Well…it has been another day of basically nothing..other than going out to lunch…and I am feeling that malaise that had been dogging me for the past month…which is keeping me from thinking about what to write here and finding a good topic…we still have the repubs being dicks by trying everything to keep UI benefits from being approved by attaching amendments that do nothing but punish people….and that is what the repub party has become over the years…all punishment…all the time…punish the poor, punish voters, punish women, punish undocumented people….when are they ever going to try to do something for the country and its people? Oh, that’s right, never….I wish Olbermann would bring back “the worst person in the world” and we could name the entire right in this country….what a bunch of asses…geez…
January 13th
Well..just lost the post that I just wrote so this one will be a placeholder until I remember what I wrote….not sure if I like the new software for my site..this is the second one in a week that I’ve lost and it is getting irritating…the car worked this morning but I’m not sure if it’s fixed or not yet…will probably need to wait until later in the week to be sure….I do have some stuff to do today…errands this morning and then meeting up with a friend from my younger years I haven’t seen in over 25 years…okay, can’t remember what I wrote so I’m going to end here so I can workout….more later…
No motivation…again…
Well…it has been another lost day for me and I just can’t get motivated to do anything…I wonder if I used it all up working on the car yesterday? I’m still not sure if I guessed right on the car and it is still in the back of my mind that I didn’t…normally, there is a clear reason when a car does something weird but the caliper slider pins were not completely dry..I did use lithium grease on them last time but I don’t think it’s high temp enough for the pins…so, this time I used wheel bearing grease and we’ll see how it works…I wonder if my lethargy is caused by not eating enough again? I am just so tired of counting every calorie and not being able to eat anything except what is planned for the day….I wish this weather would keep up for another week and I could get back on the bike…with having the player working again I really can’t wait…and I know it makes me feel better when I do ride….oh, one last thing…if you want to read a good one about the hollowing out of the middle class, go over to Kos today and look at the one that Hunter just published…love his work and he just nails the despair that comes with the rigged economic system…
January 12th
Well…it was a day yesterday but I didn’t do much..there was a “Game of Thrones” marathon on HBO that I got sucked into…there wasn’t really much else to do…I did work on the car and might have the braking issue fixed with greasing the slider pins on the front calipers…at least it worked going out to get the paper this morning…I lost one of the anti rattle springs, though so I have to try to find another one…might be hard with the car being so old…it will still works without it so no big hurry…slept crappy again last night but that is normal now so I really don’t care anymore….not much to do today…there are still the HBO and showtime free previews today so I may be able to find a movie or two to watch but that is about it…more later…
The stupid is really deep in Texas…
Well…I have been a little lax in doing these lately but I have an excuse that works for me…and I guess that’s all I need…I did read a funny article…just a shorty…or maybe even on Twitter…not sure…but the gist of the article is the fight that is going on with the repubs for board of ed in Texas…and there was a scene straight from “Inherit the Wind” about the Scopes monkey trial early last century…yep, that long ago…when one of the candidates actually stood up in a public forum and asks for votes since she believes that “we didn’t come from no monkeys” …in this day and age, running for a position that will affect millions of Texas children…they still have viable candidates who are proud of their ignorance and passing that same ignorance on to their children…I’ll ask this one again…”what the hell is wrong with Texas?” geez…
January 11th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I have started to have brake problems on the car…think the caliper is hanging up on the right side front so I think I’ll have to take it apart Monday and grease the slider pins…I did win at pool again so that was okay but I do feel like crap today for some reason….slept okay…no, not really, slept crappy so maybe that’s it? I do hope the rain continues or the sun comes out to keep the melt going…need to get the snow piles down a little so I can see over them…as you can see, I only did one yesterday but that will be fixed today since there are topics again with congress back from it’s continual vacation and the stupid is flowing again from the right..okay, not feeling this so I’m going to stop and have more coffee…
January 10th
Well…just noticed that yesterday’s first post has disappeared and I’m not sure what happened…might be the new software that runs this thing…so, I guess I’ll have to update…it was just a normal day yesterday but I did go over to C’s house to get the water heater turned on so they could show it…have to go back over there this morning to shut the place down so he doesn’t have to spend 50 bucks on gas to come down and back…slept okay last night but had some disturbing dreams…not the happy ones I normally have but I guess the plus is that I had dreams two days in a row…yesterday’s were about cell phone problems and were related to real cell phone problems that I had…not being able to get texts…had to go over to Verizon to get those fixed but they couldn’t figure them out…just started to work again on it’s own…not much to do today..getting ready to head across town and then back here for a while before I head out for pool later…more later…
Monkey see, monkey do…
Well…I just had to comment on the continued saga of ole Chris Christie and the political payback his staff laid on the mayor of Ft. Lee NJ just because he wouldn’t endorse ole Chris…I know he fired someone that is supposed to be responsible..but that doesn’t get to the root of the problem…and that is Christie is a bully, and he runs his administration like any bully from the playgrounds to the internet…how else does anyone expect his staff to act when they see bullying as accepted practice day in and day out? It all boils down to the tone that ole Chris has set for his administration of confrontation and attack against anyone who dares to not do what he says…and it showed up in this bs incident…monkey see, monkey do….geez…
A Limbaugh smackdown…
Well…as we always expect, ole Rush went off the deep end again showing his ignorance and stupidity during the latest cold snap that has gripped the US over the past few days. When meteorologists stated to explain the weather pattern using the term “polar vortex”, ole Rush just went ballistic saying that it was a brand new term made up by the people who are pushing the “fallacy” of global warming and just a part of the conspiracy to do whatever he thinks the conspiracy is for…maybe taking away freedumbz? But, yesterday, Al Roker skewered his assertion by tweeting a page from a meteorology textbook from 1959 that used the term to describe exactly the phenomenon that we are seeing…and then betting anyone 1,000 dollars if they could come up with any instance where he related the vortex to global warming…and, guess what? No one could do it…one question I have is: doesn’t ole Rush have a staff that researches the bile he is spewing? Oh, of course not…he doesn’t give a damn about the truth so why would he pay someone to find out what it is? I have really tried to not write about ole Rush since I feel I need brain bleach every time…and I’m sure my brain won’t survive that much bleach…geez…
Bye, bye Christie…
Well…I am relishing this obscure little story that pulls the curtain back on how Chris Christie and most other repubs operate…if you didn’t read this, in the fall, the mayor of Ft. Lee NJ, a democrat, declined to endorse Christie for his re-election and any other dem should do given that Christie is just another thug repub. What happened next is a case study in repub thuggery…the people in Christie’s administration conspired to close down two of three lanes of the GW bridge (the busiest in the world) that run into and out of Ft. Lee, causing massive traffic backups and hampering the ability of emergency responders to move through the city. At the time, Christie’s aides said it was a “traffic study”, a blatant lie given the release of texts and e-mails that clearly show that Christie’s top aide was part of organizing payback for standing up to Christie and his thugs. Christie even did a press conference, again blatantly lying that no one from his office had been involved. So, we have another example of the thugs in the repub party thinking that laws don’t apply to them and using the levers of government unlawfully to punish their foes… an offense that should result in Christie’s resignation at the very least, and prosecution for all involved…geez…