“”Trumpcare is here and you are going to hate it,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)

So what is gonna be different?

Obamacare has been here for a while, and everyone hates it.

This kinda sucks, but it prolly won’t be any worse.

Until you get folks to be productive, and try, at least, to pay their own way, you can’t have universal healthcare. When fully 30% of the citizens don’t want to work, and would rather gather “free shit” paid for by the rest, any economic model fails.

When you make it economically sound for jobs to go elsewhere, and the government actually promotes those moves, you have folks who can’t pay for their own health insurance cause they have no job…even if they would rather be working.

Unfucking the country by changing Obamacare isn’t gonna be easy or quick. (Which was, I think, a part of the reason Obamacare was implemented the way it was)

One real issue in this is the current belief that poor and perpetually uncemployed people are supposed to get their insurance for free, and the rest of us should pay for it.

Just the thing for the coming civil unrest….

Or the Zombie Apocalypse.

And, as an added bonus, highly tornado resistant.

HERE.

The only real issue is that it is located in Pretty Much Nowhere, Missouri. (actually, just a bit north of there….)

I thought I’d give the NASCAR race boys another chance….Tried watching the Atlanta race.

Pretty much like the Daytona race. I got better things to do. Like take a dump. Or pick my toenails. Clean catboxes….Or a multitude of other things.

Guess that they don’t need me to be a part of the audience anymore.

Yeah, I’m old and all that. But with viewership declining, you’d thing they’d stick with what did work:
Balls out racing flag to flag, slowing only for crashes and to refuel and get tires… not this silhouette racing in “stages” with “cars” that all appear to be the same….And now with stops so the “drivers” can rest and change their onesies. This was once a race for (and by) men. Not so much anymore.

I think Jeff Gordon got out just in time….

The good news is that I will have 2-3 more hours to do things every weekend….

So for the past 8 years, Barry did everything he could to snub and undermine and otherwise damage the State of Israel.

And during his reign, the incidents of anti-semitism jumped up significantly  but Barry Obama didn’t do anything to stop it. Never said a word about these incidents.

And the press ignored them. And ignored the silence of Barry the O.

And the claim (although a lie) is that “incidents of Anti Semitism are on the rise since Trump began his campaign” and it is all because Trump is encouraging it in his supporters.

Yet, oddly, Trump has been in  office a bit over a month. There has been several incidents of antisemitic threats and vandalism at cemeteries. And somehow, this is Trump’s fault. Somehow, he is the enemy of Jews. Somehow he is anti-semitic. Even though the rate of incidences has decreased…

Yet he is held in high regard by Israel. Called “friend” by “Bibi” Netanyahu…..

And yet, he is held as Anti-Semitic.

Is this just more lies by the MSM (and the ADL)? Are the “rank and file” jewish folks buying it? Are they that stupid?  Some that are normally highly intelligent and discerning seem to believe it.  Perhaps their Trump Derangement Syndrome predisposes them to want to buy it….

Or is it just more Big Lie by the press repeated over and over?

at least until either they:

1. Showed me their legal statutory right to demand my identity papers inside the borders….Which they don’t have. (They can try and claim the 100 mile rule, but that wouldn’t fly in this case)
or
2. Explained WHY they needed me to show my identity papers (and asked politely).

Option 3 is, of course, arresting me. Which has happened in the (far) past, so isn’t that frightening to me…….especially since I don’t have to worry about my boss being unhappy about and losing my job or security clearance.


A search for a deportation target leads to a demand for travelers’ “papers” at JFK

But so many people aren’t sure of their rights and are afraid of anyone with a uniform and badge. Which is why they get away with it….

is that the “Russians” “Meddled” in the 2016 US elections.

What, exactly, are the “Russians” supposed to have done?

Changed vote counts? Hacked the voting machines so they registered incorrect votes?

Brainwashed the citizens to vote for Trump (or Hillary)?

What, exactly, did they do?

‘Cause I haven’t heard any specifics.

I’m all for an investigation if there is likely to be something there at the end of it.

But if we are gonna spend MILLIONS of dollars no direction to the investigation and end up with just a platform to have our elected officials pontificate and then nothing at the end….I got issues with that. The Conservatives did it several times using Ken Starr and wasted big bucks and got nowhere. I don’t want a repeat of that.

I’d like to see some specific charges before we go much further. 

Early spring storms erupted in northern Illinois as canadian air clashed with warmer humid southern air, creating a line of extremely strong thundercells and tornadoes along I-80.

Hard hit was the small town of Naplate Il. . The physical damage, like in all such storms, was widespread….no one was seriously hurt in that town….For the residents, it was tragic

The news media personalities are a joke, however. Most were unsure as to where the town was, how to pronounce the name of the town, or what the people of the small town might even look like or speak like……these news personalities have likely never BEEN to a town of less than 10,000 people…

Their reaction to these people is almost comical. 

Short on details….such are Presidential speeches.

Having said that, his direction is the drection I would like for us to take our country.

Not too keen on the paid leave, but overall, a good speech.

I liked the “America first” theme, and the fact that he feels that he “represents the American people, not the world” About time we had a president who understood that.

At least the Democrats more or less behaved like adults. 

All you folks suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and all you weeping sisters crying about Trumps actions taken since his inaguration…… you folks who can talk about nothing else but how terrible Trump is as a person and a President…

Blame the DNC. They are the ones who put Hillary Clinton into the position where folks had to choose the lesser of the two weasels.

Trump may have been the weakest candidate to ever win an election. But he won. He is, like it or not, no matter how much you cry or pout, the legally elected Preident of the United States….he is my president, and no matter ho many times you say otherwise,  he is your president too…. just as Obama was our president..even though about half of us disliked him nearly as much as you disliked Trump.

Why? Because many of the folks who voted for him did so only because the alternative was a vile, slimy, nasty, woman who sold her office (when Secretary of State) and who failed to follow the  laws….and got away with it because she was the DNC presidential candidate. A woman who hated the country and the citizens. Who wanted to set herself up for even greater profits as President. A candidate who couldn’t hide her disdain for a great portion of the productive citizens of the country. One who believed in the State, rather than the Individual. Possibly the most disliked candidate ever.

There are those who point out that she won the popular vote. Yes, but take out the cities and counties where the citizens overwhelmingly depend on Federal goverment largesse, (and have huge illegal poulations) and she lost, overwhelmingly. Or, discount the states with no voter ID and get the same result (draw your own conclusions there…).

Had the DNC (or, for that matter, the RNC) presented any candidates that weren’t repugnant to a great percentage of the (legal) voting population, Trump would not have had a chance.

Few people voted FOR Trump. Many, probably most, voted AGAINST Hillary.

Don’t like your President? Then blame those who gave you shitty choices….but grow up. Stop whining and pissing and moaning like a snippy 13 year old girl.

You have four years to think about it…..

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Bloggging will continue to be light and terse because Android doesn’t work well with Blogger and there are, apparently, no decent keyboards avaiable for bluetooth.