It’s Thursday, October 29, 2009 and I feel awful. This stupid cold is making it hard to get a good night’s sleep and I’ve been coughing so much and so hard that my chest is sore. But I come to work anyway because the problems caused if I don’t are (to me at least) unthinkable.
But to make matters worse, my voice is acting like it’s wanting to take a day off. I just might get out of here early yet.
In other news, there are times when having a degree in computer science actually comes in handy in this job.
Every day, we have to download this file to that shows the comings and goings of our toll-free numbers. For reasons known only unto them, Verizon started adding stray space characters to the end of each record in the file. Naturally, this drove our processing program crazy. Since the program was written in-house and by people that worked here pre-merger, getting this fixed is about as likely as the Pope doing Trojan commercials.
So I applied the old tried and true systematic approach and soon found the problem. Now I just have to do this extra step every damned day, but hey, I at least got to feel smarter than a trained money for a while there.
In other news, we have final proof that the Democratic National Committee is insane. A DNC fundraising video on President Obama’s political Web site shows an American flag being covered in graffiti and desecrated with slogans about health care reform.
What the hell is wrong with these people? This is nuts! You’re gonna show me this and then ask me for money? Yeah, I’ll contribute, but only if the money will be used to hire henchmen to find and beat the pudding out of whoever’s idea this was.
Does the DNC and its followers now hate America to the point that it’s okay to have this in a fundraising video? I mean come on! Is NOTHING sacred to these people? It’s pretty damned clear to me that our president has surrounded himself with and takes counsel for people who hate the USA and want to destroy it. No, shut up. This is the sort of thing I’d expect from Al Qaeda and the Taliban, but from US citizens? Are you THAT fscked in your head that this actually makes sense to you? If someone, anyone has a way to justify this, I am all ears. For the time being, if I catch someone doing this to my flag, if I see someone displaying a thusly desecrated flag, somebody’s going to emergency, somebody’s going to jail.
In other news, with much rejoicing, word has reached my noble ear that Lynette’s first grandchild is now out and among us. 9 pounds, 22 inches, female and with all fingers/toes accounted for. Mom and baby are reported as doing fine. Grandma too.
This just in from our “Department of Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before” – Nancy Pelosi just trotted out the 100% democrat-written “Affordable Health Care Act.” It’s 1,990 pages long and like its predecessors, reads like pretty much like the last one:
“(B) EMPLOYEE CHOICE.—Any employee offered Exchange-participating health benefits plans by the employer of such employee under subparagraph (A) may choose coverage under any such plan. That choice includes, with respect to family coverage, coverage of the dependents of such employee.”
Which I think means that if you’re offered any plans, you may choose from those plans.
Aaaaannndddddd… Just like its predecessor, they’re trying to get it passed before anyone notices what’s in there. Pelosi wants it on the Senate floor by tomorrow with a final bill to the president by November 11th.
So that’s 13 days from now. Meaning every day for the next 13, the Congress and the Senate must read, debate, resolve and reconcile 153 pages of legislation per day.
So, yeah. Here we go again. Pass me those teabags.
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Don’t know what came over me, but….
In other news, we’ll finish off from our “Your Doing It Wrong Desk” – A just released report from the automotive information firm Edmunds.com claims that the Cash for Clunkers program cost the US tax payer $24,000 per vehicle sold.
Naturally, the White House is disputing the math used to come up with that number. Let’s see, $3 billion, divided by the 125,000 cars sold under the program = $24,000 per car sold. Now, the most one could get for trade-in was $4,500, which accounts for 562,500,000 or about half a billion bucks. So what happened to the other $2.5 billion dollars?
