I havent had much to do this week so have spent some time yesterday watching the broadcast of a senate hearing on the Obamacare website.  I havent seen as much backpedaling since the time I went crawfishing down on the river.  Hell, one of the computer executives was pointing the finger so fast I looked twice to make sure that she wasnt an octopus.  “It wasnt our company;s fault, we knew it wasnt gonna work but we didn’t tell anyone because it wasnt our place to tell anyone that the thing we were being paid to do wasnt gonna work”.  However, it was her company’s position that they had probably earned their slice of the $ 295 billion that had been paid to various programming contractors to provide a program that would allow multiple millions of taxpayers the opportunity to sign up for insurance that they were being forced to buy, whether they could afford to buy it or not.  Prez has said that his program is going to save the country vast amounts of money. I hope so, but as of today. they are $ 295 large in the hole.  And counting.  Oh, they have asked insurance industry executives to come in and help get this program straightened out and running.  This sounds like a three-way to me and guess who is gonna be on the bottom?

I ought not to be so negative about things but sometimes it is hard to see the recipe for lemonade made with the lemons that we are provided with.  I want things to work right here in “Happy Valley” but it seems that we always manage to shoot ourselves in the foot.  The Germans are now mad at us for spying on them and listening to their phone conversations.  They are probably not the only ones we have been listening too.  I can see the reason behind listening to the phone conversations of some of the Afghanis or
Al Ouida or Rev Al Sharpton,  but we can’t possible get much from eavesdropping on the President of Bora Bora of Fiji.  Maybe the NSA ought to limit their listening to daylight hours and hang up if the conversation turns personal.

Its been an exciting week and I am glad it is almost over.  I am going to spend some quality time this weekend just contemplating things on a higher plane. I may even go fishing as the lake is catching some water.  It is easier to think pure and lofty thoughts while you have a fishing rod in your hand.

Chuy the exhausted