This is how it’s supposed to be…

Well…I am amazed by the air time and analysis that has been given to the remarks made by Chris Christie praising the President’s actions in dealing with the aftermath of Sandy….I think it’s a sign of the dysfunction of our society and the republican party that Christie will probably pay a political price from his own party for the comments…why can’t anyone be honest? Why can’t anything happen in this country without it being viewed through the lens of politics? I know there are questions of politics that need to be answered, but I applaud Christie for shutting down Fox news when they tried to interject politics when our fellow citizens are suffering…and I applaud Obama for just being president and doing his job…maybe we can learn something from this…that repubs and dems can work together if the repubs can stop the pettiness that has paralyzed the country for the past two years…okay, I know…not going to happen but I am still the optimist….

October 31st

Well…it’s been an early morning with getting up around 5 and the crappy sleep again is starting to wear a little but I knew this was going to be a consequence of taking it easy on myself….and even with the little sleep, I still feel better than I did….so, I’ll keep it up for the rest of the week and see where it goes…have been laying low waiting for the new radiator to come and it is funny that I was feeling trapped with being broke last week but I haven’t spent any money this week even with having some…I do need to try to get out of here and do some new stuff and meet some new people…it is getting a little boring being by myself all the time…I may have lunch with T today so that will be fun if it happens…and then I do need to continue the cleaning and writing…I have met the goal for the month with this one but I want to do a couple more today…

It’s reverso Mitt and more shenanigans…

Well…I am so sick of the crap coming out of ole Mitt’s campaign…I have never ever heard of a politician or even a private citizen that has less core than ole Mitt…who lies and lies and lies…in a better world, people would laugh at this idiot and send him back to his house with the car elevator and Bain where he can only hurt the companies that Bain owns, not the entire country…and this latest, where Mitt is on tape saying he would get rid of FEMA and being quite adamant about it in the primaries…but, today, he turns into reverso Mitt and says that he wouldn’t eliminate FEMA…what is it Mitt? FEMA or no FEMA? How did this guy get to where he is…I guess this is just another example of money trumping competence or even honesty. Then, we have the shenanigans in Wisconsin, where the Romney campaign is training thousands of “poll watchers” to go into the poll and mislead people to suppress the vote, slow down the vote so people will go home when they see the long lines that will result. Is there any greater threat to our democracy than the modern Republican party? I’ve never seen this kind of gaming of an election…and if ole Mitt wins…I will never recognize it as legitimate…this amoral idiot is damaging our country to it’s core just to win…again, no principles other than winning…it makes me sick…geez…

October 30th

Well…another no cocktail night and I feel okay this morning…I think skipping the week is going to be good and I even slept okay…only about 5 hours but I guess I’ll take what I can get….I am at this one early today so that is one good thing…I did get the radiator ordered for the car and I really do hope that is where the coolant is going…but, getting it diagnosed would have cost me the same as the new radiator and the old one is pretty gunked up so it will be a benefit no matter what…it should be here Friday so I may even have it fixed by the weekend…the big storm Sandy has arrived here with lots of wind and rain so it looks like no bike ride today…still worried about my son who lives in NYC…talked to him yesterday in the aft and the wind had already gotten to about 40 with gusts of 60…waiting for an update that I hope comes today…not much to do today…it looks like a hibernation day after I go out and get the papers…so, that means I will come back least for at least one more…

Yeah, let’s abolish FEMA…

Well…events of this week just point out the stupidity of the repubs arguments that the federal government is too big and needs to be shrunk by over 30%…and this culminated in ole Mitt’s pledge to eliminate FEMA in a speech this past week…now, I’m not an advocate of government doing everything, but there are some things that the federal government is uniquely suited to do…and this is one of them, coordinating disaster response across the many states that are going to be affected by hurricane Sandy and making sure that the people in the affected areas are safe. In this time of cash-strapped state governments, ole Mitt’s ideas of letting the states go it alone in a natural disaster is unconscionable…that spreading of the risk and the costs of recovery is exactly what a nation should do…but in ole Mitt’s jaundiced eye it is every man for himself…what’s next? Make the cities and towns that are affected go it alone, too? That brings me to the nonsense that both Ryan and Eric Cantor pushed during the tornadoes that devastated Joplin…that is that there will be no disaster relief until there are budget cuts to pay for them…tell that to the 50 million people that are going to targeted by this storm…what a bunch of uncaring, ideology driven idiots….geez…

Okay…I was a little mistaken about the timing of ole Mitt’s comments…they were from 2011…so far back that they surely can’t be his views now…that was a little sarcasm…but the one nugget that I missed was his idea to move disaster relief to the “private sector”…so now he advocates letting his rich buddies make profit from the misery of his fellow citizens? So, I wonder what the price is of a rescue from a terrible storm? Your house? Your car? Your life savings? I just can’t believe this election is even close…wake up, folks…

October 29th

Well…..it was a day yesterday and I was good last night so I feel okay today…I think it is going to be a week of being good since I do need to take a little rest and take care of myself better…I did win at pool yesterday and broke the losing streak at 5 weeks so that was something…there were some really weird dreams last night that included my roller blades, a covered bridge that turned into a factory, my car in the rain with the top down, and lots of other small details that are already fading….pretty cool, though…and I think the melatonin may have helped…I do have some stuff to do today…did get the check back from the state and need to get it deposited so I’ll have some cash and I need to order the new radiator for the car….other than that, I need to get back on the bike today to see if I have it fixed…and do another one of these…more later…

October 28th

Well…it was another day yesterday but there was some good news in that I got the check from the state I was waiting for and that means I can eat again for a while and get the radiator ordered for the car so I can replace it next week…there was bad news, too with the Tigers losing and I have now officially given up on them for another year…I’m still working on the bike to get the creak out of it since it is so annoying…going to move to the front of it today and lube everything since I did the back earlier…there are still a few points in the rear, too, so I’ll need to get to that before I go out…it’s going to be too cold to go for a while so it will give me something to do….and I will try to come back for another but it is pool day and you know that takes away my desire to write usually…

Back to the “let’s scare em” playbook

Well…I am just appalled at the stupidity or the willful lying about the auto industry that came out of ole Mitt’s campaign yesterday….if it’s stupidity, then ole Mitt is not the sharp businessman that he purports to be, and if it’s lying…yeah, I know, he lies all the time so what is the big deal? Yesterday, in a speech in Ohio, ole Mitt came on stage and attacked Obama by saying that Chrysler is going to move all Jeep production to China because of too much regulation, yadda, yadda….but in the report that he quoted for his information, it was clear that Chrysler said no such thing…they said they were going to look at restarting Jeep production in China for the Chinese market….and they came out with a letter to ole Mitt saying that it was just an overheated fantasy that they were moving any production…and then stated they were ADDING 1,100 jobs in Detroit…something that ole Mitt didn’t want to hear since those jobs are a direct result of the auto bailout that he vehemently opposed. As always, ole Mitt didn’t think about the workers in those plants in Toledo that he said were closing…he didn’t think about the shock that would come from losing everything…he only thought of them as a prop for his campaign and as a way to get votes…what an amoral piece of crap ole Mitt is…geez…

October 27th

Well…it was a crappy day yesterday but I really can’t comment on why…or, I don’t want to right now so I’ll get on to other things…it was nice to hear Ken and Mickey do a Griffins game last night but the Griffins really looked bad…up 4-1 and then losing 6-4…oh, well…I’m hoping that it warms up enough to get a bike ride in and see if I did get it fixed…I may have to put it on the back of the car and take it to the car wash….slept okay but had dreams of radiators…yeah, you know I’m weird but that one even made me laugh…I am going to come back…maybe right now about the scare tactics that ole Mitt is using in Ohio…

October 26th

Well…it was an okay day but I am not watching the Tigers any more…down 0-2 and I just can’t take it…I did get out in the car for a drive yesterday but made it a short one…just wasn’t feeling that hot and I know it’s from not eating enough…makes me so damn tired that I just want to curl up on the couch…but, yesterday was better and I feel okay today…I may have a lunch with G today but I’m not sure yet…I’m having problems with the bike creaking and I can’t find out where it is and it is driving me crazy…I’ve lubed everything but it’s still there…might have to take the rear shock off and clean it…I will be back later with a political one even though I’m ahead for the month…and I think I’m coming up on number 2,000 of these…and some of them were even good…more later…