Well…it is a melancholy day this morning for some reason…yesterday was one of my older brother’s birthday who died when I was a kid and I remember it every year for some reason…but that’s not the source…or, I don’t think it is…I’ve been paralyzed for the past couple of days and I’m not sure what that is either…lot’s of insight pouring out of me today and I’m not even sure why I’m here right now…have been up since 5 or so but that’s not unusual…I’m feeling kind of disjointed today so this one is going to be a free flowing, not making much sense one…I did have a thought that I miss the car brand Pontiac..not sure why about that either since I never owned one and I don’t miss the rest of them that have disappeared over the years….there were dreams last night that included the tv show “Las Vegas” and James Caan and taking the wrong shuttle bus…not much to do today…I am going to do the grocery run today since I do need some protein and I have none left here….and I have been good all week so I might splurge a little….more later….
The republicans really are crazy….
Well…came across this amazing little fact when I was watching Colbert the other day and it popped up in an article in the papers today to remind me of how crazy the repubs have gotten over the past couple of years…and I really need to put a long quote from the platform of the repub party from Texas in to get started…”We oppose the teaching of higher order thinking skills…and similar programs which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the students fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority…” okay…are you as blindsided as I am? Basically, what the GOP in Texas is saying is that they don’t want their children to be able to think, to be able to compare facts and reason, or to challenge dogma that is riddled with superstition and lies. So, whatever their ignorant parents teach them about the spaghetti monster in the sky, or that the president is a muslim, socialist, Martian can no longer be challenged by the facts as long as it is “fixed belief”…no wonder the US is falling so far behind the rest of the world in competitiveness and even respect…how can the rest of the world respect a country that has one of its major parties so full of crazies, that treat objective fact as lesser than opinion, and who elevate the purveyors of this nonsense to leadership roles? I fear for this country if the repubs get their way….
I do need to give a little props to Leonard Pitts for his article today where I got the quote from the platform….
July 24th
Well…it was a recovery day yesterday and I was really good so I should feel better today but it’s not happening yet….might have to go back to the OTC sleep aids again for a while since I think I have whiplash from tossing and turning all night…and, even being good, my brain is still not working as well as it should….it looks like it may be a rain day today so the top will have to stay up on the car which takes away a lot of it’s appeal….but, I do have things to do today so I guess I’ll have to suck it up and get them done…might just have to take a day off from riding…darn….more later…
This is what the 1% does…
Well…I didn’t get back to the first post yet since this has been a recovery day for me…mostly from not eating enough yesterday…but, I did read an interesting article in the Guardian UK that states that the rich have gamed the system across the globe so much that they have been able to hide 21 trillion dollars from being taxed anywhere…yep, that’s trillion with a t…more money than the entire US economy with Japan thrown in for good measure. So, the next time you hear the rich start bitching about paying too much in taxes, you know it’s a lie….the tax rate on the upper income folks is at an 80 year low right now and where are the jobs these low tax rates are supposed to create? Not here in Michigan that I can see…geez…
July 23rd
Well…it was a day yesterday…a long one to be sure but I did win at pool so that is something…and, as you know, since it was a pool day, I feel pretty crappy this morning and the brain is not working so this one is going to be short….it is already 8 so I need to get going and have coffee and the papers…I will be back for more later…
Okay….I did come back for a few minutes as you can see from the post above…I am feeling much better after the bike ride but I’m still not eating enough…only 3 tacos today and I just don’t have any appetite again…so it looks like another day of little energy tomorrow since I don’t feel like cooking anything and I don’t have anything to cook anyway…maybe fast food? Nope…I do have a frozen pizza in the fridge that I guess I can do…not much to do today…I’m taking the day off from everything so I think I’ll get back to it…
The republicans are still idiots…
Well…read a couple of interesting articles over the past couple of days and a few thoughts have been jelling, so I thought I’d try to make some sense of them…first, if you’ve been following the news at all lately, one of the attack lines ole Mitt and the other repubs have been using is the tired old idea that government spending can’t create jobs and the stimulus program was a failure because of that “fact”….and they go on, and on, and on about it almost every time they open their mouths…so I find it increasingly funny that the repubs in the house are issuing dire warnings about what will happen to Virginia and other heavily military dependent states if the cuts to military spending are allowed to happen the first of the year. The repub governor of Virginia even went so far as to say that the “hairdressers, restaurants, hardware stores, and all other businesses” will be hurt if spending drops. Okay, let me get this straight…government spending can’t create jobs but when it stops it can destroy jobs? Logic would seem to dictate that these jobs must have been created by government spending if stopping the spending will destroy them….oh, I almost forgot, the repubs don’t use logic, just gut feeling and fairy dust. I am so disappointed that some reporter hasn’t gone up to ole Mitt and asked him to explain this conundrum…I wonder if it only the government spending that the repubs like that creates jobs? More nonsense from the nonsense party…geez…
July 22nd
Well…running late again this morning since I wanted to get the caffeine cycle completed before I got down to this…you know…drink coffee, get jittery, ride bike to burn off the caffeine and then come back here…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t do much but clean the bathroom and do laundry…oh, and watch the Tigers win another one that puts them into first place in their division…not sure why I’ve gotten back into baseball this summer but it has been something to do…not much to do today…it is a pool day so that will be for the aft but that is about it…going to do a political one right now so stay tuned…
July 21st
Well…it was a shocking day yesterday and I am still trying to process the whole tragedy in Colorado….it was a cocktail night so I am a little slow today but I will be getting out on the bike right after F1 qualifying so that will help…and the three cups of coffee might be a bit much but that will burn off on the bike…slept okay but no dreams so nothing to report there and I miss them…I think I may have eaten enough yesterday but I have this taste for tortillas; at least until I looked at how many calories are in them…160 calories for a small one when I can have three hard taco shells for 150…so, I guess I’ll just have to go back to the normal stuff….okay, the third round of qualifying is getting ready to start and it is in the rain so I’m going to go back and watch that…more later…
I’m in shock…
Well…not going to do a political one today…it just doesn’t seem important with the massacre in Colorado…I just can’t figure out stuff like that….what can drive a person to do that? Not much else to say….
July 20th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday with the heat breaking a little and finally getting some rain…I do feel a little crappy since I had the first cocktails of the week but I took it easy so it’s not too bad….slept okay for me but that is not saying much…I think I may have eaten enough yesterday so I hope the energy levels will be up over what they have been…I did get the kitchen cleaned yesterday so I feel good about that…that’s about it for now…may meet up with T later today so I am looking forward to that…more later…