America's got problems

I turned my attention away from the problems of the USA for a few days.  Guess what:  the problems are still there.  I can see big problems coming for the USA. I have been saying all along that the US doesn’t need Jihadists to destroy the nation as long as Obama is trying to act like a leader. He is doing a good job destroying it on his own.  I’ve been saying all along he is taking the nation down bit by bit. 

Tonight while reading the news I happened to go on this site  and read the whole page and there are (or were a the time) 53 comments and most of them I agree with what they are complaining about.  Except for the name calling, the comments are pretty correct. I say if you can’t criticize without resorting to name calling then you don’t say anything. To quote a friend of mine “name calling doesn’t make for an argument”. 

I suggest you avoid this cycle.

I would say not too long from now people will rebel against the White House. Every day I read about more and more people who are dissatisfied with everything that is going on with a leader that lies and ignores the Constitution to get what he wants.  No one can believe anything He says. I am not an American and I am retired and I spend my time reading the news from all over. so I am not without a frame of reference on this. I think Mr. Obama will eventually destroy the nation either on purpose or because of a lack of knowledge and big ego that interferes with making proper decisions. 

At the risk of being dull I will repeat what I said many times before: He is destroying the nation and the Democrats along with it. 

If I was an American citizen I would try and get him impeached. In fact, especially if I was a Democrat.  They have not only a nation to lose but future credibility for a generation to come.  There are enough reasons for it. Before all hell breaks loose (like a big revolution that brings on mass destruction killings and wounding and suffering) someone should try to impeach him.  I’m not an American but I can still offer my opinions.  Being neighbor to what used to be a great nation and see it taken apart bit by bit is demoralizing. A person has to wonder what is going on.

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Updated song of the week with dancing.  Some incredible dancing here.

Kicking the smoking habit

After smoking for 65 years I tried to quit. I don’t know how many times I have tried, but I have to mention that I don’t have the willpower needed to really quit.  Last Friday, a friend of my son brought  over two kits to stop smoking.  He said it was a Christmas present. I took it just to be polite and thanked him.  He then showed me how to load it up with this mix of nicotine and some kind of oil.

This kit comes with two of what looks like a piece of straight pipe. I’m not kidding -- these things are 5¼ inches long and about ½  an inch in circumference.  They are neat looking; mine are purple with a silver band in the middle.  They have a battery charger and a bottle of the stuff that you put in a little at a time and if you’re a heavy smoker like I am, when you fill this thing up, its good for at least three days. And doesn’t take too much to fill it up.  Since I tried it that same night, I have tried one regular cigarette since then and I will say that cigarette was thrown away after a couple of drags.  The thing seems to be working.

Since this is the first kit it’s the strong one in taste but once your system gets used to this one, then another kit comes that looks the same but with weaker nicotine.  And if you get the last kit well you’re just creating vapor with all of them.

What I like about those is that not only are you quitting smoking but whenever you feel like smoking just take a drag on it as if it was a regular cigarette. Also you can have fun with it.  No smoke comes from it as it’s only vapor and there is no tobacco smell. Since you only create vapor, you can go into a store and you take a drag on it and keep your mouth shut for a couple of seconds and the vapor has disappeared there is no smell and no one knows you just have just smoked because this thing looks like a toy. I tried this in the Giant Tiger store and even though people were looking at me, they didn’t know I was smoking. They must have thought that I was some kind of a senile old man playing with a toy. Just one week and I know I will have this bad habit beaten by the time I finish the last step.  That's great.

In fact I feel better already when I get up in the morning. I don’t cough. I mostly don’t wake up choking in the middle of the night, but when I do cough, it’s the garbage coming out of my lungs. I've heard that is normal from other people who have quit.  Those things are called Evod.  They're really good stuff. And I'm not being paid to say that, they really are.  If you really want to stop smoking but you don’t have the will to do it, I would suggest you try the Evod kit OttawaEsmoke.com

I wonder what they'll think about this stuff if everybody ends up quitting someday.

Drugstore ripoffs

When you have a prescription keep your receipt. That's my advice.  I’ve been taking pills since the May 2011.  My first bill was on the 27^th of the month, but since I wasn’t getting the full amount of pills that I was supposed to get of course I had to go in earlier to get the refill. Each time I was charged more. This went on and on until finally one time I went to pay for my prescription and it cost me more, I asked the girl at the counter why it was costing me more. She answered that it all depended on the day that I was coming in for a renewal.

I then went to see the pharmacist and complained to him and his answer was that the bills come from Québec.  I said "Okay, the bill may come from Québec but who counts the pills that are supposed to be given out?"

My reasoning is that if you don’t get all of your pills to last you for the amount of time prescribed, whose fault is that?  The pharmacy didn't have enough, they should dispense the rest for free.  How can you stay on a regular date as they claim you should, if they don't have enough pills? This ripoff comes from them being short on the pills they give you and the bill to the health department is for the full price. Another month and I’ll have enough evidence to report them.  I have witnesses that have seen and counted my pills when I come back from the drugstore.

Bunch of ripoff artists.

That’s my beef for today.

Plastic, Plastic & Plastic

In this world today, it’s all plastic. I'm not even talking about water bottles and that type of plastic.  I'm talking about plastic items you need for day to day business. Things like social security cards, hospital cards, bank cards and credit cards are a necessity these days.  All plastic.  In Canada we even have plastic in our money. All these cards are made with inferior garbage material. As far as plastic goes, it's not even sturdy plastic.

The reason I’m saying this is because if a person would want to keep them in good shape, they would have to frame them and hang them on a wall, only carry them when you are going to use them and then put them away as fast as possible.

These cards can be carried in what it called a pocket secretary, which is usually carried in an inside jacket pocket where there would be no pressure put on it whatsoever. If you don’t have a pocket secretary, you have to carry them in your wallet and usually a wallet is carried in a back pocket of your pants and when you sit down that is where the damage happens to these little things made out of inferior material.

What they should use is this material that is some kind of plastic that is used to make car bumpers. I forget the name of it. The worst card I myself have at this time it’s the social security card for seniors. They are nice cards no picture of the senior but a picture of the government building and it’s a black card.  Simple. No privacy issues as far as a the picture is concerned.  

But this card is just has bad as all the others - if not worse.  It's still made of garbage material and your name and social security number disappear from the face of the card quickly as they get worn off. As it is now I have a security card which is black with a picture of the parliament building but no name on it. 

Plastic is my beef for today.

This is unbelievable (because it's not true)

I entitled this unbelievable, because I simply don’t believe it. That's with good reason - it isn't true.  I’m not the one that dug this up. What archeologist have found (according to satire site The Onion)  put what is written in certain parts of the Bible in doubt.I'm not going to write what was written about Jesus because it's pretty offensive.

The Iranians did it again.

The Iranians did it again. Yes indeed, the Iranians once again have triumphed by winning more time for their nuclear weapons project.  Not only did they gain more time, but they also managed to get a little bit of economic relief in the form of $8 billion from the sanctions that were previously imposed on them. I have to give them credit - they are smart.  They now have a pretty good track record of outsmarting those who thought that they could outsmart Iran with diplomacy (i.e. Obama and his team).  When it comes to making deals,  Iran seem to be the best or at least currently they are the best. In this situation they could never have been beaten because they always had something up their sleeve (as the saying goes) and they knew how to use it.