Well…the non-partisan CBO numbers are in and they are just as ugly as they were projected to be…and they stab older people (the ones that voted for trump) more than any other cohort….but, first…24 million people will lose their health insurance under this giveaway to the rich…subsidies that make insurance affordable are being cut to the bone to give the rich a 300 billion dollar tax cut….the repubs are harping on the part of the report that states that the US will save 33 billion dollars a year by not subsidizing people and by cutting medicaid that provides insurance for the poor…but to me, putting 24 million of their fellow Americans back into financial peril by taking their insurance away defines the repub brand these days…they don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich…and they say they are providing “freedom” for people to chose their insurance..but what choice is it when 24 million people can no longer afford their insurance…and what “freedom” is it to the 20-24,000 more people who will die next year from not being able to afford healthcare? This is the modern repub party folks, they work so damn hard trying to make the country worse for everyone but the rich….dirtier water, dirtier air, and no healthcare are their goals….I wonder when the US people are going to wake up and reject this “freedom”…..impeach…
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Microwaves into cameras?
Well…according to the idiot Kellyanne Conway, we now know how trump tower was bugged…it has microwaves that Obama turned into cameras! That is exactly what this moron said on the Sunday shows yesterday…that “everyone knows” that microwaves can be turned into cameras….now, that is some paranoid crap right there…what’s next? Turning couches into planes? Turning cars into camels? Turning people into paranoid idiots? I am never really amazed at the stupidity of the trumpbots anymore, but this one was close to the most idiotic so far…that they have to make things up to support their delusional boss…and that it appears that they love doing it is just something to see…and not a good something, either…impeach…
March 13th
Well…running a little late today and I just can’t get started….feel a little slow today and I think I’ll need some time and coffee to fix that….I did make a little cash yesterday so I can buy groceries this week so that takes a load off…but, I didn’t get anything else done yesterday so that will have to change today….but, I just don’t feel like it, though, so I think I’ll just wing it for a while….still setting all of the clocks in here after the time change yesterday and I seem to adjust better to springing forward better than falling back…I still hurt all over and I think I’ll take something for it later….after I work out, that is…need to know where the pain is to see if there are new ones to think about….more later….
March 12th
Well…another pretty wasted day yesterday but I did get a few things done so maybe it wasn’t a total loss….but my back is still stiff and that makes getting in and out of the car a little iffy…I wonder if a time will come that I can’t get in and out of it? I did make a little cash yesterday and I am going to do that again today so that is cool…so there will be groceries again this week….I did get some salmon filets marinated that I am going to bake today…think I’m going to try them in parchment paper to see how that works…and I should clean today and I might but I’m not sure about that right now…still too early to tell….need more coffee and to veg for a while first…so that is what I’m going to do….more later…
RIP John Surtees…
Well…I think it’s a pretty good bet that you will have no clue who John Surtees was…and that he died yesterday at 84….back in the 60’s when I was just getting interested in racing, there was not much coverage of it…certainly no tv, so you had to get your fix by newspapers or magazines…but that has nothing to do with this….John Surtees was the only person to ever win the motorcycle world championship and then later, the Formula 1 world championship for cars. Widely regarded as one of the most talented and nicest guys in racing…RIP John….
March 11th
Well…I need coffee….and my back is still hurting this morning…it’s tough to bend over at all without pain so I guess I won’t be doing that much today….I did win at pool yesterday so that was cool…but I didn’t get anything else done….and I’m not sure what I’ll get done today…don’t feel that hot this morning and I am having a hard time getting going…and the cold is not helping my mood..it is only 15 degrees outside and that is way too cold for March….and that will continue all week which is depressing, too….oh, well…I do have an errand to run this morning but that will be later after I have my coffee….okay….not feeling this right now so I am going to have more coffee and just veg for a while….more later…
Paul Ryan is just not too bright…
Well…the guy in charge of “fixing” health insurance in this country has no clue how insurance works…let that sink in for a minute…Paul Ryan has no clue how insurance works and now want to “fix” the system. The other day, when giving a presentation on his plan, ole Paul decried the fact that healthy people had to pay premiums that would pay for healthcare for sick people who also paid premiums…I just slapped my head when I heard that…especially since that is exactly how insurance works…everyone pays into a pool and then the risk is spread across the entire insured population….but that’s not how repubs look at anything…any shared risk is “communism” in their eyes…and I heard another one of these idiots bitch the other day why any man should have to pay into a pool that covered maternity care…that right there is the problem with the repubs…they don’t believe in community or shared goals but just their own damn selfishness…they don’t want to pay for roads in other states, they don’t want to help their fellow Americans suffering natural disasters, and they sure don’t want to have to help pay for “women’s health” and all the icky stuff that goes along with that…I just hate these people..they have destroyed the sense of community that any country needs to survive….
March 10th
Well…running early today and I’m not sure why….I’m trying out the no dish antenna this morning….have to get ready for turning off the dish at the end of the month…Mork and Mindy is on and that will make a good background noise for the morning…I did get my internet fixed yesterday…or my son fixed my internet I should say…it is weird to watch him working on the computer remotely but cool, too….my back has been hurting in new areas over the past few days and that is strange…haven’t done anything to hurt it and I hope it’s not just getting older…..I did have to go out to get groceries I forgot this morning…and they had eggs on sale for 69 cents so I had to buy them….not going to do much today…pool, but that is about it…more later……
The conflict of interest administration….
Well…if it wasn’t sickening enough that trump and his “administration” is rife with conflicts of interest and whose sole purpose seems to be to enrich trump and his cronies, we now know that his disgraced nations security adviser, Michael Flynn, was working as an agent of the Turkish government and was paid over a half million dollars during that time…now, someone with ethics…and that is no one in the trump administration, would think there is something wrong with that…allowing a foreign government to pay someone in trump’s campaign to shape our foreign policy…but trump’s modus operandi has always been “pay for play” and has changed our foreign policy to serve Putin and anyone who ponies up the big bucks….you repubs should be sick that trump is selling our government to the highest bidder…but no, nothing matters to you but tax cuts for the rich and hating on everyone else…what a corrupt bunch of assholes….
Internet problems…
Well…have been trying to get my internet company to fix the intermittent problems but on the phone with the earlier, it is OF COURSE problems with my equipment not their line coming in…so, I had my son remote access my system to try to figure out what is going on…haven’t figured out really what is going on yet but I am going to stream all day and wait for it to crap out again so he can see what is going on…kind of like a car that has an intermittent problem…the mechanics can’t figure it out until it does it while they have the car….more later….