Opinions
Monday, July 26, 2010
Life Imitates Art
Several reasons I don’t like to fly and will avoid it at all costs. Mainly I don’t like being cramped up in a small space for hours on end; I get claustrophobia. I also have a hard time trusting every person who works on that plane from the beginning of the build to the maintenance to the pilots. Years ago I was a courier in Seattle and often times I would deliver parts for a certain large company, well known throughout the world. I cannot possibly tell you how many times I would walk in to those facilities and one of the following two things would happen:
a) Most of the people I saw were on break and refused to assist in any way when looking for column D3 because they were too lazy or had absolutely no idea where column D3 was located. And I am not kidding in the slightest when I say that one time, I had a package to be delivered to an individual at column D3, was having a hard time finding it, (and it’s exhausting walking around these huge buildings), I asked for help from someone I saw eating a sandwich, he stated he did not know where column D3 was located, I walked and walked and walked and walked and finally, I found column D3. It was right next to the fricken place sandwich eater was sitting. You’re fucking kidding me, right?
b) I would hand over the part, they would sign for it and throw it on to a conveyor belt. Not place it there, not gently put it down, throw it. In fact, they made jokes about the sound it might make and how it was actually the company’s new name. ("That’s why we call it ‘Boing!’”, they would chortle.) Yah, how nice. I’m delivering a part to put on an aircraft and these twats are throwing them around without a care in the world.
Some years ago there was a plane crash off the coast of California. It was coming back from Mexico, had a stop at LAX and was going to continue on to Seattle. The plane crashed in to the Pacific Ocean-I can’t remember if it was shortly after take off from LAX or before landing at LAX. It was on the news all over in Seattle because there were a number of Seattle residents on that plane. Come to find out that the cause of the crash was a faulty part and that someone who knew about this had tried to warn about this faulty part for quite some time. He was let go, called a “whistle blower” and basically ostracized. They gave this guy a bunch of shit and he was right. But no one wanted to fucking do anything about it until after the plane crashed.
I’m supposed to trust these people with my life?
I’m not really concerned about terrorists, to be honest. Sure, I don’t want any of them on my plane but I think that if I’m going to die anyway, I would do something like those guys on the plane on 9/11. People say, “You don’t know what you would do, you would probably sit there, scared and not do anything.” HA! Have you fucking met me?! The hell I would. I’m not going to sit by and let some sand nit dictate how I’m going to behave before dying. If I’m going to die anyway, I’m going to fuck up their plans. People focus a lot on the firefighters and police and such with 9/11, (yes, they were also heroes, don’t misinterpret what I’m saying), but I think more focus should be put on those who took down the terrorists in that plane. They died anyway but damn, people, they died trying. That’s a hero. Those are the kinds of people little kids should be looking up to when deciding how they are going to act in life, not the over paid sports celebrities who are always getting caught doing something stupid or illegal.
Anyway, the final thing that keeps me from flying is the airlines and TSA themselves. They’ve been coming up with some pretty stupid rules lately, ("your hands must be in view at all times for the last hour of the flight” oh fucking shut up), but what really grinds my pepper is the new charges they keep piling on that never used to be there. We’ve already spent hundreds of dollars on a ticket and any special requests or extra baggage we have; and that’s fine. But no, I’m not paying extra to carry on a knapsack, having a snack, meal or drink, (non alcoholic), or to use a blanket or pillow. That’s total bullshit. They’re looking to make up costs but they’re looking in the wrong places. Find out what is driving people away from flying not charge them up the ass for every last thing.
I used to love flying when I was younger. I thought it was thrilling and I remember on my very first plane trip across country at age 14, I could not wipe the grin off of my face. Now? It’s only if there absolutely, positively is no other possible way to get there that I will fly and even then it’s going to take some serious thinking. The airlines have been trying to make all kinds of money in these ridiculous charges left and right when what they’ve done is completely lost my business. Instead of granting me a fucking carry on, free of charge, they get no money from me at all.
This may be funny right now but these guys have a knack for coming up with things years earlier that comes out to be a little true, later on:
I think I’ll enjoy my car, instead.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Since People Only Read The Headlines...
I’m sure this will get a serious spin in an effort to make Democrats look good.
Unemployment rate falls in 39 states in June
“OMG! Like, really?! Take that you evil Rethuglicans! You said that St. Hope and Change and their ilk were doing harm to this country but look at those numbers! When did HaliburtonBush do anything like this?! Maybe you should take a backseat and let us Dems run the show, we know how to do it, idiots.”
Yah. So, let’s get to the rest of the story, mmmkay!??
The unemployment rate fell in most states in June, mainly because more people gave up searching for work and were no longer counted. ~emphasis mine
Er, yah. Now it doesn’t sound so damn peachy anymore does it? They GAVE UP looking for work because there ISN’T ANY WORK. Mr, “I’m Going To Bring Thousands and Thousands of Jobs to the American People” has failed. Failed!
I’ve been unemployed before and you know what? I never had to try that hard to find work. These people gave. up! That is NOT a good sign.
Fewer states saw job increases, the latest evidence that the economic recovery is slowing.
What economic recovery? Foreclosures, companies going under left and right, companies being taken over by the government, (my God), exactly what economic recovery are these windbags talking about? There hasn’t been an economic recovery. It’s been shit and continues to be shit. Some people are in denial, yes, spending money they don’t fucking have but overall, there is no recovery. I work in the tourist industry. There IS NO economic recovery. That’s one of the first places to look at how well the economy is doing and it ain’t doing well at all.
But only 21 states saw net job gains in June, the government said. That compared to 41 the previous month and is the fewest this year.
The decline in job creation reflects the layoff of thousands of temporary census workers. Those jobs inflated total payrolls in May and then reduced them in June.
The temporary ‘up in my personal business’ census workers inflated the numbers before but now that they are no longer needed, the numbers are back to accurate. And the census workers can kiss my ass, by the way. Twice they knocked on my door this year and once I told them to go fuck themselves and once I ignored them.
Still, the report also indicated that businesses aren’t hiring many new workers. Nationwide, private employers added a net gain of only 83,000 jobs last month. The national unemployment rate dropped to 9.5 percent in June from 9.7 percent the previous month, as about 650,000 people stopped looking for work.
No, businesses are not hiring new workers. My boss wants to hire two more people, at the least, but he won’t right now because the tourism industry is feeling the brunt of the “economic recovery” that doesn’t exist. Yes, it is normally slower in the summer time, yes but it’s much slower this year than it has ever been in the years I’ve been working here. People are not spending their money. We still do ok but we shouldn’t be looking like this until September. That’s when our “slow” season is supposed to be. Not April, May, June, July and August. So, until it picks up again, he won’t hire the two more that he wants to hire.
The economy is not recovering. People are not spending their money. Too many people are out of work and hardly any new jobs are being created. It’s so bad that people give up looking in 39 states. Shall we continue shoving our heads in the sand just so we can save face for voting for a reckless piece of shit in to office or shall we begin to face the truth? And I don’t see it getting better for some time.
Whatever job you do have, hang on to it. This is not the time to be unemployed.
(Hat tip to FB friend, Nick)
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Boosting The Moral
You know, I’ve worked in corporate America and I know all about those stupid “team building” exercises and all that total horse shit that’s supposed to pump up the moral, bring about good feelings towards each other and the company and then everyone will be friends and the company will explode in to this huge, multi-billion dollar industry....bleh.
They’re usually a total fucking waste of time with a bunch of managers talking down to employees about “no I in team” and “9 yard lines” “bottom lines” and a whole bunch of other boring crap that most people don’t care about. If the people are really good at it, they might actually make you feel something for about 5 minutes-could be indigestion-before everything goes back to normal and Suzie in the cube next to you has returned to her former bitchy self.
In other words, bosses don’t appear to listen very well and wonder why moral is so low all the time. I think I should start a new series here at Serenity’s Journal called, “What the fuck NOT to do if you are the boss”.
Let’s take current events as an example.
If you were paying attention, which you probably weren’t, you will have noticed that I just got done working 10 days in a row. Not the best moral booster right there but, rumors were going around that I would get 4 days off as the schedule went back to normal this week.
Believe it or not, (I did not), that actually happened. My normal days off are Monday and Tuesday but I had to work right on through them all the way to the weekend this past week. I finally got Sat and Sun off and now, since the schedule is going back to normal, I also get my Monday and Tuesday off which makes 4 days in a row.
Ok.
It sure would have been nice if the boss had let me know that in advance that was happening-would have made working those 10 fucking days in a row in the blistering heat a little easier since I would have something to look forward to, right?
Yah, communication, bosses. And throw your employees a fricken bone once in awhile.
So anyway, I finally get to the four days off and do what I normally do on days off. I clean the shit out of my house and stay up way too late at night. Whatever, it makes me happy. (I still don’t have my car--but that’s a whole nother story.)
Then, today rolls around. I finally have everything completely done. House is sparkling since I had extra days to do it this week. Everything looks good, smells good, is organized, in its place, washed, cleaned....I still have no fucking car....so I have absolutely nothing to do today. Which means I get to spend the entire day in bed, reading or watching t.v. or movies or browsing the internet, in my pajamas. That’s awesome.
I stayed up really late last night knowing that if I wanted to, I could sleep until 11, noon, 1pm if I so desired because I had nothing! to do.
And then I hear the fucking ringing.
It’s just past 9am.
I know who the hell that is without looking. Nobody calls me on a Tuesday this early in the morning. No, it’s not my car, those assholes don’t show up until about 11 am and then promptly leave for a 2 hour lunch. It’s work.
And they can fuck. the hell. right off.
Someone didn’t show up so they’re calling me to come in.
No.
Absolutely not.
First of all, I already fucking worked 10 fucking days in a row for you last fucking week. I am NOT working 6 days this week while everybody else continues to get their time off. No, no, no! I am not the only person who works here, you fucking find someone else.
Second of all, it’s never appreciated. Ever. There are no thank yous, there is no consideration for raises or promotions later on. There’s no extra bonus at Christmas. No one asks, “What day would you like off to replace this day?”
No, you know what you fucking get when you work this hard? “You look miserable and we can’t have that around here. You could lose your job.”
That’s what the fuck you get when you work your ass off for these people.
And you want me to come in on my day off again?
No.
Hell. No.
I’m not a slave, it’s fucking hot out there, I’m still tired after what you did to me the last two weeks, I need a break, I’m not the only one who works here you CAN find someone else, you don’t fucking appreciate it at ALL, and it’s easily forgotten as within the week, at some point, you’ll be calling us “fucking idiot” like you always do, to all of us, at various, random times.
We’re just a bunch of fucking idiots to you, we are mere bodies that drive boats, we’re not human to you, you consider us uneducated, a bunch of losers and have no respect for us. You know that some of us are college educated, you know that some of us don’t drink and do drugs, you know that some of us have a high positive feed back in customer service, you know that some of us have goals but you forget that and lump us all together as nothing more than numbers that can easily be replaced.
“If you don’t like it here, you can work somewhere else” is the standard answer instead of trying to find a way to right the problem.
No, kids, they do not care.
And because of that, I no longer care.
Remember, managers, supervisors, owners, CEOs, etc: It does start from the top. If you don’t care about your employees, they won’t care about you or your goals or what you want, either. If you want to know why there is this problem or that problem, start at your own desk.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Feel Good Labels
For the LAST TIME! Those people coming from Mexico, illegally, are NOT “undocumented workers”, they are illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants.
Trying to put a spin on that label does not erase that what they are doing is illegal. Call people what they are, call the action of people what it is. Illegal. Immigrants. This is not a gottdamned fairy tale, this is real life. There are no purple markers here to soothe you when you’re marked wrong on your paper, it’s a big, fat, bright, red pen and it scribes, illegal immigrants.
But why would anyone care, it’s not like Arizona borders Mexico, right?! (I’m not the only one who saw that am I?)
Sigh, at least we can still have our guns.
For now.
Biden: Gee, Serenity, if you’d say something nice instead of being a smart ass all the time....
Serenity: Hey Biden, suck it. I agree with ice cream man, lower our taxes, asshole.
Biden: Oh, I was just kidding.
Serenity: I wasn’t.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Shaking Head
Every time I see someone spout off about their right to free speech in comments on a blog, in a forum or in real life, I want to just smack the crap out of them.
“I can say whatever I want on this forum. Or are you trying to take away my right to free speech?”
Idiots.
Fucking idiots.
TOTAL. FUCKING. IDIOTS.
So, let me make this clear here, on this blog, for any troll who wishes to piss and whine about this:
That 1st Amendment that you assholes keep throwing around is for your protection FROM THE GOVERNMENT! It does NOT apply to privately owned spaces, buildings or environments. Do you get that you fucking dolts? You do NOT have the “right to free speech” in MY house. You do NOT have the “right to free speech” on my blog. You do NOT have the “right to free speech” on a privately owned forum. No, you are NOT being “censored”, you simply do not have the right to say whatever the fuck you want in a privately owned place.
It protects you from the government. The government. THE GOVERNMENT. It does not protect you in comments, forums or homes.
SHUT. THE FUCK UP about your “rights” in these areas. All you do is make yourself look like a gottdamned idiot.
Monday, May 24, 2010
I See It Differently Now
For some time I’ve believed that we should have the ability to drill off the coast of Florida and up in ANWR. I remember the Exxon Valdez and the devastation it brought to the area and the wildlife but I, maybe foolishly, thought that we had learned from that. I put my faith in to these people drilling out in the waters that they would follow all measures to ensure safety and had back up plans in place that were not only tested but re-tested and re-tested over and over again, just in case.
Maybe it’s because I’ve lived in the PacNW where nature is a big deal up there and maybe it’s because I live in S. Florida now where, again, nature is a big deal down here. It’s extremely important that we protect these environments and the animals and watching the oil spill grow and grow, animals dying, Louisiana suffering now from the spill, knowing more animals will die, thinking about the hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil out there in the gulf.....I’m hard pressed to argue with anyone who is against drilling for oil off the coast of FL or in ANWR.
I’m having a hard time finding a reason they are wrong. This oil spill and the way it has been handled has infuriated me. Perhaps we need to really start focusing on alternatives. Some may argue about the cost and price to the consumer but I ask you, looking at the images of the oil spill, you don’t think we’re already paying a high price?
As I know many of you may not agree with me, I’m asking you to tell me why I’m wrong. I will tell you in advance, however, that if your argument is monetary, you will not change my mind. If your sole reason to do this is because it will save us money, we will never agree. I just can’t accept that way of thinking when I see animals dying needlessly over our actions to save a few bucks. I just can’t accept that answer when I see that oil in the water and washing up on shore.
I understand we don’t want to be dependent on oil from other countries so what about alternatives? Is there something wrong with finding alternatives? All I ask is please, don’t tell me it’s because it costs too much. The devastation and loss of life costs too much. Convince me I’m wrong without throwing in the almighty dollar.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Wow, I Am Humbled
Every so often someone will comment or email me that I’m a good writer. Kids...I appreciate the compliment but I just can’t even begin to accept that I am. Not when there are people like this guy out there:
A chronicle of wanderings by horseback throughout the American West with commentary on the state of this once great nation and our character as a people. View these musings as they are intended; to Provoke, Inform, and Entertain.
The post I’ve linked to sums up so much of what I’ve been trying to say. He manages to take subjects that I’m incredibly passionate about and wrap them up; tie them together to create a story that is not only incredibly well written but brings out just about every emotion in a 5 minute span. THAT, my friends, is a damn good writer. My junk pales in comparison.
Here’s an example of how he writes things I’ve thought but have never been able to put together in a coherent, well structured way:
Next time somebody asks for money to rebuild a disaster like Haiti or a variety of other toxic waste dumps around the world, think about the plight of the four legged creatures that share our lives and bring us comfort and joy but are abandoned and have no hope and no voice right here at home.
Folks are appalled at such reasoning, but it comes down to this. My life is better for the presence of God’s four legged critters that share our world and our lives. Our lives are in no way improved by the existence of savages and the toxic waste of people too stupid not to produce a progeny they can not feed, educate or care for.
My GOD I wish I could write like that.
This particular post is about a dog he found abandoned in the desert. Every place has some location where people dump their animals off for whatever bullshit excuse they can think of. I see it in the Everglades, people see it in the desert; there’s a place near you, as well. But this guy went beyond what I normally do and he’s quite the motivator for me to do even more when I see something like this. It’s one thing to rescue and find a home for an abandon animal, it’s another to go beyond to see if one can find who did it and have them prosecuted. It’s a long shot but I admire the hell out of this guy for even trying.
Please, visit this guy’s site. It’s wonderful. He is the epitome of a great, honorable and caring American citizen. If there were more people like him in this country, this country would be as wonderful as it once was, again. I truly am humbled.
(Thank you to Richard Stevens for bringing this blog to my attention. What a gift.)
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Screeching Harpy
Seriously, what is wrong with this nasty bitch?
Bitchlosi wants to tell churches what to teach in regard to immigration
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday urged Catholic leaders to “instruct” their parishioners to support immigration reforms, saying clerics should “play a very major role” in supporting Democratic policies.
Instruct. Instruct this, bitch. God I hate this fucking cunt. I don’t think she has clue one about the Bible, religion, church or anything else for that matter.
"The cardinals, the archbishops, the bishops that come to me and say, ‘We want you to pass immigration reform,’ and I said, ‘I want you to speak about it from the pulpit. I want you to instruct your’—whatever the communication is,” said Pelosi, who is Catholic, speaking at the Nation’s Catholic Community conference sponsored by Trinity Washington University and the National Catholic Reporter.
“I want you to instruct your --whatever the communication is...” LOL! I knew it, the fucking bitch doesn’t even know what the people who go to church are called. “Instruct um...those...er...you know, whatever you call those people in the church who listen to you...giving your....um...whatever it is that you say.” Try CONGREGATION or PARISHIONERS, you daft prick. How about SERMON you fucking twat.
"The people, some (who) oppose immigration reform, are sitting in those pews, and you have to tell them that this is a manifestation of our living the gospels,” she said.
No, bitch, they don’t HAVE to tell them anything of the sort. They are there to instruct and guide people, help them understand the Bible, what it is saying, how to get closer to God, how to be a better person and that does not mean by ROLLING THE FUCK OVER and allowing illegal immigrants to come in and fuck up everyone’s life! Please, you ridiculous twit, where does it say in the Bible, “Thou shalt allow illegal immigration.”
Pelosi said the church “has an important role to play” in teaching about dignity and respect, and “as a practical matter” it’s not possible to tell 12 million illegal immigrants to “go back to wherever you came from or go to jail."
May I scream now? What the fuck does any of this have to do with religion, the Bible or God? The Bible teaches to love thy neighbor as thineself and allowing 12 million ILLEGAL immigrants to come in and break the fucking law, suck down our resources, take our jobs leaving our neighbors poor, unemployed and unable to afford health insurance, among other things, is not how the fuck you show your neighbor love. Dignity and respect is taught and that means to respect yourself, respect others and show some fucking respect for those who immigrated here and did things LEGALLY! It IS possible to tell 12 million ILLEGAL aliens to go back home or go to jail. You just fucking say it. Watch: Illegal immigrants, go back to where you came from, try to gain your citizenship the LEGAL AND RIGHT WAY or go to jail because the SECOND you enter this country ILLEGALLY, you have committed a crime and those who commit crimes go to jail. Don’t want to go to jail, don’t commit a crime.
Now, to show you RESPECT, we are here to help you do this the right way and when you do it the right way and enter this country legally, gain your citizenship legally, we respect the shit out of you and will help you make something of yourself, which, in turn, teaches you dignity and respect! Imagine that!
blah, blah, blah....The Arizona law, which is slated to take effect July 29, makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally.
Sigh. WTF is going on with people in this world? Really! WTF is wrong with people!? “Makes it a crime”? MAKES it a crime? IT ALREADY IS A FUCKING CRIME! Note the word, “ILLEGAL”! That means CRIME, AGAINST THE LAW, GO TO JAIL, DO NOT PASS GO! OMG I can’t take it anymore.
"It’s a beautiful thing to listen to different points of view. From a religious perspective we come from a similar Catholic background but sometimes we have to come to a different conclusion about how we translate that into public policy,” (Pelosi) said.
>maniacal laughter< You see? I’m going insane. Fucking! Insane! “It’s a beautiful thing to listen to different points of view....of course, I don’t fucking bother to do that, I just push on, full steam ahead with whatever I want, to hell with what the people want.” “Sometimes we have to come to a different conclusion about how we want to translate that in to public policy....What would Jesus do? I would tell him what to say and do so just listen to me because I am the way, the truth and the light! I will tell you how to interpret the Bible! Just ask yourself, ‘What would Nancy Pelosi do?’”
Back off, bitch. You can go to church if you wish, you can believe or interpret what you read however you wish. But you do NOT insert government in to church, the pulpit, a sermon...keep your nasty fucking hooves out of my religion you disgusting, disrespectful wench.
Monday, May 03, 2010
Wait...What?
Ok kids, it’s been a horribly long week. It’s been hot, it’s been busy, moral sucks around the place anymore and the tourists have apparently never heard of the word, “tip”. So, you will have to excuse me, as I catch up on some news here, when I tell you that I absolutely do not understand this:
Sigh. Let me try to just organize my thoughts here so I can try to gain some sort of understanding…
St. Hope and Change decides to run for President.
As with ANY OTHER politician, the candidates are vetted. Vetting includes, oh, I don’t know, ensuring that they are legally allowed to become President of the United States. You know, are they over 35, have they lived here over 14 years, are they a natural born citizen....the drill.
To accomplish age and citizenship, one needs only a birth certificate. You get that and BAM! Those questions are answered.
So, McCain had to provide his birth certificate. I’m sure Palin and Biden did as well.
But what about St. Hope and Change?
There seemed to be a whooooole lot of dust up over St. Hope and Change. I don’t understand why. It should be a pretty simple task to accomplish. We all have to obtain a copy of our birth certificate to get a passport and while I know that doesn’t always mean it’s a copy of the actual, original, birth certificate, (trust me, I KNOW this better than most), it does indeed serve as a legal birth certificate and we aren’t running for President of the United States. We just want to travel. So, should there be any information that may be changed from the original birth certificate, SURELY the vital information such as WHERE and WHEN someone was born would remain the same. RIGHT?
(In my case, my copy is not of my original birth certificate. I actually cannot get that one. I was adopted. No matter how many times I ask, I will always get the one with the adopted parents name on it and NOT the biological names. I’m sure someone out there will tell me, “Of course you can!” but I would like to stop you before you bother because I’ve tried for over a decade and of course I cannot! Nonetheless, every. other. last. piece. of information on that birth certificate is precisely what the original says. So, where I was born and when, no problem.)
But for St. Hope and Change, it was a battle. Until finally, after much gnashing of teeth, we got to see a copy of a certificate of live birth on some stupid fucking blog. Really?!?!?!
But we were NOT! TO! QUESTION! That WAS the answer and we all needed to shut the hell up about it now, you got your damn certificate, suck it up and accept that he is your president!
Except, I’ve never accepted that. And everyone can drink the Kool-Aid and tell me I’m wrong here but it has never once made a damn lick of sense to me.
And now?
It makes even less sense.
Why, praytell, would Hawaii suddenly decide that they do not need to answer any questions regarding St. Hope and Change’s birth certificate-the one under “lock and key”? SURELY it would have the same information as say, the so called certificate of live birth, would it not?! What would be the harm, then, in revealing such a document? We’ve seen the “certificate of live birth”, what is there to hide?
Well apparently there is something there to hide. Enough that Hawaii has decided that they aren’t going to show or talk about the actual birth certificate to anyone and damnit, you all just stop fucking asking us about it!
WHY IS THAT?!
If someone is going to be President of the United States, we need to know that he is actually eligible to BE the President. And IF the “certificate of live birth” has damn near the same information as the actual birth certificate, then what is the fucking problem with revealing it and letting this die, once and for all!
OH, wait a minute....I just thought of something....didn’t they SAY...kids, I swear to GOD I read this all over the place back then, that the “certificate of live birth” was all they had?! That WAS the document as Hawaii didn’t have birth certificates at the time or some such horseshit?
But now, suddenly, they DO have an actual birth certificate and we are assholes for asking about it and by GUM, Hawaii is putting its foot down and telling us, “SHUT UP and STOP BUGGING US, we’re NOT showing it to you!”
WHAT?!!?!?!?!!?!
Not showing what to us? What exactly because didn’t they say IT DIDN’T FUCKING EXIST???
Maybe I got too much sun this week because I sure as fuck do not understand this at all.
GottDAMNIT! Now I’m going to have to go through archives to find all those links where this was stated. SURELY I cannot be the only one who remembers this?
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Aesop's Fables For Modern Times
I did not write this. I do not know if the person I got this from is the original author, (I doubt it), or who the original author is but I’d say this sums up exactly how I feel about Democrats who wail and cry for the “helpless”. Before we begin, YES, there are people who need help in this country. Absolutely. HOWEVER, there happen to be a large number of people who just flat out refuse to help themselves and wail that they need help when in reality, they don’t. They just need to prioritize their lives a lot better and stop worrying about the next gadget or car they’re going to buy.
CLASSIC VERSION: (Asop Fable)
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit, the Frog, appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing “It’s Not Easy Being Green.”
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house,where the news stations film the group singing “We shall overcome.”
Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his “fair share”.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the “Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act”, retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Obama appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
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Again, as I’ve said before, how long have we been throwing money at the poor? THEY’RE STILL POOR! It doesn’t work! Find the solution to THAT problem and you have found the solution to just about ALL of the problems.
Speaking Out For Doctors
Another argument I heard today about this stupid bill is that it’s a-ok to pay doctors less, afterall, they make WAY too much money, the greedy bastards. Right?!!?!
Wrong.
Most in this country get jobs out of high school, after an Associate’s Degree or after a Bachelor’s Degree. You can make a fair living off of a Bachelor’s Degree. That’s four extra years of school after high school. Some people go on to Master’s Degrees and make a bit more. And why shouldn’t they? They’re far more educated than the high school graduate. And I’m sorry, but I went to college and an Associate’s Degree is really a joke if you expect to actually make some decent living off of that. You can get one of those at a community college. And, well, too bad if you don’t like what I’m saying but Community College is a breeze. I know. I spent two years in one. It. Is. Easy. In fact, I found it easier than high school. The Associate’s is just a stepping stone to a Bachelor’s Degree and frankly, I’m finding myself underwhelmed by those who have earned one. Nonetheless, they earned one and they deserve higher pay than someone who just graduated high school.
Now, we move on to Doctors. These people spend YEARS in school. And their schools are extremely expensive. And they do residency. Have you ever heard of the year of hell? Basically these guys get zero sleep. They are always working. ALWAYS working. They could put in a good 24 hour shift, get an hour of sleep, be up again for another 10 hours, get a few hours sleep, be back on another 24 hour shift, on and on and on it goes.
Doctors work their asses off. I’ve known a few doctors in my time. It doesn’t seem that they ever have any free time or time to relax. It seems very rare that they get time to themselves.
Most other people I know piss, bitch and moan if they have to work one hour extra of overtime in their 40 hour a week job. Some of you out there are asked to come in on your Saturday and work a few hours and you groan and carry on about how you are being worked to the bone, my GOD it’s not faaaaair!
Most people I know would rather not work 5 days in a row. And most people I know do not like jobs where they are on call. They want to make plans. They want to go out with their friends or spend time with their family. On call is just asking too much!
But doctors do it all the time. They don’t punch in at 9am and punch out at 5pm and that’s it, la de da, time to go home and sit in front of the television. They have patients. Those patients have needs. They have cell phones and get called constantly. They need to come in and check on their patients. This happens every day of the week, holidays included. And of course they are also constantly educating themselves further. Medical procedures change. New drugs come out. New discoveries are made. It’s a non stop job.
Now, of course no one can work 24 hours a day 7 days a week for their entire lives but doctors do put in a hell of a lot more time than the average worker. They can be out to dinner with their family and get a call. Guess what, gotta go, sorry guys. They can be on a vacation and get a call. Welp, gonna have to cut that vacation short, have a patient who needs them.
“Honey, I’m going to stop by the hospital real quick before we attend the school function.” Aw crap, while they were there, something came up and now they need to stay and handle it.
You know why? Because they are doctors. They chose this profession because they wanted to help people whether it be trying to save a life or making a bad situation better or even finding a cure for some disease, they work all the time and are just a phone call away at all times.
It takes a special person to be a doctor. Not everyone can do it. It’s not just about learning body parts and drugs and what to do, there’s more to it. There’s way more to it and those who say that doctor’s don’t deserve what they get paid don’t understand that at all.
And seriously, the first, what...10 years? of someone being a doctor, do you really think they’re making much money? Did you forget that they have massive student loans to pay off as well as try to make a home for themselves?
I wonder how many people lie on those gurneys, bleeding, in pain, wondering if they’re going to die thinking, “This asshole makes too much money.” Or are they thinking, “Doctor, please save me!” You know what? DOCTORS ABSOLUTELY DESERVE THE MONEY THEY MAKE! They are saving people’s lives! And because they are not God and they can’t save everyone, they try to make the suffering as minimal as possible. They do whatever they can to help people and I’ve seen some of them be very disappointed when they can’t save someone.
Can you do that every day? Day in, day out? Every day for the rest of your life? Can you handle seeing guts and blood and shit and piss and vomit and juicy innards sliding out of people and get over it and just try to save the person? Can you stomach it when a child comes in half beaten to death by his/her own parents? Can you get past the disgust when you see YET another shot victim? Can you remain pleasant when you see the same drunk ass fool for the third time this week? Can you handle it when you tell people over and over and over again the right things to do to keep their health and they keep coming in to see you because they never fucking listen to you but always want you to fix them? Can you work for hours on end without a break? Can you handle the pressure? Can you handle the mess that people are? Can you handle the negativity?
They can...or they stop being doctors. They can handle it and they do it. Because for all of that, they can also make a difference in someone’s life; make someone’s life better.
Why the fuck wouldn’t they deserve the money they get? Can you say, as you sit in your office job watching the clock tick closer and closer to 5pm that you have done as much as a doctor today?
They deserve it. Saying that they don’t deserve the pay they get and that they are being greedy is insulting and an invalid argument. Why don’t you tell your doctor that you think he/she is paid too much the next time you see them. Why don’t you tell them how greedy you think they are as they are helping you. I’m sure they’ll fucking appreciate it you ungrateful pricks.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Yes, Actually, We Do Care
Let’s get to the meat of the matter here. Some people think this is fantastic, this joke of a reform. So I wanted to dissect a few things that people think is so damn great.
"It means that now those of us with pre-existing conditions will be covered."—False. Children will be covered. Adults will be put in to a “high risk” pool. They won’t be covered.
"It means that 43 million Americans who cannot afford health insurance will now be able to get some." Not accurate. Of those 43 million, you have about 9-20 million ILLEGAL immigrants and you have people who are wealthy and decided not to get insurance. Basically, we have fucked this country for 6% of the population...and again, those numbers are not accurate nor are they fully disclosing the information to you. (Seriously, people, you all have the internet, can’t you do some research on your own? Must everyone point out to you exactly where to find these numbers? Or are you too busy playing Pogo games?)
"We won’t be paying more for insurance than we are now, what makes you think the prices are going to go up?" Have you been living under a rock? Whenever new taxes are added on, the prices go up. Even if you have only been paying attention THIS YEAR alone, you would know that! The businesses will ALWAYS pass the extra expenses on to the consumer. So, instead of making this “affordable for all Americans”, what this has done is make it “affordable” for approximately 9-20 illegal immigrants, (who don’t pay anyway), and has made it unaffordable for those who can barely afford what they have now.
Further, the word “pay” means monetarily to many people. Have you thought about how you might “pay” for this with your health? How about those on Medicaid? Why don’t you go look at what’s going on in Washington state for that answer. They’ve already decided not to pay doctors as much for this and pharmacies are not accepting Medicaid. Whee! Not only that but a good 50%, FIFTY PERCENT of doctors do NOT support this bill and have said they will seek another line of work if it passed. Welp, it passed. How are we going to treat all of these people with half the number of doctors we have now? HOW!? Ever hear of a “waiting list”? Get ready. And you better hope to GOD that your health can out wait the waiting list.
"Employers will have to provide everyone insurance, how can this be bad?" Dudes. OMG. I’ve had a lot of jobs. ONE job, the one I had before this, the employer paid for everything; dental, medical and vision. If we went to the doctor, we had our deductible but the employer paid our insurance payments each month. We would pay 20% of the bill when all was said and done after the deductible. THAT IS NOT COMMON. The job I have now, sure, the employer provides us a means to access medical insurance. That’s it. MEDICAL insurance. And he doesn’t pay a dime for it. WE pay for it, fully, every single month. I pay over $200 a month for this insurance and it’s ONLY medical. My deductible is $500 and I have to pay 30% of whatever is left over. I have no vision or dental. (Or I would have had this damn wisdom tooth out by now...but that’s going to cost me, out of pocket around $1500.) And when the insurance company hikes the price, it will be unaffordable for me to have this health insurance. Damn, what a brilliant plan this bill was.
"But it helps people who can’t get it!" Listen closely. Pay very close attention to what I’m about to say. WE. ALREADY. HAVE. HELP. IN. PLACE. FOR. THOSE. PEOPLE. BY. THE. GOVERNMENT. AND. THEY. DON’T. WORK!!!!! The elderly, children, disabled, unemployed...there’s already programs out there by the government and they don’t work so what better way to fix that than let the government FUCK IT UP EVEN WORSE!
A question for pro-lifers and those who despised the Patriot Act: You don’t want the government all up in your business by tapping your phones or telling you what you can and cannot do with your own body but do you accept this bill?! Do you accept that now the government is going to be all up inside your business now?! And you get to PAY for it?! You wanted the government out of your affairs but you voted in the very people who allowed government not only to be in your affairs but now start telling you what you can and cannot do or, at the very least, TAX you on shit you want to do.
Read the bill. If you go to a tanning salon, your personal choice, you will be taxed 10% because of this bill. It’s in there. Did you read it? Do you really want the government taxing you on your personal choices? Tanning salons are not covered by medical insurance. They are out of pocket expenses and they are a choice. But thanks to this bill, you will now be taxed on every visit you make because the government is getting in to your life and screwing you at every angle.
Did you think about that before you voted these people in just because they were “pro-life”? Are they really “pro-life”? ARE THEY?! The tanning thing is just a start. It’s not a healthy thing to do so why not tax it! Give it time. Watch the taxes go up on fast food. Cigarettes, alcohol, certain types of cars, how much you drive, where you live, your occupation, your recreational activities...thrill seekers beware. Don’t think it will happen? Ok. You’re right. It probably won’t. Surely there’s an entirely different reason they have decided to tax people on a personal choice such a visiting a tanning salon. Wonder what your costs will be when they decide to start charging you by the pound. Or glucose levels if you’re a diabetic. But, I’m sure that’s all just rhetoric. Of course.
"Republicans, the rich, should have to share their wealth. I would."—Guess you haven’t been paying attention. Republicans are the biggest givers to charity. (Philanthropy.org...do some research for yourself.) And what is this deal with “the rich should have to give to the rest of us”? This is America. We all have the opportunities to make it. Be a legal citizen, speak ENGLISH, work hard, go to school and way more often than not, you will succeed. Granted, yes, there are people who fall through the cracks. That is what the charity is for.
Here in Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital receives $586 MILLION a year in CHARITY. But you’re right, the “rich” don’t care.
When people stop using the E/R as their personal physician and get up off of their asses and actually WORK their way to some sort of success, (and in this day and age, I define “success” as those who can actually take care of themselves), instead of pissing and moaning about how they can’t afford health care, from the comfort of their leather couch in front of their big screen television as they type, angrily to those who do “not care” on their new laptop or Mac as they are connected to the internet while also texting several of their friends on their iPhone or other cell phone that costs them a good $100 a month, (if they shopped around at all), then we wouldn’t have the expenses that we have in this industry.
The city of Sacramento, one particular hospital started offering different options to those homeless who would come in to the E/R several times a month or week; detox, shelter, therapy, and their costs have dropped $2 million in one year.
Yes, the health care needs to be fixed but there’s a whole shit load more that needs to be fixed before we can get to the root of the problem with the health care. You do not need to go to the Emergency Room every single time you have a case of the sniffles. Instead of chugging down a bottle of anti-biotics every time you get a cold, why don’t you let your body work on it itself, let it build up its immune system and stop looking for quick fixes. And maybe if some of you would wash your fucking hands once in awhile, you wouldn’t get as sick as often as you do. And maybe you could start eating better and exercise...but, that’s YOUR choice. Just stop sucking down all the resources because you sneezed. You know those flu shots millions get every winter? There are lines and lines of people getting flu shots and many times, supplies run out. And people STILL get the flu. Guess what? I’VE NEVER GOTTEN A FLU SHOT and guess what else? I haven’t gotten the flu in....jeez..what has it been? Ten years? Fifteen? You know why? Because on the rare times I do get sick, I let my body fight it off and each time I do that, it builds my immune system. Shocking thing, that.
Thirty eight states are going to file lawsuits against this bill because it’s unconstitutional. Maybe then, MAYBE then, some of you will start seeing WHY so many are against it. It’s obvious so many have not read it. What can I expect, the congress critters didn’t even read the fucking thing before passing it....but maybe some of you should. This will be fought. And you should probably take a vacation to reality and figure out why.
Why don’t you start with the 10th Amendment?
Monday, March 22, 2010
Just As I Thought
One of the things those who oppose this social health care reform have been saying is that when you get older and perhaps contract an illness or disease, the government will be deciding who deserves treatment and who does not.
Oh NO! The lefties cried, that’s just right wing rhetoric and scare tactics...total propaganda.
Except they actually feel this way. I’ve been reading on another forum today about this topic and while half the people have a brain, the other half think this is the most glorious thing since the earth was made. And I quote:
“It will certainly force us to get over the odd notion that we should try to live forever.....we spend way too much money on the last few months of peoples lives. Maybe now we will be forced to be realistic.”
I just don’t know how else you are supposed to read that. The more I read, the more I feel the anger boiling up inside of me. It’s actually white hot right now...I can physically feel it churning. You mother fuckers keep pushing us with your GOTTDAMNED STUPIDITY and you will GET that fucking insurrection you laugh about you mother fucking pussy bitches! And how easy it will be since none of you panty wastes own any sort of protection.
I know there are people FAR more angry than I am and that is saying something because I’m about to explode like a fucking volcano. We. Do. Not. Want. A. Socialist. Country. You. Mouth. Breathers!
Disgust Is An Understatement
You know, I was trying to steer away from talking much about politics on this blog anymore but I’m so furious about what happened last night, (see below entry), that I may be talking about this for some time.
How in the HELL can something so unconstitutional pass?!! How can illegal bribes go unpunished? I mean, did you see that evil gleem in Bitch Pelosi’s eyes last night? They were glittering with it.
I cannot believe the people in this country are such worthless piles when it comes to our government. Many people fought and DIED to give us our freedoms and in one year, Big, FAT ASS government has stepped in and pretty much destroyed that concept. Government taking over the auto industry? Government taking over the student loan industry? Government taking over the health care industry?
What the hell is going on?! How on earth can people in this country be so blind or passive to what is happening? How can they NOT care? I simply do not understand this. I just do not get it. Yes, I know, people are stupid. I think we all are in agreement on this but seriously, how can people not take the time to research what their reps are doing and how they are voting?
How can we let one party be in control of the House, the Senate AND the presidency?! Are you people insane?!
Listen, I have a co-worker from Germany. It’s damn near pointless to talk about politics around her. I don’t start these conversations, usually they are started by another co-worker and she’ll jump in and ask why we have a problem with it. See, in Germany, it’s so great that they have this, do that and operate in such a manner. It’s great, she says.
Every time she opens her pie hole and says these things I want to scream two questions at her:
1) If it’s so fucking great in Germany, (EAST Germany is where she came from!), then why the fuck did you move to America?
2) If it’s so fucking great in Germany, why in the fuck don’t you go back!?
I lived in Germany. I was there for three years. I do not believe it’s that great. If you want socialism, it’s great. If you want freedom, liberty, NO taxation without representation, etc. etc. it is NOT great. Would you like to be taxed on the very fact that you HAVE a television? Would you like to be taxed so much that it’s cheaper for you to THROW AWAY your furniture at the end of the month and get new furniture rather than be taxed on what you already fucking bought and paid taxes on? Would you like to be taxed on your dog?! These are not one time taxes. These are repeat taxes. You own something, you get taxed on it again and again and again.
At work we get a lot of Europeans and they sure do like to bitch, piss and moan when they bring an item to the counter of the store that was marked $1.99, for example. They pull out two dollars and expect to get a penny back. They are told it’s actually $2.14 as it is $1.99 plus tax. Jeezus the shit fit they throw. “Tax!?” Like they’ve never heard of such a thing. They get upset and make snide comments about our taxes and how in their country they don’t have this tax on their items. What the price says it what the price is.
I want to scream at them every time. “You fucking lying sacks of shit! I’ve lived in Europe. Your taxes are included in the price but you have no way of knowing exactly how much tax you’re actually paying. You could be purchasing an item for $25 and half of that is in taxes. And once you own it, HERE, you’re done. You’ve paid your tax, you’re done. Where you live, you KEEP GETTING TAXED. So don’t EVEN come over here and look down that snotty European nose at us because we say, ‘The price is this and when you come to the register to purchase, you have a 7 percent tax tacked on.’ You pansy bitches wouldn’t know what to do with yourselves if you only had to pay 7 percent tax.”
But of course, I cannot. And thankfully I do not have to work on the counter at the store or I would have already gone ballistic and be unemployed right now.
But, that is what this country is heading for. We are getting taxes upon new taxes upon new taxes upon new taxes thrown at us, left, right and center so that we can PAY for all of those out there who refuse to accept personal responsibility or DO for themselves.
I’ve worked my ass off my entire adult life and I am NOT in the mood to pay for some lazy ass, whiny prick who doesn’t want to work. I do not wish to pay for someone to go out and buy big screen televisions, gaming systems, computers, iPhones and their monthly cell phone, internet and cable bill. These people state that they cannot afford health insurance but they sure as hell seem to have money to buy all of that other stuff. Their priorities are out of whack and you and I get to pay for that! I do not wish to pay for every slut out there who gets knocked up and has an abortion because they can’t be a responsible adult and use their BRAINS instead of their desires to think. And for some of you, I most certainly did a post on this some time back and it was discovered that the large majority of those abortions are coming from middle aged white women who basically go out, get drunk and get knocked up. The majority is NOT inner city teens. The majority is NOT rape or incest victims. The majority are people who should know better. But you and I get to pay for their one night stands and child murders. Fanfuckingtastic.
Last night I was sitting there watching this all unfold on C-Span. I listened to most of the debates until I couldn’t stand it anymore. I heard countless Dems come up and say that they were annoyed by the “rhetoric, scare tactics” and basic “lies” coming out of the right. No, Dems, they aren’t lying. They kept stating that the Republicans did not want health care reform. Total fucking lie. They do want health care reform. They just don’t want THIS health care reform.
What they want is competition. What they want is to give the people the choice to purchase insurance across state lines. They want to give people more affordable health care insurance. They want to let capitalism work. They want to go after those who are allowing out of control spending to happen. They want to go after those insurance companies who are operating in unethical, immoral and illegal ways. They don’t want to punish the people. They are listening to the people and what over half of the people want and have been trying to tell them.
Thirty four Democrats apparently are listening as well as the Republicans.
But 219 Democrats don’t give two shits about the people of this country. They have forgotten that WE do not work for them, THEY work for US. They seem to think that they know better how to run our lives. They seem to think that we are all too incapable and stupid to do for ourselves. So they will come in, ‘save us’ from ourselves, give us hand outs and turn us in to mindless drones who don’t have to do shit and continually vote them back in to office. And hey, while we’re at it, let’s cut a deal and I’ll give you my vote.
People can’t seem to see beyond the one or two issues they feel strongly about. “I’m pro choice and therefore I will never vote for someone who isn’t.” Nevermind that everything else the person stands for is something you disagree with as long as they are pro choice, they get your vote. Or, “I don’t like guns. I’m not going to vote for someone who thinks people should have the right to own a gun.” Nevermind that everything else that person stands for is harmful to you, your family, your friends and everyone else in this country. As long as they don’t like guns either, they get your vote.
NOT ONCE has any candidate EVER stood for everything I agree with. But you have to go for the one who is going to do right for this country and right for the people and our freedoms MORE SO than the other.
Oh and let’s not forget this one: “I won’t vote for him because he’s too old.” Lord have MERCY, I cannot take it. So, all of you who voted for the “seems like a nice guy”, and for those of you who voted for all of the Dems in the House and Senate because they were pro life and anti gun, thanks for fucking nothing. Did you even bother to see what else those assholes believed in or how they voted?
I hope that you have all enjoyed the liberties you’ve had from the time you were born until now. I hope you all reallllllly enjoyed that. Because it’s pretty much leaving the station. You took it for granted, you listened to the snotty ass Europeans who think they are better than us, you apologized to them for being who you are, (you types make me sick to my stomach), and you have basically been sitting in la la land thinking the world is covered with rainbow Skittles shat out by dancing unicorns. You took that Coke commercial where everyone is holding hands, smiling and frolicking in a field of daisies as reality. You have jammed your heads so far up your asses I’m amazed you can even breathe. You have not grown up and experienced real life. You think you are entitled to everything. You think it is OWED to you. You think everyone else should just give it to you because WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!H!H!H!H! life isn’t fair.
No, fuckers. Life is not fair. I’ve said it many times on this fucking blog that life is not fair. In fact, there are times when life downright fucking sucks and is so grossly unfair that you can’t make sense of it. And you may have your moments where you’re pissed or just don’t even know what to do next and that’s fine. But you don’t sit down, plant your thumb in to your mouth and cry about it for the rest of your lives.
You can pout and be pissy and throw a tantrum as long as you eventually get your ass up and try to do something with yourselves. Asking for help is fine. DEMANDING it, ORDERING it is entirely different.
Think about that the next time you all go to the polls, if you even have the damn wherewithal to go to the polls. Some of you are so clueless and “I don’t care about politics” (GAH!!!!) that is truly sickens me. How can you not care about what other people want to do to you and your future?!
In the meantime, congratulations. You just helped turn this country from what was once something decent and good and strong in to a big pile of vulnerability and BROKE, (as Mat said in the post below), so that any old country can now come in and take over. You just spit on all of those who gave so much, suffered so much, worked so hard to give you the freedoms and liberties you once had.
Next time, get over your hatred of Bush and fucking deal with reality.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Idiots!
Stupid, ignorant, lying, LYING, FUCKING LYING, moronic fucks!
I want you all to remember exactly, precisely who the fuck votes FOR this litter box liner for your state and vote their sorry, pathetic, LYING asses out in November.
TOOL SHEDS!
Please feel free to vent away in the comments regarding your total disgust about this stab to liberty.
Update Oh. My. GOD! Watching C-Span and I have now heard one of the STUPIDEST arguments for this reform. Rep. Lynn Woolsey of California, (Kool-Aid much?), actually said, and I quote:
”...no group of Americans needs (the reform) more than women who face discrimination and insult at the hand of the broken status quo every single day. We all know that the current system allows insurance companies to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions. But I wonder how many of my colleagues realize that essentially being a woman IS a pre-existing condition."
WHAT THE FUCK!?!!?!?!?!!?
She blathers on....
"Pregnancy, for example, or C-section can be deemed ‘pre-existing conditions’."
Um...what!?!?
"And most unbelievable of all, insurance companies can legally turn their backs on women who suffered injuries due to domestic violence because, that too, can be defined as a ‘pre-existing condition’. We should all be ashamed of a system that puts healthy insurance company profit ahead of healthy, American women."
Oh do SHUT UP!
"Tonight we will make history by passing a health care bill that will correct these injustices."
Stupidity should be lethal.
”...and no longer, will females be considered a ‘pre-existing condition’."
Break out the violins!! Jeezus H. Keerist. There’s no need to go in to WHY some of those things may happen, NO! Let’s just paint it all with a general, sweeping brush and act like women who get knocked up or knocked down are daily victims and left untreated to suffer in the gutters because big, bad, meanie health insurance companies won’t help them out.
What a load of horse shit. And what’s really sad about this is that some twat or multiple twats somewhere are going to buy in to that load of shit Woolsey just vomited.
Women are pre-existing conditions. Un. Fucking. Real.
Update I should have turned this in to a drinking game. Every time a Democrat pulls out the “Think of the chiiiiiiiiiiiildren” card, I would drink. I’d be drunk off of my ass right about now.
Update Or a Bingo card. Place a marker and drink for every “Single Mom” card, “Small Business” card and “Old Person Living Alone and Can’t Afford Their Medicine” card along with the “Think of the Chiiiiiiiiiildren” card. We could have had prizes. And one hell of a hang over tomorrow.
Update Welp. We’re fucked. 34 Dems voted NO, 178 Reps voted NO for a total of 212 total NO votes. FUCK! Four fucking people away. FOUR fucking people just screwed this country. There were 219 yes votes, all Dems. Four fucking people.
I cannot believe it.
Update And to add icing to this shit cake, we now all get to pay for all of the abortions done in this country. How in the fuck can these assholes claim to be for “the chiiiiiiiiiiildren” when they support killing them?! Sick bastards. What the FUCK is wrong with the Democratic party?
Monday, January 11, 2010
Sometimes The Stupidity Is Painful
As it should be.
Kids...seriously, people are stupid. Stupid. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!
First of all, it has been cold as hell here in Miami. It’s been in the 30s, low 30s and with wind chill added in, it feels like it’s in the upper teens to low 20s. That’s cold no matter where you live so don’t give me your sob stories of how it’s -89 degrees where you live.
The first part of our stupid people marathon is the fact that even though it’s 30 something degrees with a wind chill making it feel like upper teens to low 20s, and even though one of those days it was also raining, people still came out for airboat rides.
I’m not kidding.
“Oh I’m used to this type of weather.”
You fucking moron. Do you stand outside for an hour out in the freezing ass cold rain where you live? Do you hop on to a boat and speed around on open water where you live? Do you allow yourself to get soaked to the bone and remain outside for another 45 minutes with temperatures in the 30s, where you live?
NO! You do not. Use. Your fucking! brain! Gottdamnit!
But they came. And they laughed at us, all bundled up, scarves, 6 layers of clothing, gloves, face masks, hats, etc. Oh they thought it was the funniest damn thing they ever did see. Ok, mother fuckers. You think that’s funny? Just you wait.
On the tour they went, hysterically laughing at all of us “light weights” in Miami. Until we picked up speed.
See, not only was it in the 30s with freezing ass rain and wind making it feel like it was in the upper teens to low 20s, add in another 30mph to that from the airboat.
Oh! What’s that?!
You’re FREEZING! IT’S COLD?!?!?!?!?!?! THE HELL YOU SAY!
Once they got a taste of that wind blasting right in to their faces, they were no longer laughing. All they could do was sit as close to each other as possible and shiver the stupid out of them. But we weren’t done with them yet.
No, you don’t get to go back to your heated little vehicle just yet..you still have to sit outside for another half an hour to watch the show. Oh yes, you paid for it, you’re getting it. You didn’t want to listen to us, you wanted to piss, bitch and moan about your money, fine. Freeze you fucking tools.
And freeze they did.
Oh how we laughed.
And the next day, more idiots came out to try it all over again. And today, they’re probably going to do it again...thankfully I’m not there to watch them because I really, really cannot take it anymore. I really felt like punching them all in the face and asking, “What the hell is wrong with you?”
We even had one douche bag come in to the store, shivering, asking, I do not lie here, if it would be cold on the boat.
That’s the point I had to turn around and walk away. So this is what stupid looks like.
The second file in our stupidity marathon is brought to you by moronic fucks trying to stay warm inside their homes. Kids, a space heater costs what, $30, $40 dollars? Not too expensive. And why people act like Miami has never had a cold day before, EVER, (yearly we get at least a week), I’ll never understand.
So, space heaters are flying off the shelves, one store stated he sold 300 one day, 450 the next day, 200 something the following day..cha-ching! Good for him. (People might have thought to purchase one of these at any time of the year before it gets cold down here. Granted, it has not been THIS cold since forever but it does get cold here every single year to the point of needing some heat.)
But one family was too cheap, too fucking lazy to go get a space heater or plan ahead. So what did they do to keep warm? Why! They decided it would be a grand idea to bring the BBQ PIT INSIDE THEIR HOUSE and move it from room to room, lit, to keep the place warm.
GENIUS! SHEER BRILLIANCE! I wonder why no one has thought of THAT before!!
It must be a South American thing because I’ve heard of others who have done the same thing and destroyed kitchen ceilings in their rented homes. They’re lucky that’s all that happened.
Getting back to our genius family, you’ll never guess what happened! No, seriously, you’ll never guess!
Hey, how’d you guess? That’s right kids, they all got carbon monoxide poisoning from the fucking charcoal used to light the grill. And they proceeded to spread the toxic fumes all over the house when they kept moving the grill from room to room. They are all now in the hospital.
Well hot damn! That idea worked after all! They’re all warm and snug inside their hospital beds! There’s no need to throw away thirty hard earned dollars on a space heater! We’ll just put ourselves in the hospital and get free heat!
Finally, 3rd stop on our idiot fuck marathon, the dipshit who left a space heater in the “baby’s room” unattended. I wonder why my house caught on fire?!!!!
Kids...please feel free to smack the shit out of the next stupid person you encounter and tell ‘em it’s from me. It doesn’t matter where you live, they are everywhere and I just do not have the time to get to them all. In fact, let’s make this a new cause…
Slap the stupid out of people!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Total Garbage
So, not only are the airlines only going to hold us hostage for a mere three hours, they’ve decided that for the last hour of our flight, our only choice is to stare blankly ahead at the seat in front of us.
Band-Aid Solution To A Real Problem.
1. During flight, the aircraft operator must ensure that the following procedures are followed:
1. Passengers must remain in seats beginning 1 hour prior to arrival at destination.
2. Passenger access to carry-on baggage is prohibited beginning 1 hour prior to arrival at destination.
3. Disable aircraft-integrated passenger communications systems and services (phone, internet access services, live television programming, global positioning systems) prior to boarding and during all phases of flight.
4. While over U.S. airspace, flight crew may not make any announcement to passengers concerning flight path or position over cities or landmarks.
5. Passengers may not have any blankets, pillows, or personal belongings on the lap beginning 1 hour prior to arrival at destination.
Not only that, but they’ve decided that they are going to pat down 100% of the people. Would these people PLEASE give me a fucking break!?!?!
The little old lady with white hair and her poodle in a carry on pet carrier is NOT a fucking terrorist. The exhausted family of four, returning from a ski trip in the Alps is NOT fucking terrorists. We know damn good and well what to look for. But because we don’t want to be racist and because we don’t want to be sexist, we just simply won’t admit to ourselves or anyone else just what those things are. Fucking PC gone way too far. Now everyone will suffer because of terrorists.
The hell if I’m going to sit and stare at nothing for a full gottdamn hour before landing. What if I have to use the bathroom? Too bad? Shall I wet the seat, instead? I’m not allowed to read a book or magazine or my Kindle for a full hour before we land? I am not allowed to type shit in to a Word document on my laptop one hour before we land? Oh and heaven forbid! should my sweater sleeves cover my hands.
Are you idiots serious?
Let’s not actually talk straight and confess to what the real problem is, OH NO! My God, that might offend someone!!!!! No, let’s just treat everyone like a fucking terrorist! Fuck you, TSA. I’m not a mother fucking terrorist and I do not appreciate being treated like I might be one. You know damn good and well what to look for. It isn’t me and my damn Kindle one hour before landing, you stupid twats.
Once again, instead of actually tackling the real problem, (Hey! How ‘bout those Visas you fucking fools are throwing around like candy), we’ll just slap a SpongeBob band-aid on it and tell the American public that we are working hard to solve it. In reality, you fucking morons are not solving a damn thing.
And the American public will slurp this up like it’s the best tasting bullshit pie they’ve ever eaten, even make excuses, “Well, if that’s what keeps me and my family safe, then I guess it’s worth it”, instead of standing up and saying, “Hell no!” and refusing to fly.
Because we are lemmings.
Being led off the cliff to die.
Because we are stupid, stupid people.
And we never wake the fuck up until it’s far, far too late.
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Look Out Your Window For Pigs Flying
1) Yesterday I went to the store and not only did the cashier speak to me in English but she understood me without me having to repeat myself several times AND she was pleasant. No attitude for speaking English.
2) Charles of Little Green Footballs has drunk the Kool-Aid. I cannot fucking believe it.
3) I’ve witnessed Karma nail 4 people within a year of “what they did” and Karma is putting some serious hurting on those people. You better believe this stuff, kids. Karma IS.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Only The Good Die Young
Don’t know about you all but I love watching the local news. There’s always some idiot over dramatizing an event or saying something completely moronic and when they cut away from the anchors, we get to see more of that from the public being interviewed.
Have you ever noticed that every single person who was somehow killed was a good person, hard working, family oriented, caring, giving to the community? Ever notice that? No bad people ever die. No one ever comes on and says, “He was kind of an asshole and it doesn’t surprise me that he got shot.”
Just this morning, I was watching the local news for the traffic report, (I love to get up early on my day off and watch everyone stuck in traffic....oh how that makes me laugh). While I waited, a report came on about a guy who was killed over the weekend. Once again, he was a caring, hard working family man. Yah, ok, “family man”....that’s why he was killed at a strip club? Cause he’s a “family man”.
I don’t care if you think it’s ok to go to a strip club and frankly, I’m passed giving a shit if guys want to throw their money away at those clubs but spare me on the family man crap. In my opinion, a “good family man” spends time with his family at night, he doesn’t spend his “hard earned” paycheck at the strip club while his wife and kids sit at home.
“Oh Serenity, have some compassion, a guy was killed!”
Yah, whatever. I guess as I get older, I have less compassion for people who put themselves in those situations. This good, caring, hard working family man went to a strip club, got mouthy with someone and got his ass capped. Sigh...nope. I just have no sympathy.
Anyway, just once I’d like to see someone get on the news and tell the truth. “He was a total selfish prick, he was loud and obnoxious, aggressive and went somewhere he shouldn’t have been. But we loved him anyway.”
That I could believe.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Ugh!
You know what I really hate? When someone or a group of someones bitch about something. And bitch. And bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch, then they complain, piss, moan, whine, boo hoo, carry on, and then they bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch.....
AND DON’T DO A FUCKING THING ABOUT IT!
If you are not going to do anything about it then SHUT. THE FUCK. UP!
