I’ve already made the goal…

Well…just looked at the count for the month and realized that I’ve already made my goal of two per day for the month…but, I thought I’d do another one just for the hell of it..don’t know if I have very much to say but I’m going to say it anyway…I did get the papers out for recycling as I said I would but that is about it…I think I’m going to stay on this topic for a while…that the intelligence and memory of the people in the US must be questioned when polls come out that put Romney and Obama almost even in the general election….I can still remember the Bush years…the unfunded wars we were lied into, the erosion of our civil liberties, the shredding of the constitution, the continued concentration of wealth in the top 1% while the rest of the country struggles….let’s say it again…all of the problems we have now are a direct result of repub policies and they are promising more of the same if elected…they are planning to gut social security and medicare while giving tax breaks to the rich that will give them an AVERAGE of $146,000 cut while raising them on everyone else. No society can survive when one percent of the country controls everything….

I have one question to ask…why can’t ceo’s take only half of their outrageous pay and give pay raises to the people that work for them? This one move would put billions if not trillions of dollars into the hands of people who would spend it, increasing demand across the entire economy and putting people back to work….just saying….

January 31st

Well…another night gone by and with it the month…I did have fun out with G for a while but then back here to just veg…I can’t wait for the Wings to play tonight, it has been almost a week since they played last and I have gone through withdrawal…it looks like a mild day today with 50 for the high and I am a little disappointed that there is snow on the trails and I can’t go ride….but, it’s a countdown now for the end of winter and surviving February is basically my only goal….not much to do today…I will probably just clean and put the papers out for recycling….okay, not feeling it again so I’m going to quit and come back later…only one more to go to meet the goal for the month so maybe I’ll make it a good one…

People have no memory…

Well…watched an interesting show on PBS last night with Bill Moyers looking into the reasons behind the financial meltdown and one of the things that I now understand is how bi-partisan the blame is….both parties were involved with the repeal of Glass-Steagall that allowed the banks to do what they did…but what I don’t understand is why no one remembers that it was the lack of regulation that led to the banks being able to monetize mortgages and make trillions in fees selling them to unsuspecting investors when they knew they were worthless. Why is no one calling out the repubs when they continue to cry deregulate, deregulate, deregulate….it is exactly the same thing they were saying in the 90′s and we all know where that left us….I do understand that regulation has costs but I don’t know of a better example of how much this deregulation nonsense costs, too….millions of homeowners losing their homes, millions of real people losing their savings, and millions of workers losing their jobs…..but that doesn’t matter to the repubs..the only thing that matters to them is to beat Obama….and that could happen if we continue to have amnesia about the near past…

January 30th

Well…another day, another night, another morning, and they are all running together to the point that I’m having a hard time keeping track of what day it is….but, that is part of being old and unemployed and I’ll just have to get used to it…didn’t do much yesterday but watch the race and veg so I don’t have a lot to report…so, I’ll come back later and report it….not feeling it right now….

Okay…just got done with some work on C’s house and back here now to get back into the routine for the day…I do need to have lunch and then I’m going to work out and send some resumes…it looks like another wasted day but I’ll do my best to at least amuse myself…and I will come back for a political one later…

January 29th

Well…it was a day yesterday and had a little fun going out to meet up with the twins and V…it was nice to get out for while and to have the cash to do it…after that, it was just the normal thing of hanging out around here and watching the 24 hours of Daytona that I am waiting to come back on here in a few minutes for another 6 hours…it will be a nice screensaver for the day while I get some stuff done around here. No dreams to speak of…I know I had some but I don’t remember them so I guess it’s about the same thing as not having them…more snow last night and today and that is damn depressing but I guess I’ll live through it…after all, it has been a pretty good winter and only another month to go…I may have another one today but probably not…I am on pace for the month and I just don’t have the outrage necessary for me to be lucid…

January 28th

Well…running late this morning and part of it is the snow we had last night that took the air out of me and shifted me into a lower gear…but I survived it and got the papers and I’m now ensconced here for the day with Man U playing right now and the first race of the year coming on later in the day. I just love the 24 hours of Daytona and Speed has 7 1/2 hours of coverage on today so that will give me something to watch all day…..I did sleep okay last night but it was cocktail driven so I don’t know if that counts or not….other than that, not much to do today…might have a couple with K later but I’m not sure about that…I am going to make another pizza today with a scratch crust so that will be something to look forward to…going back to Man U….more later…

I think this is part two…

Well….I have been thinking about politics for some time today and have had a heck of a time coming up with a topic that would mean something..I mean I could go off on ole Mitt’s Swiss bank accounts or his tax shelters in the Cayman Islands…but that would be an easy target that I have already touched on here and I just can’t get worked up about a repeat…I did go out for a bike ride today after the flat yesterday but I was on edge the whole time waiting for it to go flat again even though I put a new tube in it…but, it looks like today was the last one for a week or so and that may be good since I am sore everywhere….I could go off on ole Newt for his wild ass promise that he will put a base on the moon if he is elected….good luck with that Newt….you’ll never get that through even a repub controlled Congress when they won’t even approve fixing the crumbling roads and bridges that cover the country…okay….that’s about it for the day so I’ll say come back tomorrow and see if I get better…it’s almost 1500 of these…it has to happen sometime…

January 27th

Well…it was a long day yesterday but I won at pool for the second week in a row so that was okay….I did have another flat on the bike yesterday and another 3 mile walk back here so I have new soreness to go with what is left from the crash…but that is getting better so maybe there will be no lasting damage….I was up all night last night with just getting to sleep for the final time around 3:30 but back up at 6:30 so there may have to be a nap later today….I need to fix the bike, too, so that means a trip out to get a new tube this morning….don’t want to miss the ride today since it is going to be almost 40….not much to do today…I have stuff to do around here so that will have to do it for the day….more later…

Is ole Mitt delusional?

Well…this is going to be a short one to comment on one of the more delusional statements made in the past few weeks by ole Mitt…his latest attack after the Sotu speech by Obama was that Obama was “out of touch” with real Americans…okay, if you’re not laughing about that comment, you have no sense of irony…let’s go back and look at some of ole Mitt’s comments…first, we have the $10,000 dollar bet with Rick Perry at one of the debates…next, we have ole Mitt saying that almost $400K of income from speeches is “not much”, and then we have the statements that he pays all of the taxes he owed under the tax code and “not a dollar more”…when it is well know that he was running Bain capital when they (and others in the venture capital business) lobbied congress and bought themselves the law that allows them to pay less a percentage of taxes on income than anyone in the 99%. So, I’ll contend here that ole Mitt is the one that is out of touch, that he is the one who has no damn idea of what it is like to be 58 years old with too much education to find a job in this economy….go back to where you came from, Mitt…this country doesn’t need silver spoon people like you telling me how to think about the state of the country and economy…geez…

January 26th

Well…another night with no cocktails but still no sleep and that is starting to wear on me a bit….and the wings looked the worst I’ve seen them all year so I am glad we are at the All Star break and the guys will get some rest….I did have some weird dreams after I got up at 3 and then went back to sleep…it included boats, 66 Galaxies, an some rich old fart trying to ruin me just because he didn’t like me….yeah, I don’t know what that means either, but it was weird and fun and that’s a good thing…as I said yesterday, I did crash the bike yesterday but the most damage appears to be in the left wrist today…it is making some weird grinding noise when I move it but the pain is really low so it is probably just a sprain…and I am going out again today since it is going to be almost 40…not much to do today…I do have to make the grocery run but that is about it…more later…