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….
Monthly Archives: July 2011
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….
More wandering….
Well….heard this lyric on the bike ride “now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything”….and, while I know it was a romantic lament from “Black” by Pearl Jam, I was struck by how it was a such a great descriptor of where my life sits at this very moment….and I still struggle to understand how age trumps everything that you’ve accomplished in your life…shouldn’t it be that all of that experience and education means something? Oh, well…I won’t bore you with any more musings about that…I’ve already done that enough….I’ve had this uneasiness that has settled over me the past couple of weeks and I know the core of it is this question “what if I never find another job?” This is a brand new sensation to me and I really don’t know how to cope with it yet….cripes, more musings…have to stop that.
I was going to talk about politics in this one but since I’m running behind in the count this month, I’m going to leave that for a later one today…probably in about an hour so come back after lunch…you really didn’t want to work anyway, did you?
July 27th
Well….a pretty busy day yesterday with going out to the beach in the morning and then having to keep up the fitness routine after I got back which kept me busy until after three….and I was good last night so it was kind of boring but slept okay….no dreams that I can recall and it’s been a couple of weeks now since I’ve had one and maybe that’s why I’m a little tired but I think I may have to take a full day off exercise to get rid of all of the aches…it seems I always have this low-level soreness all over but I just keep forgetting the ibuprofen that I know helps….not much to do today…going back to the normal routine with coffee at Biggby and then back here for more resumes and lunch….it looks like the rest of the week is going to be kind of a bore but maybe out with K for a couple tomorrow…more later….
The right misses again….
Well…I did go out to the beach and got a little sun…but that’s not what this is about…doing that a lot lately…I just have to comment on the rush to judgment by the right wing tv and newspapers who were all sure that the tragedy in Norway was caused by muslim extremists and went out of their way to trumpet the fact…even when they were completely wrong. Then we had Glenn Beck on his radio show comparing the youth camp where the murders happened to a Hitler youth camp…just because it was a Labor party party sponsored event. When are we all going to reject these folks and their hatred? I’ve had enough of the sloppy reporting and the assumptions being sold as the facts….when are we going to start holding the right responsible for this nonsense? Geez….
July 26th
Well…had a nice night last night with going over to G’s and cooking outdoors and having a couple of beers…made salmon on a ceder plank along with asparagus and had fresh mozzarella with tomatoes as a salad…had never had that combination before and it was really good…overcooked the the asparagus until it was crispy and it looked burned but it was so good….just a yummy meal….and I was good here after I got home so I feel okay today…trying to think what to do today and I think it may be the beach for the morning since it looks like a glorious day and I need to swim in Lake Michigan at least once every year…so, I do have things to do today and need to start getting ready if I’m going to go……I will be back later for a couple…still running 4 behind and am running out of month…
Wandering, wandering…
Well….the last one…the one you’ll see if you look down, was supposed to be this one but I actually got an idea from a small snippet that I saw on the news and had to say something…it’s been less of a boring day than I expected since I had lots of work to do around here and I just finished….and it’s a little after three….I have been feeling pretty good today but it’s coming up on August and I feel the first twinges of the bad allergies coming on….it hasn’t been bad this summer and I haven’t taken anything for it yet….it doesn’t help that you can’t get the good allergy stuff anymore….these new formulations don’t do anything but cost money. I may be going out for a couple with G later but I haven’t heard from her so maybe not….I could use not spending money right now but then life just gets more and more boring and smaller and smaller….I do think I’m going to the beach tomorrow so that will help some….so, I’m not feeling it right now so I’m going to quit here….more later….I am trying to get caught up after all….
We lose again….
Well…the debt ceiling nonsense that is going on in Washington is sucking the life right out of me….when I hear that the dems are giving up everything…..cut to SS, Medicare, and every other program that helps the retired or middle class to the repub thugs and they are not getting anything in return, I despair for the future of this country. If it wasn’t for all of the things the repubs did…the two wars that were not paid for, the tax cuts for the wealthy, and deregulation, we would not be where we are and there would be no need to further gut the middle class to pay for this stuff. And, they are so against tax increases for the rich and connected but I guess that doesn’t count for you and me…retirees are going to get a huge tax increase by having the cost of Medicare go up and by cutting off the cost of living increases for SS. Why is it that the repubs always attack the little guys? I think it’s just typical bully behavior to pick on people that can’t fight back….I hope we can remind the voters who it was that gave the country away to the ideologues…and who drove the economy back into the ditch by cutting spending when the recovery is still so weak. Geez…
July 25th
Well…another day, but I did have a few things to do so that helped…met up with K for a couple and then normal stuff last night…yep, my life has done something even I didn’t expect….it’s gotten more boring…oh, well….I really don’t have that much to say today….I do have a few things to do that will keep me occupied for about an hour but then back to the mind numbing nothingness….going to have to get moving on these to make the 60 for the month….and I’ll try later but right now I’m going back to the couch…