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Mar. 31st, 2012 03:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Scott Walker is officially up for recall. Also, a Federal court struck down some provisions of his union stripping bill.
* The thing that seems to be missing in the current health care debate is the complete lack of understanding that demanding people pay 75-100% of their average monthly pay every month for insurance is completely unreasonable. It's not stupidity, laziness, or ignorance; it's that if you say to someone, "You can have somewhere to live and barely enough to eat, or you can have health insurance" they tend to choose not to be homeless. We have decided that jobs like teaching and fast food worker should pay barely enough to live on if you never get sick. We also decided that we should give huge tax breaks to the rich instead of provide health care to folks with subsistence jobs like teaching and fast food work. I see a lot of born rich politicians with free government health care and rich media people with excellent insurance pointing fingers at the "free riders" like there's some sort of choice. No one's asking them to give their whole pay check every time to health insurance, yet they are judgmental of folks they are demanding do exactly that. It seems to me the "free riders" aren't riding free at all; instead, they are working their butts off at hard jobs for very little pay in order to make already rich people richer, yet the people that labour benefits don't want to give anything back let alone pay their share.
* The President vs. Mitt on Foreign policy: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#46911905
* Looks like Keith Olbermann's been fired by current and lawsuits are likely to follow. this makes me terribly sad.
* I think yesterday's ick was an allergen exposure reaction rather than a pathogen.
* I actually saw Mache do three low jumps in the last 24 hours, plus, she's been pulling herself up onto the Pettin Throne instead of making me lift her. Those Zuke's arthritis treats may be full of magic.
* I got polled today. It was one of those do you think things are getting better/worse in the country/state/city/household ones. It also asked about split vs. one party control of state government. Luckily, "It depends" was an option. I literally couldn't tell for sure which side was doing the polling, though I suspect someone wanted to know what Gregoire's chances are for reelection.
* Sour cream ice cream update. (Okay, technically it was Ccreme Fraiche flavour, but what that actually tastes like is a milder, lest intense sour cream). While it still remains disgusting, it was actually okay in an ice cream soda. I am so not getting taken in again. BTW, the slanderer, coconut, and green tea flavours of Snoqualamie are glorious, having not only perfect flavour but texture. They are exactly everything I want them to be as if they escaped from a dream. My plan is to try a flabour every month until I've tried them all. May I add Omnomnom!
* The current randomly selected silent film I am watching is an experimental German slice of life project called People on Sunday from 1929. For the record, it's beautifully shot. The problem is, as an audience I have the whole wait of future history in my head. I watch the crowd scenes and wonder how many of them will end up in concentration camps, or die in the war. I wonder how many of the survivors will wend up on the wrong side of the wall. How many of those cute blond children playing in the water or at the park will join the Hitler Youth? How many will join the SS? What happened to the young woman who looked so much like Anne Frank will a decade later in her close up during one of the transitions? *shudder* I sit watching people shaving, playing cards, swimming, clowning around at a picnic and think of the Berlin Wall and the Stazi. It's way more wait than a charming and naturalistic film can support. I can't help but read a shot of a graveyard, a tenement, and a bevy of soldiers walking by as foreshadowing even though that's not what is. Likely they were evoking WWI and Weimer poverty under the surface of the relatively prosperous lives we are following, but that's not what I see. I see deadly ghettos and Europe in flames. they show pretty architecture and wonder which ones the bombs will take out or will sink into the grim grey on the wrong side of the wall. I suppose this also makes me a douche.
* Attn: il_volpe: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/20176314368/deviantbirds-crows-are-presumed-to-be
* I have no words: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/20163080157/in-the-late-1880s-the-body-of-a-16-year-old-girl
* "Who’s that Lady?:" http://blog.aaa.si.edu/2012/03/whos-that-lady.html
* "Famous Faces in Their Film Debuts”: http://flavorwire.com/273844/video-essay-and-introducing-famous-faces-in-their-film-debuts
* The thing that seems to be missing in the current health care debate is the complete lack of understanding that demanding people pay 75-100% of their average monthly pay every month for insurance is completely unreasonable. It's not stupidity, laziness, or ignorance; it's that if you say to someone, "You can have somewhere to live and barely enough to eat, or you can have health insurance" they tend to choose not to be homeless. We have decided that jobs like teaching and fast food worker should pay barely enough to live on if you never get sick. We also decided that we should give huge tax breaks to the rich instead of provide health care to folks with subsistence jobs like teaching and fast food work. I see a lot of born rich politicians with free government health care and rich media people with excellent insurance pointing fingers at the "free riders" like there's some sort of choice. No one's asking them to give their whole pay check every time to health insurance, yet they are judgmental of folks they are demanding do exactly that. It seems to me the "free riders" aren't riding free at all; instead, they are working their butts off at hard jobs for very little pay in order to make already rich people richer, yet the people that labour benefits don't want to give anything back let alone pay their share.
* The President vs. Mitt on Foreign policy: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#46911905
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* Looks like Keith Olbermann's been fired by current and lawsuits are likely to follow. this makes me terribly sad.
* I think yesterday's ick was an allergen exposure reaction rather than a pathogen.
* I actually saw Mache do three low jumps in the last 24 hours, plus, she's been pulling herself up onto the Pettin Throne instead of making me lift her. Those Zuke's arthritis treats may be full of magic.
* I got polled today. It was one of those do you think things are getting better/worse in the country/state/city/household ones. It also asked about split vs. one party control of state government. Luckily, "It depends" was an option. I literally couldn't tell for sure which side was doing the polling, though I suspect someone wanted to know what Gregoire's chances are for reelection.
* Sour cream ice cream update. (Okay, technically it was Ccreme Fraiche flavour, but what that actually tastes like is a milder, lest intense sour cream). While it still remains disgusting, it was actually okay in an ice cream soda. I am so not getting taken in again. BTW, the slanderer, coconut, and green tea flavours of Snoqualamie are glorious, having not only perfect flavour but texture. They are exactly everything I want them to be as if they escaped from a dream. My plan is to try a flabour every month until I've tried them all. May I add Omnomnom!
* The current randomly selected silent film I am watching is an experimental German slice of life project called People on Sunday from 1929. For the record, it's beautifully shot. The problem is, as an audience I have the whole wait of future history in my head. I watch the crowd scenes and wonder how many of them will end up in concentration camps, or die in the war. I wonder how many of the survivors will wend up on the wrong side of the wall. How many of those cute blond children playing in the water or at the park will join the Hitler Youth? How many will join the SS? What happened to the young woman who looked so much like Anne Frank will a decade later in her close up during one of the transitions? *shudder* I sit watching people shaving, playing cards, swimming, clowning around at a picnic and think of the Berlin Wall and the Stazi. It's way more wait than a charming and naturalistic film can support. I can't help but read a shot of a graveyard, a tenement, and a bevy of soldiers walking by as foreshadowing even though that's not what is. Likely they were evoking WWI and Weimer poverty under the surface of the relatively prosperous lives we are following, but that's not what I see. I see deadly ghettos and Europe in flames. they show pretty architecture and wonder which ones the bombs will take out or will sink into the grim grey on the wrong side of the wall. I suppose this also makes me a douche.
* Attn: il_volpe: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/20176314368/deviantbirds-crows-are-presumed-to-be
* I have no words: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/20163080157/in-the-late-1880s-the-body-of-a-16-year-old-girl
* "Who’s that Lady?:" http://blog.aaa.si.edu/2012/03/whos-that-lady.html
* "Famous Faces in Their Film Debuts”: http://flavorwire.com/273844/video-essay-and-introducing-famous-faces-in-their-film-debuts