Well…reading the news this morning, I see there is a love-fest going on for Jerry Ford at the repub convention in Florida this week and all I could think of is that Jerry must be spinning in his grave. In today’s repub party, Jerry would never even get nominated with the right wing ideologues that have taken over and driven the party into a caricature of what it was when Jerry was in Washington. All of the things Jerry stood for…putting the country above party, compromise to get the best solution for the most people, and for the fairness that used to be what this country stood for is now anathema to the idiots that are the supposed statesmen and “brains” of the party. Jerry would laugh at Ryan, Romney, McConnell, Palin, Bachmann and the rest of them….he would rightly say that these are small politicians who have never understood what true conservatism is and who have no clue that government is compromise; not the scorched earth combat they have turned it into. He would laugh at the tea party idiots and their “keep your damn government hands off my Medicare” slogans and dismiss them as the destructive force they are…he would laugh at how easily they are manipulated by the big money interests that have as their agenda the destruction of the jobs that the tea partiers now have….
Jerry Ford was a man of integrity, honor, and duty that the idiots like Ryan and Romney could never stand next to and I find it personally offensive that the congressman that I voted for, that I held up as the model for how to govern is being used by these charlatans to make themselves look like they are the same, moderate party that Jerry belonged to….shame on you…geez…
Well…another pretty normal day yesterday but I am sore all over and I can’t figure out why….slept okay but was up at 3 again so I am a little worn out…it may have to do with not eating enough yesterday…I don’t think a chicken thigh and a small baked potato is enough but I’m having trouble eating….so, I’ll try to do better today….I did have dreams about some weird place that had lots of vodka and mean people but the rest of the details have faded already so it must have been somewhat painful….not much to do today,,,I do have to run out to Kohl’s to look for a dress shirt for the Seattle trip and to see if I can find some new shoes…and then meet up with T later in the day….I hope I get some energy or I may have to skip the bike ride today…
Well…this is a topic that I just need to come back to since it is the most egregious attempt at voter fraud perpetrated by the repubs this year…well…not really, the voter suppression laws that were voted on here in Michigan were worse but at least Snyder vetoed some of them. What happened in the past couple of days is that Jase Bolger the speaker of the repub controlled house here in Michigan has basically thrown Roy Schmidt under the bus as he tries to protect his power in Lansing…even though his fingerprints were all over ole Roy’s change to the repubs from the dems and the manipulation of the process to make sure there would be no dem challenger. Ole Jase has said that Roy is basically dead in the water and has abandoned him as his plans have blown up in his face. That is just like the repubs…no moral compass, just political nonsense to win at all costs…geez…
Well…as always, I’m running late again today and I’m not sure how to fix it…it was a fun day yesterday with getting out to see the twins for a few minutes and seeing a new bar downtown…only spent 4 bucks so that was a good thing since I’m still broke and need to put some cash together for the Seattle trip…but, I hope that works out this week….I did have dreams last night but I don’t remember what they were so does that mean they didn’t exist? Hmmmm…I do need to go out and get the papers and have coffee so I’ll come back later for more…
Well…running late again today…wanted to get the bike ride in before I got to this…it was an okay day yesterday with going out to look at some of the cars on 28th street…did see another Miata there that was in much worse shape than mine that they were asking 4500 bucks for so I feel better about what I paid for mine…and that one was a ’90 even….and it was hot out there and I sweated through everything…it was a too much sports night last night with the race, Lions and Tigers all being on…almost wore out the remote switching back and forth….won’t have that problem today since there is nothing on but the Tigers…not much to do today…I should clean the bathroom but the allergies are keeping me with little energy to do anything…we’ll see…
Well…this is going to be a short one about ole Mitt’s smug comment the other day that “no one has ever asked me for my birth certificate” while he was campaigning in Michigan….today, we find that it was just another lie since a reporter named Jim Newell came forward and tweeted that he has asked ole Mitt numerous times for the certificate…does this guy just have to lie about everything? Just points out that ole Mitt will say anything to get elected….and most of them are lies…I was going to quote a Pink Floyd lyric but I don’t want another letter from the record company…
Well…running late this morning but I’ve already gotten the bike ride in so that is my excuse…it was a normal day yesterday but I did have to go to one of my nephews wedding…it only took about 15 minutes and then I blew out of there and came home…and had a cocktail night so that was fun…fell asleep on the couch again since I was up around 5 am and missed the end of the race from Bristol…probably should go out and see…it might be a fun day today with man U playing in a couple of minutes and then I may go over to 28th street and take a look at some of the cars that are there for the cruise…more later…
Well…it has been a day in politics…not a lot happened but we did have the tone-deaf ole Mitt spout in Michigan that “no one ever asked me for my birth certificate” and I’m not sure what he was getting at…did he mean that this is a difference between he and Obama that should matter in the election? It appears that ole Mitt has embraced the crazy-assed right wing of the repub party…no, that’s wrong…the whole republican party is a crazy-assed right wingers and all Mitt was doing was playing to the birthers. I hope he keeps this crap up because it is defining himself as one of the fringe…one other thing, the head of the repub party is tacitly admitting that the repub platform to be adopted at the convention is so far right it only appeals to the very right base by saying the the platform belongs to the repub party and not ole Mitt…how the hell does that work? Is Mitt not part of the repub party? I just love seeing them contort themselves to justify the craziness…this kind of stuff used to only happen with the real fringes like the John Birch Society…and now it is the repub party…geez…
Well…running really late this morning since the internet connection was down all morning and I forgot that my phone can double as a wifi hotspot…but it’s fixed now…it was just another normal day yesterday and I really didn’t accomplish much which I plan to change today…I have work to do here and then I have to get ready for one of my nephews wedding for later today…and I think I should wash the car for it but I probably won’t since it is going to storm tomorrow….but, right now I do need to get working so I’ll come back for more later….
Well…I’ve been sitting here thinking about what to write for the second one of the day and have had no luck…so, that means I have to just wander around a bit and see what happens…I think I’ll go out to the Post and try to find something…okay…no luck…so I’ll pose a question…why is work taxed at a higher rate now than investment? Why shouldn’t all income be treated the same? Why should a billionaire who makes his money through investment pay 14% while the worker sweating in a foundry or auto plant pays 30%? I think it all has to do with the lack of respect the repubs have for workers as evidenced by all of the ways they have tried to hurt them over the years. The Ryan budget would do more of the same…give more tax breaks to the rich while raising our taxes…doesn’t anyone else see this as immoral? This, coming from the party that holds themselves out as the morally superior one…the family values party…since when did stealing the whole country for the rich become a family value? And, when did women agree to give up all of their rights to their own bodies when they become pregnant as the repubs are putting in their platform….I am getting a little tired of pointing this stuff out to people…but, if not me, who? geez…