Well…just a short one about what is happening in Indiana with the repubs and the fact that the tea partiers are primarying Senator Dick Lugar and it looks like he is going to lose. The shame about this is that the TP is using one of his strengths, the fact that he will reach across the aisle and work with the dems, against him, and with the idiots that are the TP, they are going to throw one of the most accomplished senators out for a moron that has never accomplished anything. I probably shouldn’t be concerned about this since, if Lugar loses, the dem candidate will probably win what was a secure seat for the repubs. This just shows you the trajectory that the repub party is on…that unless you are just as unreasonable and stupid as the TP, you have no place there….that if you really want to make a better America, you have no place there….I can see the collapse of the repubs coming…and with the TP pulling the strings, it can’t come too soon…geez…
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May 6th
Well….it was another day of nothing yesterday and I am trying to not feel guilty about it…it was nice to talk to T via text all day but I was feeling like crap most of the day and I think I have discovered why….way too few calories Friday…at least that is my story and I am going to stick to it….so, I tried to eat more yesterday and I feel better today…so far, that is….but we’ll see as the day goes on….I am going to make some stuffed pork chops for lunch and I have gotten creative with the stuffing using a box of stove top that I found in the cupboard…we’ll see how that comes out….I’m in the middle of watching last week’s “Mad Men” so I’m going back to that….more later…
Okay…it’s later and I have gotten lunch and the bike ride in and feel okay while I wait here for the storms to come in and to hear from K to see if we are meeting up for a cocktail….okay…just heard from her and are meeting up in a half hour…so that will give me something to do…I probably won’t be back for another one but, you never know….oh, just had an idea for a new one…
May 5th
Well….as you can see, I’m running really late today since I wanted to get to the coffee and papers first…and the Arsenal/Norwich match that just ended was a good one….and I’m sitting here waiting to see if the the rain that is over the lake comes onshore…it’s a little too cool to go out and get soaked on the bike…I did sleep okay last night but again, no dreams to speak of and I was up quite early so that will kind of set what kind of a day this is going to be…I do need to clean the kitchen and do a few other things today but I am not really looking forward to it…I really kind of hope it rains so I’ll have an excuse to be lazy…there are races on this aft and it is Kentucky Derby day…should have gotten the ingredients for mint juleps….oh, well…don’t really need the calories….I will try to come back later for another one…especially if it rains….
Just some nonsense…
Well…there really is nothing going on in politics that I want to comment on right now except the nonsense that is going on with the repubs…and I know what your question is going to be: “it’s all nonsense with the repubs so what is different now?”….on a scale of 1 to 10 this one would just be a three or so but here it is…the big deal that is going on is concerned with where the hotel rooms are for the Michigan delegation to the repub convention…since this delegation has been given a block of rooms that are near Romney’s, the speculation has arisen that our governor, Rick Snyder, is going to be the vice president pick. It’s as I told you, there is just not much going on in politics so the news outlets have to pick up on this stuff….but, they are wrong…Snyder is nowhere near conservative enough for the repub electorate to stomach…you read it here first…Snyder will not be the VP pick for the repubs….what a slow news day….geez….
One last thing…and something I have been talking about for a while….that because of the austerity measures that were forced on the country by the repubs, we have seen job growth come to a standstill with the report that is out today…Keynes is proven right again and if I were Obama, I’d be attacking the repubs on just this issue…and using Europe as the bad example not to follow while their jobs growth is even worse with the extreme austerity they have practiced…
May 4th
Well…it was a day yesterday…finally up to the temps that we had in March and the bike ride was way more fun with it hot…and I won at pool so that was good….but I think I may have had the tv up way too loud when I got home so I’ll probably get a letter from the office here…oh, well…I do feel a little crappy today but not as bad as I should so that is a plus but I still can’t really think yet so I think I’ll head back to the couch…it’s just too early….
Okay…got the bike ride in and ate lunch and I feel somewhat better but not 100% yet….so this one is going to continue to be short…there were geese alerts on the trail today with the little ones hatching but no attacks…so that is one thing to be happy about…and the ride was fun so that’s another….okay…going back to the couch and to read the papers so I’ll have a topic for later….
Hold the victory laps here in Michigan….
Well…there has been a new theme that has surfaced in the repub talking points here in Michigan that is audacious to say the least, or just another incidence of the repubs taking credit for the recovery that they had no hand in. You decide. This latest theme or story, tries to tell the narrative that it is only the repub policies of cutting taxes for business, and raising them for everyone else that is responsible for the nascent recovery here in Michigan and that we should continue these policies or we will fall back into recession. I can’t even name how many ways this is wrong, but I’ll give a couple a try. First, it’s never been proven and it has never been documented that one job was ever created by tax cuts for business….especially in an environment where corporate cash on hand and profits are at the highest level in history…so, they won’t invest with a billion dollars on hand but they will if they have 1.25 billion on hand? the whole story is demand, demand, demand….and if middle class wages continue to fall, demand will fall along with it. Second, most of the job growth here in Michigan has been in and related to the recovery of the auto industry that the repubs vehemently opposed and still do….so now, they take credit that their policies resulted in this recovery? Just another instance where the repubs will do or say anything; counting on the electorate to have no memory at all of history or the truth. I guess it’s up to me to remind people….geez…
May 3rd
Well….it was a somewhat productive day yesterday and I did get some cleaning and clutter removal done…and I slept okay so I have some energy today and that is a good thing since it is grocery day today….and it is 7 am and it is already 70 degrees with the spring smell finally that makes me smile. I did have dreams last night but they were in a setting that I didn’t recognize…I’ve been in it before but I can’t place it in the real world…it has element of my grandparent’s house in the city but that is about it….I do need to continue the cleaning today and the bike ride will be 30 miles or so…I am going to make tacos today after I get back from groceries…well…not right after but for lunch and it is just me trying to change it up from the pork loins and chicken that I normally eat….and I am going to buy the papers today and leisurely read them with coffee and one of the last bagels….more later…oh, I have been looking forward to some storms for the past few days and today might be the day…..they’ve started to the north already but nothing here yet…
Some musings about Wisconsin…
Well….there have been some things happening in Wisconsin that I wanted to comment on today starting with the new polls that are out today showing that the likely challenger to ole Walker is leading in the polls…a small lead to be sure, but still in a lead in spite of the huge amount of outside money that has come into the race. Over the past couple of weeks ole Scott’s billionaire buddies, starting with the Koch brothers, have spent over 13 million dollars trying to keep this idiot in office and all it’s done is to make his approval ratings continue their downward slide. This is one thing that I find so repugnant about the big money that supports this guy and other repubs like him across the country…they will spend countless millions trying to influence the vote to install their radical right-wing agenda…but when it comes to paying their fair share of taxes to allow us to start to repair our infrastructure and educate our children, they are nowhere to be seen. So, this is one to watch over the next month, to see if we can start to take back democracy from the people who think that those who work for a living are just numbers on a balance sheet…not people that are just trying to live and raise their families in the face of this onslaught of the rich…geez….
The new do-nothing republicans…
Well….it has been an interesting time since the repubs took control of the House in 2010 and this congress is shaping up to be one of the most do-nothing congresses in the history of the country. Where are the jobs bills that will help put people back to work? Where are the infrastructure projects that will start to repair our crumbling country? Where are the forward thinking ideas that will help us compete in the future economy? The answer is nowhere…since it would go against the repubs stated goal of tearing down the government that is so “intrusive”…do they really believe that the private sector will take up the slack and build and repair the bridges, roads, and rural high speed internet that the country needs to prosper? This is the first time in my long life that I see this country going backward led by a party that, when you really take a long look, wants the country to fail for purely political gain and can’t see past party to do what’s right for all of us, not just their large donors. Maybe it’s a good thing that the House is not doing anything since the ideas they bring to the table are so far out of the mainstream that they would be laughable if the press would just say so….let’s remember that the repubs are the party of can’t do, who would like nothing better than to use policy to cement our status as an also-ran country while they profess to protect traditional values…the traditional values of the US are innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness…just the opposite of what the modern repub party stands for…geez….
May 2nd
Well…woke up this morning almost immobilized by the pain from working on the car…I didn’t think it was possible to strain every muscle above the waist but it seems like I did and every time I move I discover a new one that hurts….and I feel crooked like I really wrenched my shoulder but we’ll see as the day goes on…slept okay last night but no dreams to speak of but I guess that is okay….I do need the ibuprofen right now and that is what I’m going to do….not much to do today..it looks like there will be storms to watch this morning and I better get moving if I’m going to go out and get the papers on the bike….it’s already almost 60 so at least it will be warm enough…more later….