your going to force people to buy insurance to solve the problem?

Another politician has come up with a way of solving the uninsured, make them buy insurance. Boy won't that make the insurance companies happy. Mean while the other developed countries of the world have solved the problem with the high cost of insurance. They still have insurance that you can buy if you want a private room and stuff if you in a hospital. The government takes care of it's people. Not here, they want the old and broken people to die off. A good example of this is Bush's cuts to the VA. He knew he was going into two wars and that they would need hospitals to help the wounded solders so he cuts the VA. Mean while his buddies like Hallibuton is making billions on the war. Just think about all the equipment that's going to be replaced or the new stuff. That MRAT's contract won't be finished until 2012. Gives you hope on how long the wars going on. Seems politicians are sucking the Dick Chaney's of big business with no regard of the people of this country. Big business has turned to the labor force of China and other third worlds countries where people get paid penny a day. It's not going to be long before China and India pass us in wealth. Then the NeoCons will want to be on top and take on China. It's the same old history repeating itself.

Well that's my rant for the day.

Same old, same old

General says stay the course and repeats Bush's build up to the hearings. He has a bad job right now since the White house dumped this war on him. Iraq is a horrible mess. So, the new plan is, stay the course and it might get better. As far as the "Surge" goes it brought a lot of people into Iraq but that's where it stops. He's talking about bring troops home, like it's some sort of great idea he has. Now Bush is claiming he's going to sign off on it, like that a big deal. The guys served there time there and it's time for them to come home anyway. It's normal troop rotation except he's saying that he won't add any more troops to replace them. So, we are going to be at that same place as we were before the "Surge" next year. Since they said troops will have to stay there for 15 month and the last of the "Surge" troops came in last July they are going to be there until next October.

So, all I see is stay the course. Things might get better. Dollars are falling into the money pit and no ones keeping track of where it's going. For the contractors it's a hay day. Halliburton is making a killing since they are Chaney's buddies. I'm sure he's getting a kick-back. After he gets out of office we'll know if he retires to his own private island or country. Mean while Bush is still pushing the Iraqi's to privatize the oil fields so his oil buddies can get in there and rape the lands. It still amazes me that the first law that was pushed on the Iraqi's was they could unionize.

Conserve power?

Energy companies are complaining that people are conserving too much power and want to raise rates to make up for the money they are loosing with people conserving energy.

Don't that beat all. Mean while they keep building large houses that use large amounts of energy to light to cool or heat. Solar is for the rich and if our government was on the ball, they would have some sort of way of putting solar on all the poorest peoples houses to help them out. Here in California where the sun shines almost every day it would help all those air conditioners and new homes that need tons of extra energy. The energy companies serving their stock holder want to make as much as they can no matter who they hurt in the process.

Wouldn't it be great is all the houses would have solar cells on there houses. Then you wouldn't have the scare of brown outs.

What gets me is the oil companies and the price of oil. Even thought the west coast doesn't rely on oil from the Caribbean when a hurricane comes around the price of gas goes up on the west coast. That sounds like price fixing which I thought was illegal. I guess that shows you that if you have enough money then you don't have to obey laws.

I'd be in favor of nationalizing the utilities here and giving the people far prices. Now with insurance constantly going up some states are making it mandatory to have health and car insurance. That makes them a monopoly. They don't have to lower the rates because they know you have to buy it and will be fined if you don't. Because it's mandatory then it should be nonprofit. How else could it be fair?

The Night Shift

Well I guess you can't put a picture where you want to on the page.

The gangs all here. Haven't made a post in a while and it seems there's been some changes to the blog site. Found that Firefox doesn't seem to work right any more as far as posting pictures.

There's a red brown tint to the shy here. I'm listening to the fire near San Jose and I guess the smoke is blowing this way, 150 miles to the East.

I woke up today freezing and had to close the doors. It was still dark out and the deer were milling about the yard. The night shift was all gone and had turned in for the day. I really find the wild life here so amazing. I know I've said that before but it is. If you treat them with respect they respond in kind. Found out that the skunks can smell butter on your hands even if you wash them and they really love butter. You could put butter on a rock and they will find a way of eating it.

I haven't seen my baby turkeys in a while but they are hanging out today. They are getting so big almost the size of mom. I think the smell of smoke in the air is making them want to stay here. It's not strong but still you can smell it. At first looking outside I thought it was a fire near here which is rather common but haven't hears and air craft flying around here. Going to check NOAA's web site to see the latest weather pictures to see if the smoke will show up.

If this is good what is bad

President Brownie selling the surge and it's aftermath is pushing the idea that things are just fine. The generals who remind me of a Frank Zappa lyric, "You sniff the buns of angles like it was cocaine."

So Bush thinks it's going great. What would something like a total failure look like. New Orleans still looks like it did after the hurricane or close to it. Right before his going on vacation speech he said that Americans were taking home more money per year not thinking that it was only the top 5% of American that were doing well.

At a boy Brownie will go down in history as the Bush administrations most famous quotes. Bush surrounded himself with yes men and butt sniffer that never tell him things are crap but yes your doing the right thing.

Mean while everyones phone calls and emails are getting read and even your snail mail is getting opened to see what's in side.

I can see why the Iraqi's haven't met the goals the congress set. The oil deal that Bush and Chaney are pushing is to privatize the oil fields. The Iraqi's say no to that and I can see why. It would be counter productive to their country to sell their future. What gets me is Bush and Chaney keep saying it's not about oil.

Chaney still being tied to Hallaburton who still working in Iran to matter what the sanctions are on that country. Even after the hostage taking back in the late 70's Hallaburton's been in Iran. Another country that's been off limits was Libya but how's there all these years, Halliburton. Now that they moved their office to the Gulf it would be wise not to have them working or having contracts with the military since they can't be trusted as being loyal to the United States. I have to question Chaney's loyalty wheather he's loyal to the United States or to Hallaburton.

Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Bush give his studdering going away speech

Bush stammers along with another speech toting how good he thinks he's doing. Since he's been on vacation his approval rating went up. This tells me that the country thinks he's doing a better job while he's not doing anything. His statement that the economy is doing great came a bit soon before the stock market start taking a dive do to sub-prime loans. So far the federal reserve has been pumping billions into where ever the pump it, bailing out the banks and big inverters. Bush said he would help people from loosing their home but will help out the banks, investors and stock market. He's still out of touch with the war and thinks it's just going fine. He also this week made Iran Guard a terrorist group so I wounder if Halliburton will have to stop doing business with Iran, it hasn't so far in the past thirty years. During his speech he said people on average are taking home $3,500 a year but that is really all going to the top 5% of Americans. The rest of Americans have been going backwards. Bush never talks about inflation but only the core inflation which isn't much of anything. That's like saying you cut down on eating but still are 200 pounds over weight. He stays away from talking about the cost of the war also. He wants to push the September due date for the big report down a couple months but that's not going to happen. warrant-less wire taps are on the increase. All Americans are now far game.

So glade Texas has and is still getting pounded for putting this lier in office. Just proves that the Texas God is the wrong God. That steeling and lies will come back to haunt you. If they need to believe so heavily in the bible this is there biblical flood for Texas. Maybe they will take note about global warming now.

Bush wants peace in the Middle east or does he

Bush is claiming he want peace in the Middle East so that's why he's selling them billions of dollars worth of arm. Now that makes a lot of sense. Mean while back here in the states they are trying to approve a bill to give more money to the Veterans Administration but he says he's going to veto it. Why does he say he supports the troops but doesn't support the VA? I guess if your a wounded solder then your no good to him. He must expect everyone to come back or to come back dead. Now the generals are saying that "we will know better how the surge works in November." Putting off the September date. He really wants that oil, at any cost.

Windows XP Headaches

Had to format my hard drive and start over after 6 or 7 years of having "XP" working some what good, asides the usual updates and fixes. Well the registry crapped out and I couldn't fix it, so Windows wouldn't load. Every thing's going some what good now but Outlook Express isn't working with "Hotmail." So been rooting around looking to see what the problem is. Wrote a letter to Microsoft and they sent me a note back telling me to load these three updates. One turned out to be a 64 bit program and couldn't run. The other one said I didn't have Outlook Express 6, so it didn't load. The last one ran but now my Internet Explorer doesn't work. What's real wild, every thing else works online. My Firefox, Netscape and Mozilla browsers all work. The auto update for Windows works. Norton can't update. I do get a error message when I sign on that something like the protocol isn't right. Trying to find Outlook Express on the MSN site, well it's not there. Even the older versions aren't there. The one update that the tech told me to load changed the address to Hotmail. So, to live the way it is or to keep trying to fix this problem. What ever is keeping IE 7 from working must be the same thing that's keeping Outlook Express from working.

No Sockets Error

Sounds like a Mike Myers skit from "SNL," "No Sprockets." That means no email from hotmail with Outlook Express.

Well momma deer and the babies are here so need to knock some apples and plums from the trees for them. Mom's looking at me through the front door window. She's got that, "Why aren't you getting fruit for us? look."

Mean while I'll keep plugging away at the hotmail crap.

County Helth Department doesn't take State insurance

Well, after getting a love bite from Mr. Stinkers, one of the skunks here that I've been watching for the past five years. Finding out that skunks all carry rabies it got me worried, a lot of stressful nights with little sleep because the mind wouldn't turn off. So, called the doctors office to get a rabies vaccine and tetanus shot. Show up and all they have is the tetanus shot. They said I needed to go to the county health department. So, after talking to several employees I get to the right place and am talking to the right person. They Tell me I need to go to the hospital to get the first shots. Okay now, off to the hospital for a 6 hour wait in the ER, well I didn't have anything planed for the day. At the ER they call the health department and set up time for me to come to them to get the rest of the shots. So I show up at 10:15 AM. I'm half asleep still. Only had one cup of coffee. Then they tell me they don't take the states medical insurance. That just got me, the county doesn't take the state insurance. It's one government service to another government service. Now if I didn't have insurance they would cover me, so they tell me to go back to the ER for my shots. Today wasn't bad, only a couple hours, almost three for this shot. What gets me is my name was Juan from south of the border I'd be covered for everything even having a baby.

Bush make more lame claims

"Say the course." "9/11" "Stay the course" Mushroom clouds" Stay the course" "Need more money" Support the troops" "We're cutting back funds for veterans administrations again for the 6 year in a row." We're cutting back on science and real stuff and placing it in the hands of Christian Fundamentalist." Clean Air Act is good for my buddies so it's good people, just don't breath to deep." "I broke FEMA and I plan on breaking a few more things before I'm done." "I can do it, I failed at all my businesses so I can do this and my father won't bail me out."

It's funny when you hear someone lying, there is certain tells like playing cards. If they start out by saying, "Now Look," or "Look this is how it is," then you know they are lying. Even if they are trying to explain something and use that word "Look" they are trying to have command over you and make you think that are telling you the truth. Also talking fast like they practiced their responses before they even heard the questions. Talking fast doesn't mean it's right. Nether does talking louder then the other people who your talking to. This is just ways of tricking people into thinking your the speaker that is saying the truth.

If you listen to people that think things out they talk slower and softer and don't try to dominate any conversations. They don't have to the message gets out but it's up to you to listen and hear it.

Militants with balls

It's one year later after the militant group Hezballah started a war with Israel. It's terrible that some country are so weak that they let militants run around freely. They weren't acting in the interests of Lebanon and it's people had to suffer and the hands of a few.

I think it's sad the militants put others in harms way. It's to bad that Lebanon was so weak that they couldn't kick out the militants who had interest not with the country they occupy. They always say they will fight to the death with no regards with the innocent people living around them who don't want to fight to the death but just live and farm and have no political interests.

Maybe if the U.N. and the World Courts would say or pass a law that if militants place themselves in populations those populations can be considered as militants also thus be fired on for being complacent and letting the militants set up their hardware and use them as human shields.

I don't see why they don't deserve a Dresden style type air raids, they are as much as at fault as the militants.

Nancy in Wonderland: (Here's Blinky)

Nancy in Wonderland: At first I thought with the new democratic senate and house things would be different. Then I saw Nancy on Charlie Rose; she was a deer in the headlights. I kept hearing her repeat herself, this is what we did, this is what we did, really this is what we did. I lost my enthusiasm for the democrats. Lost any hope with the republicans back in the 70’s with Nixon. That’s when I found out the republicans see people as disposable units. Nancy was claming oh look what we did we raised the minimum wage to $7.50 an hour. I wish Nancy would try to live on $7.50 and hour for a month. Maybe she could do it during the summer months when she on vacation. Sort of like the Mel Brooks movie where he is a rich guy and has to live on the street for a month to prove a beat.

I challenge any lawmakers, Congresspersons, Senators, Governors, Mayors anyone one that is elected to live on $7.50 an hour. They don’t even have to work just live on the salary. They will have to live on $7.50 X 40 hours a week with no outside or other help. They need to get a place to live, pay rent, buy food to feed their self, buy cloths, pay for car insurance, buy gasoline all the stuff everyone else has to deal with.

If the congress and senate wanted to do something good they would stop inflation. Inflation doesn’t just hurt people in the developed world where we pay more for goods. Like gasoline used to be 19 cents for the most part of my days with a car in high school and part of college. I could go camping with a friend and it would cost us $20 dollars each for everything for the whole weekend. That’s gas to and from the desert and driving around gas while there. Then we eat like pigs and have a case of soda too. What a deal, there were no complaints.

I really liked what China did to a person in like an FDA like organization for taking a bribe and putting peoples lives at risk and hurting the economy, they sentenced him to death. I don’t think that’s too harsh and should be implemented here in the States. Since these so called elected official are mostly lawyers, they know the laws and should get hasher sentences when they break the law. Right now it seems that official tend to get easy or soft sentences. Maybe if they knew they would go to jail for life they wouldn’t take bribe and cheat people. As it is you can steal billions and get a slap on the hands while a person who robs a bank for a few thousand dollars gets twenty years.

I just don’t buy this crap that our officials spout off, I’m sorry, it won’t happen again. What a bunch of crap. Your even dumber then you look to thing I buy that. I’d believe you after maybe your hands were cut off for stealing. I’d believe that. Maybe after 20 years in jail I’d believe they are sorry for what they did. Officials need to go to jail one day for every dollar they took in bribes or embezzled or bribed others. This crap they say, “Well he was really humiliated for what he was caught doing.” Mean while people that are addicted to drugs, who can’t control their selves are sent to jail for years. I think if we started hanging elected officials that do wrong they will stop doing wrong real quick.

Lawyers, elected official that break the law don’t do it on the spur of the moment type impulse like say a drug addict does. They conspire with others to break the law and try to figure out ways of covering up there deeds. Thinks like that need a more extreme sentence. Give them a lop it off of them type treatment and you will see organized crime go down drastically. If your in a national capacity then it’s life in jail, no second chances, no new court case. But you think elected officials would make such a law? No they wouldn’t because they want to keep there shady doings on open, just in case a deal comes up where they can walk away with a few billion. You’d go to jail for a couple years if you could walk away with a couple billion.

Supreme Court, Big Tools

Supreme Court sucking the big tool of big business and the Religious Reich. They seem to have a case of ED, Extra Dick, I thought we had that in the Casa Blanca already. What's one more Dick in the city of Dick's.

No more simple speech unless you run it past your lawyer even if the slogan might be fiction. Mean while "The Tools" keep reading the Big Book of Fiction saying it's true bring mankind progress slowing to a halt. This almost sounds like some religious ideology's that want to live in the 8th century. Lets save the unborn to send them off on some religious war for oil and big business, that makes a lot of sense.

What should we expect, after all all Bush's appointments have been losers, this is nothing different. Every one of Bush's buddies ended up getting fired, quit in shame or retired to stay home with their family. Still waiting for Alberto to exit.

Maybe if everyone prayed to their "God" and hoped that Bush's backward appointees will get hit by lightning , have a blood clot, or something lake a car accident and doesn't have his or her seat belt on.

This seems all good and legal. It's my "FREE" speech It's how I feel and you can't make a law to change how I feel. Oh what doesn't Bush have the mind police?

What about the other war?

Somalia has a war going on in it's oil rich undeveloped country supported by the U.S.A. Ethiopia did the grunt of the work with air support by a carrier group off shore. It's not getting too much press if any. It's nice to know that the oil companies are looking into other easier countries to take over.

Fires and hot birds

Another fire today. I can hear the large airframes flying to the west of me. The twin engine spotter came almost over my house which prompted me to turn the scanner on to see how close the fire was to me. There's two tankers circling like vultures on a hunt. Many of the fire companies are out fighting this fire putting a strain on the rest of the county.

It was the same thing yesterday too, the spotter and heavy traffic on the radio. I could see the smoke from that fire here.

Seems the fire is a structure and grass fire. The fires about fire miles from me as the crow fly's. Good to know the fire departments will respond to fires rather quickly.

I think I lost about ten pounds working in the yard yesterday pulling weeds. I was in the sun most of the day which felt good but dried me out like a piece of beef jerky.

Hens are sitting at the picnic table, I guess they want to eat. They look a bit over heated and breathing hard. I guess it's hard walking around with a down coat on in this heat.

I saw a mother jay feeding her baby yesterday. That was a first for me here after five years of watching them. I've seen other birds feeding their young but not jays.

The raccoon babies were here last night. They are real playful and seem to get into everything. Mom is real protective of the kids and challenges everyone that comes close to them.

You want to eat Whales? I want to BBQ you.

Several countries don't seem to get it about that whales are on the endangered species list. They insist on hunting them. Japan says it takes around a 1000 whales a year for "Research" but the whales seem to end up in the markets. Maybe it we change the stakes, any country that does whaling are open to hunting the countries people down for sport of a BBQ. What ever you feel like doing with the carcass. You bag it and it's yours to do with what ever you want. Mount it above you fire place with the other heads Open season on whaling countries. Cook em up for a summer BBQ.

Why do Republican want to cut health care to kids?

The republicans and Bush don't want to renew the "SCHIP" program saying that people don't want Washington controlling peoples health care. That the answer "Republicans" give when asked about the high price of heath care in the United State. They don't want a national single payer type program like most of the developed world. They always give you the same answers, yo will have to wait month to be seen, what if your having a heart attack and try to scare people. That's how we got into this war, remember they scared you into believing that there was a terrorist under ever rock and "bush." It came out this week even more that people warned the administration that thing would go wrong if there wasn't enough troops to keep the peace. They told you that there was weapons of mass destruction. Which we found out there wasn't and wasn't even close to that. The mission from looking for weapons has change to removing Saddom, to making the country democratic, and this week they are just trying to get out and say they still won the war so it would look good for the history book. Some republican strategist have said that we went to war just to sell us a new product since the war on terror had run it course so they needed something new to sell leading up to the midterm elections in 2002. Well it work idiots from the bible belt beleived every word and voted republican.

When Bush came to office there was a 5 trillion dollar surplus. That's little over a years on income from taxes. So how are we doing now, we are barrowing money from China. Gas is twice the price since Bush took office. You electric bill keeps going up because the rebulicans deregulated the power companies. What did they do, just mainly one of Bush's friends they raised the power prices over and over. Making outages and brown outs in California which lead to Davis being removed as governor. And guess what a republican was elected in his place, do you think that was calculated or what. What did Arnold want to do the first thing in office but redistrict California, so he had a special election so he could get more republicans in the state offices or federal offices. This is the same thing they did in Texas by the guy that was tied to Abermoff and has been indited for money laundering.

So why don't they want to do something about health care and keep giving people lame answers because they own shock in companies like the insurance companies who make money by not treating people. They don't want to help people because it will cost money, money out of the stock holder pockets.

If we can get to the moon we sure can come up with a health care plan that doesn't include the cheap insurance companies that take you money and deny you coverage. The only way we can have far and cheap health care is to get rid of the insurance companies. A single payer system work in dozens of countries why not here. Sure you'll still have to pay for things like boob jobs or face lifts like it is now but with the government running everything cost will drop putting this country in competition with other countries again.

Preconception about people from Oklahoma are true!

My preconception of people from Oklahoma being a bit on the dim side. Today I heard a senator talking about so called junk science. Only thing I know it that the senator has a faulty mine and need to have it replaced with a new one. It's not just in Oklahoma but those "Red States" as a whole or should I say, "A Hole." These are the people that will have facts in front of them but go with superstitions. They could be on fire and you'll say, "your on fire" and they will look at you and say. "No I'm not" just because your not in the same church as them or belong to the same political party. They will talk about stem cell research as something evil when they can't even spell DNA. Forget asking them is they understand DNA because they don't, the only book they read is the bible to find out about science. To them the earth is still flat, if you've ever been there then you might thing that too. They need to keep people there from breeding with their brothers and sisters, too much inbreeding and you get an "Okey."

The same Senator picked up a book by Micheal Crichton, "State of Fears" and pointed to it and said "Global Warming was a myth." Doesn't he know Crichton write fiction or is that a word they don't have in Oklahoma. Crichton's got some weird views, I think he did too many drugs. He thinks "Aliens" are causing global warming. What weird about that he believe that and lectures about it too. He also much be from one of those flat states.

Don't get me started on the people there they are Creationist. Darwin to them means humans come from monkeys and the earth is less then 10,000 years old. I know they haven't really read Darwin's book or any other books dealing with evolution.

Since God told Bush to invade Iraq, then we have only God to blame for the war. Well when you live in a place like Oklahoma where the world is flat you better not go to far other wise your going to fall off the edge.

A wonderful end to a day

After a fun day of pulling weeds I took a shower and got dinner started. The oven was hot so bake a cake, why not. Yummy chocolate fudge cake. That will sit well with the pound of cherry's I ate today. With the kitchen door open I could see a heard of baby skunks walking on the road with mom. Had to run out and get a couple picture. Too cool little babies. Had a Laura Croft movie on, don't think I ever say this. Haven't been paying attention to it so being in the kitchen really doesn't matter. Well movies over food all done, time to kick back. I hear crunching on the porch; it's Ernie one of the raccoons. So I lay down in front of the door watching her. She didn't mind me watching, it was rather amazing like any other day. Bill Moyer's is on with a poet who I can't remember her name. They were reading poems from veterans mainly from the Vietnam War. Sort of nice listening to the poems, reflecting on what Memorial Day is about. I get to do a lot of reflecting out here every day, which I don't mind. I hear an owl hope the babies are back home. Don't know if they would bother with a little stinker. I hear the frogs in the forest, the moon should be coming out soon. It was a half moon last night. Here come momma skunk and the kids. The raccoons scared them off all but one. I'll try to herd him over to mom who's down on the road now. The bugs are really out tonight. I started making grunting sounds like momma skunk and the baby ran right over to me. He start challenging me as soon as he figured out it wasn't momma, stomping his little feet and squeaking at me in a threatening tone. I tried it again but this time close to the steps and he ran over but I backed up. He recognized the steps and knew he wasn't far from home. He struggled down the steps and mom and the rest of the babies came running over get him. Every one seems to be happy running around mom, squeaking and such. Another day in paradise, time for another piece of fudge cake. Got milk!