I took most of my rantypants out on tommy while he was in Madison last weekend. Thanks, tommy! I find it much to easy to get up on my soapbox these days, especially when Walker claims to have increased the job base by 9000 jobs when GE is moving it's X-ray division out of Waukesha to China. GE paid no taxes last year and is moving a very profitable division overseas. They claim no jobs will be lost, but that they will create 65 jobs for engineers....in China. Yeah, Scotty, there's your 9000 jobs.
::headdesk::
Oh Maria! health-ma to your DH and coping-ma to you.
I took most of my rantypants out on tommy while he was in Madison last weekend. Thanks, tommy!
No prob!
Don't forget Walker's cancelling of the high-speed rail project, losing the federal funding and thousands of jobs....
Thank you, Sue. We're both still in a little shock.
Oh, Maria, and Toddson! Yikes. Health-ma to both of you.
ION, I can't bear to listen to the news right now. I feel like I'm watching my country circle the drain.
Thanks, 'suela. I sincerely hope your job fuckery resolves itself soon. The federal government hiring process is frelled on so many levels.
Much health~ma to your DH, Maria.
Oh man, Maria! Good luck, you guys.
Politics:
what really bothers me and sends me into angry rages now daily, is that so many of the Tea Party assholes don't really seem to be interested in reality. Like if people want to sit down and debate the merits of particular policies armed with data, I can dig that. My politics are pretty left in general, but I believe it is theoretically possible that some conservative policies could work better than my ideals.
That said, insisting on a balanced budget amendment for the U.S. federal government in a time of a recession is some of the most ridiculous bullshit I have ever heard. What some Repub governors are doing in many states (particularly in the midwest), almost makes me spit nails.
It is anti-democratic. It is an attempt to hold on to power and reduce the likelihood that average people will wake up and protest.
Folks,
on Tuesday I was diagnosed with diabetes. This was not a huge surprised for me on Tuesday because my vision had been getting fucked up for a week.
I am, however, concerned/scared(?) with this diagnosis and I'm going to work my ass off to see if I can get off oral meds after a few weeks/months.
Are there buffistas/os here who have diabetes and can provide advice, tips, links, etc.?
edited for typos! bad vision still.
