I'm Baaaack!

K and I just returned from Las Vegas, visiting Matt and Linda.  This time, for the first time, we took all three kids.  And who said we don't gamble??????  No, they were fine and enjoyed the trip, the pools at the Monte Carlo, the buffet dinner, the magic show, time with Uncle Matt and Aunt Linda (and their dogs!), and the first flight (for the Codester), despite a major snafu by Delta on the way out.

The heat and humididity [sic] combination here is much worse than the much higher dry heat of Las Vegas.  The other day I ran here in temps 20+ degrees cooler than LV, but it was a much, much tougher slog.  Ugh!

I had someone today try to convince me to vote for Clinton.  Huh?  He tried to tell me she really isn't a liar and that I had to vote for her or Trump will be President.  I had to emphatically tell him I'm not voting for either and it's not at all fault if either of the Bozos become President.  In fact, I suggested he was at fault, along with others like him, who have played the parties' games all these years, sitting around and, well, letting them repeatedly throw Bozos at us for Presidential candidates.  I don't think he like that.  BTW, he's a Democrat--with a Cadillac, swimming pool, golf club membership, and more.  Shouldn't he be voluntarily giving that money to gov't for all of the efficient good that it does?

In Vegas, while I was getting dressed one AM after a run, K had on the boob tube.  Some woman was extolling the virtues of Clinton, rambling on and on.  The counter-point couldn't even respond.  She listened to all the junque and was so flabbergasted that anyone could say this, that is, extol virtues that Clinton doesn't have, that she couldn't respond.  It was humorous, both the Bozo who supported Clinton and the counter who couldn't talk.

Mitch Albom ran a good column on Sun about the Dems' desire to enact another Death Tax, that is,  an inheritance tax.  Get a load of this one.  Clinton, in pushing for yet another tax (on money that has already been taxed at least once!), said, "Just think what we could do with the......" whatever amount, $400 billion or??????  How typical of Dems, spend, spend, spend......  Despite the evidence, so clear-cut, of gov't inefficiencies and waste and the detrimental effects many, if not most, gov't programs have (in spite of their good intentions).

Gus sent me a terrifying e-mail today.  If Clinton gets elected, is Jennifer Granholm in line for a Cabinet position?  How frightening, although she does have qualifications, for a Democrat that is.  Granholm was a rotten governor,  Even a member of her own party said of her, "She loves to play governor, but she doesn't want to be governor."  I still remember her solution to problems--catchy slogans.  Lousy school systems?  No problem.  "Everybody goes to college" will solve that.  Cities awash in disrepair, bankruptcy, and crime?  That's an easy fix.  "Cool cities!" fixes that.  When did incompetence become a qualification for jobs?

I don't remember if it was the Detroit News or Free Press, but one day it ran an op-ed trying to explain why "millennial women" are opposed to Clinton.  I'm not sure they are, but.....  Why wouldn't they be?  But what shook me most was her trying to equate Clinton the candidate with Obama and his Presidency.  She wrote of how excited she was during Obama's two campaigns.  I guess, out of ignorance and maybe "hope and change" (Did I just write that??????), I can see the first time, 2008.  But after four years, in 2012, I can't at all see it.  Granted, the alternative was Romney, a lousy choice, but better than Obama--or Trump--but still not worth voting for.  Did this woman have her eyes closed?  Did she just blindly follow the LameStream media for whom she now works?

I see Aetna is pulling out of ObamaCare.  What took so long?  I think the article said they have already lost almost half a billion dollars thanks to ObamaCare.  So, again I ask, what took so long?  Some other insurance companies have already pulled out.  I don't really see how these companies are losing money.  After all, since ObamaCare was enacted/put into action, we've paid about $5000 more in premiums, to also have higher deductibles and co-pays?  I imagine I'm not the only one paying a lot more for a lot less.

BTW, "Just think of what we can do......" with extra tax money?  I read that the IRS is hounding Michael Phelps and other US Olympic medalists to get their hands on taxes on the medal winners monetary prizes.  The IRS can't even wait until they get home? Can't you just picture the politicians and bureaucrats rubbing their hands together in delight and ecstasy at the thought of all that revenue?