That doesn’t mean that I love it, and I certainly hate Microsoft Internet Explorer. Seems that some sites still don’t get that IE is a turd and that it’s not what their visitors wish to use.
Well, I had to print out a license I hold from the Indiana State Department of Health yesterday and guess what came up?
Notice the “.aspx” extension? Means they’re using Microsoft ASS.NET, errrr….. ASP.NET. No wonder it breaks when you’re using Opera.
Not every ASS.NET page breaks in Opera, but nearly every page that does break in Opera is built with ASS.NET.(On a side note, Silverblight won’t work at all, but who cares?)
Maybe now that the FCC is making a landgrab for the internet under the veil of “network neutrality”, they can enforce real W3C standards on the assclowns that handle Indiana state websites.
In case anyone was wondering why I disappeared last month…
No, I didn’t die, but I may well have thanks to our broken healthcare system and the Republican politicians who are more or less paid employees of the pharmaceutical and insurance cartels.
Rather than re-type the entire thing, I’ll paste the letter I sent to the editor of the local newspaper, the Huntington Herald Press.
Before I quote myself, let me say one more thing. You know what really pisses me off? That the Republicans, and the cartels who sponsor their high treason get to run libellous and patently false TV ads accusing the Democrats of trying to make a smash and grab government takeover of healthcare. They cite the pending failure of Medicare that the Republicans caused in 2006 with the pharmaceutical cartel written Medicare Part D law which forbids Medicare from negotiating for better drug prices. If the bottle of pills that costs Eli Lilly $1 to make retails for $400, Medicare must pay that even if the same bottle of pills in Canada is $80.
Their fraudulent astroturfing TV ad ends with something like “Don’t let bureaucrats stand between you and your healthcare”. Well, not having $400 a month for pills, $50,000 for major surgery, or $70 for an office visit to your doctor won’t get in the way any will it? Geez, give me a break! These idiots are just so far over the damned top, they’re in low earth orbit.
Dear Editor,
With the Republican Party continuing to be an obstruction to quality healthcare, I recently had my own ordeal.
On Sept. 27, I had two Grand Mal seizures. One was in my shower, and when I woke up, my arms were damaged and later bruised, and I had to pull myself screaming out of my shower. I called my mother at work who came to my apartment and took me to the Parkview Emergency Room, where I proceeded to have another one. The ER did the very minimal stabilizing treatment they were legally obligated to do and sent me on my way, barely able to move, since I am not rich and don’t have tons of insurance (in the same boat as 48 million other Americans). For two days I was bed ridden and could barely move, and I still have major bruising on both arms and am in considerable pain, two weeks later.
The bill for the ER arrived and is $2,851.10 after a so-called $900 “No-insurance discount” plus other expenses that haven’t arrived yet for a required EEG. (Most likely another several hundred dollars or more)
I am on Disability income and have no access to Medicare til May, many Americans don’t even have that to look forward to, and these Republicans need to stop being the “Party of No” and do something, because every minute they delay, more people die or go bankrupt due to refusal of treatment or crushing medical expenses they cannot afford.
In closing, I would like to thank the Huntington Free Clinic for helping me so much, and without their help this situation would be far worse than it is.
Sincerely,
Ryan F.
Tune in next time for “Doctor Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Bankruptcy Court”.
Maybe Florida Representative Alan Grayson says what the Republicans are up to best:
