Well…it has been a tumultuous week in politics and the happenings are making my head swim a little, sowing the seeds of confusion while I try to make sense of it. One of the things I find quite interesting is the attack line that is being used on ole Mitt…you would think that the other repubs in the primaries are really democrats with the populist attacks on Mitt’s tenure at Bain Capital…didn’t they get the memo that capitalism=good and, to quote Mitt, “the only people that are really successful are those that are in the 1%…”? It doesn’t matter to him that the majority of the 1% started out with lots of money (like him or Huntsman), or used their government connections (like Santorum or Gingrich) to get rich and these guys truly believe that it’s okay to rail against government on one hand and then profit from government on the other hand. I truly hope this continues since it is making me grin…but I will say it doesn’t take much to amuse me…
Monthly Archives: January 2012
January 12th
Well…another night…but no cocktails so I feel good this morning and I think it will be a day to get things done here…and there is a winter storm coming so I may have to lay low for a couple of days…I do miss the beep, beep, beep, from getting my morning text from T since she is on vacation but maybe it’s a good thing to get used to not having it happen….it’s about time, I think. It was such a nice ride yesterday going out in shorts for the last time and getting 15 miles in but the damn tendinitis is back in my right elbow and it hurts like crazy…the last bout lasted almost 6 months but I’m not going to let it go that far this time…need to get the ibuprofen out and see if I can get the swelling down before I do too much damage…not much to do today…might shoot pool with Tom if the roads aren’t too bad but I guess I have to get used to driving in the snow again…have to get my emergency clothes in the car again, too, just in case something happens….more later…
Bain Capital’s brand of capitalism…
Well…interesting research in the papers today that revealed some facts about ole Mitt’s tenure at Bain…and his new stump speech claiming that, while at Bain, the company never took any “bailouts” or government assistance of any sort. Mitt, Mitt, Mitt…I really don’t understand how you guys don’t understand that there are records out there, that things can be fact checked…and this one is just a huge lie…in two instances, Bain was bailed out of debt by the government…once with the FDIC forgiving 10 million dollars that was owed…and the other when they killed a steel company and then dumped the pension liabilities on the government to the tune of 45 million dollars while the execs at Bain walked away with 10 million in bonuses…yep, that’s ole Mitt’s form of capitalism…swoop in, gut a company, and then profit from pushing the liabilities of those companies on the taxpayers. I don’t see this as any different from any other bailout that happened over the past few years…just another case of the rich taking advantage of the system to steal from you and me…geez…
378 million reasons to hate Apple…
Well…I’ve never been a fan of Apple products and the iron-fisted control that they exert over their use and, as such, have never owned one…with that disclaimer out of the way, I do need to comment on the news that came out yesterday that the new CEO there is going to be compensated 378 million dollars…yep, you heard it right…one person at Apple is going to make more money than entire countries do…doesn’t anyone else see anything wrong with that? Especially when Apple outsources all of it’s production to sweat shop factories in China? How many American’s could they employ if this idiot only took say 50 million dollars? Or, how many dividends could they pay to stockholders? Just another example of why people are showing up at “Occupy” rallies and the conversation has changed in this country to highlight this nonsense…especially when you can’t even say with a straight face that this idiot “earned” the money…so, I will shout into the wind again…Boycott Apple until this nonsense ends…geez…
January 11th
Well..it was a kind of fun night going out to watch the Wings game with C and K but I still don’t feel right this morning…the bug seems to be getting worse with the sore throat I have today so I think I’ll take it easy and take the rest of the week off from cocktails….the Wings really stunk the place up last night, too, so that was not a good thing…it looks like today is the last day of riding the bike for a while since the temps are going to go down into the 20′s for highs and that is just too cold for me…it’s going to snow, too, so that will make the trails impassable….not much to do today…and I really mean that…so I’m going to just sit here for a while and decide if I want to go out for coffee or not…more later…
The true republicans come out…
Well..I hope you’ve been watching the lead up to the NH primary on the repub side and all of the Mitt bashing that has been done by the others in the race…I find it one of the funniest things I’ve seen in years but my neck hurts from watching all of the flip-flopping that has been going on. One of the most hilarious attacks centers on ole Mitt’s job creation record at Bain capital, with the crowd of contenders abandoning the central tenet of modern repub thought that business equals good and the hell with everyone else…and citing the fact that jobs were killed when Bain took over many companies while ole Mitt was running it as a reason to not elect him. What are these guys going to do if they do defeat Mitt? I just love how much ammunition the left is getting from all of these sound bites…and the fact that all of this sound a fury is exposing the repubs for what they are….unprincipled idiots who will do or say anything that they think will get them elected.
One last thing…one of the things that ole Mitt cites that makes him a job creator was Bain’s investment in Staples and he even goes so far to make it sound like he created Staples from his own ideas…it’s just not true..Bain supplied money and that was it…
January 10th
Well…running late this morning and there really is no reason for it other than I just can’t get motivated to do anything right now…it was an okay night last night with hanging out with G for a while and having a couple….the bug I had is still here and I feel like crap this morning so I think I’ll skip coffee and the papers and just veg for a while…part of it might be not eating enough since I do feel warm right now and that is one of the signs…oh, well….I do have things to do later..C is coming into town and we are going to watch the Wings game later…so I guess I’ll rest up for that and get some stuff done around here…I do need to clean the kitchen….more later…
Been out of sorts….
Well…it has been a day and I still have that mental block..or writers block, or whatever you want to call it that is keeping me from being very lucid and having any desire to attempt a political one. Part of it is my increasing despair with not being able to find work and that daily process of sending resumes without any response is soul numbing….it has taken away a lot of my energy but I’m still trying to move forward. So, I will keep trying to get worked up and get back to politics, and sports, and music, and all of the other things I used to enjoy writing about…but I wouldn’t blame anyone if you stopped coming…I’m even bored with me right now…
January 9th
Well…another long day yesterday and I feel a little crappy today…and I lost at pool for the second week in a row so that adds to the pain….and I missed Ab Fab last night and forgot to set up the tape machine so I guess I’ll have to find it later in the week or on Hulu…okay…this isn’t working so I’m going back to the couch to rest for a while…
Okay…went out to have coffee and read the papers and I don’t feel much better so I think it’s that bug I thought I had….luckily, it should be over in a couple of days if it’s like what others have had…I am still going to get on the bike and work out this morning, though, since I am running out of nice days to do that…I’ll be back later for more of this but right now I do need to get working out…
One last thing…just wanted to say happy birthday to Jimmy Page….
January 8th
Well…another night of disappointment with both the Lions and Wings losing…and too many cocktails so I feel like crap today but I think the lack of sleep has something to do with that…other than that, it was an okay day yesterday, mostly just vegging but that is okay for a weekend. I think I have a bug, too since my lungs are feeling a little creaky…I’ll have to wait until I get on the bike to know for sure, though…just don’t want to get sick…that would be piling on from the world and I don’t think it hates me that much…not sure about it..it could at that. Not much to do today…I am going to cook some chicken since I thawed it and I need to just eat protein for a couple of days…all of the carbs are making me kind of bloated and I need to cut back on the calories..it feels like I’ve gained 10 pounds in the last couple of weeks and I hate it…what the heck was all of the work on the bike for if I can just gain all of the weight back just from having to take a few days off? As you can tell…it is going to be one of those days that I need to curl up in a ball and just let life wash over me for a while…I’ll try to come back later for another one but since it’s Sunday, you know that probably won’t happen…