Well…finally got to the last one for the month…wanted to get it done before the Michigan game comes on in a half hour…I find the president finally doing the right thing on Syria…going to congress for approval even though this congress hates him…this move will do a couple of things that I like..first, it takes away the right’s ability to criticize him for any decision he makes…either getting them on board to agree with any attack…or, Obama will be able to use their refusal for cover and not attack…either way the politics works well for him since the left really wants the government to work like it’s supposed to with the branches doing their jobs…and, if refused, he can blame the right for being wimps and not supporting the necessary use of force…whichever, it is a win/win…but I really do hope there is no attack without the UN being involved…we need to stop all this world policing to repair our standing in the world…
Monthly Archives: August 2013
The cheating begins….
Well…it’s been a while since I’ve done a trail weirdness one….and I’m not sure this is going to be one..I did see one strange thing on part of the bike lane along Eastern today, though, one of the biggest snapping turtles I’ve seen in a while that had been hit by a car…it’s legs were as thick as my wrists…and, the one question that comes to mind is why? There is no water around where it was other than the retention ponds for an apartment complex…I wonder if it lived in one of those? Even if it did live there…how the heck did it get there? Oh, well…..I guess there are weirder things out there….but, I haven”t seen any in a while…
August 31st
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool finally so that was cool…but, I didn’t accomplish anything else so I guess today is going to be cleaning and getting three of these out so I get to the goal for the month…no dreams to speak of and I can’t figure out how to make them happen like Tuesday…oh, well…I did sleep okay so that is a plus…oh, an Michigan starts their season this aft so I need to get things done early so I can see the entire game…and there are races tonight so that will give me something to do…and, since I need to do three of these today…there will be cheating…haven’t done much of that lately so I don’t feel bad about it…more later…
August 30th
Well…running late today and I really don’t care…it was an okay day yesterday with another run to the beach and a little sun and there were no screaming children around me which made it even better….didn’t sleep well for the third in a row now and I am pretty tired but still need to get on the bike in a few minutes…will take a long one today since it is about all I plan on doing except pool…going to be another hot one but that will break Monday…going to be in the 60′s so that will be strange…looks like the weekend will be pretty low key with everyone out of town so tv will be my friend with all of the races…even live drag races from Indy Sunday and Monday so I’ll at least have something to do…more later…
It’s Europe’s turn…
Well…after listening to the increasing drumbeat for war in Syria, one thing came to me that has not been mentioned much, other than on Kos…why are we so hot on attacking Syria and footing the bill for the whole thing? If you look at it with a non-neocon eye, you can see that Europe has at least as large of a GDP as the US does but even more to the point is that the conflict in Syria and the effects of the refugee crisis to come is going to affect Europe much more that it will us. I know that this has been a humanitarian crisis long before the use of chemical weapons and they are being used as an excuse for a bombing campaign, but there are many, many humanitarian crises across the globe…what makes this different? This is a question that no one has answered yet…what about the Arab league? Why can’t these folks do something? All I can say is that there are many other actors who should be involved before the US and I think it is time for them to step up and take some responsibility for their own region…let’s give our military the rest it has earned….12 years of constant war is just too much for our soldiers to bear.
August 29th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but no go on the sleep last night….and that is really frustrating…so tired so far today and that is not going to be fun….at least the bike appears to be fixed with almost two weeks on the new repair with no cracking so that is something…and, I think I may make another beach run this morning since it is supposed to be warm again…I can take my coffee and papers to the beach I guess…give me something to do…I can ride the bike when I get back….other than that, not much to do today…and that is the truth this time….
One of the stupidest things I’ve heard…
Well…listening and reading about the commemoration of the 1963 march on Washington, I heard one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard from one of the commentators on the right…their contention was that the only reason there is still racism in the US (and these folks are not sure there is any) is the fact that the agitators on the left keep talking about it…it’s not that most of the people stopped and frisked in NY are minorities, it’s not that you can murder a young black man in cold blood and get acquitted, it’s not that the repubs are doing their best to make sure minorities can’t vote, and it’s not that the right hates the first African-American president with a rabid fervor that has no other explanation but racism….it’s that the president and the rest of the left keep talking about it. Yeah, right….it’s just another instance on the right that if it doesn’t affect the (mostly white) repubs, it doesn’t exist…just like discrimination against gays doesn’t exist unless it affects a member of their own family…and the other arguments the right puts up why there is no racism are the same ones they spouted in 1963….I think they are getting really scared that the demographic tide is going to wash over them and make them the little, regional party they deserve to be…the people have rejected their platform and ideas for the past two presidential elections and the only way they cling to power is to lie, cheat, and steal elections…and that can’t work forever…geez…
August 28th
Well…it was an interesting day yesterday….had lots of things going on and then went out to have a couple with G….and I slept quite well and had some really, really weird dreams with Patrick Stewart, bikes, X-1/9 Fiats, G, old and new houses…yep, really weird and the first ones in such a long time…even after having a cocktail or two, I still woke up refreshed….nice to get into REM for a change and not toss and turn….it is humid this morning and it looks like the bike ride will be like riding in liquid as yesterday…came back from that one with no dry spots on any of my clothes and could wring out my shirt….but, I felt okay out on the bike so that was good…oh, forgot to say running early today…which I am…not much to do today…doing the grocery run and then the normal stuff….I kind of like this kind of cloudy morning…but it is going to be hot later when the haze burns off….more later…
The thugs are in charge in Wisconsin…
Well…take a good look at what is happening in Wisconsin if you want to get the true picture of what repubs think about citizen’s rights….a few days ago, an unarmed man was attacked by the police as he stood filming his brother getting arrested for protesting in the capitol…and this man was doing nothing but what is his right as a citizen…his right to free assembly…but the repubs just hate it so much when they are called out for their thuggery and illegal behavior that three of them jumped on the unarmed man with his hands in the air that they now say was resiting arrest and committed a felony assault because one of the thugs that jumped on him got hurt when they fell on top of him. This is the picture of repug administrations across the US…wave the constitution with one hand while they are beating citizens with the other….I really hope the ACLU gets involved here and there are suspensions and fines all round for these thugs…the one thing these pricks don’t understand is that they were caught on video doing this crap…and they have 15 witnesses who say there was no resisting arrest…there was no reason for the thugs to do anything to this man except treat him as a citizen…something the militarized cops of this day and age just don’t understand….geez…
No more war…
Well…here we go again….more and more and more war and now here we go into Syria…haven’t we had enough of this crap? When did it become our responsibility to police every country in the world? And, what benefit is it to the world or to us? Governments have been killing their own citizens since there were countries, even before, so why now? What is the difference between Syria and Rwanda where almost a million people were killed? We did nothing in Rwanda, what makes Syria different? The sick thing here is that we have the same people who advocated going into Iraq cheerleading attacking Syria; the same old group of chicken hawks who think that it an affront to the US if every country in the world doesn’t do what we say…and then spout “democracy” out of the other side of their mouths. I have had enough of spending trillions for this nonsense while people go hungry here and the country crumbles as we spend more, and more, and more on the military. One last thing, what made chemical weapons the bright line trigger point? The Syrian government has killed almost 40,000 of it’s citizens in this civil war and many, many thousands more in its secret prisons and we continued to give them aid until last year…how do you justify this hypocrisy? I am tired…just so tired of this continual war and the war profiteers that fan the flames with their lobbyists…when does it end?