Congress convenes tomorrow for another two year session where both Senate and House have that rare but now highly watched coveted opportunity to make the rules, which must be done at the beginning of each session and that is tomorrow. The first item on the agenda for them will be to repeal the health care bill right off. Can you believe that? Apparently the thinking goes that they don’t want the American people to get too “used” to having all the nice new benefits. Or it could be they “don’t have anything else to do but tear things down since they can’t build anything”. On Randy Rhodes a called questioned why the Bush administration was never investigated. Randy said “Well if they did that they couldn’t pass health care”. In the first place that would be fine with me. But in the second place it isn’t impossible for them to walk and chew gum at the same time. The caller suggested that if the republicans had a noble side they themselves would investigate the war crimes of the Bush administration. That would be patriotic, wouldn’t it? Maybe some tea party people, like Thom Hartman before them might get religion and turn into libertine liberals and turn all their ardor to champion THOSE causes now.
John Boehner says he wants transparency. Well, I’m for that. I am against these Christmas tree legislative packages that aren’t even subject to amendments on the house floor. But I just hope he doesn’t pass some gimmick to give the Republicans an unfair advantage in passing bills. We know the Democrats never exercised the rights they could as a minority under Bush and now I wonder if they’re going to bring back “the nuclear option”. I’m paranoid they’ll come up with something dirty nobody has thought of.
I was intending to look at a consumer electronics show C E S video, and I eventually watched two of them. But first I got sidetracked to “V” promos because the long expected (and wondered whether it would ever come) season of “V” is premiering tonight. Of course for a while in Sirius they worried about Romulans doing the “V” thing for returning to Regelus V. Of course if you saw the original movie the “V” spoke of how benevolent they were. How are they going to now contradict everything they said. Now you’re going to see human emotions such as rage at being found out.
I am planning to talk about my new idea for a function key in Calculator called "additive exponents". What this would do is enable you to add figures like x squared plus x cubed. We know if you were timsing it the answer would be x to the fifth, but I'm talking about addition and not multiplication. For instance x to the 3rd plus x to the 4th would be x to the new 7/4 power and x square plus x to the fourth would be x to the 1.5 power. So you just make the larger the denominator and the total number of x's as the numerator. I have a way of "almost" getting the answer short of using wolframalpha.com. Or you can always see it as an x and y equation with two unknowns where x equals y. That way you can use the President Obama way of solving the problem on computer. You know, Incrementalism. You just do a sweep of all possible values for x till you get the right one that solves x = y. (where y is actually another x, and so I guess you would call this a lesbian equation.)
This is January fourth and the sun is staying up noticeably longer now. I still have not E mailed Mom. Weather wise they are predicting a new round of cold weather for the midsection of the
You know, I would hope people like Rush Limbaugh realize the seriousness of these gay bashing videos in the military. I’m not sure what the motives of these staged scenes are other than to disgust everyone that would watch. OK I guess there is that lingering question of what do you do about gays oogeling other men in the showers. Well I heard that the military has individual shower stalls. I guess it's only high schools and prisons which still have corporate showering. This incident hopefully transcends left verses right wing, but in today’s world, you never know.
They say that your normal walking speed, on the sidewalk on the way to a distant destination, determines how long you will live. I guess that’s a good thing for me, if it turns out to be true. Some people exercise like crazy and still get heart attacks. Like I say I hope to live at least another thirty years and after that we'll see.
They say that the Microsoft-Intel relation is showing its age. Windows is becoming a thing of the past even if it is still used on ninety percent of the world’s computers. Computers themselves are becoming a thing of the past what with the invasion of the tablets, and their disallowance of downloading regular “files”. Like I say I think it all some government conspiracy to take away control over our own hardware. Soon we’ll be forced to get everything we need from “the cloud”.
I don’t know if it’s the Apocalypse but after all these stories of dead fish washing up we now have all these red wing tipped blackbirds dying by the thousand in Arkansas and Louisiana. Now they are saying that it wasn’t lightning or hail or insecticide poisoning but rather fireworks on Newyears. Apparently the birds have bad night vision and normally are roosting at that hour but for some reason they must have been flying and got disoriented and stunned by the fireworks and went crashing into buildings and things having apparently lost all sense of direction. That’s what they say. By the way whatever happened to that crisis we had about bees abandoning their hives that was so rampant several years ago and they even made a Simpson’s episode about it.
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