Well….running late again today and it is just because I’ve decided to slow the day down, enjoy the coffee, and try to get relaxed a little..it is so tiring feeling that I need to get things done and going at it like a job…so, today there will be no looking for work…just going to let the day come as it does and try to get back to enjoying life…it was an okay day yesterday but didn’t accomplish a thing and that is starting to annoy me…but not enough to do anything about it…yet….I did see that I can get t-bone steaks for 3.99 a pound at a little store on 28th street and I just may go and get a few…haven’t had a steak in a long time and it may be good to splurge a little….not much to do today…I was going to wash the car but not sure if I am motivated enough to do it…who knows? more later…
The repubs overrereach…
Well…one of the things that I find to be so telling about the crop of new laws to restrict womens rights that is happening in all of the repub controlled states is that they don’t see it to be the overreach that it is….in every state where this nonsense is going on, polls show that from 65 to 80% of the people there don’t want the legislatures to do this crap…they want them to focus on jobs, infrastructure, and education but the repubs, driven by their colossal hubris, and their need to control people they don’t like can’t help themselves…but, the one thing they just don’t get is that their win in 2010 was not the mandate they think it is…and the country is not the right wing utopia they want it to be…in fact, over the past two years, the country has moved more to the center as they see the repubs going farther and farther to the right. This delusion has driven the right to try to drag the country back into the bad old days of discrimination and this overreach will be their downfall in 2014…it can’t come too soon…geez…
July 3rd
Well…running really, really late today and, for once, I have a good excuse…my internet was down until a few minutes ago so there was nothing to do about it…but, I’m running again and it feels good so I’ll get to it…had the worst energy day in a long time yesterday and I know it was from the 4 days of only 1000 cals or so each day…so, yesterday was eat everything in sight day and I got all the way up to 1800 before I just couldn’t eat any more…feel much better today so I think I’ll keep it up for a couple of days and see how I feel…it is really hard for me to eat that much, though,…maybe I have some kind of eating disorder….slept okay last night and no red Miata dreams so that was a plus…not much to do today…making some chicken for lunch with a new marinade to go with the potato salad I made yesterday…still trying to find out what is missing from it but I am getting close…more later…
The pushback has begun…
Well…this is going to be a short one since the brain hasn’t been working that well the past few days…but I did want to comment on the signs of a progressive pushback to the nonsense that has come out of the tea party and even “normal” repubs lately…it used to be that progressives had no fight in them…they felt that they could reason with anyone if they would just sit down and talk with the opposition. But, it now appears that they have seen the truth that has been in front of their faces for years…that the right will not compromise, that the right will lie, cheat and steal to push their radical, women hating agenda…and we are doing something about it…like the thousands that have turned out every Monday in NC…the “Moral Monday” movement who are protesting the voter suppression, women suppression, and gay hating that is rife in the repub controlled legislature…and the many, many thousands who have turned out in Texas to protest the draconian intrusion into women’s lives there….we won’t win in Texas…not right now, anyway, but I think these two examples are the start of something big…the start of a movement that will take back the country from the money and the 15% of the crazies who are now attacking women across the country, who are still attacking gays and the poor…we can hope that this movement, along with the demographic changes that are coming, will finally put the nail in the coffins of the repub haters and get this country moving forward again…geez…
July 2nd
Well…I survived the first and paid the rent but I still have that nagging thing in the back of my head about continuing to be able to do it…it was an okay day yesterday but still no movement on getting things done around here and I am trying hard to not beat myself up about it…maybe today if it keeps raining…and I may even take a day off the bike today…well…no, that won’t happen even though it should with my legs being so dead and hard…will go over 1K later in the week but I am so far behind I won’t get to last year’s totals….slept okay but that damn red Miata was there again…not sure what that is trying to tell me…not much to do today…going to try to make a good redskin potato salad today but that is about it…more later….
The irony in Texas…
Well….it is another bad day for women in the US with the Texas legislature following their illegal attempt to take away womens ability to control there own bodies from last week with another attempt to ram through the same SB-5 in another special session this week. And, these tea party idiots who wave the constitution around like it is the Bible are making sure that no one will be allowed into the legislative session by posting hundreds of armed police outside the state house in Austin…even bringing in mounted police to intimidate the protesters who are exercising their constitutionally protected rights to protest…and the idiot repubs there can’t see the irony that in this supposed utopia of democracy that they have built in Texas, they are using the same tactics that the Egyptian military used against the pro-democracy demonstrations in Tarhir square. Don’t they see that they are no better than the Taliban in their push to control women? They are just substituting their brand of radical crazy assed religion for the radical crazy assed Muslims…and that is just frickin wrong. I know they will win today…but, I really don’t think they understand that winning a tactical victory is going to lose them the war in 2014 when these assholes are thrown out and sanity is restored…I hope it happens here in Michigan and in Ohio, too…the tide is finally turning in our favor and all we have to do is use these new laws that treat women like second class citizens to beat these idiots across the head with them…geez…
July 1st
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but didn’t do much…I probably should have but there was just no motivation…and today is the first, my least favorite day of the month which will keep me pretty low for the day at least…slept okay but had one small dream about the Miata and accidents but it wasn’t my Miata…it was a red one and that was pretty weird…I do have a few things to do today starting with getting my hair cut since it is looking pretty shaggy and I was going to wash the car but it is supposed to rain tomorrow so it looks like wed instead…it looks like I’ll get over a thousand miles on the bike by the weekend and it has been working great so maybe I should hold my breath? Back later for more…
Gonna cheat a little today…
Well…I was going to rail about the police state tactics that have become the norm in local sherriffs and police departments and the unwarranted proliferation of swat tactics for every situation…okay, maybe I will talk about that a little…a few days back, a man went missing from his family and they reported to the police that he may be distraught…not armed or anything like that but just having some mental problems…so, what was the response of the police here? To roll out the local swat team with their full body armor and automatic weapons…yep, a mentally distraught man that is just having some problems and the only response the military blinded police around here could think of is going to defcon 1…not sending a psychiatrist or other mental health professional which is what the situation warranted. It seems to me these folks are just looking for the chance to play army man…and when this nonsense happens, people end up dead by accident…I, for one, have had enough of the militarization of the police in this country and the idea that every citizen can be treated like a terrorist…when the swat teams are the ones propagating terror on the rest of us…they should all be disbanded and the members of these teams retrained to see the people they are terrorizing as their bosses again…geez…
June 30th
Well…sitting here watching the F1 race that is on a channel that I get but it just went to a SC so I thought I’d get this one done..it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t do much…did make a little cash so there will be groceries again this week…I did sleep okay and I had dreams that the slave cylinder on the car was leaking….so, I guess I need to replace the damn things this week so I won’t be thinking about them anymore….not much to do today…if I get ambitious, I might wash the car or clean the kitchen…not sure yet, though…might just take the last day of the month and veg it out…more later…
Cracks in the bigotry wall…
Well…with the demise of Doma this week, there was another ruling here in Michigan that has started to crack the wall of bigotry that the repubs here are trying to shore up at every turn…a federal judge threw out a law here that prevented public entities from offering the same benefits to gay partners as they do for straight ones saying that the only purpose the law served was to discriminate against gays…and the judge just slammed Snyder and the repubs for their naked bigotry…it’s about time that these repub idiots got called out for this crap…and there is another case coming through the courts right now that could very possibly overturn the marriage amendment to our constitution and make the benefits of marriage available to our gay and lesbian friends based upon the equal protection clauses in the US constitution that say you can’t treat any class of people differently than any other as the marriage amendment does here in Michigan…I’ve always felt that there should be no difference in anyone’s treatment under the laws of the US….as it clearly says in the constitution…and I think that same principle should be applied to the control a woman has over her own body….there are no laws saying what a man can do to his so why should the government in the crazy red states be allowed to force a woman to have a baby she doesn’t want or to allow crazy assed right wing employers to make health care decisions that aren’t the ones a woman would choose? What happened to the righties mantra that screams “individualism” and “freedom”? I guess that doesn’t apply when they are trying to control women…geez…