Did you know Rand Paul isn't a legitimately-certified doctor?
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I did not, until I spotted another item on the right-side margin while reading Salon.com.
My apologies if this has been posed before, 'cause it is a somewhat older story, but this is the first I have seen it. The fellow who traded his ophthalmology business for the U.S. Senate is not a legitimately board-certified ophthalmologist. The key certifications for practicing ophthalmologists come from the American Board of Ophthalmology and its regional and other subsidiaries. rand paul is not certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. He is certified by the National Board of Ophthalmology, which is not recognized by the American Board. The National Board of Ophthalmology was founded in 1999 - by none other than rand paul. There's a mere handful of other "doctors" who've received "certification" from this outfit since its founding - something like a whole seven of them.
http://www.salon.com/2010/06/14/rand_2/
If you've seen this before, please forgive me. You're way more observant than I. But seriously, I think we need to keep an eye on this guy. He's pretty calculating. Notice how he's laid low during this whole GOP defunding/defaulting shitshow and allowed ted "the ego" cruz to suck up all the oxygen - and take all the heat and the slings and the arrows. This is a wily one, and we need to keep our antenae fully up and scanning carefully around him. Don't trust him any farther than you can throw your house. And that's the conclusion of the Salon piece here - TRUST. Granted, this is a picky little detail. But it means much more on a much larger and more profound scale when you consider character, and the measure of the man. Critical when you consider he'll very likely offer himself as a GOP alternative to ted cruz in 2016. If he games the system to get a board certification, what would he do in a position of high national authority and responsibility?
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It's amazing - he certified himself - how's that for libertarian?
It's a metaphor. If he's cheating on this, where else is he cutting corners? If he's gaming the system here, where else is he doing it? And how badly? What fast one is he trying to pull today? It's indicative. An indicator. A signal. Evidence to underscore the basic measure of the man. It's revealing of the type of individual he is, his tendencies, his defaults if you will. It's instructive and indicative of the kind of things he's likely to do and ways he's likely to respond in the future. You want someone who bends the rules because he either can't or won't or maybe doesn't feel like he has to conform to those rules? That he thinks they don't apply to him? That he can selectively apply to his own life, practice, business, representation, whatever? And HE chooses? So for the state of Kentucky, HE chooses? With THAT attitude?
I certainly don't want a "representative" like that!!!! Where he decides what's good for me and my family and my community based on what HE finds convenient? With that scofflaw attitude? Our reps whom we elect to go into government (where there are these things called "laws" and "rules" and "regulations" and fully-vetted "standards" and "guidelines"
get into government and turn their noses up at those things, and decide they're just gonna do it their way and fuck the rest of you?
It's a small thing. So is caulking. Dumb little annoying detail. Who gives a flying F? Until your tiles start falling out of your bathroom walls because you didn't think you needed to bother with any. So is decent wiring. Big deal, just grab that old stuff over there with the cracks in the insulation and the bare copper showing. NUTHIN'S GUNNA HAPPEN... I don't wanna spend the money. Why should I have to go to the trouble of going out and buying new? This'll be good enough! Until something DOES happen, and the resulting fire that got started burns the whole frickin' house down.