over education, all for more profits.
the toons are hilarious
Thanks rikyrah. Glad you liked them.