So I got home yesterday, and President Obama was on the radio, saying how now that this who debt business was behind us, he was gonna work at getting the economy back on track. And I thought to myself, “is he kidding, or what?” Does he think he’s in any way, shape or form relevant? Seriously. The Republicans have no reason to pay attention to him whatsoever. He can either do what they want (and then they’ll blame him as their policies make everything worse – see the stock market and the debt “compromise”), or he can veto whatever teabagger-driven legislation crawls out of Congress (and then they’ll blame him when things continue to suck).
I’m trying to figure out who Harry Reid appoints to the Super Congress from the Senate. I’m guessing that, at the urging of the President, Joe Lieberman has gotta be one (‘cuz he’s all independenty and whatnot).
Oh well, early day today, so I guess I better get going.
The administration has ordered that insurers make birth control be available without a copay. Rep Steve King had this to say:
We have people that are single, we have people that are past reproductive age, we have priests that are celibate. All of them, paying insurance premiums that cover contraceptives so that somebody else doesn’t have to pay the full fare of that? And they’ve called it preventative medicine. Preventative medicine. Well if you applied that preventative medicine universally what you end up with is you’ve prevented a generation. Preventing babies from being born is not medicine. That’s not— that’s not constructive to our culture and our civilization. If we let our birth rate get down below replacement rate we’re a dying civilization.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/02/steve-king-free-birth-control_n_916519.html
Oh, see, I didn’t realize that contraception would now be required. But I think I could live with that, as birth control I don’t need would be a lot cheaper than healthcare for pregnant women and children that I don’t need. Also, I don’t wanna pick up the tab for Viagara, as I don’t need that. And without kids, I won’t need to pay my school taxes in September, so that’s cool.
If we have copay free birth control, poor women may not have as many babies, which is apparently the Rethug definition of a dying civilization. It may also be Walmart’s definition.
Bubba Smith has passed away. He was only 66.
A Swedish man was arrested last month after authorities discovered that his effort to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen had ended with a small meltdown.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/03/swede-arrested-for-building-nuclear-reactor-in-his-kitchen/
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I like truffles.