Ding dong the witch is dead! Yes, that's right... the horrible Amnesty for Illegal Invaders/Colonizers bill is dead! On Tuesday, the vote for cloture to end further discussion and bring the bill to the floor for a final vote was 64 for and 45 against. The vote today was 53 nay 46 yea.
That is quite a remarkable reversal within the past few days. 18 senators switched their votes thanks to the millions of Americans that decided to make their voices heard and reclaim their country. The liberally biased media admits that 80% of Americans are adamently opposed to ammesty (which means the number is probably closer to 85-90%. So many Americans called to protest this bill that the telephone system at the Capitol in Washington collapsed under the volume of calls and had to be shut down. This is an amazing victory, but it is not over. This 'amesty for illegals" will rise again and we must be ready. For more on what you can do to help, visit: http://www.fairus.org/. It is very simple from this website to send free emails and faxes directly to the senators and congressmen in your zipcode. We are fighting for the continued existance of our great country. Isn't it worth a few minutes to let your voice be heard?
I think almost everyone is familiar with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Remember in the final movie the scene where Frodo and Sam had just made it to Mount Doom and the last of the remaining companions sat in the fortress at Minas Tirith -noting that the dark forces where on the rise and that Frodo and Sam had not a chance to destroy the ring unless the blazing Eye of Sauron and his forces could be "distracted" long enough to give them a chance. Gimli , the dwarf immediately declares: "Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?", and so off they went. It seemed pretty hopeless and impossible that such great forces of evil could be overcome by the small handful of good that remained.... But they did it. Remember Lady Galadriel's remark to Frodo when they had first met: "Even the smallest person can make a difference." And that has been proven true again today with the defeat of the immigration legislation.
This trilogy could almost be an allegorical tale reflecting the illegal immigration/invasion situation here in the United States. Border Security and immigration laws in the United States have never been strongly enforced. Prior to the formation of entitlement programs, most of which were initiated by FDR, it did not seem like a big deal to most Americans. People from other countries, mainly Mexico, snuck in and did some jobs and most of them went home. As the number of entitlement programs such as welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid began to grow in number and in budget, often illegals found that because of the lack of background checks and legal status that they could get a much better deal and higher quality of life by staying in this country instead of leaving once their work was done.
Of course since most of these people were coming in from Mexico and since that border is largely porous, Mexicans began to inform their family and friends that life in the US was better and that they should come on in too. Of course many did and not just from Mexico. By the mid 1980's the problem had reached a level where there was enough public outcry that the politicians decided to "fix" this problem. How did they fix it? By giving all the people that had broken in illegal total and complete amnesty and granting them citizenship (of course!!).
Now considering that the border still remained WIDE OPEN after this amnesty was passed in 1986, what do you guess happened? Well the next wave of foreign invaders decided to make their way here too and wait for the next "amnesty" when they too could be rewarded with citizenship for breaking into the United States.
Now anyone with half a brain would realize that this sort of blanket amnesty would have this effect (which is possibly why the people in congress and even Ronald Regan didn't get it). I honestly don't believe that our chosen "representatives"... or should I say "rulers"(?) are that stupid. I personally believe that the amnesty efforts back then, as they are now, a deliberate effort to bring more unskilled and uneducated people from the third-world in this country and make them legal voters. A logical person might ask, "Why would anyone do something so evil?".
The answer is as simple as it is diabolical. Many people go to Washington because they crave money and power. Sure I will admit that a few do go there trying to do good, but even they, over time, become corrupted by the cesspool of those around them.
Career politicians like Teddy "Chappaquiddik" Kennedy did not get to be where they are by being nice or by telling the truth. People get to Washington by having the power, money, and connections to get elected and re-elected. This means telling every group what they want to hear while all the while doing what serves your own visions and bank account/campaign coffers the best. This is the true nature of politics. this is why chances that your Uncle Mel won't become president, but families like the Bushs, Clintons, Kennedys, etc. hold high ranking offices for generations.
What eventually happens is that the American people realize they are being sold out and start to become angry and complain about the high taxes and inefficiency of big government. Implanting 12-20 million new "voters" is a great idea for politicians because think about it. Most of these people come from third-world countries that are ruled by the sort of tyrants would might decide to run you through a wood-chipper for looking at them funny. And as for services in a lot of these places, forget it. In many third-world countries, the dictators keep all the money "donated to them for aid to their starving people", or in the case of food, they let it rot and don't bother to actually distribute it. Our politicians, such that they are, actually seem like holy saints to most of these people fromt the third world. The politicians vote to give them free food, healthcare, housing, in-state college tuition rates, and now citizenship!
So basically the politicians' end goal is to cancel out your vote with the votes of 12-20 million new voters who are going to have an innate loyalty to those who gave them the ultimate gift of citizenship and who have a very low expectation concerning the rights outlined in the American constitution -especially the right to free speech and the right to bear arms. These people didn't have such rights in their own country so they aren't going to raise much of a fuss as these things are slowly taken away from them here. Hey, they are just happy they are given food, third-rate socialized healthcare, and the right to watch Oprah.
The dirty secret is that the more people dependent on government for their basic survival needs, the bigger government gets, the more inefficient it gets, the more money it sucks out of hard working people's pockets. Politicians for the most part LOVE expanding government. It gives them a reason to steal more of your money and decide how to spend that money. Don't think for a single minute that there are not kickbacks that go to high-ranking politicians in exchange for contracts needed to expand or create entitlement programs. Everytime goverment expands, these career politicians become more powerful. They appoint their friends and family (or friend's and family of major campaign contributors) to hold high paying jobs with titles like "Deputy Director", "Commission", "Executive Chairman", etc within these newly created programs. Of course since most of these people are not qualified to work at the McDonald's drive-thru let alone run a new agency, high priced consultants are brought in to actually do the work... Of course the consulting firms that get these contracts are also campaign contributors. We are paying for all of it. The 12-20 million aren't paying much in taxes (if they are paying taxes at all), so this doesn't bother them in the least. Personally I am tired of having my paychecks involunetarily and illegally robbed by the government.
So, you see the goals of those in power of our government. We must be more vigilant now than ever before. Certain legislators suchs as Teddy "Chappaquiddik" Kennedy have a habit of sneaking a few lines of completely unrelated new laws/ammendments into very long boring bills that almost noone reads. I mean honestly.. would YOU read a 1200 long page bill on agriculture surplus? That's like reading 2 Harry Potter books back to back. Remember that congress votes on several bills in one day usually and sometimes bills (such as this latest amnesty bill) are made in secret behind closed doors by small special committees. I don't think half of them could tell you at any given time what they are actually voting on and what is hidden in those bills. No wonder we are in the mess we are today.
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Driving me crazy
I'm driving to work this morning half awake as usual wondering why traffic is moving about 40 miles an hour slower than the posted speed limit. There are so many cars on the road. I wonder how many of them are stuck in traffic stressing out about being late for work like me. There are a lot of out of state license plates this morning and I wonder what brings then here. I have nothing against travellers, but I really do question their need to be driving on unfamiliar roads in the middle of rush hour traffic.
Same with the elderly people who, in their last attempt to hold onto their independence, refuse to relinquish their license even when reflexes and vision issues clearly warrant it. You can usually find them haphazardly careening in and out of traffic driving 45 mph in the left lane of the highway. I am not sure what is so urgent that these people feel compelled to jeopardize their own lives and the lives of others by driving in a Mr. Magoo like fashion during the heaviest traffic of the day. Maybe they ran out of Depends or canned prunes, which I can almost understand, but stilll. Another half an hour and the roads would be almost clear.
The real kicker is that elderly people get all sorts of breaks on their car insurance rates. Probably because of the strong AARP lobby. It is really sad because elderly people are in the news more and more in the past few years when they "accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the break, oh dear!", or get "confused" and get onto a divided highway going in the wrong direction, or end up driving down a crowded sidewalk mowing down anyone in their wake. This is just another example of how modern health and science has allowed our bodies to continue function long after the mind has ceased to.
How many more people need to die before someone puts together legislation to get keys out of the hands of those who are clearly no longer fit to drive. Age discrimination? Well, it's age discrimination not to let 5 year olds vote then, or drink for that matter. Is age discrimination only not considered age discrimination when those being discriminated against can't do anything about it? I never saw a rally composed of angry 5 year olds marching in the street because of faulty lids on their juice cups. Actually, come to think of it, the insurance industry has discriminated against those under 25 for years saying their are statistically worse drivers so they are allowed to charge them more. Maybe that's true, but I'm pretty the elderly are also in the same category, so why do they get discounts? It's sort of funny... College students get screwed but they don't care because they are too busy with school and partying to organize and make noise, whereas I am sure the AARP would raise holy hell if insurance companies tried to raise the premiums for older drivers. See how that works? Whoever can't or doesn't make noise, get the proverbial shaft.
Same with the elderly people who, in their last attempt to hold onto their independence, refuse to relinquish their license even when reflexes and vision issues clearly warrant it. You can usually find them haphazardly careening in and out of traffic driving 45 mph in the left lane of the highway. I am not sure what is so urgent that these people feel compelled to jeopardize their own lives and the lives of others by driving in a Mr. Magoo like fashion during the heaviest traffic of the day. Maybe they ran out of Depends or canned prunes, which I can almost understand, but stilll. Another half an hour and the roads would be almost clear.
The real kicker is that elderly people get all sorts of breaks on their car insurance rates. Probably because of the strong AARP lobby. It is really sad because elderly people are in the news more and more in the past few years when they "accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the break, oh dear!", or get "confused" and get onto a divided highway going in the wrong direction, or end up driving down a crowded sidewalk mowing down anyone in their wake. This is just another example of how modern health and science has allowed our bodies to continue function long after the mind has ceased to.
How many more people need to die before someone puts together legislation to get keys out of the hands of those who are clearly no longer fit to drive. Age discrimination? Well, it's age discrimination not to let 5 year olds vote then, or drink for that matter. Is age discrimination only not considered age discrimination when those being discriminated against can't do anything about it? I never saw a rally composed of angry 5 year olds marching in the street because of faulty lids on their juice cups. Actually, come to think of it, the insurance industry has discriminated against those under 25 for years saying their are statistically worse drivers so they are allowed to charge them more. Maybe that's true, but I'm pretty the elderly are also in the same category, so why do they get discounts? It's sort of funny... College students get screwed but they don't care because they are too busy with school and partying to organize and make noise, whereas I am sure the AARP would raise holy hell if insurance companies tried to raise the premiums for older drivers. See how that works? Whoever can't or doesn't make noise, get the proverbial shaft.
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Just when you thought it was safe....It's Bah-ack
Well folks for those of you that thought the fact that 80% of the american people are against the new backdoor amnesty for illegal alien bill that was being created behind closed doors in the illustrious senate would be enough to kill it... Think again. Last week some senate offices were literally unable to do business due to the floods of angry American citizens calling in to sound off on this issue... So they shelved the bill. The news media reported the bill as "dead" due to lack of support.
After about a week of distracting us with other issues, this horrible bill has come back to life as:
SENATE AMNESTY LEGISLATION, S.1639 (formerly S.1348) . Yep that's right. The US Senate is apparently not only full of drama like your favorite afternoon shows, but apparently in the great tradition of soap operas everywhere, the evil villian will return to life once more to try to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting.
This bill is bad for several reasons. Not the least of which is the fact that people who basically broke into our country will be rewarded with citizenship for a fine that will end up costing less than a DWI. The politicians keep saying that we need this bill to secure the border and to improve enforcement, but that is not the case.
There are many laws regarding immigration which are already on the books and that have been on the books for years. And last year we passed a law to build a 750 mil stretch of fence along the Mexican Border. Guess how much as been built so far... Yep, that's right, in keeping with its grand tradition of uselessness and ineptitude, the government has built about 70 miles of this 750 mile fence - even though it has been fully funded already. We also have laws that allow for government to identify, detain, and deport illegals as well. The main problem is that government absolutely refuses to enforce most of these laws.
The main problem with this bill in particular, should it pass, is that all of the parts of the bill that allow for improved border security and enforcement will not be acted upon... while the portion of the bill that allows for the illegals to become citizens (aka voters) will be executed the day after the legislation passes. I hope this does not happen for the sake of our country.
Allowing 12-20 million people instant citizenship, merely because they were able to sneak across our wide-open border illegally, does not bode well for our future. Once we "legalize" 12-20 million people as a reward for breaking our immigration laws, that is only going to encourage more people to do the same especially given the fact that border continues to be wide-open and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.
There are some downright lies and misconceptions going on here. On of which is that we need illegals to fill some sort of labor shortage. The truth is that we don't need illegals to fill jobs that "Americans won't do". The main reason "Americans won't do" most of these jobs is because the greedy employers are paying an undercut wage to illegal workers. And don't feel sorry for the employers when it is known that many illegals are employed by farms. Most farms today are no longer run by Uncle Bob and Aunt Bertha - They are run by large corporations. that are trying to optimize their profits and bad the bottom line by using the cheapest labor available even if that labor is illegal aliens.
So that is the real truth behind the jobs "Americans won't do" lie. Of course no American is going to work for an unlivable wage -that is almost guarenteed to be below the legal minimum wage. That brings up another interesting point too... If illegals are being paid a wage that is below minimum wage, how can they afford to live here and send money home too? Aside from the fact that the wages are mostly in cash and under the table (tax free anyone?), the dirty little secret is that illegals are supplementing their low wages by helping themselves to taxpayer funded social service benefits like welfare, food stamps, medicaid, etc. When they get a case of the sniffles, they head over to the emergency room at the local county hospital which is forced to treat them for free, no questions asked. Guess who funds these hospitals... yes,the taxpayers... and guess what else... these hospitals are going bankrupt from being forced to treat uninsured illegals for free.
I am not anti-immigrant. I am anti-illegal-alien-invader/colonizer. Sure most illegals are sneaking in for a "better life", but let's face it: there are lots of people all over the world that want to come here. Most people would come here if there were given a chance to, but this country can only take in a finite number of people before our own quality of life starts to suffer from over crowding. Since we do need to limit and regulate the number coming in, I'd like to give the first chance to people who have applied to come here legally and who would have something to offer this country as a mutual benefit instead of just allowing 12-20 million people first dibs because they decided to sneak in.
One more thing. I am fairly sick of hearing how "immigrants built this country" and how "We are all immigrants except the American Indian". Back when original immigrants came here, there was barely anything to come to at all. Everything this country has now had to be worked for and built. There were no hand-outs and freebies to draw people here like there are today. The immigrants of yesterday came over on risky passages on boats across the ocean that took a month or more to get here. They came here with no promises for welfare, guaranteed health care, food, etc. They didn't just sneak over the border and apply for social service benefits. Don't even try to tell me that illegals aren't able to get these benefits because I used to work for a soscial service branch of the government at one point in my career and i have seen that they do. they are flagged as being "Illegal" or "Non-Citizens" in the databases but they still apply for and obtain benefits. I feel strongly that many of the people coming in today illegally are coming here to mooch off our benefits system as much as they are to find "work and opportunity".
That's not to say that many US citizens aren't mooching too and I don't like that either, but at least they are here legally. And trust me, I wish it was possible to kick out citizens who are doing nothing except sitting around on the public dole. The money for all these programs for moochers has to come from somewhere and unfortunately that somewhere is out of the pocket of working stiffs like you and me. When you have about $900+ a month stolen from your paycheck before you ever see it, I think it is a reason to be disgusted and angry at people milking the system. $900 is almost twice what I pay for rent every month. $900 a month is a brand new small car every year (with trade in). $900 a month is a mortgage payment on a nice house. You see where I am going with this? Anyway...
This problem seems overwhelming, but it is all common sense. I have outlined the steps below that shoudl easily fix this "complicated" issue.
1) Secure the border - Yes, this means build the damn fence already, hire more border agents, and put the national guard on the border. I would personally like to see a fence like the one used in Jurassic Park. This would not only act as a very effective deterrent to those attempting to cross illegally, but would actually save many lives by discouraging people from making a long dangerous trip through the desert only to be met with such an insurmountable obstacle.
2) Take away taxpayer funded social services for people who are here illegally. This makes a lot of sense (which is probably why government hasn't thought of it). I mean really... If someone shouldn't be here at all, shouldn't that be a clue that they are not eligible to receive welfare, medicaid, food stamps, etc? When people apply for these things, there should be better checks to ensure citizenship and if the person is not a citizen then they should be detained and deported at the first opportunity.
3) Take away the jobs that draw people to come here illegally. We need to start hitting employers where it hurts when they attempt to circumvent employment laws by hiring cheap illegal labor. This means very large fines and possibly jail time for the person in charge of checking legal status of employees. I think that the possibility of sharing a 12x12 cell and a cot with a guy named Bubba might encourage employers to screen employees more carefully.
4) Take away "birth-right" citizenship. Honestly... We all know that the 14th ammendment (which contains the clause that was interpreted in this heinous way) was never intended to grant citizenship to the children of people who are illegally on our soil. We need to change this so that one biological parent of the child need to be a citizen in order for the child to get automatic citizenship. This would also be something of a humanitarian thing. I really don't want to think about some woman waddling across the desert in 120 degree heat for 3 days so that she can pop out an anchor baby. We need to take away this incentive for people to do this type of thing.
I think that once items 1-4 are put into effect that the lure of sucking off the tit of American taxpayers along with no prospect of finding work or popping out instant citizen babies will discourage most people from trying to sneak in. Furthermore, many, if not most, of the illegals will leave on their own and go home where they belong. Maybe this will even encourage them to try to reform and improve their own countries instead of trying to sneak into this country for an easier ride.
If you have anything to say on this issue, please sound off to your elected representatives and do it soon before it is too late. You can read more about this bill, along with impact studies at: http://www.fairus.org/. This site also will gives you links to the emails and websites of your own officials if you type in your zipcode.
After about a week of distracting us with other issues, this horrible bill has come back to life as:
SENATE AMNESTY LEGISLATION, S.1639 (formerly S.1348) . Yep that's right. The US Senate is apparently not only full of drama like your favorite afternoon shows, but apparently in the great tradition of soap operas everywhere, the evil villian will return to life once more to try to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting.
This bill is bad for several reasons. Not the least of which is the fact that people who basically broke into our country will be rewarded with citizenship for a fine that will end up costing less than a DWI. The politicians keep saying that we need this bill to secure the border and to improve enforcement, but that is not the case.
There are many laws regarding immigration which are already on the books and that have been on the books for years. And last year we passed a law to build a 750 mil stretch of fence along the Mexican Border. Guess how much as been built so far... Yep, that's right, in keeping with its grand tradition of uselessness and ineptitude, the government has built about 70 miles of this 750 mile fence - even though it has been fully funded already. We also have laws that allow for government to identify, detain, and deport illegals as well. The main problem is that government absolutely refuses to enforce most of these laws.
The main problem with this bill in particular, should it pass, is that all of the parts of the bill that allow for improved border security and enforcement will not be acted upon... while the portion of the bill that allows for the illegals to become citizens (aka voters) will be executed the day after the legislation passes. I hope this does not happen for the sake of our country.
Allowing 12-20 million people instant citizenship, merely because they were able to sneak across our wide-open border illegally, does not bode well for our future. Once we "legalize" 12-20 million people as a reward for breaking our immigration laws, that is only going to encourage more people to do the same especially given the fact that border continues to be wide-open and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.
There are some downright lies and misconceptions going on here. On of which is that we need illegals to fill some sort of labor shortage. The truth is that we don't need illegals to fill jobs that "Americans won't do". The main reason "Americans won't do" most of these jobs is because the greedy employers are paying an undercut wage to illegal workers. And don't feel sorry for the employers when it is known that many illegals are employed by farms. Most farms today are no longer run by Uncle Bob and Aunt Bertha - They are run by large corporations. that are trying to optimize their profits and bad the bottom line by using the cheapest labor available even if that labor is illegal aliens.
So that is the real truth behind the jobs "Americans won't do" lie. Of course no American is going to work for an unlivable wage -that is almost guarenteed to be below the legal minimum wage. That brings up another interesting point too... If illegals are being paid a wage that is below minimum wage, how can they afford to live here and send money home too? Aside from the fact that the wages are mostly in cash and under the table (tax free anyone?), the dirty little secret is that illegals are supplementing their low wages by helping themselves to taxpayer funded social service benefits like welfare, food stamps, medicaid, etc. When they get a case of the sniffles, they head over to the emergency room at the local county hospital which is forced to treat them for free, no questions asked. Guess who funds these hospitals... yes,the taxpayers... and guess what else... these hospitals are going bankrupt from being forced to treat uninsured illegals for free.
I am not anti-immigrant. I am anti-illegal-alien-invader/colonizer. Sure most illegals are sneaking in for a "better life", but let's face it: there are lots of people all over the world that want to come here. Most people would come here if there were given a chance to, but this country can only take in a finite number of people before our own quality of life starts to suffer from over crowding. Since we do need to limit and regulate the number coming in, I'd like to give the first chance to people who have applied to come here legally and who would have something to offer this country as a mutual benefit instead of just allowing 12-20 million people first dibs because they decided to sneak in.
One more thing. I am fairly sick of hearing how "immigrants built this country" and how "We are all immigrants except the American Indian". Back when original immigrants came here, there was barely anything to come to at all. Everything this country has now had to be worked for and built. There were no hand-outs and freebies to draw people here like there are today. The immigrants of yesterday came over on risky passages on boats across the ocean that took a month or more to get here. They came here with no promises for welfare, guaranteed health care, food, etc. They didn't just sneak over the border and apply for social service benefits. Don't even try to tell me that illegals aren't able to get these benefits because I used to work for a soscial service branch of the government at one point in my career and i have seen that they do. they are flagged as being "Illegal" or "Non-Citizens" in the databases but they still apply for and obtain benefits. I feel strongly that many of the people coming in today illegally are coming here to mooch off our benefits system as much as they are to find "work and opportunity".
That's not to say that many US citizens aren't mooching too and I don't like that either, but at least they are here legally. And trust me, I wish it was possible to kick out citizens who are doing nothing except sitting around on the public dole. The money for all these programs for moochers has to come from somewhere and unfortunately that somewhere is out of the pocket of working stiffs like you and me. When you have about $900+ a month stolen from your paycheck before you ever see it, I think it is a reason to be disgusted and angry at people milking the system. $900 is almost twice what I pay for rent every month. $900 a month is a brand new small car every year (with trade in). $900 a month is a mortgage payment on a nice house. You see where I am going with this? Anyway...
This problem seems overwhelming, but it is all common sense. I have outlined the steps below that shoudl easily fix this "complicated" issue.
1) Secure the border - Yes, this means build the damn fence already, hire more border agents, and put the national guard on the border. I would personally like to see a fence like the one used in Jurassic Park. This would not only act as a very effective deterrent to those attempting to cross illegally, but would actually save many lives by discouraging people from making a long dangerous trip through the desert only to be met with such an insurmountable obstacle.
2) Take away taxpayer funded social services for people who are here illegally. This makes a lot of sense (which is probably why government hasn't thought of it). I mean really... If someone shouldn't be here at all, shouldn't that be a clue that they are not eligible to receive welfare, medicaid, food stamps, etc? When people apply for these things, there should be better checks to ensure citizenship and if the person is not a citizen then they should be detained and deported at the first opportunity.
3) Take away the jobs that draw people to come here illegally. We need to start hitting employers where it hurts when they attempt to circumvent employment laws by hiring cheap illegal labor. This means very large fines and possibly jail time for the person in charge of checking legal status of employees. I think that the possibility of sharing a 12x12 cell and a cot with a guy named Bubba might encourage employers to screen employees more carefully.
4) Take away "birth-right" citizenship. Honestly... We all know that the 14th ammendment (which contains the clause that was interpreted in this heinous way) was never intended to grant citizenship to the children of people who are illegally on our soil. We need to change this so that one biological parent of the child need to be a citizen in order for the child to get automatic citizenship. This would also be something of a humanitarian thing. I really don't want to think about some woman waddling across the desert in 120 degree heat for 3 days so that she can pop out an anchor baby. We need to take away this incentive for people to do this type of thing.
I think that once items 1-4 are put into effect that the lure of sucking off the tit of American taxpayers along with no prospect of finding work or popping out instant citizen babies will discourage most people from trying to sneak in. Furthermore, many, if not most, of the illegals will leave on their own and go home where they belong. Maybe this will even encourage them to try to reform and improve their own countries instead of trying to sneak into this country for an easier ride.
If you have anything to say on this issue, please sound off to your elected representatives and do it soon before it is too late. You can read more about this bill, along with impact studies at: http://www.fairus.org/. This site also will gives you links to the emails and websites of your own officials if you type in your zipcode.
Summer Dreaming
Some days seem to pass more slowly than others, especially in the warm summer months where the sun is shining and making you long to be outdoors instead of sitting in a stuffy cubicle for hours on end. Today is one of those days. Fortunately, my boss is out today which always makes things more pleasant.
Having only been with this particular agency for a few months, I still have much to learn. Unfortunately, someone here made the ill-fated decision to purchase and install Lotus Notes (known not-so-affectionately by users and developers as "Loath us Bloats"). I could spend a great deal fo time ranting about the inadequacy of this particular product, but it's been done before and rather well I might add. Check out http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/lnEx07.html for a good laugh and a good idea of what we experience every day using this abomination.
Frankly, having been a computer application developer for about 10 years now (and successfully managed to avoid this product until now), I am convinced that a bunch of super geeks, who hadn't had the fortune to see an open pair of legs since their momma gave birth to them, invented this product. Why? We may never really know. Perhaps it was a joke and intended to be funny, but somehow most of us mortals are not l33t enough to understand the humor of super geeks. Or maybe it was revenge for the lack of parental love, inability to get a date, or a big 'ol Fuck you aimed at George Lucas for contaminating the Star Wars Prequels with that Jarjar Binks creature. We may never understand.
Anyway, today I am, watching the clock and waiting while half heartedly perusing the Internet for information on Loath us Bloats. The funny thing is if you type in "lotus notes sucks" into google search, you get back pages on pages of people who absolutely hate this product. It truly is terrible and I won't bore any of you with the technical details of WHY. Type that into google search if you care. The ultimate irony is that we are now stuck with this product because some brainiac non-technical person bought into what the IBM salesman told him and probably didn't even understand half of what was being said. No manager will ever admit that a product is bad or the wrong thing after they have signed off on purchase orders and spent tens of thousands of dollars on something. Nope. We're stuck with this until the people who gave the big OK to purchase it, retire or are promoted to another agency where they can continue to spread their incompentance. Yay!
Having only been with this particular agency for a few months, I still have much to learn. Unfortunately, someone here made the ill-fated decision to purchase and install Lotus Notes (known not-so-affectionately by users and developers as "Loath us Bloats"). I could spend a great deal fo time ranting about the inadequacy of this particular product, but it's been done before and rather well I might add. Check out http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/lnEx07.html for a good laugh and a good idea of what we experience every day using this abomination.
Frankly, having been a computer application developer for about 10 years now (and successfully managed to avoid this product until now), I am convinced that a bunch of super geeks, who hadn't had the fortune to see an open pair of legs since their momma gave birth to them, invented this product. Why? We may never really know. Perhaps it was a joke and intended to be funny, but somehow most of us mortals are not l33t enough to understand the humor of super geeks. Or maybe it was revenge for the lack of parental love, inability to get a date, or a big 'ol Fuck you aimed at George Lucas for contaminating the Star Wars Prequels with that Jarjar Binks creature. We may never understand.
Anyway, today I am, watching the clock and waiting while half heartedly perusing the Internet for information on Loath us Bloats. The funny thing is if you type in "lotus notes sucks" into google search, you get back pages on pages of people who absolutely hate this product. It truly is terrible and I won't bore any of you with the technical details of WHY. Type that into google search if you care. The ultimate irony is that we are now stuck with this product because some brainiac non-technical person bought into what the IBM salesman told him and probably didn't even understand half of what was being said. No manager will ever admit that a product is bad or the wrong thing after they have signed off on purchase orders and spent tens of thousands of dollars on something. Nope. We're stuck with this until the people who gave the big OK to purchase it, retire or are promoted to another agency where they can continue to spread their incompentance. Yay!
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Thanks for checking in. I'd like to limit details about my own identity because I am sure the bureaucrats running the show wouldn't appreciate having their stupidity broadcast over the Internet. That being said, for the curious, I'm a single female in my 30's with an affinity for conservative talk radio and online gaming. Some people might consider me stubborn or contentious at times, but it is mainly because I take a deep interest in seeing things done well and it is hard for me to deal with utter incompetence... Very ironic that I work in government isn't it? The purpose of this blog is to bring to light some of the foibles of government as well as the day to day grind of a government worker peon like myself.
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