My mother passed away early this morning, resting in the arms of Morpheus to ease the pain of a body racked by Cancer. Connie Stickley actually checked out sometime between Friday night and Saturday afternoon. But like an engine that knocks, the body kept running for a while.
I went to see her yesterday afternoon. On Friday, she was responsive, and we talked. Yesterday, she couldn't speak, and couldn't hold your hand. My mom was no longer with us at that point, so it was just a matter of time.
Per her wishes, there will be no service or funeral. Her obituary will run in The Salt Lake Tribune next Sunday.
There is some humor in this situation, but you have to know the back story. When I was a kid, my mother knew I liked comedy. She bought me, Bill Cosby records. And the only time I was allowed to stay up late enough to watch, The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson, was when there was a comedian on the show. Joan Rivers, David Steinberg, George Carlin, Flip Wilson. I loved them all. She even let me buy George Carlin's, Class Clown album, the one with the, "seven words you can't say on television" when I was only about 14. Yeah, it's not for kids, but she knew how much I loved comedy.
So she would find this really funny. She wanted her body to go to the University of Utah's Medical School. She didn't want a funeral. Well, she was so sick, they wouldn't take her. Man, in how bad of shape do you have to be to get rejected for the job of, "cadaver"?
When I say something that makes my friend, the comedian laugh it makes my day. But when I say something that really strikes a nerve with her, I'll just hear her say, "That's funny". I think if Lisa were here, she would say, "That's funny."
My mom had a lot of friends. Most people, even my friends, liked her much better than they like ME! She was a wonderful lady. And she always treated my friends like gold. And the thing they all remember most about her was her chili. Connie's chili was a legend. Whether it was my friends and I coming home after a cold winters day of hunting in the desert, or at a tailgate party, she would knock people dead with her chili and corn bread. I don't know where she got the recipe, I assume it was from a cook book. She was not a, "wing it" kind of a cook. But it has stood the test of time.
She gave it to my friend, Jami to include in a cookbook for St. Vincent's church years ago. I think the book was called, Angel Food. I have a copy somewhere. But it's not been widely distributed. Until now.
Years ago, the comedian, Ron White did a joke about the city of Cincinnati calling itself, "The Chili Capitol Of The World". The punch line was that he thought a Mexican with an onion and a goat could come up there and kick their ass. Especially if the Mexican didn't need to ride the goat home.
Well, Cincinnati, Ron White, his fictional Mexican and the goat would quake in their boots if they ever met Constance Ione Durst Stickley and her crock pot! So here it is.
Three pounds extra lean ground beef
One large can tomato soup
Two jars of your favorite salsa
One large can of Hunt's chili beans (this is OPTIONAL. REAL, "Connie's Chili" is all meat. My wife can't eat chili without beans. She is a mutant! She grew up in California, for crying out loud!)
Chili powder to taste (mom said three table spoons, Deb and I like to use four. You can play with this)
Salt and pepper to taste (keep in mind, there is salt and other things in the salsa you use. When I make this, I don't add salt or pepper)
Brown the meat (and since I don't have a huge grill like at a restaurant, only a frying pan. I brown a pound at a time to make sure it all gets cooked). Put the ground meat in the crock pot with all the other ingredients and let that sucker cook over night.
It's amazing.
So, enjoy this (I'm talking to you Dennis Winslow!) and if you knew my mom, remember the good times.
To tell you how long we tailgated with my mom, our first tailgate pass in 1983 was $8.50. What do they cost now? I'm just sayin, it was a LONG time.
Good bye mom. You and your chili live on.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
Moving The Prison Is Dumber Than A Homemade Radio
Here we go again. Al Mansell and the rest of the powerful Realtors who are still in the Legislature are at it again. They want the prison moved so they can profit from the land.
Moving the prison will cost something like three times what the state could get from selling the land it's on now. And they claim that a new prison will make up the money in using less staff. Bullshit.
Anyone who says that has never worked in a prison.
We have a perfectly good, totally serviceable prison right where it's at.
And on top of that? Most of the folks paroling OUT of it have all their family, support systems, treatment options right in Salt Lake County.
Now, I admit, I retired six and a half years ago. But back then, 80% of everyone on probation and parole in the whole STATE was supervised in Salt Lake County.
How does it make sense to have a prison in Tooele County, or down by Gunnison if you have to transport all your prisoners to and from Salt Lake County?
It does not. Unless you are a rich, realtor.
Follow the money to see how crazy this idea is.
You want to live in Bluffdale, but you don't want to live by a prison? Tough shit! Live somewhere else. The prison has been there since 1954. It's not like is snuck up on you!
We already have one of the lowest staff to prisoner ratio's in the whole country. How much lower would it have to go to make a billion dollars disappear? I can't imagine.
And no one seems to be counting the hours spent by Parole Agents transporting violators from SLC to Gunnison, or Tooele County, when 80% of those violations occur in SALT LAKE COUNTY!
And the countless hours prison transport officers will spend bringing prisoners back to Salt Lake County for medical treatment, court hearings and other things.
And what about the family of these folks? After all, we're all about family in Utah, are we not? If 80% of the folks in prison are from Salt Lake County, why would you make their family travel to Gunnison or some other obscure place to visit them? Seems kind of anti family if you ask me.
This is nothing more than a land grab by the monied rich, who will rip off the state. And make life a lot harder for anyone working in Corrections. But the Legislature doesn't care about that. They only care about how much money they can make for their supporters.
Moving the prison will cost something like three times what the state could get from selling the land it's on now. And they claim that a new prison will make up the money in using less staff. Bullshit.
Anyone who says that has never worked in a prison.
We have a perfectly good, totally serviceable prison right where it's at.
And on top of that? Most of the folks paroling OUT of it have all their family, support systems, treatment options right in Salt Lake County.
Now, I admit, I retired six and a half years ago. But back then, 80% of everyone on probation and parole in the whole STATE was supervised in Salt Lake County.
How does it make sense to have a prison in Tooele County, or down by Gunnison if you have to transport all your prisoners to and from Salt Lake County?
It does not. Unless you are a rich, realtor.
Follow the money to see how crazy this idea is.
You want to live in Bluffdale, but you don't want to live by a prison? Tough shit! Live somewhere else. The prison has been there since 1954. It's not like is snuck up on you!
We already have one of the lowest staff to prisoner ratio's in the whole country. How much lower would it have to go to make a billion dollars disappear? I can't imagine.
And no one seems to be counting the hours spent by Parole Agents transporting violators from SLC to Gunnison, or Tooele County, when 80% of those violations occur in SALT LAKE COUNTY!
And the countless hours prison transport officers will spend bringing prisoners back to Salt Lake County for medical treatment, court hearings and other things.
And what about the family of these folks? After all, we're all about family in Utah, are we not? If 80% of the folks in prison are from Salt Lake County, why would you make their family travel to Gunnison or some other obscure place to visit them? Seems kind of anti family if you ask me.
This is nothing more than a land grab by the monied rich, who will rip off the state. And make life a lot harder for anyone working in Corrections. But the Legislature doesn't care about that. They only care about how much money they can make for their supporters.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Double Standard
I've had some friends post that they are going to fly their American Flags upside down for the foreseeable future because they can't believe what is happening to their country.
For those of you who don't know, flying the American Flag upside down, from a ship, in the days before radio, meant you were in trouble and needed to be rescued. So my friends think, "Their" county is in trouble.
After all, we've added a bunch of jobs in the last four years. The stock market has climbed back above 13K. We averted the, "fiscal cliff" with a little bipartisan cooperation. GM is still alive, and Bin Laden is dead. The needless war for oil in Iraq is over. The needless war in Afghanistan to get Ben Laden is winding down. Millions more Americans will have access to health care than have ever had before. The housing market is improving, gas prices have fallen. And last October, we had our usual, every four year, "regime change" without a shot being fired.
Man, this place is FUCKED up!
After all, some nut ball used a military grade weapon that NO one who is not in the military or law enforcement NEEDS to slaughter 20 six year olds and some teachers in minutes, so the SANE people in government think it's time to talk about changing our gun laws and our gun culture.
Oh HELL no! It's violent movies/video games/TV! It can't possibly be the fact than anyone who can pass a background check, even if they are crazy, or crazy people who have access to already, legally purchased guns, have better access to assault weapons than to mental health care! That's it!
In the 50's, they blamed juvenile delinquency on comic books.
We will not eliminate assault weapons from our society in my life time. Probably not in my children's lifetime. But it took a long time to give women the vote, pass civil rights legislation, do something about our rivers that would catch on fire and our air that you couldn't breath. It took a long time to end child labor, and company stores and other abuses of big corporations. But you have to start somewhere. And now is the time to start.
We need to change a culture that leads people to believe as they grow up, that they can't be safe unless they possess such fire power. And that is just wrong.
It's my country too, and I'm going to take it back from the folks who don't read newspapers. The paranoid, and the just plain stupid.
And by the way? If I had shown up flying my American Flag upside down, while carrying an assault rifle to a speech given by, "W" while he was invading Iraq on false pretenses, much more false than President Obama's birth certificate, what would you have called me?
I bet it wouldn't have been, "Patriot".
For those of you who don't know, flying the American Flag upside down, from a ship, in the days before radio, meant you were in trouble and needed to be rescued. So my friends think, "Their" county is in trouble.
After all, we've added a bunch of jobs in the last four years. The stock market has climbed back above 13K. We averted the, "fiscal cliff" with a little bipartisan cooperation. GM is still alive, and Bin Laden is dead. The needless war for oil in Iraq is over. The needless war in Afghanistan to get Ben Laden is winding down. Millions more Americans will have access to health care than have ever had before. The housing market is improving, gas prices have fallen. And last October, we had our usual, every four year, "regime change" without a shot being fired.
Man, this place is FUCKED up!
After all, some nut ball used a military grade weapon that NO one who is not in the military or law enforcement NEEDS to slaughter 20 six year olds and some teachers in minutes, so the SANE people in government think it's time to talk about changing our gun laws and our gun culture.
Oh HELL no! It's violent movies/video games/TV! It can't possibly be the fact than anyone who can pass a background check, even if they are crazy, or crazy people who have access to already, legally purchased guns, have better access to assault weapons than to mental health care! That's it!
In the 50's, they blamed juvenile delinquency on comic books.
We will not eliminate assault weapons from our society in my life time. Probably not in my children's lifetime. But it took a long time to give women the vote, pass civil rights legislation, do something about our rivers that would catch on fire and our air that you couldn't breath. It took a long time to end child labor, and company stores and other abuses of big corporations. But you have to start somewhere. And now is the time to start.
We need to change a culture that leads people to believe as they grow up, that they can't be safe unless they possess such fire power. And that is just wrong.
It's my country too, and I'm going to take it back from the folks who don't read newspapers. The paranoid, and the just plain stupid.
And by the way? If I had shown up flying my American Flag upside down, while carrying an assault rifle to a speech given by, "W" while he was invading Iraq on false pretenses, much more false than President Obama's birth certificate, what would you have called me?
I bet it wouldn't have been, "Patriot".
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Epic Dog Day
And the only dog was mine. But we had a bunch of people in, "The Garage Ma Hall" today. Too many, well, "foreign" cigars. Won't specify the country. Don't want to get any one in trouble.
Good whiskey.
Jerry brought his dad, who's in his 70's. He wanted to know what his son was doing down here on Friday and Sunday afternoons. Pretty much siting around, smoking, "foreign" cigars and drinking while listening to southern rock music.
At one point his dad, Joe said to, Phil, "Do you think it would be OK if I smoked in here?"
Well the air was BLUE with cigar smoke. At least four of us were smoking cigars. What was I going to tell him? NO! You might make the Camaro cover smell like smoke, or something!
Every hour or so, we open both garage doors, and air out the place for a few minutes. But I still take the rug from in front of the wood stove, and the Camaro's, "Lingerie Cover" to the cleaner every spring.
We had 11 people in there this afternoon. Ryan says it's a record. I don't keep count, so I'll take his word for it.
Good friends, good times and a great way to spend time with them.
The money I spent to build that place? Worth every penny.
Good whiskey.
Jerry brought his dad, who's in his 70's. He wanted to know what his son was doing down here on Friday and Sunday afternoons. Pretty much siting around, smoking, "foreign" cigars and drinking while listening to southern rock music.
At one point his dad, Joe said to, Phil, "Do you think it would be OK if I smoked in here?"
Well the air was BLUE with cigar smoke. At least four of us were smoking cigars. What was I going to tell him? NO! You might make the Camaro cover smell like smoke, or something!
Every hour or so, we open both garage doors, and air out the place for a few minutes. But I still take the rug from in front of the wood stove, and the Camaro's, "Lingerie Cover" to the cleaner every spring.
We had 11 people in there this afternoon. Ryan says it's a record. I don't keep count, so I'll take his word for it.
Good friends, good times and a great way to spend time with them.
The money I spent to build that place? Worth every penny.
Monday, December 24, 2012
One Thing After Another
I went to visit my mom this morning. Three weeks after her first, and by her own decision, ONLY chemotherapy treatment? She's losing her hair. How does that happen?
My bedroom smells bad. In the fall, when it started to get cold, the kids said they saw a mouse in the basement. No problem, not the first time. We set traps and put out new poison. After a few days, they said they didn't see the mouse any more. None of the traps were sprung. So I guess the poison worked and he went outside to die.
Not so fast. The heating vent on my wife's side of the bedroom is NOT connected to the one on MY side of the bedroom. And it stinks. And you can't reach down into it far enough to clean it out. I think we've found that mouse. And I need to call the HVAC folks in the morning and hope they can come to check it out.
I stuffed HER heating vent with dryer sheets to stop the smell, but it's not doing that well.
A week ago, our high tech washer, that is only four years old, took a dump. And despite the best efforts of Doyle's Appliance Repair, who would NOT take any money from us, and made at least eight trips here to try and fix it, was not repairable. So I spent $1000 for a new washer, which I had not planed for, right before Christmas.
Then, the other night, my son backs his, "new car" which is his Grandmothers car, that he's taking care of until she can drive again (LOL! Like THAT'S ever going to happen...) up next to the garage and leaves the wheels turned. So I go out to take some stuff to the recycle bin, and I notice that even though the car only has 15K miles on it, the tires are showing wear bars!
I know they put shit tires on cars for original equipment, but only 15K miles and they are JUNK? Really, Ford? Wow.
So I come inside and order four new tires from costco.com, that will be delivered to the Costco here in Murray. $350.
Man, when it rains it pours around here.
The Audi is due for a 75K service, which I have scheduled for next week. This is a big one. Probably cost me about $500, or more. But you don't buy an Audi and IGNORE the service. It's a luxury car. You want to keep it one? You have to pay the price. Last month I put the fourth set of tires on it. $750.
Pro rated, cause the last ones didn't last 43K miles, only 33K miles. Saved me about $400 dollars. Thank you, Costco Tire Center.
Tonight, while I was downstairs looking at the vent work to figure out where that damn mouse was. I thought that I hadn't opened the gun safe in a year or more. And I might check on it. After all, my son assures me that there is a zombie apocalypse coming at any time. And we will need those guns. One of his friends the other day said when that happens, he's bringing HIS family over here, cause I have a gun safe full of guns.
Well, it's a good thing I did. The battery was dead. And it wouldn't open. So I put a new one in. Those zombies got some SHIT coming now!
Man, if we have any more shit to deal with between here and the end of the year? I'm going to have my head explode. Who has a dead mouse in their duct work? How does that happen? Shit.
I'm really looking forward to 2013. It's GOT to better than THIS year.
My bedroom smells bad. In the fall, when it started to get cold, the kids said they saw a mouse in the basement. No problem, not the first time. We set traps and put out new poison. After a few days, they said they didn't see the mouse any more. None of the traps were sprung. So I guess the poison worked and he went outside to die.
Not so fast. The heating vent on my wife's side of the bedroom is NOT connected to the one on MY side of the bedroom. And it stinks. And you can't reach down into it far enough to clean it out. I think we've found that mouse. And I need to call the HVAC folks in the morning and hope they can come to check it out.
I stuffed HER heating vent with dryer sheets to stop the smell, but it's not doing that well.
A week ago, our high tech washer, that is only four years old, took a dump. And despite the best efforts of Doyle's Appliance Repair, who would NOT take any money from us, and made at least eight trips here to try and fix it, was not repairable. So I spent $1000 for a new washer, which I had not planed for, right before Christmas.
Then, the other night, my son backs his, "new car" which is his Grandmothers car, that he's taking care of until she can drive again (LOL! Like THAT'S ever going to happen...) up next to the garage and leaves the wheels turned. So I go out to take some stuff to the recycle bin, and I notice that even though the car only has 15K miles on it, the tires are showing wear bars!
I know they put shit tires on cars for original equipment, but only 15K miles and they are JUNK? Really, Ford? Wow.
So I come inside and order four new tires from costco.com, that will be delivered to the Costco here in Murray. $350.
Man, when it rains it pours around here.
The Audi is due for a 75K service, which I have scheduled for next week. This is a big one. Probably cost me about $500, or more. But you don't buy an Audi and IGNORE the service. It's a luxury car. You want to keep it one? You have to pay the price. Last month I put the fourth set of tires on it. $750.
Pro rated, cause the last ones didn't last 43K miles, only 33K miles. Saved me about $400 dollars. Thank you, Costco Tire Center.
Tonight, while I was downstairs looking at the vent work to figure out where that damn mouse was. I thought that I hadn't opened the gun safe in a year or more. And I might check on it. After all, my son assures me that there is a zombie apocalypse coming at any time. And we will need those guns. One of his friends the other day said when that happens, he's bringing HIS family over here, cause I have a gun safe full of guns.
Well, it's a good thing I did. The battery was dead. And it wouldn't open. So I put a new one in. Those zombies got some SHIT coming now!
Man, if we have any more shit to deal with between here and the end of the year? I'm going to have my head explode. Who has a dead mouse in their duct work? How does that happen? Shit.
I'm really looking forward to 2013. It's GOT to better than THIS year.
Monday, December 17, 2012
It's Down To This
One day, my mom is doing great. She's always all there mentally. Physically? Not so much. She can't keep down solid food, so I'm buying her the fruit juice based, Boost on line since I can't find it here.
The cancer is kicking her ass. It's pretty obvious, that she's, "circling the drain". She actually said she would rather die than keep living like this. Don't blame her.
On Friday, she was in great spirits, very upbeat, felt great. Saturday I called her with the Bowl Game times and channel and she sounded great. I didn't see her on Sunday and when I went to see her today? She had a bad Sunday. Soiled her clothes and her bed three times, couldn't eat, and felt lousy.
This disease is so day to day. One day she's great, the next, she's awful.
The Hospice nurse thinks she won't make it until Christmas. Some days I think she's right. Other days? Mom is doing really well.
Well, I won't be traveling anytime soon. Not until this is over. I have a three story condo to empty out and deal with. And this is what you do, cause it's what you HAVE to do as a child. You take care of your parents.
But when it's done? I'm going to go away for a while. Take the blind woman I live with to Belize for a while. Or Mexico, or Paris, or Paros, I don't know. Then I'll take a deep breath and sit down with my children and tell them how shitty it's going to be for THEM when their mother and I go.
So it goes.
The cancer is kicking her ass. It's pretty obvious, that she's, "circling the drain". She actually said she would rather die than keep living like this. Don't blame her.
On Friday, she was in great spirits, very upbeat, felt great. Saturday I called her with the Bowl Game times and channel and she sounded great. I didn't see her on Sunday and when I went to see her today? She had a bad Sunday. Soiled her clothes and her bed three times, couldn't eat, and felt lousy.
This disease is so day to day. One day she's great, the next, she's awful.
The Hospice nurse thinks she won't make it until Christmas. Some days I think she's right. Other days? Mom is doing really well.
Well, I won't be traveling anytime soon. Not until this is over. I have a three story condo to empty out and deal with. And this is what you do, cause it's what you HAVE to do as a child. You take care of your parents.
But when it's done? I'm going to go away for a while. Take the blind woman I live with to Belize for a while. Or Mexico, or Paris, or Paros, I don't know. Then I'll take a deep breath and sit down with my children and tell them how shitty it's going to be for THEM when their mother and I go.
So it goes.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Liar!
I'm beginning to wonder who the GOP stays upright under the weight of it's own stupidity. Don't know what I'm talking about? Pay attention.
I saw a woman drive by me in an SUV yesterday in a parking lot. She had her Walmart name tag hanging for the rear view mirror and a Romney sticker on the back of the car. This person does NOT get it. If you're working at Walmart, and that's that's the best you can do? Mitt Romney is NOT your candidate. He wants to keep you as a part of the permanent underclass that he and his Capitalist buddies can hire for next to nothing, cause there are no GOOD jobs out there.
In the last few days, a woman who's a Teabagger leader in Texas said Obama fried his brain on drugs, which is why he needs a teleprompter. Why is it that when Republican leaders use teleprompters, these nut balls can't seem to see them? I see them. EVERY politician worth his salt uses them. Sarah Palin wrote on her hand. You would rather have THAT I suppose?
And you Mormon, Utah, Republicans should be shouting this line down louder than anyone. I've watched some of you Conference and every, single one of those old guys use a teleprompter when they give a speech. And they are supposed to be telling you information that came directly from God's mouth to THEIR ear! If anyone SHOULDN'T need a teleprompter its a prophet of God, telling you WHAT GOD says!
Obama is coming for your guns. A northern Utah rancher was quoted using this line a few weeks ago in an article about why rural Utahan's didn't vote for Obama (if an article never needed to be written, it was THAT one. Gee. Who doesn't know the answer to that question?) and I have to say, based on what? In what universe does the scary Black man had a pocket full off anti-gun legislation he's just waiting to cram down your throat in his second term?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, because Republicans seem to be as immune to hearing this, as they are to seeing THEIR guys using teleprompters (could be the tin foil on their heads). The only two pieces of legislation affecting guns that the President has signed allow you to NOW take a loaded gun into a National Park and onto an Amtrak Train.
Now, in light of the recent rash of silly shootings (Colorado last summer, the football player in Kansas City and Portland today) there will probably be some gun control legislation introduced, but the President won't do it. And it probably won't help. Especially in the Kansas City situation, as by every account the kid who killed his girlfriend then himself was a fine upstanding citizen who never had a felony and no one saw this coming. He could have bought a gun legally, as he did, even with more restrictive gun laws.
Bob Costas might have been right about the effects of all those hits to the head, but I think he missed the boat on calling for gun control because of this.
Raising taxes on the rich will cost THOUSANDS of working poor their jobs. I heard Mike Lee utter this nonsense on Channel 2 last week, and Rod Decker was too nice (or chicken shit) to call him on it. It's just a giant lie. No reputable economist would back this up. It's the same bullshit that they tried to sell since the 80's as, "trickle down economics". That the, "job creators" need lower taxes to create jobs.
If you believe this, have you read a newspaper since 2005? Cause the Bush tax cuts did ANYTHING but create jobs.
We have the best health care system in the world. No. According to the World Health Organization, we have the 17th best health care system in the world. Behind Cuba. And now, having experience with both health systems, ours and Cuba's? I'm going to go with Cuba for the average persons day to day health care. You break your leg in Cuba? You won't go broke getting it fixed.
I have great health insurance and I just got a bill for $2K for my little two and a half day stay in the hospital. I can pay that. But that's a chunk of change for someone working at Walmart and thinking they should vote for Romney. Trust me.
Look folks, if you only get your news from, "faux news", if you don't read newspapers, if you don't pick up a book once in a while that you didn't buy at Costco? You're going to stay dumb. And you will believe all the crap above. Don't. It's all a lie. And if you believe it? You're dumb.
I saw a woman drive by me in an SUV yesterday in a parking lot. She had her Walmart name tag hanging for the rear view mirror and a Romney sticker on the back of the car. This person does NOT get it. If you're working at Walmart, and that's that's the best you can do? Mitt Romney is NOT your candidate. He wants to keep you as a part of the permanent underclass that he and his Capitalist buddies can hire for next to nothing, cause there are no GOOD jobs out there.
In the last few days, a woman who's a Teabagger leader in Texas said Obama fried his brain on drugs, which is why he needs a teleprompter. Why is it that when Republican leaders use teleprompters, these nut balls can't seem to see them? I see them. EVERY politician worth his salt uses them. Sarah Palin wrote on her hand. You would rather have THAT I suppose?
And you Mormon, Utah, Republicans should be shouting this line down louder than anyone. I've watched some of you Conference and every, single one of those old guys use a teleprompter when they give a speech. And they are supposed to be telling you information that came directly from God's mouth to THEIR ear! If anyone SHOULDN'T need a teleprompter its a prophet of God, telling you WHAT GOD says!
Obama is coming for your guns. A northern Utah rancher was quoted using this line a few weeks ago in an article about why rural Utahan's didn't vote for Obama (if an article never needed to be written, it was THAT one. Gee. Who doesn't know the answer to that question?) and I have to say, based on what? In what universe does the scary Black man had a pocket full off anti-gun legislation he's just waiting to cram down your throat in his second term?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, because Republicans seem to be as immune to hearing this, as they are to seeing THEIR guys using teleprompters (could be the tin foil on their heads). The only two pieces of legislation affecting guns that the President has signed allow you to NOW take a loaded gun into a National Park and onto an Amtrak Train.
Now, in light of the recent rash of silly shootings (Colorado last summer, the football player in Kansas City and Portland today) there will probably be some gun control legislation introduced, but the President won't do it. And it probably won't help. Especially in the Kansas City situation, as by every account the kid who killed his girlfriend then himself was a fine upstanding citizen who never had a felony and no one saw this coming. He could have bought a gun legally, as he did, even with more restrictive gun laws.
Bob Costas might have been right about the effects of all those hits to the head, but I think he missed the boat on calling for gun control because of this.
Raising taxes on the rich will cost THOUSANDS of working poor their jobs. I heard Mike Lee utter this nonsense on Channel 2 last week, and Rod Decker was too nice (or chicken shit) to call him on it. It's just a giant lie. No reputable economist would back this up. It's the same bullshit that they tried to sell since the 80's as, "trickle down economics". That the, "job creators" need lower taxes to create jobs.
If you believe this, have you read a newspaper since 2005? Cause the Bush tax cuts did ANYTHING but create jobs.
We have the best health care system in the world. No. According to the World Health Organization, we have the 17th best health care system in the world. Behind Cuba. And now, having experience with both health systems, ours and Cuba's? I'm going to go with Cuba for the average persons day to day health care. You break your leg in Cuba? You won't go broke getting it fixed.
I have great health insurance and I just got a bill for $2K for my little two and a half day stay in the hospital. I can pay that. But that's a chunk of change for someone working at Walmart and thinking they should vote for Romney. Trust me.
Look folks, if you only get your news from, "faux news", if you don't read newspapers, if you don't pick up a book once in a while that you didn't buy at Costco? You're going to stay dumb. And you will believe all the crap above. Don't. It's all a lie. And if you believe it? You're dumb.
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