This
is five o clock and the government shutdown is scheduled to ooccur just four
hours from now. They have phone banks at
Eye Witness news to answer viewers’ questions about it. David Cruise advises you all to E mail your
congressmen. That goes without
saying. They are saying now that given
an up or down vote on the “Clean” Senate bill that the whole House would pass
it. But John Boehner is apparently
afraid of losing his chairmanship and therefore won’t allow any bill to come to
the floor without a majority of republican party support. So Boehner won’t even submit this clean
Senate bill to the whole House and end this crisis today. But I’ve heard Boehner will be stepping down
from the chairmanship at the end of this session anyhow because he wants to
become a lobbyist where the real money is.
These thirty or forty hard line House members, obviously a numeric
minority even within their own party- - have Boehner wrapped around their
little finger and Boehner does whatever they tell him to, and the majority be
damned. Of course the news is that the
whole shutdown is kind of a joke as pointed out by Bill Press this morning on
his show. They will shut down the
national parks but continue police patrols to insure that there are no
tresspassers. Air traffic will not be
impacted at all. And of course,
thankfully, all the relevant checks such as SSI will be going out as normal. Meat and poultry inspecters will still be on
the job, and there is a question whether people in the military will get
paid. I didn’t know that the shut-down
of late 1995 – 96 lasted twenty one days.
I didn’t think it was any near that long. Of course people blamed Gingrich and the
Republicans for that one, and not President Clinton. The administrative costs of shutting down and
reopening the government will cost more than if the government had never shut
down. As such there will be no savings
of money and therefore the debt limit date will not be delayed. Stephanie Miller likened it to be “Yes, I’ll
give you a ride to the doctors- - if you punch yourself in the balls so hard
that you vomit from the pain”. And the
joke goes “You indicated you didn’t really want me to give you a ride, because you
didn’t punch yourself in the balls” as if there were the slightest logical
connection between the two. Someone pointed out that if there is a one
year delay that the insurance companies will be so tired of being ying-yanged
around that they’ll pull out of the whole thing. But insurance companies WANT to qualify for
the exchanges because they know they’ll get a lot new cost efficient
customers. Also it seems that Wall Mart
will be hiring back a bunch of people so that they WILL qualify for health insurance. Cosco pays their workers substantially more
than does Wall Mart.
As
to the weather, I misspoke when I said that “summer is over” because the high
temperatures are still hanging in the eighties, in fact the average
temperatures these days is higher now by quite a bit- - than temperatures were
ranging two months ago, despite the fact that the days are a lot shorter. They are predicting another move into the
nineties for high temperatures this weekend.
Last night Donnie had cheese sandwiches for us and there was no
line. We watched “On the Red Carpet” and
they have slipped in another commercial break right at the end of the program
that they didn’t used to have. Then it
was, what I think was a rerun summary of “Once Upon a Time” involving Snow White,
and Rumple Stillskin, and Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. Of course in the scene where Snow White is
rebuked by her mother in front of the servant - - was totally out of line on
the part of the mother. She was doing a
real “Joan Crawford’ number on the daughter- - for seemingly no other motive
than some power trip, just like with Joan, because somehow she’s afraid Snow
White will grow up to be prettier than she is, and she has to put her in her
place. Snow White was perfectly correct
in rebuking a servant for messing with royal possessions. The rebuke in front of the servant sends a
real bad message for future discipline of said servant, if you catch my
drift. And I’m not buying this crap
about “goodness’ one bit. I’ve heard too
much of that shit from Christian pastors.
And personally I’m not at all convinced Snow White grew up to be
universally “good”. Then they showed the
two hour episode but I grew drowsy because I hadn’t had my evening coffee- -
and drifted in and out of wakefulness, and by about nine thirty I’d had enough
and went to bed- - kind of looking over at Bill. I slept pretty well but once again woke
early- - and had plenty of time to listen to Bill Press.
Meet
the Press was apparently live. Because
they announced that last night the US Senate announced they were going on
vacation – indefinitely. (?) So they wouldn’t be around to respond to any
House votes. The house, as I didn’t
quite say, voted last night to “fund the
government” (for a whole two & a half months) as if that is some kind of
major favor they are doing us all. But
of course they want the Insurance Exchanges delayed even though they are
opening the day after tomorrow. Just
think how completely ludicris that is.
The web site is up and people are going to it and shopping, and they are
looking forward to Tuesday when they can make it official. It’s positively daffy to think that somehow -
- as Ted Cruise “There is this additional barrier any law must pass once it has
been signed into law and upheld by the supreme court and where 56% of the
American people believe in upholding the law”.
I’m disappointed that 56% is not higher.
But clearly the American people aren’t “protesting in the streets”
against Obama Care.
In Leo Le Port news FAT 32 is the file system
that’s compatible on almost any operating system, even Apple. Unix is cool with it. But Windows XP is the last system to use FAT
32. FTFS is the operating system used
in Vista and Windows 7 and Windows 8.
But it isn’t universally compatable.
But FAT 32 doesn’t allow for files bigger than two gigs. Leo talked about thirteen mass computer
address directories ruling the whole world.
(?) First the computer asks the
operating system if it knows the address, and then it asks the browser, and
then it goes up and up the chain of command.
The final horrendous loss was USC’s defeat at the hands of Arizona State,
prompting the firing of the coach for “too many mistakes”.
We
had a fairly protein intensive day today.
Because we had hot chicken sandwiches and beets- - and kind of a beef
noodle soup. We had baked apple halves
for desert. Roxanne was at lunch but she
wasn’t at dinner. For dinner we had
meatloaf and I and John used the catsup- - because Joanie had gotten up. So I told Glen he could use up the rest of
the catsup. [Joanie returned but didn't get catsup.] But some remained and then
Paul Evans got his turn, and gave me back to me. It still wasn’t used up and I used it for my
second helping of meatloaf and green beans.
We had potatoes- - but on seconds these ran out first. We had sort of pina collata yogurt for desert. I poured half of Roxanne’s tea into my glass
and was drinking that for some kind of lift- - when Marsha came over and out of
the blue gave me three good white cigarettes.
As you know the previous whole cigarette I’d had was just after nine of
clock yesterday morning. That’s over thirty
one & a half hours and that record should stand for a long time. I informed Bill I had two cigarettes left and
said I would share them with him if he came out to smoke with me later. In soap land- - now all of a sudden Gabriel
has done a complete reversal again. Now
she apologises all over the place to Will and Sonny, whom she couldn’t stand
the sight of a few hours earlier- - and promised them that she would never move
out and take the baby. The position is
strange because she’s miserable and will continue to be miserable as long as
she lives with two queers - - with no love life at all. I’m not sure why this grudge against Raphael
that Elvis seems to have. Once again - -
how did he get into the hospital room, because I assure you he’s not on the
visitors list. It was kind of a
“Stephano light” intimidation session.
We
are now officially on page six, and the next file will be either “lavender” or
“raindow”, but in which order I haven’t decided. They’ve been using an off brand of sausage
that doesn’t taste that good. This
morning we had French toast- - one and a half pieces. We had oatmeal and I got seconds on oatmeal
from Hilda. That Ebony K lady was on but
once again drowsiness got the better of me- - and I was kind of dazed being
short on both caffeine and nicotine in my system. I went out for ten o clock coffee, which was
right on the dot. I was trying to chirp
in “bird language”. You never know. [note to blog readers: one of the white birds reappeared] I had two cups of coffee then. I also had two cups of coffee in the
afternoon. In terms of Randy Rhodes she
said a lot of good stuff today and I advise anybody to check out her
podcast. I could not possibly repeat
here everything she said. It’s mostly a
question if filtering through all the lies that the right wing has told about
the Affordable Care Act, many of which I have fallen for in the past. David Cruise came out against perks by
county supervisors in these tough times and urges these Supervissors to think
of their standing as more like you would a family, where if one suffers they
all suffer, and if one prospers, they share the wealth. The trouble is the Catholic Church never did
this. They were like the one pig who
always has his way at the troff, and nobody else dare eat till he has had his
fill. I have a real solution to that
one. Since he is the one piggy who had
been “fattened up” then he shall have the “honored” of being the first hog to
be slaughtered. That way the family will
eat well, and the problem in pig land will be solved.
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