Crabby Blogging Lady

What DRIVEL! What insanity! It’s outrageous!

People– I live in the stupidest state in the union– yes! It’s even worse than California! Because in California, at least you have fruits and nuts! Here. we have CONTROL FREAKS!

Our state is going bankrupt. The government is totally corrupt. The government is slashing everything, and they’re coming up with billions and billions of new taxes to *try* to pay the bills. OK OK– I exaggerate. The government isn’t slashing EVERYTHING. Their cushy government jobs, with paid vacations and health care plans are all intact. I stand corrected.

But is our government concerned about which foreign country will buy us out to put us in the black ink again? NO! They are concerned about SALT! New York State wants to outlaw SALT!

…a bill [has been] introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.

“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises,” the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.

The legislation, which Assemblyman Felix Ortiz , D-Brooklyn, introduced on March 5, would fine restaurants $1,000 for each violation.

IDJITS IDJITS IDJITS IDJITS!!!!!!!

I say they should outlaw themselves! New York politicians are terrible for our health. I feel like I’m about to be hospitalized right now!

Salt is not bad for us, you dunderheads! And even if it was, you’d take that wonderful, most elemental seasoning away from us?! It’s the ONLY thing left in this blasted state that makes us HAPPY! Why don’t they just quit their fooling around and outlaw happiness outright?! Why all this pussyfooting around, huh?

IDJITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please– Ohio, Montana, even Pennsylvania for God’s sake– save us! Take us over! Get these jerks away from us, PLEASE. I’ll even consider being absorbed by a Greater New Jersey… wait, no. I just can’t go that far. Well, Pennsylvania, at any rate! Save us!!!! We’re drowning in stupidity and wickedness here.

That’s right, I STILL haven’t received my income tax form from a certain company. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!

HELLOOOOOO I live in New York State– these people aren’t gonna wait to get their grubby hands on my tax forms!!

And this news story almost gave me apoplexy!

NY may delay state tax refunds

Lawmakers say the governor wants to withhold your state refund. State Senator Joseph Griffo says the governor is considering holding them back because the 2010 budget may not be done on time.

Griffo says he believes the governor has the power to do so.

However, the state senator says he thinks enough people in the legislature will challenge the governor if he in fact decides to hold back refunds.

“He is not going to allow people to withhold and take more time in paying what they owe the state, so he has to be consistent here. He can’t hold refunds back and not give people extensions because people who are struggling would like more time to pay their taxes but they won’t be given that opportunity,” Griffo said.

A member of the Governor’s budget staff says withholding refunds is just one of many proposal to increase cash flow in the month of March. More than $293 million in refunds has already been sent out, said a Governor’s aide.

The state currently limits the amount of tax refunds it pays in the first three months of the year to $1.75 billion. Paterson is considering lowering that threshold to $1.25 billion because the state must roll $1.4 billion into next year’s budget to close a current year budget gap.

The state has until June to pay the refunds before they start accruing interest.

The governor is expected to make a decision in the next few weeks.

WHAT?! They may delay our checks because THOSE STUPID POLITICIANS can’t STOP their OWN spending on their pet projects?! And they still expect US to pay on time?!?

GAH!!!

So that makes my certain employer’s tardiness even more worrying. They had better get off their fat butts, quit the cheeky tweeting, and SEND ME MY INCOME TAX FORM!!! New York is about to go in the sewer!

…now they’re going to mechanize war! Just like in Star Wars– war robots!

TEL AVIV, Israel – Israel is developing an army of robotic fighting machines that offers a window onto the potential future of warfare.

Sixty years of near-constant war, a low tolerance for enduring casualties in conflict, and its high-tech industry have long made Israel one of the world’s leading innovators of military robotics.

…Over 40 countries have military-robotics programs today. The U.S. and much of the rest of the world is betting big on the role of aerial drones: Even Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite guerrilla force in Lebanon, flew four Iranian-made drones against Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War.

When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, it had just a handful of drones. Today, U.S. forces have around 7,000 unmanned vehicles in the air and an additional 12,000 on the ground, used for tasks including reconnaissance, airstrikes and bomb disposal.

I have a better idea! Let’s just STOP THE WARS! How about everybody quits the land- and money-grubbing and is CONTENT with what they have?! How’s them apples?

War is bad enough. Now they want to make it even easier with automation. Rrrrright. Mangled bodies, broken homes and hearts, devastated lands, mesothelioma, and radiation poisoning– that’s not enough! We have to spread the death and destruction by making war EASIER! Yay!

If these dudes were really serious about making war more palatable, they’d toss out all their bombs, and play competitive chess or use Lego men to smash each other. Easy as that.

Now don’t take me for a pacifist here. I love my AK-47 just as much as any girl. But I’m not going to go use it on my neighbor because I covet his pea patch! And I’m also not going to create a robot army so I can with a clear conscience invade my evil neighbor! And what good is it if my robots shoot his robots? Won’t we both just build more and more and more robots? How is this supposed to solve anything?!

War is EVILLLLLL. It must come with a cost! Otherwise, destroying people and their lands will be as easy as flipping a switch.

Well, this just made my crabby day: The Environmental Working Group’s Drinking Water Quality Report website. You can go to the website and punch in your zip code, and see how contaminated your water supply is.

OUTRAGEOUS!!!! OUTRAGEOUS!!!!

In my area, the water is LOADED with chloroform, trihalomethanes, barium, dichloroacetic acid, Bromodichloromethane, radium, and Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate. I feel sick.

New York State has some of the worst water– it’s probably safer to drink water from the cesspools of Ethiopia than Upstate water! You want to know why?? Because for centuries, Upstate NY was a manufacturing empire, and factories dumped all their toxic crap into the waters or onto the ground. When taxes started to get sky-high starting in the late 50s, companies pulled out as quick as they could before New York could slap them with “brownfield” waste cleanup in the 70s.

Plus, our water supply is filled with toxic waste from the sewer system. Yes! Go visit your local water treatment plant for a lovely education. The sewage waste is piped into the water treatment facilities, where the sewage is “recycled” into drinkable water (so they say) and funneled back into the drinking water system. Thinking about it makes me gag. But then there’s the added problem of drug use in the population itself. People take medication (and other drugs, like best diet pills and etc), and all that crap (haha) goes into the sewer, where it’s recycled, and sent back into the water supply. The sewage treatment facility cannot prevent the drugs from entering the water supply. There was a big news story a few years ago, about the water supply contamination in Albany, our state capital city. Large amounts of ED drugs like Viagara and Cialis were found in the water supply. DISGUSTING!

How do you think this affects the populace?!

Add this to all the flouride they dump into our water–which has proven to do NOTHING against dental caries but it does make the populace dopey–and this is looking more like involuntary manslaughter! I can’t believe that the municipalities actually would WANT to poison us and kill us off… would they?

Would they?

POLITICS: \ˈpä-lə-ˌtiks\
Function: noun plural but singular or plural in construction
From root: poly meaning “many”; and ticks meaning “blood-sucking parasites”
Definition of POLITICS: many blood-sucking parasites

Is it true that most textbooks, if they teach kids anything at all, are full of blather about how wonderful progressive liberalism and wacko-environmentalism are?

My daughters’ textbooks SURELY don’t mince words. But then, these textbooks are not written by progressive liberals and wacko-environmentalists. My daughter saw this cartoon on a page in her Economics textbook, where the discussion was “humanitarian aid and it’s false hopes to help nations,” and, being smart as whip like her ol’ mom, laughed and laughed.

But I guess you could use such a cartoon for ALL government entities: school budgets, local and state budgets, federal budgets and all the pork and earmarks… Gah! Those idiots! Those sponges!

My poor daughter. She’s young enough to find all this gross mismanagement and criminal activity humorous. Me, I’m crying to the bank….

Here’s another one for the idiot box, people:

80,000 Mailers Sent Out With Recipients’ Social Security Numbers In Plain View
Universal American Action Network Says Printing Error To Blame

You knuckleheads at UAAN can blame your printers for the “error” all you want, but it wasn’t the printer that programmed the numbers to appear on the postcard!

Right on the front of the piece of mail, in plain view, is the recipient’s Social Security number. Tens of thousands of Medicare recipients may be at risk.

…Universal American told News 8 that the Social Security numbers were on the postcards because of a printing error. And Universal claims it immediately terminated its contract with the printing service.

“There’s no reason for it to be out for the public to see,” Delores said.

The big question is — how did this company get the Social Security numbers? Well, in many cases, Medicare account numbers are your Social Security number. Universal American said it will send a letter to those who received the postcards notifying them of this problem and offer to provide free credit monitoring for a year. In the meantime, anyone with any questions can contact Universal American at 1 (877) 697-6228.

The problem with these kinds of “errors” is that banks and companies take these things SO lightly. SO lightly. I’ve ranted before about the ridiculously low security measures at banking websites and their weak passwords encryptions; and here’s a story about a bank employee sending SSN and bank account information to the wrong email address here. RIDICULOUS!! Plus, there are all the numerous stories about banks and federal bureaus storing OUR information on THEIR laptops, and taking the laptops to coffee shops and zoos, where they are stolen.

DUHHHHHHHHH!!!

They treat our information– life changing information– so very, very lightly. When is it going to stop?! Plus, they should even be USING our SSNs for such things. You can’t even get motorhome insurance or check out a library book or get a grocery store shopping card without divulging your SSN!! It’s just criminal, how many dunderheads and dunderheaded companies have our sensitive information and account numbers. And we are supposed to just *trust* that they will take care of us?! My eye!

P.S. And all this is not even mentioning that the Social Security Numbers were never supposed to be counted as identification numbers! It’s so enraging.