“Just because the Democrats are your enemy does not make that the Republicans your ally”

DiveMedic

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This is SO true.

And there are those that say that voting makes a difference….

Boehner is reelected. Voted in (again) by those same folks who were elected because we wanted some changes.And he is doing his best to destroy any who challenge him.

Same old same old. If we had any chance of fixing things in the next two years, it is squandered. Peaceful change does not appear to be in the cards.

Boehner is Barry’s tool.

ETA: Murphy feels the same way. 

So the dude (veteran of WWII) who broke out of the rest home in England last year to attend the 70th anniversary of D-Day has passed at the age of 90.

Yeah, he had what it takes, even until the end.

What happened to England? They don’t seem to make ’em like that anymore….

I’ll raise a glass to you this evening, Mr. Jordan. My kinda guy…..

So the faculty at Harvard, who strongly supported Obamacare, now face changes in their Health Care Insurance which impacts them…negatively.

Now, make no mistake, their health care plans are, by any measure much more generous than nearly anyone else’s….In fact, they are what many would call a “Cadillac” plan.

But still, declining benefits and increasing costs to the faculty are happening…and they don’t like it. At. All. It is “causing distress” and “generating anxiety”. Welcome to the world most of the rest of us live in, you Ivory Tower Intellectuals.

Can you say “Schadenfrude“?

Kinda reminds me of a family member who worked for Johns Hopkins and wasn’t too happy that she had to wait in their clinic like the other common people when she needed care….IIRC she paid extra so she didn’t have to mingle with the unwashed…

There is a decent chance that Boehner can be unseated as Speaker of the House.  (personally I’d like to see him horsewhipped, but that is not in the cards, so this is a decent second choice…) But many Republican House members are on the fence.

Help push them off the fence. Call, Fax, Email, whatever. Let ’em know that when they vote on Tuesday, that they should NOT VOTE for John Boehner as Speaker.

If you don’t know who your congressman/woman is (shame on you, I have mine on speed dial on my cell phone) then THIS LINK will help you find them so you can contact them and help push John Boehner into obscurity and (hopefully soon) retirement.

Help stop Barry’s agenda to “Fundamentally Change America”….He can’t do it if our legislative branches won’t let him. And lately, Boehner has been Barry’s bitch.

That people who drive Semi trucks for a living would have some clue as to the care and feeding of diesel engines in general, and the characteristics of the diesel fuel that they use….

Ferinstance, that the waxes begin to crystallize out at lower temperatures, often referred to as “gelling“…and easily preventable occurrence with the addition of several commercially available additives such as Howes or Power Service and others. Generally this cost is about $20 per full load of fuel. While most diesel fuel sold north of the Mason-Dixon line is treated for cold weather, not all is, and truckers who fuel in the south and then drive north are taking their chances…..

Now, if a truck gells up, the service cost is about $150+ (labor) plus parts  to get the truck running, and the first thing they do is add one of the fuel treatments to the tank….

One might think that drivers who should know better would, when encountering temperatures below zero (Fahrenheit) would be smart enough to treat their fuel……right?I’m talking experienced drivers who have more than a decade of driving and hundreds of thousands of driving miles under them……

You’d be mistaken. While some (most?) are smart enough, many aren’t.  They are surprised that their truck stopped running in the night, or that it won’t start in the morning…..Like gelled diesel is a new phenomenon or something. Like the three I met today, when the mercury dropped to about -3F last night…..

(and we won’t even start talking about those who have batteries that will barely start the trucks when it is 40 degrees F out……) Mechanics love these folks…..

These are people who are driving next to you on the highway guiding 80,000 lbs and upon whose judgement your safety depends….

Scary.

If you’ve ever seen a loved on suffer before dying, you’ll understand.

THIS Took Balls.

Big ones. Made of brass.

Yeah, in some folks eyes it is indeed murder. But when we put a suffering animal down, it is “humane”. Not so with a suffering human.

Why is that?

HT Free North Carolina

If you are a taxpayer, your share of the auto bailout losses is about $65.75.  Yep, the Feds gave away over 9 billion of your tax dollars and they’ll never recover it. So that makes you share of the corporate welfare for Chrysler and GM almost $66.00

Do we get 2 shares of GM stock? Or 6 of Chrysler?

Who is gonna make good for this loss? Shouldn’t we (the taxpayers) get our money back before the stockholders get a dividend?

Stop laughing. I’m serious.

Driving too fast on the first icy road day of winter is a bad idea.

Driving too fast on the first icy road day of winter and jerking the wheel is a VERY bad idea.

Driving too fast on the first icy road day of winter and jerking the wheel and ditching your truck is a VERY, VERY bad idea.

Driving too fast on the first icy road day of winter and jerking the wheel and ditching your truck WHILE DRUNK is an VERY,VERY,VERY, bad idea. ‘Cause once the cops come to help block the roads for the tow truck you are SCREWED.

(no it wasn’t me, but I saw it happen)….(and by drunk, I mean HAMMERED)

So my blogfriend (and friend in real life as well) Brigid has gotten great acclaim from Kirkus review…

I mean, really, this is big. Really really big.

Congratulations, my friend.