Based on my experience with them, I fully believe Opinion Outpost is a scam.  In my experience, I have qualified for a survey only to spend anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes answering questions only to be told either quotas are met or I’m am not, in fact, qualified.  This after they’ve received quite a bit of information from me.  Contacting them does no good either as I’ve explained this frustration to them and they basically claim there is nothing they can do.  As soon as I suggested that it makes them look like a scam site they clam up.  I’m very curious if anyone else has had a bad experience with Opinion Outpost.  If so, leave a comment.  I’d like to hear it.

In between loads of laundry I wrote out the words to a parody of an old country song that was anti-Obama.  I won’t post them here yet, I haven’t decided quite how to use them.  I thought about putting them to the music but I’m not sure I have the software for it so we’ll see.  Cledus T Judd came to mind, I could just see him singing it.  As did Alfonzo Rachel.  I’ll post them soon.

Not only did Obama not bother to leave the golf course while on his multi-million dollar Christmas vacation (paid for by taxpayers like me who worked Christmas Day) when the US was attacked by an Islamic terrorist, his top official in charge of analyzing terror threats refused to leave the ski slopes either.

Feel safe yet?

How about we connect the dots for Obama on this case where a man was taken off of a plane for making terrorist threats. They’ve decided it was a “police matter”.  So what was it, disturbing the peace?  The dots are all there, they simply refuse to connect them.

Rasmussen Reports that only 34% favor the single payer health care system.  Yet the Democrats are trying to ram it down our throats without even reading the bill, a fact many of them have admitted.  Already we have had a “National Task Force” (read: Obamarule) decide that women do not need mammograms until their 50’s, shaving off 10 years of previous recomendations.

Dr. John McBee, a Pendleton surgeon, is one physician who is baffled by the new guidelines, describing them as “insane.” The task force recommendations, he said, don’t gibe with his personal observations.
“I have many patients diagnosed in their 30s,” he said, “who would not be alive today in their 40s without mammograms.”

And now the Mayo Clinic is dropping some Medicare patients:

Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.

More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, said Michael Yardley, a Mayo spokesman. The decision, which Yardley called a two-year pilot project, won’t affect other Mayo facilities in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.

Obama in June cited the nonprofit Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio for offering “the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm.” Mayo’s move to drop Medicare patients may be copied by family doctors, some of whom have stopped accepting new patients from the program, said Lori Heim, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, in a telephone interview yesterday.

“Many physicians have said, ‘I simply cannot afford to keep taking care of Medicare patients,’” said Heim, a family doctor who practices in Laurinburg, North Carolina. “If you truly know your business costs and you are losing money, it doesn’t make sense to do more of it.”

Read the rest…

Welcome to the future of Obamacare, Democratic rule and the age of ultimate ignorance.

Even if you don’t like the style, personally, I love the grunge look and found uses for it in last years school yearbook, there is a lot of information.

Remember yesterday’s post?  That was about Christmas Day.  Yesterday, the day after Christmas, people were at an all time low.  It’s probably a good thing that my husband and son dealt with the store yesterday.  I can feel myself on the brink of going ballistic on the (sadly, everyday) idiotic customer.

First a bit of explaination.  We have no bathroom this weekend.  Now we only allow customers to use it when it’s working.  Being on a septic system there is no way in hell we will open it up to the public to use it as a rest stop.  Most people don’t even understand how a septic system works and one even complained that we should “empty it more often”.  Um, not the issue bud.  The issue is the leach lines.  When a line of 20 people use the toilet, the constant flushing will cause our leach lines to back up to the point where after that much constant use the toilet stops flushing.  When a very large portion of those people in line are not customers they are responsible for rendering it useless for my customers for anywhere from the 30 minutes to an hour that it takes it to right itself.  Add to that a small parking lot.  When you only have a few parking spaces and they are being taken up by non customers it’s a simple fact that you will lose actual customers.  Hence the customers only rule.  I consider it “mutual respect”.  If someone wants me to respect their issues they are required to respect mine.

Anyway, for reasons I’ll get into later, our bathroom is in the middle of being remodeled.  Right now there is no toilet and no sink and a big hole in the back wall of the bathroom.  We rented a portable but the sheer amount of people wanting to visit the snow have filled it, rendering it useless until the company comes out to service it which happens to be Monday.  So…. out of luck.   Since we are not a restaurant or a gas station we are under no state rule to even provide a restroom.   Do these people even attempt to comprehend?  That would require actual thought and reasoning so the obvious answer is generally “no”.

My son called with his first *itch of the day.  When he explained the situation to her she lashed out at a 14 year old kid, cussing and *itching that she was having trouble finding a bathroom.  There is a restaurant right across the street but when that fact is pointed out do they say thank you and head over there?  No, they just *itch.

Next up was a woman who, after hearing the explaination, appeared to understand and just left.  Next thing my husband knows her idiot husband storms in yelling and cussing that we didn’t let a 4 year old use the restroom.  In an attempt to show the idiot what my husband had just explained to his wife, my husband invited the idiot back to look at the bathroom in question.  Idiot would have no part of being proven wrong.

Personally, I’m done with people.  I have an apartment above my business but it is my personal space.  And since there is a restaurant across the street I have no intention of ever allowing anyone to ever go up to my personal apartment.  A fact I have had to explain to people more than once.  I especially do not owe non-customers a place to pee.

It was never our intent to go through the holiday with a non working restroom for our customers but $hit happens.  (appropriately)

Ours wasn’t perfect but it didn’t suck either.  I guess these days that should count for “good”.  We had Christmas Eve off and for the first time was able to go to the family Christmas Eve at someone elses house.  Usually it’s at our house due to the store being open until about 4 or 5 that day.

Christmas day started off great.  Mom and Dad and Grandma came up as did my Mother-in-law.  The husband didn’t go to work until 11.  Later in the day however plans changed and Mom realized that she wasn’t feeling well enough to stay.  At that point the store was pretty busy so I draggged the kids to work and we worked the rest of the day until we closed an hour early to go out to dinner.

Now, there have been countless times that I have worked Christmas Day.  Even after having the kids.  It’s a fact of life and the luxury of always having a holiday off just hasn’t been in the cards for me.  (Hell, my kids worked this year)  I’ve even worked for the selfish you-know-what of a co-worker who refused to ever work Christmas Day regardless of who she inconvenienced.   It never ceases to amaze me how many people absolutely do not appreciate the fact that you are giving up your Christmas Day to be open for them.  I probably had about 3 people express gratitude.  Most did not.  And a few were downright bitchy.   Shoplifting was, of course, another thing I had to deal with.  One I kicked out but the other two thought they were being sly by just slipping one thing in their pocket while buying a few other things.  They never caught on to the fact that I added the item in their pocket to their total and they paid for it anyway.  Sometimes that’s a much better route to take than a confrontation.

We closed early to go out to dinner at a place that we know is always open, 365 days a year including holidays, and I made sure to thank each and every person who served us for working Christmas (not to mention tipping well).

So while another year with my family was great, my faith in humans in general just slips lower and lower as times goes by.

In my opinion, the best 3D animation to date. Hands down. I saw the IMAX version and I can’t imagine it on a smaller screen, especially for your first experience. Although I do recommend dramamine if you’re prone to motion sickness.

Either way it’s pretty damn scary that so many people didn’t see what I, and many others, were able to see before his election.

Gateway Pundit put up a report on Obamas’ Safe School Czar, Kevin Jennings.  It’s extremely shocking, extremely disturbing and shows what a very, very twisted individual Kevin Jennings is.  Read it here.  But I WARN YOU, it contains disturbing sexual content regarding children.

Today Gateway Pundit reported a cyber attack due to the report.   Sunlight is the best disinfectant and obviously he got the attention of the Obama camp.  This type of attempt at censoring the truth is nothing new for this new administration.  Founding Bloggers suggests that other conservative blogs re-post the original on their blogs so the information cannot just be swept under the rug ‘Obama style’.  I agree with that but I’m not going to post it here because while I get political on this blog it’s not all about politics here.  (and it’s way too disturbing)  This is not going away for Jennings but I predict more cyber attacks on blogs posting this info.  By the way did you know that Obama is having a ‘Panama Canal’ moment with the internet?  The US will give up control.  If you’ve spent any significant amount of time online you know that regulations are far more lax outside the US leading to more theft of info via malware on sites hosted outside of the US.  Get ready for more of that.

And I predict that Jennings will join all the others that Obama has thrown under the bus when they begin to make Obama look bad.