Just another wanker.

I'm amused.
No, really. Tonight is just really special. Let's start with THIS.
I haven't been here for a while, I've been busy. 2011 sucked and we are still trying to dig ourselves out. Tonight I got a troll comment on my last post, it was pretty funny and I thought I would share a few thoughts on it.

As I tried to log in with my default browser, (Firefox) I was informed that it was no longer supported by Google and was ask if I would like to try Chrome.  Soooo... as I tried to log in with Chrome, I was informed that my browser was no longer supported by Google and was ask if I would like to try Chrome...  HEY GOOGLE? Put the fucking PIPE down!

Trolls.  I got a comment on my last post here, one that I titled: To stupid, to pour piss out of a boot. It was pretty typical nonsense, blah blah blah, I don't agree with you because you've insulted me. (Hell, that post was an insult to pretty much EVERYONE)

Anyway, He/she/it started by telling me that before I called EVERYONE else an asshole, I should make sure that *I* don't look an asshole... UH...  I very carefully reread that post and I only used the word "asshole" once and that was in reference of the Asshole in Chief, Oblahblah. This person should always be referred to as an asshole.

Next, (being generous and helpful) to help me "not" appear an asshole,  he sited my use of the English language and gave me an example. There are no examples in the post of his example but there is already a pattern starting to show. Then of course, I'm not English and going back almost 400 years my family was never English, then we became Americans and that was that.

THEN he went into a rather weird thing about Newt that I can only equate to desire... Shudder.

Has anyone besides me noticed that the only thing nastier that an O-bot is a Paultard? (just wondering)

This troll appears to be from here at blogger, there is a blog listed in his posting information. I didn't go look at it, I'm not all that interested.

Shrug, I spammed the comment.

The picture above is a pretty fair representation of the typical O-bot, Paultard troll, so I thought it would be fitting to use it.

From the Highway and byways of America.

t

To stupid, to pour piss out of a boot...

Over the last 10 years or so, I have slowly been becoming convinced that the world was doomed. Mostly after Jan, 2000, I've become convinced that the American people we're becoming more and more stupid with each passing day. I see the complete bullshit some of you... LARGE numbers of you, watch on the "moron maker" (AKA Television) and call "entertaining" and I start to wonder. Then what some of you so called grown ups call "music"... yeah, there is an eye opener.

THEN, there's politics, a place that few of us, (myself included) should even venture, if we were smart that is. Politics is helping to convince me that it's over, we should just jump in the hole and pull the dirt in after us. We've watched for years and people have intentionally done things to harm this nation, right in front of ALL of us and yet, there are still people willing to vote for their own destruction. I would have no problem with that, really, as long as they were the only ones that suffered. But it just don't work that way.

Then in 2008 some of you people voted for one of the sorriest human beings ever seen outside of a prison cell, you screamed racist every time someone even said "What did he mean?" You hurt people, lied, cheated, committed fraud, violated  laws concerning the most sacred of American rights, just to get a man totally unqualified in the office of the president. I was pretty convinced that YOU at least, were to stupid to avoid lightning. Man was I wrong... 3 years later, a disastrous 3 years later, 3 years that proved Obama was not the man for the job and in fact may have criminal, Un-American intentions, there is still more than one person that think he's done a good job and would vote for him again.

OK, you people are to stupid to fuck.

THEN, comes the useless, smelly hippie idiots that #OCCUPIED everyplace EXCEPT the place the problem existed and the place it started, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC. The guy that caused the most of these issues with his union supporting giveaways, LIVES THERE, and you helped put him there, so you should have known that. But again, you're just stupid. When people ask random hippies on the streets what they were hoping to accomplish, there were never 2 stories the same, even in the same group. These  un-permmited, mostly illegal, squattings were openly supported by the communists, the Nazis, the unions, disgusting members of congress, Islamic terrorists and terrorist organizations, Red China, whining Hollywood scum,  the list goes on and it gets worse, ending with the asshole in the white house.

I was 99.99% convinced that this planet is doomed because Americans had finally LOST IT...

No... I found that last .01% tonight...

The wife and I were making turkey and mayo sandwiches, there, on the back of a name brand, big name Mayo like Kraft (or Hellman's) is the instructions... the DIRECTIONS... to make a sandwich... no, not a special sandwich with some nifty new ideas for fillings. Just a sandwich. Ham I think...

and in the end, when they showed YOU, (because I don't need such help) only one piece of bread (which they helpfully numbered as TWO), didn't have mayo on it... it was still dry. But yet, a major industrial concern that has been around for a long, long time felt that you needed help... making a sandwich...

With this final .01%, I'm convinced. most of you have made stupid into a whole new art.

t

99% of nothing, is still nothing,..

On the left you see the total capacity of the left in their attempt to gain, (once again) what they don't deserve.

Let this be the icon of the Occupy Movement, AND the new Icon of the Democratic Party in the US.

I think it more than represents the juvenile sniveling the rest of us must deal with as we move forward.

This group claims to be "The 99%" of America, they claim o represent ME and YOU. While they are using stolen ideas, protesting some of the same things the Tea Party have been protesting, even going so far as to compare themselves to the Tea Party, the picture above gives proof of the lie.

I seriously doubt that they even represent 99% of the 20% (20% being an approximate on the numbers of true liberal in the US population, it's probably much lower) even liberals are finding that they are going to have to do something for themselves in order to survive the mess they helped get us into.

To the liberals: the picture above is how we are going to remember you. I intend to see it so.

Look for the union label...

I always do and when I find it, I put the product back on the shelf and find another one.

I have dozens of stories about unions and their utter failures here in the state of Arizona. The many times I had to work on the same projects with them. Or the money I made, "back in the day", cleaning up projects after the IBEW.

Now they are supporting the economic failure of major industry here in the U.S. just to keep their pockets full and their power base in place.

Way back when, unions served a vital purpose in labor here in America, but today, everything they did back then, is covered by law. They are not doing anything but driving up prices on everything from food to American built cars. Most of you know the damage done in Detroit by the UAW. It extends to almost everything in our stores.

We can't avoid unions in many things, cars, airlines, education, communications, etc... not without making it clear to other union companies, we've had enough of the union idea of "fairness".

So, look for the union label and when you find it, put it back on the shelf.

The Wasted Vote Lie, Lie.

Have you ever noticed that the term "Wasted Vote" or similar terms never show up until election time? I suppose that make sense in an abstract kind of way... but have you also noticed that the only people talking about it AND how there is "no such thing" is third party supporters and candidates?

I recently had a "debate" with a Libertarian" candidate named R. Lee Wrights on facebook. I'm pretty sure Mr. Wrights has somewhere between hysterical laughter and no frigging chance of getting his party's nomination, much less EVER getting through the general election. (Mr. Wrights lost this debate and I have the screen shots)

There is such a thing as a wasted vote. It's unfortunate but that's the way it is. Period
Look, I fully understand the thought behind it; "It's my vote, I have the right to express it as I wish." I agree, 100%, but if in 2012, you vote outside of the established "2 party system", meaning Republican or DemocRat, you will be expressing your opinion to an empty room.

For a conservative this is dangerous, you waste your vote on a party that has no chance of winning the election, we could very well end up with 4 more years of the same super corruption that we've been dealing with since the election in 2008.

For a liberal, it would be the same kind of irresponsible bullshit that we've come to expect from you. However, in this particular instance I believe liberals should divide their votes between the green party, the American socialist party, Micky Mouse and those Libertarian people. That way your irresponsible behavior only effects the idiots you normally support.

Now, there is a lot of "talk" among conservatives about this guy Ron Paul being the only "answer". I disagree, for several reasons.

His naive view of a Nuclear armed Iran is only the most recent reason on my list but it, by it's self, is more than enough for me. I don't want this guy in charge of a cross walk, much less America's security and/or Nuclear arsenal. He might actually be more dangerous than the idiot in the White House now.

There are other reasons that are not "just" about Ron Paul but about the whole "libertarian" viewpoint. I'm not going to support any group of people that makes noise about legalizing drugs, just to get votes from the younger generations. I certainly would not vote for that mind set if I thought they were serious.

The following quote will pretty much sum up the rest of it:

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)

Many of us, understand that quote, Ron Paul and his supporters, (and others, looking young votes) do NOT. At least there is no evidence of it.

This post is about wasted votes and how they really do exist, about how you could very easily waste yours, even though its your right to do so. It's about how third party candidates are not in the running for president or anything else, because they fall outside of the established requirements. I fully believe that there shouldn't BE a wasted vote, but there is. It sucks, but its there and we can't ignore it, if we do, we are going to only increase the suffering.

This is a post about wasted votes and making the right decision, no matter how we feel it should work or what the third parties are telling us.

It's kind of strange how I ended up with Ron Paul, isn't it?

Vote your opinion as you see it, you do so at your own peril.

And everyone else...

It's Amusing how some people "hate the rich".

If the wealthy have earned that money, they deserve every dime of it. Period.

It used to be called the American Dream.

I'm just a common man, a working man. I work for a rich man, a rich family, a big money company.

My check clears the bank every week. I have more than enough work to do with an endless amount in the future. I'm in the top of my industry, placing me in the, say, top third of today's non-existent middle class. This money is not given to me, I work for it in ways that 98% of this population can't picture.

I have NEVER, EVER been hired by a man on welfare. NOT ONCE. These people are of no use to me or anyone else, including themselves.

The tax dollars that I pay out are in part wasted on public programs that offer no return. The System was presented as a way to get people back on their feet. Instead we have generations of people that think they are entitled to our tax dollars for no other reason than they are alive. This is encouraged by the "I hate the rich" do-gooders in our society, in fact it's necessary for them to do so. (See November 7th 2008)

There is a large portion of our general population that are not paying taxes. Want federal revenues? Tax them.

There is another portion of our population that contributes in no way yet receives a monthly portion of my tax dollars. Stop paying them for doing nothing.

There are others that don't belong here, 20 million at last count. yet they have access to my tax dollars too. In fact, they have better access than people that DO belong here but don't do anything for it. Stop paying them. Stop teaching their children, stop feeding them, take away their excuses and they will go home.

Corporations can and will create jobs, when it is feasible to do so. There is more profit in it. More profit, more jobs. I've seen this work, over and over. (I saw it because I took part in it, I was watching and not listening to people, who in their own interests want us to believe otherwise)

SOME companies will continue to send jobs out of the country because they can get Modu to work for pennies a week in Bongo Bogo land, instead of paying honest and fair wages here in the USA. Tax the living hell out of these companies, before a single one of their products are allowed back into the US. Then place a tariff on those products. An unreasonable tariff. In very little time we will get one of 2 results, the jobs come home or the company can't compete and goes down, to be replaced by a home grown company. Win/Win for us.

Oh... SCREW foreign companies with a broken bottle. If we can make it here, it should be made here. If it's not made here and we don't BUY it, someone WILL make it here.

We did this to ourselves by thinking its cool to own European cars, furnish our homes in crappy, ugly European furniture, drink imported wines and beers and feel superior to those of us that buy American.

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Can we spend our way to prosperity?

The question it's self is undeserving of an answer... can you screw your way to virginity?

How did he get in there?

:-)

t

Viet Nam Service - Facts, The Wall.

I've "checked" some of these for factual base and find them true, I didn't have time to investigate them all, you be the judge. True or not, its very sobering evidence of America's fight for freedom. I used a picture of Obama to show the other side of the coin, the Anti-American.

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There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.

The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.

Beginning at the apex on panel 1E and going out to the end of the East wall, appearing to recede into the earth (numbered 70E - May 25, 1968), then resuming at the end of the West wall, as the wall emerges from the earth (numbered 70W - continuing May 25, 1968) and ending with a date in 1975. Thus the war's beginning and end meet. The war is complete, coming full circle, yet broken by the earth that bounds the angle's open side and contained within the earth itself.

The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth, Mass. listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956.

His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.

There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.

39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.

The largest age group, 8,283 were just 19 years old

3,103 were 18 years old.

12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.

5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.

One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.

997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam.

1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam.

31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.

Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.

54 soldiers on the Wall attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia. I wonder why so many from one school.

8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.

244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.

Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.

West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.

The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.

The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam..

In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths.

The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415 casualties were incurred.

That's 2,415 dead in a single month.
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"When my time comes, mix my ashes with gunpowder encased in brass, point me towards murderers and pedophiles and let me fly."


Bless you, brothers and sisters.

The world "Could" have been Different.

Who painted these pictures?












A young man's dream to be an artist was crushed when his application to enter the fine arts academy was rejected ....




















his crushed dream turned into a tragic nightmare for the world...









The person who painted these pictures wanted to attend the Viennese academy of Fine arts and become famous as an artist.








If he had been accepted by the academy, world history might have been very different.











Who painted these Pictures?













His name was Adolf Hitler.

The Pastors Cat

Dwight Nelson recently told a true story about the pastor of his church. He had a kitten that climbed up a tree in his backyard and then was afraid to come down. The pastor coaxed, offered warm milk, etc.

The kitty would not come down. The tree was not sturdy enough to climb, so the pastor decided that if he tied a rope to his car and pulled it until the tree bent down, he could then reach up and get the kitten.

That's what he did, all the while checking his progress in the car. He then figured if he went just a little bit further, the tree would be bent sufficiently for him to reach the kitten. But as he moved the car a little further forward, the rope broke.

The tree went 'boing!' and the kitten instantly sailed through the air - out of sight.

The pastor felt terrible. He walked all over the neighborhood asking people if they'd seen a little kitten. No. Nobody had seen a stray kitten. So he prayed, 'Lord, I just commit this kitten to your keeping,' and went on about his business.

A few days later he was at the grocery store, and met one of his church members. He happened to look into her shopping cart and was amazed to see cat food. This woman was a cat hater and everyone knew it, so he asked her, 'Why are you buying cat food when you hate cats so much?'

She replied, 'You won't believe this,' and then told him how her little girl had been begging her for a cat, but she kept refusing. Then a few days before, the child had begged again, so the Mom finally told her little girl, 'Well, if God gives you a cat, I'll let you keep it.' She told the pastor, 'I watched my child go out in the yard, get on her knees, and ask God for a cat. And really, Pastor, you won't believe this, but I saw it with my own eyes. A kitten suddenly came flying out of the blue sky, with its paws outspread, and landed right in front of her.'

Never underestimate the Power of God and His unique sense of humor.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple; but only God can count the apples in a seed .

DID Thomas Jefferson have a crystal ball?

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement:

"This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Especially read the last quote from 1802.



When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe .
Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much
government.
Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms
is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to
our liberties than standing armies..
If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue of their
currency, first by inflation, then by
deflation, the banks and corporations that will
grow up around the banks will deprive the people
of all property - until their children
wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.'

Some people's kids.. Dumb as a hammer.

Naw, I'm not talking about Biden, though he makes a hammer look like a Noble winner in Nuclear Physics. No, I'm not even talking about the treasonous son of a bitch that "somehow" got elected in 08.

I'm not really even talking about the misguided and poorly informed children that supported Oblahblah in 2008.

I'm talking about ANYONE stupid enough to continue the Bush bashing, counter productive, socialist rhetoric they were programmed with, TODAY, after almost two years of constant failure by Oblahblah and his pet stooges in congress.

You can still support this idiot? You still BELIEVE that he has the answers?
I wouldn't let the bucket of shit order a cheese pizza, because I can PROVE to you he'll fuck it up.

On a forum I sometimes post on, I inserted the above image. Now understand, there are one or two whining little liberal "girls" on this forum that get sand in their snatch every time they realize one of the rest of us malign their lord and master. One of them even goes as far as to "claim" to be neutral and to conduct herself as such. Typical lying liberal. Position is used to further her very fragile (and childishly STUPID) beliefs. By the way, "Politics" are not allowed on this Forum. (unless you are a buddy of or agree with, this "Neutral" Mod)

Back to the image: The thread is about the WikiLeak Debacle and how the as yet un-punished criminal is upset that "someone" released private information that might harm his trial...

Poor little rat... I'm sure that Oblahblah will somehow come to his rescue... or throw him under the Socialist/DemocRAT bus as it slowly expires its way by.

One of the snivelers (one that probably reported a post of mine as racist to the "neutral one", it wasn't but got edited anyway) Replied with THIS:
Well, it's not as good as a president with an IQ somewhat equivalent to that of a turnip or a vice-president who shoots his friends on hunting trips for fun, but they do what they can, I guess.

This little boy (or whatever) still thinks the election was about Bush...
(this planet truly is doomed)

I posted that picture in the spirit of the thread, Irony. What goes around comes around. This person, that I don't know "personally", took it as a slight to his or her personal god.

Every morning that I wake up, you can consider a SLIGHT to YOU and your personal god.

Idiot.

I personally hope Assange is hung for Espionage... We do still execute spys. He is only the tip, there are any number of treasonous bastards that have been feeding information TO Assange,, with in our own gubberment. I won't get my wish, I'm certain, in my own mind, that Assange works for the Oblahblah Administration and will never face the fate that he as well as the treasonous bastard that he works for, deserve: a wall, a blindfold and an unmarked grave.

Piss off a liberal a day , EVERY day, in 2011.

TAXATION EXPLAINED TO THE MASSES

Suppose that every evening, 10 men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do. The 10 men drank in the bar every evening and were quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner said "Since you are all such good customers, I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20". Drinks for the 10 men would now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men? The paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share? They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.

So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by a higher percentage the poorer he was, to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using, and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay.

Therefore, the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing.
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% saving).
The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28% saving).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% saving).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% saving).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% saving).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings.

"I only got a dollar out of the $20 saving," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, "But he got $10!"

"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a buck too. It's unfair - he got 10 times more benefit than me!"

"That's true!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back, when I got only $2? The wealthy always win!"

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison, "we didn't get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had their beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists, labor unions and government ministers, is how the tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes will naturally get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

"Public Notice"

Please be advised - I am sick of receiving questions and phone calls about my dog who mauled:
3 Muslims sitting on a rug next to my back fence,
6 illegal's wearing Obama T-shirts,
4 stupid Democrats wearing Pelosi T-shirts,
2 rappers,
5 phone operators wanting me to press #1 for English,
9 teenagers with their pants hanging down past their butt cracks,
8 customer service people speaking in broken English,
10 flag burners,
and a Pakistani taxi driver.

*FOR THE LAST TIME...*

*THE DOG IS NOT FOR SALE !!!"*

Health Care Reform? Right...

How do we "reform" Health Care Reform?

Stand on its throat until it quits flopping around, kick it into a shallow grave and move on to fixing a broken, overpaid and greedy system.

Ever spend any time in an Emergency Room and later find out that a Q-tip cost you $4? How about a plain old bandaid at $6? How about that courtesy package, the pan, water pitcher, puke tray, etc... ? Any idea what you have paid for those? Even if you never used any of it?

Think I'm making this up? Check the itemized list of your last visit's bill... you DO get an itemized list don't you?

I couldn't blame you "to" much if you didn't, its a terrifying thing, and might cause some of us to "go around the bend".

Is it REALLY that hard to see where the real problems in the cost of health care are?

We, as a family, have been saddled with some of the poorest and often some of the best care I've ever seen, seems to depend on which "shift" of personnel you get or why you are there.

One night, after an incompetent Doctor gave a diabetic an oral steroid for a respiratory ailment, my wife was nearly killed by an RN that was to busy in a gossip session at the nurses station to administer a drug correctly. This RN had been FIRED (for incompetence) by this Health care organization at one of their hospitals, only to be immediately rehired at another.

A lowly respiratory tech just happened to hear my wife strangling behind the curtain as he walked by, he also just happened to be pushing a C-Pap machine. Only his actions saved her, the nurses would have never noticed. I had left the immediate area for just over 90 seconds.

Legal recourse? NONE... no I mean it, NONE. There is NO record of the incident, of the drug administered or of the use of a C-Pap machine to keep her alive until a Doctor got her stable. OR of the Doctors actions in saving her. No records at all. We have someone on the inside that went after those records for us for the next month, including the "private" and "secret" records. NOTHING. (according to our friend, all hospitals have a secret file, I can't prove that, but think on it...)

An over night ER visit turned into a 6 day ICU stay. Initial cost of the Hospital alone? $42K... in 6 days... because of an incompetent RN that had already been fired once for it. By the time it was done, that one incident cost me $120K.

Insurance? sure, good coverage and all premiums up to date, Denied for preexisting condition... That RN was NOT a preexisting condition...

The Doctor that hospitalized her to begin with? SENT ME A BILL for it. A foreign national that as far as I'm concerned, has NO business practicing medicine in the US to begin with, she's on the take with a sleep study outfit. You show up in her office for a boo-boo on your finger, you get a prescription for a $4000 sleep study, under the bullshit excuse of "quality of life".

"Quality of life" is a marketing term as far as I can tell.

This has made things even more difficult for us now. NO member of my family is EVER in one of these hospitals without another member of my family with them at all times, PERIOD. No matter why we are there for treatment.

We only use American Doctors, (Smith, Jones, White, Miller, whatever). Gender or skin has nothing to do with it, "Where were you trained Doctor?" is a common question. An answer like "Mumbai" or "Hong Kong", means we walk out. PERIOD.

I'm sure that there is some good training to be had in these places, we have just never seen any of it.

Is it really so difficult to see where the REAL problems, resulting in high costs, exist in health care? In a system that is still without a doubt the finest system in the world?

We don't need the idiots in congress to reinvent the wheel, we need them to repair and maybe regulate the one we are using.

Reform, Health Care Reform?

Start by murdering it.

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A pointed untruth, you should read this.

What I'm about to share with you is a lie, just another one of those email fantasies that sick little boys make up, knowing only a few of us will fact check it. The purpose is to effect people emotionally for what ever sick little thrill they get from it. Many of you probably got this email, just as I did.

However, this story has a point, one that you REALLY need to pay attention to.

I'll summarize at the bottom.
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And they wonder where the jobs went...

THIS IS WALMART'S SHIP



You must read the ending...


The Emma Maersk, part of a Danish shipping line,
is shown in the photos below.















What a ship -- no wonder "Made in China ' is displacing North American made
goods big time. This monster transports goods across the Pacific in just 5
days!!
This is one of three ships presently in service, with another two ships
commissioned
to be completed in 2012.















These ships were commissioned by Wal-Mart to get all their goods and stuff
from China . They hold an incredible 15,000 containers and have a 207 foot deck
beam!! The full crew is just 13 people on a ship longer than a US Aircraft Carrier (which has a crew of 5,000)

With it's 207' beam, it is too big to fit through the Panama or Suez Canals .

It is strictly transpacific. Cruise speed: 31 knots.

The goods arrive 4 days before the typical container ship (18-20 knots) on a
China-to-California run. 91% of Walmart products are made in China .

So this behemoth is hugely competitive even when carrying perishable goods.


The ship was built in five sections. The sections floated together and then
welded.

The command bridge is higher than a 10-story building and has 11 cargo crane
rigs that can operate simultaneously unloading the entire ship in less than two
hours.

Additional info:

Country of Origin - Denmark
Length - 1,302 ft
Width - 207 ft
Net cargo - 123,200 tons
Engine - 14 cylinders in-line diesel engine (110,000 BHP)
Cruise Speed - 31 knots
Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 cubic feet)
Crew - 13 people
First Trip - Sept. 08, 2006
Construction cost - US $145,000,000+

Silicone painting applied to the ship bottom reduces water
resistance and saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year.


Editorial Comment!

A recent documentary in late March, 2010 on the History Channel noted that
all of these containers are shipped back to China , EMPTY!! Yep, that's right.

We send nothing back on these ships. What does that tell you about
the current financial state of this country? Just keep buying those imported goods (mostly gadgets) until you run out of money.


Then you may wonder what the cause of unemployment (maybe even your job)
in the U.S. and Canada might be??


'Nuff said??


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Ok, I'm back, what you just read is utter bullshit, Oh, the ship exists, but it doesn't belong to Walmart, it belongs to Maersk, it DOES NOT recross the Pacific Ocean EMPTY, on it's way back to China, (it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out) Walmart doesn't commission ships, the "SHIPPER" commissions ships.

In fact, this seems to be part of it's sailing schedule:
http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2006/11/the_largest_con.html

Why did I say there was a point to all this?
Take a look in your home, at your belongings, a lot of which you bought because you were told that this was the "latest thing". Take a look in your driveway.

If these products are, as I expect, Chinese goodies, fashion items, keeping up with the Jone's crap, with a European made POS for a car in the driveway, YOU are directly responsible for the state of the economy.
Well... your ego (or fragile excuse for an ego) certainly hasn't us helped any.

I work in transportation, including recent, heavy involvement in "inter-modal" freight, (the containers you see on this ship.) I KNOW what we ship and we ship a LOT of stuff. The problem is, why?

We ship cotton, LOTS of cotton, my company has been involved in cotton since 1943... Where does this cotton go? Hong Kong or some other Asian port, its made into clothing and sent right back.

We ship RECYCLABLE goods and LOTS of them. They are made into what ever and sent right back HERE... WE recycle... we listen to the stupid Greenies and THEY are sending our JOBS overseas... Thanks fuckers...


Did you realize that your city, (most of them) CHARGE you to gather your recyclables, then they SELL them to the 3rd world... who sells them back.. TO YOU...

Finished goods? no... not so much... REALLY... we don't ship a lot of finished anything. We just ship... JOBS.

Think about it.

Try buying American, the job you save, may be yours.

The programming of a Obama socialist

The most common method. Enjoyed by both.



Terry
From the Road

This concerns us all...

Except you fucking communist assholes hiding behind the bullshit handle of "Democrat". There are no Democrats left, the party was absorbed by the Marxists.

(as you read this little story, substitute the words "Obama the Rat" for the words "A Mouse or The Mouse"every time you see it and it will make more sense to you)

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package."What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed this warning: "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap... alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house - the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did no see it. It was a venomous snake whose tail was caught in the trap.

The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital.

When she returned home she still had a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup. So the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient...

But his wife's sickness continued. Friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

But, alas, the farmer's wife did not get well... she died.

So many people came for her funeral that the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them for the funeral luncheon.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and you think it doesn't concern you, remember - when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

And the mouse however looked upon it all from his crack in the wall... and laughed.

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No, commie, this is not about you! "WE" are coming for you, dig a hole, chisel your name on a rock and lay down. As you don't have god, other than scum like Obama, you need not even pray.












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A list among lists

This went swirling by me on twitter a few moments ago, to good a piece of work to not share it.

This "may" be the work of @1HotItalian or not, he did at least tweet it to the rest of us.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
When your concerns need to be directed to a Government Official, They made themselves available for you bitching pleasure.

Yes Right Here On Twitter.

Govt. on Twitter:

White House - @whitehouse
Barack Obama - @BarackObama
Press Secretary - @PressSec
Asst. Press Secretary - @billburton44
White House Blog - @WhiteHouse_Blog
Speaker of the House - @NancyPelosi
State Department - @dipnote
Oversight Committee - @OversightMaj
GOP Oversight Committee - @gopoversight
Joint Chiefs of Staff - @thejointstaff
CENTCOM - @centcom
SenateFloor - @SenateFloor
HouseFloor - @HouseFloor
House Ways and Means Committee - @WaysMeansCmte
National Republican Senatorial Committee - @NRSC
Senate_GOPs - @Senate_GOPs
GOP Leader - @GOPLeader
RNC Chairman Michael Steele - @ChairmanMSteele
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee - @dscc
DemWarRoom - @DemWarRoom
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - @dccc
House of Representatives Democratic Caucus - @hdccomm
House Democrats - @HouseDemocrats
Education and Labor Democrats - @edlabordems
FBI Press Office - @FBIPressOffice
WH Photographer - @petesouza

GOP
♦ Governors
Haley Barbour -MI - @HaleyBarbour
Charlie Crist -FL - @charliecristfl
Chris Christie - NJ - @GovChristie
Mitch Daniels -IN - @mymanmitch
Jim Gibbons -NV - @GOVERNORGIBBONS
Dave Heineman -NE - @Nebraskagov
Gary Herbert -UT - @governorherbert
Bobby Jindal -LA - @BobbyJindal
Butch Otter -ID - @ButchOtter
Tim Pawlenty -MN - @timpawlenty
Rick Perry -TX - @GovernorPerry
Jodi Rell -CT - @GovernorRell
Bob Riley -AL - @GovernorRiley
Arnold Schwarzenegger -CA - @Schwarzenegger


♦ Senators
Scott Brown -MA - @ScottBrownMA
Sam Brownback -KS - @SenSamBrownback
Tom Coburn -OK - @TomCoburn
Susan Collins -ME - @senatorcollins
John Cornyn -TX - @JohnCornyn
James DeMint -SC - @JimDeMint
John Ensign -NV - @JohnEnsign
Lindsey Graham -SC - @GrahamBlog
Chuck Grassley -IA - @ChuckGrassley
Orrin Hatch -UT - @OrrinHatch
James Inhofe -OK - @jiminhofe
Steve King -IA - @SteveKingPress
John McCain -AZ - @SenJohnMcCain
Lisa Murkowski -AK - @lisamurkowski
Richard Shelby -AL - @RichardShelby
John Thune -SD - @johnthune
David Vitter -LA - @DavidVitter
Roger Wicker -MS - @rogerwicker
Dick Lugar -IN - @SenatorLugar


♦ House of Reps
Todd Akin -MO - @ToddAkin
Steve Austria -OH - @SteveAustria
Michelle Bachmann -MN - @MicheleBachmann
Gresham Barrett -SC - @greshambarrett
Joe Barton -TX - @RepJoeBarton
Spencer Bauchus -AL -@BachusAL06
Bob Beauprez -CO - @bobbeauprez
Judy Biggert -IL - @JudyBiggert
Brian Bilbray -CA - @BilbrayCA50
Gus Bilirakis -FL - @RepGusBilirakis
Roy Blunt -MO - @RoyBlunt
John Boehner -OH - @johnboehner
Terry Boose -OH - @RepTerryBoose
John Boozman -AR - @JohnBoozman
Kevin Brady -TX - @RepKevinBrady
Paul Broun -GA - @RepPaulBrounMD
Vern Buchanan -FL - @VernBuchanan
Michael Burgess -TX - @michaelcburgess
Dan Burton -IN - @danburton
Eric Cantor -VA - @Eric Cantor
Judge John Carter -TX - @JudgeCarter
Bill Cassidy -LA - @DrCassidy
Mike Castle -DE - @repmikecastle
Jason Chaffetz -UT - @jasoninthehouse
Mike Coffman -CO - @RepMikeCoffman
Ander Crenshaw -FL - @AnderCrenshaw
John Culberson -TX - @John Culberson
Mary Fallin -OK - @RepMaryFallin
Jeff Flake -AZ - @JeffFlake
John Fleming -LA - @RepJohnFlemin
Randy Forbes -VA - @Randy_Forbes
Jeff Fortenberry -NE - @JeffFortenberry
Virginia Foxx -NC - @virginiafoxx
Trent Frakes -AZ - @RepTrentFranks
Phil Gingrey -GA - @RepPhilGingrey
Gregg Harper -MS - @GreggHarper
Dean Heller -NV - @deanheller
Pete Hoekstra -MI - @petehoekstra
Duncan Hunter -CA - @duncanhunter
Bob Inglis -SC - @bobinglis
Darrell Issa -CA - @DarrellIssa
Lynn Jenkins -KS - @replynnjenkins
Jim Jordan -OH - @Jim_Jordan
Mark Kirk -IL - @markkirk
Randy Kuhl -NY - @RandyKuhl
Tom Latham -IA - @TomLatham
Robert Latta -OH - @boblatta
Cynthia Loomis -WY - @cynthialummis
Mary Bono Mack -CA - @MaryBonoMack
Dan Manzullo -IL - @donmanzullo
Ken Marchant -TX - @RepKenMarchant
Kevin McCarthy -CA - @kevinomccarthy
Thaddeus McCotter -MI - @ThadMcCotter
Buck McKeon -CA - @BuckMcKeon
Cathy McMorris-Rodgers -WA - @cathymcmorris
Candice Miller -MI - @candicemiller
Tim Murphy - PA @RepTimMurphy
Pete Olson -TX - @PeteOlson
Erik Paulsen -MN - @Erik_Paulsen
Mike Pence -IN - @RepMikePence
Tom Price -GA - @RepTomPrice
George Radanovich -CA - @repradanovich
Dennis Rehberg -MT - @dennyrehberg
Dave Reichert -WA - @davereichert
Dana Rohrabacher -CA - @DanaRohrabacher
Tom Rooney -FL - @TomRooney
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -FL - @IRL
Peter Roskam -IL - @PeterRoskam
Paul Ryan -WI - @reppaulryan
Aaron Schock -IL - @repaaronschock
Christopher Shays -CT - @ShaysCongress
John Shimkus -IL - @RepShimkus
Bill Shuster -PA - @RepBillShuster
John Sullivan -OK - @USRepSullivan
Lee Terry -NE - @leeterryne
Glenn Thompson -PA - @CongressmanGT
Zach Wamp -TN - @zachwamp
Joe Wilson -SC - @CongJoeWilson
Rob Wittman -VA - @RobWittman
Jim Zehringer - OH - @RepJimZehringer

Joe Lieberman - CT - @JoeLieberman

Democrats
♦ Governors
Mike Beebe -AR - @GovBeebeMedia
Steve Beshear -KY - @GovSteveBeshear
Chet Culver -IO - @GovChetCulver
Jennifer Granholm -MI - @govgranholm
Christine Gregoire -WA - @GovGregoire
John Lynch - NH -@NHgov
Jack Markell -DE - @GovernorMarkell
Martin O'Malley -MD - @GovernorOMalley
Joe Manchin - WV - @wvgov
Deval Patrick -MA - @MassGovernor
Pat Quinn -IL - @QuinnForIL
Bill Richardson -NM - @GovRichardson
Bill Ritter -CO - @govritter
Ted Strickland -OH - @Ted_Strickland


♦ Senators
Evan Bayh -IN - @evanbayh
Michael Bennet -CO - @mbennet
Barbara Boxer -CA - @Barbara_Boxer
Sherrod Brown -OH - @SenSherrodBrown
Roland Burris -IL - @rolandwburris
Chris Dodd -CT - @SenChrisDodd
Richard Durbin -IL - @DickDurbin
Russ Feingold -WI - @russfeingold
Al Franken -MN - alfranken
Kirsten Gillibrand -NY - @SenGillibrand
Kay Hagan -NC - @kayhagan
John Kerry -MA - @JohnKerry
Blanche Lincoln -AR - @blanche4senate
Claire McCaskill -MO - @clairecmc
Robert Menendez -NJ - @SenatorMenendez
Jeff Merkley -OR - @SenJeffMerkley
Ben Nelson -NE - @SenBenNelson
Bill Nelson -FL - @SenBillNelson
Harry Reid -NV - @SenatorReid - @HarryReid
Jeanne Shaheen -NH - @JeanneShaheen
Arlen Specter -PA - @SenArlenSpecter
Mark Udall -CO - @MarkUdall
Tom Udall -NM - @tomudall
Mark Warner -VA - @MarkWarner


♦ House of Reps
Neil Abercrombie -HI - @neilabercrombie
Joe Baca - CA -Blue Dog - @BacaCA43 - Blue Dog
Tammy Baldwin -WI - @RepTammyBaldwin
John Barrow -GA -Blue Dog - @repjohnbarrow - Blue Dog
Earl Blumenauer -OR - @repblumenauer
Leonard Boswell -IA -Blue Dog - @LeonardBoswell - Blue Dog
Russ Carnahan -MO - @RepCarnahan
Artur Davis -AL - @ArturDavis
Nom Dicks -WA - @RepNormDicks
Mike Doyle -PA - @USRepMikeDoyle
Keith Ellison -MN - @keithellison
Brad Ellsworth -IN -Blue Dog - @bradellsworth - Blue Dog
Marcia Fudge -OH - @mlfudge
Alan Grayson -FL - @AlanGrayson
Gabrielle Giffords -AZ -Blue Dog - @Rep_Giffords - Blue Dog
Jim Himes -CT - @jahimes
Paul Hodes -NH - @PaulHodes
Mike Honda -CA - @RepMikeHonda
Jay Inslee -WA - @RepInsleeNews
Steve Israel -NY - @RepSteveIsrael
Jesse Jackson, Jr. -IL - @JacksonJrOnline
Hank Johnson -GA - @RepHankJohnson
Dennis Kucinich -OH - @Dennis_Kucinich
Mary Jo Kilroy -OH - @MaryjoKilroy
Sandy Levin -MI - @repsandylevin
Ben Lujan -NM - @repbenraylujan
Ed Markey -MA - @MarkeyMemo
Jim Matheson -UT -Blue Dog - @RepJimMatheson -Blue Dog
Kendrick Meek -FL - @kendrickbmeek
Gregory Meeks -NY - @GregoryMeeks
Mike Michaud -ME -Blue Dog - @RepMikeMichaud - Blue Dog
George Miller -CA - @askgeorge
Harry Mitchell -AZ -Blue Dog - @HarryEMitchell - Blue Dog
Gwen Moore -WI - @RepGwenMoore
Jim Moran -VA - @Jim_Moran
Glenn Nye -VA -Blue Dog - @GlennNye - Blue Dog
Jim Oberstar -MN - @JimOberstar
Frank Pallone -NJ - @FrankPallone
Nancy Pelosi -CA - @NancyPelosi
Ed Perlmutter -CO - @RepPerlmutter
Tom Perriello -VA - @tomperriello
Chellie Pingrie -ME - @chelliepingree
Jared Polis -CO - @jaredpolis
Mike Quigley -IL - @RepMikeQuigley
Charles Rangel -NY - @cbrangel
Mike Ross -AR -Blue Dog - @RepMikeRoss - Blue Dog
Tim Ryan -OH - @timryan
Kurt Schrader -OR - @repschrader - Blue Dog
Joe Sestak -PA - @JoeSestak
Albio Sires -NJ - @Rep_Albio_Sires
Adam Smith -WV - @Rep_Adam_Smith
Maxine Waters -CA - @MaxineWaters
John Yarmuth -KY -@Yarmuth

DON'T Spare the Rod...