Obama’s time machine is such a wonderful thing. According to certain people out there, he must have one in order to be able to:
1. Place his birth announcements in two Hawaii newspapers;
2. Design coins that have “In God We Trust” hidden on them years before he became President;
and the latest:
3. Not respond to Katrina fast enough, since that was clearly his fault even though Bush was President at the time.
Maybe we should bring back literacy tests.
There seems to be one big worry of certain Republican Obamacare opponents. What if people end up liking it?
After all, many of the same arguments against Obamacare were used against Social Security and Medicare (“It’s socialism! It’ll bankrupt us! We will lose all our freedoms and the world will be encased in fire and brimstone!”). Yet here we are, fifty years later, and most people seem to like those things just fine.
Does this man look worried?
Worse yet, Obamacare is working. Kids are not being thrown off their health care for pre-existing conditions. Young adults stay on their parent’s health care longer. People are getting refund checks from their insurance companies who had overcharged them before. And in states that are working to implement it, health care insurance costs have gone down.
Why, if this works, people might actually realize it’s not a bad idea, and may even (shudder) vote for Democrats!
So the GOP has gone into overdrive, banging its head against the wall, trying every damn thing they can think of to stop something that was passed years ago and has no chance of being repealed.
Because the horror of what may become of them if it works is too terrible to imagine.
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.”
I always loved that quote. Turns out it’s not from Thomas Jefferson, even though it seems to always be credited to him, and seems to have first appeared in the 1940s.
But it’s true.
Often people are surprised at all the projects I have going — keeping a law practice, having novels published, running an international game, working in politics, writing two blogs — and ask how I find time for all of these things.
Well, I don’t know. I just do them. Often these same people tell me about all the great TV shows, video games, and movies I am missing, and while they are right, that’s just a choice I have made. I’d rather spend my time working on these other projects.
And it’s not like these things are hard work. I really like doing all these things or I wouldn’t do them.
I’m not trying to tell anyone how to have fun in their life. You do what makes you happy — that’s what life is all about.
But I know people who could write great novels or accomplish other great things, but they just don’t do it. They start a project and never finish.
Yeah, there really is work involved.
A Hooters restaurant (and I use that term loosely) recently posted a sign saying that they wouldn’t serve San Diego Mayor Bob Filner because they believe, and I am not making this up, that “women should be treated with respect.”
When I commented upon this on a liberal Facebook page, I had a number of people who agreed but many more saying something along the lines of “Hey, those women have every right to be proud of their sexuality” and so on.
Well, that’s true. I am certainly not one to advocate closing Hooters simply because they only hire women who are good-looking and fire them if they gain weight. If women want to take those jobs, let them.
But don’t go kidding yourself and think that strutting around in shorts and a tight t-shirt while working in a place called “Hooters” where you are hired primarily because of how you look is the same thing as “respect.”
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