Well….running late this morning just because I decided to have coffee and read the papers first…it was an okay day yesterday but didn’t do much….it does look like I’ve been dropped by the Post for some reason and it would have been nice for them to let me know why…oh, well….it looks like a gorgeous day outside and I’ve already been on the bike…not for the long ride but to get the papers…it has been such a good summer for that with the warmth and lack of rain…just read an article about average temps here in GR and they are almost 1.5 degrees higher on average than they were 20 years ago….but climate change is not happening….not much to do today…might meet up with T for a bloody this morning but I haven’t heard from her yet so I’m not planning on it…going back to the couch to watch the rest of F1 qualifying….I will be back later for at least one more……
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Obama needs to lead?
Well…this is just a short one to comment on some of the statements from the right coming out of this debt ceiling debate…one of the common refrains is that Obama needs to lead on the issue and is not doing enough to solve the crisis. But, the only place they want him to lead is in their direction, to give them all of the tax cuts, spending cuts, and gutting of the social safety nets they want and they consider anything else a dereliction of duty. I just can’t believe this nonsense…
Told you it was going to be a short one…oh, and I got to sixty for the month…yay…but, I really need to get 62 since July has 31 days….damn…
A few things…
Well…It’s been a long day already and I am a little disappointed with the turns today…I did get a bike ride in but I am so frickin sore that I can barely move and I can’t understand it…okay, I know, I can go take a couple of ibuprofen and I’ll be better but I just don’t want to have to go buy more…yeah, that’s as stupid as it sounds….but I have been feeling like that lately. Another month has gone by and I still haven’t done much this summer…I can’t afford to do much but there should be something to do that doesn’t cost a lot…
I still don’t understand this whole debt ceiling nonsense….it has been raised 47 times under repub presidents and now it can’t be done because we have a dem administration. Didn’t these guys understand that they have to govern after they got elected not just posture for their base? I am really glad that I’m getting older…I don’t want to see this once great country hijacked by the know nothings that dominate the repub party…they are the worst sort of true believers who see their election as a crusade and you take no prisoners in a crusade…some of these guys have even said they don’t need to do anything since god will take care of them and the country….geez…
July 29th
Well…I’ve got to stop getting so up when glimmers of good things happen….I did it when I got the phone interview for a new job and now when I got a response from the Post for the unemployment project…I don’t think I’m going to hear back from them after the disclosure that I do this every day….but, I couldn’t lie and have it come out later so I’ll live with the consequences. I did have a nice day with going to celebrate the start of K’s vacation at Logan’s so I do feel a little crappy today….but that’s all right…I anticipated it and even welcomed it after being good for a few days….not much to do today…it is Friday so I don’t have to work out but I will do a bike ride later in the morning….and maybe meet up with T for a minute but I’m not holding my breath…I’m almost at 60 for the month and it looks like I’ll make it….
Keep your damn government hands off my medicare…
Well…this is going to be a short one since I have been a little distracted by the Washington Post project…but I had to comment on the absurdity of the photo op and comments of Mitt Romney yesterday at a manufacturing plant in Ohio….where ole Mitt and the owner of the factory essentially said the infamous line from the title describing how bad Obama and his policies are for business. Let’s forget for now that corporate profits are at their highest level in history….I hope they can explain to me how business is doing that in an environment where they are opressed by government regulation. What old Mitt and the business owner did not disclose was that they have been the beneficiaries of government action in the form of tax abatements and subsidized government contracts that are policies of the Obama administration….”keep your damn government hands off my Medicare”….what a bunch of hypocrites….
Delusions on the right…..
Well…in some of the reporting today, it appears that one of the greatest sticking points in this whole debt debate for the righties is they won’t agree to anything unless there is a constitutional amendment to balance the budget included in any deal…even though this “cut, cap, and balance” plan passed the house, both the senate and Obama have said that this legislation is dead on arrival in either the senate or the president’s desk. Even if this absurd amendment to the constitution were to pass both houses with the required 2/3 majority, it still has to go to the states for ratification; a process that will take years and that has about as much chance to pass as a return to prohibition. So, these idiots want to put the entire US economy on hold while they live their delusions that they never have to compromise and should get everything they want even though the majority of America does not agree with them? Even John McCain has called out these morons on the delusional state of their thinking….but that is what you get America when you believe anything the right tells you…..and I agree with McCain when he says the tea party folks are lying to the country when they say that their agenda is even possible….I’m not sure if the lie is deliberate or if they are just so ignorant of how the founders wanted the government to work that they think a minority in one house can set the entire agenda for the country…doesn’t work that way…
July 28th
Well…an okay night last night but didn’t do a whole lot…I was quite good so I feel okay even though the sleep was pretty crappy….I did get a response form the Washington Post and will be taking part in their series on the unemployed where I guess the format will be that there will be weekly submissions by the people chosen but I haven’t heard back about what the format will be…at least it will give me something more to do as I look for work….that was a pretty good set of storms that rolled through here yesterday….some of the thunder was so loud that the concussion was moving my t-shirt as I stood at my slider and watched…one of the neatest things I’ve seen in quite a while….not much to do today…I do have to get groceries first thing and then you know the routine….might go out with K later to celebrate the start of her birthday week but I’m not sure….I don’t think I can get to 5 posts again today but who knows? You’ll have to come back to see….
I guess that wasn’t the last thing….
Well….was just trying to relieve the boredom some so I went back to the Washington Post to see if there was anything new in the debt crisis….ran across a survey on what it is like to be unemployed and took it; they dealt with how much assistance you get, what your fears are, etc. and it made me even more depressed when I realized how precarious my position has become…I think I’m going to have to stop reading that stuff or I will fall off the face of the earth….okay…I’m about done with this for now….might come back later for more but this is number 5 for the day so I think I’ve earned a rest and a little tv….or a good book, not sure which yet….
One last thing for today…
Well…I don’t know what happened to my brain over the last couple of days but I have been able to work up some outrage and this one is just a jaw dropping example of the world as the repubs see it….over the last year, 25 individual hedge fund managers made over 26 billion dollars in income…yep, that’s right folks, these thieves took an aver age of a billion dollars home each…with the top guy making 4.9 billion dollars…and since they bought themselves a law from the repubs back when ole GW was running the whole show, they only pay 15% tax on that money; never mind that the secretaries that work at these funds and the janitors that clean up after them pay 25% of their pay in taxes. This is the repubs idea of fairness? How many jobs did this 26 billion create? Not one…yep, not one….
Where are the jobs, Boehner? Where are the jobs, Cantor? Where are the jobs, Snyder?
I do also want to take on the myth that the the low tax policies of gov Perry of Texas are the cause for job growth there…I have to laugh at that nonsense since almost all of the jobs are a result of the runup of oil prices and profits, so the rest of us are paying taxes in the form of higher prices that are subsidizing job growth in Texas…what are the repubs going to claim next as a result of their anti American agenda? That the oil in the ground in Texas is there because the repubs gave the rich more tax cuts? I think their crazy is starting to rot this country…geez….
Let’s stop this nonsense…
Well….with all of this nonsense about the right wingers holding the country hostage or, being allowed to hold the country hostage, I have had enough…what I want Obama to do now is take everything off the table; to stop compromising with the repub thugs and say you get nothing….the only thing we should give them is a sharp kick in the ass and tell them we are tired of their childish nonsense and they will not be rewarded for being children….and then just let the country go into the tank…maybe we need this kind of wrenching trouble to eradicate the tea partiers from this country…..Grover Norquist doesn’t own this country and he needs to be told that…that legislators pledge to uphold the constitution not some no tax pledge that he has bludgeoned the repubs into signing and upholding….geez….