Crabby Blogging Lady

Sorry I haven’t been very humorous lately, folks. I guess I’m on a literal crabby streak. I’ve been reading the news headlines, and they have me very worried. I don’t know about you, but I’m too nervous and creeped out to be very funny or find things funny right now….

This is just sick. Makes me sick! Read this article. Tell me if that phrase “government’s role in health care” gives you the shivers like it gives me the shivers.

Senate Panel Previews Electronic Health Technology

The Senate Committee on Aging last week offered a preview of the government’s future role in health care, showing how Americans will interact with doctors and other health care providers. The demonstration offers a glimpse at an overlooked effect of health care reform.

The effort, loosely called e-Health or e-Care, combines health-care technology with 21st-century Internet connectivity. It will allow doctors to interact with their patients through innovations such as video chats, telephone health checkups, and home-health monitoring devices that relay data over wireless Internet connections.

Home-health monitoring devices? Hey, I like the Internet…. it’s a great place to get information on best term life insurance quotes or whatever. But I want to be in control of me, ok?

“The development of the broadband network and health information technologies has the potential to truly transform health care and simultaneously enable better outcomes and lowering costs,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).

One of the new health technologies on display last Thursday was an automatic drug dispenser that can monitor and adjust medication dosages wirelessly, allowing doctors to tailor dosages of drugs such as insulin without having to schedule in-person visits with patients.

“What we’re talking about, folks, is using a device like this one,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said, as he displayed the small device. “It attaches to the patient’s skin and is loaded with drugs that are administered in the exact way that the doctor prescribes – wirelessly.

“That means that a doctor can vary the doses based on the information the doctor is receiving [from the monitor]. The patient doesn’t have to go in to the doctor and then the pharmacy to change his or her prescription,” he said.

So is this the reason for the government mandate to get everyone connected with broadband??

Am I the only one really creeped out about this? The government is forcing us to have their health “care.” Then they force us to get rigged to the computers, to have drugs or whatever dispensed by SOMEONE ELSE through a WIRELESS connection. This is INSANE.

These senators act like they have a bunch of new toys to play with. Us.

What the heck ever happened to getting the government out of our bodies, huh???????? Where’s Betty Friedan and Jane Fonda now?!

Wow, is this business a glutton for punishment, or what?

Facing billions of dollars in losses the post office is considering all options in its effort to cut costs. So, the commission that oversees the postal service and the post office’s Inspector General are asking for suggestions from the public.

Send your ideas to the postal regulatory commission at prc.gov or the postal inspector general website at blog.uspsoig.gov.

Actually, this is pretty cool. I’m glad they are asking for input instead of treating us like peons or criminals under security cameras. The post office is ragged on by everybody, but so few people have any constructive ideas on how to help solve their problems. This is supposed to be OUR postal service, not the government’s who so graciously dole it out to us, right?

Well, I will be making this suggestion to the Post Office:

Don’t look to the bottom rung (i.e., the carriers, and eliminating delivery days) to fix your financial problems. Look to the TOP rung– look at the administration and the bloated bureaucracy at the top. The Postal Service is one great big upside-down pyramid. It’s top heavy. Start to condense jobs and eliminate over-lapping duties, and for God’s sake, get rid of the waste. For example, you do not need three bosses to oversee one post office. There are too many layers of administration. This is why government and public education are so costly, as well.

Plus, I give you my advice for FREE.

And it’s good advice!

What a dumb news “story.”

Hating the government finally goes mainstream

Three years ago, the Republican establishment piled scorn on the presidential candidacy of Ron Paul.

Today, he is in a statistical tie with President Obama in 2012 polling. His son, an ophthalmologist who has never run for elective office, is well ahead of not only the GOP’s handpicked candidate for Senate in Kentucky but also both Democratic contenders — all statewide officeholders.

What happened? Did America suddenly develop an insatiable appetite for 74-year-old, cranky congressmen from Texas? Is the gold standard catching on?

Paul will not likely be the next president. And his son still faces the most arduous part of his journey as Democrats spend millions to paint him as soft on defense, lax on drug enforcement and too radical on welfare programs.

But there’s no doubt that hating the government and the powerful interests that pull Washington’s strings has gone from the radical precincts of the Right and Left to the mainstream.

If that is not the stupidest, r-wordest, most idiotic drivel! You know what the truth really is? The government being HATEFUL has gone mainstream! The government is just BEGGING to be hated! Why else would these idjits continually, decade after decade, tax us to the gills, pass laws that we have to obey but they don’t, get away with literal murder and theft, lie like rugs, and flip us off when we complain.

I’m not the one who’s hating here! BIG BROTHER GOVERNMENT is the problem- they’re being hateful! On purpose!

These are so bad. But so deliciously funny. heehee All from the FAIL blog. Some of the photos can be pretty nasty there, though. Count on me to weed though the sordid ones to find the gems. ;)

Why am I not surprised about this one?

This dude is in for some major joint pains. I actually find this pic more painful than funny. Wow, great timing, cameraman.

I always wondered why they made these townhouses with an open second storey like that. Now I know.

I gotta wonder if some of these FAILs are Photoshopped or are staged. Could it really be possible that people are THAT stupid?

Oh no! Everyone PANIC!

Potentially deadly fungus spreading in US, Canada

A potentially deadly strain of fungus is spreading among animals and people in the northwestern United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia, researchers reported on Thursday.

The airborne fungus, called Cryptococcus gattii, usually only infects transplant and AIDS patients and people with otherwise compromised immune systems, but the new strain is genetically different, the researchers said.

“This novel fungus is worrisome because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy people,” said Edmond Byrnes of Duke University in North Carolina, who led the study.

It’s another evil disease! We’re alllll gonnnnnaaa DIIEEEEEE unless we get a vaccine!!!!!

Seriously: according to the news “story,” 21 people in the U.S. have died. TWENTY-ONE. Now, that’s 21 too many, of course, but this makes major news?

Moreover, the new “story” severely neglects to mention how this thing spreads. I looked it up, and it spreads through inhaling the spores, the evil spores. Here are the symptoms:

a cough that lasts for weeks, sharp chest pain, shortness of breath, headache, fever, nighttime sweats and weight loss.

Holy cow, that could be ANYTHING, even diet pills side effects. I feel that way after watching Bill Maher. Sheesh.

But I guarantee that I am NEVER seriously sick. I NEVER show signs of serious sickness, and ya wanna know why? Because symptoms ALWAYS list “weight loss” as a symptom. That just NEVER happens. I may be puking away for weeks on end, but by golly I NEVER lose that blasted weight. Healthy as a horse, I am. Two of ‘em, even. :-p