Well…a strange thing happened last night…I actually slept pretty well and don’t remember a lot of tossing and turning….there were dreams, too, which I remember but don’t understand at all….but that’s okay. I wonder if it’s the three nights in a row of no cocktails? i do feel pretty good today so that is a bonus…I did have bad news on the car yesterday with another exhaust leak that I just can’t stand…but, since I’m so broke, I’m going to let it go for a while to see how long I can make it last before it gets really bad. Oh, well…I do have something to do today..going out to shoot pool with Tom and might be able to make the string of 4 wins in a row last longer….but that doesn’t matter, really….I will be back later for another one….and that one may be interesting…
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More nonsense from Scalia and Thomas….
Well….if you had any doubt of the outcome of the court challenges to the new healthcare law, all you have to do is take a look at who was dining with the the major challengers of the law. The other day, both justices Thomas and Scalia dined at a dinner that was sponsored by the law firm that will be challenging the law in court…yep, you heard it right, the justices that are supposed to be the most impartial and held to the highest standards of any court in the land are out rubbing elbows with not only the law firm that will be arguing in front of them but with trade associations who are financially backing the suit. Doesn’t this look like a conflict of interest to anyone else? This doesn’t even include that justice Thomas’s wife is a leading proponent of repeal and makes millions of dollars as a lobbyist for the repeal crowd. This isn’t even the first time these two have done something that is, by statute, not illegal, but still stinks of influence coming from the big money folks on the right…they have been regulars at the Koch brothers sponsored events for years…and I don’t care how much they protest that they will still be objective, all you have to do is read some of their opinions to see that the right’s machine has friends on the court. Geez….
November 15th
Well…another night and no cocktails so I feel pretty good today..even slept okay but the dreams were about the Indy 500 but I don’t remember who I was there with or what the reason was for the dream…still, quite entertaining. haven’t heard from G in quite a while and I wonder what is going on there….oh, well….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t move forward at all and that has become quite troubling to me….just another thing to feel bad about but I won’t let it get me down….the snow that is coming later in the week might, though, and it could be a problem getting to Thanksgiving wearing shorts but I’ll give it the old college try….not much to do today….still eating out of the freezer and I think I can get a couple more days before I need to replenish…trying to wait until I do the t-day run so I can get my turkey for about 4 bucks and I will need to get it by the end of the week so it will thaw…looks like no “orphans” t-day dinner this year but I will still make the whole big deal….just love the leftovers….more later…
Why do the republican candidates seem so small?
Well…when I was out on the bike today, I heard this lyric by Peter Gabriel..”the place where I come from is small town, they think so small, they use small words…” and it made me think of the current crop of repub candidates…I can’t remember a smaller bunch of politicians…I don’t mean small in the physical sense but in the size of their ideas. Over the course of the debates so far, there has not been one of them with any ideas on how to make the country greater…to move us to the next stage…they are all a just of counterpunchers that just say no, that just say what can’t be done, and who only parrot the failed ideas of the repub party of the past thirty years. Where is the person from the conservative end of the spectrum that can think for themselves and not just channel Grover Norquist? What happened to the time honored approach to foreign policy that said “politics end at water’s edge” and that the president should be supported when he deals with the rest of the world?
This group of tiny politicians remind me of a pack of Pekinese yipping and yapping around the ankles of the greats….geez…
Oh, and one last thing that should disqualify them all….at the debate a couple of days ago, every one of them has vowed to violate the Geneva conventions by the use of torture on terror suspects…and commit a felony at the same time…what a bunch of idiots…
November 14th
Well…another short night of sleep with being up at 5:11 but that’s okay…it was a little bit of a bore last night but “the Shining” was on again so that gave me something to switch to when the regular stuff got to be too much…in the middle of watching a German silent film from 1929 that is just one of the weirdest things that I have ever seen and I think I’ll go back to that right now and then come back later to add to this…
Okay…just got back from coffee and thought I’d get back to this for a while…couldn’t get through that German movie…the music was just so annoying and, for a 4 star rated movie, the acting and story was simplistic to say the least…I wonder who rates these things? I had dreams last night that were centered around a 1977 Chrysler that I once owned…pale blue with a blue leather interior….5,000 pounds of Detroit iron that never got better than 14 miles to the gallon and sometimes much less than that…a pretty cool 4 door hardtop but it was another of those lost and can’t find my way home ones that are becoming somewhat disconcerting. It was an okay day yesterday but I couldn’t muster the ambition to go out and shoot pool with Tom..,.not really in the mood for it I guess…it was nice to text a few with T and that really lifted my spirits so I have to say thanks to her…not much to do today…just the same old soul crushing resume nonsense I go through every day….but maybe today will be the day…
November 13th
Well… a good night last night with the Wings winning another one and some really weird dreams that included lots of cooking and Alan Alda….not going go further into that one…it was a variation on the can’t find class one that I have all the time…but in this one I couldn’t cook…other than that it was just the normal night of fighting off the boredom….having a hard time getting going today so I think I’ll just go back to the couch and have some more water….I do have to get out in a few to get the paper and it is already 55 degrees…so it may be a chance to get out on the bike for the last time in a t-shirt….but the wind is blowing about 30 so that may not happen….more later…
Okay…going to be lazy today and only do one of these…I did get a nice ride in but I am really sore from going into the 25 mph plus wind, though….now I’m just going to watch the rest of the race and wait for the Lions to come on….just don’t have the mindset to write much right now….not getting the job has been harder on me than I expected and I know I did that to myself by being excited about the possibilities….won’t let that happen again…if I ever get another bite….
An easy day….
Well…I finally got back on the bike today and it was a nice ride…but, I haven’t really done much other than that today…I was going to do a political one today but there really is not much happening that I want to comment on…Michigan is looking pretty terrible today but the last time I looked, they were up by 14 and trying to give the game away…I am looking forward to the Wings game tonight but there is not a good candidate for my second channel to flip to…”The Bank Dick” with WC Fields is on at 8 so maybe that’s one to consider….I think it will be a cocktail night tonight but I am going to take it easy and just have a couple…the tooth is finally coming around but yesterday I burned the crap out of the same side of my mouth and having pain there for so long is getting really tiring. Have to really get on the job search again tomorrow but I took the day off today to try to stop feeling so bad about it….okay, big wreck in the race and I’m going to go watch it…
November 12th
Well…another night and another Wings win so that was okay…I’m sitting here waiting for the coffee to brew and thought I’d do a short one here…weird, weird dreams that had the revealing of a new car model in my place combined with the standard college one that I have all the time…and this place was just huge with an upstairs and a downstairs…yeah, I know, I’m weird as hell. Okay, the coffee is done and I have to go read the papers and watch the F1 qualifying….more later…
I do have to say happy birthday to Neil Young….
Another boring day….
Well…that wasn’t going to be the title but “kill me, I’m bored” seemed to be a little over the top…so I thought I’d relieve it a little bit by sitting down here again and seeing what happens. Hmmm…nothing is happening….I wonder how long I should wait? Probably not a long time…it is a second day of not being on the bike and I’m still sore…but, you don’t want to hear about that…do you want to hear about any of this? Maybe I should make this one political? I was going to do one on the idiot AG here in Michigan…but it is on a topic that I really can’t talk about here…so, where do we go? Okay…let me get the Detroit News out from today and see if there is something there…be right back. Nope, nothing there….so, I think I’ll stop here and go try to find something else to do….
Can Mitt be this stupid?
Well…one of the funny things that came out of the repub debate from a couple of days ago falls under the heading of “can Mitt be this stupid” and made me laugh like crazy. When ole Mitt was spouting the usual talking points of repealing “Obamacare”, he made mention of a comparison that the left has been making for decades now…that every other industrialized country in the world pays less for healthcare than the US does…and he attributed the extra cost to the government being involved. But, what he fails to realize is that every other country that he noted has some form of a single-payer system that the government runs. So, now, Mitt…are you for or against a single-payer system? Or are you going to be against it today and for it tomorrow? Or, are you saying that the lie you and your repub cronies are spouting is just a cynical ploy to ensure that the insurance companies can continue to steal from the country?
Which is it, Mitt? Or,is it both…or is it neither? And, what will it be tomorrow?