drive way work needed

Colorado rains.  There are thousands of homes scattered up in those steep neighborhoods and "in the sticks" that now have multiple bridges out, miles of washed out roads between them and work/food/services.  Many are without utilities now.  Some of these will not be fully and reconnected or have roads restored for a year, longer maybe.   I have been into that area, those canyons are deep narrow windy with raging creeks.  Engineers have taken years to carve a narrow 20 or 50 foot flat spot for traffic, now the mountain has slid in on it and the river undercut it.

The last 3 years that area suffered from horrible drought keeping the forest dry until fire burned it naked.  Now, as is common with global warming are these extreme weather events.  The flooding is far worse than it would have been without the fires.  Trees and brush hold back rain water in many ways, that benefit is gone in parts of this area.

wife signed up today for the Obama Care account.

You can go to https://www.healthcare.gov/ and sign up for news on the new health care options.  You can set up an account, so your ready to go when it starts.  You cannot get into the account yet, but you set it up with passwords and so on.  Beginning in October you can then go in and find out what your insurance choices are and pick one.  Avoid the rush and the computer crashes of the first couple of weeks.

My wife signed up a few days ago and has gotten a couple of emails about the process starting in October.    Our red state will not set one up so we use the federal one.  The site asks very little information when you sign up.  It's like buying a gun, way easier than registering to vote.  She can choose a plan and join from Oct. to March.  She will need her own insurance soon, either coming off my insurance, or if I retire she will be without.  She has lots of preexisting conditions and cannot get insurance on her own, very healthy but with a history insurance companies turn down, Obama care will be the only thing we can keep her insured with in the next 3 to 5 years.  It's either that or if she gets ill we crash our finances.

post shoot out breaking bad forecast

Here's the forecast:
Hispanic cop with Hank, dead.
Hank, most likely dead.
The gang find Walt injured, maybe unable to cook on his own.
The gang find Jessie unhurt hiding in the car.
The gang decides to kill Jessie but then Todd (the cooker) is either dead or wounded, unable to cook.
Gang decides to force Jessie to cook.
Gang holds Walt to his promise to cook one time for them.
Jessie and Walt hatch a plan to poison the gang during the cook using their favorite poison ricen since the gang refuses to wear air masks and hasmat suits during the cook.  Jessie and Walt escape.
Hanks wife decides to try to kill her sister when she finds out Hank is dead knowing that he had arrested Walt, it had to be Walt kill him.
Todds body is burned as a temp decoy to make it appear Walt is dead.

Alternative, Jessie crawls (during the confusion of shootout) to Walt's gun by the boulders) and kills Todd when they are about to kill off the wounded cops, thus making himself needed to cook for them.  The gang doesn't know they are standing on millions of hidden dollars, Jessie indicates he will blurt it out if Walt doesn't make them leave him alive after killing Todd.

There has never been a dinner worth $50 in Wichita.

Class reunion coming up in a month.  $50 a head and a cash bar.  I gotta pay 50 smackers and then buy my own drink?  Look, I can afford it, won't hurt one bit.  But this is a bullshit deal.  This is designed to keep the bottom financial half of the class out if they had wanted to come.

I don't give a damn what they are serving, out here in Wichita there has never been a dinner worth $50.    This is a filtering device.  This is that "click" of well off kids that ran most of the functions back when the girls wore white panties, and most of them did pretty well the last couple decades, and so it's natural for them to book the event at the country club dining room.

To be fair, a night or two before this shendig they have a meet up at a bar, anyone can get in and the bar won't care if they are visiting and not buying.  I will go to that.   Still, this other thing galls me.  I want to go but it galls me.  The wife said she won't go.  I already passed the cut off date for $50, sign up late and it jumps to 55.  Shit, I don't eat meat normally, so 55 for rice or baked potato and a room temp salad?  $10 or $15 for a couple of mixed drinks I suppose.  Can't decide.  I might see some old friends, that would be nice.  But.

The Radical Rich gain again, at the nations expense

New figures out today:
*The top 1% in America pocketed nearly 20% of all the money paid out or earned last year.  1927 was the last time the disparity in income was this extreme.
*The top 10% took 50% of the income, dividends.
*The bottom 90% divide up the 30%, and none to fairly I might add.  The bottom 50% get damn near nothing.
It is not a benefit for our nation to have all the money controlled by a few thousand families.  No nation in history has ever done better because the flow of money went in one direction, to the top, none, not one example.  In fact action usually is taken to remedy the disparity, here between the wars it was done with legislation, elsewhere throughout history it is usually done through collapse or turmoil.  Tell me what is the overwhelming reason this should continue and how it will benefit the poor and the middle?  Please, someone tell me.

Yes I know, we have all those palaces in Europe and Asia to gawk at with our heads thrown back, but these are the ruins built on theft of labor and capital.  Tour of the chopping block at 11.

Listen to one of America's most respected investors on Keystone XL pipeline

"Deals have been cut, and America is cut out."

Canada, just another rogue petro-state

Canada has told Obama if he will permit the Keystone XL pipe to carry bitumen through our largest underground water source, they will adopt all of our standards for the environment.  Seeing how our standards now days are behind many other nations, and we don't trust or believe science, I'm not sure it would be any value for Canada to adopt our standards.

Corruption follows oil, look at every nation that grows rich on oil, the middle east, parts of Africa, Texas, Alaska.  Now Canada worries me, and as we frac our way to become an oil producing state, are we also "breaking bad"?