These People Are Not Well

It's past time to add a few new members to my list of people who are Whacked Out In The Head (WOITH).

I haven't even mentioned this acronym for over six months, the last time when I was handicapping the field of Republican presidential nominees.

Based on her campaign after I wrote that, I'm elevating Michele Bachmann to full WOITH status.  Just like WOITH members Steve King and Bob Vander Plaats, if you pulled back her skin I'm pretty certain there's an alien creature underneath.

I'm at least going to add a politician to the WOITH list while I'm on the topic. Hmmm, so many to choose from...Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is certainly deserving, but it has to be...my own State Senator, Brad Zaun.  Not only has he never met a social conservative issue he didn't like, but he also took on the duty of campaign manager for Bachmann when fellow WOITH member Kent Sorenson quit.  It couldn't be more perfectly symmetrical than that.

To save time, I'm just going to list my new WOITH members with no explanation.  If you don't know why they belong, I suggest you Google them:

Charlie Sheen (obvious and belated omission until now)

Jerry Sandusky

Anyone with a reality show on MTV

The entire Kardashian family

And as an honorary member, I also want to include the guy down my street who put a $60,000 house on a $30,000 lot.

No Love for the 99ers

At the risk of beating a dead horse.....

This week, the U.S. Congress did not act (yet) to extend unemployment benefits, meaning those benefits ended for millions of Americans. Of course, the Democrats are all aghast at the heartless Republicans for standing in the way of another UNFUNDED extension of these payments for who knows how long. But the Dems want you to ignore one little thing - that these Americans were in their 99th week of receiving those benefits!

Now as anyone reading this blog knows, I'm an independent / libertarian sort, and I really couldn't care less about either party's ideology, especially those on the fringe. But here, it's time for the Democrats / liberals to get real.

99 weeks of unfunded, taxpayer-subsidized unemployment benefits? 99 weeks! Are you telling me those folks could not find a job, or be re-schooled / re-trained for another job in almost two full years' time? I'm sure there are plenty of difficult situations, but I'm also positive there are employable people who are just fine with doing nothing and picking up their unemployment check. I personally know some of them.

I may not be the most compassionate person, but I'm at least compassionate-average, and I've had it with paying for people who don't work. I'm also skeptical anytime I agree with the likes of Senator Mitch "Turtle" McConnell, but our society cannot afford this. A certain U.S. electorate apparently agrees, considering the results of this past November.

Sorry 99ers, but we need to cut the cord on this abusive, one-sided relationship.