Well…just sitting here waiting for the Man U match to start and thought I’d get to some of the musings that I promised a few days back…the rail trail is looking so cool now with the foliage finally filling in and making it a green tunnel that not even light can get through and that makes it it almost immune to the wind, too. Pretty neat stuff and the other day “No Quarter” came on when I entered the tunnel and it fit just so well that I couldn’t help grinning….as I’ve always said, it doesn’t take much to make me happy. It seems that lately the people on the trail are nicer, too, paying attention and reining in their dogs when I go by…maybe the “thank yous” are starting to help…hope so…it is nice to see smiles and not scowls when I blow past in a sprint. I do have to put the bike on the back of the car soon to take it to the car wash to clean it…it is as dirty as I can remember it and I am a little ashamed even thought I know that bikes are supposed to be dirty if you’re using them right.
I wasn’t going to talk about politics today but some heartening patterns are starting to emerge when we look at the overreach of the radical right wing of the repub party….they have lost almost every special election that has been held this year and people are rejecting their vision of America where all of the benefits of the country accrue to just the few rich and business. And we see the plummeting approval ratings of the repub governors that have pushed through anti worker legislation and given away their states to business. I hope the recall of gov Snyder gains steam here in Michigan since he is governing only to his base and his business masters…we are ripe for a revolution here where the dems are going to take back both houses and then where will that idiot be? Okay….the match is ready to start in a few so I’ll end here…
Well…it was a day yesterday, but that’s about all I’ll say for it. I did finally get back out on the bike and the legs were turbocharged after taking a couple of days off. Other than that, it was quite a bore of a day but I did manage to amuse myself somewhat. Man, when you can’t even remember what you did yesterday, your days must be really boring…or too many cocktails but that’s not it…I hope. There are things to do today…I have this to write while I wait for the coffee, for example…then qualifying for the Monaco GP at 8, then the big game with Man U and Barcelona slugging it out for the Champions League title…and then the nationwide race….it might be easier to stay amused with the help of this stuff…okay, the coffee is done so I’m going to settle in on the couch, read the papers, and veg…more later…
Well…reading and watching the news this morning and I came upon a little tidbit of information that dropped my jaw about 2 feet…with the widespread destruction in the middle of this country caused by the tornados and flooding, there is a need to do for these people what only government can do…manage the financial burden by giving FEMA and other agencies money that will help alleviate the suffering….well, not alleviate it but mitigate it some. But, what do we hear from the most evil man in the US House? That before he will even consider a supplemental appropriations bill to fund the recovery efforts, Eric Cantor rolls politics into and delays what should have been done yesterday…he won’t allow any bill to be voted on until the amount they are appropriating is cut from other parts of the budget. Yeah, that sound you just heard is my brain locking up with this nonsense….and to make matters worse, the repub controlled Missouri legislature and the other Missouri repub members of congress and senate support this evil man’s ideas….if you ever had any doubt about what the repubs are, here it is for all to see….keep tax breaks for oil companies but when the people are in need, tell them to go to hell…geez….
Well…I didn’t get back with the musings as I promised but you know that’s not unusual…I did have an okay day yesterday even with the rain…my legs are pain free for the first time this year so that is a plus to not riding for two days…..but, I’ll be stupid and go out for 20+ today and they’ll hurt later. The heat should not be running at the end of May….and I should be able to lie out in the sun….okay, no flow again today so I’m going to stop for a couple of minutes and hit the couch…more later…
Back again….and the brain still isn’t working but I thought I’d try again…not much to do today…got the grocery run done yesterday to beat the crowds so all I have to do is ride the bike…everyone is out of town so it looks like I’ll be hanging out alone and that is not bad when I take into account that Man U is playing in the champions league final sat aft and then there are wall to wall races Sunday so I’ll have plenty to do…it will be nice to have this place open after cooking yesterday…it does kind of smell like cooking and I need to air it out….still more later…
Well…okay, I will have a little bit of a political commentary…I have never seen so much backpedaling happening since the last time I went to the circus…I should feel bad for Paul Ryan when even members of his own party are running away from his budget plan but I don’t…I have absolutely no feeling but contempt for these radical idiots who think a mid-term election win that is fueled by their base gives them a “mandate” to impose not just radical but stupid economic policies on the rest of us. This whole austerity nonsense is starting to show up in a marked slowdown in the economy and higher unemployment just when we should be putting our foot on the gas to ensure that the recovery doesn’t falter….and I would rather listen to a Nobel winning economist like Paul Krugman who has been taking these idiots to task….you can’t cut your way to prosperity, but that is becoming the accepted wisdom from the repubs….what “wisdom” they have which is not much…
Okay….it was political…but I didn’t mean it to be that way….I will be back with just some musings later….the trail is looking really cool and I have to tell you about that…
Well…a rainy day yesterday that kept me off the bike and I am a little cranky for it…it looks like today is going to be the same and will just compound the crankiness…but I guess my legs can use the rest for a couple of days…they hurt a lot less with the day off so maybe it’s a good thing…I can make up for it tomorrow and through the weekend. Last night made it three in a row out and I am getting a little tired..but there was a good reason to go out with G getting the promotion she was working for and being pretty happy…but I need to take a couple of days off to get the liver working again and cut down on the calories. Not much to do today…going to do the grocery run to avoid the crowds that will be out for the holiday weekend and I need to get some new food…I am getting tired of chicken but have some thawed that I do need to cook today….but then burgers and tacos for the weekend..I do have to grill, too, so that will give me something to do….having it rain so much is just too depressing…more later…
Well…you just got to love the rationalization program that is going on from the right this morning with the loss of one of their traditional house seats in New York yesterday. The best one came on Morning Joe this morning when Paul Ryan basically called the voters there stupid for voting against his brilliant plan…okay,that was a little sarcasm but he deserves it. This guy reminds me of ole Newt who does the same thing when people disagree with him, he denigrates the person, then uses the excuse that the opposition just doesn’t understand or they would agree wholeheartedly. But, Ryan also rolled out the repub ploy where he is playing different groups of people off against each other; saying that people over 55 were misled into thinking that these changes would affect them. My answer to rep Ryan is no….these changes won’t affect me but I still care what they will do to my children and other people that are approaching 55…and I have a true belief that we are all in this together and any plan that is just another giveaway to the insurance industry that bought the repub congress we now have is just morally wrong…I hope other people are having the same epiphany…
Well… with all of the talk about the Ryan plan to gut Medicare and the repubs claims that it will lower costs and extend its life, a little read bombshell was dropped by the CBO yesterday…their non-partisan analysis of the plan blew all of the claims out of the water with the conclusion that Ryan’s plan would actually INCREASE costs by almost 40%. Yep, you read it right, but is it a surprise? This budget of Ryan’s was never about controlling costs; it was a blatant attempt to impose the repubs radical right wing agenda on the country, destroying the safety nets that the repubs have hated since their inception. But, I see hope that the country is finally getting tired of the repub agenda to take, take, take from the middle class and give to the rich…which Ryan’s Medicare proposal does.. it’s a reward to the insurance companies the gave the repubs 90% of the money they spent in the last election. I think the people are starting to see that the type of America that is Ryan’s and Walkers is not the one they want…at least the people in the congressional election in New York are getting it…in the special election yesterday for the house seat in a district that has been held by the repubs since 1960, a Dem won; running on opposition to Ryan’s radical budget….maybe Ryan can go away in 2012….geez…
Well…got whipped again at pool last night but not skunked so I don’t feel as bad as I could…I was not good when I got home so I feel a little crappy today…but not a lot crappy so that is a plus….it was just such a nice day yesterday that I feel that spring is finally here….but wait…it’s back to the same old rainy, cold crap today that is going to last for the next few days so I guess I’ll temper my happiness for now. The water is going to be shut off here again today…that’s three times already this year and I just don’t get what they’re doing….just makes it a pain in the butt to be here all day….not much to do today…think I’ll take it easy this morning and wait out the rain for the bike ride…looks like it’s not going to get better until late…I’ll have topics for later…I hope…
Well…was thinking this was going to be one of those days where I had nothing to say but then ole Newt came through and gave me one thing to talk about but there is also the Israeli thing that Obama is in the middle of. Let’s start with Obama….of course the right is going out of its mind with what they perceive to be a slight of Israel and a lack of support for the traditional relationship. I think they missed the point of Obama’s statements…there has been a stalemate in the talks between the Palestinians and Israel and all that Obama did was kick the hornet’s nest to stir things up a little and get them off the dime….geez…doesn’t anyone understand politics?
Then, we have ole Newt talking about the 500K that he and his third wife owed to Tiffany’s, describing it as the “standard, no interest account”…yeah, Newt? In whose world is any charge account no interest? It is just another instance where the rich are treated differently than the rest of us and don’t see anything wrong with it. They can’t understand why the rest of us don’t get those deals…or even better they just don’t care. How out of touch is Newt and how can he even relate to anyone but the rich…not the type of person this nation needs as its president….geez…
One last thing, to those of you out there that were opposed to the bailouts of the auto companies since they were a “sinkhole” and we would never get our money back…..Chrysler paid off the loans today…in full….this is the kind of thing only government can do or will do to ensure that 30,000 people didn’t lose their jobs…..what do you say now repubs? How many more times will you be wrong? geez….