Thawing out a caveman.

OK - so just as I washed my hands of corporate American politics the conservative and by coincidence Republican biased Supreme Court makes a ruling 5 to 4 (5 conservatives vs. 4 liberals) saying that Corporations (meaning Health Insurance corporations and special interest groups) can now contribute UNLIMITED amounts of money towards . . . .ANYONE running for ANY political office. We could have a billion dollar Columbus Mayoral Campaign LOL

This is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks and health insurance companies.

So I better not hear ANY conservative republican complain about the amount of political ad's on TV. Some say there will be four times as many ad's. If you thought it was bad before, you ain't seen nothing yet. And this is why the Supreme Court pissed me off. They did something that directly effects me - they screwed up my TV watching.

I think we will have people running like John "Fed-Ex" McCain vs Barrack "Tostitos" Obama, and Hillery "Little Caesars" Rodham Clinton, Sonia "Chick-fil-A" Sotomeyer and Scott "Pacific Life" Brown.

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In other news (DJ say's I've been grumpy this week . . .have I? hmmmmmm) there was a big white pick-up tailgating me as I left Columbus today. I slowed down a little with my classic passive aggressive road rage move and then happily a Deans Semi truck pulled out in front of me and I smiled on the inside.

I let the pick-up pass me and he was then tailgating the semi as it turned onto the entrance road for Hwy 151. He tail gated the semi and then near the end of the on ramp whipped out onto the hwy way passing the semi. There was another car in the lane that he pushed to the left lane and then there was a small fight for the right lane between the semi and pick up as the semi now had nowhere to go. Horns blared and the stupid ass pick-up finds a hole and zooms on.

sigh.

MAN - this world would be a better place if people knew how to drive. So after watching that little incident I put down my newspaper because my oatmeal had spilled on my leg and I had to put in the coordinates on my Tom Tom anyway so I really did not have time to fret about stupid bad drivers.

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Back to being grumpy - maybe it's because we are in the armpit of winter. In a few days the average high temperature will increase from 25 to 26 and we will be on our way towards what I hope is a warmer summer.

I did grill out last weekend. My buddy Elweed and I went on a shopping adventure. He is like a caveman that I just thawed out when it comes to big things like shopping and technology. Since he has been dirt poor for the last 40 years he passes on buying spices and just the most common things. I have to talk him into buy a whole "pound" (1 pound = 12 oz which he thought was odd) of coffee and other things.

One thing people with cars forget about is how heavy groceries are. Try carrying all that you buy and walking a mile with them. You will buy much less heavy things like milk and juice.

Luckily he has Badger Care now so he gets $140 a month in food and his health insurance in Wisconsin is taken care of and no longer do tax payers have to pay for his hospital visits. You are saying that Wisconsin taxpayers have to pay but in reality hospitals jack up their prices for normal patients and insurance pays for him. So really people with insurance would actually have to pay for his visits (like a hole in his lung 3 years ago which Columbus hospital paid for and oddly his life turned around for the better) He is always talking about how the Columbus Hospital changed his life. He was in a pretty dark place before he was admitted and all but one nurse was very nice and things really did turned around.

Of course if we had real health care as opposed to the mess we have now we would not only have BETTER health care but cheaper also.

Don't get me started.

Have a wet and soggy weekend.

Rod