Wednesday News Bytes
No mention of United Airlines liabilities on their promised health care benefits to employees. Thank goodness we don’t have a federal guarrentee on those benefits too.
Companies are dropping like flies with GM being the next to belly up because of retired workers’ “Benefits". No one had any idea in 1965 that health care would be expensive someday.
I send Allan tons of articles on HSAs and President Bush’s reforms to save our country and I have not got one posted yet, I’m gettin’ frustrated.
Tons of bloggers here work in health care with our OCM leading the pack. None of the other blogs will touch health care reform either. We could have an exclusive and Allan will go down in history as the guy who changed America’s largest and fastest growing entitlement, Medicare.
LBJ’s nasty manipulating of our health care market, The Great Society, needs to be reformed. I know this because the great futurist, Frank Zappa, said;
If one man fights for what is right
And a million more agree
There is no Great Society :tune:Posted by Z Woof
05/11/2005 at 10:00 AM
Such are the consequences of the Giant Government Tit Solution promulgated by LBJ forty years ago!
As to the so-called “lady” who tried to burn her house down? Yep, she’s a whore, definitely.
I once read of a case about 50 years ago in California, involving a woman convicted of arson. She claimed it was easier to burn down her dirty house than to clean it up. This story from Louisiana trumps it, however.
Moonbats seem to proliferate like gypsy moths.
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is already in financial trouble and is going to need greater and greater infusions of cash from Congress. Don’t expect them to dig into their own pockets while they have both hands in ours though.
In other words, it’s not only the UAL employees that are gonna get the shaft, it’s every taxpayer that’s gonna get it too.
I watched these airline bigshots appear before Congress at least three times with their hands out after 9/11. They got billions of dollars to keep them afloat. They got concessions from their employees to keep them afloat. Now they’re getting rid of their obligations to keep themselves afloat.
I’m thinking it’s time to toss ‘em an anchor and see if they’ll float.
How is it that some airlines can be profitable (Southwest) and some can’t? (most of the rest of them) Could it be a management problem? Some might think so. I certainly do.
Macker,
“Yep, she’s a whore, definately.” ha ha ha You made me laugh out loud. Thanks!
Send Elliot Spitzer into the whole airlines fiasco. The wings will be flapping.
That guy - who killed the two little girls. I saw his face on the news and my skin instantly crawled. I was so revulsed I couldn’t imagine any woman looking at him long enough to have a child.
CAT,
Funniest scene in WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE was them leaving the scene in that white car all slanted over on the right with the fat mama in it..... oh, funny!!!
Posted by Phoenix
05/11/2005 at 05:52 PM
RE: The two little dead girls.
As for the father (the alleged killer) I still say that Scientific Experiments are the only appropriate punishment. Without anesthetic, of course....and no vaseline.
OCM: I missed What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Unfortunately, I actually miss a lot of films, for while I’m a film buff of sorts, my range of interests is very specialized, and I tend to let everything else go right by. I’ll make a note of this one, though.
The whole trouble with being a Renaissance man is a tendency to spread oneself too thin. If I do that, then I can’t butter anyone’s bread, and I must keep the young ladies nibbling at me, you see.
(ahem!)
Tanny,
It sounds as if you have a tough choice here: Give up being a Renaissance man and specializing in certain things or spread yourself real thin and let those young lasses begin to nibble.
Although, I imagine when you’re playing, you have plenty of lovelies nibbling at you!
Posted by Phoenix
05/11/2005 at 08:36 PM
Hi Phoenix, it can happen, but it seems to depend on what I’m playing. “As Time Goes By” gets a lot of them.
(Play it, Sam)
You must remember this,
A kiss is still a kiss,
A sigh is just a sigh,
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by...(sigh)
Shux! Have I no nibbles from lovelies yet?
Egad! I must be losing my touch.
