Thoughts for today ...
I'm sitting at work today thinking that I should update my LJ so here I am in the lab at school posting what I thought of.
Yes, it's been awhile, since I went to Tulsa, actually. I really have been pretty swamped since being home between work, school, and assignments. Now, starting Friday night we throw baseball into the mix. I won't be going to tomorrow night's opener because I have class. Yesterday's weather gave me hope for this weekend. It was 60, it was warm, and it was breezy! Today those hopes were dashed and it's f'ing freezing and flurrying. Bleh.
There are actually a few things on my mind ...
First off, Happy Birthday, H. I hope you had a good day!
Clinton and Obama were both in Wilkes-Barre yesterday. I would have loved to have gone to see Hilary but there was no way I was going near that place. I had an exam that I even considered postponing (eventually had to cancel anyway). She was at my college gym.
I think I will be really disappointed if she doesn't make it. My biggest fear with Obama is that we'll go from one "Good 'ole boys club" to another.
And what a joke that congressional hearing with the gas company CEOs was. I love the guy from Shell, "We have to make a lot of tough decisions on where the money is going." Yeah like deciding that his retirement fund is the best place.
Here's one I'm conflicted about. Wal-Mart recently dropped a lawsuit against one of their former employees. While she was employed she was involved in a car accident and she's permanently disabled and has partial memory loss that affects her short term memory to the point that she does not remember that her oldest son was killed in Iraq. Anyway, she and her husband sued the trucking company of the trucker who caused the accident. They won a million in that lawsuit but after the lawyer took his cut they were left with $417,000.
Wal-Mart has this clause in their insurance policies, like most companies I'm told, that should an insured receive monies from a lawsuit like this Wal-Mart is allowed to recoup what they paid out. So after the couple won their lawsuit Wal-Mart wanted their $477,000 back, which they paid out to hospitals and in other health care costs. The family appealed but the appeals court said Wal-Mart was within their rights but reduced it to some $250,000 (don't remember the exact amount) which would wipe out the trust set up for her nursing home costs.
So who's the bad guy here, though ... Wal-Mart or the blood sucking lawyer? Due to pressure from the press and public Wal-Mart eventually dropped their lawsuit. They said they decided to do what "was morally right." Uhhuh, right. But what about the lawyer and his more than 50% profit?
Lately there's been a string of stories about abuse towards dogs and puppies and I don't know why but they are really starting to get to me. One nearly had me in tears - at my desk, no less - where this GI threw a puppy off a cliff! And I hate, hate, hate those Pedigree commercials where they show a dog, named Bailey even, and said that his owner had to move and because of that they had to give him up, so they show him in a cage at the shelter. I turn the channel when I see those come on. *hugs my Bailey*
Yes, it's been awhile, since I went to Tulsa, actually. I really have been pretty swamped since being home between work, school, and assignments. Now, starting Friday night we throw baseball into the mix. I won't be going to tomorrow night's opener because I have class. Yesterday's weather gave me hope for this weekend. It was 60, it was warm, and it was breezy! Today those hopes were dashed and it's f'ing freezing and flurrying. Bleh.
There are actually a few things on my mind ...
First off, Happy Birthday, H. I hope you had a good day!
Clinton and Obama were both in Wilkes-Barre yesterday. I would have loved to have gone to see Hilary but there was no way I was going near that place. I had an exam that I even considered postponing (eventually had to cancel anyway). She was at my college gym.
I think I will be really disappointed if she doesn't make it. My biggest fear with Obama is that we'll go from one "Good 'ole boys club" to another.
And what a joke that congressional hearing with the gas company CEOs was. I love the guy from Shell, "We have to make a lot of tough decisions on where the money is going." Yeah like deciding that his retirement fund is the best place.
Here's one I'm conflicted about. Wal-Mart recently dropped a lawsuit against one of their former employees. While she was employed she was involved in a car accident and she's permanently disabled and has partial memory loss that affects her short term memory to the point that she does not remember that her oldest son was killed in Iraq. Anyway, she and her husband sued the trucking company of the trucker who caused the accident. They won a million in that lawsuit but after the lawyer took his cut they were left with $417,000.
Wal-Mart has this clause in their insurance policies, like most companies I'm told, that should an insured receive monies from a lawsuit like this Wal-Mart is allowed to recoup what they paid out. So after the couple won their lawsuit Wal-Mart wanted their $477,000 back, which they paid out to hospitals and in other health care costs. The family appealed but the appeals court said Wal-Mart was within their rights but reduced it to some $250,000 (don't remember the exact amount) which would wipe out the trust set up for her nursing home costs.
So who's the bad guy here, though ... Wal-Mart or the blood sucking lawyer? Due to pressure from the press and public Wal-Mart eventually dropped their lawsuit. They said they decided to do what "was morally right." Uhhuh, right. But what about the lawyer and his more than 50% profit?
Lately there's been a string of stories about abuse towards dogs and puppies and I don't know why but they are really starting to get to me. One nearly had me in tears - at my desk, no less - where this GI threw a puppy off a cliff! And I hate, hate, hate those Pedigree commercials where they show a dog, named Bailey even, and said that his owner had to move and because of that they had to give him up, so they show him in a cage at the shelter. I turn the channel when I see those come on. *hugs my Bailey*