Well…I have to wade in on a thought that has been rattling around in my mind of late and it crystallized some over the past few days…when you see the shootings, bombings, or other assorted hate that pollutes our society, it never comes from liberals or atheists…two groups that the right would have you think are the ones who are destroying our society, but from the crazed right and with the rhetoric that the right and their followers have thrown around since their loss in the election; the secession nonsense, the “second amendment” solution nonsense, and the calls for armed insurrection, what the hell did you expect? When you have crazed parents that sit with their guns and rail constantly about taking back our country, filling their children’s heads with the nonstop Fox propaganda of hate, what the hell do you expect is going to happen? When you have one of the major political parties demonizing everyone that doesn’t agree with them, what the hell do you expect? When you have major Christan groups that applaud the killing of doctors that provide abortion services, what the hell do you expect? I am going to lay the blame for the coarsening, death, and hate on the place where it belongs…the modern right and its political party, the Republicans. Geez…
Monthly Archives: December 2012
December 16th
Well…running late as always on Sunday and I blame it on the paper and the fact I stayed up late watching concert videos and having cocktails…so, needless to say, I feel a little crappy today but the coffee is starting to help…if it stops raining, I may even get out on the bike in shorts today…that will have to be the extent of things today since I spent the last 2 bucks I had on the paper this morning…so it looks like a week of laying low…and that’s not a bad thing…and we are halfway through December with no snow storms so that is a good thing, too….slept okay last night but I was up late and up early so there may have to be a nap involved sometime today…and some cleaning since I have been lazy….more later…
Mike Huckabee is the worst person in the world…
Well…after the tragedy in CT, most people showed restraint on their comments…but not the idiot Huckabee…within an hour after the event..ole Mike was all over the airwaves with his assessment that the tragedy was caused by “taking god out of the schools”…not by a mentally ill person with easy access to guns…nope, it was payback from god because we don’t worship him the right way. What a load of crap….so, god is so powerless that he can’t enter schools because the government says he can’t? I am stunned by the opportunism showed by this supposed “man of god”…trying top push his right wing, christo-fascist nightmare on the country on the backs of murdered children….at the very least he owes this country and the victims of this tragedy an apology…at the best he will go away and we will never have to hear his nonsense again…geez…
December 15th
Well…still reeling from the tragedy in CT and that makes being broke and unemployed seem kind of trivial….I did get the chance to meet up with C for a couple last night and I drove the car across town on the e-way with no smell and I am starting to think that they may have fixed the car….I did check the coolant levels yesterday and it is still full but I am going to continue to check it periodically for the next couple of weeks…I did wash the car and it just looks pretty cool with the black wheels….that’s the last time I’ll mention that…didn’t sleep well at all last night…right back to where I was a couple of weeks ago and that is frustrating to say the least….but, it’s not like I’m not used to it…not much to do today…going to get out on the bike but that will have to wait until Man U plays at 10…no hurry today….
A terrible, terrible day…
Well….how can you make sense of 20 kindergartners being murdered? My heart is broken in so many pieces and I cannot imagine living a parents worst nightmare…..not much else to say right now…
December 14th
Well…it was an interesting day yesterday but I lost at pool, again, and that is starting to irk me somewhat…well…not really….I did have fun meeting up with K for a couple and having a good talk….and I think the car may be fixed but I still can’t bring myself to lift the hood to check…I haven’t smelled any coolant for the last day or so but that may be that there isn’t any in it….I guess I’ll have to check it today….or maybe I’ll wait until Monday so I can have a weekend not thinking about the car…I did have the top down on the way out an back to Cascade yesterday and the stocking hat really helped keeping my ears from freezing…so, I’m leaving one in the car so I’ll have it when the mood strikes me to look like an idiot…I do like the badass look of the black wheels and the bigger tires and I can even take off in the wet without spinning the rears….oh, slept like crap last night and I’m not sure why…had a run of almost a week where it was okay and I can’t pinpoint anything that changed so I am just chalking it up to the vagaries of age….not much to do today…C might be in town later and I may meet up with him for a couple later and I do need to wash the salt off the car…but that is about it….more later…
Just a few things….
Well…I just hate it when these smug billionaires buy themselves legislation and then strut around like they are kings of the world…just like the idiot Dick DeVos did yesterday after he and the Kochs bought themselves the right to work law here…but, I have news for these guys, their days of doing whatever they want are numbered….go ahead, gloat like hell for the next two years but when we throw your bought and paid for legislators out and repeal all of the nonsense that is being passed you will never have the power to take and take and take from workers again….it is coming so smile that smarmy smile one more time…it just energizes the people to take this state back from your ilk….geez…
December 13th
Well..running really late today and there is a reason for it…not sure if it is a good reason but I stayed up late watching the concert and had one too many cocktails so I do feel like crap today…I did have a fun happy hour with T yesterday and we laughed so much…certainly a highlight of my week….I slept okay last night with the combo of the melatonin and cocktails but there were no dreams to speak of that I can remember…I do think the car rides much worse with the snowies on it but that might be pressure so I’ll have to check that later today…and I do have things to do today…out to shoot pool in the aft then HH with K later…but I am so broke that I am going to have to skip the papers tomorrow….oh, well…I will be back for more later but I do need to work out and get the bike ride in this morning…
A message to independents here in Michigan…
Well….with all of the furor and the shenanigans going on here in Michigan driven by the repubs…I have one message to the independents who elected ole Snyder to office and believed he would do what was right for all of Michigan and not just the Kochs and DeVoses….REPUBLICANS LIE! They lied in Wisconsin, they lied in Indiana, they lied in Ohio, and they continue to lie that they have the workers in mind with their right to work nonsense…remember that in the next election if you have any thought of voting for another one of the wholly-owned corporate party here. These guys do not give a damn about you but they will lie to you and use you to get elected and then stab you in the back as fast as they get to Lansing. The one thing you have to know about ole Snyder’s explanation of why he pushed these bills was that the even the repubs on “Morning Joe” eviscerated him on the nonsense that these bills will benefit workers…they went so far to laugh at ole Snyder when he tried to trot out the ALEC talking points…this is what you independents have given us…making our wonderful Michigan no different than Alabama or Mississippi and we are now the laughing stock of the country….vote these idiots out in 2014 so we can start to take our state back from the billionaires that just want more and more and more for themselves and do not give a damn about anyone else….geez…
December 12th
Well…it was and okay day yesterday and the melatonin is working quite well, I think…much less tossing and turning but I still feel a little tired when I get up….other than that, it was a boring day and i didn’t accomplish much….today should be different with the grocery run first, a workout, putting the snowies on the car, getting a bike ride in and then meeting up with T for a couple….I am still quite depressed that I haven’t gotten a resume response in over 6 months…not sure why that is but I guess I need to figure something else out….I’m not sure what that is yet….more later…
Okay…just had to do a quick comment on the car…with the winter tires and flat black wheels it looks pretty badass….finally, something to make me smile….