Well…this is going to be a shorty since it is just a short thought on my part…it came from a quote from our gov Rick Snyder that I read in the papers a couple of days ago, when asked if he is concerned that his approval ratings and the polling on his agenda is moving steadily downward, this moron (or republican…today the terms are pretty much interchangeable) said that the only thing that counted was the result of the election that put he and his repub co-conspirators into office….he just doesn’t care that 66 percent of the people of Michigan do not like or want the direction he has taken with raising taxes on individuals and giving more tax breaks to business, along with the undemocratic laws that have been passed by his legislature that will allow him to remove elected officials and replace them with his cronies. I think the people are finally waking up to the shenanigans of this new crop of repubs and their anti middle class agenda once it was revealed for what it is…stealing more from the working class to give to the richest…governor, you are supposed to govern for all of the people of Michigan…not just your country club buddies…geez…
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March 29th
Well….a long, busy day yesterday that ended in going out with G for more than a couple…had a lot of fun, though, and I think it will take until it’s time to go out to shoot pool to feel better…and then, right back at it. I did get attacked by a heat seeking goose on the bike again….damn thing whacked me in the head and wrenched my neck…it still hurts this morning and I am trying really hard not to try to extract vengeance on the stupid bird…and then I remember it’s just a stupid bird that is just doing what it is programmed to do. I am looking forward to seeing that the car is fixed this morning…it does start a lot better so far, but I won’t be really confident until over a week….not much to do today…going to try to get back in my normal routine and get out to Kava today, and then work out and cook lunch….I should have topics for later since Obama talked and whenever that happens, the righties foam at the mouth and reveal their stupidity…
I know….I’m late…
Well…I know I’m late, and I also know that most of you read this after you get back from lunch…and I’ve tried to write to the statistics of my site and make sure there is one here for you then…today has just been crazy with too many things happening for me to keep the schedule…I did get the car back already and I hope thy have fixed it…they better have for 300 bucks.
Now to get to the topic….I’ve been seeing really heartening developments when I look at the recent polls on what the repubs have been doing in Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states, including my own great state of Michigan….the only way these guys got elected was to lie and conceal what they were truly going to do and now that it has been revealed, all of the independents that voted for them are gone…and even some of the repubs are bailing on these idiots because some repubs still have a sense of fairness and I say to them, come on over, the waters fine on the thinking side…can’t wait for 2012….
What a pain…
Well…the damn car took a crap on me again this morning….quit at the Family Fare this morning and I had to walk back here and wait for Tom to come and tow it to get it running…got it going and took it to the shop….starter is bad and will cost 300 bucks to have repaired….about a hundred under what I expected but I think I’ve come to the point that I really have to start looking for a new car…and a job…I do have one for a little later…about the tide that is turning against the repubs in popular opinion now that they have revealed their radical right-wing agenda in Wisconsin and other places…
March 28th
Well…not a bad night of sleep last night…I was in bed for 8 hours anyway and might have gotten a good 6 hours….so I feel okay today but still a little fuzzy but that should pass in a couple of hours…the weekend was quite boring since I am still short on cash and not sure I have fixed the car yet. I wonder how long the thing will have to start before I become confident with it again? Maybe today, I hope…I am tired of parking it on hills…GR is not the hilliest place in the world…now, if I lived in San Fran, I would never have to fix it. Not much to do today….the normal stuff, I hope, so I can get back into some political commentary, and maybe out with G later…haven’t seen her in a couple of weeks and that might be fun. Watching a Woody Allen movie right now so I’ll stop and get back to it…more later…
Just a little more….
Well….It’s been another slow day here at the homestead but I did get started on getting the winter clothes put away and taking care of some stuff that I have been ignoring for a while…I can’t believe it, but on April 3rd I will have been doing this for a full year and I appreciate the discipline that it has forced on me to get at least one of these out every day…the average is almost 2 per day since I’ve gone over 750…oh, just did the math..it’s over 2 per day so I feel better now. It’s funny how just having a little money in the bank can change your mood so much….I now have enough cash to get through June but I have to keep looking for work…if I could just get a little more money coming in, I may be able to take the whole summer off again, play some golf and spend some time at the beach. But first, I do have to spend a little cash on the car…it needs a headlight, rear brakes, and some brake line replaced before I’ll be comfortable trying to get it through another summer…will probably need another roll of duct tape, too….but I do want a Miata at some point since I’m running out of time to enjoy a convertible sports car. Maybe this year…..that’s enough for now…I’ll be back with pithy commentary tomorrow since I’ll be restoring my normal routine which seems to be necessary for me to let the brain go and write…
March 27th
Well…had to get this one out early today to give you a car update….don’t want to say so just yet but I may have fixed it…it has started every time since I replaced the switch Friday aft…but the one caveat is that it had resumed starting before I put the switch in…it was the best damn feeling having the thing turn over when I went out for the newspaper a few minutes ago. I did have a nice day yesterday….went out to have a couple with K and I’m a little confused that she is so concerned that I am alone right now…but I have resigned myself to living the rest of my life alone….no, resigned is not the right word…that denotes some sadness in my situation and I’m certainly not sad…I’m uniquely suited to being alone and I welcome the long silences that come with it…it’s one of the things I’ve always said, that I just love coming back here after being out and knowing there will be no one here…selfish maybe, but not sad. Not much to do today…..going to read the paper and continue on with a movie I started on Netflix when I got up….I’ll try to write more later but you know how that works on the weekend…
Oh, one thing I haven’t shared….got an e-mail saying that I can have free access to the NY Times for the rest of the year after their paywall goes up tomorrow….yay…I was really going to miss it….
March 26th
Well…a fun day yesterday with talking to T all day and laughing like crazy…she just cracks me up and any day she is in is a good one…I did get the part for the car and it did start this morning so I have my fingers crossed that I found the problem and fixed it….but, the intermittent problem has taken the aura of reliability away and I won’t be sure I fixed it until it starts every time for a week or so. It was nice to not have to push the thing down the hill to start it….it was cocktail night last night so I don’t feel the best this morning but I may survive it…have the coffee going and I’m waiting for it to finish so I am going to stop here…not yet, not much to do today…might meet up with K for a couple later and there are races to watch….I might be back later but you know how it is on the weekend…
One more inconsistency…
Well….this one just popped into my head a few minutes ago and I wasn’t even thinking about it….to preface this one, you just have to remember how the repubs have been screeching and screaming about how public employees are overpaid leeches sucking the life out of our state and something must be done to cut their pay and benefits. But then, in comes the new governor and pays his top aides significantly more than the outgoing administration, saying that you have to pay more to get people to take government jobs. You see the inconsistency, don’t you? It’s okay to pay the top people (like the ceo’s and vice presidents) whatever they want, but the regular workers that take public jobs are not top, qualified, people but are just lazy, greedy folks that don’t really want to work. Just more of the same class warfare crap where the people at the top take as much as they can…where’s the “shared sacrifice” governor Snyder? Geez….
A couple of things this morning…
Well…I am getting to the point that I am ashamed to be a resident of this great state of Michigan with what out legislators have just done…we’re now the first state to cut off unemployment benefits to help ease the tax burdens of corporations who are wallowing in the highest profits on the history of the world. Yep, you heard it right, we are going to cut off the unemployed here just to make sure that business can keep their tax rate lower than it’s been in 30 years. I am getting tired of pointing out the immorality of balancing our budget here on the backs of the poor, retired, and unemployed when a small tax increase across the board would wipe out the deficit and give us some breathing room until the economy recovers. If this is gov Snyder’s idea of “shared sacrifice”, then I am being forced to recant my support for raising my own taxes to help….these guys have been exposed for what they are…just the same old repubs dancing to the tune of their corporate masters who will not be happy until all of the wealth of this country is in the hands of the top 1%.
The second thing I want to talk about is the downright idiocy that is passing for fiscal policy here in the US. If you’ve been following the european economy, and Ireland and England in particular, you see that they have implemented exactly the same austerity measures that are being proposed here; cutting spending and lowering taxes. But what the right here doesn’t want you to know is that these measures are not working in any economy where they’ve been tried…in fact, the deficit reduction that is being championed here as a job growth measure has resulted in a loss of jobs and tax revenue which will make the deficit worse over the long run, not better. When did we become so stupid that proven economic theory (deficit spending in the midst of a recession) has been replaced by fear that deficits will cause the mythical “bond fairies” to stop buying our debt? Now, I’m all for reining in government spending in good times, but not in a recession where these cuts will create a permanent underclass of the unemployed. Geez….