Well…it’s been a busy day that was fun-filled with cleaning,cleaning, cleaning and I’m now thinking if I should reward myself and have a beer to watch the final regular season Tiger’s game…..probably not since I am trying to be good until the first playoff game Friday night…and the Wings game tonight is not on tv so I can’t use that for an excuse….I think I may still have that bug that I got a couple of weeks ago but it could be that the allergies are finally kicking in…it has been a good summer for that and I have not had to take any medication…see, I told you you wouldn’t care about this stuff…I don’t even care about it so I’m going to stop here and go watch the Tigers…one last thing….if it’s clear, go out and look up later…maybe some northern lights tonight….
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The republicans vision…
Well..if we want to see the republicans vision in action, all we have to do is look at the state of Texas and the latest attack on schools there…on top of the 4 billion dollars that was chopped out of education in the latest budget, there is now a commission appointed by Rick Perry that is deciding on whether to give the companies that own the oil refineries there refunds on their taxes to pay for upgrades in their pollution controls. Now, let me get this straight…Perry and his cronies are going to give some of the most profitable companies in the world tax breaks to pay for something they are responsible for and shift the burden to the children and college students of Texas? This is class warfare and corporate welfare at it’s worst…what would happen if a regular citizen were to ask for tax breaks to buy a new car since is old one pollutes more than a new one? The repub establishment would be red-faced, screaming socialism, and lecturing the citizen that he or she needs stand on their own…that they can’t come to government to fix their problems. But it’s a different story when your big political donor comes with it’s hand out….that is the distilled vision that the repubs have for America…geez…
September 28th
Well…another day and night…lost at pool again but had a lot of fun so that is okay…I was good when I got home so I feel okay this morning but had to get up and get moving to give G a ride…well…I’m already up at this time everyday so it’s not any big thing to get moving a little early….there is a spider alert going on today with the weather cooling off…many, many, of them all around the bathroom again so I’ll have to spray around the doors today to try to keep them out…that will be about it for today, though, and I think I’ll revel in the fact that I don’t have much to do…..the bathroom does need work and that may be the plan for the day after the normal routine…
Oh, one last thing….boycott Family Fare…and today will be 161 on the bike if it stops raining…no song lyric yet…have to get on the bike for a while to find one….
Okay…found a lyric when I was in the car: “I’ve got a Coupe DeVille, I’ve got a bed in the house where you once lived…I’ve had a few cheap thrills, but they cost me a lot more than I could give…”
Okay, explain this to me…
Well…this little nugget has been gnawing at me for a while…well, at least a couple of weeks since ole Snyder weighed in on the obesity epidemic….I hope you’ll remember a few months back when Michelle Obama came out for measures that would help stem the obesity epidemic here in the US…..including that individuals need to take responsibility for their own health by eating better and getting off the couch….and she was vilified by the repubs for what they said was extension of the “nanny state” and being the nanny in chief….then, we have ole gov Snyder here in Michigan do the same thing and the GR press and the other right wing newspapers here cheer that someone had the bravery to take on the health of the people of the state….another case of breathtaking hypocrisy by the repubs and their propaganda arms in the media. When are we going to call these people on this nonsense? When are these newspapers going to stop looking at this stuff as good if it comes from the right and bad if it comes from anyone else? geez….
September 27th
Well….I did go out for a couple last night with G but took it easy and was good when I got home so I feel okay today…the boredom was as normal and endurable but I do need to find some new things to do. Not really any discernible dreams to speak of so I won’t….I am really sore on both shoulders today so I must have slept wrong on them and that is getting to be a pain….yeah, that might be funny…not sure…I do have a few things to do today…out to shoot pool later with Tom…oh, only one thing to do and I am going to try to be good when I get back here…I kind of like having energy when I get up so maybe I’ll try that….I will get to another one today since I did get caught up yesterday and there’s only three days left in the month….
Here’s today’s lyric: “Gravedigger, when you dig my grave, can you make it shallow so I can feel the rain…”
Oh, and today will be day 160…23 to go…
This one’s personal…
Well….there is something that has been boiling my blood lately and that is the increasing erosion of our privacy by entities large and small ranging from the Onstar that keeps recording your driving actions even after you cancel the service to the one that spurred this one….the institution of a “card” that is necessary to receive the sale prices at the local Family Fare grocery store. I find this to be a particularly onerous requirement…having to give up your personal information and have all of your purchases tracked to be able to get these prices, if you don’t, you pay full price. I liken this to blackmail and I will never shop in that store again….the owners say that there is no use for the information other than to make sure you get the best deals…and haven’t we heard this from every other corporation that has sold personal information to make a profit? What’s next…you have to give up your firstborn to be allowed to set foot in the store? People…in this new world, about the only thing we have left of value is our personal information and to give it away to save a few pennies at a store whose prices are not competitive anyway is just stupid….boycott Family Fare until this farce is ended…geez….
Musings about politics and other things…
Well….when are we, as a people, going to stop allowing billionaires to buy elections…when are we going to climb out from under the thumb of banks and business and take our country back…when are we going to find the principles that made this country great and start living by them again? I am edging up on the concept of civil disobedience as useful tool to combat the nonsense from the right and their owners…what if everyone took a month off from paying their mortgages; what would the banks do? What if we all come out and tell the politicians we want an ideology free set of solutions that are based in the science of economics; not the failed “gut feel” economics that the right is pushing? What if we said no to more tax cuts? What if we said yes to paying more in taxes to help get the country out of this mess? What if we boycott any company that sends even one more job out of the country? What if we stop this warfare on working people and support the unions who are the last line of defense for the middle class?
There are so many things that we can and need to do to make this country better…not just for the rich but for all of us but it won’t happen on it’s own…it’s time for all of us to say enough of going backward and saying what we can’t do…what if we become aspirational again? We need to think big again…there is more than enough money for it here….we just need to get it back from the right wing thieves who have stolen it all over the past 20 years….geez…
September 26th
Well…a long day yesterday but the Tigers, Lions, and Wings won so that made it a pretty good one…I may have a heart attack if the Lions keep playing like they did…pulling it out in OT….and there were really strange dreams last night, too, that included hurricanes, time travel, bombs, and tornadoes…T and her son were in this one, too which is really strange since she is never in them….it was another day of no human contact and that seems to be happening more and more lately but that is okay….I do have a couple of things to do today and it looks like dodging rain again trying to keep up the string on the bike….I am going to try to get back on the political horse today since there appears to be another reupub engineered government shutdown looming on the horizon….more later…
It’s part two…
Well…I did get the bike ride in after waiting for most of the morning for the rain to quit…so, that makes it 158 days in a row and I have found a goal to shoot for….183…that will get me to half a year with being on the bike every day….you do need some goals after all…I haven’t been able to write about politics lately for some reason and I’m not sure why that is….still trying to figure that out so I guess I’ll have to move on to other things for a couple of days..or maybe I’ll try one later after I read the paper again…who knows?
Here’s today’s song lyric: “there ain’t nothing in Chicago for a monkey woman to do…”
September 25th
Well…a long day yesterday with all of the sports and movies to watch…and i did have weird dreams that included meeting the neighbors and the ghosts they live with along with having my car impounded, Cadillacs on the lawn, and other things I can’t remember. This one is quite early since I am already bored and it is 6:41….but that doesn’t mean you are going to get more today…you might, but it is the weekend and I may not be able to get motivated…I do need to read the paper and have coffee..after I go get it, that is…and it is too dark right now to go…so I’m going to go get an ice water and lie on the couch for a few…more later…