Well…by now you know that the Violence Against Women Act has passed the Senate with a semi-bipartisan majority of 78 to 22…with all of the 22 no votes being male republican senators who are running scared of primary challenges from even worse knuckle draggers…and now, there are “discussions” going on in the house repub delegation that maybe it’s not such a good idea to oppose a law that will protect more than half of the population…but, the reasons that are being stated are not that it is the right thing to do…nope, you’d never hear that from the repubs who don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich and their corporate backers…but that if they don’t vote for it, it may be an issue that can be used against them in the next election. Well, duh….why shouldn’t being the bastards you are be used against you? The abject cynicism here is getting to almost too much…what happened to looking at the merits of legislation and how it may help your constituents? Even those who didn’t vote for you….you are, after all, elected to represent everyone in your district, not just the crazy assed righties that are trying to return this country to the 1700′s. What are the objections? That is might cost money to implement? Well…it won’t cost a dime…I think this just gets to the hate that is the core of the repub party these days…since the protections in the bill would extend to groups they don’t like, like minorities, lesbians, and immigrants, they don’t see a need for it…and since they do truly believe that women should be subservient to men and just take the beatings, there is only one reason for them to support the law…to protect their own asses in the next election…geez…
Monthly Archives: February 2013
February 14th
Well….running late again today but today, finally, I have an excuse…my internet has been out until just now so i decided to go out to get some groceries while I waited for it to come back on…and the bitch is the signal to my phone has been so bad lately that I couldn’t even use my data connection…everything is okay now…I just can’t believe how dependent I’ve become on having the connection on my phone in the mornings…helps me get started on my day while I lay on the couch and try to get moving…it was an okay day yesterday…I did put the top down and found that if I dress right and the sun is out, I can put it down with the temp about 31 degrees….and I do like being the weird guy with the top down in Feb…I did win at pool again yesterday but it looked like neither of us really were that enthused about the whole thing….not much to do today…going to make another home made pizza for lunch and then just send resumes….yeah…it’s just as boring to me…
Middle schoolers on tv…
Well…I am still laughing about the “savior” of the republican party and his completely inane response to the SOTU last night…I will leave aside the crazy dive for the water bottle that also just cracked me up, and just focus on the substance, what little there was, of the address. First, just let me say “TELEPROMPTER”…it was obvious that this idiot Rubio was reading his address from a prompter…the cardinal sin that the right has shouted far and wide about Obama…but, even that is not the gist of my criticism. That I will leave to the supposed “substance” of the speech…I think Chris Matthews summed it up best that it was a ‘tinkertoy” speech best suited to a half wit middle schooler with the same self-conscious, smarmy nonsense that comes from a true believer on the right who thinks everyone should fall all over themselves to cheer since the “truths” in the speech are so self-evident. But, no matter what the right thinks…this speech was just a re-hash of the nonsense that ole Mitt was pushing that lost him the election…personal attacks on Obama followed up by faith based economic policies that were rejected by everyone…this is the new repub party? I can’t heap enough ridicule on this nonsense…where are the new ideas? They don’t have any….geez…
February 13th
Well…it was a long night last night and I did my civic duty by watching the SOTU and parts of the repub response…but that is for another one for later today…another repub “savior” bites the dust…slept the worst in weeks and woke up cocooned in the sheets today from tossing and turning all night and I am exhausted this morning….did get a few things done yesterday but it is all just treading water and I am getting tired of it…at least it may be almost 40 today and I may just put the top down on the car to get my Feb one in….it will mean dressing for it better than I have before and I can do that….not much to do today….just more recovery from the bug I’ve had and taking it easy this morning….Man U is playing this aft so that will be cool…more later…
More lipstick on the republican pig…
Well…just a little shorty on the vote that happened this aft in the senate where we saw more and more lipstick being put on the republican pig with 22 repub senators voting against the VAWA..that’s the violence against women act in case the acronym wasn’t familiar. I think today’s vote will mark the end of ole Marco Rubio’s anointing as the “savior” of the repub party, as Time magazine called him this week since he voted against protection for women in this bill owing to his “principles” whatever they are….could it be the “principle” to let men get away with beating their wives? The repubs just don’t get it at all…history in this country has shown that women have been treated like second class citizens for far too long…and I am glad that there were 78 senators who stepped up and did the right thing in passing this bill…but, now it goes to the repub controlled house where it won’t even get to a floor vote since the knuckle draggers are in control over there…keep it up repubs, time is passing you by…and none too soon…geez…
State of the Union hysteria…
Well…have been reading about the right’s responses that are coming to the State of the Union address and I am kind of laughing about the hysteria that is rampant in those responses…and there will be not one but two, count ‘em, two responses…one from the crazies that represent the “mainstream” repubs, and the second from the tea partiers that is sure to be full of “socialism, freedom, freedom, and freedom and guns” that should be fun to see. I am surprised at the level of hatred of this country and it’s institutions that we are seeing from these folks…the foaming at the mouth nonsense that Obama is taking our guns, has FEMA camps ready for gun owners, and is going to turn the whole country over to the UN. Then, we have the nut from Texas that has invited Ted Nugent to the SOTU…the same Terrible Ted who has threatened the presidents life on many occasions…I really do hope they talk to that batshit crazy, washed up has been…it will just highlight the sober adult that Obama is when compared to these idiots and the public will be even happier that they returned him to the White House instead of ole Mitt. The funniest thing that is going to happen tonight is that the repubs are rolling out Marco Rubio to do the right’s first response…and the advance copy of the speech shows that it is just more of ole Mitt and the ideas that were rejected in the election…the US just doesn’t want that crap but the repubs just don’t get it….geez….
February 12th
Well..it’s after 9 and that is really late for a weekday…no excuses, really…just haven’t had much to say…slept like crap last night and the damn phone had a software update come through at 4:45 that sent the alarms dinging for a half hour as it updated the apps…I finally did remember that you can turn the ringer off but the damage had already been done…the phone seems to be faster now so that is cool…I think I may be getting over the bug that I had for the past week since I haven’t been coughing nearly as much since yesterday….I did have one thought that popped into my head this morning as I lay there trying to get back to sleep…what would be your theme music? What music would you have them play when you walk out on stage for “the Daily Show?” I’ve been leaning toward “Pretzel Logic” but that builds really slow…maybe something from Led Zeppelin or Neil Young? Or, something obscure from Lee Michaels?
Have to think about that for awhile….you can see I have too much time on my hands…and that is going to continue today with not much to do…more later…
No big topics…
Well…have been thinking and thinking to try to come up with a big topic for the day with no success so I guess I’ll just go on about a few small ones…let’s start with the pope resigning…the first thing that came into my head was “who cares?” Can’t think of a more irrelevant person in the world today…presiding over an institution that has long outlived its usefulness and has devolved into almost a hate group…I mean, did you read his “Christmas” message where he went on and on about how bad gays and lesbians are and tried to justify discriminating against them? The world would be a better place if they would just go away and stop trying to impose the 12th century on women in this country and across the world…and that goes for the rest of organized religion as well.
Okay…new topic…you can see how far the repubs have sunk into crazy with the threat from Lindsey Graham to filibuster the presidents picks for Sec Def and CIA director…let’s put this in context…this has never happened in the history of the country…not once has a cabinet selection been blocked in this manner and I am so tired of the repubs thinking up new ways to screw up the country…
Moving on to Michigan….where are the jobs Republicans? Oh, no jobs legislation? No, nothing but more of the same…raise taxes on the people, cut taxes for corporations, and try to restrict womens rights to control their own bodies….I think you can see the genesis of the malaise that I have been feeling lately with the crap that is going on across the US…and don’t get me started on the extra-legal drone policies that Obama has just released…I think this country has lost it’s collective mind and it’s taking mine with it…geez…
February 11th
Well…sitting here running late again and there is no reason for it other than I’m just not too motivated right now…it was just another long Sunday for me yesterday some good news that Man U and the Wings both won but then the boredom that usually marks my days flooded back in and I had to shift back to enduring mode…but, I survived it and now we have Monday to deal with…and the coffee isn’t really helping yet…the wind was blowing so hard when I went out for papers this morning I had a hard time walking straight and now it is blowing even harder…I can feel it running through this place like I have a window open….I’ll have to watch to see if any of the patio stuff takes off and I have to chase it…not much to do today…and this time I mean it…I can’t think of anything right now so I think I’ll go back to “Flying Down to Rio” and try to escape for a while…
I have to ask why…
Well…not sure where this is coming from but a thunderbolt just hit me with an idea for one of these…and I’m not sure if it is from my advancing age or if the daily overload of meanness and injustice that comes from reading as much as I do…but this just popped into my head….”why?” It is an interesting word and I think it goes to the core of what make us human…why? Why do religions that purport to follow the peaceful Jesus hate so much? Why to they ignore the rest of his teachings like taking care of the sick, loving your neighbor, or feeding the poor? Why does the Catholic church especially hate gays so much? Why do they think so little of women that they try and try to take away their basic human right to control their own bodies?
Why do politicians who purport to be religious people go out of their way to hurt the poor by cutting and cutting the safety net? Why do they then spend so much time and energy protecting the rich?
Why do the people that hire have to go out of their way to reject people like me? Why is age so bad? Why is being unemployed so bad? Why, why, why…….I don’t have any of the answers, but the questions are starting to corrode me…they are starting to hollow me out from the inside….and they are starting to make me think that maybe there isn’t another job out there for me….and that is the worst thing I’ve ever felt….