Another Reason Not to Shop at Walmart

I have to take maintenance medicine and I hate it.  I despise having to be chained to a pill bottle and knowing that whatever else I am doing, I will be taking a pill between this time and this one. I know it improves my quality of life.  I know that if I didn't take it, I could have serious, perhaps even life threatening consequences.  The scariest day of my life, I woke up from a medically induced coma to see my mother and my father peering down at me.  I had a tube in every opening and a couple in places that weren't open to start with.  So there I am, cold room, that infernal beeps and wheezes going off all around me and I opened my eyes and saw my parents.  They were looking down at me and Momma was trying not to cry.  They were both smiling at me, and the scariest part for me was that they were touching shoulders and didn't seem to care. My first thought, I am not exaggerating, was 'oh my Goodness, I must be dying.'
Well, I didn't die and as far as I know, they never got that close to each other without carping about it again.  But my point is that I have to take medicine for these seizures again, and the one that I take is expensive.  Mortgage payment expensive.  And since I have had to switch insurances (thanks Obamacare!!) there was a lapse and then there has been some question about what is and what isn't covered.
If I have to pay $142 each time I get this filled, I don't really feel as though I have coverage, ifyouknowwhatImean.
So having given them two days to fill the script and timing everything almost to the minute as far as when my other prescription will be gone, I called Walmart to make sure it was filled.  'People Skills' Penny answered the phone.
me: Hi my name is Milissa and my birthday is blah blah blah, is my prescription ready?
PSP: um, what was the name again?
me: Milissa, before you ask, here's my birthdate.
PSP: we don't have that filled.
me: why not, it was called in two days ago.
PSP: It's a really really expensive prescription and we didn't want to fill it before we knew you were going to be able to pay for it.
By this time, I have a bump in the back of my head where the back of it tried to blow out.
me:While I appreciate your concern over my financial well being, I am going to be needing that today.
PSP: oh- well we'll need at least two days to get this in stock.
Me: THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU ORDER IT WHEN IT WAS CALLED IN??????
PSP: so did you want me to order that now?

At this point I hung up and called 1.800.walmart.  I explained what had happened, and what was going to happen if I didn't get the medicine.  She put me on hold and got someone from their higher ups to on the line.  This person was clueless.  She politely pointed out that I could go to another pharmacy.  I told her that in this tiny town there is only one pharmacy still open at that time, and I had called them already.  They didn't have it in stock.  She suggested that I go to the next large town about 26 miles away and get it from a pharmacy there.  I asked her if I started walking now, would I get there by morning.
Walmart:Oh you don't drive?
Me: No, that's why I take this medicine, huh?
Walmart: Have someone take you?
Me:Who would you have me ask at the last minute? I need to plan things out a couple of days in advance, what with not being able to drive and all.
Walmart: You could take a bus.
Me: I live in a town with seven stoplights.  Do you think we have public transportation?
Walmart: I am trying to help. Isn't there anyone who can drive you? No one at all?
Me: Not at the last minute. Again, had I known that I was giving my prescription to Forrest Gump, I would have made other arrangements.
Walmart:There is no need to be rude.
Me: Ma'am, this isn't rude. I'll be there in a minute. Rude was your employee. Why didn't someone call me if there was a question about the cost? Why didn't someone ask me if I was aware of the cost? Why didn't someone call my doctor if there was a question?
Walmart:We'll me looking into that, I promise.
Me: Like you'll be getting my medicine, right?
At this point, I just hung up the phone, I was angry and starting to fight the urge to drop an f-bomb somewhere.
So think about where you want to spend your money.  There has to be a small pharmacy that would love to have your business.  Develop a relationship with them.  Avoid Walmart at all costs.  You'll thank me later.
           

Why Does Anyone Care Who Stacy Keibler Marries?

I was wasting some time, gathering information this morning online.  I do not work in my store on Sundays if I can avoid it at all, and I usually don't pay any attention to the news or any of the things going on in the world, except reading my Sunday paper.
So on Monday mornings, I get my self situated, and in between customers and talking to my Mom, I skim the internet to see if I missed anything important.  I usually don't, Mom is pretty good about keeping me in the loop if something horrible is happening.
So I came across the name Stacy Keibler.  The first thing I thought of (couldn't help it) was wondering if they starting giving those elves names, and then realizing that she has probably heard that more times than I have had my name miss-spelled.  It would seem that she used to date someone famous.
whoopity-do.
Are we that starved for entertainment news that we now care what the ex-girlfriend of a celebrity is doing?  I can't believe that we are, but then when you tool down to the comments section- a guilty pleasure, sue me- there are all of those people and their opinions.  Wow.
Much like those who buy tabloids and take them for truth- there are some people who seem to have a vested interest in celebrities' lives.
Aren't there enough problems in the world right now?  Or is it escapism?  Perhaps people get so would up in the lives of the famous as an escape hatch, who knows?
Lent is going on as I write this, and Father Dave spoke a wonderful sermon about the things to give up during Lent.  He suggested removing something from your life that would make you a better person.  What a wonderful idea.
I am going to start with "celebrity" gossip.  Even D-listers like the aforementioned Mrs. Keibler.  I already swore off any breathless updates on Brad Pitt and his baby buying adventures.  I don't care what store they close down to shop in private, I don't want to know about it anymore.
Think about what you put in your brain, and try to ween yourself from the junk.  You'll thank me later.

Yes, Congressman Moran, You are Very Over Paid.

Recently, a retiring democratic congressman was brave, stupid enough to say what he thought.  In his mind, 174,000 dollars a year isn't enough to do the arduous job of sitting in committee meetings, having lunches, meeting with constituents, having press conferences, and adjourning for four weeks of Christmas/Easter/Summer/ you name it break.
They worked for 126 days in 2013.  Yes. You read that correctly. For every day those poor souls spent in air conditioned or heated comfort, they only had two days to recover. Only two days!  How in the world are they supposed to manage on these scraps?  Is there no decency left in the world?
He went on to whine that they were only going to be able to attract the very wealthy and that no one would want to stay there for very long on those slave wages.  He also bemoaned the expense of housing, maintaining at least two residences, because Washington DC  is so very expensive, how are they supposed to live decently, he cried?  I guess he missed the point.
It isn't supposed to be a career, sir.  You aren't supposed to be there for decades.  In fact, your little pity party should be the preamble to every single movement for term limits.  You may well be the poster child for the very thing.  How about this, since you clearly cannot afford the things you say you need to live well, and of course, you only want to serve your fellow man.
We build giant military bases for our brave servicemen and women.  We keep them safe.  We have armed guards, patrol units, and fences.  Granted, the housing is adequate, but not luxurious.  Of course, it beats living in a box on a corner.  So why don't we build a couple of these housing bases and put our Congressmen and women and our Senators in them?  They can be guarded, the same as our other bases would be. We could have them built in about six months and the jobs would be a wonderful thing, especially since obamacare has killed the economy even more than his ineptitude and mismanagement has.
They could break ground in less than two months if they really wanted to.  They could be all moved in by November, just in time for the new elections.  It would be wonderful and a huge money saver for all involved.  It wouldn't be any more dangerous for them than it is for our brave military.  We keep them all grouped together, and I know there isn't a politician alive-outside of b.o. and California stupid enough to imply that they are more important than our military.
 Think about it.  You'll thank me later.

China Has Enough Yeti Sightings

Why are we spending millions- with an m- to send Michelle Obama, her two daughters and her free loading mother to China?  Do they possess some here to for unknown power?  Will they be there for anything that could possible benefit out nation?  My guess is no.
I have never really understood the msm and their ability to turn the blind eye toward whatever the Obamas are up to in a given week.  Why are we sending his wife to China is the first question that I have.  Is there anything that she can do that will be useful to the cause of the United States of America?  I mean, if they have worked out a plan that will actually keep her freeloading butt over there, then I am all for it. Otherwise.....
Can you imagine the outcry if President Bush had had his Mother-in-law on the tab the entire time he was living in the Whitehouse?  The msm would have had a running tally on every single nickel that it would have cost, I guarantee it.  So instead, we have not a peep form them, not a whisper, not one sound.
Why is she living there? Who is paying for it, besides us foolish taxpayers?  Was she living with them before he stole into the oval office?  Or did she see an excellent opportunity to live it up once her "son-in-law" was at a better address?
I did a little math and here are the numbers that I came up with:

29 hours to China (roundtrip from DC to Bejing) = $174,000 x 2 for security detail
security detail to guard them                                = $2,635,000
lodging                                                                = $3,685,000
meals                                                                  =  $17,342,000
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                                                                               $ 24,010,000

my estimations are using what the average number of security detail would be, the average cost of a regular meal ( and we all know the yeti only wants reduced calories when it is our children being fed ) and regular rooms for everyone.
Why in the world are we spending 24 million dollars to give those freeloading Obamas another wonderful vacation?
If there was one valid reason for this trip-other than hey Barrack- why don't we go to China on the taxpayer dime?- I could understand the need for this.  But all we have is a greedy pack of moochers who are determined to siphon every freebie possible in the next two years.  Think about it, you'll thank me later.

Planned Parenthood Killed my Girl Scout Cookies

I love those coconut caramel cookies that Girl Scouts sell.  In a normal year, I would buy a case and stock up my freezer.  This is not a normal year,  The powers that be have decided to affiliate Girl Scouts with the number one abortion provider in the United States.  Man o man, am I going to miss those cookies.  Not enough to abide the abortionists, but if you have a recipe, feel free to send it to me.  What exactly are they trying to teach young girls anyway?  That if you get pregnant it's not a worry, just suction that baby out of your womb?

There was a time when the Boy Scouts said that their values were not for sale.  I guess the homosexuals raised their offer.  Luckily, there is a new group-Trail Life- who teaches the values that I want my sons to have. There are no homosexuals teaching these impressionable children.  I don't worry when my sons are at a meeting.

Now we have the Girl Scouts trying to shape young minds into vibrant cogs in the liberal machine.  Never mind the idea of teaching young girls to be moral, God fearing good citizens.  Nope.  It's more important to teach that that a pregnancy is only an inconvenience, a trifle to be disposed of at will.
Who are these people?  What in the world is wrong with them?  Have they absolutely lost their idea of right and wrong?
As much as I like,  love, adore those cookies- it is not worth it to know that my purchase enabled a little girl to have access to sponsors like planned parenthood.
That organization was founded by Margaret Sanger.  Her plan was to make abortions more readily available to minorities.  She didn't like black people, and her thought was that if blacks were encouraged to abort their children for a host of reasons, then there would be less black people.  Boy, was she right.  Not too long ago, more black babies were aborted in New York City than were born. How sad.
Why is it that so many cherished organizations are under attack these days?  Is common decency dead?  Who thinks that have the biggest abortion provider in the country be a sponsor for young girls is a good idea?  We are on such a slippery slope, that sometimes I am scared to death for my children and their children some day.  I hate to think of what the world we are leaving them might be like.
In a way, I am angry.  So many things that I used to enjoy are being corrupted by immorality.  Sam Addams makes an awesome beer.  For off the shelf, non micro brewery, it is outstanding.  But they chose to support a group of homosexuals who wanted to ruin a Saint Patrick's day parade, and bingo! I am now a micro brewer beer enthusiast. Pity.
So with regret I have turned away every fresh faced sales pitch.  I love those cookies.  But every baby deserves a chance to be born.  Think about it, you'll thank me later.

The IRS is Still Obama's Bag Man

Apparently you have to be able to hold that arrogant pose if you're going to work in this administration.  Whenever I see this pose, I just want to break out a cast iron skillet.  On the left we have the person who ran the latest Obama debacle, or the solyndra of health care.  She had billions with a b and all of the resources of the free world, to make up a health care system and she has successfully helped sign up almost six million people.*
 To put that in perspective, we have over 250 million people in our country.  Now, .41 % of them have insurance through this socialistic debacle known as obamacare.  Isn't it funny that when it was going to be all sunshine and roses, they loved  calling it obamacare.  Now, it is almost always called ACA by those wishing to distance themselves from the hot mess that it is.

In the middle, the man who needs no introduction, he is single handedly responsible for racking up more debt in 6 years than our entire history before him.  And what do we have to show for it?  Record fuel prices.  Record food prices.  Inflation. Everywhere you look, Carter is looking less God awful.

Finally, on the right, we have a woman who targeted the Tea Party groups who were looking for tax exempt status to organize their groups.  Of course.

The last time she was in front of Congress she pleaded the fifth (the right not to testify and incriminate yourself) and then testified.  I look forward to her next hearing.  I will be curious to see if the Congressmen and women allow her to get away with it.  My money says no.  Especially now that it has come to light that the majority of what she has disseminated to the public has been a big fat lie.  

Didn't Nixon get impeached for something like this? Why, I believe he did.  I also believe that the leadership gavel will come out of Harry Reid's antique, dusty fist this November.  Hopefully, we won't have to listen to anymore of his whispering slanderous ( but safe from prosecution while on the senate floor) speeches after that.  With any luck, he will retire in a huff.

The Internal Revenue Service abuse was one of the more serious charges against Nixon.  He could have probably skated around the others, but using an office of the government as an attack dog is just wrong.  He went out in disgrace, and rightly so.

There have been opinions that B.O. won't be impeached because he is the first black person in the oval office.  If that were true, it would sadden me.  Mostly, because it would mean we have capitulated to political correctness, and given up on freedom.

Think about it, you'll thank me later.

* the latest numbers that are reliable now put sign ups at five million, and people who have paid a premium puts it less than that.

MSM Kneecapping the Potentials or When Did They Start Caring About a Politician's Background?

I think you have to be very masochistic to want to run for public office these days.  Not only are you running on the ideas that you have for the future, (unless you are Obama-then just run because you look black) but you are also running with every dumb thing you have ever said, and every dumb thing you have ever done.  Can you imagine what it would be like to run for office knowing every keg stand, every drunken text, every stupid, spur of the moment thing you ever did was out there waiting to bite you on the butt?
 Unless you are the current guy, the media goes after you like pitbulls after beef steak.  For example- Chris Christie- who doesn't have a pig's chance at a lou auh of getting my vote, is being decimated by the same adoring media types who praised his no nonsense attitude and heaped accolades on him for helping B.O. to look less incompetent.  Now, they believe he is guilty of the most heinous of crimes-traffic jams on purpose.  Oh the humanity.
Governor Palin was ripped to shreds by the media types who would ordinarily fall at her feet because she has a vagina.  I guess the (R) beside her name cancelled out her hoo hah.  Plus, horror of horrors- she has a special needs child and she didn't abort him.  Not to mention she has a daughter who got pregnant while not being married.  Kind of ironic to listen to hollywood types try to make it sound like she was horrible while still holding Angelina Jolie up as a role model, isn't it?  I'm pretty sure that the idiot she had unprotected sex with wasn't married at the time. Ahem.
But back to the background checks on every living moment a conservative candidate has until he is elected.  I don't care if Christie told people to cause traffic jams or if he didn't.  I don't care if he made and delivered a nasty email to someone that hurt their feelings.  I do care that he had the opportunity to send a conservative to the senate and he wussed out on it.  He is a Republican in name only, in spite of what Ann Coulter says.
Ted Cruz has blue eyes. Harry Reid actually questioned  his ethnicity because of them.  Can you imagine if a conservative had said that Obama didn't really look black enough?  O my Goodness!  The gods of political correctness would have swooped down and carried that person away.  They would have been linked to the Klan faster than you can say-those Obama's sure have some ugly kids.
Do you remember when Governor Romney said that Russia would invade the Ukraine?  B.O.'s look of derision was priceless.  The media jumped into the fray and made it seem as though Romney were just an out of touch rich guy, which, coincidentally, was the theme they were pushing about him.  Now, who is the idiot?  Oh wait, the 109% that voted for Obama, right?
Rand Paul is another bright man that is giving the media fits.  He alone caused the government shutdown (according to them) because he just didn't want the people to get the wonderful, generous, fabulous benefits of obamacare also known as the law of the land.
Well now that obamacare has turned out to be the very turd sandwich that conservatives had been warning about, who is to blame?  It looks like Sebellius is going to be the latest chick thrown under the bus by team Obama.  Who saw that coming?  Will there be an apology from the media types who were not just wrong, but stupidly wrong?  Don't hold your breath.
Who ever the next president is, they will have their work cut out for them.  Barrak Hussein Obama has completely cartered the country.  It will take someone the likes of President Reagan to undo the damage.  And he or she will have to do it without the adoring eyes of the media helping him or her every step of the way.
  I am tired of the media trying to be the third man.  Just report the facts.  All of the facts, not the ones that tell the story you want told, please.
Question your media sources.  You'll thank me later.

When Did We Start Naming Every Storm we Get?

I am writing this post in February.  I have survived through November, December, and January.  It hasn't been pretty.  First there was cold.  Then there was bitter cold, and now we have the ice and the snow.  My God, the snow.
I hate where I live and I am not crazy about a lot of these people- I know the cold makes them crazy.  But whenever I have to watch the Weather Channel or as I have come to think of it- All Global Warming, All the Time!-I am forced to listen to incredibly attractive people explain what Magnum, or Ivan or something or other is doing.
Are we so starved for things to hold our attention that we need to name every single one of these storms? Really?  Where I am, they still discuss the blizzard of '78 with reverent tones.  It doesn't have a name- it has a condition-blizzard- and a year-1978.  Most folks with a functioning I Q understand the storm in question.
Is it a rating things?  Will Goodyear and other products begin lining up to sponsor this mess?
If it is snowing, the accumulation is edging past five inches and the wind is blowing, do we really need a name for this?? Won't hey remember that crappy year it wouldn't stop snowing be enough to ring a bell?
I understand, the Weather Channel has to remain relevant.   The novelty of having a go to channel to always get the weather report is gone.  Of course, that might have something to do with always getting the latest update on the drought in Singapore- when all I want to do is figure out if I need to grab an umbrella on the way to work.
How about if we make things easy?  Instead of  'honoring' every relative by naming a storm after them- how about we name storms like this: Month, Year.  If there is more than one storm in a month, we toss in the week.  It's just crazy enough to work.  Of course-if they follow my advice- we'll never have winter storm Tiffany or better yet winter storm Shaniqua.  Both of which would make me giggle.
I wish that we could take a step back and get over ourselves.  Think about it, you'll thank me later.

Subway and the Yeti-or why I Won't Be Eating at Subway Anytime Soon

Michelle Obama knows better than I do what my children should eat in their lunch.  Just ask her.  Of course, she doesn't know how to keep a law license, but that's a story for another blog.
Subway makes a decent sandwich. For five dollars, you can be full for a few hours, or at least you could.  Mrs. Soetoro-Obama has decided that she knows better than I do what I should be eating and what I should be feeding my children.  Bless her heart.   Maybe she got that information while she was vacationing for three weeks in Hawaii over Christmas.
Maybe she got that information while she was looking at the garden she put in the White House yard.  The garden she claims cost about $180 to install.  The garden that is tended by government workers who are making $25 an hour if they are making a nickel.  The same government that pays $650 for a hammer is telling me that they bought a rototiller, organic seeds, organic dirt, organic fertilizer, and the staff of two for $180.  That photo op, propaganda piece, ruined piece of White House lawn must have easily cost a lot more. Some quick research: organic seeds for this photo op would have cost about $270 dollars for ten different types of seeds most common to a garden. A rototiller at Target (where she loves to be "caught" shopping-just like folks) is going to set us back $180.00  The labor to install this garden, including the photographer to catch this wholesome slice of Americana is at the very least 42K per year. That is using the website from the "most transparent administration ever" not counting Benghazi, Solyndra, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, or why exactly there was no extra security in Benghazi after the request, or the Members of the Muslim Brotherhood, etc. etc.
When I figured out the very least the labor cost, it was $1350 dollars.  So by my math, we are up to  $1800.   As anyone who has ever really put in a garden knows, just putting the garden in is only the start of the labor.  Figure that labor cost to be closer to 13,500, because if she had ever stepped another foot near her photo op, it would have been all over the news channels.
So unless she pulled out some miracle beans from this garden- every tomato that came out of there cost us about $73.00 each.
If Subway needed the money from the government teat that badly, maybe they should have stuck with those $5 sandwiches.  That was doing pretty well for them.  So was showing all of the people who had lost weight with their food.  But goose stepping with the yeti?  I'm going to miss that asiago bread, but I guess I'll live.  Think about it, you'll thank me later.

Chris Christie, Not the Brightest Crayon in the Box

Chris Christie lost my enthusiasm when he put his corpulent arm around B.O. and made him look like he had a plan after the hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey.  Of course, it turned out that the plan was to get billions of dollars for New Jersey and make certain that his re election was a bonafide blow out, instead of the garden variety whoopin' that his ego craved.
There are theories as to why he gave the photo op equivalent of a hummer to B.O.  One theory is that he sold himself like an over priced (maybe by the pound?) hooker to get all of that federal assistance for New Jersey, thus ensuring the blowout election he wanted.
My thought is that he didn't want Romney to win, setting up Paul Ryan to come in behind him ( the man I wanted to be President) and put his aspirations 16 years down the road.  That is the theory that I like, especially when you consider the bloviator known as Christie.
So now we have the one time darling of the main stream media being torn to shreds by the very folks who used to adore him.  The emails, innuendo, and outright msu (making stuff up) cannot come fast enough for them.  The plan seems to be death from a thousand cuts.  All of this is very reminiscent of Romney last time around.
The msm told me that he was the only one that could win.  He was the most electable.  And as soon as the primaries were finally over, they fell on him like a pack of dogs.  Ann Romney was fodder for having a horse.  His children were vulnerable as well, and every day brought another negative story.
I hope that Christie was paying attention.  The media doesn't like him.  Not if he might in someway endanger the one.
Speaking of the one- how about if one of those "investigative" journalists did their job and looked into the IRS targeting conservative groups?  It was the deciding factor in the last election.  That and 108% turnout in many democratic voting polls.  But if they were to take a good hard look at it, they might trip on a story.
Or if that doesn't interest them, they could take a good look at Benghazi and where exactly Obama was when it was happening.  I'm not a big conspiracy fan, but it sure is curious that no one has given me good solid answers on where B.O. was when four of our people were being killed or sodomized and drug to death through the streets of Benghazi.
I want some answers, but the only way it looks like I will getting them is for the United States Senate to replace Harry Reid with a living, breathing, American who wants to get things done and some questions answered.  His nuclear option will be biting both cheeks in 2015, no doubt.
B.O. was supposed to be the smartest guy in the room.  Ask yourself. what room. and what kind of idiots do they have in there?  You'll thank me later.