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Apr. 2nd, 2011 01:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* In Maine, the "job creating" efforts appear to consist of taking down a mural about the history of labor in the Labor Department and rolling back the child labor laws to remove limits on hours and to let people hire under age folks at two dollars below what they pay adults. After all, what could decrease unemployment more than flooding the market with below minimum wage teenagers, right? Wrong. The goal is to prevent workers earning a minimum wage and insure the next generation isn't educated enough to fight back, as they wont have time or energy for school while working full time. It's brilliant and evil all at once. Charming. Who cares if it's bad for the country in the post Citizen's United Campaign finance environment, as cotrporations are the only "citizens" that matter.
* I'm still sick. I can't tell if it's still the influenza from the beginning of the month or something I've picked up in the last week or so. I can't hear. I keep draining my sinuses, and I can still smell, but my ears are still blocked and getting worse. It's embarrassing and inconvenient. There is no point in taking it to a doctor unless the pain scales up, as they will just tell me to keep doing what I'm doing. It's making me cranky and it's even harder to deal with distractions and the cat clinginess, as what I really want is space and being allowed to complete tasks without frequent interruption. Hell, I'd settle for eating a meal in one sitting while it's still warm.
I really ought to call my mother and catch her up on things, but she's deaf from antibiotics and I'm deaf from infection, and the mere thought is exhausting.
* Meanwhile, my workspace is in chaos as I keep having to move things so I can fiddle with my mouse and the plugs in the back of my computer. Today, I gave up and made Squirrel try as his arms are significantly longer. This was made extra challenging as he must look directly at me and yell if he wants me to figure out what he's saying, something he can't do when digging around back there. Sigh. It'll be a huge job putting everything back and I can't really do it until I'm sure things are sorted. It makes me feel trapped and I can't find things easily as they are not in their places.
* BPAL's COULROPHOBIA just dropped. Luckily, it's heavy on citrus and wine, as what little discretionary funds I have for next month are already earmarked for other things.
* help gaga make the finals: http://gofugyourself.com/fug-madness-2011-final-four-game-two-03-2011#more-374922
* I don't do April Fools. You are safe here.
* As I wasn't really clear about my issue with Eric Cantor yesterday, let me expand what I was saying: Republicans just saying a law is so doesn't make it legal. There's a procedure laid out in the Constitution. The other half of the point is that Eric Cantor has way more clout than John Boehner with the extreme Right in the Republican party. He is also the Majority Leader in the House of representatives right now and has been in the House since 2001. Yet he has less understanding of how a bill becomes Law than the average 8th grader who's seen School House Rock as part of the civics Curriculum. O.o It's his job to make laws; he's been doing it for a decade, and couldn't pass a middle school level test on how bills become law.
Perhaps someone should sit him down and make him watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ
* I'm still sick. I can't tell if it's still the influenza from the beginning of the month or something I've picked up in the last week or so. I can't hear. I keep draining my sinuses, and I can still smell, but my ears are still blocked and getting worse. It's embarrassing and inconvenient. There is no point in taking it to a doctor unless the pain scales up, as they will just tell me to keep doing what I'm doing. It's making me cranky and it's even harder to deal with distractions and the cat clinginess, as what I really want is space and being allowed to complete tasks without frequent interruption. Hell, I'd settle for eating a meal in one sitting while it's still warm.
I really ought to call my mother and catch her up on things, but she's deaf from antibiotics and I'm deaf from infection, and the mere thought is exhausting.
* Meanwhile, my workspace is in chaos as I keep having to move things so I can fiddle with my mouse and the plugs in the back of my computer. Today, I gave up and made Squirrel try as his arms are significantly longer. This was made extra challenging as he must look directly at me and yell if he wants me to figure out what he's saying, something he can't do when digging around back there. Sigh. It'll be a huge job putting everything back and I can't really do it until I'm sure things are sorted. It makes me feel trapped and I can't find things easily as they are not in their places.
* BPAL's COULROPHOBIA just dropped. Luckily, it's heavy on citrus and wine, as what little discretionary funds I have for next month are already earmarked for other things.
* help gaga make the finals: http://gofugyourself.com/fug-madness-2011-final-four-game-two-03-2011#more-374922
* I don't do April Fools. You are safe here.
* As I wasn't really clear about my issue with Eric Cantor yesterday, let me expand what I was saying: Republicans just saying a law is so doesn't make it legal. There's a procedure laid out in the Constitution. The other half of the point is that Eric Cantor has way more clout than John Boehner with the extreme Right in the Republican party. He is also the Majority Leader in the House of representatives right now and has been in the House since 2001. Yet he has less understanding of how a bill becomes Law than the average 8th grader who's seen School House Rock as part of the civics Curriculum. O.o It's his job to make laws; he's been doing it for a decade, and couldn't pass a middle school level test on how bills become law.
Perhaps someone should sit him down and make him watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ