Do you remember your dreams?
Occasionally. And you don't wanna know how my mind works. Trust me!
I noticed my VOX gets a lot more hits than my LJ from countries I've never even heard of, some seem to be repeat visitors. Interesting. Hello random strangers who read my rants for who knows what reasons on whichever site you read me on, I'm flattered. I can only assume that the people who read me on LJ mostly do so on Friends pages, because even there I end up with random comments from strangers where as on VOX only registered users can comment. On LJ anyone can comment (though non friends get screened).
The only real news story today (Thursday, I've not slept yet, yes it's now Friday) that got covered was the beers at the white house. And really, who cares? I don't like beer, I certainly don't want to talk about it. Maybe if they were having mudslides or rum and coke, I'd be interested. Some guys who really didn't want to have beer together had beer together. w00t!
I did a load of laundry. That was more exciting than the "beer summit". So was Shatner reading Palin tweets, does that fall within the fair use laws? I think he's pushing it. Mijn Favoriet and I discussed that. He's a law student, granted in Dutchieland but he likes reading up on our laws too. We agreed, Shatner is pushing it. It's technically "satire". But he is also reading her whole tweets word for word. But he's reading a few tweets out of many. She could probably get pissy about that if he keeps it up, but she'd be stupid to.
Oh there is one other story. That cash for clunkers program is out of money but will continue through the weekend. They'd expected it to go through what November I think? This was it's first week I think? So many people went out and traded in their old cars that it's already out of money. So the government boosted car sales for one week. Got a bunch of older cars with bad gas mileage off the road and got people into cars with better gas mileage. Win win win. See the government can sometimes do something right. Wonder if people can pay for those cars.
Excuse this post. As we all know by now I'm one of those fun people who cares a bit about health care because she'll always have health care issues for life and right now that means I'm still adjusting to the new shots. I feel rather shitty though I must admit I'm adjusting better than I though I would, still I do feel like hell today as last night was full dose #2. I'm just tired and a bit dizzy and erm... off a little.
And yet, I do have a rant about the public option. Actually, no. I have a rant about the idiots who keep talking about the public option. Something like 80 percent of my fellow Americans have insurance, good for you. I hope you don't get sick and find it's basically useless or that you'll lose it if you're so sick you have to quit the job you have it through, etc. I don't care to rant about that, you should all know about that by now. I don't even care what you do or don't think of the public option. .No, what I do care about is that people who claim to be intelligent and think that the rest of us are too freaking stupid to know what the word OPTION means. In case YOU are too stupid to know what it means, try something like dictionary.com. Personally, I was fond of this definition: "The power or freedom to choose."
Got that? Okie dokie then. Stop saying that the Public OPTION will take away everyone's private health insurance and FORCE them into the government plan. Stop insulting my intelligence. You're talking about total Universal Coverage, which hasn't even been on the table in any of these plans, this is an OPTION. Fucking assholes think Americans are so stupid and will believe what they say is a fact just because they say it. One guy pretty much admitted well his concern was just that if there a Public OPTION it would possibly cause the insurance companies in his district to lose business. Oh, so wait, how does that work? If the government is soooooo bad and can't be trusted to run health care, who would possibly dump their private insurance for it? AHA! Guess that OPTION isn't as bad as you made it out to be then? Thanks for telling us that.
Then again, apparently some Americans are as stupid as they think we are, because a lot of people seem to really believe that Republicans DO want to reform health care -- without a public option, without the protections for pre-existing conditions, etc etc. Okie dokie. Really? Umm what would you be reforming if you remove every aspect of the reforms? Hell they've pretty much flat out been saying they aren't going to release a plan of their own. They do NOT want to reform anything and they've been saying we have the best health care in the world. It's my option to claim they're on crack.
Ooh wait one more thing on the health care thing -- they keep saying that it'll cost a fortune because everyone gets every test they want, etc etc. Really? Then in the next breathe they say that the government will KILL YOU because they'll stand between you and your doctor and you'll never get anything done. Geezus make up your mind. Will I be able to ask for anything and everything and get it whether I need it or not? Or will I never get anything because Obama himself will be trying to kill me and will be sitting by the phone saying "Ramie needs what? HELL NO". I guarantee I know more about health care on a personal level than a lot of these idiot politicians talking about it. You don't get tests for the hell of it. Doctors don't order them for fun. And Obama isn't gonna be sitting by the phone blocking them if they're needed. Neither of those absurd claims is true. The gov't doesn't want to block your care and most people don't try to get a tons of unnecessary tests.
Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go sleep the day away as I feel uber dizzy and sick. I think I might pass out. I think last night's shot has really caught up with me now. Holy hell. You wanna know about health care? I'll tell you one thing, don't friggin get MS. That's all the health care advice I can give you as the treatments suck ass. It's still better than I expected but it sucks none the less. It's still 99% than Avonex was I don't seem to feel sick for a week after, just a half a day after, but now I'm doing the shots three times a week so it's still a lot of sick days. I miss the Copaxone and the no side effects but I guess the more and more brain damage thing = I gotta do what I gotta do. If this doesn't work... I'm kinda screwed. I'll have been through just about all of the shots I think.
They're roasting in PDX. My mom's twitter was explaining her plans for getting cool... So we were chatting via Twitter, but she had to call to tell me a funny Keegan story, which was unrelated and too long for Twitter.
They have a lot of stuff to get rid of. Karina, while on the phone had called her a "hoarder". They get off of the phone. Keegan is quite upset and tells his mom that she's not to call his grandma a "whore". Karina has to explain, "No, not a WHORE, I called her a HOARDER". He doesn't know what a hoarder is, so Karina explained what she meant by that. Well, with that cleared up, he was happy, so long as she doesn't call his grandma a WHORE, he's happy HA. Aww I love that kid. I told mom, "At least he's defending your honor."
Now then, if it stays 100+ degrees out, mom may decide to run around town naked. We'll see how Keegan feels then.
Not safe for kids or work. Enjoy some superhero music err comedy err both. Just because I don't feel like ranting today. The shot has left me really tired + I think I scratched my eye, no clue how. It's a bad day useless day, so I'm going through my music and sorting it properly, etc. I forget who told me about this gem, Amy maybe? It's going in my hero themed folder, heh. Admit it, you'd all be butt sex man or perhaps fuck you dude.
May offend some of you, if you're sensitive about religion, don't click. But now you know why I am how I am. My mommy person sent this to me. Now you know how I ended up this way, how many moms send this to their children? ;)
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, (R) of Michigan is an idiot. He's introducing a House Resolution today which will demand that Obama apologize to Officer Crowley for saying he acted stupidly. Dude, he already invited him to the White House for beer with Professor Gates. The arrest was stupid, hence the DA not doing anything with it. He's apologized as much as he's going to. If you want more than him inviting them both to the White House? Too bad. I want YOU to apologize to the people you represent for being a total idiot. Let's see... Michigan, what do I know about Michigan? hmm.... Detroit, right? Car industry? How many people do you rep that lost their jobs and health insurance? And you think a good way to spend your time right now is to introduce a resolution trying to force Obama to apologize to a cop for calling a stupid action stupid? Bravo. Do you know what apologies are? Do you think the way that people get them is by a House Resolution? Then hey why not introduce a resolution asking bin Laden to apologize? I mean yeah, maybe for things like the country as a whole wants to apologize for slavery. But to say one person has to apologize for something? You just can't do that, that's not how apologies work. Use your time wisely, instead of being an attention seeking jerkoff please. I'm pretty sure your state is, like mine, one of the ones hurting REALLY bad. And THIS is how you're using your time. Tax payers pay you to work for them... and THIS is the best you can do for them? Seriously?
[Me] I'm watching Sarah Palin's speech from yesterday, she's no longer Governor... man she makes my head hurt.
[Me] And now she'll be able to REALLY say what she thinks so it's gonna get even worse!
[Mijn Favoriet] lol
[Me] right now in the speech she's going off on how Hollywood folks need to know that in Alaska they eat therefore they hunt so they need their guns
[Mijn Favoriet] yeah
[Mijn Favoriet] stupid supermarkets should open up in Alaska
[Me] because you know Hollywood folks are showing up in Alaska to take their guns it seems
[Me] yeah!
[Me] it's too cold to go open shops there
I don't think she understands the term lame duck...
But, here we go, let the real fun begin. We Hollywood types will be watching, you know when we're not taking turns running off to Alaska to steal their guns. *eye roll* Reason #1 she'll never be president: she can't stop talking shit about those of us aren't her fanatical base. She can't win with her fanatical base alone. She apparently either doesn't know this or thinks we'll forget that she KEEPS doing it? Either way, dumb. I won't forget. I've lost count of the Hollywood / California, etc etc comments, but there's been enough of them that I'm so beyond insulted that even if she could convince me that her crazy far right religious George Bush like politics wouldn't be an issue for me, I'd NEVER vote for her. I don't appreciate being insulted by someone too stupid to even answer simple questions like "what do you read?".
I really like the part in her speech about how the press lies and how in honor of the troops they should stop. I bet she means the ones who keep saying Obama's birth certificate isn't real... ohh wait, those are the same ones who support her, so probably not those ones...
Though I must admit some of those HORRIBLE Bravo reality shows have hooked me late at night. I don't really want to admit that though. Seriously, they're terrible. Actually, to be honest I can't watch most of them, but that damn NYC prep one I watch it and it's truly horrible. The others I watch on Bravo aren't as bad Top Chef. Semi watched Fashion Show (bad but not horrible --- just a bad Project Runway ripoff). Etc. So far the only new tv I am looking forward to is The Vampire Diaries to see how badly they ruin the books (previews look like they might not get it right -- but it's taking Smallville's time slot sooo...) and V if it ever airs to see how badly they mutilate one of my favoriet shows from when I was a kid (and some of the only sci-fi I've liked - I'm very picky about sci-fi). As you can tell I have low expectations for both. Actually when it comes to Vampire Diaries I hope they do stray from the books some, there's one book that needs to be forgotten. As for V... I don't know -- it looks okay'ish. But we'll see. There has been talk of a movie in the works forever by people involved with the original though and I'd be more excited about that.
Enjoy the rare pictures of me... and my hat. I never wear hats but a few jumped out at me, I ended up with this one because Brian said it was "Less Blossom'y", it's odd that any of them were Blossom'y as I hat shopped in the men's department not the women's. I also got an iron since the craft one I got, while good for small things, is kind of hard to use since the cord pops out a lot, etc. I didn't get the rotary cutter I need. I'd have thought Target would have it, nope and the craft stores here are on busy crazy streets and no time, so gonna order online. Anyway, the pics are kinda crappy, not enough sleep and had just taken hair out of a headband. I took 5 pics but the others (2 of which looked like they would have been better than these) were of course blurry -- damn tremor -- I deleted them. Ohh some lady wanted to know where to get my James Dean shirt, sadly I had to tell her that it's a few years old from the 50th anniversary of his death and no longer available. I love James Dean fans and don't like breaking their hearts.
