The Social Security Lie

 For those of you not living in Central PA, the weather for this holiday weekend is great.  Temps in the high 80s (F).  Full sunshine.  Low humidity.  Of course I have to work.  I'm scheduled off Tuesday through Saturday.  The threat of thunderstorms will be returning on, as you might expect, Tuesday, and will increase throughout the week.   

I did get my lawn mowed on Thursday morning.  My friend Justin did not show up to help trim the large holly bush out front.  I think I mentioned that he had a serious brain bleed (stroke) so this is how his brain works now.  I will probably start trimming back the branches on Tuesday, when the humidity returns.

So, what did I do yesterday to celebrate our nation's birthday?  Nothing very patriotic.  I did get a good upper body workout in, Garmin called it intense.  My arms and shoulders are still a bit... not sore, but I can still feel the individual muscles when I move them.  This is actually a good thing.

My new controller will be arriving today while I'm at work.  I switched to an old spare controller, but it, too, has its problems.  Instead of constantly moving forward like the really bad one, Occasionally the line of sight on this one will move upwards until you're looking straight up.  

Last evening I talked to my friend Betsy and, as usual, politics came up.  Not having checked her email for the day, she hadn't yet seen that politicized email sent out by the Social Security Administration.

For those of you who are not retired, every retiree in the country with an email address got an email extolling the virtues of Orangie's shit stain legislation.  It actually claimed that we would not get tax free Social Security.  That's a blatant lie.  Even main stream media was pointing it out.  Instead of actually making Social Security tax free for those of us who work, Republicans are giving us an additional deduction which will reduce the amount of tax we pay in to the IRS. Oh, and this wonderful tax relief is going to expire in 2 years.  They see it as a way to get you to vote Republican just when Orangie is about to leave office.  They are a conniving bunch, aren't they.

   

Celebrating our first No Kings Day

 The weather for today is supposed to be very nice, temps in the mid 80s (F), no clouds, the perfect day for a holiday.  Hhmm.

I never work on Fridays, though the store is open today.  I will get holiday pay, which is nice.  I am going to zip over to Giant after I post this because I need juice, and a couple of other things.

As far as plans go, well, for me today is just like any other day.  I'll get a upper body workout in.

The Tour de France starts today, though I got rid of my Peacock.  So, I might have to sign up for another month.  Maybe I'll get a trial month free, that would be nice.

For those who don't know, July 4 celebrates are Independence, the day we broke away from the British Empire.  It is the original No Kings Day.  Unfortunately for us in America, we now have a moral degenerate in the White House who is trying to be a king, or worse, a dictator.  Many conservatives have no problem with either of those two.  They believe that's the only way they can force their will upon the people.  They will find out they are wrong.

This was the largest transfer of wealth from the lower and middle classes to the upper class in America's history.  Billionaires are neither benevolent or beneficent, but the really do want you to be beholding to them.

The Guardian said that this piece of legislation might give America a brief sugar high, but there was no stopping the down days.  The great orange retailer I work for said they were not going to raise prices because of the tariffs; that was a lie.  You should see the prices on our carpet and our mosaic tile.  Where prices haven't gone up, holes are appearing.  This is happening all across the country, and those billionaires?  They don't give a shit.

 

The Bad, Bad Bill

 Well, hello world.  Temps are comfy here in Central PA.  It's 67 (F) outside and the sun is shining.  Wouldn't it be nice if this weather lasted, unfortunately, at least according to Accuweather, thunderstorms are going to be rolling into the area this afternoon.  They were predicted to arrive yesterday afternoon as well but skirted us.  Those communities around us didn't fare as well.  Some places in Lancaster county go up to 7 inches of rain, and for those uninitiated, we here in Central PA call it Lan kiss ter.

Because of the weather threats yesterday, I dried my laundry inside.

Yesterday was also a day of cleaning, and of writing, and a really good dumbbell/ band workout.  Overall, I was fairly satisfied with all I accomplished.

Sadly, I did have to order and controller for my Xbox, the right toggle on my current controller is shot, my character keeps trying to move forward no matter what I'm doing.  This makes killing zombies, marauders, and bandits extremely difficult.  I order another red one.  It should be arriving on Tuesday.

My friend Justin is supposed to stop by this morning to trim the top off my holly bush.  He has some acuity problems because of a brain bleed, so he may, or he may not.  He's a nice guy, though his life is rather chaotic.  

Here's a nice pic showing how Orangie's bill is going to hit PA hard.

Of course, Republicans think that none of these people are  white.  Nope.  They truly do believe that everyone getting assistance from the Federal Government is a minority.  If there were that many minorities in the country, Republicans would never get elected.  Ironically, these poor, white Republicans who use SNAP to help feed their children simply are not smart enough to understand this will be crushing to them.  They also fail to comprehend their elected Republican Senators and Congressmen simply do not care about them, or their families.  These officials have no problem in starving their constituents in order to tow the party line.

And ADP released their jobs report for June.  Orangie's policies were supposed to grow the private sector job market by almost 100,000 jobs.  Instead, there was a stunning loss in private sector jobs.  This is the first time in years that America has had negative job growth.  Damn!  Republicans believe that inflation will either level off or grow slowly.  They don't realize that Orangie's foot is heavy on that gas pedal and acceleration is the only option.

Failure: The Only Option

Wednesday. Our skies are slightly overcast.  There is a bit of humidity in the air.  I did laundry yesterday but used the dryer because rain was in the forecast, and rain it did.  Lotsa rain.  We had some wind on my little hilltop, however in the areas surrounding me trees were blown over.  Everybody got the rain.  Some places got inches.  There are tons of pictures of flooded streets and trees down.  Forecasters are predicting today to be rather calm; not as hot and not as humid.  Tomorrow the threat of thunderstorms returns.

My aquariums need a light cleaning, that will be taken care of this afternoon.  Cleaning.  That's actually what's in store for today.  There are many small chores which need to be taken care of, including at least two more loads of laundry.   

Jimmy Swaggart died yesterday.  He was a scumbag televangelist.  Over the years, my mom sent him hundreds of dollars.  At one point when she was in the hospital after a heart attack she asked me to take her Discover card and send him $30 and ask him to pray for her.  I did not.  He was a soulless Christian who preyed on the naive and gullible.  An indicator of how morally bereft he was came this morning when the Orange Anus praised him, telling the naive and gullible how good he was; Orangie and Swaggart were cut from the same cloth.

For those of you who are curious, here's a picture of my carrot.

Yesterday was a big day in Washington.  Vance, the vice president, was the tie breaking vote in Orangie's big transfer of wealth.  Idiot cultists are dancing around singing "yes, yes, let's make the 1% richer!"  That minority group has no idea what they are going to be getting if the House of Representatives passes this piece of shit legislation.  76% of Americans are against this bill, of course Republicans only care about their wealthy benefactors.

There were a number of clips with Lisa Murkowski being confronted by a reporter asking about her vote.  She actually attempted to stare him down.  When that failed, she gave some lame excuse of how, knowing that the legislation was truly terrible, she attempted to carve out a tiny safety net for Alaskans.  If the bill was that bad, she should have voted against it, but then that would have been going against party lines.

What Murkowski and so many other Republicans fail to understand is that Orangie's approval rating has dropped to 32%.  He's entering into W. Bush's territory.  The country is growing angrier and angrier and Republicans don't care and right now it looks like failure is their only option.

Holes

 So here it is, Tuesday, and this is late because I stayed up late watching The Sound of Music, and, in case you're wondering, I also had a few glasses of wine.  

Our temp outside is 82 (F) and there is much humidity.  Yesterday the forecast was for a high in the upper 80s (F).  We actually hit the upper 90s (F).  Thunderstorms came with those high temps and humidity.  We had some serious rain and every few minutes I was getting a notification from Accuweather that "lightning was striking the ground."  A fun time was had by all.  Incidentally, we have the same forecast for this afternoon: high temps and heavy rains.

I did work yesterday and business was slow.  That's fine.  I get paid whether we're busy of slow, though they have cut my hours back a bit.  For the next three weeks I'm only scheduled for 17 hours.  That's fine.  I do know that on that I'll be working more in paint in the coming weeks.  That's fine, too.  I like paint.  This past Saturday they had me scheduled in appliances.  That wasn't fine.  I can't talk about appliances, so don't schedule me there and expect me to sell them.

Here's a pic of Howie I took yesterday.  He's looking like a yellow lab rather than the fox red lab he is which is really odd since he looks quite red.

So, Orangie's big terrible tax increase for the common man has not passed yet, though there have been quite a number of votes on different amendments.  Reducing the cut to Medicaid was not one of them.  Honestly, I find it difficult to believe that so many Republicans say they believe there millions of unqualified Americans using Medicaid.  What they're really saying is that people, no matter what their condition, need to get jobs so they can pay outrageous premiums for their own insurance.  

And yesterday, while walking the aisles at work, I started noticing holes on our shelves where there was a price tag and no product.  The LVP (Luxury Vinyl Plank) flooring we sell is all manufactured in China.  Oops.