Well…I normally don’t do two on my life on the weekends but I’m feeling a little voluble today so I’m going to do it…and I forgot one trail thing from yesterday that I wanted to share…so let’s get to that first. It was a little dicey on the trail yesterday and I am so happy we had a 50 plus degree yesterday and I was able to get out in shorts and no gloves…there was so much ice in the sheltered spots that it was really quite dangerous…in one downhill, I had the bike sideways and leaning like a flat-track motorcycle racer and the only thing that popped into my head was “how am I going to pay for the injuries when I bite it?” But, luckily, the muscle memory from doing that kind of stuff when I was a kid saved me and I made it through the rest of the ride with much more care and little drama. Oh, back to the 50 plus degree day, it was a good thing that happened…the trails were almost all melted today and it made for a more relaxing time and some sprints that really hurt…I had a little problem with my back yesterday that is getting quite bad…sat down on the couch and it sounded like glass breaking (or felt like glass breaking?) but I’m sure it’s just like it used to be…haven’t had a back problems in a couple of years so maybe I’m just due for a flare up…heading for the ibuprofen right now and we’ll see how it is later on…Go Lions!
Monthly Archives: January 2012
January 7th
Well…another night with not a lot to do but I guess I survived it…had a couple of cocktails but feel okay this morning and I am at this early for a Saturday…it was pretty cool to be out on the bike in shorts yesterday and it is just more fun to ride without the whole thermasuit on…and yes, I stole that from “Snowbound” by Donald Fagen….it looks like another good day on the bike today, too, but I’m not sure if it will be in shorts or not…I did reset the odo on the bike and the goal now is to beat the 2880 miles from last year…it is going to be a real sports day today with the Lions playing in their first playoff game since 1999…they will probably lose but at least they made it…the Wings play, too, and they have been off since Tuesday so there will be flipping tonight…and cocktails…I will get caught up today so come on back later…
A little about K street Rick…
Well…just wanted to do a short one before I make lunch and get on to the rest of the day…I’m going to be really blunt here about Rick Santorum….and no, I’m not going to go into what comes up when you Google Santorum…what I want to deal with is how a broke, ex-senator goes from a crushing defeat in an election (by almost 20 points), to making almost 2 million dollars last year. When you look at the breakdown, you can see the most egregious crony capitalism at work with his income being derived from serving on corporate boards; positions that were given to him by his previous corporate masters, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars made by being the scourge of our democracy; a K street lobbyist whose only goal is to line his own pockets and those of the corporations that employed him. Do we really think that this idiot can really represent anyone but the 1%? I think the last thing we need is to have another racist, right wing nutjob as president…we are still recovering from the last one….geez…
January 6th
Well…it was an okay night last night and with no cocktails, I feel okay today…I still think I have a bug of some sort that came on yesterday but the coughing is better so far this morning…but I haven’t done much so maybe I’m wrong….it was nice to get a bike ride in yesterday but I am sore from it today…it looks like I can go again today and even into next week so that will be a nice head start on piling up the miles again this year…T leaves for the Bahamas tomorrow and i will miss the daily texts I get from her…but she really needs the fun and sun…not much to do today…resumes and more resumes, of course, and the grocery run here in a few minutes but that is about it….I am going to slow cook a pork loin all day and that will be good then nothing but a few cocktails later…I will be back later with two more and then I’ll be caught up for the month…
Trying to get caught up…
Well…as you know, I have been running behind since the start of the year…really, it started in December and it has been a little difficult to be creative and have something pertinent to say…I think I’ve got a block of some sort and I’m not sure what to do about it…just noodling around has worked before so maybe I’ll give that a try….I am coming down with something and have been coughing like crazy all day…couldn’t figure out why I’ve been so tired lately even when I’ve been good..I think I’ll blame it on the virus and just sit here for a day or so just wallowing in being sick…I just wish I would have gotten the groceries today when I felt okay…now, it will be an ordeal tomorrow morning…but, I’m still fortunate that I can just come back here and get some rest…or, maybe this is a one day thing and I’ll feel great tomorrow…
I wonder if I should comment on more repub nonsense here….and there is so much to say about that…from ole Mitts repeating the same speech every day for the last week…real creativity there…if I have to hear him quote “America the Beautiful” one more time I think I’m going to puke….that’s about it for now…running out of steam and I’m going to veg out for a while…
More GOP nonsense…here in Michigan…
Well…I was going to comment on the doubling down of the repubs on their nonsensical tax plans, or their hatred of gays, or anyone else that is not like them….but, for some reason, the bike ride emptied my brain of all of the thoughts that I had in there…and lately, the thoughts have been thin to say the least. Okay, going back to the papers to look for the topics that were there….there is one that I wanted to tackle is the whole transfer the tax burden from the rich and corporations to individual workers and retirees. First, there was the lie of the direness of the financial state of Michigan…we were told that without the corporate tax cuts and increases on individuals along with benefit cuts, that Michigan would have an unsustainable deficit that would stretch into the forseeable future…but, let’s take a look at what really happened…magically there is a billion dollar surplus in the state’s coffers at the end of the year…before any of Snyder’s tax changes took place and it looks like Snyder and his cronies were lying again to reward their corporate masters with 1.7 billion dollars in tax cuts. How much longer do we sit here and allow the looting of our state by these thieves? Geez…
January 5th
Well…another day and I did have a little fun meeting G for a couple but I was good when I got back here so I feel okay today…well…my okay and that is a bit less than good I think. Have been eating way too much salty food lately and when I got up this morning, my toes looked like little sausages from the water retention…so, I need to get as much water in me as I can today to counteract it…not something you want to hear, I’m sure but that’s part of my life and I’ve shared other things like that…I did have some dreams after I woke up at 3:14 but there was nothing memorable so I don’t remember it…well…I do but it’s just more not getting a job stuff that I’m sure you’re getting bored with…I know I am…not much to do today…debating with myself whether to get groceries today but I need a day off to rest the liver so I’ll probably wait until tomorrow…I will be back to try to catch up later…
I predicted this one….
Well…a few days ago, I expressed my hope that one of the outcomes of the Iowa repub nonsense would be that both Perry and Bachmann would just go home and we would never have to hear from them again…and I predicted that poor showings would have that result. I am happy to report here that ole Rick is heading back to Texas to “think” about his campaign…I don’t know what he is going to think about…can he even think? Or, will his donors and cronies do the thinking for him while he styles his hair? Then, ole Micheel has a news conference scheduled for this afternoon for a “major announcement” on the direction of her campaign…but the only direction I see for her is to head due north back where she came from….maybe we can hope that she will retire and go back to “un-gaying” gays in Minnesota. What a couple of know-nothing losers that even the delusional repubs have rejected as being unqualified…now, if we could just do the same for ole Newt and Santorum, the IQ of the entire party would rise about 50 points.
One last thing, I’m going to keep hammering on Mitt for the lies on job creation that he keeps spouting on the trail…the latest is that he “created” over 100K jobs while at Bain Capital…but he never nets that with the hundreds of thousands of jobs that he killed while stealing the assets of the companies that Bain purchased..so folks…you can tell when ole Mitt is lying about his jobs record…it’s when he opens his mouth…geez…
January 4th
Well…a pretty good sports night last night with both Michigan and the Wings winning…but Michigan looked really bad in doing it so there was a lot of luck involved…and it was a cocktail night so I went to bed early and feel a little crappy today…but I am taking the rest of the week off so the liver will get a rest….no dreams to report…or anything else, really…did have a couple with T yesterday and it is always great to see her and laugh a bit…not much to do today…going to just lay low for a while and hang out…I will be back with some politics to kind of recap the Iowa nonsense…more later…
A few things..
Well…just a few things that I want to comment on this morning to try to get back in the swing of things and get some political commentary going again…first…I just can’t wait for the Iowa nonsense to be over and done with…and I am glad I don’t live there to have to listen to and see all of the political ads that have dominated the airwaves…but there will be one bright spot to come out of today..or maybe two…we probably won’t have to listen to Michelle Bachmann or Rick Perry any more since they are both likely to finish well back in the pack…I don’t know why anyone listened to them anyway…they are two of the most stupid sounding politicians that I have ever heard…and I’ve been around a long time. I really can’t wait until they start to hammer ole Mitt on his claims to have created over 100K jobs while at Bain Capital when it is just not true…never created one job….remember that folks…never created one job and I look forward to him having to really answer for his destructive reign there and personally profiting in the hundreds of millions of dollars while he and his cronies looted companies that would still be alive if it weren’t for them.
Oh, one last thing….I see that the incestuous right wing media nonsense continues in today’s Detroit News where they treat their house dog Manny Lopez as an independent writer when they published his screed about Obama’s vacation and ole Manny’s contention that Obama can’t care about the 99 percenters since he is one of the one percent. The first thing to me is that there should be disclosure that Manny is regular columnist at the News and to make it look like he is an independent “other voice” is just dishonest and only adds to the echo chamber that is the right wing media. The more salient point to make here, though, is that Obama worked hard and achieved his way to the one percenter that he is…he didn’t have mommy or daddy start him on third base and tell him he hit a triple…geez….