Well…I can hardly contain my glee after hearing the announcement that the Donald has declared his candidacy for president…and his speech announcing it was just the riches bit of absurdist theater I can remember seeing in a long, long time…starting with his rant that illegal immigrants are “drug dealers, they bring in crime, and they are rapists” wow, way to go Donald…alienate some 40% of the voters out there that are Hispanic and then all of us that are on the left…hmmmm…what does that leave for you? Oh, the 26% that are tea partiers…not the brightest way to get elected by any means. But, really….does this delusional idiot think he has any chance in this election? Yeah…I’ll be he does since he still believes in a fake Obama birth certificate…that there is no global warming, or that he is a businessman of any sort….I guess it would be pretty easy to be rich when you start out with 400 million dollars of daddy’s money and then use bankruptcy as your business plan to screw all your creditors and the people that work for you…I guess it’s not much different than ole Mitt’s plan from Bain…the two of them should work well together…it is going to be a fun summer listening to this idiot…and the rest of the idiots that are running…go Bernie!
Monthly Archives: June 2015
June 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get a few errands run so that was cool….got a bunch of new t-shirts for riding the bike for only 20 bucks…that should get me through the summer….slept okay last night but a little fitful….and I am a little worn out today but have to get back to the fitness routine….the humidity has been so high lately that I am soaked at three miles out but that kind of feels good…came back yesterday soaked through my shorts….not too sore today so I may skip the ibuprofen before the ride just to see what it will be like…I do need to get some dusting done today…I can write my name in the dust and that is just too much…and it might help the allergies, tomorrow, but I will suffer today…not much to do today…going to get going early today so I can cook for lunch but that is about it….with all the rain, the car doesn’t need to be washed but I should clean it some anyway…more later….
Let’s learn a little on “free trade”
Well….with all of the drama over the new trade agreement that was scuttled last week by the dems in the house…thank you Nancy Pelosi, I think it’s time to look back a little at the other big “free trade” agreement, NAFTA, that has been in effect for over 20 years now. There was an interesting study that I read a little about a few days back and one of the big takeaways from the study was it’s effect on wages in the US…where it has been responsible for essentially a stagnation of wages here…with the huge pool of cheap labor that suddenly entered the market from Mexico, wages have been under downward pressure…after all, why would the auto companies want to pay an American worker 20 dollars an hour when the can pay Mexican workers 2 dollars? The study also predicted the demise of the Canadian auto industry in about 20 years which, before NAFTA, was an important sector of their economy. And, again, why invest in Canada when there is cheap labor south of the American border? What these trade deals show is that it is impossible to maintain an American middle class and it’s wages when you compete with countries that pay third world wages…we need to shout that every time there is another one of these deals that continue to take all the good jobs away from the US…let’s stop this race to the bottom before it’s too late….
June 15th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done, again, but I really don’t have a lot to do so I guess I can live with that…not sure I want to do the regular stuff here today…you probably don’t care how I slept…and I don’t either so I won’t talk about that…I’m not sore this morning and that is a good thing but we’ll see how that goes after the bike ride…I do need to get on that right now since the rain is going to start soon and it looks like it is going to keep up most of the day…I do have some errands to run this morning so I’ll probably get to that after the ride…probably won’t work out today since I won’t have time to do it before the ride…not much to do today…I have some things I should do and might do but I’m just not motivated right now…more later…
Noodling…again…
Well….have been sitting here today thinking about what to write and I’ve already done most of the things I wanted to so I guess it’s noodling time again….I was a little heartened by Hillary’s speech the other day when she has started to sound like Elizibeth Warren and that move to the left is what I have been waiting for from the dems for a long time…if dems are dems and we get out the vote we win….and there was no one even talking to all of us on the left until now…but, I still like Bernie Sanders more since he is the real item…he just has to keep saying what he has been saying his whole career…I think you can call him authentic…I am really surprised as he is) by the size of the crowds that have been coming out to see him…I think that’s pretty cool…okay…so I didn’t noodle much…I finally got a second one done this weekend…
June 14th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done at all….kind of a relaxing day…slept okay last night and I feel a little slow today but it is nice sitting here listening to the rain and the end of the 24 hours of LeMans….might have to take the day off the bike today if the rain keeps up…but, it looks like it will be over in a couple of hours so I will get out later if I feel like it…it was a nice ride yesterday so I may be tempted to get out later….don’t need to guilt of not going….and I am losing weight still so I want to keep that up…I did get out for a couple with K yesterday and that was fun…but she didn’t mention that I shaved the beard off and I’m not sure what that is about….not much to do today…going to try to clean the kitchen, again, and then watch races but that is about it….more later….
June 13th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but there was no pool so I didn’t lose…that’s a good thing..slept okay and got the bike ride in between the raindrops so I could put the guilt away for the day….got some stuff done and ran a few errands so the day wasn’t a total waste….a bore, but not a total waste….and today looks the same…I am a little sore today and there is no reason for it but I do need to take some ibuprofen before the bike ride but that is going to wait until I watch some of LeMans that is starting in a few minutes…not much to do today…going to watch races and just hang out today…may go out for a couple with K later but I’m not sure about that….more later…
June 12th
Well…it was a really busy day yesterday and i worked on stuff around here from 8 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon…but, I got everything done and now things are back to normal…and that is relaxing…slept okay last night but no dreams this time…darn it….I do feel a little slow today but that will be okay since it is raining and I think I’ll take the day off the bike…yeah, that won’t happen if there is a break in the rain…riding makes me feel better and I feel guilty if I don’t….I was so sore yesterday aft that I had to take some ibuprofen for it and my allergies are so bad today that I think I’ll take something for that, too…man, maybe that’s why I feel miserable today…not much to do today…pool, of course, oh, and I sewed the cue case back together the other day…and I should do more on the kitchen…but probably won’t…more later…
Rick Snyder is a liar…
Well…during all the hoopla over the “religious freedom” law that was passed in Indiana, our governor, ole Rick Snyder said he would never sign a bill like that…well today showed that he is a liar of the worst sort…he did exactly what he said he wouldn’t…he signed three bills into law that gives adoption agencies in Michigan a brand new right (that the right is always bitching about), the right to not allow same sex couples to adopt due to their “honestly held” religious beliefs. I have had enough of this crap…my tax dollars go to support each and every one of these adoption agencies and I do not want to support people that have now been given the right to discriminate against anyone they don’t like…but these laws go even father than the ones in Indiana…they allow these supposed “religious groups” to not allow divorced people to adopt…to not allow single people to adopt…too not allow inter racial couples to adopt…you get my drift…with almost 4,000 kids waiting for a new home here in Michigan, you would think that any loving single or couple that wants to adopt would be welcome here in Michigan…but, again the repubs and our liar of a governor don’t give a damn about the kids…just pandering to the religious here that want to impose their warped view of religion on the rest of us….shame on you Snyder…I have lost all respect for the “tough nerd” that said he was above this crap…
Tim McGraw is a good guy….
Well…as you know, quite a bit of the time I rant about the bad things that are happening in this country and across the world and that gets to be hard on my psyche at times…but then, a story comes along that brightens my day and makes me smile a little. One of those I just read was about the country artist Tim McGraw who is doing something to help our returning veterans that is just so frickin cool I had to write about it. During this summer’s tour, Tim is going to give away 108 houses, mortgage free to our returning veterans…yeah, 108 houses to help these veterans and their families get back to normal lives after serving you and I…now I think it’s a little odd that McGraw is an outspoken Democrat in an industry that is mostly quite right wing and I won’t make the connection that being a Dem is part of why he cares…doesn’t matter…it’s the act that counts..and it’s a big one….Thanks, Tim…..