Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)

[davids]

People who are saying "both sides are to blame."

You temporarily relieved my grumpiness with this post. This helped for a bit, too: Shutdown coverage fails Americans

[Tomwd3]

It's Stockholm Syndrome. How else do they keep getting re-elected?

Gerrymandering & Primary voting.

Commencing pushups.

[cash]

Mine is a trivial concern in light of the destruction, but all of the good rides on the Front Range are off the table for the foreseeable future. Joe Lindsey's current Boulder Report is not hyperbole. It is that bad.

[kpomtb]

Plumbers been here. Leak is in the slab. My grump just got grumpier. Fuck.

[bcm119]

The shutdown. I'm on unpaid leave and feeling strange. I've never applied for unemployment but I just might if this goes beyond next week.

[See]

My grump is people who jump to conclusions without assessing data.

The NYTimes article filed with the linked maps says the Times included illegal immigrants and resident aliens who do not qualify under the Affordable Health Care Act in any event. California has accepted the act and changes to Medicaid. Poor U.S. citizens in California now have access to health care not available to those in the Southeast States, Alaska and others which refuse to sign off on the new laws.

I would say good try, but really, your post does not qualify.

I wasn't trying anything except to get a little more information about your interpretation of the data. Still not sure what your point is, but so be it.

[dgaddis]

Last week sucked. My grandma went to the hospital Monday, we got the call that she wasn't doing well at 5am Tuesday morning. We packed all the clean clothes we had and headed for home. She passed away that afternoon, surrounded by family with my grandpa holding her and hand and telling her it was okay to go. She'd been sick for a long time, and I'll miss her, but I'm glad she's not suffering. I spoke a few words at the funeral...that was hard. Now we gotta watch after my grandpa. They were married almost 58 years, and for the last 4yrs his life has revolved around taking care of her. Now she's gone and he doesn't know what to do with himself. He'll be okay I think, but it'll take some time. They're awesome people and set the bar high for the rest of us.

Last time I rode my bike (almost a month ago) I cut up my rear tire and banged the rim hard several times....finally got around to patching the tire and checking the wheel last night and found a flat spot on the rim. Booooo. Decided to rebuild both wheels, swapping out the low profile box section PL23's with the deeper (and hopefully stronger) SL23s. I've gotta get back on my bike.

It's Weds, I know, I'll go do some pushups.

[Saab2000]

I finally have time to ride. The rain is coming down in buckets. I love (light) rain rides. This isn't light rain. It's been pouring for about 36 hours and the forecast calls for no change until long after I return to work tomorrow. No rides.

The disfunction in Washington DC is disgusting. On both sides. Where have the rational people gone? Seriously, it's worse than a fight among 2nd graders. We're supposed to be leaders, not followers and the people in Washington are not leading the nation or working for the best interests of the citizens. Shame on them.

On a positive, my move is forcing me to get rid of more stuff. That is good!

But seriously Washington, get your shit together and behave like adults!

[Matthew Strongin]

The disfunction in Washington DC is disgusting. On both sides. Where have the rational people gone? Seriously, it's worse than a fight among 2nd graders. We're supposed to be leaders, not followers and the people in Washington are not leading the nation or working for the best interests of the citizens. Shame on them.

The economic impacts of this dysfunction, particularly as it affects small businesses takes this from frustrating to keeping me up at night concerning.

[Christian Fox]

The economic impacts of this dysfunction, particularly as it affects small businesses takes this from frustrating to keeping me up at night concerning.

Makes me grumpy and concerned as well. The 800k furloughed federal employees will be getting paid retroactively, so the shutdown is in effect a paid vacation (to be fair, not of their own choice), but not so much for so many businesses that do business with the Gov. The retroactive pay has the perverse affect of making the shutdown seem more benign than it really is. Also, using the debt ceiling as a political gun to the head is not only (hugely) costly in an economic sense, it's technically a direct violation of section 4 of the Constitution.

[kpomtb]

Still no hot water from last weeks leak. Repair/upgrade started yesterday, won't finish until tomorrow, well plumbing repairs, not wall/floor repairs. Oh, and I could buy another pretty damn nice bike for what this will end up costing.

[vertical_doug]

Makes me grumpy and concerned as well. The 800k furloughed federal employees will be getting paid retroactively, so the shutdown is in effect a paid vacation (to be fair, not of their own choice), but not so much for so many businesses that do business with the Gov. The retroactive pay has the perverse affect of making the shutdown seem more benign than it really is. Also, using the debt ceiling as a political gun to the head is not only (hugely) costly in an economic sense, it's technically a direct violation of section 4 of the Constitution.

Everything is a side show. Until they begin addressing meaningful entitlement reform, they are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

[MarkC]

I'm grumpy because the Nobel committee overlooked my brilliance for the 46th straight year. Bastards.

I'm even more grumpy that after watching the NJ Senatorial debate last night its clear we need to move to another state. Or possibly Canada. Except it's cold there. Too bad Mexico and Canada can't swap places.

On top of all that those damn kids are still on my lawn.

[Jonathan]

People who gladly receive the knowledge of other's but make it a point not to give anything back; they make me grumpy.

[roseyscot]

that our government (local, state, federal) doesn't think it is worthwhile to ban the use of cell phones while driving. and i'm not just talking about no texting while driving.

i ride by hundreds of cars everyday and easily half the drivers are looking at their phones, not at their surroundings, including me on my bike.

[Tom]

Small potatoes: recurrent UTI in the little cat.

[Too Tall]

It's a hard cold rain and too miserable to consider doing something stupid. Sure sign I'm going soft. Sigh

[nahtnoj]

Representatives who actually think it is their job to listen to the rabble that elected them.

Ted Yoho said a few days back that 74 people showed up at a town hall to say the debt ceiling shouldn't be raised. Take away the fact that these people were almost certainly activists who were trained to say that (Yoho knows this and plays along, because it gives him cover to be a total loon) I have to ask: so what?

IMHO, any elected official that can't get behind every single word in this speech should be run out of town:

Representation: Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol

[Sbti]

Revisionist historians.

Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times. W raised it 7. Hardly even a mention on the last page of the business section. Now? The bills coming due for spending already authorized. Gonna authorize payment or default?

To be fair Obama said it was irresponsible of W to raise it.

[christian]

Everything is a side show. Until they begin addressing meaningful entitlement reform, they are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

This. I'm to the left of all y'all, but means-testing and raising the eligibility age for social security (for non-manual labor positions) is a no brainer. No brainer.

50 pushups already done.

Also, people who say "Both sides." I have no issues with lack of agreement on the budget, but the debt ceiling, come on.