Well…I am not surprised with the now concerted effort to vilify and demonize the “Occupy” movement that is spreading across the world that is coming from the right…after all, they have a vested interest in keeping the status quo where 20% of the country who are rich and connected take, and take, and take while the rest of us keep butting our heads against this money and power. Now, some of the golden oldies of division that the repubs trot out any time they feel threatened with the truth are weaving their way into the daily talking points and are getting constant airing on Fox News…that the movement is overrun by “commies” and anti-semites and propose that “Occupy” is just a cover for socialists trying to force everyone into labor camps and confiscate the wealth of the rich for redistribution. I mean, really? The rich have been confiscating the wealth of everyone else for the past two decades by the purchasing of the government through the repubs and that is okay? Oh, I get it…it’s okay to redistribute wealth up but not down. I finally have a glimmer of hope that the rich and connected have overplayed their hand by bringing their naked theft into the open and not caring who knows about it…starting in Wisconsin and continuing with the Cain 999 plan that would cut taxes for the top 5% while raising taxes on the rest of us. Keep it up “Occupy”…the screaming you hear coming from the right is fear and the repubs understand the use of fear better than anyone else…geez…
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October 19th
Well…a third night with no cocktails so I feel pretty good today…weird dreams again but they are not really clear right now..something to do with fish that I was trying to keep alive….I did get a lot of stuff done around here yesterday since I am still waiting for them to come and look at the furnace…I can’t remember this place looking so clean in a long time and I kind of like it….maybe I’ll have to try to keep it this way for a while…it looks like the string is going to be broken today….looking at the radar, it looks like we have an express train of rain coming in from the south all day and it has already started….I’ll look for a dry slot until the aft but 180 days in a row is not a bad record…..I wonder if taking the day off will help the soreness? Not much to do today…I’m supposed to hang out with G later but Tom wants to go today, too…so that is a dilemma….but a good one to have with being cooped up here since last Thursday…more later…
If corporations are people…
Well…read an interesting little tidbit in one of the papers this morning that I thought I’d write a short comment about….if corporations are “people” according to the supreme court, why haven’t any of them been sentenced to the death penalty in Texas? There have been many cases of negligence by corporations that have resulted in human deaths there, but not once have they been held accountable as a human would have been. So, what is it Rick? You revel in the fact that you have put more people to death than any other governor in history but when it comes to holding corporations accountable, you just turn a blind eye to make sure your campaign money keeps rolling in. It is such an egregious pattern of allowed lawbreaking by the repubs that puts the rule of law second to political gains and allows felons like Dick Cheney to walk away from breaking both domestic and international law with impunity….oh, I get it…it’s George Orwell at work from “Animal Farm”….”all pigs are equal but some are more equal than others..” Geez….
Okay….look down…I added to the last one….
October 18th
Well…an easy night last night with G out of town so a no cocktail night and I feel okay today…weird dreams that included Aquinas College, BMW loaners, tornadoes, and lots of dirty dishes….yep, it;’s getting strange inside the head again and I like it….the Aquinas part is a repeater where I haven’t finished all of my course work yet…I forgot what classes I had and the ones I remembered, I couldn’t find…the BMW loaner thing was connected to that part, too….a new detail, to be sure…not much to do today…have to clean some and get out on the bike but that’s about it….I could whine a little about not getting any resume responses but that’s just not me….I will come back later for at least one more….
Okay…already did the one more so look up this time….today was 180 on the bike and it was a dead mouse alert day…saw 15-20 of them in 20 feet on the trail…..don’t know if I’ll make it to 183 but I’m going to try….
Here’s today’s lyric: “Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground…Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down…”
If you liked Scott Walker…you’ll love Herman Cain…
Well….it’s a good thing that, finally, the media is starting to catch up with the story of how connected to the Koch brothers Herman Cain is…and if you like what Scott Walker did in Wisconsin (the first governor from Kochland) you will just love what ole Herman has in store for all of us. Isn’t it enough that almost all of his campaign staff has worked for the Koch brothers or one of their front companies over the years and whose strings are still being pulled by the Koch’s? Or should we instead just look at his performance on “Meet the Press” this past Sunday? This man is an idiot, another repub who thinks that just repeating things makes them true, and who truly believes that just because something is simple (like his 999 tax plan) it has to be correct. I marveled when he said that the new 9% national sales tax couldn’t be added to the state sales taxes we already have….so now the repubs don’t believe in math? We already have enough stupidity in Washington, let’s not add to it…geez…
A terrible, terrible Sunday….
Well…I have been thinking about this since the race yesterday where Danny Wheldon was killed…and I can’t shake the feelings that the world is a little darker today without Danny in it….I always enjoyed watching him race and seeing his huge smile when he won Indy….to have him leave behind a young family just makes it that much worse…as I said earlier it brought back feelings I had in 1966 when the first driver a 13 year old kid had ever idolized was killed in an unimportant F2 race in Hockenheim, Germany. Jimmy Clark, “The Flying Scotsman” died when a tire came apart and his car went off into the forest that lined the track. I don’t know what else to say except rest in peace, Danny….
October 17th
Well…not a very good day yesterday…one of the drivers in the Indycar series was killed in the race that I was watching from Las Vegas and it took me back to 1966…I’ll talk about that in one later today…needless to say, that cast a pall over the rest of the day…not much to do today…feeling a little low from yesterday’s events so I am going to end early here and come back later for more….
Okay…got the bike ride in and it was brutal out there again today…I did get number 179 in the books but it looks like I won’t get to 183 if it rains like forecast for Wed…..I just noticed that this is number 1200 in the series…that’s a lot when you think about it…
Here’s today’s lyric: “the maids are in the hallway banging on the door, asking what that funny smell was…wake you up to tell you it’s okay to sleep some more…by the way, is there any you can sell us?…”
October 16th
Well….not so good of a day for us here in Michigan yesterday…the Tigers got beaten to a pulp and U of M lost to State…so I guess some people here will be happy…at least the Wings won in OT so that was a plus…it seems like I’m always running late on Sunday and I never know the reason for it…waiting for the rain to stop so I can get out on the bike and make it 178 days…the wind is calm today so it may even be pleasant to go out….not much to do today….not even going to cook today, just use up the leftovers from a couple of days ago, but I do need to watch the Lions to see if they are a good team or not….that should be fun and then there is the F-1 race later…I’ll try to come back later for another one and a song lyric…it will probably be a Pink Floyd since that’s what I listen to on Sundays…more later…
Just bored….
Well…I wonder why it is that even great days can be a letdown…I’m sure it has to do with the anticipation of greatness and when Michigan stunk up the joint at noon the air just came out of it…and I’m bored right now so that is why I’m back here for a little while. I don’t know if I can recapture the excitement for the Tigers game and that is a disappointment. This dish has been giving me fits all day with at lest 4 resets and if it does it again tonight I think I’ll take a hammer to it…oh, don’t have a hammer so I guess I’ll have to improvise…the pizza came out great so that was a plus and helped a little…but the leftover chicken for dinner was just so boring, too…hmmm…I notice a theme here….I hope the wind calms down by tomorrow…don’t know if I can take being out with it blowing 30 again…I was going to do a political one today but the outrage meter is on empty and I really don’t want to fake it….so I guess I’ll go and get the fixins ready a cocktail or two…I did have to put the heat on today and now my furnace has this weird hiccup when it shuts down like it wants to start again; firing up the blower for two seconds and then shutting off….at least I don’t have to pay to have it fixed….just hope it doesn’t kill me in the middle of the night….or do I?
October 15th
Well….another night, more tv, and if that sounds boring, it is…I’m running late today since I was up at 5 or so and then did get back to sleep….it is going to be a sports day today….Man U is on right now and then I have to go out to get the papers at the half to have my coffee and wait for the wind to die down so I can get the bike ride in before the Michigan and State game. Then tonight, there are the Tigers, the Wings, and a race on so I think I’ll have a good excuse to do almost nothing…I am going to make a homemade pizza for the game this aft and I am looking forward to that…I will try to come back later for another one…and the song lyric..
Okay…I’m back after one of the most brutal rides that I can remember…had to pedal hard to even go downhill into the wind and I’m sure I’m going to pay for that tomorrow…paying for it right now since the legs are already hurting and that never happens…oh, well…I’m glad I got it done before the game and that makes it 177…only 6 more to go….
Here’s the lyric” “well if you can, try to teach them things that they don’t know….give ’em a helping hand, make them see the things there that don’t show…”