Well….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done but laundry…..still coughing like crazy and I’m not sure why….must be a bug…oh, I said that yesterday didn’t I? So, I feel a little crappy today and I am going to take it easy…easier? At least my back is better today…but it always is in the morning so I’m not going to get my hopes up too much…..at least it’s not 2 degrees like yesterday morning but the cold was still bad going out for the papers today…just another indicator that I am not feeling that hot…and my reading light crapped out today but I was happy I had an extra bulb to fix it…just don’t need a complication for my morning routine…not much to do today….going to just hang out and take it easy as I try to feel better….more later….
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Hypocrites…
Well…as you have seen here before, one of the joys of my life is calling out the hypocrites on the right I guess whenever they open their mouths…now, they are at it again with the death of Antonin Scalia yesterday…now, you have heard me go on about Scalia and his wrongheadedness on almost every opinion he ever wrote, and all you have to do is read his Bush v. Gore, Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United opinions to see what I mean…he had a penchant for just making stuff up to meet his biases…and his ethical challenges were well known with his frequent trips to the Koch brothers secret meetings where at least the appearance of impropriety oozed out of him. But now that he has died, the repubs hypocrisy is on full display…on a daily basis, these idiots rail and rail about the constitution and that Obama is tearing it up….as soon as the death was announced, the repubs new meme is that, since Obama is in the last year of his term, we should wait to name a new justice until the next president is elected…and they are justifying that by constitution, constitution…something something….well…there is nothing in the constitution that says a president can’t appoint someone in his last term…not anywhere…and, to leave a vacancy on the court for a year has never been done…even saint Ronnie of Reagan appointed one in his last year….I really do hope that the repubs will carry through on their threats to not approve any nominee….and then, when we win the election and take back the senate, we can get a real progressive on the court that will start to repeal all of the wrongheaded crap that the conservatives have foisted on this country….geez…
February 14th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…it is nice to have a clean bathroom again…slept okay last night but have been coughing like crazy again and it feels like a bug…again…this is the third one this winter and I am tired of it….at least my back doesn’t hurt as much as it has over the past few weeks so that is something…I did make some slow cooker chicken that came out pretty good so there will be no cooking today and that is okay, too….I should clean up the kitchen after making a big mess yesterday and I might…but as I feel right now, that will be put on the back burner for now…..not much to do today….I do have to come back and do one on Scalia dying…the hypocrisy of the repubs on this one is just breathtaking…more later…
Typical smug asses…
Well…have been keeping up with the water debacle in Flint, and every day more information comes out in e-mails that the Snyder appointees in the Department of Environmental Quality…(the state department that is responsible for the mess in Flint) were a bunch of smug asses that thought they knew better than the EPA that there was a problem with not treating the water with anti corrosive chemicals. These idiots even went so far as trying to avoid returning the EPA’s e-mails since the person there was just a pain in the ass for harping on the fact they needed to treat the water…even going so far as getting their bosses to intercede so they guy would leave them alone. This is just another reason that political hacks who think government can’t do anything right should NEVER be put in charge of an important function like protecting the people of this state from poisoning….typical repub MO….hope these idiots go to jail…geez…
February 13th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…slept okay last night but no dreams again so I guess I’ll just have to get used to it…there were two good music shows on last night that I watched..one on BB King and another on David Bowie…and Bowie did Young Americans live so that was really cool….and I wasn’t good so I don’t feel that hot today…I have gotten the slow cooker going already and that is really an accomplishment for 8:25 in the morning…I decided to bake the chicken first instead of just putting it in the cooker…just didn’t want to have to pick the bones and skin out of the cooker…and I don’t really like the way chicken tastes in the cooker anyway….not much to do today…watching Man U right now and then I’m just going to veg it today with a little cleaning…the bathroom needs some work but that will be it….more later…
February 12th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…slept okay but the dreams are gone again and that is a little disappointing…oh, well…I just wish my back would stay as it is when I get up and not hurt all day….not sure what the heck is going on with it….I did make a good batch of chili yesterday and that was good and I got out to get some chicken for 29 cents a pound so I am going to make a slow cooker chicken dish tomorrow if I can get it to thaw by then…might have to use the hot water trick since it is a 10 pound block of ice right now….and I don’t have any room in the freezer for it but I couldn’t pass it up…not much to do today…pool, then back here for cocktails later with the Wings…but, I am not going to do what I did last week…way too long of a day not getting home until 7:30…more later….
Varied topics…
Well…I was just going to call this one noodling around but I’ve used that one before and I didn’t want to get bored…there was something cool announced today where the people running the LIGO experiment said that they have detected gravity waves that came from two black holes that merged 1.5 billion light years away…scientists have been working on this one since the theory of general relativity was published in the early 1900′s and it is the last part that remained to be proven…..just love this science stuff….I have been thinking about some political topics over the past couple of days and haven’t found one that lit any fire in me…it is fun to watch the desperation from the lower tier repubs as they try to figure out how to not be irrelevant…and that means attack, attack, attack, to the repubs…not policy, just attack…and I do want to say one thing…anyone who thinks John Kasich is a “moderate” is fricking delusional…he may look like a moderate compared to the right wing mouth breathers that are running…but, to see his true nature, you just have to look at the legislation that he has been pushing to de-fund PP based on the fake videos that were presented as damning to PP…they aren’t true but that doesn’t get in the way of Kasich trying to eliminate the good that PP does for poor women in Ohio…moderate? Hell no…geez….
February 11th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I got a bunch of stuff done so that was cool…slept okay and had some really weird dreams that included cell phones, and me playing for the Wings but street hockey…pretty cool having a great dream for a change….and I feel okay this morning so that starts it out good…already have the grocery run done but spent too much money to get nothing…had to re supply all my cleaning supplies and that is not cheap….I did hear from T this morning for the first time in a while and that made me smile…her week has been extra crazy and I didn’t expect to hear from her so that was a pleasant surprise….my back hurt like crazy doing the groceries but that was expected…at least nothing else hurts and I’m not coughing…not much to do today…going to make chili and clean some but that is about it…it was nice to have the car start with no problem with it being only 12 degrees outside…takes a load off….more later….
Funny taxes…
Well…just finished up doing my taxes and I am still laughing at the absurdity of it….my taxable income this year was $271 dollars…yep, you saw that right…after my exemption and standard deduction my taxable was the lowest it been since I was in my teens…and I only paid $21 dollars in tax on that amount….just damn funny that I only owed that for the year….but, I don’t feel bad…there were years that I paid more than 20K in taxes…and I didn’t mind even paying that since I used to make a lot of cash….
New Hampshire…
Well….it was an interesting if not expected set of results that came out of the primary in NH yesterday with the clown Trump winning on the repub side and Bernie taking the dem side. And, the fallout from the others on the right has already started with Christie dropping out later today and ole Marco trying to figure out why his stumbling, bumbling performance over the past week led to his finishing 5th or 6th in the single digits…couldn’t happen to a less qualified candidate, that’s for sure. Don’t really even have to mention the others, although Bush did get above 10% for the first time…the 33% the Trump got just shines a light on the racist, homophobic base that supports him…and even it he gets the nomination, there’s not enough of them to elect him. So, we move on to Bernie…as you know, I support Bernie and it was good to see him get over 60% of the vote but that just starts the battle that moves on to Nevada next week…it is still fun to see the repub establishment flailing around trying to figure out how to stop Trump but they are getting what they deserve with their scorched earth policies that have led to the rise of the crazies…geez…