The Ryan Budget and Medicare

A very good post about Ryan's proposed budget by John Cole over at Balloon Juice

The only way you could think slashing Medicare as it is proposed in the Ryan plan and then giving that same amount to the well-off is acceptable is if you simply have no idea what Medicare does and how valuable it is to so many people. You must think the whole program is full of fraud, waste, and abuse. You must think that no lives are actually being saved. That is really the only explanation for some of the behavior from some pundits.

Long, but imo worth reading.

The Ryan Budget and Medicare

A very good post about Ryan's proposed budget by John Cole over at Balloon Juice

The only way you could think slashing Medicare as it is proposed in the Ryan plan and then giving that same amount to the well-off is acceptable is if you simply have no idea what Medicare does and how valuable it is to so many people. You must think the whole program is full of fraud, waste, and abuse. You must think that no lives are actually being saved. That is really the only explanation for some of the behavior from some pundits.

Long, but imo worth reading.

Saturday

Dentist this morning. Just a cleaning. In and out in 15 minutes, which I think is a record.

Grocery shopping. I wanted to buy some ready-made baked goods, really I did. The fruit tarts looked lovely. The cupcakes. Then I thought, no, you could make something just as good with Bisquick and some chopped apples and streusel topping. So I bought the Bisquick, and maybe during the week I'll try a coffee cake. Stir the batter just until most everything is wetted, and you will wind up with one moist, soft coffee cake. It's not fancy, but it tastes better than most of the stuff out there.

Same thing happened with french fries. I found these herbed/seasoned ones that I've had before and liked, but the price was $3.50/bag or 2/$7, and that's a lot to pay for spuds. So I bought some Russets instead. Slice them and bake them at about 450F with olive oil and salt/pepper and, welp, good stuff.

In other news, LiveJournal was balky again, I see. This summer I will be--or rather, Miz Ruta will be--tweaking the website, and I will be doing the embedded Wordpress blog thing. I'm also debating a restyle. I still like the current green/grey color scheme even though it's years old, and I still like that photo. But site styles have changed since the early 2000's, and I am pondering what to do next.

Saturday

Dentist this morning. Just a cleaning. In and out in 15 minutes, which I think is a record.

Grocery shopping. I wanted to buy some ready-made baked goods, really I did. The fruit tarts looked lovely. The cupcakes. Then I thought, no, you could make something just as good with Bisquick and some chopped apples and streusel topping. So I bought the Bisquick, and maybe during the week I'll try a coffee cake. Stir the batter just until most everything is wetted, and you will wind up with one moist, soft coffee cake. It's not fancy, but it tastes better than most of the stuff out there.

Same thing happened with french fries. I found these herbed/seasoned ones that I've had before and liked, but the price was $3.50/bag or 2/$7, and that's a lot to pay for spuds. So I bought some Russets instead. Slice them and bake them at about 450F with olive oil and salt/pepper and, welp, good stuff.

In other news, LiveJournal was balky again, I see. This summer I will be--or rather, Miz Ruta will be--tweaking the website, and I will be doing the embedded Wordpress blog thing. I'm also debating a restyle. I still like the current green/grey color scheme even though it's years old, and I still like that photo. But site styles have changed since the early 2000's, and I am pondering what to do next.

In other other news

Happiness is a royalty check, be it ever so humble...

In other other news

Happiness is a royalty check, be it ever so humble...