Patrick Says

Dear Mr. President,

Can we talk for a minute? Look, I’ve been a big supporter of you since 2008. I mean, you made me think we could be great again. Believe me, I’m down with the program. But there’s some changes coming that are really pissing me off with this new health care bill.

I should say in the interest of full disclosure, that I am one of the crazy folks who think health care should be universal for ALL citizens. It should be a right, not a privilege reserved for those who have the luck to land a job with benefits. Also, I completely effing hate the individual mandate to make all citizens pay for insurance. If you can’t afford insurance, how the heck are you going to afford the fines you will now be faced with? I was pretty sure that whole ‘mandate’ thing was included to appease Republicans and look at what happened: they crucified you for it. See where that went?

So, while I can’t get the universal health care single-payer system I want, I thought this bill would help. So, I supported it. But now I’m having doubts. See, we have these flexible spending accounts (also known as FSA) where you can put in pre-tax dollars and pay for medical stuff like office visits, ER visits, prescriptions and over-the-counter medications. It really helps our family as we struggle with never-ending prescriptions and my boys’ severe allergy problems.

But your health care bill removes the ability to buy over-the-counter medicines with FSA funds. WTF, Barack? This is how we help Americans struggling with medical bills and the constant high-cost of the OTC medicines? So, you make a few bucks to help pay for the program. But I don’t like where those bucks are coming from. You’ve made FSA a lot less useful as a tool for my family. Thanks. I hope you never make so little money that you have to decide between food and Zyrtec.

This is why I love Lamebook.
It’s really funny if you sing to the tune of ‘Tik Tok’ by Kesha.
Which it is parodying.

See, here’s the thing about Lady Gaga:

If she was cool with the fact that she makes forgettable pop songs, I think I’d think she was pretty alright. I mean, really, she has some great pop songs. But it seems from every interview I’ve ever seen, that she thinks she is so important and this complicated musical genius that I want to throw up in my hat. The level of pretentiousness is amazing.

On a completely unrelated note, have I mentioned how much I love my Samsung Intercept? Seriously, it combines the storage and music playback of mp3 players with the picture-taking clarity of digital cameras with the social networking and phone and email. Man, I love this device.

I’m not going to lie, I hate Black Friday. I don’t do well with large crowds of people and I hate waiting in lines. So I don’t show on that day. Actually, I’m more of a Cyber Monday kind of guy. The cyber means online which means no lines and no crowds. That’s a win in my book.

The thing that usually bugs me about Cyber Monday, and Black Friday for that matter, is that they fall deeply between paydays. And I’m terrible at putting money aside, so I never have funds available to shop on either day. One of these days, I have to figure how those ‘Christmas’ bank accounts work.