Shit that Pisses Me Off

Can someone please explain to me why the State of Virginia and Botetourt County gave all their employees the following holidays? Christmas - December 23 and 24.   Taxpayers - 1/2 of December 24th New Years 1/2 of December 30th and all of December 31.   Taxpayers - No time off! This weekend - January 14th (Lee Jackson Day) AND January 17th (MLK).  Taxpayers - no time off or some on the 17th. We are in the middle of an economic slowdown.  Why do government employees who receive pensions, health insurance, and automobiles also get all these days off when they don't even fall on the holiday?  The private sector doesn't take the holidays when they are on the weekend, why does the public sector? Speaking of elitist government, the way to fix Social Security and the health care crises is to make the congress use both.  They have their own health care and if you serve one term in congress, you get a pension for life!  What happened to citizen legislators?

Both sides do it. Conservatives and liberals like to jump to conclusions that they think makes some stupid point of their political agenda.  Today lots of crass liberals are basically saying that Sarah Palin killed the congresswoman in Arizona because there's a web site with the congresswoman's head in gun sites.  These are the same liberals who laughed at this: Or this: These are ok but Palin's cause deaths!  Somehow they missed the report that the shooter's my space page states that he was a big fan of the communist manifesto which would align him more with Obama than Palin.

The judges of Virginia have decided that they don't want cell phones in their courtrooms.  I would agree that it is annoying to have cell phones many places that I go.  In the case of the judges, unlike the rest of us, they have the ability to punish stupid people who do not turn off their cell phones.  Like us, I guess they figured out that even with punishment the idiots do not learn. Fair enough.  The problem is that they banned phones in the *courthouse* not the courtroom.  I showed up at Roanoke City Court the other day to file civil papers and had to return to the car to put my phones in since they were no longer allowed in the courthouse. To  begin with, that took 5 minutes off my time available for the 30 minute parking,  As everyone knows, public servants are not known for their speedy work habits.  That's actually our fault since we elect the same clerk of court for like 50 years in a row...what's their incentive for improvement? So here I am Citizen Huckleber