Weight loss and politics trim the fat.

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   As you can see I am still losing weight, yeah me.   26.4 pounds since I joined My Fitness Pal.com and 8 pounds before that.   Plus what I lost and didn't gain back before means I have lost 46 pounds.   It feels good.

  I have been riding my bike again and went on a 14 mile ride yesterday.   The weather was hot and humid, 93 out.   I only had to use my inhaler once.   So far this year I have had a couple of nasty asthma attacks so I am being very cautious and using my inhaler before and during long rides and it seems to be helping.

  I am also working out to DVD's at home.   I am doing the 5 mile walk and Sweatin to the Oldies.   Love the music in the Sweatin tapes.   My goal was to lose 8 pounds by my surgery on the 6th.  I am not sure I will make it but every little bit helps,  right.

   I am feeling bad about being off during the month of July.   We are short and then they just announced a strike by the nurses for that month.   The hospital will really be short.  I personally don't think nurses should strike.  I actually do not like the union we have and have never joined.  But I especially don't think nurses should strike.   Patients have to be able to know we are there to take care of them.   They have enough to worry about without being worried about that.   I took an oath to my patients.   

  On other notes.    The tax and trade bill,  whoops, cap and trade bill.   I read this bill will raise each and everyone of our utility bills by a thousand a month.   No matter what your income is.   That is just one of the terrible things.   They will want to be able to put a regulator in everyone's homes so they can adjust your heat.   Special outlets that you will need a key to open,  but you won't get the key.  They will decide when you vacuum your rugs,  when you dry your hair.  What your thermostat will be set at.  66 will be the norm.   My friend that has a tv in every room?  Bye bye.   But she doesn't believe it will happen anyway.   Not that she pays any attention  to politics or the news or has even read the bill.  She just doesn't believe it can happen in the United States.  Sorry Sweety,  it can happen in Obama's USA.

  Then the health care reform.   We have seen the first closings of insurance companies starting.   More will be following.  And did you know with this bill you will now be taxed on what your employers contributions are to your plan also?   And retirement plans, taxable, unbelievable.   This new government is hell bent on destroying the country.

 Electric cars.   Give me a break.   How are we going to charge these cars that at the best only go 60 miles a charge?   What kind of pipe dream is this.   Imagine a vacation where you will only be able to go as far as your battery will allow.   And we have people at my hospital that drive more then 60 miles to work.  Guess they will be out of luck.  As if I remember my science, coal is a natural product.  What about all those batteries?  What is it they say the lifetime of them is,  a year at most?  Mountains of used batteries leaking.  How come the EPA isn't screaming about that?

  Wind turbin's?  Twice as expensive as coal and hazardous to your health it turns out.   Very expensive to maintain.  Again,  the reason why your utility bill will go up to unheard of amounts.   And how many thousands and thousand of jobs will this cost.

  Why this government is hell bent on destroying our economy I have trouble understanding.   When we are all out of work,  when we are all on the government dole, who will pay the taxes?   Who will give to charities, who will maintain the roads,  who will become doctors, nurses, mechanics?  Then what,  THEN WHAT.

  My same friend that doesn't believe they will tax her for her fireplace or her 8 TV's also drives a SUV.   The biggest you can get.   She flies all over the country a couple times a month.   She loves here life.  Why won't she do all she can to protect it?   Why aren't we all?