I’m disappointed…

Well…as you know, I very seldom talk about religion unless is it being used as a bludgeon to impose religious views on people who are non believers…but, something the Pope did last week disappointed the hell out of me…he made the point to meet with the homophobic country clerk from Kentucky who refused to do her job and issue same sex marriage licences to gay couples….what does the Pope not understand about discrimination and the separation of church and state here in the US? It is not ‘religious freedom” to deny other people their rights just because you don’t like the idea that gays can get married…and by meeting with her, the Pope gave sanction to this unlawful behavior…it was a terrible mis-judgement on his part, to elevate a hater to the status that she gets a private meeting with the Pope…she who is on her 4th marriage…it just shows how we need to end the hegemony of religion in this country an put it back in the churches where it belongs….geez…

Some sports…and filler…

Well…sitting here waiting for the temp to come up so I can get on the bike so I thought I’d get one of the last ones for the month done while I wait…so, it’s going to be sports…yay!  I just can’t figure out the Tigers this year…at or near first place all summer and then, bang….they just can’t win a game…I was almost sucked back into watching them as they played well this summer but that was killed after they started to play like a minor league team…I’ll be the Whitecaps could have beaten them this summer. Not sure if I have hope that they will be better next year…probably not….but, they are still not as frustrating as the Lions who look like they have regressed from last year by a bunch…I mean, 0-3 already? But, the frustration in my case is over 50 years old and I probably should know better than to have hope with those guys. But, the Red Wings might make me happy this year with all of the young guys coming up and the addition of a couple of pretty good veterans…they looked good in preseason but that is preseason…we’ll know more after the first game Friday. Then, there is Manchester United…who, even after playing like crap to start are at the top of the table…but, I think that is more the weakness of the Premier League this year…..in European competition, the Premier League has been beaten up pretty bad…I guess we’ll see this afternoon when they play Wolfsburg in the Champions League….fingers crossed

September 30th

Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done..this morning was pretty darn cold and I had to wear a fleece out for the papers for the first time since April….going to wait go out on the bike today so I can set a new record of getting to the end of September without having to put on a sweatshirt….that is pretty cool…but the weather is changing quickly and it will be sweatshirt tomorrow….slept okay last night and I was good so I feel okay this morning…that little bug is still hanging on but the coughing is better so there is improvement….my back did the cracking thing again yesterday and the pain is gone again so that is something…oh, I forgot, not going to talk about the aches and pains anymore…..as you can see, I have three of these to do today to make the goal for the month so there will be much wisdom coming today…not really, one will probably be a filler….not much to do today…have some errands to run this morning and I do need to buy powerball tickets with the jackpot being almost 400 million….more later…

Here’s some irony for you…

Well…we had some exciting news from NASA yesterday where they revealed that there is liquid water on Mars during what is it’s summer…as you know, on Earth, everywhere there is liquid water there is life…from the deserts to miles underground, there is life, even in places you would never think it would be. But, this discovery of water rises to irony when you remember a little treaty that was signed by all the countries on Earth in 1968…that we would never send a probe to investigate anywhere there is liquid water present..to avoid contaminating that world with earth organisms that have been shown to be able to survive in space…they even put a bunch of microbes on the outside of the ISS and left it exposed to hard space for two years with most of them surviving the vacuum and the extremes of hot and cold that exist there. So, where does that leave us? One of the rovers that is now in Gale crater is near some of these water flows and can’t be sent to look at them…and no new probes…even the Mars 2020 one that is supposed to bring back samples can go near them….this is a conundrum that we need to address…with the possible discovery of life on another planet, how can we tie our own hands? Not sure what the answer is but the water discovery is still exciting….

September 29th

Well…it was an okay day yesterday even though I didn’t feel too well…haven’t coughed much yet today so it may be getting better…still sweating, though, so maybe not quite yet…slept just okay last night but woke up sore everywhere especially from the knees down…lots of cramping in my calves and my right big toe…and the left elbow is killing me, too…it’s hard to just pick up the coffee cup without screaming pain…crap…..didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today looks much the same…still don’t have a lot of energy but will try to get the bike ride in before the rains come….geez…I sound like an old guy just bitching about all the aches and pains….no  more of that….I am down to just 250 miles to go to get to the goal and that is kind of exciting…but the bike has a squeak in it that I can’t find and that is annoying me…will try to grease the seat post this morning to see if that is where it is…not much to do today…I do need to watch some soccer this aft but that is about it…more later….

Bye, Bye, Boehner…

Well…it was a little bit of a surprise to hear that ole John Boehner has decided to resign from congress at the end of October and I’m not sure if I should be happy or what…after all, he is going to go down in history as the worst house speaker in history but I think his biggest failing was emboldening the crazy, right wing vandal caucus to try to blow up the government. Especially when he scheduled 50 votes to repeal Obamacare to try to mollify them when he knew it had no chance to ever become law….and that it would just make the righties even more delusional, allowing them to control the House when there is only about 40 of them. What he should have done is schedule one vote, then work with the dems to get things done…just ignoring the bomb throwers. But no, he wanted to continue to be speaker and put his own personal status before that of the US so he allowed them to control him and at the same time, ensure that nothing would get done. I kind of think it may be like watching a train wreck for the next month…that you just can’t look away even though people are going to be maimed…bye, bye, John…

September 28th

Well…running a little late today since I fell asleep on the couch after I got up…yep, that darn bug is making me that tired and that is something I never do…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done but I felt pretty crappy all day…feel that way again today so it looks like it will be a take it easy day today…after I work out and ride the bike…will probably make it a short one today and will go a little easy….and, my back is back to hurting again and that is just so disappointing after having a couple of days without pain…oh, well….it’s about 65 degrees and I am sweating through my clothes without doing anything but sitting here so I guess that’s confirmation I’m sick…not much to do today…I should run a couple of errands but I am so fatigued that I don’t think I will….may do a few things around here but don’t have the energy right now…more later…

They are ALL stupid…

Well…if you have  been listening to any or all of the repub candidates spout over the past couple of months, there is only one conclusion that you can draw…that they are all stupid. The latest from one of the front runners, Ben Carson, show his ignorance of the law and the constitution in all it’s glory…first, last week, this idiot comes out and says that he could never support a Muslim for president saying that Islam allows them to lie to get elected…well, Ben, if that is a disqualifier, then all of the repubs now running are disqualified. But, the latest one that this idiot came out with today was that just being Muslim should be probable cause for their houses to be searched and their phones tapped. This idiot appears to not know that there is a fourth amendment to the Constitution that prevents these things and was one of the main reasons that the Revolutionary war was fought….but, when scary Muslims are involved, they don’t deserve the same rights as the rest of us American citizens….I knew about this stuff in the 6th grade…this surely should disqualify this idiot from anything but retirement…and I just wish he’d go there…I know the repubs are proud of their ignorance on many subjects but a campaign whose entire reason for being is to promote ignorance and hate is just too much…geez…

September 27th

Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool…didn’t win the powerball so that wasn’t…slept okay last night but I now know I have a bug of some sort since I have been coughing since yesterday and I feel like I can’t breathe too well…we’ll see how bad it is in a minute when I get on the bike…I do need to finish the second cup of coffee first…I did get some errands run yesterday, too, but didn’t get anything else done so today will be a work day…I do need to clean and do some laundry today and the Lions don’t play til later so I guess it will be napcar this aft…I am a little tired today and I am sure it is the bug….the back is starting to hurt again and that is disappointing…I did get two days without pain so that is something….not much to do today….just the bike ride and cleaning I guess…more later…

Jeb truly is the stupid one..

Well..just wanted to do a short one on another idiotic thing that JEB! said in a speech a few days back…the gist of it was the same thing that ole MItt said during his campaign…that the only reason that minorities vote for dems is that they will get “free stuff” from them and won’t have to work for anything…and ole JEB! went on to lecture that they should vote for repubs since they will put policies into place that will let minorities “earn” their way to a better life…right there I started laughing so hard my eyes were watering..this lecture coming from someone who has never “earned” anything in his life that wasn’t given to him by the Bush family connections….has never had to worry where the next meal is coming from or where to get the money to pay for the doctor…and this idiot thinks he can lecture anyone on earning anything? Again…I have had enough of these rich pricks telling working people what their failings are and why they aren’t rich like them…JEB!, you would be an Arby’s manager if it wasn’t for your family…just STFU…geez…