Alien Tea Shoppe

This article came across my news feed today; Mississippi, Burned , which talks about the dismal healthcare in my home state.  It is quite a lengthy article, but worth a read. To surmise, our former Governor, Haley Barbour, wanted to jump onboard with a healthcare market place similar to Mitt Romney's.  Things were started, the ball was rolling; entire groups of people here who had no access to healthcare would be covered, including myself.  But then Phil Bryant got into office and he's dug his heels in.  I'm not really sure how we'll vote him out. Bryant basically put a ridiculous political agenda before his own people.  All the work that Barbour and Chaney (not VP Chaney) initiated, that hundreds of people worked on for several years, Bryant flushed it all down the toilet at the last minute.  He refused to accept the Affordable Care Act (ACA), so we were denied.  If things had gone down the way they should have, we would have been an independent h...

I was reading comments to an article which reminded me of something, so I will share it. The commenter was talking about how they don't think it much matters what corporate employee's wear and after reading their explanation, I had to agree with them.  They have been taken for an emloyee in numerous stores, though they weren't wearing anything remotely akin the the employee official wear. I've had this happen a lot.  My most recent incident was in Target.  I'm sure anyone reading knows what Target employees wear, but for those of you who do not, they wear khaki slacks and red button down short sleeved shirts.  Some days I might wear dark wash jeans and a tank top.  Mainly I look like an overweight yoga instructor in my black loungy yoga type pants, with a grey tank top that has some holes from the cats in them.  Actually I probably look like I'm on the verge of being a homeless person.  I'm not sure why anyone would approach me. But, on this day I'm ...