Well…I have been watching the fiscal curb negotiations over the past couple of days with an ever growing disgust for the repubs in the house…I mean, after the senate voted nearly unanimously to pass a bipartisan compromise bill, the dysfunctional second graders that are the house repubs wouldn’t even let it come up for a vote with the mob of crazies blocking the bill being led by Eric Cantor who is only thinking of himself and his rich donors…everyone knows the little shit wants to be speaker and will do anything including destroying the economy to do it. The only good thing that is going to come out of this is that the approval rating of the repubs (which is at an all time low of 12% right now) is going to approach zero and they are going to pay for it in two years…but, the country can’t wait for two years to start to fix the problems we have…some adult needs come forward and put these idiots into a time out…and then we need to make sure there is a permanent dem majority that will act in the country’s best interests…not those of the damn 1% and the self interested repubs…geez…
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January 1st
Well…this has gotten pretty routine…waiting for the coffee to finish while I do this…and then not having a lot to say except about sleep, dreams, yada yada……and I’m sure I’m boring you just as much as I’m boring myself so I’m going to stop here and try to think of something new to do and say…it is the new year, after all…maybe this could be my resolution? Who knows?
Okay…sitting here in my Man U jersey and the thought struck me…”is this lame?” I mean wearing a jersey to watch a match from home? It probably is but I will be doing the same thing for the Michigan game later so I guess I am lame…well…the match is starting in 3 minutes so I am heading back to the couch with the last cup of coffee…
Last one for the year…
Well…I made it through another year and was just not a pretty one…still no work, still crazier than hell politics, and still getting older but I guess if you survive it, it was a good year. I was going to do this long reflection on the year and try to say something quite lucid but after going out to shoot pool this aft, my ideas seem to have deserted me at the moment and I just don’t have much to say…I guess I can say happy new year but I don’t really believe it so I won’t….just need to continue to survive and hope for things to get better….might be back for more later after I relax a little but I have made the goal for the year with this one so maybe not…who knows?
December 31st
Well..running really late today and haven’t even gone out for the papers yet and it is after 9…and now I find that the walkman is dead so I have to let it charge for a few before I can go out for the papers…one weird thing did happen last night…you remember that I had dreams of a Sunbeam Alpine the other night? Well…when I was watching “Dr. No” last night, James Bond was driving a Sunbeam Alpine and the damn thing was almost the same color as my Miata…getting near the top of the weirdness scale….I need to go out but will be back later for more….
Slept okay last night and didn’t get up until after 7…the dreams were the same as the other night with no one in them that I recognized so that weirdness continued and I am not sure what it means….not much to do today….it is NY’s eve tonight and as always I’m just going to hang out here and watch tv…maybe a “Twilight Zone” marathon or a movie…but cocktails certainly and for the last two nights then I’m going to stop drinking for a couple of months…need to give the liver a rest and without biking, I do need to cut out a bunch of calories…
They’ve lost David Brooks…
Well…I’ve been kind of following the whole fiscal curb/debt ceiling nonsense with my peripheral vision over the past few days and a couple of things have begun to strike me…the first is that the right has lost one of their loyal commentators today with an article from David Brooks stating in no uncertain terms that it is the repubs who are wholly responsible for the mess we are in…even though it’s not a mess really…it just our country being held hostage by a bunch of right wing terrorists who put Grover Norquist and the rich first…and everyone else can go to hell. Then, you have Lindsey Graham coming out yesterday saying that he will crash the economy if the tax cuts for the rich are not protected by raising the retirement age and cutting SS benefits…just like ole Snyder did here in Michigan, this idiot would make retirees go hungry just so his rich donors and corporations can suck more and more out of the economy….how much is enough? Do we just have to kill everyone that is out of a job or living on the SS they paid for their whole working life? That appears to be what they want and the only thing that will satisfy them….and they won’t stop until there is the 1% with all the money and everyone else broke and starving….geez…
December 30th
Well…it was an okay, if a little depressing day yesterday and I still have not adjusted to the fact that it is winter…and I can’t ride my bike so I do need to figure out some other kind of exercise or I will turn into a depressed blob of fat…maybe I’ll get out for a walk later today just to feel the wind and cold…and it looks like the weather is going to stay like this for quite a while which just adds to the malaise….I did sleep okay last night but the dreams were of people I didn’t know like they were from someone else and just found the wrong brain…not much to do today…I do have a pork shoulder roast to do so I’ll have food for a few days and I did thaw the last of my ham soup so at least I will be eating well…more later…
Gonna cheat a little….
Well…I just haven’t had very much to say lately, and with coming up on the end of the month I do need to make the goal of 60 so I am going to cheat a little and do a second life one instead of adding to the first one…just got back from having a couple with K and V and that was fun…just don’t get to see too many people anymore and I guess I have to take the opportunity when it presents itself….but, I am still broke and using the debit card really, really hurts….but, I have to continue to live so what is the other choice? I do need to get back to the GLI and watch State try to come back from 1-0 down so that is what I’m going to do….and I need hockey and Ken Daniels…so, maybe more later but maybe not…
December 29th
Well…it was another day yesterday and I felt so crappy I skipped the papers and coffee…but, feel much better today and have already been out in the snow to get some groceries…slept pretty crappy last night and was up really early this morning..oh, well…it has been okay lately so I guess I shouldn’t bitch…don’t like the way this winter is starting out but I’ll come back to that when I come back here in a few after coffee and the papers….
I promised another one….
Well…the recovery has started to take hold so I thought I’d came back for the second one that I promised today…don’t have a big topic but just some reminders and thoughts as we stumble over the fiscal bump…first, let’s forget the notion that SS has anything to do with the deficit…it is supported by its own tax structure and no general revenue or borrowing goes into supporting it…so let’s stop talking about using slashes to it to help the deficit…it won’t, and the only reason it is being talked about is that the repubs hate any program that helps anyone but their rich welfare recipients…the 1% and the corporations that pay no taxes. Hmmm….it has been a slow week for politics with everyone out of town from DC, so maybe I should talk about something else? There was a cool article in Slate today by Phil Plait…their astronomy writer about a star quake on a magnetar over 50,000 light years away that released so much energy 8 years ago that it almost fried satellites that are circling the earth…that was some frickin explosion….from an object that is halfway across the galaxy….and I think it’s cool that the explosion happened 50,000 years ago and it just got here 8 years ago….yep, I’m an astronomy geek….
December 28th
Well…it was a long day yesterday and I really feel like crap today…so this one is going to be short….for now, I did have dreams that included losing the Miata and replacing it with a 64 Sunbeam Alpine….yeah…that in itself is weird…okay…need more water and the couch…not even any newspapers today…
Okay…starting to feel human again but I did skip the papers and coffee today…it was fun to see T yesterday and a kind of reunion with G and that was fun, too…but going all day is a lot of work…I am going to come back to get to the one that I missed yesterday but, the USA is playing Russia in the world junior hockey championship so I’m going back to watch the third…