Obama, 1 and a 2...

Ok, so again I'm late to the party on these ideas, but it works in its own very special way.

To open, let's get this out right now: Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) -- the guy who shouted "You lie" when Obama said the health care plan would not cover illegal immigrants -- is a putz. And given everything else that's come out of the state of SC in recent weeks and months, that man REALLY shouldn't be talking about liars. Enough said.

Speech to school children :: what the hell? What was everyone so fucking upset about? The entire Wingnut brigade was up in arms about how no president had ever done anything like this before outside of North Korea (laughing) and how he was trying to hijack the minds of America's youth. We could only be so lucky, but I was actually IN school when Ronald Reagan pulled out this CRINGE-worthy PR move in '88, so unprecedented is not the word I would use for this.

And exactly what is wrong with a black president telling children they really can be ANYTHING they want to be? He's a first in American history! Why NOT have him address our children as living proof that anything can happen given hard work and want? Work hard, stay in school, set your own academic goals because your country needs you. Right. He's brainwashing them. Right.

Next up :: Health Care. Cue the sighs, the groans, and the cheers. honestly, I thought this one had serious promise. He said a lot of things that I've been screaming for a long time, especially given the medical history of my own family. NO ONE should go broke just becasue they get sick. No one should be denied medical coverage by an insurance company because of a pre-existing condition. when I was 13, I had to take a specific medication to control a very serious internal imbalanace. It was prescribed by a dR., but my mother's insurance wouldnt' cover it. It took FEDERAL legislation to force insuracne companies to cover this particular med, but int he meantime my mother had to pay full price for my meds. Never hated being sick so much in my whole life as when I found that out. NO ONE should ever have to feel that way.

And I'm sorry, but when you get told by an insurance company that they won't pay to give your 17-year-old daughter a liver transplant because according to the bureaucrats who decide these things in their cubicles somewhere she's beyond help, regardless of the fact that a team of Dr. has said it would save her life, and you spend over a year lobbying to get them to pay, but when they finally DO AGREE with the original diagnosis and agree to pay she dies on a donor waiting list, you should have the right to take every single person who had a hand in that decision and hang them from the nearest tree until their feet quit kicking. But that's just me.

And do not EVEN get me started on pharmacists being able to decide what meds they will and will not dispense. As a pharmacist, you are a member of the medical community. You have issue with giving out contraceptives or AIDS meds? QUIT. Someone who actually gives a shit about helping people and saving lives will GLEEFULLY take your place.

The rebuttal by Dr. Charles "I'm Even Worse Than Bobby Jindal" Boustany, however...I'm shaking as I type. Someone needs to bleed this guy dry so the FDA can approve his blood as a narcotic because CLEARLY he has been smoking something hardcore and foul.

And so now do we end the most recent few memorable moments of the Administration. My question becomes this: the Dems have control. When are they planning on waking up to that fact and actually getting things DONE around here? One has to wonder....

What did you do today?

I did dishes.

I’m one of those people that needs quantifiable, tangible accomplishment every single day, or I will go absolutely nuts.

I have worked at jobs in the past where I could work all day and I could explain to you exactly what I did, but there would no way for you to prove, no real way I could really prove, it, but I did it. It sucked. So I went home everyday and did dishes. I watched a sink full of dishes dwindle down to nothing and the stack of clean dishes piled up into this really cool pyramid thing, but I DID something. Or I’d clean the catbox. Or take out the trash. I accomplished something.

I mean, when I walk into my workplace every day, I don’t think, “Hey, I went to work today. “ No. Work is an opportunity to do something. With work for me, you have two options: you accomplish something, or you fuck off. What you accomplish isn’t always in your job description… My job title is in essence sales. I sell a product. What I DO everyday is grab teachers by the arm and say, “You gotta see this!” I help teachers get something they need, something they want, and something that will serve them. I put something in front of teachers and say, “This is where you are, this is what you do, this is what you WANT to do, this is where you WANT to go, and THIS program will help you get there. This will work for you. Why are you not already here?”

If I don’t accomplish something over the course of a day, I feel awful. I feel like I am wasting my life. Not just my time, but my life, because what is time but a part of life? Therefore my life get wasted when my time gets wasted. And that is completely unacceptable. So I go home and I do something. I finish something. If I get hit by a car tomorrow, my life is over, poof done, I will be able to say, “ I accomplished something.”

What did you do today? If you don’t have an answer right now, that’s ok. Continuing to not have an answer is not ok.

DO SOMETHING. Do something that you love. Do something that makes you smile. Do something that makes you proud to stand up and say, “YES! I did that.” But DO something. Even if it is as simple as dishes. Because at the end of the day it does not matter what you think. It does not matter what you intend. It doesn’t even matter what you say. Talk is cheap and I believe. I talk for LIVING, and I believe that. It is not what you say. It is about what you DO. What did YOU DO today?

You’ve got time. What COULD you do?