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Bailout 08: $700+ Billion

I’m cranky. Very, very cranky. I knew that the stupid Bailout would happen but not only did it happen, but they pork barreled it up to $850 Billion rather than the original $700 Bil. FUCKERS. We all know why it passed: can you say lobbyists?

Our Rep Hank Johnson voted NAY. Bless his heart. His vote didn’t mean shit anyway, but bless him for heeding the pleas of his constituents. Too bad he seems to think that the Orphan Works bill is a good idea… I’ll have to harass him some more for that one, I think.

This is a fucking travesty. Fucking politicians couldn’t have possibly read and analysed this huge document in one day.

Well, I hope the future generations who are getting stuck with the bill for all this bullshit won’t mind. It’s just another few hundred billion on the ole USA Credit Card™, no one will notice, right? RIGHT?

Clearly no one who is running this country has a clue what the word deficit means and why it’s bad, mmmkay? DAMMIT.

GAH! I’m so irritated. This is a very clear example of government gone wrong. Why should WE bail out Wall Street, hmm? They got themselves in this mess let them figure it out. Other methods have been put forth, such as fees for trades like the UK has. But why do that when they can get literally BAZILLIONS of dollars from the good ole USA Credit Cardâ„¢?

OMG. This has gone way, WAY too far. It’s time to clean out the politicians who voted AYE. This is a clusterfuck of mammoth proportions.

Bush gets his way AGAIN and screws us one more time before he leaves; a nice parting gift, if you will.  Good luck, Obama. You’ll need it.

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One of those days

I woke up thinking it’s Wednesday – which is sensible since I thought yesterday was Tuesday all day. Uh, no, it’s Thursday, dork!

You know things will be wonky when this is how your day starts. I managed to squeak the payroll out in time for the checks to arrive tomorrow.  I bottomed out my checking account because I totally forgot that I hadn’t been reimbursed for a printing job. I’ve checked around and I think everything else is handled…I hope everything else is handled.

I shall do only necessities today and I shall nap profusely this afternoon. I am obviously discombobulated and didn’t sleep well last night.

Oh, and speaking of stupid shit, if you have Catalyst Gas, you’d best start looking for an alternative. They are dead in the water. Fuckers. Yah, allowing gas marketing has been a boon for us, hasn’t it? Prices are twice what they used to be and we get fucked over and over again. Nice.

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Get out there and write your reps!

Thanks to Lori from Dr Sketchy’s Atlanta:

ILLUSTRATORS ‘ PARTNERSHIP OF AMERICA
Orphan Works: The Devil’s Own Day
Never Too Busy to Pass Special
Interest Legislation 9.28.08

As lawmakers struggled Friday to clean up the mess on Wall Street,
sponsors of the Orphan Works Act passed more special interest
legislation. Their bill would force copyright holders to subsidize giant
copyright databases run by giant internet firms.

Look up your representatives and tell them what you think!

Continue reading “Get out there and write your reps!”

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Atlanta Gas bullshit

It’s amazing to me that people in this town can’t calm the FUCK down and let the gas supplies get replenished. Yes, there is less gas flowing due to the hurricane. Yes, we can’t get the low sulphur kind that we should have, BUT the EPA has waived that rule so we can get replenished. We can get caught up if everyone would give it a fucking minute!

The problem is PEOPLE. Stupid, stupid people who keep going back to the gas station to top off when they have 3/4 of a tank. DON’T DO THAT, OK?  If you have more than, say, 1/3 of a tank, and can make it to work for a few days, then WAIT. I swear they should check the gas gauge of cars sitting in line (burning more gas) and if they are more than 1/3, they should be kicked out of line. We shouldn’t even have lines! What is this, the 70s? Jeeze.

Nick has around 1/3 of a tank of gas. We calculated that it takes about 1.6 gals of gas per day for his commute in the truck. He’s got about 6.3 gals which yields a little under 4 round trips to work, if he burns the reserve gallon, which is not a good practice. I’ve got around the same amount of gas in my car, so we’ll get through this week, but be fucked by the weekend. In any case, our search for gas is not urgent at the moment, but we’re still gonna keep our eyes peeled.

And now all the companies run by morons who refused to let their employees telework or work 4 day weeks are whining that they can’t run their businesses due to the gas shortage. Wah, wah, wah. I say FUCK YOU for being such backwards bitches that you haven’t set up telework already. If this town had embraced alternative work hours, shorter work weeks and telework years ago, we wouldn’t have the sprawl, pollution and panic now.

Stupid middle aged men who have never checked their own email are the ones who refuse to implement telework because they staunchly believe no work will get done. Assholes. Telework has been viable for years. If CEOs weren’t such technophobes much of the mess that is Atlanta now could have been avoided. But NOOOOOO.

So, to all the companies out there who have refused to budge on managing your employees in a greener, more responsible manner: THANKS BUNCHES FOR FUCKING UP ATLANTA.

Assholes.

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Another Show & Tell

We have been busy little beavers this weekend. With the building of the art shed imminent, there is a lot of yard prep to be done. For instance, a metric asston of privet must be removed from the area where the shed is to be. This is the pile of privet we removed:

yard_prep

On Friday, I saw a big bug on the hummer feeder post and went to investigate. I found a big fat cicada who was in the mood for photos:

cicada

And finally, this morning Missy the Great Cow Huntress brought us a chipmunk. A LIVE chipmunk!  Nick heard a scuffling in the bathroom (which is her room, apparently) when he looked in the tub, there was a chipmunk. Missy was keen to know what we were doing with her prey, so we chucked her in the bedroom while we removed it. Nick told me, then proceeded to put on jeans and boots to wrangle this poor small rodent! LOL He’s a funny, funny man!

Anyway, I got a trashcan and a cookie sheet and scooped up the poor varmint and took him to the yard. I shall dub him Lucky! Here he is:

chipmunk

So, Lucky jumped out of the trashcan and scampered into the hedgerow with a few loud chirps. We’ll probably see him again – without his head!

Hope you enjoyed this week’s installment of Show & Tell!