Well…another day…more boredom and I am getting tired of it…at least I slept okay…well…not really, but not bitching about that….didn’t do much at all and today looks to be more of the same but I do have to do the grocery run today since I am out of food here except the fish in the freezer and I just am not in the mood for it…I guess I could clean and do some things around here but have not been able to get motivated to do that lately either…I will try today and see where it goes….I did have to make an appointment to have the car fixed Friday and I hope it will be under a hundred bucks…just have gotten tired of working on it and want it to be normal again….I will be back later for more since it is about the only thing I can afford…
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They just don’t have the capacity to think…
Well…a weird thought just popped into my head…what if the intransigence of the repubs is rooted in the fact that they just don’t have the capacity to think? What if they are just not bright enough to understand the complexity of this country and that is why they stick to their doctrinaire nonsense? It is certainly easier to stand up and say that you’re “flabbergasted” then it is to put forward a serious plan…I think they just got into this “put Obama out of office” crap and used that as a replacement for governing and they don’t have the intelligence to replace it….I can’t wait for the country to go over the cliff and stomp on these idiots once and for all…they and their ideas don’t deserve any respect and I applaud Obama for finally calling “bullshit” on them…geez…
The repubs are still delusional…
Well…I have been amazed over the past few days with the behavior of the repubs in congress and their response to the Obama plan to start to tame the deficit…I am particularly amazed that these guys are still so unserious that they offered the Romney plan that had no details or numbers in it other than some general numbers that it looks like they pulled out of their asses. Repubs, you lost the frickin election and if you think you have any leverage, you are certifiably crazy. Who the hell are you representing? When the majority (over 60%) of the American people looked at your plans and said HELL NO….you must be delusional that you think that anyone other than your rich masters want what you are selling. Let’s get this perfectly clear..tax cuts for the rich DO NOT LEAD to jobs….every economist, except the one the repubs listen to, Arthur Laffer, tells you the same thing and yet you want to keep doing it expecting different result…this is the definition of mental illness…and some of the repubs in the house even came out today and said that they wanted to let payroll taxes rise on the working class saying “they have to feel some pain”…I kid you not…they want to protect the rich from any “pain” in the form of higher tax rates, but they are willing to push that pain onto workers…these folks do not deserve to have anyone take them seriously…I hope the White House see it the same way…geez…
December 4th
Well…up at the normal time this morning and slept okay last night so I am a little motivated to get to this early…and it was a no cocktail night so that helps, too….I am sore today, though, and it is that same neck problem I’ve been having for the last couple of weeks and I think it’s from sleeping on it wrong…or from sleeping better so I don’t toss and turn as much as I used to….still haven’t figured out the car but I am going to look at the last place the coolant can be leaking…but the bad news is that there are 5 things on that small part that can be leaking…at least I’ll take a look to see if there is something I can see….not much to do today…might have pool with Tom but he sounded really sick last night…if he feels like I did, the only thing he will want to do is hit the couch…more later…
Boehner is flabbergasted….
Well…I am laughing my butt off about ole Boehner’s statement the other day that he was “flabbergasted” about the WH’s offer on the budget negotiations…and he couldn’t understand how Obama could be so tough….John, there was an election, you guys lost…and Obama is doing exactly what he campaigned on and what the American people approved….and what do we get in response from mr. flabber? We get a re-run of the Ryan budget that has been rejected twice now by the American people….and 65% of Americans want taxes raised on the rich…can’t these people move into the real world? I hope they keep it up….the only reason they still have the House is that they fixed the election in many districts….so, the order of the day is attack from our side…keep just going on putting our ideas to the American people who love them…no negotiations with these thugs…not now, not ever…geez…
December 3rd
Well…it was a long day yesterday but I was good last night so I feel okay this morning…I did get a top down run in yesterday to see if I’ve fixed the car…not sure yet…it smelled a little while I was driving it but not much when I got back…maybe it’s just burning off all of the coolant that was spilled on the back of the engine…we’ll see today…going to take it out for a long run and get some heat in it…then I’ll move on to the next thing if it is still leaking…slept okay last night and there were dreams but again, I don’t really remember them…I may be able to get out on the bike in a t-shirt for the last time today but it is foggy right now so that may have to wait for later…not much to do today…I do need to clean some today and then get some resumes out…….but that’s about it…more later…
More deception about Social Security..
Well…have been reading a lot about the proposals that have been floated over the past few years about how to “save” social security since it is not going to be too long before I’m going to be that age…so, it has a real meaning to me. One of the things that the repubs are lying about again is the need to raise the retirement age since people are living longer…and, as always, they are just bad at math or are deliberately misleading people about the changes in life expectancy…which one do you think? I’ll go for the deliberate lies…I will admit that life expectancy has risen over the past 50 years, but you have to look into the numbers to see why…and the major reason is that less children are dying young from preventable diseases so the average goes up…not hard math to understand but it appears they don’t understand it. But, the second part of this puzzle is that the people that are living longer are concentrated in the upper classes…people who have had easier lives and good health care their entire lives…these people actually do live longer, but those that have done physical labor their entire lives don’t…so, raising the retirement age for these folks puts them at an age where they will probably die within a few years of retiring…just what the repubs have said jokingly is the solution to SS’s problems…don’t let them get away with this lie…geez…
December 2nd
Well….as you can see, I didn’t come back for another one yesterday but it is the first of the month and I just don’t feel that motivated right now…I did take the car out for a drive with the top down to see if it is still leaking and I’m not sure if it is…just a small whiff of coolant smell but that may be from all of it that is on the back of the engine…hope so, anyway, but I think I will take the coils off tomorrow so I can see down to the block on the back of the head that the coolant goes into and see if there are more leaks there…other than that, didn’t do too much yesterday other than watch soccer and take a bike ride….it was a stretch to fight off the boredom but I was somewhat successful….and today looks to be the same…I can get out on the bike early today since it is already almost 60 but I will need to wait for the rain to stop…and I will come back for at least one more today but I’m not sure what it will be about….
December 1st
Well…it was another bore of a day yesterday and I really didn’t accomplish much…didn’t even drive the car to see if it is fixed…think I’ll do that today to get two things done..putting the top down in every month…since it is going to be almost 60 today…that should get me out on the bike in shorts, too…didn’t sleep too well last night but I said I wasn’t going to bitch about it any more so I won’t…okay…the coffee is done and I do need to read the papers…more later…
More noodling…
Well…I do need to get this one in to get to the quota for the month so I thought I’d just noodle around a little and see what happens…I can’t believe how stupid the repubs have been in this whole deficit fight…last year, they wouldn’t take a deal that gave them 10 bucks of cuts for every buck of revenue increase because they really thought, in their deluded little minds, that they were going to win the presidency and the senate and then be able to do their slash and burn on medicare and Social security while given even bigger tax cuts to the rich. Guess what repubs? You lost and the dems ran on raising taxes on the rich and preserving the social programs…so why the heck are you surprised that this is what the dems are doing? Are you just stupid? You lost, and now you roll out the rejected Ryan budget as your one and only attempt to avoid the fiscal slope? I just hope you keep it up…keep showing the American people you don’t give a damn about them while we salivate about the prospects of 2014…what a bunch of idiots…geez…