Well…this has been a long month doing these but I have started to regain my political outrage and that has led to finally getting back in the political arena…and there is one big thing that is going to happen in the next week or so that will be worth watching…the repubs have again broken their promise (big surprise) to not filibuster presidential appointees, especially judges, so it looks like support is building to kill the filibuster and get rid of the obstructionism that is the hallmark of the modern repubs…they have nothing that the country wants to hear anymore so all they can do is try to sabotage government, take away rights, and make sure that people they don’t like don’t have any….so, I say to Harry Reid and the rest of the dems in the senate…nuke ‘em…they deserve it…and the country will certainly support getting things done….geez…
Monthly Archives: October 2013
October 31st
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done…and I started to feel better after eating enough for the day but I just can’t get past the idea of eating breakfast…just don’t know why other than I’ve never eaten it in my life…might have to try something different…slept okay but no dreams to speak of…which means no rem again so I will probably be running out of steam pretty early today…but, that is okay since it is raining and I am going to take the day off the bike to let the legs rest…they just hurt like crazy and need some repair time…I do have some stuff to do today that involves dry ice…Tom, you know what that means…and both arms are now sore and I am getting really tired of it…should try to remember to take the ibuprofen to get the tendon swelling down and get a long term solution….more later…
Is John McCain really this ignorant?
Well…forgot to do this one yesterday when it was fresh in my mind so I thought I’d follow up today and just say how incredulous I am…okay, maybe not, that John McCain is so ignorant on a piece of legislation that is coming up for a vote in the senate…the legislation is the Employment Non-discrimination Act or ENDA which would just add sexual orientation to the list of things you can’t discriminate against in the workplace…just like race, color, ethnicity, and sex are now….and the reason that this is so sorely needed is that in most states, you can still be fired by your employer if you come out as gay…yep, in this day and age you can still be fired for being gay….so this bill just adds this to the protections afforded everyone else…and ole John’s objections include that it can lead to reverse discrimination, quotas, and all of the other boogeymen that the right uses when they are looking for cover for their hate…I guess he didn’t even read the bill since it specifically states that, under the law, quotas of any sort are illegal….but, that’s not new from ole John…I guess he is just another of the right who are willfully ignorant and proud of it….read the bill before you go on the talk shows and show your ignorance to the country…geez…
Suzanne Summers is a “medical expert”?
Well…got another nice laugh on how far the Wall Street Journal has fallen since ole Rupert Murdoch took control of it a few years back by the events this week where they named the “Threes Company” star a medical expert for its editorial page. Yep, a hack actor who has spent the last twenty years hawking informercial crap to the American people is now qualified to critique Obamacare…what’s next? A puppy to critique the state of veterinary care in the US? This idiot goes on in her screed that healthcare in Canada is better for pets than it is for people…using fake “facts” about how long you have to wait and that doctors are becoming vets since they can make more money and that Obamacare is bad for the elderly here in the US even though they are covered under Medicare and have nothing to do with the ACA. Then she goes on to misquote both Lenin and Churchill (reading off one of the many right wing websites that have the quotes wrong) trying to make the point that healthcare is the path to controlling everyone. What a piece of crap the entire article is…who wants to listen to an idiot who thinks that when a woman goes through menopause, it is a signal for the body to create cancers and kill itself unless you buy the hormone supplements she is shilling….geez…
October 30th
Well…it was a low energy day yesterday and I didn’t do much other than the normal stuff….and today looks quite the same other than I have to go up to the office here and straighten out my lease….and I am going to do that right now so I’ll be back later to continue…okay…that’s taken care of and I got a cut of 20 bucks a month for signing for another year…not going to be out of here before then anyway….slept okay last night but I do think I have a bug of some sort that is sapping my energy some….I do have to send good thoughts to T for her two interviews today….but that is about it…I still need to get caught up today but I made some strides toward that yesterday…and I do have topics for later that are just as jaw dropping as yesterdays….more later…
Dick Cheney really is crazy…
Well…my jaw is dropping after just reading an article about an interview that ole Dick did the other day pushing a new book…I don’t know why he needs the money…especially after all of the loot he stole along with Halliburton…but, that’s not what this is about…it is about his absolute lack of irony since, when he was pushing the Iraq war, it was all about he just KNEW there were weapons of mass destruction there so that was the reason for attacking Iraq…now, in this new interview, he has morphed that into we were justified going into Iraq since it proved they didn’t have WMD…what a hypocritical lying piece of crap….this idiot war criminal should be in the dock at the Hague answering for his crimes…over a half million Iraqis dead and 1.8 trillion of yours and my money wasted there….why does anyone still listen to this idiot who has been wrong, wrong, wrong about everything in his whole career…I guess it’s the old boy network at work…you never need to succeed…just cash the checks an move on to the next scam…geez…
Some good news…in politics anyway…
Well…there have been some signs starting to appear that are pointing to what many of us have been hoping for for a long time now….that the crazy assed repubs are starting to pay for that craziness….the latest place this has come to light is in
Virginia where the repubs have been in control of the entire government for a few years now and have done what these asses have done everywhere else…go after women’s rights, vilify gay people, and try to give the states away to their corporate masters. But, it appears that there are enough people in Virginia who are saying enough with this crap…the final polls for the election next week appear to say that the entire top of the ticket, from governor, lieut governor, attorney general and more are going to the dems….and that means no more vaginal ultrasounds or other nonsense from the legislature there…the repubs will still own both houses but there will be a significant erosion on their power…and, maybe the opportunity is there to take the whole state in two years…something that didn’t look possible even last year….keep at it dems…we can exterminate the crazy if we just turn out….geez….
October 29th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday with having lunch with T and the out for a couple with G later but now I’m completely broke so I need to just stay around here for the rest of the week….and, it looks like I’ll be eating out of the freezer the rest of the week…slept okay last night but I didn’t eat enough yesterday so I am a little sluggish this morning…going to have a bagel here in a minute and then get on with the workout….have to find a new battery for the walkman so I can use it again…riding the bike is not anywhere near as much fun without it….and, I’m waiting for the maintenance folks to come and do the furnace inspection today….it is really dark in here today and I don’t like it….more later…
Going to have to cheat a little…
Well…with the end of the month rushing up, I do need to cheat a little to make sure I don’t miss the 62 necessary to keep the sting alive…well…not alive since I did have the problems with the servers for the site back in March and missed that one by a bunch…there has been some good news in politics lately with the ship finally starting to turn our way…it will probably take until 2016 to clean out the nuts here in our legislature and regain some sanity and caring for people that the repubs have even quit faking…and maybe even make Snyder go away…we can hope anyway…just had a nice lunch with T…good to see her and have an adult to talk to…not sure what else to write…but, this will get me toward the goal and cheating is okay for that….back later for more….
October 28th
Well…it was another uninteresting day yesterday but the Lions won so that is something….didn’t do much except watch sports…I did go out to meet up with the new car club but no one showed for the drive so I just came back here and vegged…slept okay last night but I am still tired today and sore…both elbows are now hurting and it is really no fun…and I didn’t come back for another one so now I am really behind for the month so I have to get it in gear and get a few of these done today….I may have lunch with T today so that may be something to look forward to….but, not much else….I really hate getting to the end of the month but you know that…more later…