Tuesday 17 December 2024 11:04:44 PM CDT
Saturday 14 December 2024 09:12:32 PM CST
Gonna close this on Tuesday 'cause I got an MRI on Wednesday. Docs fooling around for months before they get the insurance to approve it.
I asked the lab and they said ten hundred clams if I just want to go to it and pay out of pocket. The doctor orders it and the insurance pays
it gonna be twice that at least. So they get more money - if I'm still alive to do it - and I guess that's good for them. And the docs get paid
for a couple or three more encounters. Anyway I'm probably not in immiment danger of expiring from something. Probably where they sewed me back
together or the drugs they put in me that cause liver damage. That'll probably take a couple of years to kill me so the revenue stream is good for
that long anyway.
Uriah Heep is doing their
farewell tour.
I know a
lot of acts
somehow manage to come back but I believe Heep is for real. Not just because Mick is the last of the original members -
that doesn't seem to stop some
from continuing and I don't have a problem with it. But somehow I suspected someday Mick would want to retire and while Bernie and Phil have been in
for over thirty years and are along with Mick the creative center but while over thirty-five years isn't fifty-three it's a long time.
They're one of the best live bands that ever was and seem to do it because they enjoy it. They may not be as mega-rich as the latest entertainment
equivalent of Mountain Dew but they're probably doing all right. Between Two Worlds reportedly was a tribute two of the earliest members -
bassist Gary Thain and frontman David Byron. Both were tragic cases of the type that happened so often back then (and still occasionally do but
seemingly not as often as they did for a while there) due to substance abuse.
It was the opening number for a while. I didn't see them during that time but got a show video or two of good quality and it's fun to crank up.
Heep with that keyboard/guitar setup similar to Deep Purple and a similar sound. Great stuff, glad technology is there to preserve it.
I already commented but hadn't seen what
the community
had to say.
Amy Lopez, a mother of three, praised the initiative.
"This reform could be a game-changer," she said. "SNAP should support families in making healthy choices. If the program encourages nutritious eating,
it benefits everyone by reducing long-term healthcare costs." Jonesbororightnow.com
Not everyone shares her enthusiasm. Jessica Miller, a SNAP recipient and single mother, voiced strong opposition.
"Restricting what we can buy feels like an attack on poor families," Miller said. "We're already struggling to make ends meet, and sometimes buying a treat for your
kids is all you can do to make their day. This won't solve poverty or hunger." Jonesbororightnow.com
I thought maybe we was poor when I was a kid because Mom and Dad didn't buy us candy and sodas and stuff all the time. We weren't especially rich back then but that
wasn't the reason. I've never had to have a tooth filled and never lost a tooth until I was in my forties and something the dentist said he couldn't explain caused me
to lose my two back molars on the left side. Lived on a farm and no fluoridated water either. Had my wisdom teeth hacked out by an Air Force dentist named Timothy Leary.
Actually I guess he did it right but they took the stitches out too soon and it got kinda nasty. Kids that get candy too much can have tooth problems and if the taxpayers
bought the candy there's an increased probability that they pay for the dentist too. See how that works Ms. Miller? Nah, they don's see. Who should be unhappy - someone
unhappy with the amount of freebies maybe being cut or a who is still paying Social Security and Medicare tax (because my income is taxed at about 30% because I'm finally
collecting the Social Security and Medicare I paid for and AM STILL PAYING FOR because I still have other income or those who paid for at least part of theirs. Sooner or
later something has to go. When the less fortunate who paid for forty-plus years and Social Security is all they have and it gets cut so people who in many cases never
worked a day in their lives can continue to get their handout do single mothers care about THE ONES WHO PAID FOR WHAT THEY GET AND WANT MORE OF?
Apparently somebody
figured they was seriously disrespected.
Slapping kids around ain't nice or smart and doing it with cameras on you the whole time is even less smart. Some people lack self-control I reckon.
A few million here
a few million there.
I suppose we won't know for a while if anything gets done about the debt. These folks do know that 25 million
is all borrowed don't they? Like they care.
Sunday 15 December 2024 11:42:12 PM CST
Jonestown paper finally
decided to mention
the assault... I mean harassment allegations agin the basketball coach at Paragould. Maybe it's just me but if some was to strike me in the face I would consider
it an assault. Actually if they just tried to strike me it would be assault - if they connected it would be assault and battery. Technically if you even act like
you're about to slug me it would cause me fear of imminent harm and that would be assault.
Dunno why it wasn't in the sports section. It was about basketball. They had
an editorial
about Governor Sanders planning to deal with the taxpayers buying junk food for people that can't pay for their own groceries. I got a feeling it'll pass but the usual
suspects gotta deflect and obfuscate:
The proposal targets SNAP beneficiaries, but most Americans are digging their own graves with a knife and fork, and the government is subsidizing and encouraging the unhealthiness of
their lifestyles in various ways. For example, the health care system doesn't really punish us if we eat poorly. Hospitals treat us, and taxpayers and fellow ratepayers collectively
pay for much of the costs of our decisions.
In other words, a bigger conversation is needed about all the ways that modern American life makes it easy for us to make unhealthy choices -- regardless of our income level.
Jonesborosun.com
Lessee, people that work for a living and buy their own food
and pay for their own insurance are paying for those hospitals. And we're paying taxes for people to
buy unhealthy food and get sick and our taxes pay for their health care too. How about first we stop them from wasting our money and being unhealthy into the bargain and
then you can lecture the working people that eat too much Twinkies and Snickers bars and whateverall?
I haven't had a Twinkie in years, Snickers either. The regular size ones were too small and I used go get the big ones but they started that silly makin'em in two pieces
like you supposed to share it with somebody. I still get a PayDay now and then - they still in one piece. I like the
Pearson's Salted Nut Roll (PSNR)
even better but about the only place I can find them is Dollar Tree. Right now I got two or three that I bought but trying to not put on weight this winter. Sure are good though.
Some years back there was a radio show I used to hear sometimes, whatever it was I was driving late a night a lot and it came on. Called
The '70s with Cindy Barton
and she played what probably they call classic rock now. Their main sponsor was the PSNR company and I always figured to try one some day. First time I bought one I
was a little leery because of the white stuff in the center. Turned out to be pretty good though.
Chris lookin' at me like....
Monday 16 December 2024 10:22:52 PM CST
I would suggest that
driving drunk
would be a good thing to not do at all times. I generally avoid driving on holidays because drunk or not there's a lot more
bad drivers.
Wynne paper had
this bit
and and KAIT had
this one
about schools. I don't see that much of a problem with violent behavior by teachers in Arkansas schools but getting ahead of the
potential problems is not a bad idea. Have a way to deal with it when it does happen. Tell you the truth I don't know where the
problem is with inclusivity - is it because there isn't or because there is. If there isn't you got a problem all right but the
fact is if everybody plays by the same rules they're all included.
My
favorite weekend talk show
is still just two hours but Andrew suggested they may be about to have a third. Andrew was talking about the proposed welfare
reforms. No not
that one. That was Slick Willie desperately
trying to get reelected and wasn't taking any chances. He figured on getting elected and having the dims take control of Congress and repeal it.
Thanks to Ross Perot he got back in but the reforms such as they were didn't change much. So we've got people buying chips and dip and ice cream with
their SNAP card. Anyhow Andrew was talking about it, Memphis being so close to Arkansas they have an audience over here he being a sensible guy was
for it but his younger producer who seems real nice but is young and liberal was agin it. Just not fair for people not to be able to have me and the
other taxpayers buy their snacks.
I don't see any way the feds don't approve the waiver and I doubt the usual suspects in the legislature will have much support so it should go.
What sucks is you have to ask for a waiver and the outoing regime would never have approved it. As someone or other said elections have consequences.
I expect some good consequences from this one.
Tuesday 17 December 2024 09:12:48 PM CST
Didn't I threaten to have movie commentary a while back? Whether or not I did here's some.
True Grit wasn't a favorite John Wayne movie - western or otherwise - for a long time.
Not because Glen Campbell didn't to a pretty good job for being maybe the first of the very few films he did - I thought he did all right. If you read the book you'd
find that the the sometimes quirky dialogue that put me off for a while was the way the book was wrote though. Anyway it was one of John's best and I believe he got
an Oscar for it. Haven't seen the remake yet, may get around to it one day. Heard good things about it and I like Jeff Bridges.
Among my faves are the
Howard Hawks trilogy (it woulda been cool if all
three had 'Rio' in the title but you can't have everything) and as other westerns go I liked Big Jake and The Undefeated, Chisum not as much
for some reason. McClintock more due to the always charming Maureen O'Hara. Good non-westerns were the unabashedly propagandistic
The Green Berets
- probably the first and last time I'll link to either one of those dudes -
(nice performance by David Jannsen) and McQ (decent, you get a sixty-something something Duke chasing/fleeing bad guys in a '73 Trans-Am. Brannigan was
quite enjoyable - I was in the U.K. or a few years shortly after that and experienced the London of the time. Richard Attenborough was a charming foil to badass
Chicago cop John Wayne. Judy Geeson deserves a mention. Dunno anything about the dude in the Jag with what looked like a Mauser C96 or something that looked like
one. I start talkin' about John Wayne movies be be here all night.
Okey-dokey, Tuesday so we should be getting some input from the local 'news' outlets by now. Lessee what they got. I know I'm up early but c'mon guys, let's get with it.
Seems
not many irregularities
turned up in the election. There was a lot more scrutiny from poll watchers in a lot of places, especially the dodgy states where the 2020 election was rigged.
That wasn't the only reason they didn't get away with it this time but it helped. Just
knowing they were being watched helped some and some being caught helped more.
Arkansas is near as red as can be so if someone manages to fix a mayor or city council seat somewhere it's a local thing.
Fixing the tax situation is always a good thing and naturally I applaud efforts to do so. I should probably suggest to Governor Sanders that she get the legislature to
look at what
they want to do in Virginia. The Republicans anyway
but things seem to be going in the right direction there. I suspect it would fly here.
You're not the only one
Amongst the saints and sinners
There are those that we can see
And those no longer with us
To take that walk again
With someone you were close to
On stage in the other world tonight
And there are many
Who will say it's speculation
We need to focus on
The sleeping generation
The healing vision
That extends beyond the pain
Will take you there and back again
I can remember
You were no stranger
As you came to me
Dreamers walking
And in that moment
Between two worlds
I saw the furthest star
Exploding all around you
And through the journey
You spoke in silence
And you made it clear
Walk in peace now
Then you touched me
Revealing all upon your way
Inside the burning fountain of timeOf time ...
A time so real as the one
We share each day
The same dimension
Just a heartbeat away
In every part of you
There's so much exploration
Out on the edge of space and time
Uriah Heep
Between Two Worlds
Sonic Origami
Rooster Cogburn : Boots, I got Hayes and some youngster outside with Moon and Quincy. I want you to bury 'em for me. I'm in a hurry.
Capt. Boots Finch : They're dead?
Rooster Cogburn : Well, I wouldn't want you to bury 'em if they wasn't.
Crop handle carved in bone; sat high upon a throne of finest English leather.
The queen of all the pack, this joker raised his hat and talked about the weather.
All should be warned about this high born Hunting Girl.
She took this simple man's downfall in hand; I raised the flag that she unfurled.
Boot leather flashing and spurnecks the size of my thumb.
This highborn hunter had tastes as strange as they come.
Unbridled passion: I took the bit in my teeth.
Her standing over me on my knees underneath.
Jawbreaker
‘49 minutes ago
‘Sanders suggests no snacks with SNAP
It should pass. There will be the usual kicking and screaming by all three of the
commies and posturing by a couple or RINOs but I suspect more are seeing the wind
direction.
And all the pressure that's been building up, For all the years it bore the load, The
cracks appear, the frame starts to distort, It's ready to explode.
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Jessica Atreides Marshall
31 minutes ago
There shouldn't be a problem with approval of the waiver but it's a disgrace that one
is needed. There should be strict limits as in the past.
We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives.
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MAGA Hertz
12 minutes ago
These people are given everything - housing, food, medical care and seem to think it
just happens like manna. When the country finally goes broke they may not be the
first to feel it - that will be the people on Social Security that get theirs cut so the
parasites can be fed but by then it will be too late. I'd rather be one of the ones
accustomed to taking care of myself when it all falls apart.
"I should know better, but where's the fun in that?!"
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