Thank Christ!

Our internet is doing really great right now. If you don't mind waiting 10 minutes for a page to come up, we've got the best connection.

I downloaded a transcript of the State of the Union Address that Bush made in January of 2002.

Among other things in it that was stupid and made no sense, I couldn't help but laugh at one thing he said which was about the huge tax relief he was enacting. "A family of four making $40,000 a year would not be paying $1,1[??], but $45 in taxes..."

First of all, I know that this is years ago and I'm just commenting on this now, but it sort of does have something to do with now because of Arnold Schwarzenneger's veto against the minimum wage thing in California. Amongst other things he's been fucking up on recently.

The minimum wage in California right now is $6.75/hr. The bill wouldn've made it $.50 more and at a later date, which I think was the beginning of next year, raise it another $.50, then for the rest of time it would raise with inflation. Seems decent enough considering the recent studies showed that people making minimum wage here in California, one of the most expensive places to live, aren't making enough to live. As far as I'm concerned, minimum wage should be the bare minimum that you can pay someone, but that they, working full-time, should be able to support themselves, at least, comfortably.

That being said, no family of four can survive anywhere on $40,000 a year. I know there are some like that and they do survive somehow. But I also know that they don't have cars, or health care, dental, all those essentials. I think they have cable, though. I don't even have cable. Anyway, even if they are surviving, why the fuck are you going to tax them the $45? Give them a break, they've got it hard enough.

So one of the other things Arnold's doing that's dumb is publicly being all for same-sex marriage to get that crowd. But then he signed the bill vetoing it, thus negating anything he said to support that. He's trying to please everybody by deceiving them.

Did I mention that I can't stand people who expect things for free, but they disguise it, or try to, as "courtesy" or "complimentary"? When I worked at fast food we charged for a cup for water. Unless you bought food, then we give it to you. But then people come in and ask for a "courtesy" cup for water. "Oh, shit. Yeah, no problem. You got me on the polite law."

The reason I brought this up is because some girl is requesting a limo and requested a "complimentry bar with Smirnoff & Bud Light. Flowers, Balloons..." all this fucking shit "complimentary." Who the fuck is she to tell us what is "complimentary" or not? She could ask us what is complimentary or whatever not just demand all these free things. I'm surprised she doesn't ask for like a solid gold limo with platinum seats or something.