AARP stacks a teleconference

So my morning paper said that yesterday (Monday) the AARP had set up a teleconference on health care for my Congressman. Since I am a member and knew nothing about it I called AARP to ask why.

After a bit the young lady on the phone bank said that it had been for 40,000 people in the district selected by random within the 50 to 64 age group.

That, of course, is age discrimination. I expect that from corporations looking to hire someone. I did not expect it from an organization I am a member of and is supposed to be looking out for my interests.

And the unstated reason is obvious. AARP wants one of the Obama planS to pass so they stacked the conference to keep out people on Medicare as Medicare clients have been the most vocal opponents of the bill because we see that taking $4 billion out of Medicare and reducing payments to Doctors and hospitals will reduce services and reduced services will lead to rationing as surely as night follows day.

And why does AARP want one of Obama's planS to pass? Because they want to sell the insurance that the voter will be mandated to buy. A market of some 46 million people.

Always follow the money when you want the truth.

Bump and update. My daughter tells me that yesterday around 7PM a call came in from the AARP but things were so screwed up on how to ask a question she hung up. (I wasn't home and she forgot to mention it.)

So the question is, since I am not between 50 and 64 and since my daughter is not either, why was I told that was the selection criteria?

Or does this just prove that being incapable of following the plan excuses you from coming up with the plan?

Okra aka candy

So far I have frozen about 10 meals and think I can get 10 more. That will be one or two a month until the 2010 crop comes in, that is assuming Global Warming doesn't delay the crop with unseasonably cold weather as it did this spring..

It will produce until frost but I will need a step ladder for the last of the crop.

All the cook has to do is dump the pre-breaded okra into the frying pan, stir everynow and then for even browning, lift out, drain and serve. Especially good on a cold winter day.

Of course I might need to advise the police in advance of what I am growing.

I thought you might like this story. My grandparents are transplanted Oakies. They moved to Modesto, CA in 1950. My grandpa as long as I can remember has had at least an acre of okra. Right after thay moved to Modesto my grandfather woke up one morning to find several Sheriff's officers tromping through the okra and stepping on the watermelon. He went out to see what was up. The Sheriff was convinced that my grandpa was growing pot in his garden and had never heard of, let alone seen okra. It took a couple cups of coffee and a few of last years pickled okras to send this law officer on his way. He later became a close friend of the family. Much like everyone who has ever crossed paths with grandpa. It just isn't summer without okra.

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A California sherrif who didn't know what pot looked like? Well, that's the story and they are sticking to it.

What will you do for your children?

This comes from Mike L.

Our generation just gets better with age!





Apparently, a self-important college freshman attending a recent football game took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation.



'You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one', the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear. 'The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon. Our space probes have visited Mars. We have nuclear energy, ships and electric and hydrogen cars, cell phones, and computers with light-speed processing...and more.'



After a brief silence, the senior citizen responded as follows:



'You're right, son. We didn't have those things when we were young...so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little shit, what are you doing for the next generation?'



The applause was amazing

Last meals and demonstrations

The pig came back. And a bad life choice it was for him. After his last meal of some tomatoes and cucumbers he joined his brother as BBQ by the guys who I called to come and haul him away.

But this time it took two shots. Shame to waste good amunition on a varmint who wants to eat your garden. Not that I blame him. Eating the results of other people's hard work has been around since grasshoppers discovered ants.



I am starting to become annoyed at any and all so called intelligent people nodding wisely and telling one and all that we shouldn't be yelling at our supposed elected representatives.

Why not? Have you ever heard of anyone against something willing to set down and have some ignorant politician piss on their shoes?? I mean someone worth being known as someone.

Naturally the Lefties want peace and quiet. They don't want their trained seals frightened by seeing all those voters screaming at them. Case in point:

Unions (none / 0) (#11)
by koshembos on Sat Aug 15, 2009 at 05:33:38 AM CST
I am relieved to hear that union members will be in the audience hopefully to deal with disturbances. It should have happened much earlier. In Bush days, when someone happen to stage a quite demonstration inside a hall with a Bush speaker, the police would carry them out and even charge them with something. It's time for us to watch real staged disturbances stopped by the disturbing people carried out the hall by union members.

Obama should have done the job long ago, but I guess he spent his fight on swiftboating Hillary in the primaries and hasn't recovered yet.

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Ah, nothing like taking the law into your own hands... And did you really need the above to understand many, many, many members of the Left?

Of course there are standards and there are standards. From the same source.

Yep (1.00 / 1) (#7)
by Wile ECoyote on Sat Aug 15, 2009 at 04:39:59 AM CST
disagreeing is hatred. The war protesters were haters. Hated the troops. Knew it all along.

Wile E's sarcasm disturbed several of the flock. But none rose to note that speaking truth to power is available only to bonafide Lefties.

New blood pressure drug

bits and pieces...

The White House wants its minions to tell on their friends and now it is sending emails to people who haven't requested them... Outside of FNC and a few blogs nothing is said.

Bush wanted to tap telephone calls from known terrorists outside the US to telephone numbers inside the US, and vice versa, and the press went ballistic.

Tell me the media isn't full of ignorant fools in the tank for Obamie.

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My MD started me on a new blood pressure drug this week. Having went through this before I called my insurance company since it was new and not in their formulary. They had added it but it is PA (prior approval) and ST ( step therapy - to be used only after lower level therapies have been tried.)

So my MD GP will have to call and explain before it will be covered by the insurance. This is per Medicare Part D guidelines.

And they won't ration care to get that $400 billion. Sure they won't. No way.

Maybe I need to call that female type person in Houston who played a Doctor to get on TV.

bits and pieces...

How come none of the Leftie blogs are raising hell about the stepped up fighting in Afghanistan?

bits and pieces...

How come "Netroots Nation" is on C-Span? Oh, yeah. The propaganda thing.

bits and pieces...

Michael Vic has a new job! Well, that took a long time.

Michigan is in the tank

and you need to do no more and read this to understand.

Detroit, Mich. - Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven't risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying up due to global warming), and polls show that climate change doesn't even make a list of Michigan voters' top-ten concerns.

Yet in an interview with the Detroit News Monday, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) - recently appointed to the Senate Energy Committee - made clear that fighting the climate crisis is her top priority.

"Climate change is very real," she confessed as she embraced cap and trade's massive tax increase on Michigan industry - at the same time claiming, against all the evidence, that it would not lead to an increase in manufacturing costs or energy prices. "Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes."

This is an elected offical. A Democrat. It is obvious she knows absolutely nothing about what she is speaking of yet she is willing to just do the President's bidding.

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Michigan, you are getting what you deserve. Too bad it also hurts us.

But if you think Michigan has a problem, read this comment from calny from NY, NY. (Either there or Gollywood.)

Cold weather can be caused by global warming and so can increased storm volitility.

I really don't know if I should laugh, cry or puke.

I'm not a Doctor but I played one to get on TV

Thank goodness for blogs.

Woman claims to be MD at Houston Town Hall.

Yelling at Congresscritters bad.

Lying to help a Democratic Congresswoman good.

Can you imagine the hoorah if she had been a Repub???

Hat tip to Buffy.