back in the saddle
Ok. Hi again. It's been a busy couple of weeks, getting back into the restaurant biz again after 6 or 8 years. It's a business I know since I've been in it since I was 15 years old. I started out as a dishwasher and have been a prep cook, line cook, sous chef, chef, pastry cook/chef, baker and bartender. Now bartending again. After 2 lay-offs in 14 months from the corporate world, it's good to get back to something I know this well even if it doesn't pay as much. You can make pretty good money for the work.
Anyway, got my annual Social Security Statement recently and, sure enough, they are politicing in it. At one point it notes that "The law governing benefit amounts may change*" and below says, "*Your estimated benefits are based on current law. Congress has made changes to the law in the past and can do so at any time. The law governing benefit amounts may change because, by 2042, the payroll taxes collected will be enough to pay only about 73 percent of scheduled benefits. (Emphasis mine) Well that sounds like they know exactly what is going to happen in the next 37 years doesn't it? Nevermind that their own actuaries have come up with different numbers! Nevermind that Congress could, instead of changing benefit amounts, change the tax structure. Changing the tax structure to allow FICA taxes after the $90,000 earnings mark changes things significantly. This coupled with the disinformation spewed by the administration during their barnstorming is just more scare tactics. Without going through it all again, just go here, http://kromeisburning.blogspot.com/2005/03/your-social-security-response-kit.html to see what I wrote about it in early March. It still holds.
Tom DeLay, aka Bugboy, is going down fast and hard. It is all over the national news so I won't go into it except to say that the NYTimes ran an article on his problemos that was pretty good but missed one very important point. When, in this article, they say:
"A spokesman for Mr. DeLay, Dan Allen, was quoted by The Associated Press on Sunday as saying that the majority leader "looks forward to the opportunity of sitting down with the ethics committee" in the House "to get the facts out and to dispel the fiction and innuendo that's being launched at him by House Democrats and their liberal allies.""
They fail to go on and mention what I mentioned here. That DeLay has stacked the Ethics Commision for himself.And we see here that Rep. Louise Slaughter is getting the brush off from Rep. Dreier about setting a date for the ethics investigation. Politics as usual? Perhaps, but it is quite obvious that many Rethuglicans can't quite decide whether or not they want to hang with DeLay or help him hang alone. Al Franken suggested that we help them along by calling your Rethuglican Reps to encourage them to dump DeLay and then calling back to encourage them to stand behind him. I think it's a good strategy. I went one farther and actually called 2 of DeLay's offices to encourage him to keep up the good fight knowing that my Rep, Pelosi, is fighting to get him out of there. Nothing like a catfight to make things interesting. I actually hope he fights tooth and nail so as many Rethugs as possible get stained with his s**t. He's going down and I want him to take as many of his buddies with him as he can.
On Okrent's latest: Not a lot to say. He addresses the 'scoop' mentality of reporters and editors which needs to be mentioned.
On Negative Space: it's what we call empty space in art and I work with it at times. Check out my Arts Site to see what I'm talking about. I will try to get around to discussing it later. For the time being, suffice to say that I find it harder to work with than filling space up and also more vibrant and challenging in this world where we try to fill up all empty space all the time. In a world of cramped cities and small apartments, the illusion of space is very important. To me anyway.
Anyway, got my annual Social Security Statement recently and, sure enough, they are politicing in it. At one point it notes that "The law governing benefit amounts may change*" and below says, "*Your estimated benefits are based on current law. Congress has made changes to the law in the past and can do so at any time. The law governing benefit amounts may change because, by 2042, the payroll taxes collected will be enough to pay only about 73 percent of scheduled benefits. (Emphasis mine) Well that sounds like they know exactly what is going to happen in the next 37 years doesn't it? Nevermind that their own actuaries have come up with different numbers! Nevermind that Congress could, instead of changing benefit amounts, change the tax structure. Changing the tax structure to allow FICA taxes after the $90,000 earnings mark changes things significantly. This coupled with the disinformation spewed by the administration during their barnstorming is just more scare tactics. Without going through it all again, just go here, http://kromeisburning.blogspot.com/2005/03/your-social-security-response-kit.html to see what I wrote about it in early March. It still holds.
Tom DeLay, aka Bugboy, is going down fast and hard. It is all over the national news so I won't go into it except to say that the NYTimes ran an article on his problemos that was pretty good but missed one very important point. When, in this article, they say:
"A spokesman for Mr. DeLay, Dan Allen, was quoted by The Associated Press on Sunday as saying that the majority leader "looks forward to the opportunity of sitting down with the ethics committee" in the House "to get the facts out and to dispel the fiction and innuendo that's being launched at him by House Democrats and their liberal allies.""
They fail to go on and mention what I mentioned here. That DeLay has stacked the Ethics Commision for himself.And we see here that Rep. Louise Slaughter is getting the brush off from Rep. Dreier about setting a date for the ethics investigation. Politics as usual? Perhaps, but it is quite obvious that many Rethuglicans can't quite decide whether or not they want to hang with DeLay or help him hang alone. Al Franken suggested that we help them along by calling your Rethuglican Reps to encourage them to dump DeLay and then calling back to encourage them to stand behind him. I think it's a good strategy. I went one farther and actually called 2 of DeLay's offices to encourage him to keep up the good fight knowing that my Rep, Pelosi, is fighting to get him out of there. Nothing like a catfight to make things interesting. I actually hope he fights tooth and nail so as many Rethugs as possible get stained with his s**t. He's going down and I want him to take as many of his buddies with him as he can.
On Okrent's latest: Not a lot to say. He addresses the 'scoop' mentality of reporters and editors which needs to be mentioned.
On Negative Space: it's what we call empty space in art and I work with it at times. Check out my Arts Site to see what I'm talking about. I will try to get around to discussing it later. For the time being, suffice to say that I find it harder to work with than filling space up and also more vibrant and challenging in this world where we try to fill up all empty space all the time. In a world of cramped cities and small apartments, the illusion of space is very important. To me anyway.
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