You can't fix stupid

Been busy working over the holiday. Also was so angry I didn't think I could write anything except a long string of cusswords.

Bad storms meant that I couldn't watch much TV. I have DirecTV, so anytime there's a storm between your house and the equator, the picture goes out. No matter what their commercials say. Call them up, and they tell you that there's something wrong with your dish. So how come I can get the local channels? she asks. One customer service person hung up on me.

Anyway.... due to the inaccessibility of Fox, I watched I believe it was the ABC-TV morning show -- not sure which morning, as over an extended holiday, all the days tend to run into each other. Anyway, it was shortly after the senate passed its socialized medicine bill. Might have been Dec. 25 or 26. One of the TV anchors asked a congressman if he thought the vote might have dire consequences for Democrats in the 2010 elections.

The dolt said something like, "Oh, I don't think so. By Election Day, they'll be seeing the benefits from this bill."

See, this is why he's a dolt (and possibly that's why he's a Democrat.) The taxes for socialized medicine go into place four years before anyone gets any benefits from it. Medicare will be cut. We'll all be forced to buy an insurance policy. The Medicare deduction from paychecks will be higher. And on and on and on. And yet, not one little stinking "benefit" until 2013 -- which would be conveniently AFTER the Comrade would have made his second run for the White House. (And he'll lose for sure if he chooses to run at all.)

Think that was an accident?

But what extraordinarily bad timing. We'll all be paying, and paying, and paying, and helping Gramma and Grampa pay for YEARS before socialized medicine really kicks in -- at which time we'll have the opportunity to stand in line for 15 hours to see a triage nurse. Like Canada. I can do that now. Go down to Cook County Hospital and just take a number. And probably bleed to death before anyone looks at you.

Oh yeah, we'll forget all about this crap before next Election Day. I'm absolutely convinced now that the Democrats have gone completely bonkers. They really don't have the vaguest idea what they voted for, do they? Happily we won't have to look at them anymore after next November.

Watched Fox News Sunday today, and Chris Wallace was talking to a Maryland Democrat named Von Hollen or something like that. It was funny. Wallace asked what are Demcrats going to do about jobs, since they've already spent every penny every American will earn for the next 30 years or so. The butthead Von Hollen said something like the feds will bring the economy back slowly, in a nice, controlled way.

Yeah. Like... hmmmm... Stalin controlled the economy? Like Hitler did? Like Napolean Bonaparte did? Like Louis XVI did? Like Jimmy Carter did? Like the British PM's since WWII have? Oh yeah, the Dems have it down pat. Even Roosevelt couldn't control the economy, though God knows, he tried and tried.

Yeah. A nice "controlled" economy. Democrats can't even control their own spending, let alone the earnings and spending of 300 million individuals who are pretty resistent to control. Some people just never learn.

What's that saying? "You can't fix stupid."

On the bright side, I ended up watching this really bad movie on Turner Movie Channel Saturday night. It was directed by and starred Ray Milland. I didn't know Ray Milland directed movies. Anyway, the movie is called "Panic in Year Zero!" and it's about this California family that was vacationing in the mountains when a nuclear bomb hit Los Angeles.

Forget for the moment that a nuclear bomb going off in Los Angeles would probably wipe out the Sierras... The story was about how this family -- along with dozens of others -- descended into a kind of mean-spirited every-man-for-himself psychology. Ray Milland robbed a hardware store, for example, and his son, Frankie Avalon, shot at a guy who was threatening to shoot Ray Milland. Anyway, at the very end, the army comes in and assures everyone that the worst was over.

At some point in all of this, a doctor noted, "Scrape the scabs off and apply enough disinfectant, and civilization might recover."

That kinda stuck in my mind relevant to today's real-life situation, with the Democrats dropping economic bombs willy-nilly all across the nation. Civilization might just recover. It might. We all just have to remember the Democrats on Election Day. Just look at your paychecks -- there's a living testament to insanity. And remember the Comrade did that. Not the Republicans or anyone else, but the Comrade, Pelosi, Reid, and most other Democrats in the 111th congress. And vote accordingly.