Despite the hype

Posted on 04/02/2014 by B

about 7.1 million new obamacare policies and all that…

Really only a bit more than 10% have PAID for and actually have, (not just signed up for) an insurance policy via Obamacare.

The rest are just people who have enrolled but are not, until they PAY, insured.

Plus, the article says that few, if any of the newly signed up were uninsured before…

What a farce this whole thing is. And Congress and the MSM allow it to happen.

Sad.

SO just what are we paying for?

Posted on 04/01/2014 by B

While I am not so certain that the current hubbub about GM ignition keyswitches is all that big of a deal, the fact is that the NHTSA KNEW that there was an issue.

And they chose to do nothing. Nothing for YEARS.

So what, exactly, are we paying for all those folks at the NHTSA ? We apparently aren’t getting anything for our money except a whole lot of bureaucracy, but nothing that keeps anyone safe.

Why, again, does this agency exist?

It could come here soon

Posted on 04/01/2014 by B

Seems that there is an outbreak of Ebola in Africa (Guinea, to be exact) and there may be related outbreaks in Sierra Leone and possibly Liberia.

Now most of us feel that this is happening “Over there” and really don’t care. Few are worried that is could come here, and to a certain extent, they are correct.

BUT.

We have air travel now….And people travel from the affected areas to the US, Canada, and Europe EVERY DAY. (this time the tests show that the passenger, who is still in intensive care, doesn’t have Ebola….But he DOES have something that is making him very ill)…How would you like to have been a fellow passenger on the plane he flew in on? Breathing the same air as him for hours and hours…..

Think about it.

(For me, dying isn’t something I fear….But dying while bleeding from the eyes….)

My grandfather

Posted on 04/01/2014 by B

Was a staunch Republican voter for his entire life.

But sadly, he passed away several years back.

He’s voted a straight Democrat ticket ever since.

There are few jobs

Posted on 03/30/2014 by B

That I hate more than painting.

If I could find a painter who did as good a job as I do, or who made less mess and left fewer paint drops on the floor than I do, I’d be willing to pay for having my kitchen walls painted

Sadly, “Professional Painter” doesn’t mean “Craftsman” in this area….but rather “fairly sure which end of the paintbrush to pick up” and “not terribly likely to paint the wrong thing” and “might not make too much of a mess”.

So fuckit, I’ll paint.

But I hate it. I’d rather be a demonstrator model at a proctology school.

Failures

Posted on 03/29/2014 by B

SO, it seems that, because of a simple misspelling, the brother ~~Splodey~~ Tsarnaev were simply not noticed by the DHS and other folks supposed to be watching for people like them.

Now, I understand that mistakes happen…Sometimes people hit the wrong key when entering data….sometimes they are tired or distracted or whatever.

But really, no one caught the fact that “Tsarnaev” might also be spelled Tsarnayev”? No one bothered to look at a guy who spent 6 months in training on how to blow people up?

And they spend all that time defending the integrity of their lists…even when completely (and obviously) innocent people are inconvenienced by being on it.

Sometimes incompetence is hard to tell from maliciousness. Especially in a bureaucrat.