Well…another normal night here at the homestead and I feel a little crappy today but I earned it so I don’t feel that bad about it…there is a lot of political stuff going on and I should be commenting on it and I just might do that later…after all, that’s the purpose of this thing…I did hear from the Post why they dropped me but I still don’t understand it…it was because I write this thing everyday and having it already gives me a “voice” that others don’t have….but everyone has a Facebook page that has much more exposure than I get daily…I really don’t fit into the “poor me” that they were looking for for the series and I think I would not have added to the story they are trying to tell…not much to do today…what do I normally do Thursday? Groceries, of course, since I don’t have any food in the place and I may meet up with T for a minute but that’s about it….I will have more later so come on back…
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Let’s go double dipping…
Well….it didn’t take long for the business and investment community to react to the debt bill by laying off thousands of workers and starting a huge selloff in stocks….what these idiot tea partiers have done is drive this country back into recession by their nonsensical budget cuts in a time of economic weakness…and I will predict right now that this dip is going to be just as severe as the super recession was and it looks like the prospects of me ever finding a job has just disappeared as business is going to sit on their money and not hire since demand is going to plummet. What excuse are the tp’ers going to make up when all of their beliefs on the economy are shown to be wrong? That the cuts weren’t big enough? Idiocy is still idiocy….and these people have the corner on it…what are their corporate masters going to do when their business is hurt deeply by this crap?
The second thing I wanted to talk about is the effort by the Koch brothers and their minions to steal the recall elections in Wisconsin by sending fake absentee ballots that have the wrong date of the election on it. Yep, that’s true…the repubs are using their favorite tools to steal elections in plain sight in Wisconsin…voter suppression with the fake enforcement of the new voter ID law (that doesn’t take effect until January 1st) and misleading voters to keep them from the polls. Haven’t we, as a people, had enough of this nonsense yet? We do need to take our country back from the thugs in the repub party that sanction this stuff. Geez….
August 3rd
Well…I finally had something to do last night with going out to have a couple with G but that slid right back into boredom when I got home….had more weird dreams about computers last night and working in an office again but that will never happen so I don’t know where that is coming from….oh, well…I did have some ideas about posts but I forgot them over night…Al Gore was fired up on Countdown last night and I wish we’d see some of that from Obama….one good thing about this whole mess is that the results of this debt deal are being rejected by business with the Dow falling 265 points after it was signed and people are waking up to the fact that….oh, that is for a political one later…kind of mixing up the purposes here….not much to do today…have to keep getting rid of stuff here and cleaning but that is about it….more later….
I’m done with Obama..
Well…this debt deal is such a big pile of steaming crap that I have lost all faith in Obama’s ability to do anything right…he just gave the country away to the tea party nuts and got nothing in return….so our economy is going to go back in the tank if you believe anything of Keynes…but the right doesn’t believe in anything that doesn’t help the rich and business and they’ve never let facts get in the way of governing by faith…thinking that if they just believe hard enough will make their nonsense the truth….but the fault for this whole thing rests solidly on the shoulders of Obama and his incompetence….along with this inability to understand that you can’t negotiate with people that just don’t care about the country or the people in it….Obama just blows in the wind and takes the crumbs that these radicals offer….where’s the veto pen? Where are the guts? I do hope that the rest of us progressives just bypass him and get on with making this country what it can be…not the dark vision of the repubs….
August 2nd
Well….another night of staying home and it is getting to be quite wearing not having anything to do….I did have weird dreams that had guns, bombs, and lots of weird birds in them and it was kind of odd that I was able to go back to the same dream every time I went back to sleep. It was kind of entertaining, though, and nice to finally have some after there being none for so long. It looks like rain this morning so I might have to take the day off from riding and that might not be a bad thing…I have been having pain in my left leg and I think it may be that the nerve is being pinched by the seat….not much to do today….I do need to clean this place up….my fridge looks like a war zone and needs a deep scrubbing so that will be the plan for the morning and I have to fight the ant invasion I’m having….I am so disappointed in Obama that I will need to write about that later so come on back…I may even make sense today…
The economic know nothings win….
Well…it looks like the economic know nothings in the congress have won and we are headed back into recession with the trillions of dollars in cuts that are included in the bill… the repubs keep saying that these cuts will stimulate the economy but it has never happened in the history of modern economies and I guess it just like everything else with those guys; the have faith that they are right and that’s all they need. As I’ve said before and as every econ 101 student knows, demand is what drives economies to expand and this bill will lower demand from both the government and individuals…it’s what I learned in my masters program…you can’t cut your way to growth…and this slack recovery is the direct cause of business squeezing their workers to the point that it’s hard to make ends meet on two incomes nowadays; it used to be that you could do it on one…this gutting of the middle class has reached a tipping point that I think will doom us to a permanent recession or stagnation…you reap what you sow…
Now, all that’s left to do is wait until the crash hits and vote these nuts out of office and repair this damage…
August 1st
Well…it was a cocktail night last night and I don’t feel that hot today…so the promises that I made yesterday of increased lucidity and relevance will have to wait until later today when I feel better….the first of the month is always the worst day since I have to write the check for the rent so I think I’m going to just try to repair the wounds and veg. I don’t have a lot to do today anyway….might even skip the papers and coffee… I am going to try to stay on track for two a day so come back later and there will be another one….
Okay, I’m back…
Well…it has been a day…my nice young neighbor moved out today…back home to her parents in Indiana since she lost her job and it was a little hard to see her go since she was the quietest, nicest neighbor I’ve had since I’ve been here…but things change and I have to accept that they do…had a nice day today…won at pool and now I’m waiting for 7 to come to have a cocktail and relax for the rest of the day…no political stuff today…I’m just waiting for the debt deal to be done before I comment on it and there really hasn’t been anything else that has grabbed me today….I am still a little chagrined that the Post dropped me from the unemployment project without any reason…I would think they would have let me know what the disqualifier was but that’s life…sometimes you don’t get to find this stuff out…I’ll live through it….it was nice to get to my goal for the month and there were no placeholders to inflate the count…so, a new month starts tomorrow and I’ll try to be more lucid and relevant..but, you know me….I try but I can be really inconsistent….see you tomorrow…
July 31st
Well…another month gone and I really don’t remember where it went…it is my youngest son’s birthday today and I will have to talk to him for a minute…and I do have pool with Tom today and it’s nice to have something to do…I am going to cook some ribs this morning in the foil pack while I’m out on the bike but I have the F1 race to look at first and since it is a wet race it should be fun. I will be back later for more…
It’s been a bore…
Well…it’s been a bore of a day and I’m just waiting for 7 o’clock to come so I can have a cocktail and watch Man U and Barcelona play a friendly match…I have been working on a political one today but the nonsense goes on with the debt ceiling which is crowding out all the rest of the political news….I just can’t believe that these guys are wasting so much time on this non issue when the economy is heading back into recession…just like I said it would if government spending was cut while the economy was still fragile….I hope the tea partiers are made to pay for their nonsense in 2012 and they send them back to ignorantville where they came from….
One of the things I find funny about the tea party and its masters is how they act just like the totalitarians that they say they hate…in the old Soviet Union, threats were a way of life to those in the government and was the way to keep them in line and we see exactly the same thing from the tea party leaders…promising to “primary” any member of congress that doesn’t do exactly as they say; no matter if their idiocy will result in irreparable damage to the country…these folks just don’t give a damn about anything but the money men from the Heritage foundation, Club for Growth, and the Koch brothers…..it’s just un-American that 80 people out of the congress can take it upon themselves to ruin this country…
Where are the jobs Boehner? Where are the jobs Cantor?