TC the Terrible

All I can say is “Thank God”!  My thumbs may hate me for life, but it looks like me and my CrackBerry are going to have a long future in front of us.

More later.  If my thumbs will let me.

Well, THE WOMAN gets another year older today.  In an effort to avoid the traditional birthday spankings at her office, she called in sick.  Life must be good when you are the boss.  Resources are a bit constrained this month, so all of her gifts are coming in small packages, and the dinner out will have to wait until the weekend.

Report cards are arriving at the house this week.  The first one was for FDSM.  We won’t go into details in this space, but it is safe to say that we’ve got free baby sitting for the next nine weeks.  FDFM never suffers those types of things, but she’s in her last semester of college so she’s got one last chance to be grounded for bad grades.  Let’s hope she takes advantage of that.

THE SAILOR has made it to her ‘A’ school in mostly one piece.  Her knees were bothering her at graduation so she went on sick call Monday to have them checked. It turns out that she’s got some floating cartilage on one side and a pinched nerve on the other.  They are talking about doing some rotating and balancing on her this week.  She’ll have to wait to start her next school while she re-habs but it should all be good.

Back with more later.

The legislature in Maryland sent a big “screw you” to Wal-Mart a few weeks back.  Passing a health insurance bill that applies only to Wal-Mart, they were not really trying to improve the health of the citizens, but trying to tell Satan that the workers need to be treated better.

Now the CEO of the Corporate Satan is firing back.  In a thinly disguised editorial piece Lee Scott uses the Post to say “screw you” right back.  His point boils down to the fact that his company generates dollars for Maryland so the state should leave them alone.  It’s like a drug dealer telling the cops that he’s doing the community a service by generating revenue on a given street corner.  Just because a company creates jobs and money does not mean it is a good company.

Wal-Mart as a matter of policy does only the minimum required to keep the unions on the other side of the front door.  I’m anti-union too, but I believe that people should be treated like people, not like programmed outputs.  And no matter what they try to pass of to John Q. Public, Wal-Mart is an American sweat shop.  They pay the lowest wage the market will bear, health care benefits are minimal compared to other companies, and they treat vendors in a manner that is nearly criminal.

I did my seven years of indentured servitude with Wal-Mart so I get to talk smack about them. It’s in my emancipation papers.

Back with more later.