Well…in reading a few articles today, one about the removal of the president of U of Va…I was struck by this thought..”why are we bowing to the capitalists?” After all, the capitalists gave us the meltdown in the economy, they brought us Enron and Halliburton and two wars and their decisions have not been any better than flipping a coin. so, why do the repubs revere them so much? In my day…only people who accomplished things were revered; not those that talk a great game and then belly up to the public trough for a bailout when their stupidity or hubris leads them to put the entire country at risk. So, let’s stop making rich people out to have the answers; after all, most of them started with inherited money and connections that would make the countries biggest idiot successful…geez…
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June 23rd
Well…it was another long night last night and it is getting really old…feel pretty crappy today and not really motivated to do this right now…so I won’t…be back in a little while to do more…okay, I’m back after coffee and the papers and feel much better…can’t wait to get out on the bike after F1 qualifying since there is no wind this morning and those days are really rare…and it is only 61 degrees right now so that will make it even better…it was a pain in the ass yesterday with all of the tree cutting going on around here…I had just washed and waxed the car and it was coated with sawdust that I had to try to wipe off but the new wax seems to attract dust…I was kind of hoping that it would rain last night to clean it off but it looks like I may just have to go back and wash it again…not much to do today…I may meet up with K later to hang out or just take a drive in the car….I did join MOMM yesterday…(Miata owners of Mid Michigan) and it may be cool to hang out with others that have the Miata bug….
Just a short comment on the latest from ole Mitt…
Well…read a nice little nugget of who Romney really is, or who the modern republican party really is when an article from a couple of days ago revealed that ole Mitt has been going around to repub governors and telling them to stop telling the truth about the economic improvements that have happened in their states…and start saying that the economy still is in bad shape because of Obama and his policies…you know, lie about what it going on…something that Romney is really comfortable with. This just shows what the repubs are all about….they don’t give a damn that perception of an improving economy is important to the recovery…they have said all along that their only goal is to defeat Obama and they don’t care if they tank the economy doing it…in fact, they would love the economy to tank…then they can push more tax cuts for the rich and destroy more of the middle class…and, the recovery is sputtering because of the obstruction of the repubs and their asinine embrace of austerity that has driven Europe back into recession and will do the same here if they keep it up…geez…
There is nonsense in the world…
Well…not sure if you’ve heard what is happening here in Michigan, but I marvel at the repubs that are running the show here…not so much our governor, who seems to have a somewhat level head on his shoulders, but the repubs that are running the house here. Starting with the culture war nonsense where they are trying to overturn Roe v. Wade with a bunch of laws that will further restrict women’s rights…and that will be struck down by the courts as these model laws have been across the country and now, many of these legislators that have been purchased by the owner of the Ambassador bridge, are now trying to get a constitutional amendment that would not allow any infrastructure to be built without the legislature’s approval; even if it is done at no cost to Michigan. I can see a real reason for a part-time legislature if this is the nonsense we get from these people…nothing on getting us back to work, nothing for improving our schools, nothing for anyone but their donors and acting like the only people they represent are the ones that voted for them…and I think that is the problem with this country right now…the repubs don’t give a damn about anyone but their base and only legislate for them…geez…
June 22nd
Well…it was a day yesterday but I am a little confused that I didn’t sleep even after all of the activity…oh, well…I did skip working out and the bike ride yesterday so the guilt has kicked in and I will make sure that I will do that this morning…I am kind of looking forward to getting back into the routine today and cooking some chicken with the new spices I got yesterday…and fresh veggies that I got from C….and I’ll come back here for more later but I am a little foggy today and I need to clear the fog before I can think as well as I need to….
Okay…it’s after lunch and I feel much better so I thought I’d relate some trail weirdness that happened today…first, there were the huge groups of turkeys that were just strolling across the trail like they had nothing better to do…then, I was struck in the chest by a frickin dove that was startled when I came by…could that be a dove bomber? I know, really bad pun….
Just a little more…
Well…it was a long day today with the trip to Mt. P today and I got a pleasant surprise that the mileage on the car is around 30 on the highway…which I really wasn’t expecting since it is not built to be a highway cruiser…and it is nice to have a car that I don’t have to think about when I go somewhere….and I did have to the top down the whole way but did get a little wet north with the rain that was falling for the first 30 miles or so coming back…had a lot of fun and found out a bunch of stuff today and it was good to see C and Ren…oh, and D, too….so, I’m sure you’ve guessed that this is just kind of a filler for the day but I will be back tomorrow with at least three good ones…I’m going to have G and t’s tonight so I should feel okay in the morning….I hope there will be sleep tonight since I’ve been up since 4:30 and driving over 200 miles is kind of wearing….we’ll see…
June 21st
Well…another night of no sleep and up at 5:30 and this is getting tiring….not going to say much right now but I do have a road trip to do to Mt. P today….so, I may only do a couple of these….I used to think it was kind of magical to be up at this time of the day but now I just think it’s a pain in the ass….when did sleeping become optional? I’m waiting for the damn dish to reset but I’m done for now…I’ll be back later for more but right now I need to do something else…
Just another thought…
Well…I don’t know how I forgot this one from the papers today….and I think it’s a little reported consequence of the emergency manager law here in Michigan that lets officials appointed by the governor take over cities and towns that are in financial distress….and it gives the repubs here just another tool to jam their vision of the state as a corporate paradise down the electorates throat. In two school districts that have been taken over, the appointed repubs are proposing that all of the eduction of the children there be turned over to for profit corporations; firing all of the teachers and administrators (yep, they are union workers), something that they tried through legislation but were defeated. What else are they going to destroy before we tell them we’ve had enough of this crap? Corporations and privatization are not the solution to every problem that is facing us here in Michigan…if that were the case, why don’t we privatize the legislature and the governor’s office? What about the families that now don’t know where their kids are going to go to school in the fall? What about the teachers who have worked their whole lives and now are being told to “reapply” for their jobs at half the pay they were making before? And, what about the only two companies who have said they are interested in taking on this job and whose schools they currently run are substandard in performance to the public schools they compete with? This is just another attempt by the repubs to destroy the unions that they have an unreasonable hatred for…these guys have no shame and are the biggest threat to democracy that we have ever faced….geez…
Trying to catch up…
Well…it’s been a day of nothing really…I do have to at least try to get caught up…there was a weird happening last night…I saw a spot on CMT (country music television) advertising for a show this weekend that has Joe Walsh doing songs with country stars…how weird is that? I am going to stay up and watch that one just to see how strange it is…I wonder if he’ll do a country version of “Funk 49”? That would be just too weird…but not as weird as me watching CMT…what else? Hmmm….it’s first day of summer…haven’t mentioned that…even though I have the new car, the perfect one for summer, I still miss hanging around with my friends…now I’m down to Tom basically and never thought it would happen like this…and I just can’t get motivated to do more to find more of them…there are days that I don’t talk to anyone anymore and that is something…not sure what but it is something…not much else to talk about right now so I won’t…I may have to come back later to another one just to do what the title says….
A few things I find funny..
Well…have been thinking about a few things this morning and there are a few of them that I find funny…the funniest one was the bus tour that Mitt Romney did here in Michigan over the past few days where he touted the “jobs, jobs, jobs” that would come from his administration….but not once in the time here did he mention unions and his hatred of them and the fact that policies that he supports would destroy most of them…and along with them, the ability of people get a good job that would pay a living wage…I wonder what “jobs” he was talking about?
Another thing I find funny is the fact the businesses here in Michigan, and across the country have stopped hiring even after the huge tax cut they were given by the repubs that was supposed to work it’s “magic” and create “jobs, jobs, jobs”….but, no one is paying attention here…have never seen this fact mentioned in any newspaper (and I read almost a dozen of them everyday) or by any other media outlet…when did the lies of the repubs stop being news?
I think I’m getting fatigued by all of the political nonsense that is going on…oh, I do have one more thing I find funny…that the repubs are declaring “victory” in Wisconsin since Walker retained the governor’s chair…but they never mention that they lost the senate to the dems…let’s see him try to get any of the radical right crap passed now…and this idiot is now being considered as a VP candidate…geez…