Well…running early today since I got up early and am already bored…and it looks like more and more cold and snow for the weekend…how can you not be depressed? Slept okay last night but I am still tired again today but that is the new normal…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get a few things done so that is something but not much…but today looks like it will be a little less boring with lunch with T and then out for pool…and the olympics have started but I am already tired of the personal interest stories that they feel compelled to interject all night…I don’t really need to know the personal stories of the participants, especially when it breaks up the flow of the events…after all, it is the performances that define the games, not the childhood of these people….not much to do today…need to do the grocery run and then get ready for the rest of the day…more later…
Another ass of a CEO blames the ACA…
Well…I am starting to get pissed with all of the incompetent CEO’s slashing benefits and then blaming it on the ACA…even though the entire act has not even taken effect…just like John Schnatter of Papa John’s who went on a bitch screed last year saying he would make sure no one in his company would work more than 30 hours so he wouldn’t have to make health insurance part of the benefit package offered…and this, even though giving all of his employees full boat health insurance would only cost the company 4 cents extra per pizza and no one would even notice…just another asshole on the right trying to make a political point by screwing his workers. Today, we have another one of these assholes that makes over 10 million dollars a year, Tim Armstrong of AOL, saying that he HAS to cut the companies 401K match since two women there had babies that needed “a million dollars in care” and claims that Obamacare has cost the company 7.1 million dollars. One thing this prick doesn’t mention is that his bad decisions in acquisitions has cost the company over 200 million dollars in the past year…so, what he is really saying is that I’m so damn dumb that I can’t even do my job, so all of you employees have to pay for it while I take my 10 million dollars and laugh all the way to the bank. This one has the analysts laughing out loud…all of them have said that there is no possible way that Obamacare has cost AOL 7.1 million dollars…this prick is just lying like every one of these CEO’s whose pay is based on screwing workers…I, for one, am really, really tired of these assholes using their employees as scapegoats for their incompetence…when do they have to take some personal responsibility? Geez….
New stuff or old stuff?
Well…have been sitting here trying to figure out some new stuff to say but have only come up with snippets that wouldn’t make a whole one of these so this one is going to be a little disjointed…okay, most of these are a little disjointed but that’s my “style” and I’m sticking by that….forgot to mention this morning that the snow totals for this year here in GR are 4 feet more than last year…yep, 4 feet more than the 37 inches of last year and we still have more than a month of winter left to go…might be a record year if we get 15 more inches…I still can’t believe we’ve gotten 85 inches of snow this year…no wonder I’m so depressed…is this old or new stuff? Not sure…but I have been following the debt ceiling fight…another one of those? Yep, here we go again but this time the repubs have figured out that they are not going to be able to hold it hostage and crash the economy to try to jerk the country even farther to the right…and have given up before the fight began…but, ole Boehner has tried to save face by saying he won’t give Obama immigration reform this year to spite him….yeah, spite away, John…are you guys so stupid that you don’t recognize that every time you pull this crap of trying to hurt people it comes back to bite you in the ass? Yeah, they really, really, are…oh, and one last thing…the deficit is down to 1/3 of what it was when Obama took office….yep, this big spending, communist has reduced the deficit more than any repub president in the last 30 years…and he is still a socialist…I say, give me more socialism is that’s what it looks like…geez…
February 6th
Well…it was just another long, boring day yesterday with nothing to comment on…but, I will anyway just to keep the string alive…didn’t do much but I did take some venison out of the freezer and marinated it in the dressing that I have been using for chicken, too…and it came out pretty good…and I really needed the protein with all of the carbs I’ve been having lately…and, I have another one for today so that will be good to see how the marinade works overnight…slept okay last night but I am beginning to think that the twitching in my right eye is caused by using earplugs to sleep at night…might have to test that theory tonight….my heel is finally healing and doesn’t hurt as much as yesterday so I have hope that I will be able to walk normally soon….I am getting a little excited that the olympics are starting soon but hockey is going to be on a channel that I don’t get and I hate NBC for that….oh, well…not much to do today…I do have to run some errands this morning and then get some work done around here but that is it….more later….
More republican lies about the ACA…
Well…I am laughing about the typical repub spin on the new CBO report that came out in the past couple of days that says, as a result of the law, there will eventually be 2 million less full time workers…and of course the repubs say it is the result of the law, that employers will be eliminating jobs because the ACA forces them to provide healthcare to their employees…but, of course, the repubs take the headline and try to turn it to political advantage when it says no such thing…what the report really says is that with independent health insurance available that is not tied to any employer, more people will say “go to hell” to bad employers that they have been tolerating just to get health insurance…and many of those people will be able to finally retire with insurance they can afford before Medicare. So, what to do the repubs have against freedom? Oh, they are okay with freedom if is the freedom of employers to screw with their employees who couldn’t get health insurance before the ACA, but they just hate the fact that the ACA has taken away some leverage from employers to do whatever they want…to keep wages low since they had their employees over the healthcare barrel…and now, that the needle has swung just a little back to normal, ordinary people, the repubs are going crazy…under the orders of their corporate masters, of course….geez…
February 5th
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for another one yesterday…went out to meet up with G for a couple at lunch and the day just got away from me….felt pretty crappy the rest of the day so I just hung out and vegged…I did have a weird dream in two stages last night…dreamed that I saw a plane crash and then helped the pilot get out of the wreckage…but, later in the dream a couple of days had passed and then I was talking about it to a different group of people…don’t remember having time passing in a dream in quite a while so that was fun…slept okay last night, too, so that was a pleasant surprise…nothing much happened the rest of the day…I did make up a crock pot meal out of leftovers that I had in the fridge that came out okay…and will give me something to eat the next couple of days…not much to do today…going to try to clean again today but haven’t has any success lately so maybe that won’t work this time either….more later…
February 4th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday…not really, when did it become okay to be so frickin bored every day? Oh, well….didn’t get much done but really didn’t need to….slept okay but again no dreams so that was normal….It didn’t snow last night which is quite weird, too, since it has snowed almost every day since November….haven’t been feeling that hot and I cracked the skin on my right heel and now I have to kind of limp around here since it hurts so much…and that caused me to favor it which makes everything else hurt…yep, just feeling like I’m falling apart here but I know it will get better once I can get back on the bike…I am getting a little excited about the Olympics coming up later in the week and that will give me something to do…not much to do today…I am going to clean the bathroom today since it is on full spider alert and it just needs it….more later…
This is what the right does in Wisconsin…
Well…just read about a new suit that has been filed in Wisconsin that is attempting to overturn their constitutional amendment against same sex marriage…which is not too unusual given that all of those laws and amendment violate the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause…one thing that these pricks in Wisconsin did that has flown under the national radar exposes the hate they have for gays in their state…the so-called “marriage evasion” law that makes it a criminal offense for gays to go to other states and get married…yep, you heard it right…in Wisconsin, it is illegal for anyone to go to another state to “contract a marriage that is prohibited or void in Wisconsin”…basically saying that Wisconsin’s laws trump the laws of any other state…and anyone doing that can go to jail for 9 months and have to pay a $10,000 fine…just don’t know what to say about the hate filled asses that could write and pass such a law…but we do know who signed it into law…everyone’s buddy ole Scott Walker…try running for president on that you idiot…geez…
Here’s another problem with the right…
Well…not sure if you watched the interview that Obama did with ole Billo before the SB, but I thought Obama did a good job at stabbing at the premise of Fox news and the fact that the “scandals” they report on are mostly only scandals since they are the ones pushing them as scandals. One of the inferences that has been made on Fox news for quite a while now is that Obama must have know what was going on in some IRS office in Cleveland and probably even was in on planning who was to get audited by that office…even though there is no paper trail or any person saying that he was…and, what president would have time for that? Then, of course, the right then goes on to complain that, if he didn’t know what was going on, he should resign since he is a bad president by not knowing. Got that logic? Okay, now let’s look at the reaction of the right to Christie’s shenanigans in NJ….and the theme that comes through all of the right’s reaction is that of course he couldn’t have had anything to do with it…after all, he said he didn’t and that should be good enough for anyone…and how dare you question anything a repub does? So, Obama should resign for something some far-removed subordinate did but Christie should stay in office for something his inner circle did….yep, doesn’t make much sense but the right never does…they always feel that they can do whatever they want even if it is against the law, but if they even think in their fevered brains that a dem might have, could have, or thought about doing the same things, they should be lined up and shot…what must it be like to live in one of those fevered brains? Don’t want to find out….geez…
February 3rd
Well…sitting here waiting for the car to de-ice so I thought I’d get this one done while I wait…it was an okay day yesterday but a veg one…I did get the grout in my shower scrubbed so that was something…slept okay last night but I think it’s been a month since I had a dream and that is a little puzzling but not news….and the game was a total bust…pretty crappy but I did want Seattle to win so that was okay….need to get some more stuff done today but I’m not sure how much…don’t have much motivation so I think today will be a day of recovery and rest…and getting back to some real topics….more later…