Sunday Picks Part Deux:

Who do you think will win the Super Bowl?

Please answer the POLL!!! 

Me personally??  Hard to bet against 18 Blue.

Colts win, give the points (+5) and take the over (56).

Sorry, as much as I would like to see the Saints win, I don't see Indy making major turnovers.  Without those, New Orleans cannot match up defensively.

 

GEAUX Saints!

That being said, i expect the colts to win.  I agree --i cant imagine that they'll be making a lot of turnovers.....

I want the Saints to win, but I am too old  and cynical to think  they will.    I answered in  the poll that the Colts will win.

Yes, Virginia  there is a Santa Claus!!  I am still old and cynical, but very happy for the Saints.

Go Saints!   That game was awesome!

I am happy to say, it wasn't the most talented team that won, it was the team with the most heart.  I was rooting for N'Orleans and they put on a great show.  I always love when the underdog wins !

I am very happy for the people in New Orleans. I'm not sure if the team (Saints) bring much money to the city, but it is certainly a psychological lift for the people there.

I have visited New Orleans twice, to attend and speak in the New Cardiovascular Horizon meetings. The downtown looked okay, but once I stepped out and took a ride on the freeway... all I could see was completely devastated houses with blue tarps on the roof, with deserted strip malls here and there. 

I am all up for supporting the disaster-stricken people in Haiti, but I wonder if we have collectively forgotten the people in New Orleans and the surrounding area. I have a moral dilemma when I see the US Air force airlifting the critically injured Haitians to care for them for free... in the meantime, what we have done for the people in New Orleans?

Just my 2 cents. 

I was in New Orleans last week for the Alliance for CME (the industry association for CME) meeting, and I heard the same feelings expressed by the locals. That Haitian aide from the US, and it was plentiful, should go to them.  New Orleans got some great morale help by the efforts of the Saints last night...and that's a feel good story that I was glad to be a part of.  I've gotta say, however, that just as I agree with T.R. Ried In "The Healing of America" that we must have unemotional policy decisions made about providing covered heroic health interventions past a certain age, I think we should make an assessment as to what New Orleans costs to protect as a place to live, and decide weather we, as a country, should do the engineering to keep it safe, or decide we need to spend the money on something else, like healthcare.  The local municipalities can and will make their own decisions...but just reacting to tragedies as a sole strategy doesn't make sense to me.

By the way, I've recommended T.R. Ried's "The Healing of America" to many people now, in blogs and in real life, and it's changing everyone's mind in some way.  Thanks for recommending it, here at PRESENT Podiatry.

Alan Sherman, DPM, CCMEP
CEO, PRESENT e-Learning Systems

Alan,

You are quite welcome. "The Healing of America" is definitely one of the best books I read last year. It is an eye-opening book, whether you are in the medical field or not.

Right now, I'm reading "This Time is Different; Eight Centuries of Financial Folly" by Reinhart and Rogoff. It's a historical overview of how we make the same mistake again and again over the last eight centuries, saying "This time is different" when we face financial crisis. My fear is that, we ARE in the Great Depression 2.0, and we just don't know it yet.

Maybe we will start a PRESENT book club later...

Sorry to hijack your thread, Eric. Congrats to all the Saints fans and the people in New Orleans!    

Kazu,

Its ok.  I have to eat some crow anyways, as I was betting on Indy. 

Congrats to New Orleans, they were definitely the better team Sunday night and played like true champions.

To put up 25 points against a team that hadn't allowed any points in the 2nd half of their previous playoff games, not only is impressive, but those that legends are made.

Again, congrats to New Orleans and to the people of New Orleans....so my only other reponse is.......


WHO DAT??