I watched the President’s speech last night (not that I watched it last night; I watched it because it was thrust upon me at the start of my recording of KO). Well, I watched for a few minutes. Then he started sounding like the teacher in a Charlie Brown cartoon “wah-wah-wah-wah, wah, wah, wah” so I skipped forward. I think I missed some stuff about baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet.
Aaron Sorkin has come to the same conclusion about Facebook as I have. Namely, that it should be shunned like a perverted Amish Sexter (or a perverted sexting Jewish Congressman). Damn kids.
No movement on Gay Marriage here in NY, though I’m starting to have my doubts that it will ever happen. We’ll see, I guess. As reported by the Albany Times Union the other day, the NYS Senate “remains in a same sex marriage holding pattern,” which I think is like a Dirty Sanchez, except with more cuddling. But I’m not up on all that stuff, so I could be wrong. Might be some sort of kinky Amish thing for all I know.
Speaking of getting screwed, the largest NYS public employee union – CSEA, my former brothers and sisters – has come to a tentative agreement with Governor Snotball. Basically, Snotty held the layoff gun to their heads, and told them to sign or else. We’ll see if the membership ratifies it.
The agreement locks the union into a 5-yr agreement with three years of no raises followed by a 1% raise halfway through the fourth year and a 2% raise halfway through the fifth year. It also calls for 9-days worth of furloughs over the first two years (5 days the first year – which, combined with no raise, amounts to about a 2% pay cut), and substantial increases in the neighborhood of 5-6% (depending on if you’re single or not, and it has two-tiers where the lower pay grades get screwed slightly less than the upper ones) on health care costs.
As for layoff protections, there appears to be enough wiggle room in there where Governor Snotball can come back and screw everybody over again down the road.
Next up is the #2 State Union – PEF – which will probably follow suit (once the first union caves in, the dominoes fall), and then my union – UUP – having let the other guys do the dirty work, will see what they can get.
Personally, I’m not really looking forward to losing 9 days worth of pay or paying more for health insurance that I don’t actually use very often. My property taxes are only increasing, as are all my other expenses.
But, hey, it’s not about me. It’a all about preserving the way of life of the Wall Street millionaires. I mean, who else is gonna contribute to Governor Snotball’s presidential campaign? Not me. I’ll be too busy fighting with the cats over their food.
I’m thinking Science Diet dry food might go pretty well with soy milk.
Governor Snotball is an excellent name, The good thing about him is he is not Scott Walker. The bad thing is he is Andrew and not Mario.
I read that the property tax cap passed. That means they will have to raise the value of my house in order top raise the taxes more than the cap allows. I’m sure that will nor present a problem. The cap does not apply to NYC.
I was stopped on the street by someone who said, “Do you want to help pass gay marriage.” The next thing he said was make a donation, just give me your credit card.” I kept walking.
So, this is pretty cool. Apparently, it’s a new kind of camera, where you just snap the picture, and then you can focus the image the way you want afterwards. Just single-click on a spot in the image to focus that part of it. Double-click to zoom in.
If you saw Matt Taibbi on KO last night (or even if you didn’t), his RS story on Michelle Bachmann is here.
Matt was on Majority Report this morning. I am liking the guys KO has signed on, even KK.
Proof that it does not take brains to be a NYS politician:
As the New York Senate prepares to vote on marriage equality, Sam Trombley (R), a member of the Clinton County Legislature, argued that homosexuality is a public health risk: “I’m surprised the health department has not come out against this because we are going to have an HIV epidemic if this passes.†He added, “You don’t see two male dogs sleeping in the same dog house together.”
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/06/23/252626/new-york-county-legislator-predicts-hiv-epidemic-if-marriage-equality-passes/
PJ – ya don’t wanna go with the Soy – most soy products in this country are genetically modified and not required to be labeled as such :fu: . :fu:
And don’t know enough about Hill’s Pet Nutrition except that I just don’t like their advertising and viscerally don’t trust them to not use cheap :crap: from China to feed our beloved :pup: and :cat:
Meh.