Crazy

Watching a National Geographic Show about Gang Lockdown...what the hell?! These guys are still controlling their gangs in cities 400 miles away from inside the walls of the prison. Prisoners are still stabbed, killed, guards threatened. We are way too freaking lenient...send these fools to Antarctica, give them nothing. Why are we wasting time, effort and tax dollars on these freaks? Why are we making them comfortable? Can you say electric shock collars? Hey call me crazy.

If this wasn't enough video craziness for one evening, earlier I watched a news segment on Sixty Minutes about Mental Illness. It points out how easy it is for people who have been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital to buy a gun or any type of firearm after they have been released. How can our laws be so screwed up? Are we collectively that stupid?

Here's another crazy item. As someone who is recently unemployed, we are quickly discovering the nightmare of no health insurance benefits. The monthly COBRA payment is 1200 dollars. After six months or close to 8,000 dollars coming out of savings we are seriously considering stopping COBRA. According to the law we have another sixty days and if we do not have some sort of temporary health insurance then our "continuous coverage" lapses and Health Insurance Companies in the future will have the right to deny us health insurance if we have pre-existing conditions for up to one year or more...in other words, you're screwed and will be forced to pay full boat on all health costs which for most people is astronomical. God forbid you have some sort of chronic illness like Cancer, COPD, Diabetes, Asthma, IBS or AIDS. Vision and Dental? (Laugh here). It will be cheaper for you to just die and be buried in the ground. What? That's CRAZY!

And then again, there is still IRAQ, a bill passed by both the House and Senate to fund our troops with the caveat to begin troop withdrawal in October and we have a President who is about to VETO this bill...it doesn't get any crazier.

Come over here and tighten the belts on this straight jacket.