Well….I was just shocked a few minutes ago when I read of the newest way that the repubs are excluding people…even their own constituents….they are now charging people from 15 to 35 dollars to gain entry and ask questions at their political events. Yep, folks…the repubs have sunk to a new low in trying to exclude people from their right to petition their elected officials…what are going to do next? Sell autographs? Turn their houses into bed and breakfasts? I’d like the tea partiers like Paul Ryan to try to find charging for access to them in the Constitution….what a bunch of hypocritical idiots….gezz…
Monthly Archives: August 2011
August 16th
Well….took the night off last night and I feel okay today…the soreness from the crash has spread and I’m a little hobbled today so I need to get to the ibuprofen soon….more dreams last night that had a lot of cars in it but lots of frustration with not being able to get them fixed..probably related to the exhaust leaks I have with mine…and need to have fixed as some point…not much to do today….just looked at the radar and there is no rain in the picture so it looks like I’ll keep the string alive of riding every day since the start of May and I don’t know how I feel about it…pain in the legs seems to be constant these days and I may have to take a day or two off to rest them…who knows? I will have a better political one for later today with some corrections on the Rick Perry one from yesterday….all of the jobs are not in the oil industry…but the ones that aren’t are all low wage, crappy jobs that you can barely live on….
Rick Perry and jobs….
Well..now that Rick Perry is in the repub race, I thought I’d do a preemptive strike against his boasts that he is a job creator that can do a better job than Obama has done is this nasty recession. I laugh because he is trying to tie the creation of jobs in Texas on his watch to the same old tired repub lines of tax cuts and union busting. What has really happened is that the run up in oil prices has added the only jobs that have been created in his term, oil related jobs…yep…and as I have said before, that means that everyone else in the country has subsidized these jobs by paying more for gas and oil…basically, the entire state of Texas is only growing because of the corporate welfare that the rest of us pay to the companies based there. So, the next time you hear this right wing religious zealot talk about his success, take away the accident of oil in the ground there and you have the same no growth policies that have never worked and will never work….but that doesn’t matter to the repubs….
August 15th
Well…not much more sore this morning from the crash so i feel pretty good about that…and the bruise is starting to clear already so no war wounds to show off…didn’t do much last night but hang out and watch tv so I feel okay today…I think the tiredness is connected to my allergies since my head feels like it’s filled with concrete and I have been coughing….so it’s just hunker down time while I wait for them to go away….not much to do today….oh, one other thing…weird dreams again last night…this one centered on no brakes in the cars again and I did a lot of agricultural work plowing across peoples yards…backwards…..they are running the Watkins Glen race this morning so I need to get going to be ready by 10…more later…
Didn’t skip…probably should have…
Well…I didn’t skip the bike ride today and probably should have…crashed the damn thing on a wet bridge going into the nature preserve….okay, I was only going about 1 mph but I did go down and have a huge bruise on my right thigh…thought I sprained my wrist but it has stopped hurting so I guess that’s okay….the bruise looks pretty cool but it does hurt to walk a little…I laughed so damn hard when it happened since I never go that slow and as fast as I normally ride, it should have happened long before this on one of the fast stretches….oh, well…I’ll be back on it tomorrow….and won’t ever ride that slow again….a crash caused by the lack of speed…bet that never happened before…
August 14th
Well…a long day yesterday and I do feel kind of crappy today…had pool with Tom and then just kept on going through the rest of the night…probably shouldn’t have done that but I’ve got the whole day to recover and I’ll just take it easy and have my coffee…might even skip the bike ride today since it is a little chilly outside…nope, can’t do that…I’ve been on the thing every day since the start of May and it really is the only thing that is keeping me sane these days…but I will wait until later….I do need the second cup of coffee and some couch time before I get going….okay, I need to read the online papers and rest a while…more later….
August 13th
Well…running really late today but I have an excuse…I did go over to 28th to get those ribs….you just can’t pass up ribs for 99 cents a pound so I bought about 10 lbs…I’ll have to try them in the next couple of days to see if they are any good but how can ribs be bad? I did have a relaxing night here last night and just vegged but I hope today will be different..I might just go out for a while for something different…haven’t been to Billy’s in a while and that might be nice..or, I may just veg here again since I’m going out to shoot pool tomorrow….choices, choices…..more later…
Not much more for today…
Well….I’ve been trying to find a topic…no, that’s not true…I got a lot of stuff done around here today and none of it had anything to do with a topic for this thing…..at least the stock market is in positive territory for a second day in a row and the bleeding has slowed some….that could be a topic but I’m not motivated to do that right now, I’m still quite tired and I may just go out and lie in the sun and listen to music for a while….yep, a slacker day for me and it looks like the rest of the weekend is going to match it…I do have pool with Tom Sunday but that is about it….I do have to go over to 28th street and get some ribs that are on sale for 99 cents a pound…I may take the weekend off if it rains…so, go rain….more later….
August 12th
Well…. a night of dreams last night and they were weird ones with monkeys, floods, and broken electronics in them….yeah, I can’t believe it either but that’s what they were….it may be a good thing that they are fading fast and I don’t remember the details….didn’t do much yesterday but clean up around here and watch a movie but I am still exhausted…hope I’m not getting the bug that T had or it may be that I have not taken a day off riding since the first part of May and I might just do that today but I think I’ll look at the weather and see if I can stack it on top of a rainy day…not much to do today…I do have some tasks to finish up around here but that is about it…..I will be back for at least one later….
Well….not really that depressed…
Well….I just can’t believe the hypocrites in the repub party and the latest talking point that was released yesterday that is taking Obama to task for taking a vacation while the economy is in danger of a double dip recession. Man, these guys have the best selective memory I have ever seen….I just want to remind you here that their darling pres, ole GW, took more vacations than any president in history and Obama is nowhere close to the time off that GW had at this time in his presidency…so repubs, get over it and get your own house in order. I do have one other question….when did Grover Norquist become the constitution? All of the repubs that have been appointed to the “super congress” that is supposed to find solutions to our economic problems have signed the no new taxes pledge that ole Norquist has forced upon them….does their oath of office include to preserve and protect Grover Norquist?
Okay that depressing post from yesterday….it’s hard at times to keep your sanity when the world appears as if it is imploding in front of your eyes but as the Who said….”we get hungover but we always survive it”….and that is what is going to happen here….we’ll all survive it…I hope….