While CNBC wets its pants over what they dub the “Shutdown Showdown” (What is this, the parallel-universe “The Price is Right”?), let’s take a moment to mourn the fact that the Panda Cam has gone dark.
You know I have PLENTY to say about those Tea Party twits. But Obamacare launched today. Hell. Yeah. Thank you that my mom has a SHOT at having some quality of life. If only I could get into the website without it breaking …
I remember working at a D.C. nonprofit and being on furlough. At my paid-nothing job. That required I spend one weekend a month working at a well-known print house. Whose contract I negotiated over a year in advance. Workers whom I could not let down because I was small potatoes and they just couldn’t move dates without it being a cost.
I worked through all our furlough dates. My staff did too but I took the brunt of it. Which I was OK with because once you miss publication dates, they run into the NEXT set of publication dates. It was either “keep working hard at a normal pace” or “renegotiate deadlines and BUST ASS EVEN HARDER” when everyone else came back rested from their unpaid vacation days.
I never got retro pay. I never got much of anything, really. Not even a thank-you.
I guess I’ve always understood the concept of Choose Yourself, even if it is choosing the lesser of two evils. As was pointed out to me yesterday though, the lesser of evils is still evil.
Speaking of evils, isn’t it time we called it quits on this Congressional experiment and move on with our futures? Quit rewarding the sequester/fiscal cliff/shutdown masterminds (really, 40 people in the House) and clean, well, House!