brucoe

Please don't abandon us people in Texas. I've never been able to find a cowboy hat that fits properly, and I suspect they're going to discover this and lynch me for not complying with Texas hat code.

Good luck selling that to both of our political parties. Not that I don't agree with you, but the people playing the system are the ones that need to change the system.

I so rarely go outside these days, but yesterday I went outside to clean the windows of my car and immediately realized it was 94 degrees. That was a bit of a surprise.

Wow, they're overturning everything. At the rate they're going, the Supreme Court won't be the law of the land because they'll have overturned that as well.

I checked his wiki page to see if there was anything about it, but there doesn't seem to be anything that was mentioned.

Because most of those states don't take advantage of any of the benefits that the federal government tries to make available. Instead, they make it much harder to get welfare, medicaid, medicare, or whatever national program (that's tied to a required equal program from the state). I know Texas makes it so difficult for people to get financial assistance from the government for health care, yet walks around like they're actually doing great work on that front because it looks good to their base.

There are so many problems built into the system. An example: I just went through a medical procedure. The clinic I go to every other day just sent me a bill. Nowhere on the bill does it indicate they first went through my insurance company. Calling them, they gave me a somewhat cryptic response on whether or not they have tried to charge my insurance company, but tell me I should probably just pay the bill and then sort it out later (yeah, we all know how that will work out, right?). It reminds me of the one time the IRS wrote me and indicated that owed them $48.23, which was just low enough to cause me to not investigate further but also high enough that I might have thought about it if there was even an option to do so.

I totally got the seasons wrong on this show. Somehow, I missed season 3. So, I started watching it last night, convinced it was the new season that dropped (didn't realize I had missed a whole season), and it was only when I was talking to my sister on the phone, and I said "I just watched the first three episodes of the new season." She then asked me a question about the new season (as she had been watching it) and I had no idea what she was talking about. She then started laughing and told me that I was still on season 3 and it was season 4 that released recently.

The problem is that Congress changed the allocation system for funding for everything, which destroys any chance of future infrastructure. In the old days, if you wanted to pass any legislation, you had to add pork to it, meaning some district got some allocation that brought jobs into that community. Most of those pork projects were either under defense, NASA or in a very rare situation, a project that actually helped people. NASA could be heavily funded because it served as one of the vehicles that were part of that allocation program. Now, NASA has to prove its useful right here and now to a bunch of people who only care about whether or not they're going to be reelected in two years (or six for senators). Right now, most Republican members of Congress get better value out of criticizing things NASA does than lauding those things. That used to be their cheerleaders. Democrats, unless they're talking about a program they're personally shepherding, generally aren't very much in the cheerleading mood.

Most likely scenario is one or more students overpowering a teacher and taking his or her gun, most likely to use on teacher and others immediately following. I used to see this in the Army all the time as the stronger soldiers would basically just walk up to another soldier who is holding a loaded rifle and take it away from him, often bashing him in the head for daring to raise the weapon in the first place. This was usually the result of an argument between the two soldiers, where the weaker one thought having a weapon in his hands gave him some sort of protection.

I am against space and anything that takes up space, but I suspect that's a different subject completely.

When I first heard they were doing a sequel, I was against it. But then I thought back and realized I was against the first one when I first heard about it because I really didn't think there was new ground on Joker to cover. But I was completely wrong, and that movie was great. So, this time, I'm just sitting on the sidelines and waiting to see what they do because if they pull another brilliant movie out of nowhere, I'm completely on board.

Regardless of whether or not he'd make a decent political choice, I suspect he suffers from a constant state of achievement envy, in that even though he has accomplished far more than I ever have in my life (and most other people), for him it's never enough, requiring him to exaggerate his accomplishments to what he wishes he'd accomplished, even though his status quo should be way more than enough. The problem with this is that it has allowed him to develop a process of becoming a pathological liar, which means that in government he would be extremely dangerous to both himself and the country.

Unfortunately, the state of Texas's health insurance is as you would expect.

Medication is one of those areas that appears to be getting harder and harder to get results from because as more advanced technology keeps happening, ancient health care system are getting better and better at rejecting coverage for them. I literally cannot get a GLP-1 med approved, and my doctor has gone through the list of trying all of them. Because his office is horrible at paperwork, they avoid submitting preauthorization paperwork (because it's obviously SO hard), which means approval never even gets a chance to happen. My understanding is that this happens way too often because insurance companies just don't want to pay these out, and doctors just don't want to do the paperwork. I'd get a new doctor but I live in Texas, which means I'm lucky the homeless guy with a medical license is willing to take me on as a patient.

I am so glad I started watching this show without any previous knowledge, as that first episode (of Season One) blew me away with the twist. Had I read up on the show, I'd have watched it expecting the twist, and it would have made it much less of an enjoyable experience.

Well, they have to replace him in order to satisfy the people who no longer want a news story as their Flash. Perhaps they should consider Amber Heard. I hear she's not doing anything these days.

I make lots of jokes here, but nothing that I'd be embarrassed to see rise back to the surface if I was ever to become famous.

At least we're finally doing something to cut down on the purchasing of straw. For too long Big Straw has been untouchable.

This morning, I was introduced to this story by the morning radio news that treated it with the professionalism I've come to expect from American media. It was basically ten minutes of "This is how it starts. I've seen this movie before. Next thing, we get Arnold in leathers blowing things up." And then one guy who obviously hasn't seen a movie in the 20th or 21st centuries, "It's going to be just like the Matrix!" And of course, the anchor people just ignored him and continued on with their banter.

Was Disney having problems on the tv side of the house? I kind of thought they were doing pretty well.

He should have chosen a different day to crime. January 6 is already taken with other bad actors.

Just saying, but Moscow might be great place to pull back to as it's very defensible.

They needed to raid his house while incriminating evidence was still around. Once he moved into the governor's mansion, he might have thrown all that illegal stuff away during the move.