february 15, 2010
Healthcare Brawl
A guy walks into the bar and slips on a patch of wet floor. The bartender watches him get up and points to a sign which loudly boasts: WET FLOOR!!!! He the says in a coarse voice, “Hope you got healthcare.”
That would be my healthcare commerical, well, not really, but I am sick as hell of watching these stupid commercials. Cancer survivors saying that a public health plan means she would’ve died. Small business owner who can’t afford their healthcare anymore. People who lose their coverage because they get laid off/fired and they have a disease which means no other insurance company would cover them. A giant bag that says, “TAXES” and some ominous voice talking about how much the public plan is going to raise taxes and increase government as the bag inflates. I am in no way belittling this issue. I’m just through with the way the media is handling it. Fear, fear, fear!
The truth is that no, a public plan wouldn’t work until we change the way that healthcare/medicine is viewed; healthcare/medicine is an inalienable right and not a business to make money. What? I know ignoring the money factor in our society is difficult, but I think we could get passed it if we all really wanted to look out for each other and weren’t worried that I might lose something that is MINE and that I worked to hard for. I get it. I don’t want to pay more for my healthcare, but I sure as hell want to make sure that all the kids that I take care of don’t die because their parents can’t afford it. And I don’t want their parents to die either because the government only takes care of kids or allows the insurance companies to do business they currently are. So, in the end take some more out of my pay check or charge me more for healthcare, I want to see everyone get the chance to grow and flourish.
Speaking of growing and flourishing why can’t our government just stop working the party lines. Is it too hard to work to get something done for the people without trying to make each other look bad? Make Obama look bad by hoping all his effort to fix things fail. HAHAHA! that’ll show ‘um! That’s a load of shit and you know it. Plus, in my opinion Obama is making himself look bad by backing down on things and he and the democrats need to say things clearly or it sends people into a panic. Just work together and get it done. We don’t need to kill the republican party to fix things. We need to work together.
Stepping off my soapbox, only to find a crate that lifts me higher,
Dastardly Dainty
february 15, 2010
So you think you are a celebrity, get me outta here!
Again, I cannot dance but I sure as hell would be fine with a trip to Costa Rica (even if I had to eat spiders). I saw one part of an episode of “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here” and I was like wow, Lou Diamond Phillips. My boyfriend said, “Did you ever see ‘La Bamba?’”. Yes, of course! Then a few other people paraded on the scene and we both asked each other who these other people were.
And the “saving” of Speidi was a bit much…baptizing, etc. There is only one good Baldwin and he’s got a career. ”30 Rock” is awesome! Ok, so that was a bit harsh.
I feel bad because I am a die hard Apple person. I get mad at the WIndows commercials where they get money for a laptop and they pick a PC and rip on how Apple’s just look good, etc. But I have no problem with the Apple commercials. I’m so biased. Again, I see nothing wrong with PC’s, but I love my Mac. LOVE IT! In fact, I was raised with Apple computers!
And I’m done!
Stepping on your toes, just to make sure you are behind me!
Dastardly Dainty
february 15, 2010
Dance, Dance, Jon and Kate, sailing
I kinda got into biggest loser this season, but as for any other reality TV shows I have steered clear, except that one time, in the living room, when I was staring at the TV and I didn’t realize that I was watching “I’m a celebrity get me Out of Here.” SO ashamed! My boyfriend caught me. It was time to read a book.
Miley Cyrus is coming to town this summer. I’m staying the hell away from downtown on that day. Sorry, that was a major leap away from the topics. Damn TV always getting in my way!
Anyway, I’ve decided that those competition shows only make me realize that I have no talent. No, I can’t dance and even though for a few seconds I thought I could I was dead wrong. And I can’t sing either. Biggest loser did make me want to get into shape and that’s a good thing.
Jon and Kate. Wow, way to air all the problems to the world, not to mention to the kids. I just hope that all these kids continue to be cared for with as much love as you see on the show. As for the adults, I guess you get what you deserve.
I want to go sailing. Yup, there goes another idea that makes me want to do something that is probably impossible for me. So to Zac and Mike, way to be cool kids! You circumnavigate!
Dancing to your beat and calling it my own,
Dastardly Dainty
february 15, 2010
I’m not a twitterer
No, but I will be and I’m thinking of dropping everything else and just twittering. I’m really into twitter now because of that bird. Just suddenly, I have decided to join.
I have no weakness for Star Trek. kert rats (star trek backwards, I was just seeing if there was something secret in the name that makes it so damn popular. Nope. I still don’t get it.) I will, however, go see the Terminator movie. Who knows?
As for this new artist. I give him props because there are too many freakin’ musicians out there and it’s nice to have someone set themselves apart. This one’s for all you ladies out there who are loving on the singer/song writers. I dig ‘um. Nice Kevin, I mean Shane. Dammit, why must you have two first names, Shane Kevins!
Twittering just to hear my own voice,
Dastardly Dainty
P.S. I wonder how long I can go without having any followers on Twitter???
february 15, 2010
Dollhouse, Dushku and Death?
Good golly-gee willikers! Must I know absolutely nothing about popular culture. Ok, so I remember Eliza Dushku from “Bring It On” and I thought she was a good actress. Ok, ok, so “Bring It On” didn’t require a ton of acting effort, but it holds a place in my life because I had a few friends who made me watch it over and over and over and over and over!!!! But then again I had a friend who also made me watch “Donnie Darko” at that same exact pace. Anyway, I haven’t seen “Dollhouse”, nor did I really watch “Buffy”, but I remember that “Buffy the Vampire the Slayer” (the movie) kicked ass, so based on those connections I assume it a C+. Remember that a C+ is average +!
Bottom line: I’ve never seen it, but I’ve seen the Hulu ad with Dushku!!!
MMMMM! Stemmmmm Cells! Really, seriously, we are gonna deny ourselves this great opportunity to prolong life. No, that is a bit sarcastic and a bit serious. I want the ability to side step a little liaison that I might have with cancer and Alzheimer a giant step down the road, but at the same time I respect the idea of survival of the fittest. Are we just breeding a weaker and weaker species?
I give Stem-Cell research and all the prospects that it holds a thumbs up. I wish I hadn’t seen what my grandmother went through. And although she was an amazingly strong woman, the day before she died she was so far from the woman that I wanted to remember. I guess that is what happens. And amazingly this topic has brought me to the idea of death. WOW! WHAT WETRANLATED.COM can do for us all!!!
Pumping in the advertising, so you can’t look at anything but what they want to sell you!!
Dastardly Dainty
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february 15, 2010
Recession Dumb-Ass!
Yeah, I hate the recession. I hate that we chose the leaders that we did and made the stupid decisions that we made that led us down this path of foreclosure, job loss, and overall lack of the monies. And my stupid landlord won’t refund any of my ex-roomates and I deposit. I could use that money for groceries. Grrrr! It’s really ticking me off.
And now we have to worry about swine flu!!! What next?
Ok, so stupid things. . . I could fill a book with stupid things that I have done, starting with just freaking out on my significant other, whom I truly LOVE, about the deposit situation. Pretty much he was reading over my shoulder, which I do to him all the time (sorry baby!), and I got mad because he was telling me how to write back to my landlord. Also, talking bad about someone at work or just leaking out too much information in the first place (not work related).
Something really stupid that I have done . . . When I was little, my sister had a bag of jelly beans (my favorite candy) and she offered to share one with me. I agreed, despite the terms of the agreement that required me to open my mouth and close my eyes, for my lust for the sweet jelly beans were too great. I opened my mouth and slowly closed my eyes, anticipating the glorious splendor that my taste buds would undergo shortly. My sister quickly put it in my mouth and I freaked. I felt the sticky, gooey part of the booger sticking to my lip and the crusty side hit my tongue. My sister had picked a booger from her nose and smeared in onto my inner lip. I eradicated the booger from my mouth, wiped it back on her, and proceeded up the stairs with my eyes full of tears and my mouth full of tattles to tell.
I should have never believed that my sister would just give me a jelly bean. But she had to eat part of an ant hill as punishment, so i guess it was more stupid of her to stick the booger in my mouth.
Getting back to the 3rd episode . . .
Anyway, I agree with Abraham on the flying cars thing. I want a flying car! Make it a hybrid and the dream can be a reality!
Filling your mouth with ant hill dirt, so I can get even with my sister.
Dastardly Dainty
