The Lamest Duck of All

Well since the health care bill (it should be called the health insurance bill) passed we now have a whole lot of lame duck congresspeople (you have to be PC or you will be called racist, genderist, ageist, etc.) who now can pass anything they want with no worries about what will come in November. Here comes cap and trade. :(

I need to move to New York to avoid future colds

In my previous post I postulated that I was infected with a common cold by sharing saltines with AJ. Well a New York legislator has come up with a plan that would forever keep me from making the same mistake. BAN SALT. Yep thats right ban salt, and anything including sodium, from being incorporated into foods that are made. This bill only covers restaurants now, but could conceivably be expanded to other foods. Is this the first in a tidal wave of new regulations designed to limit the use of future government health care???? Probably not, but it makes a good conspiracy basis for future blog posts.

As per my thoughts on the health care bill now being fought over in the bowels of congress, while we need health care reform, all this bill does is provide insurance and does not guarantee reasonable nor affordable HEALTH CARE. It does not attack the cost structure of health care or ease of that same care. The USA is in the enviable position of being able to learn from all the mistakes that other countries have made in implementing solid health care reform. Do we use that info to implement smart reform or do we bicker and power grab until the bill is 5,000 pages long and filled with bribes and deals. You be the judge. Happy salt eating while you still can.... Ummmmmm popcorn with real butter and salt Ummmmmmmm.

It's been a really, really, really, really, really, really, long time

So its been awhile since I last posted anything of interest (has anything been of interest ;) ). Right now I'm interested in convertible bonds and the mechanisms and pricing of said bonds. Settle down, I know you are excited for an upcoming treatise on the nuances of the convert bonds, but you'll have to wait (I'm mean that way). This interest was flamed by my "reading" of a book on the collapse of Lehman Bros. I put reading in quotations because my local library has seen fit to offer the book only in listening form, and yes that bugs me. The great thing about an actual book is the fact that you can re-read passages that maybe you don't quite understand the first time through and then glean new info from the re-read. This is totally lost on listening to a book. My MP3 player unfortunately does not allow me to rewind passages without rewinding to the start of the chapter. With the chapters being approx 90 minutes long, this leads to much soul searching when it comes to not "getting" the "text" the first time through. Do I waste 30 minutes of listening time to gather that 15 seconds of info, or do I just keep going. Oh, the dilemmas I face.

Just got back from a warm weekend away with the family. Had a great time and found a new favorite hiking area. I did come home with a cold that A. apparently gave me (I will no longer share saltines while watching Mythbusters on Netflix). Have I told you how much the family loves Netflix and Hulu streaming. All the shows we like that are on cable (which we WON'T have) at 1/8th the cost. Now if only they could stream it to my phone. Till next year.

It's been a really, really, really, really, really, really, long time