Well…with all of the press being given to healthcare these days, one little known capitalistic tactic has been flying under the radar…until now. With many illnesses, there are old drugs that work perfectly fine and, with the few cases there are, there is no incentive for any drug company to develop new drugs or for companies to develop generic analogs for those drugs. But, that’s not good enough for the Wall street boys that make their living screwing people and stealing everything they can…the new trend is for the hedge fund boys to find a company that has one of these old drugs and is the only company making it…they then buy the company or the rights to the drug….and increase the price astronomical amounts…the latest example being the drug Deraprim, a 62 year old drug used to treat AIDS patients. The ghoul behind this crap is a jerk called Martin Shkreli who just happens to be a former hedge fund manager and what he did is just the worst of capitalism…he took the price of this drug which once cost a dollar a pill to $750 dollars a pill putting the treatment out of reach of many patients and lining his pockets while people die…justifying his actions saying the increase is necessary to fund “research”…that will never happen. In fact, in a previous company where he did the same thing to pediatric kidney patients, he is now being sued for 65 million dollars…this guys is no humanitarian…and this crap should be stopped now before more people die just to make him richer…how does he live with himself? Pretty easily, I’d guess…these folks don’t give a damn about anyone but themselves….geez…
September 22nd
Well…it’s the last day of summer and I’m not sure how I feel about that…just more time passing that I can’t control….slept crappy, crappy, crappy last night and feel it this morning…there should be a nap later today but I think that may make it worse so I think I won’t take one….I am going to smoke some salmon this morning and I have a lot of other stuff to do so it is going to be a busy one…and that’s okay…it is better when I am busy and the day goes by faster…but, do I want that? At least I will be accomplishing something so that will be cool….I am really sore today and my left elbow is screaming at me so I will need to do the ibuprofen thing in just a little while…I am looking forward to getting the new front sprocket on the bike…the chain is skipping now with just a little pressure and the last time the pedal raked the back of my calf and left a bruise the size of my hand…at least it didn’t break the skin and start bleeding…not much to do today…that’s not true…I have lots of stuff to do and it should keep me busy until late aft…going to try to make some smoked salmon dip with some leftover cream cheese just to see how it is….more later…
Goodbye and good riddance Scotty…
Well…just had this bit of wonderful news come over my Twitter feed…ole Scott Walker is dropping out of the race for the repubs…yep, I’ll bet that bit of news put a smile on your face, too…that this smarmy little cretin even was considered a front runner a few months back made my skin crawl as his only claim to fame was the destruction of Wisconsin’s economy while his cronies stole everything that was not nailed down. Now that the Koch’s have lost their golden boy, what o what are they going to do now? Who are they going to get to try to outlaw unions, to hate on women, and to continue to lower their taxes? I would have really liked to see this idiot go up against either Hillary or Bernie in a debate…since he has shown throughout his creepy career that he can’t think on his feet, either one of the dems or even Joe Biden would have demolished him. Goodbye and good riddance Scotty…don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out…
Volkswagen is a cheater..
Well…in this age of computer run cars, I guess this had to happen….the other day, it was discovered that Volkswagen used the computer software that runs their engines to cheat the EPA tests in their diesel cars sold in the US. The software was so sophisticated that it could tell when the engine was being tested and put in the pollution control protocol when, all the rest of the time, the engine would run basically without pollution controls, spewing from 10 to 40 TIMES the pollution that it was certified for. It was also revealed that there are almost a million cars with this software that are polluting our air…and the funny thing is the CEO of the company doesn’t know anything about it…okay, that was sarcasm…I just wonder why they would want to do this..better mileage? Okay, I am having a hard time working up outrage when this crap happens all the time…corporations are not people…but who are the people behind this? Nope…no outrage…damn…I wonder if my outrage meter is broken? Geez…
September 21st
Well…running a little late today since I ran into Brian on the way back from getting the papers and talked to him for a while…he dropped off 5 pounds of fresh salmon that he caught yesterday and I need to find some recipes to cook something new….I think I am going to smoke one slab this aft since I really do like the smoked stuff…but that means I’ll have to go out and get some bagels and cream cheese to have with it…he suggested I make some salmon dip with cream cheese and chives and I just may do that, too….slept okay last night but still feel a little slow today but I will just let that heal as the day goes on…I did order the new front sprocket for the bike yesterday since it is skipping like crazy and that is annoying…only 22 bucks and that will take the bike back to where the final 300 miles will be good….not much to do today…have to run an errand this morning and then smoke the fish but that is about it…more later…
September 20th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday filled with sports so I wasn’t as bored as normal…and Michigan and State won so that was cool…slept okay but don’t remember it so I wonder if that’s true…didn’t get anything done but today will be different…I need to get the cobwebs cleaned out of the living room today but no cooking so that will make it an easy day….and another sports one with the F1 race on right now and the soccer, football, and racing on later so there will be a good nap when the Lions play….it is too cold to go out on the bike yet so I guess I’ll have to hit the couch for a while to wait it out but I do need to get out before 10 since Man U is on at 11 and I do want to see that….not much to do today…just sports it looks like and taking it easy….I will clean something just to keep the guilt at bay…more later…
Jade Helm is over…
Well…not sure if you remember this one or not but I find it funny enough to write about it again….there was a huge military exercise in Texas and other southwest states this summer…just like they have held it for years and years, but this year the crazies on the right went nuts with their conspiracy theories saying that it was going to be a takeover of Texas by the federal government. Not only a takeover, but there were secret tunnels under abandoned Walmarts and FEMA camps where “true patriots” were going to be rounded up and then their guns were going to be taken away…and something, something….you get my drift. The funny thing here is no matter how ridiculous this all sounds, almost half of all repubs believed this crap…now, how frickin delusional do you have to be to believe this nonsense? Now, they no longer have to be scared…Jade Helm ended last week and, as far as I can see, Texas is still there, no one has been rounded up and the tunnels under the Walmarts are still empty….I wonder what the next big conspiracy is going to be for these folks? What must it be like to live in that kind of a fevered brain? Something I never want to know…geez…
September 19th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t do much..no pool since Tom wasn’t feeling well…so, you would think I’d get something done but I didn’t…I did get my new Roku in the mail yesterday and got that set up and it is pretty cool…but it is slower than my old one and that is a little annoying….slept okay last night, I think, but I feel a little slow today with the pain in my lower back flaring up again…sitting here watching the Chelsea/Arsenal match and it is a little boring with the play being choppy…but, I still will watch since I really want Chelsea to lose…they have stunk the place up and are in 17th place after being champions last year…not much to do today…sitting here waiting for the F1 qualifying to start and that will put me late on the bike today but that is okay…I do have to try to find a new front sprocket for the bike today since the old one is just skipping all the time and it is annoying…more later…
September 18th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and another one that I didn’t get anything done but the grocery run…but that kind of describes a normal day for me right now so I guess it’s okay….slept kind of crappy, again, and that’s normal, too, but boring so I won’t talk about that, either….my upper back has started to heal from I don’t know what but now my lower has gotten worse with it hurting on the bike which it never has before…going to have to try to crack it later today to see if that will help….I do need to get moving and get the bike ride in early today so I can see F1 practice that is on a little later….not much to do today…pool, of course, but that is about it for the day…won’t even attempt to clean since I know I won’t get to it….and I don’t want to feel guilty by not doing it….more later….
JEB! really is the more stupid one….
Well…just had to make one more comment on the debate last night when ole JEB! praised his idiot younger brother with the lie “he kept us safe”….and I just couldn’t believe the rest of the idiots on stage just let that one go…yeah, JEB! he kept us safe except for the 2,790 people that were killed in the Trade Center and the other 300 Americans that were killed by terrorists during the rest of his terms…and even dumber than that statement is the new tweet that JEB! sent out this morning showing the idiot younger brother standing in the rubble of the WTC with a little JEB! logo in the corner…rubble that included the remains of the dead from those attacks which he disrespected by using the rubble pile for a photo op….I am beginning to wonder if JEB! really has anything between his ears but air….stupid, stupid, JEB!