You Want Us to Do What??

It's been a long time in posting my non-existent readers, but I feel compelled to spread my gospel or opinion, either or depending on your inclination. I've been listening and watching and reading alot about this huge bailout that is being suggested for these large financial institutions. Now I'm not an economist nor a financial whiz, but I have an opinion and I thinks it's pretty legit.

So our current administration of dumdums are suggesting that we, the blessed citizens of this country reach deep into our pockets to "bail" out this institutions that dug themselves into a pile of deep doodie. Let me think about this for a second....ok, thought done and the answer if FUCK NO! This is not the way to go. I will admit that there is some responsibility that should be held by all of us, but I'll get into that in a bit.

First let me ask you this, for the past two terms of our numbnuts of an administration the Republicans have wanted to privatize everything. Forget about social security, lets privatize it. Socialized healthcare??? No way, that sounds a bit to lefty. They wanted less government interference these bloodless money grubbing corporations and that's what happened as the politicians pockets were lined with the dollars of corporate lobbyists. The government was sucking at the teat of corporations taking it straight up the ass b/c their asses were lubed with money. So these corporations were left loose like a 7 yr old driving his grammies SUV. The invested and encourage sub prime loans, I mean, puhlease, why would they even consider checking anyone's salary, that's just moronic. The told people, go ahead and buy that over inflated million dollar McMansion, you don't have to put any money down, no worries, we trust you. Investments sprouted based on debt. I'm sure there were lots of people with MBA's after their names thinking they were the fucking Einstein's of the financial world and they sat around a circle jerk with each other.

Well the shit has hit the fan. Let me ask another question? The people running these companies, what kind of bonuses did they get, what were their salaries? They made out like bandits laughing all the way to the bank, laughing at us. Now the all bets are due and guess what, they need help. Well cry me a fucking river. So sorry that you fucked up, but why should suck it up and give you a handout? The bums always lose and it's time for the people that were running the show to be accountable. So maybe they can't bail it out all the way, but come on, those fucks at the top show no remorse and of course they are now tighter with their money than a virgins pussy. So what happened to all this the government should not be involved bullshit I've been hearing for years? These idgits that our administration "left alone" really fucked it up. They can't even wipe their ass without their admins to count out the sheets of toilet paper for them. So now we should all accept their bad decisions led be greed? I mean please, the government is asking me to take it up the ass without lube and not even inching it in. It's a straight up slam in my ass. Well, you can't have my money.

What do I get? I've paid my bills on time, I've paid my mortgage and I've managed my money. What do I get for being a fucking financial genius and not having to declare bankruptcy? Do I get the government to help me? Hells to the NO! Let me tell you what would have happened to me. Lets say I bought a house I couldnt' afford. Racked up debt to my eyeballs on plasma TV's and Range Rovers. All of a sudden I realize, Shite, I can't even pay the minimum on my credit card, I can't pay my mortgage. I'll tell you what I would get. A repo an on my Range Rover, a foreclosure notice on my home and a credit record that wouldn't even allow me to get a cell phone contract. I get no bailouts. The citizen's of this country are not the rich mommy and daddy for these corporate fuckups and all you politicians, stop convincing me I have to do it.

There have been bad times in the past, but this current cluster fuck has all been created by greed and a complete disregard of common sense. I don't need a fucking MBA to know that what was done by Wall Street is about as smart as sticking your dick over a flame. SO STOP ASKING FOR MY HELP. FUCK YOU.

Now I said earlier that we the citizen's do need to be partially responsible. We all wanted to get rich fast and as shareholders asked these corporations for more. For Jebus sake, stop being money grubbing assholes. We basically asked to get rich off of nothing. We said give us more money as shareholders, I don't give a shit if you ship my job to China...I want five more cents on the dollar. I don't care if my products are safe, puhlease, people need to stop being pussies. I'll just go to Wal-Mart and save a buck and disregard that all those products are made by poor Chinamen. Stop being greedy. If you really thought you could live in a million dollar home on a combined income of 60K you should be kicked in the balls and should maybe live in a shitty apartment for awhile. In the meantime, I get to see all that money I put in a 401K take a shit dive. Thanks, glad I saved.

People need to be realistic. Money doesn't grow on trees, we all can't get rich fast. We need regulations to make sure these corporations don't overstep their boundaries. I watch my own company ship more jobs to Mexico b/c as I was told, why pay 2 k for a salary when we can pay 600. Um, ok. I saw my bonus shrink and my raise be put on hold but I noticed no decrease in salaries of the executive. Well Fuck You! We need to all accept that we shouldn't get the cheapest prices for the sake of no jobs for our own people. Fair prices and fair wages. Pay a little more and keep the jobs here. These corporations should not get tax breaks if they ship jobs outside the country. They shouldn't get shit for setting up tax shelters and routing their businesses through companies that have less restrictive tax laws.

Now I know something has to be done...oh we could save some money if we ended the war....I mean we are trillions of dollars in debt for that. People need to educate themselves. Read and watch more instead of basing all your decisions on Fox news. People just don't give a shit about it, but it's gonna catch up to all of us sooner or later. As you are LOLing with your friends via text, maybe you won't feel that 12 inch dick they are trying to shove up our asses.

A breath is precious

I have been coughing for over 2.5 weeks now. Not just a little cough cough here or a little cough cough there. Oh no. More like , a constant hacking every 3-5 minutes. The thing that sucks is that 50% of it is me forcing myself to cough b/c it feels like I have a piece of silly putty stuck in my throat...or maybe like a hairball. The result of this constant hacking is, headaches, a sore back that felt like my kidneys are going to fall out, maybe in some cases, but of course not mine, slight incontinence...yeah, you heard me, and a negative effect on my marriage. Besides me acting like a complete and total rag, I think I'm about a hairs width from getting suffocated one night by my husband, and I suppose rightly so. I wouldn't want to listen to that shit anymore. But really, I think he's avoiding me. I know he loves me, but I think any sane person would want to stay a good distance from a constant sharp barking sound and if that wasn't enough, a completely unpleasant personality at this point.

Well, I decided that most likely I should get to a Dr, but I had a good feeling they would tell me allergies. The thing that is so weird is that I don't have congestion, no sinus pain, no runny nose, or itchy watery eyes, just a cough. I went to the Dr today and he checked me out, I asked if he thought I had TB or cancer, he looked at me like I'm an idiot and shoved me out the door with some pills and nasal spray. Huh, what? What the hell. I mean, of all those commercials out there, can't there be one for post nasal drip cough??? Just one? I mean I've tried Claritin, Zyrtec, Benadryl, Sudafed, Mucinex, Cough Suppressant, more cough medicines. Nothing is working!!!! So dear reader, hope that the samples of Allegra will help, b/c if it doesn't, I can't be in control of the insanity that will soon be arriving via special delivery on the crazy train.

Oh how we take the oh mighty breath for granted. I can't even walk my dog without wheezing, plus the poor thing is getting the bitchy end of the stick during the whole walk.

Just remember sometime, that to breathe is to live, and to breathe without coughing, is the best way to keep this already bitchy chick from finally snapping. Keep your fingers crossed that the coughing will stop soon.

Consumption Junction

Oh consumption junction, what's your function, coughin' up mucus and keepin' me awake.

So....I haven't been blessed to catch one of those nasty viruses going around *knocking on big wood*, but I thought I was getting sick a couple of weeks ago. I started to feel that tell tale heaviness in my chest, but I took the vitamins, airborne, and slept for an entire day. Luck would have it that I didn't get sick. But alas, I was not to get off totally scott free on this one, nope. Instead, I seem to have partnered up with this lovely, mucous riddled rattley ass cough. I'm sure you know the kind. It's starts with a little tickle in your throat and then that tickle keeps going, kinda, like the real deal, when someone really tickles you until you pee in your pants a little bit. Well, this is the same thing, tickle, tickle, I swallow, tickle some more, I try to refrain from coughing, dammit, tickle, tickle, SMACK. Now I have to cough and it's the long drawn out kind that keeps going and going and going. You can feel your internal temp increasing exponentially, your face gets all red and hot and then you have to leave the room.

Well this has been going on for over two weeks now. Other than that, I feel fine, but what a hassle. It happens in the morning, at work, in the evening, and worst of all, when I'm trying to fall asleep. I went to the pharmacist, and she thinks I have seasonal allergies. The problem is, not one medication for allergies is for a cough.

I'm convinced that I have TB, OG consumption. Like Val Kilmer in Tombstone. Just call me lunger.
Notice the pale sweaty skin. That's what I look like after the coughing attacks...ok, maybe I'm a little red at first, but then the pale sweatiness comes into play.

Yield Shmield

Just a quick post tonight. I just wanted to say how much I hate yield signs. I mean seriously, if I see a yield I stop, b/c if I don't and someone is coming, I'm going to get t-boned. So why not just put up a stop sign? Why? I mean it's like putting up a sign that says "well, maybe you should kind of be careful, but you don't have to if you don't want, but if something bad happens, we'll say I told you so".

Running into brick walls

I've had certain moments in the past year, where all joking aside, I'm starting to feel.....OLDER. I mean, I'm going to be honest, overall, I think I look pretty good for my age. The age odometer recently hit 35...can you even believe it. Regardless of your age, I don't even know where the time goes. But I digress.

So here are a couple of examples. I was sitting outside with my husband the other day and the wind blew my hair into my face. I noticed a little glimmer or glint of color..but upon closer inspection of my hair strands, what did I find? Three full length silver hairs (I say silver instead of gray, b/c that sounds cooler). THREE!!! So many people would just tell me whatever and to get over it b/c they've had grays since they were 18, fine, but we all measure things a certain way. My mother didn't start graying until she was in her 50's. Now on to example two, I felt a tickle in my nose and upon inspection, it was nose hair that crept out of it's allotted nasal area into the light. A nose hair? Geesh, isn't that what old men get?

Well, b/c of these revelations, I've been going through my hair, only to find more and more grays..oy vay, no No NO. I mean come on, I have dark brown hair, plus I'm way to lazy to color it. Oh, and I just noticed that my hands are looking a bit veiny and sad and old.

But I tell myself it's all about how you feel right? So as I asked my husband to hand me my glasses to type this (that's a new development too), I asked him, what is going on with the grays and such, and his response, "because you're old, like 35 you know". This coming from a man who is 41 and a half. He quickly restated "but you look 25". Thanks babe.

I guess I'm running into a brick wall, but for now, I think I might just build me a tunnel in that wall.

Something that makes me smile

It only takes very little to make me happy now, I mean considering my complete and absolute soul sucking job. That constant squeaking is like an ice pick in my ear, but the dogs are so damn cute.

Does everyone shop at Costco?

As I was going through my Flickr groups tonight, I noticed a recurring theme on the pet postings. Everyone buys their dog beds from Costco. You can always tell because they are always the same size and always have that nubby fleece on one side. Oh, and face it, no one wants to pay fifty bucks when they can buy the same thing for a twenty spot at the big "C".

So I've been going back and forth about getting Otis a new bed and then I realized two things:
1. He slips during the day on two destroyed dog beds that are nothing but husks of what they originally started out as.
and
2. He destroyed my favorite pillow in the ENTIRE WHOLE WIDE WORLD. It really did bring that living room together.

So probably no new bed yet for Mr. Stinkyfeet.

I mean if I really think about it, at least one of the two dogs would be just as happy laying on a turd. I mean the happiness quotient would be so high as if it were a Swedish memory foam temperpedic turd.

Now I'm just straying off topic. So to answer my original post title, yes, everyone in the entire US plus it's principalities does shop at Costco. Why? Because it rocks some serious shizzle.

Oh, and stand by for an upcoming post where the question everyone is wondering....what does a dogs foot smell like.