Obama said in his infomercial: "Just because I want to spread the wealth around, they call me a socialist. The next thing you know, they will call me a communist because I shared my peanut butter sandwich in kindergarten!"
It's fine if you want to share YOUR sandwich, Senator Government, but when you insist that I share mine, that's Socialism!!!
And taking anything from someone and giving it to someone to whom it doesn't belong is STEALING!!! I really don't give a shit about your motivations. I earned it; it's mine. You have no right to it!!
So, not only are you a Socialist, but you are a THIEF as well!!!
According to my SO, the CPA, when ther Dhimmocrats let the Bush tax cuts expire, as they have said they will, the income for the 25% tax bracked returns to $42,000. Right now, the tax rate is 15%. Now, that's a 10% tax INCREASE anyway you cut it!! My taxes are going to go up by thousands of dollars!!
Just remember, "Evil Rich" starts at $42,000 per year income.
$42K. Yeah. That's real wealth!!
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Doctors!
I have a new physical problem.
It’s actually been building up for years. My right shoulder has gotten more and more painful over the past year or so. It’s ached with use or extension for years but in the past year, I’ve been almost unable to use my right arm. It hurts just typing this!
So, I went to an orthopedist. Since I cannot have an MRI due to my cardiac implant, having a torn rotator cuff is difficult to get a definitive diagnosis on. He wants to stick needles in there and see what happens.
Now, I ask you, is this any way to run a popsicle stand?!? You’re suggesting that I let you jam a steel spike into an already painful portion of my body just to see what you find?? And you can’t understand why I have a problem with that??
What are you, nuts?
I’m of the opinion that most doctors have forgotten what it’s like to be at the mercy of people who have none. Most people don’t like needles. Me, I’m terrified of them.
Now, imagine this. You’ve got a health problem. You go to the doctor for it. He suggests a therapy. That therapy happens to be the thing you are most afraid of in this life. Say you’re afraid of heights. So afraid you can’t ride in an elevator because you know you’re standing over a 10-storey hole while doing so. So, said doctor says the first recommended therapy for your problem is to go sky-diving. Or jump off a very tall building, complete with parachute. And won’t consider or discuss any other therapies. What do you do?
Find another doctor!! There has to be another way to treat this condition that does not involve needle torture!!
And, yes, I went to Physical Therapy. That made it hurt worse. Much worse. Totally incapacitated me with pain. So, I don’t think that’s the answer either.
I’ve got a referral to another doctor. Guess I’ll see what he has to say…
UPDATE:
I went to a different orthopod. He diagnosed my should as "frozen". No tears, nothing broken. I'm not sure how using my right arm more made my shoulder freeze up but he seems to be correct. I've gone to a different physical therapist, someone who is interested in actually doing their jobs and helping people, and they've pointed out that if I had really torn my rotator cuff, I wouldn't be able to hold my arm up at all, which I still can do. So, now I got and "get bent" twice a week and it's really helping. Those prissy girls at the other PT place were all wrong!
It’s actually been building up for years. My right shoulder has gotten more and more painful over the past year or so. It’s ached with use or extension for years but in the past year, I’ve been almost unable to use my right arm. It hurts just typing this!
So, I went to an orthopedist. Since I cannot have an MRI due to my cardiac implant, having a torn rotator cuff is difficult to get a definitive diagnosis on. He wants to stick needles in there and see what happens.
Now, I ask you, is this any way to run a popsicle stand?!? You’re suggesting that I let you jam a steel spike into an already painful portion of my body just to see what you find?? And you can’t understand why I have a problem with that??
What are you, nuts?
I’m of the opinion that most doctors have forgotten what it’s like to be at the mercy of people who have none. Most people don’t like needles. Me, I’m terrified of them.
Now, imagine this. You’ve got a health problem. You go to the doctor for it. He suggests a therapy. That therapy happens to be the thing you are most afraid of in this life. Say you’re afraid of heights. So afraid you can’t ride in an elevator because you know you’re standing over a 10-storey hole while doing so. So, said doctor says the first recommended therapy for your problem is to go sky-diving. Or jump off a very tall building, complete with parachute. And won’t consider or discuss any other therapies. What do you do?
Find another doctor!! There has to be another way to treat this condition that does not involve needle torture!!
And, yes, I went to Physical Therapy. That made it hurt worse. Much worse. Totally incapacitated me with pain. So, I don’t think that’s the answer either.
I’ve got a referral to another doctor. Guess I’ll see what he has to say…
UPDATE:
I went to a different orthopod. He diagnosed my should as "frozen". No tears, nothing broken. I'm not sure how using my right arm more made my shoulder freeze up but he seems to be correct. I've gone to a different physical therapist, someone who is interested in actually doing their jobs and helping people, and they've pointed out that if I had really torn my rotator cuff, I wouldn't be able to hold my arm up at all, which I still can do. So, now I got and "get bent" twice a week and it's really helping. Those prissy girls at the other PT place were all wrong!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Obama's Logo
James Madison reported Benjamin Franklin saying, "I have often looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now I... know that it is a rising...sun."
I’ve been thinking about Obama’s logo, the one you see everywhere:
That looks more like a setting sun to me.
The fools elect this clown, I fear for my country.
The sun is going to set on America.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
MSM takedown
Orson Scott Card is one of my favorite authors. Today, he has out-shown his previous writings.
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2008-10-05-1.html
FYI, he's a Democrat, too.
Check it out!!
I wish i could write like that!!
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2008-10-05-1.html
FYI, he's a Democrat, too.
Check it out!!
I wish i could write like that!!
The Case Against Obambi
If you haven't seen this yet, go. Read. Watch the videos.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/21/the-comprehensive-argument-against-barack-obama/
Send the link to everyone you know who is even remotely considering voting for Obambi.
Guy Benson, Mary Katharine Ham the Great, and Captain Ed do a fabulous job of putting the whole case together. Anyone who, after reading this, still votes for the guy is truly an idiot.
Oh, and the newest piece of Liberal idiocy (but I repeat myself!) is that Socialist = Black. All those codewords, don't ya know.
Somehow, I think Hitler would be surprised to find himself considered Black. As would Stalin, Lenin and Mao!!
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/21/the-comprehensive-argument-against-barack-obama/
Send the link to everyone you know who is even remotely considering voting for Obambi.
Guy Benson, Mary Katharine Ham the Great, and Captain Ed do a fabulous job of putting the whole case together. Anyone who, after reading this, still votes for the guy is truly an idiot.
Oh, and the newest piece of Liberal idiocy (but I repeat myself!) is that Socialist = Black. All those codewords, don't ya know.
Somehow, I think Hitler would be surprised to find himself considered Black. As would Stalin, Lenin and Mao!!
Barack and Marx
No real post as yet today. I've been working!!
But I did find somethig to swipe from www.imho.us, one of my favorite websites:
I'm not sure where they got it.
But I did find somethig to swipe from www.imho.us, one of my favorite websites:
I'm not sure where they got it.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Joe Biden
Just which candidate is this guy supporting anyway?
I knew Biden would be a lot of fun but I didn’t expect him to make our point for us in such a bald-faced way!!
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
And not only is he going to cause a world-wide crisis, he’s going to mishandle it as well!
"Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?’ We’re gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years."
But keep following blindly!!
“And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you - not financially to help him - we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.” *
Are we sure this guy isn’t on the McCain payroll??
What do various bloggers call him? Oh, yeah…
Gaff-o-matic.
Absolutely priceless!!
No wonder Obambi has the endorsement of every tin-pot (and otherwise!) dictator on the planet. They think he’s going to be a push-over. They know he won’t have the balls to give them a muscular response. They see how he responded to the Russian invasion of Georgia and know he won’t make the correct response. He’s going to want to talk it over, first. That will give them plenty of time for making mischief and consolidate any gains. I wonder if Russia will even wait for him to be inaugurated before they invade their next target??
He’s so inexperienced that even his running mate thinks he is going to screw up his response to the test!
And don’t forget the Islamic terrorists. They are still out there. It’s been calm for a while because they knew that if they misbehaved, Uncle Sam would spank. Obambi will make sure those spankings are never administered. He’ll want to lecture and put them in “time-out” instead. That doesn’t work with violent children and it won’t work with violent terrorists.
Of course, most Dhimmicrats don’t believe that we’re in any danger from Islamic Radicals. Their willingness to blow themselves up if they can take a few of us with them is all our fault. It’s not their repressive, violent religion or anything, right? It’s our fault their governments keep them in poverty in spite of the billions and billions of Petro Dollars they get from the West. What we need it more foreign aide!!
One person who has gone into hiding is Joe Biden. He’s no where to be found. Gee, ya think somebody noticed what an idiot he is?? :-)
*Quotes swiped from Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.
I knew Biden would be a lot of fun but I didn’t expect him to make our point for us in such a bald-faced way!!
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
And not only is he going to cause a world-wide crisis, he’s going to mishandle it as well!
"Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?’ We’re gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years."
But keep following blindly!!
“And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you - not financially to help him - we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.” *
Are we sure this guy isn’t on the McCain payroll??
What do various bloggers call him? Oh, yeah…
Gaff-o-matic.
Absolutely priceless!!
No wonder Obambi has the endorsement of every tin-pot (and otherwise!) dictator on the planet. They think he’s going to be a push-over. They know he won’t have the balls to give them a muscular response. They see how he responded to the Russian invasion of Georgia and know he won’t make the correct response. He’s going to want to talk it over, first. That will give them plenty of time for making mischief and consolidate any gains. I wonder if Russia will even wait for him to be inaugurated before they invade their next target??
He’s so inexperienced that even his running mate thinks he is going to screw up his response to the test!
And don’t forget the Islamic terrorists. They are still out there. It’s been calm for a while because they knew that if they misbehaved, Uncle Sam would spank. Obambi will make sure those spankings are never administered. He’ll want to lecture and put them in “time-out” instead. That doesn’t work with violent children and it won’t work with violent terrorists.
Of course, most Dhimmicrats don’t believe that we’re in any danger from Islamic Radicals. Their willingness to blow themselves up if they can take a few of us with them is all our fault. It’s not their repressive, violent religion or anything, right? It’s our fault their governments keep them in poverty in spite of the billions and billions of Petro Dollars they get from the West. What we need it more foreign aide!!
One person who has gone into hiding is Joe Biden. He’s no where to be found. Gee, ya think somebody noticed what an idiot he is?? :-)
*Quotes swiped from Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Poor Joe!!
He has dared to question the Messiah and for his temerity in doing so, he is being vilified and his entire private life is being dragged thought mud by the Dinosaur Media.
How dare he think he could get away with such a thing?? Doesn’t he know that you don’t question The One?
All sarcasm aside, what it wrong with the press in this country? This guy isn’t running for office. He’s a private citizen who asked a question of a politician. And got an honest answer. One that Obambi’s acolytes in the Media don’t like. So, instead of actually addressing the issues raised by their own candidate, they go after the regular guy who asked the question.
This is what our presidential politics has descended to in this country? Smearing average citizens when a candidate makes a gaff??
“He made me say that!” “That’s not what I meant!”
Not that Obambi has tried to ameliorate the statement. It still stands there, a blatant statement of socialism and Marxism, with no explanations or excuses.
Apparently, he means to do what he said.
Any one who hopes to do well and votes for this guy is the worst sort of fool.
How dare he think he could get away with such a thing?? Doesn’t he know that you don’t question The One?
All sarcasm aside, what it wrong with the press in this country? This guy isn’t running for office. He’s a private citizen who asked a question of a politician. And got an honest answer. One that Obambi’s acolytes in the Media don’t like. So, instead of actually addressing the issues raised by their own candidate, they go after the regular guy who asked the question.
This is what our presidential politics has descended to in this country? Smearing average citizens when a candidate makes a gaff??
“He made me say that!” “That’s not what I meant!”
Not that Obambi has tried to ameliorate the statement. It still stands there, a blatant statement of socialism and Marxism, with no explanations or excuses.
Apparently, he means to do what he said.
Any one who hopes to do well and votes for this guy is the worst sort of fool.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Obama’s Tax Plans
Imagine you are a realtor. I was one at one point in my life.
In Ohio, realtors earn 3% on each sale. It they’re smart and not splitting it with some realty company, that means that they have to make only 2.7 sales of $250,000 houses (not hard to do in the Cleveland area) to make in excess of $250,000.
Think a hard working realtor could average just under 3 sales a month? You betcha!!
So, the next time you hear Obambi going on about how only “rich” people will have a tax increase, think of your aunt the realtor. Or that friend of your mothers.
They are who he is talking about!!!
Realtors work 24/7, which is why I am not one any more. My kids were little and I was a single parent. I needed to be there with them, not sitting in some open house on the other side of town. And you do work very hard for that money!!
So, now Obambi wants to take all that hard earned money away from the people who earned it and give it to people who didn’t. How is that fair?
The whole of the American Dream is that you can, if you are willing to work at it, make something of yourself. There’s nothing stopping you.
I hope all those deluded idiots who plan on voting for the guy are aware that they are voting away their best chance to be successful. The moment that they are successful, Obambi is going to come along and take it away from them.
Obambi’s message: Don’t be too successful. I’ll take it away from you!
That’s seems to be the Democrat’s message in general.
They whine about “fairness”. As defined by whom???
How is it fair to take something earned by one person and give it to someone who didn’t earn it?
If I did that, I’d go to jail! That’s robbery!!
And not any more right when a government does it than when an individual does it!!
In Ohio, realtors earn 3% on each sale. It they’re smart and not splitting it with some realty company, that means that they have to make only 2.7 sales of $250,000 houses (not hard to do in the Cleveland area) to make in excess of $250,000.
Think a hard working realtor could average just under 3 sales a month? You betcha!!
So, the next time you hear Obambi going on about how only “rich” people will have a tax increase, think of your aunt the realtor. Or that friend of your mothers.
They are who he is talking about!!!
Realtors work 24/7, which is why I am not one any more. My kids were little and I was a single parent. I needed to be there with them, not sitting in some open house on the other side of town. And you do work very hard for that money!!
So, now Obambi wants to take all that hard earned money away from the people who earned it and give it to people who didn’t. How is that fair?
The whole of the American Dream is that you can, if you are willing to work at it, make something of yourself. There’s nothing stopping you.
I hope all those deluded idiots who plan on voting for the guy are aware that they are voting away their best chance to be successful. The moment that they are successful, Obambi is going to come along and take it away from them.
Obambi’s message: Don’t be too successful. I’ll take it away from you!
That’s seems to be the Democrat’s message in general.
They whine about “fairness”. As defined by whom???
How is it fair to take something earned by one person and give it to someone who didn’t earn it?
If I did that, I’d go to jail! That’s robbery!!
And not any more right when a government does it than when an individual does it!!
200,000
If you listen to Rush on line, you already know this:
Jennifer Brunner is hiding 200,000 unverified voter registrations from the county election people who are supposed to track down these people and verify that their information is accurate. The county election people are supposed to take all unverifiable registrations and investigate them and make sure that the people registered are legally allowed to vote in Ohio.
And she’s sitting on 200,000 of them.
George Bush beat John Kerry by 118,457 votes in Ohio.
Hello, voter fraud!!
On a massive scale!
Wake up people!!
You are ALL being disenfranchised!!
Every vote cast fraudulently diminishes your vote by that much. Your vote is a percentage of the large whole. The larger the larger whole is, the smaller percentage that one vote is. Now, if those votes are legitimate, that’s just the way it goes. But if your vote is being diluted by fraudulently case votes, you’re really out something!! You lose even more of what little effect your one vote has.
We need to fight this!! Make our Secretary of State do her job!!!
Call her office. Send an email. Make a pest of yourself!!
Our vote is the only thing we’ve got!
Jennifer Brunner is hiding 200,000 unverified voter registrations from the county election people who are supposed to track down these people and verify that their information is accurate. The county election people are supposed to take all unverifiable registrations and investigate them and make sure that the people registered are legally allowed to vote in Ohio.
And she’s sitting on 200,000 of them.
George Bush beat John Kerry by 118,457 votes in Ohio.
Hello, voter fraud!!
On a massive scale!
Wake up people!!
You are ALL being disenfranchised!!
Every vote cast fraudulently diminishes your vote by that much. Your vote is a percentage of the large whole. The larger the larger whole is, the smaller percentage that one vote is. Now, if those votes are legitimate, that’s just the way it goes. But if your vote is being diluted by fraudulently case votes, you’re really out something!! You lose even more of what little effect your one vote has.
We need to fight this!! Make our Secretary of State do her job!!!
Call her office. Send an email. Make a pest of yourself!!
Our vote is the only thing we’ve got!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Do your job!
How dishonest does one have to be to refuse to do the job to which one was elected because not to do so might benefit a political candidate one supports?
Apparently, as dishonest as Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner. Until the courts got involved and ordered her to do her job, Ms Brunner had refused to follow Ohio law and cross check new voter registrations against other state databases thus establishing their validity.
Two people have filed a RICO lawsuit to use the force of the courts to disband ACORN. She’s so ‘in the tank’ for Obama that she’s willing to break the law and help them cheat to help him to win.
Didn’t she learn as a child that a win acquired by cheating is wrong? You have to win fair and square before you can be considered to have accomplished something.
Sure, Obama may be president but half the country will see through the chicanery and won’t respect him. Being president isn’t an easy job. Why make it harder on him by tainting his win?
Weren’t you paying attention the past 8 years when Democrats made W’s life hell for their cheating that they projected onto him? There are bloggers out there who are pledging to make the same nasty accusations if Obama wins by cheating. ACORN is cheating. Ms Brunner is cheating.
I didn’t vote absentee because I figured it would just get ‘lost’ since I don’t intend to vote Democrat. If I wait until November, maybe I’ll get included in the general chaos. It will be harder to pick out the Republican ballots and pitch them. Especially since I’m in Cuyahoga County. All votes from here will be assumed to be Democrat.
I voted Democrat in the primaries as part of Operation Chaos. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for Hillary, however. I am now really regretting that vote for Obama. All I really wanted was a chance to vote against Dennis. You know, Cleveland’s Biggest Embarrassment.
Incidentally, Congress’s current approval rating is somewhere in the neighborhood of 9% these days. W is still in the 30s
In any case, I vote against this appalling silly person every chance I get. I’d like to ask the people who vote for him:
How many cities does a guy have to bankrupt before you won’t vote for him?
I should think the answer would be one!!
Apparently, as dishonest as Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner. Until the courts got involved and ordered her to do her job, Ms Brunner had refused to follow Ohio law and cross check new voter registrations against other state databases thus establishing their validity.
Two people have filed a RICO lawsuit to use the force of the courts to disband ACORN. She’s so ‘in the tank’ for Obama that she’s willing to break the law and help them cheat to help him to win.
Didn’t she learn as a child that a win acquired by cheating is wrong? You have to win fair and square before you can be considered to have accomplished something.
Sure, Obama may be president but half the country will see through the chicanery and won’t respect him. Being president isn’t an easy job. Why make it harder on him by tainting his win?
Weren’t you paying attention the past 8 years when Democrats made W’s life hell for their cheating that they projected onto him? There are bloggers out there who are pledging to make the same nasty accusations if Obama wins by cheating. ACORN is cheating. Ms Brunner is cheating.
I didn’t vote absentee because I figured it would just get ‘lost’ since I don’t intend to vote Democrat. If I wait until November, maybe I’ll get included in the general chaos. It will be harder to pick out the Republican ballots and pitch them. Especially since I’m in Cuyahoga County. All votes from here will be assumed to be Democrat.
I voted Democrat in the primaries as part of Operation Chaos. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for Hillary, however. I am now really regretting that vote for Obama. All I really wanted was a chance to vote against Dennis. You know, Cleveland’s Biggest Embarrassment.
Incidentally, Congress’s current approval rating is somewhere in the neighborhood of 9% these days. W is still in the 30s
In any case, I vote against this appalling silly person every chance I get. I’d like to ask the people who vote for him:
How many cities does a guy have to bankrupt before you won’t vote for him?
I should think the answer would be one!!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Socialized Medicine
One of the more interesting things about living with a CPA is that he can effortlessly defuse economic demagoguery by the Left.
Obama is currently running an ad slamming John McCain for wanting to tax our health insurance as ordinary income and giving us ‘only’ a $5,000 tax credit to off set the increase in taxes. Obama is also claiming that the $5K would go straight to the insurance company.
My CPA explains it thusly:
Say your health insurance costs $800 a month. That’s $9,600 a year. I’m probably in the 25% tax bracket. That means my tax liability goes up $9,600 * .25 = $2,400 per year.
Then I get a $5,000 line-item tax credit ON MY 1040 TAX FORM. Me. Not some insurance company.
So. Let’s see: $5,000 - $2,400 = $2,600.
Yeah, my benefits get taxed but I clear a $2,600 credit applied to all my other tax liabilities, which are refundable. Get it? REFUNDABLE!!!
I get it back!!
I get taxed more heavily but get back way more money.
How’s that a bad thing???
Huh??
And if you damned fools elect this lying charlatan, he wants to nationalize health care. You’re already on the internet. Look up waiting times for simple procedures in Canada and England. What’s the wait for an MRI in Canada? 72 days. Even if you have brain cancer!! Average wait time for surgery? 18.3 weeks. Weeks!!
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/10/15/fraser-report.html
Britain? 13 weeks.
http://www.rangelmd.com/index.php/2007/08/09/nhs-kills-young-woman/
Yeah, socialized medicine is such a success.
It’s great, unless you happen to get sick!
http://www.rangelmd.com/index.php/2007/08/12/socialized-medicine-and-excessive-wait-times/
Then, you’re on your own for weeks at a time. Plenty of time to contemplate your fate as you slowly die of heart disease or cancer and to get your affairs in order.
It’s just one more gift from your government.
Obama is currently running an ad slamming John McCain for wanting to tax our health insurance as ordinary income and giving us ‘only’ a $5,000 tax credit to off set the increase in taxes. Obama is also claiming that the $5K would go straight to the insurance company.
My CPA explains it thusly:
Say your health insurance costs $800 a month. That’s $9,600 a year. I’m probably in the 25% tax bracket. That means my tax liability goes up $9,600 * .25 = $2,400 per year.
Then I get a $5,000 line-item tax credit ON MY 1040 TAX FORM. Me. Not some insurance company.
So. Let’s see: $5,000 - $2,400 = $2,600.
Yeah, my benefits get taxed but I clear a $2,600 credit applied to all my other tax liabilities, which are refundable. Get it? REFUNDABLE!!!
I get it back!!
I get taxed more heavily but get back way more money.
How’s that a bad thing???
Huh??
And if you damned fools elect this lying charlatan, he wants to nationalize health care. You’re already on the internet. Look up waiting times for simple procedures in Canada and England. What’s the wait for an MRI in Canada? 72 days. Even if you have brain cancer!! Average wait time for surgery? 18.3 weeks. Weeks!!
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/10/15/fraser-report.html
Britain? 13 weeks.
http://www.rangelmd.com/index.php/2007/08/09/nhs-kills-young-woman/
Yeah, socialized medicine is such a success.
It’s great, unless you happen to get sick!
http://www.rangelmd.com/index.php/2007/08/12/socialized-medicine-and-excessive-wait-times/
Then, you’re on your own for weeks at a time. Plenty of time to contemplate your fate as you slowly die of heart disease or cancer and to get your affairs in order.
It’s just one more gift from your government.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
An American Carol
We went to see this movie last night.
I highly recommend it. It was hilarious! I haven’t laughed out loud at a movie like that in a long, long time!
It was really good to see the other side get skewered, for a change. They laugh and mock us constantly, misrepresenting our views and positions, all to supposed great hilarity. Not!
My favorite part was the ACLU lawyer zombies! LOL!!! And a crazed Dennis Hopper, looking crazy in that special way only he can, blowing them away in the courtroom!!! Almost too much.
I do have to question the judgment of the theater management, though. We were clearly a conservative audience there specifically to see a conservative movie. What do they choose to show us previews of??
A Jimmy Carter Documentary and Oliver Stone’s “W”!!!!!
The crowd booed and hissed!
I just can’t imagine that they are that brain-dead to think that those two movies would get a positive response from that audience!
Those weren’t the only previews, of course. We were late getting there so these two were the only ones I saw.
Unbelievable!!
Very funny movie! Zucker does it again!!!
I highly recommend it. It was hilarious! I haven’t laughed out loud at a movie like that in a long, long time!
It was really good to see the other side get skewered, for a change. They laugh and mock us constantly, misrepresenting our views and positions, all to supposed great hilarity. Not!
My favorite part was the ACLU lawyer zombies! LOL!!! And a crazed Dennis Hopper, looking crazy in that special way only he can, blowing them away in the courtroom!!! Almost too much.
I do have to question the judgment of the theater management, though. We were clearly a conservative audience there specifically to see a conservative movie. What do they choose to show us previews of??
A Jimmy Carter Documentary and Oliver Stone’s “W”!!!!!
The crowd booed and hissed!
I just can’t imagine that they are that brain-dead to think that those two movies would get a positive response from that audience!
Those weren’t the only previews, of course. We were late getting there so these two were the only ones I saw.
Unbelievable!!
Very funny movie! Zucker does it again!!!
Drill!!!
I used to think that the stupidest people in the world were Christians. Who could be that gullible to believe that crap? How dumb do you have to be to send money to those guys??
However, with my increasing access to the internet, I’ve discovered that the truly stupidest people in the world are liberals. Who but a liberal could believe that taxing the producers would bring down the price of gas but increasing the supply would not?
And, let’s get this straight: we don’t have a “Gas Crisis”. We have plenty of gasoline. When was the last time you went to a gas station and were turned away? What we have is a problem with the price of gas. There’s plenty available, we just don’t like what they’re charging for it. That’s not a “crisis”. And if the damned liberals would get out of the way and let us drill, we could all pay less at the pump.
Saudi Arabia is bring a new oil field on line that is expected to be producing oil in less than a year! China is drilling off the coast of Florida. Why aren’t we???
However, with my increasing access to the internet, I’ve discovered that the truly stupidest people in the world are liberals. Who but a liberal could believe that taxing the producers would bring down the price of gas but increasing the supply would not?
And, let’s get this straight: we don’t have a “Gas Crisis”. We have plenty of gasoline. When was the last time you went to a gas station and were turned away? What we have is a problem with the price of gas. There’s plenty available, we just don’t like what they’re charging for it. That’s not a “crisis”. And if the damned liberals would get out of the way and let us drill, we could all pay less at the pump.
Saudi Arabia is bring a new oil field on line that is expected to be producing oil in less than a year! China is drilling off the coast of Florida. Why aren’t we???
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Romance
I think I’ve finally figured out why women my age (almost 50) read romance novels.
When I was in my 20s and 30s I had no patience for such things. I didn’t want to read about romance, I wanted to do it! And I still thought it was possible.
Women in our late 40s, we’re lonely. We’ve been through the relationships, gotten the divorces, and had the nasty breakups. Now, we no longer believe romance is even possible, much less lasting. The guy whose eye used to dilate when he looked at us now doesn’t have anything nice to say. And now that our kids have grown up and moved on with their lives, we don’t have that distraction.
We’ve finally got the time for dedicated romance but no longer believe in it.
Romances in books never end with one partner finding the other so irritating they can’t stand to be in the same room with them.
Sure, he still does the laundry but now he bitches about what types of clothes we wear and how hard they are to take care of. Do we really need to wear clean clothes everyday? Yes, yes we do.
We need attention and affection and, somehow, wind up with neither. So, we read about it. It’s better than nothing!
When I was in my 20s and 30s I had no patience for such things. I didn’t want to read about romance, I wanted to do it! And I still thought it was possible.
Women in our late 40s, we’re lonely. We’ve been through the relationships, gotten the divorces, and had the nasty breakups. Now, we no longer believe romance is even possible, much less lasting. The guy whose eye used to dilate when he looked at us now doesn’t have anything nice to say. And now that our kids have grown up and moved on with their lives, we don’t have that distraction.
We’ve finally got the time for dedicated romance but no longer believe in it.
Romances in books never end with one partner finding the other so irritating they can’t stand to be in the same room with them.
Sure, he still does the laundry but now he bitches about what types of clothes we wear and how hard they are to take care of. Do we really need to wear clean clothes everyday? Yes, yes we do.
We need attention and affection and, somehow, wind up with neither. So, we read about it. It’s better than nothing!
Thursday, May 08, 2008
*whew*
Glad that’s over!
Indiana can now sink back into its normal state of political obscurity.
One of the things that’s been hard to get used to about living in Ohio is all the attention from the political candidates. Indiana usually and reliably goes Republican and, at most, will see a Republican candidate or two through the course of the general election. The Democrats usually don’t waste their time or money campaigning there.
This election season, they descended like locusts. My sister says that one of the Dem candidates gave a speech at the small town she lives in and shut the whole town down for most of the day. Streets were blocked off and the Secret Service was everywhere.
Quite inconsiderate.
Fortunately, she was already at work when they arrived. Others were not so lucky and the doctor’s office where she works had an unusual number of late and cancelled appointments.
Headline: Democrats Prevent Citizens From Obtaining Necessary Health Care.
Film at eleven! ;-)
Indiana can now sink back into its normal state of political obscurity.
One of the things that’s been hard to get used to about living in Ohio is all the attention from the political candidates. Indiana usually and reliably goes Republican and, at most, will see a Republican candidate or two through the course of the general election. The Democrats usually don’t waste their time or money campaigning there.
This election season, they descended like locusts. My sister says that one of the Dem candidates gave a speech at the small town she lives in and shut the whole town down for most of the day. Streets were blocked off and the Secret Service was everywhere.
Quite inconsiderate.
Fortunately, she was already at work when they arrived. Others were not so lucky and the doctor’s office where she works had an unusual number of late and cancelled appointments.
Headline: Democrats Prevent Citizens From Obtaining Necessary Health Care.
Film at eleven! ;-)
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Dangerous Barbie Dolls!
This is really funny:
I raised two daughters in the “decadent” Western culture of Indiana. They received Barbie dolls for birthdays and Christmas. Never did I consider Barbie to be undermining their morality!
They also received Care Bears and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I didn’t expect those to be corrupting, either.
I carefully raised my daughters to think for themselves instead of following the herd. Neither is fashionable or trendy. They don’t waste time worrying about their appearance beyond what they like and boundaries of good taste.
Neither are they overly violent or overly cutsie. One is an aspiring musician/music producer and the other designs web pages and does custom sewing. Both are independent thinkers. Neither was damaged by any images of Barbie and her extensive wardrobe.
With all the poverty and other real social problems available that need solving in their culture, the Iranians instead choose to inveigh against poor, ole, much-maligned Barbie?!?
Oh, well. As long as they’re wasting their time on such nonsense, they won’t have time to think any new ways of killing each other and us!
A top Iranian judiciary official warned Monday against the "destructive"Swiped from Right Wing News
cultural and social consequences of importing Barbie dolls and other Western
toys.
Prosecutor General Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabadi said in an official
letter to Vice President Parviz Davoudi that the Western toys was a "danger"
that needed to be stopped.
"The irregular importation of such toys, which
unfortunately arrive through unofficial sources and smuggling, is destructive
culturally and a social danger," Najafabadi said in his letter, a copy of which
was made available to The Associated Press.
... Najafabadi said Iran was the
world's third biggest importer of toys, and these smuggled imports posed a
threat to the "identity" of the new generation.
"Undoubtedly, the
personality and identity of the new generation and our children, as a result of
unrestricted importation of toys, has been put at risk and caused irreparable
damages," he said.
Authorities launched a temporary campaign of confiscating
Barbie from toy stores in 2002, denouncing the un-Islamic sensibilities of the
iconic American doll. The campaign was eventually discontinued.
That same
year, though, Iran introduced a competing doll—the twins Dara and Sara, who
promoted traditional values with their modest clothing and pro-family stories
but they proved unable to stem the Barbie tide.
In 1996, the head of a
government-backed children's agency called Barbie a "Trojan horse" sneaking in
Western influences such as makeup and revealing clothes.
Barbie is sold
wearing swimsuits and miniskirts in a society where women must wear head scarves
in public and men and women are not allowed to swim together.
I raised two daughters in the “decadent” Western culture of Indiana. They received Barbie dolls for birthdays and Christmas. Never did I consider Barbie to be undermining their morality!
They also received Care Bears and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I didn’t expect those to be corrupting, either.
I carefully raised my daughters to think for themselves instead of following the herd. Neither is fashionable or trendy. They don’t waste time worrying about their appearance beyond what they like and boundaries of good taste.
Neither are they overly violent or overly cutsie. One is an aspiring musician/music producer and the other designs web pages and does custom sewing. Both are independent thinkers. Neither was damaged by any images of Barbie and her extensive wardrobe.
With all the poverty and other real social problems available that need solving in their culture, the Iranians instead choose to inveigh against poor, ole, much-maligned Barbie?!?
Oh, well. As long as they’re wasting their time on such nonsense, they won’t have time to think any new ways of killing each other and us!
Monday, April 21, 2008
More Computer Follies:
At a previous job, I was the programmer of the Access front end that we did all our work in. It was a huge program that gathered immense amounts of data into a SQL Server database.
The bosses had decided that I was to make certain fields off limits for a few lower-end users. I had this musical co-worker who, upon hearing of my newest project, started going around the office humming “Can’t Touch This”
When I was done with the newest revisions, I put into it code that would run only for her that would open Internet Explorer and go to You Tube and start playing MC Hammer’s Video of “Can’t Touch This”. The office manager was in on this gag with me so I figured I wouldn’t get into too much trouble.
I didn’t count on the stupidity of one of our senior managers. The office manager was late that day and the senior manager happened to be walking past my co-worker’s computer just at MC launched into his song and dance.
The senior manager freaked, assumed we had some horrible virus in the system and made the whole office sit there, doing nothing, until I got there at 9:00.
She was furious when I explained the gag.
I was quite offended that she would think that I would have damaged the company’s greatest asset on purpose.
I didn’t tell her that the office manager wanted me to pull the gag on the whole office! I figured I didn’t need both of us in trouble with this no-sense-of-humor idiot!!
I still smile when I hear that song!
The bosses had decided that I was to make certain fields off limits for a few lower-end users. I had this musical co-worker who, upon hearing of my newest project, started going around the office humming “Can’t Touch This”
When I was done with the newest revisions, I put into it code that would run only for her that would open Internet Explorer and go to You Tube and start playing MC Hammer’s Video of “Can’t Touch This”. The office manager was in on this gag with me so I figured I wouldn’t get into too much trouble.
I didn’t count on the stupidity of one of our senior managers. The office manager was late that day and the senior manager happened to be walking past my co-worker’s computer just at MC launched into his song and dance.
The senior manager freaked, assumed we had some horrible virus in the system and made the whole office sit there, doing nothing, until I got there at 9:00.
She was furious when I explained the gag.
I was quite offended that she would think that I would have damaged the company’s greatest asset on purpose.
I didn’t tell her that the office manager wanted me to pull the gag on the whole office! I figured I didn’t need both of us in trouble with this no-sense-of-humor idiot!!
I still smile when I hear that song!
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Old News
The very definition of “schadenfreude”:
The guy who laid me off a few years ago dropped dead, at the office no less, last year!!
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
He was nasty to me when I worked there and saved the job of one of his friends when he should have laid one of them off instead of me. They were redundant, I was not.
Hope he likes the neighborhood, now!
(Hey, I never said I was nice!)
The guy who laid me off a few years ago dropped dead, at the office no less, last year!!
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
He was nasty to me when I worked there and saved the job of one of his friends when he should have laid one of them off instead of me. They were redundant, I was not.
Hope he likes the neighborhood, now!
(Hey, I never said I was nice!)
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