Crabby Blogging Lady

What do you do if you you’re a Japanese automaker, and have been threatened by American competition for decades?

Why, just wait for the U.S. government to buy out the American automakers! Competition gone!

Not for me. For YOU. Well, for those of you who haven’t been working 18 hours a day, gutting you old house and building it back from scratch, learning how to do it in your “spare” time at night, oh and also working a job as well as cooking and cleaning and doing laundry (without a laundry room, and with only intermittent plumbing & electricity) for six people, maintaining a vegetable garden, and overseeing home school for a few weeks during the summer… for YOU it’s been a boring summer, hasn’t it? And to think that I was actually entertaining thoughts of online college or medical assistant school, to boot! Ha ha!

I don’t have much leisure time, in case you haven’t guessed. But today, I’m kicking off for a whopping TWO HOURS. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am fooling around, watching online videos! Oh, this one made me laugh. LOLOL. I love these guys.

What a card!!!

My thoughts are a little disjointed lately. Too much joint compound dust in my nose these days. :S

Seriously, I’m sorry I have neglected my blog. I have neglected a LOT of things. I can barely lift my arm to brush my teeth at night. I’m heartened by the thought that my life will be back to normal sometime soon, and I’ll have a CLEAN, SAFE, and WARM house to live in, in relative comfort and style! Yay!

Hang in there.

Men think they are God’s gift to earth, ya know that? (Well, the REALLY great men who ARE God’s gifts are to humble to think that– it’s only the arrogant buffoons who think they are so great). This summer has been a doozy so far. I’m not talking about hurricane seasons and radar detector alerts (by the way, where’d all those clarion calls of devastation and destruction go? Didn’t these bright guys prophesy billions of end-of-the-world hurricanes last year and the year before??) Anyway. I read the headlines and have coniptions. What IS IT with all the murders these days? And these aren’t your everyday, bad murders. These are heinous acts.

One insane idiot held up his 3-month old baby at arm’s length and blew him away. Why? Because he was mad at his girlfriend. Good God, people. A little baby in cold blood, two feet away.

Another incident has me seething mad: a 13-year old pervert boy raped and murdered a 2-year old girl that he was babysitting. DISGUSTING. The kid should be hung by his pubescent facial hair. That is plumb evil. And why did he do it? The girl was nagging him because she wanted to play, and he didn’t. Wicked. I also don’t understand why mothers would leave their precious little babies with teenage boys. Don’t they know what idiots 99.9% of teenage boys are?! Lord, it’s SO sad it would rip my heart to shreds.

Makes me sad, stories like this. Makes me very angry, too. Oh Lord, those poor little ones.

In case you didn’t hear, the latest hoo-hah from the FTC is the suing of Lifelock, the much-heralded identity-theft protection company.

“While LifeLock promised consumers complete protection against all types of identity theft, in truth, the protection it actually provided left enough holes that you could drive a truck through it,” said Jon Leibowitz, the FTC chairman.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, one of the state attorneys general involved, was also highly critical of LifeLock.

“This agreement effectively prevents LifeLock from misrepresenting that its services offer absolute prevention against identity theft because there is unfortunately no foolproof way to avoid ID theft,” she said. [emphasis mine]

You’d better believe there isn’t any “foolproof way to avoid ID theft”! That’s because bureaucrats and businesses and banks go OUT OF THEIR WAY to invite it. Like plastered our Social Security numbers all over our tax forms?! Or allowing banks and even shoe stores and grocery stores to collect our identifying information for their reward card, which is then harvested in data banks, for any laptop-stealing thug to sift through! Hello?! How about forcing banks and cedit card companies to use better password encryption and etc for their online banking websites, huh? My online Photobucket account is more secure than my online credit card account!

Identity theft is completely avoidable!!! But the government has no intention of stopping it! Just like they have no intention of curing cancer, because that would put the medical industry out of business! Just like they have no intention of stopping the dumping of corn syrup into our foods, to stave the explosion of obesity and diabetes in this country since the 70s, because the corn industry is heavily regulated and pads a lot of pockets. Sheesh!

Oh, if only the FTC and other government bureaucrats would spend more time and energy fighting the battles that REALLY mattered, such as protecting our identity and cleaning their own houses full of corruption, lies, false advertising, and identity theft!

And how about they go after some of the real snake oil sellers out there– yeah, the companies who advertise that drinking their soda quenches your thirst, or that taking their diet pill makes you as skinny as an Ethiopian! How about dem apples?

when your local newspaper updates the “obituaries” section every day, but updates the “births” section once a week…

when there are more teenagers busted for DWIs than middle-agers…

when American people must rely more on foreign news outlets for important news than the Goebbels-ish media outlets in the US…

when the US government raises the debt ceiling to astronomical levels…

when even Toyota is issuing massive recalls…

when the only “health care plan” the government can come up with is killing off the young and old, and bankrolling illegal aliens…

when China stops hacking military computers, and becomes strangely quiet…

when your income tax refund check bounces…

when rationing becomes the most popular fat burner…

Got any good ones yourself? No obscene ones, k?

It’s January. That jerk of a president has been in office for almost a year now; how come he hasn’t saved the world yet, huh?!?!? I’m sick of waiting for this crappy economy to turn around. I remember (I have a very good memory) how yeeeeeeears ago, people would say how they wanted government to “create jobs.” Do you remember hearing that? It was always all over the news reports– those reporters on the streets, going down to the lower levels of American society to ask the little people what they wanted from government. “Jobs,” the people would always say, “Create more jobs.”

Well well. The government DID create jobs– in CHINA. Hope you are all happy, you knuckleheads who wanted the government to create jobs. The only REAL jobs government can ever create are Government Administrative jobs, and force businesses to invest in employees overseas! No one stopped to consider that more “government jobs” means HIGHER TAXES!! Hello?!

So here we are today. Languishing. Not only are there no minimum-wage jobs, there are just NO JOBS. I heard on the Rush Limbaugh Show today some statistics that 20% of American men ages 20-54 are unemployed. Is this for real?!?!? 20%?! That is unconscionable! And we all know what men who are idle do– CAUSE TROUBLE! You think a 23-year old unemployed man is going to fix his house’s leaky roof or shovel out Granny’s driveway or write flowery first communion invitations? No… he’s going to play computer games and move back in with Mom and Dad and mooch off their retirement. We need to get these men employed! And we need to get them real jobs, cuz you can’t pay all these taxes AND feed the family with a job flipping hamburgers. And we have to do this WITHOUT the government. Actually, I am of the persuasion that the government is being purposely manipulated. This is a fantastic post with lots more detail.

The government has done a superb job, wrecking our manufacturing industry. I’ve had it UP TO HERE with fat bureaucrats living off public largess. It is getting tougher and tougher to meet the grocery budget while the president vacays in Hawaii for $5,000 a day. He could at least donate the $$ to a soup kitchen and wear a cardigan while he tells us we need to turn our thermostats down! What a jerk….