Well…it is a dark day in Michigan as the Koch brothers and the Chamber of Commerce, along with the DeVos family have bought themselves a right to work law that will go a long way to gutting organized labor…the House has just passed the bill in this lame duck session with no debate allowed by the repubs. One thing everyone has to understand is that this bill was written by ALEC…the extreme right wing organization that is behind the “stand your ground” laws that have resulted in murderers getting away with murder in the states where they have been enacted, and it is wholly funded byt the Kochs and the Chamber…the most anti-American worker organizations in this country. The bitch about this whole thing is that the Koch’s ideas and candidates were rejected at the ballot box in the last election but they still found a way to hurt the American economy by this new law…what do you think will happen when people have 1,500 dollars less in their pockets? They are going to spend less and the economy will head back into recession…just what the repubs want….so they can say it is the failed policies of Obama that did it…what a cynical, terrible group of people…geez…
Monthly Archives: December 2012
November 11th
Well…just a quick one before I get going to take the car in, again, it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t really do much….so, I have to make up for that today….errands to run and work to do around here…I hope the car only takes three hours or so…more than that and I think the boredom of waiting will just about kill me…more later…
Okay…just got back and I’m not sure if the car is fixed yet…still smell coolant but that could be from spills when they were working on it…I am going to be really pissed if it is still leaking and I paid 200 bucks to repair something that wasn’t leaking…at least it was 90 bucks less than they estimated and it took an hour less to get it done…why can’t anyone do anything right the first time?
The 6% solution…
Well…have been sitting here stewing about the liar Snyder here in Michigan and his betrayal of our state and the workers here….in this whole mess, a new fact popped up in the news tonight about a poll that was taken over the past few days on how much support this labor attack law has…when the question was asked if people supported this new law, only 6% of the people said they wanted something like this passed…only 6%…so how can Snyder sit there and lie through his teeth saying that most of the people want this? Just another instance where the Kochs and DeVos’s have purchased a legislature and whose voices count for more that the people who actually work here…..I am getting excited for 2014…we will take back this state and return it to the path of a labor/management cooperation where the workers share in the profits that derive from their labor and have a true voice in their lives…geez…
Lost in the shuffle…
Well…with all of the uproar over the repubs latest gift to their corporate masters…the Kochs and the DeVos’s…another piece of legislation is being jammed through in this same lame duck session that is not getting any attention…although it should. These middle class/worker hating folks that now control our state are stabbing them in the back with new legislation that would allow employers to use their own “conscience” to decide what they will provide in the health care plans for their employees…don’t like abortion? Don’t have to cover it….don’t like smokers? Don’t have to cover anyone who smokes….don’t like people that ride motorcycles? Don’t have to cover any of them either. Can’t anyone else see how big an intrusion this is into people’s lives? It’s bad enough how workers are treated here in the US; why do employers need another tool to make their lives even more miserable? But, that is the repubs across this country…all of the rights that have been fought for by generations of workers will be gone if they get their way…and, I’ll bet that a lot of these jokers passing these laws have benefited from the sacrifices of labor over the years…but they don’t give a damn about that…can’t wait for the next election when we can send them back home….geez…
December 10th
Well…feeling like crap today and there is only one reason…but, tonight will be different so that is something to look forward to…I did win at pool yesterday so that is a plus….but I am still suffering from the malaise that I am in the grips of and even this is a monumental effort…so, I am going to go have coffee and read the papers and then come back for more…
Okay..back for a few…a little disappointed that lunch with T got canceled but I didn’t have any cash anyway so the few bucks I have in my pocket can stay there….and I can just stay here and lick the wounds a little…slept okay last night and I think it just may be the earplugs…I should put the snowies on the car but it looks like it will be nicer later in the week so I’ll just wait until then…not much to do today…I do have to get caught up here and now have to figure out what to have for lunch….but that will be later….right now it’s water and a little work…
December 9th
Well…just sitting here waiting for the Manchester Derby to start and thought I’d get this one done….it was a day yesterday and didn’t get the car fixed since the part is not here yet…but, that’s no big deal….I did have an okay day yesterday once I got back home but didn’t do much…haven’t been on the bike in three days and I think it’s part of the whole malaise that I have been feeling lately…will probably not go out again today since it is going to be so cold and the wind is already blowing about 15…not much to do today…I may be shooting pool but that will be determined by how much coolant the car is losing…will check that in a while but right now, the match is on…
The Koch brothers and the DeVos’s buy another state…
Well…I am so ashamed of my state right now it is hard to even come here to right this…but, if you didn’t know, the idiot repubs here in Michigan, backed by the Kochs and the DeVos’s, have made Michigan a right to work state in a transparent attempt to destroy the unions here and with it, the middle class. Up until now, I had thought that our governor was a reasonable repub, yeah, I know, no matter how much they lie, there are no reasonable repubs here…and just like ole Walker in Wisconsin, Snyder hid his true colors while he was running for election; never once mentioning right to work because, if he did, he would never have been elected. The most galling thing is how the repubs are breaking their own legislative rules to jam this bill through…with no debate or no chance for the dems to speak against it…more like the Soviet Union than America…but, this is just what the repubs do…speak of their reverence for the country out of one side of their mouths while they destroy the American dream. There will be hell to pay in the next election if Snyder signs this bill…I can see a permanent dem majority being built here…and none too soon…
December 8th
Well…up early and getting ready to take the car back in for a 4 hour ordeal….so, as you can tell, I’m not in too good of a mood right now…so, I’m not going to write a lot until later when I get back here…
Okay…I’m back and the car still isn’t fixed…the part I needed didn’t show up so the next date is Tuesday morning….not sure I mind that much…I did find out that the car is very cozy in the wet snow that I had on the way out this morning…but, it is only 8:49 and I have everything done I wanted to do so the boredom is going to come early….I guess I could clean and I think I will…not sure if I can take the car out tomorrow…I’ll have to check and see how much coolant it’s losing and judge from there…but, right now…there is soccer on and I’m going to veg a little and have more coffee….
December 7th
Well…just a quick one..getting ready to take the car in and need to get going…
Okay, just got back and the car isn’t fixed….they didn’t have the part and it is a much bigger job that I thought it would be…290 bucks and they have to remove the intake manifold to replace it…so I have to take it back in tomorrow morning and wait for it for 3 hours or so…it will be nice to just have the damn thing done…but, that price depresses me somewhat…what can you do? So, who knows if I’m going to be in the correct mood to do another one of these today…right now, I’m not so sure…
49 percent of republicans are really stupid…
Well…just a little short one on a laugher that came up in the news today…it seems that a polling organization, Public Policy Polling, has been doing some polling of repubs looking at the question of why ole Mitt lost the election…it’s not that he was a crappy candidate and person, or that his ideas were batshit crazy…nooooo, the poll found that over 49% of republicans think he lost the election because it was stolen by ACORN. Yep…Acorn again….you know, that organization that folded up over two years ago…yep…the delusion on the right has gotten so bad that they are blaming something that doesn’t exist for their loss….what a bunch of idiots…talk about your low information voters…geez…