Two things I’ve noticed lately about GM:
1) It’s really sad when you have to run commercials begging people to buy your cars.
2) Claims that GM has paid off the government bailouts are bull.
Some light reading for you from Rep. Paul Ryan, explaining how it’s just another shell game.
H/T to Illinois Review for this article about a bill that could legalize medical marijuana in Illinois…
I don’t get this whole medical marijuana thing. Maybe it’s because I don’t do drugs and don’t really have any desire to do so. The thing that I don’t quite understand is why pot is necessary for pain reduction. Are there no legal drugs available that will do the same thing? Are people really experiencing pain that NOTHING other than marijuana will reduce?
It seems to me – again, as someone who isn’t sick or needing relief – that people are just looking for reasons to make it legal to get high. California pretty much backs up that opinion, where apparently isn’t not enough to make pot legal for medicinal reasons. Now they want to make it legal for “recreational” use.
Maybe someone can convince me otherwise, but for now I think this is a very bad idea for Illinois to pursue.
What a surprise! The experts say that Obamacare is going to cause healthcare costs to increase! Amazingly enough, the report was out before the vote, but no one was told about it. November is coming…
Yes, that’s right. Our President is coming to Quincy.
I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this today, but here are a few links in case you want to read about it:
http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1394807393/Obama-trip-to-Quincy-aimed-at-national-audience
http://quincynews.org/local-news/tickets-available-tuesday-for-obama-wednesday-visit-at-olc.html
http://quincynews.org/local-news/quincy-may-also-be-tea-party-central-again-this-week.html
If you LIKE where President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the rest of the Democrats in power are taking the country, better get your tickets now for the Obama visit.
If you DON’T like where the country is headed, you might feel more at home at the Tea Party rally.
H/T to Brooks Bayne:
More fun with bacon. It turns out that not only is bacon delicious, it can be romantic too!
I saw this on Brooks Bayne’s site and had to post it. People everywhere are taking bacon to new extremes of goodness!
Bacon Marmalade: Bacony Goodness by Mistake from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.
I wonder, what exactly makes the Illinois legislature think they know best how to run a school? Here we have a proposal to give schools some flexibility to give them some options to try and save money. (Original article at the Chicago Tribune). A school superintendent asked to have the option of moving to a 4-day week to save bus fuel and utilities costs.
The idea is shot down by Sen. Meeks, head of the Senate Education Committee. From what I’ve been able to find, Meeks’ only experience with education is as a student. I’m not sure why he would know better how to run a school than the local school administration or school board. He also made this gem of a joke:
“Kids in Chicago need to go to school eight days a week,”
Seems a little condescending towards Chicago’s youth, if you ask me.
The other notable objectors to the bill: the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the Chicago Teachers Union, and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. The Union opposition is hardly a surprise, as they resist any local control of schools in fear that it may develop into less union control. Daley’s a Democrat, so it’s also no surprise that he’d resist anything that would lessen the state government’s power.
The sad fact is that most of the people we put in charge are either career politicians or lawyer/politicians. I make a point of looking up the biographies of anyone I post about, and it’s remarkable how rarely those bios note that someone had a regular job before they got involved in politics. They don’t know any more about running a school district than I do. That’s why we hire superintendents for insane amounts of money: they supposedly know what they are doing.
The reasons the unions and others objected? They claimed it would minimize time kids spend in school, even though the bill stated the remaining 4 days would be longer, resulting in the same time spent. The other reason was that it would cost parents more money to have their kids watched for that day, and that more kids would then be left unsupervised. Apparently that’s a problem in Chicago.
Don’t forget, the bill didn’t MAKE schools switch to 4 days, it would just have allowed them to do so if they chose. In our local school district, that would have meant a proposal before the local school board. The people of the district would have made their opinions known, and (for the most part) the school board would have taken those opinions into consideration to make their decision. In other words, the people of the school district’s elected representatives on the school board would have made the decision – not the state government controlled by Chicago democrats.
It’s time to start voting out those who would control every aspect of our lives.
Here’s yet another example of our so-called “leaders” being above the law. H/T to Chicago Breaking News for the article.
I’m not going to re-hash the whole story, just make a couple points.
1) Why are we providing state-owned vehicles for our politicians to drive back and forth to work? Is this part of the employment benefits package? Maybe we should review the other benefits as well.
2) Cullerton plans to park the car at his office from now on, due to his son’s “unauthorized” use. That statement would make sense if this were the first time it had happened. It isn’t.
3) How is it that the son of a senator can get arrested for DUI twice and not get convicted? I don’t know anyone who even had a slight chance of getting out of a DUI. In downstate Illinois where I live – yes, that’s the part of Illinois outside Chicago (it DOES exist) – we take drunk driving seriously.
It’s elitism, folks. It’s when those in power start thinking somehow they are better than the general population and above reproach. Learn it, know it – vote it out.
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I wrote an article quite awhile back about low-carb dieting and how I was planning on losing a lot of weight. Well, things didn’t go quite like I had planned. I didn’t stick with it, I got lazy, and I spent the next year gaining instead of losing. Along with the weight came some really annoying health issues.
Anyway, to make a long story short, I think I finally hit rock-bottom. Sometimes that’s what it takes to convince people to make a radical change in their lives. In my case, I’ve finally gotten serious about fixing my weight and my health. Back on the low-carb wagon.
In the last 2-3 months, I’ve managed to drop 32 pounds. I don’t count calories and I eat plenty of foods that traditional low-fat dieters have to avoid. Bacon, eggs, cheese, sausage, steak, pork chops, chicken… but also lots of vegetables. No, sweet corn and potatoes aren’t good vegetable choices, as they are so full of sugars and starches that they really belong in the grain family. I eat broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, brussel sprouts, okra, green beans – pretty much anything green and leafy is a good choice.
I’ve also started walking daily. I didn’t start right away, as it took a couple weeks for my diet change to really kick in and give me more energy. But now I’m walking 1.5 miles each day during my lunch hour. That takes just over 30 minues, which gives me 30 minutes to eat lunch and cool off.
Like I said, I’ve lost 32 pounds so far. It’s a good start, but I’ve got quite a ways to go yet. If I can keep this pace up, I should be doing VERY well by the end of this year. I almost said, “I hope I can stick with it”, but then I realized that’s completely the wrong attitude to have. I WILL stick with it. I WILL lose the weight, I WILL get in shape, and I WILL stay in shape.
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