of broth and jello...

I'm having some major surgery tomorrow and I'm allowed to eat/drink fruit juices, jello, popsicles and broth. I'm HUNGRY!!!!!!, man cannot live on jello and broth!!! Don't even start with there's always room for jello crap! I'm well hydrated though as I'm peeing every hour on the hour.

I'm glad I work because daytime TV is not good. I had thought I had caught a break with the Daytona 500 being delayed until today but then it gets pushed back till 5 PM.  After I get out of the hospital I've got a week or two of recovery at home and I'm thinking I'm going to need to pay for some DirecTv movies or I might go insane as the Consigliere has stated he won't go to Redbox everyday for me.

See you on the other side........

Richard Head

I nearly pooped myself when I read this in the comments as relating to the above picture of Mitch McConnell.

"Well... There is one positive. to be found.
Be happy that he's wearing a tie to keep his foreskin down."
~Red~

Text Message Abuse from the Godfather

"Nice artistic display, but it's a little fruity. Might need to surrender your Man Card....."
We also regret to inform you that this fruit display has replaced our Squash science project :-(

Reproductive Issues and the Catholic Church

A lot of talk/action recently about how the Catholic Church is opposed to paying for abortions and contraceptives due to the Health care Reform Bill aka "Obamacare" mandating such coverages in insurance plans. The Catholic Church doesn't want to pay for these services which is understandable as it is against their religion(cue Eddie Murphy in Trading Places on the train to Philadelphia). The powers that be tried to make it more palatable to the Catholic Church by tasking the insurance companies with paying for the services. And it is true that the Catholic Church does pay the premiums to the Insurance companies or to themselves if it is self-funded plan.

The real issue then is that the Catholic Church doesn't seems to understand how insurance works. Insurance companies, if the Catholic Church is in a self-funded plan it still works the same way, charge a monthly premium for each employee/spouse/child for services that the employee/spouse/child will probably use based on past health related care expenditures. If its a new plan there are actuarial tables that set the premiums. Each year the insurance company goes over the last years expenditures and makes sure that it covered them and made their profit. If the premiums charged did not cover expenses and profit the premiums for the following year go up.

If the employees of the Catholic Church don't use certain services then the premiums reflect that. In the perfect Catholic world none of their employees would ever have an abortion and none would use contraceptives. Of course it's not a perfect Catholic world and some of their employees will be bad Catholics and not follow church doctrine and some aren't Catholic to begin with and don't give a damn about Catholic doctrine as it's a job to them nothing more. So thusly this is the Catholic church's problem, they have to be the ones to educate their employees just as other non-religious companies have had to educate their employees to not smoke, eat better or exercise more so that premiums do not keep going up.

Some employers use incentive plans to get the employees to comply and some use punishment to make employees tow the line. The Catholic Church needs to step up and use either incentives or punishment to get their employees to keep those costs out of their premiums. It's that simple Catholic Church, time to get the hounds of war human resources department working on bringing the unwashed masses flock in line.

Breading

This is just wrong, but it's funny as hell. Go see More
Might need to try this with Oreo.
Thanks to Elisson

Welcome Home Bro..

In honor of the Godfather's younger brother and his wife's recently completed cruise of the Western Caribbean I give you "I'm on a Boat"! enjoy

Welcome Home Sis....

The Godfather's sister and her friend just returned from my favorite vacation destination LAS VEGAS!! Welcome home and I hope you were a winner Chickenhead! I actually got to see and hear this exact song and fountain display combination when I was last in Vegas.

STFU and man the grease gun.....

I don't know if you have read the article by Gabriel Sherman in the New York Magazine but Matt Tabbi has an excellent rebuttal to it here. I loved the line:

"But what you get everywhere else is a giant clusterfuck that costs the rest of us years and even more billions of tax dollars to remedy."

Wall Street, and their outlandish bonuses, need to come back to earth and do what financiers/bankers are suppose to do which is lend money. That is the position they occupy in America to grease the wheels of commerce, not to be the engine, that is business's domain, the people who actually produce something are the engine. The financiers/bankers compensation is in the interest they make for lending money and for services rendered to business in their banking needs. They brought America to its knees with their gaming of the system, they now need to STFU and man the grease gun.  

This is my Life in the Big Company

An actual email exchange:

Me:Is there a reason for our division getting charged $281.00 and $2,107.50 for calendars, see attached? The $281.00 seems high as we only got 60 calendars and at $2.68/ea. that would be $160.80.
Is the $2,107.50 charge supposed to go to *another division*?
Why are we the only division in *My Company* getting charged? All the other charges are for *Parent Company* offices.
Please advise as soon as possible.
Them:Per  *Name Redacted* all of the *My Company* calendars were to be coded to *My Division*.  See attached file of offices that received calendars for *My Company*. Might help in doing a DTR.  If that number is incorrect, then a DTR would need to be done correct it.

Me: I don’t see a *Name Redacted* in the email directory. How can I reach him.

Them: You can’t – he was terminated last Monday. 

I laughed my ass off when that last email came in. No help in trying to figure the problem out just a statement that someone who no longer works here decided to screw your division on his way out. And what the hell is a DTR?

Happy Birthday to the Godfather/Consigliere's Favorite Sister

Snow

When the snow is this deep......

You buy this.....

This has been a public service announcement.

Inmates 1, Cops 0

Some inmate in Vermont pulled the wool over the Vermont State Troopers recently by placing a pig on their cruisers. Pretty clever camouflaging the pig into the cows spots. Read More.

You reap what you sow...

Imagine law school graduates suing their former Alma maters, yep it's happening. That's funny as hell, you teach them the tools they need to come after you. Kinda like an assassin teaching the next generation of assassins only to become an assassination victim when he wants to retire because you can't have witnesses. 

Crap, they have an army?

I mean, aren't they mean enough that they don't need an ammunition plant.

Day 14 & 16

Your guess is as good as mine......
I have no clue who Wilamenia is and no idea why the rotten banana is now spooning with it.
Honestly, I am a little creeped out by the recent turn of events in our little science experiment.
If I don't post an update in the next week, please call the authorities......

Sven & Ole Might be on to Something

I am of the opinion that we cannot change this country for the better through the election process. The election process has been co-op'ed by those with vast sums of money who can buy elections and it has only gotten worse with the Supreme Court's decision to allow corporations to fund Super Pacs. The little guy who wants to have a voice in government doesn't stand a chance at winning an election unless he has been approved by someone who has the funds to pay for their campaign which makes them beholden to their benefactor.

The Swedes and the Norwegians have taken a different path than our country and have achieved vastly different results from what we have now in our country. They have faced the same situations as we have and have gone a different route which seems to have led to more equality and prosperity for all.

Please go read the following and see if it resonates with you.
How the Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the 1%