Well….I really don’t know if Newt is the most brilliant or the most stupid of the repub presidential candidates that have announced so far…if you saw any of the weekend news show where Newt’s line of attack against Obama is that he has presided over a great increase of Americans that are on food stamps and he makes the assertion that food stamps are welfare that people don’t deserve even if they are out of work because if they are out of work, it is only because they don’t want to work….conveniently ignoring the deepest recession on the last 80 years and the fact that employers are just not adding enough jobs to make the unemployment rate drop. Just what audience is Newt trying to reach? The millions of middle Americans who are out of work through no fault of their own but through the fault of the policies of the repubs? Does he think that even one of these folks who deserve this help will vote for him when he rails against even the smallest of safety nets? I think this is just another racist comment where ole Newt is trying to dupe the poor people that are still voting repub by equating people that need food stamps to feed their family with the abuses of the old welfare system. With over 12 million jobs lost in this recession that was caused by the excesses of the repubs, of course the amount of people on food stamps is going to rise…but there is still no plan on the right to help people get jobs that will help them get off the type of assistance that the repubs loathe…for individuals…but it’s okay to continue to give oil companies 10 billion dollars a year in corporate welfare…what did you expect from Newt and the repubs?
May 16th
Well…had a somewhat fun day yesterday out with K and V playing shuffleboard out in Cascade…K and I won both games so that puts us at 27-4 all time….I was good when I got home so I feel okay today…I did forget to put the heat on when I went to bed last night so it was about 50 in here when I got up this morning…the heat feels good now but the furnace is doing some weird two-step when it shuts off so I may have to have the service folks come…..not much to do today….I think I may have lunch with T but it hasn’t been confirmed yet and I haven’t heard from Tom so I don’t know if Tuesday is going to be Tuesday this week….so, I guess I’ll just have to let the day unfold at it’s own pace and take it as it comes….okay, mixing metaphors again but I’m sure you get the idea….I’ll have two topics later today since I do need to keep up….more later….
May 15th part two…
Haven’t done one of these in quite a while and no, I don’t think it’s cheating…I did watch the movie and it was no where near as good as the documentary on Jack Abramhoff that I watched the other day….there was way too much focus on the title character and not enough on the influence peddling and the “pay for play” aspect where he was selling access to repub senators and congressmen. The real story was just more interesting….it has been kind of interesting what is going on with the repub presidential candidates and all of the supposed front runners that have decided they can’t win in 2012 so they are staying in their cushy Fox jobs and will continue to rake in the money from their hate and attacks….now, all they have left is Paul, Romney, and ole Newt that have their hats in the ring…and not one of them can ignore their pasts of favoring healthcare before they were against it, for being serial cheaters, or for wanting to tear the federal government completely down….I know you can figure out which one is which without me telling you if you’ve been paying even a little attention…..
I do have a little hope that Obama is starting to think and act strategically by getting bin Laden, pushing for more oil drilling, and attacking the Ryan budget proposals…now he just needs to get out in front of them instead of counterpunching…I may even have another one today…
May 15th
Well..it’s Sunday so you know the pattern…waiting for the coffee to finish so I can put on Pandora and read the paper….man, it is so depressing to have it rain constantly for two days…okay, right now almost everything is depressing so I guess I shouldn’t blame it on the weather…I was pretty good last night do I feel better today than I have in a long time and I am looking forward to taking a lazy day and watching a movie I’ve had sitting in my mailbox for a couple of days…the problem is the movie is “Casino Jack” and I just watched the documentary of the same name so it’s going to be hard to believe Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramhoff…but I will give it a try later this morning….not much to do today…going to make ribs with G’s recipe today and I am looking forward to having something other than chicken….but I still do need to clean and get the garbage out…not walking out in the rain, though, so that will be much later from the way the radar looks…..I am behind on these for the month do maybe today will be a catch up day, who knows?
May 14th
Well….I almost didn’t survive the day yesterday and felt like crap all day both mentally and physically…didn’t even go out for coffee and papers since I didn’t want to read about the Wings….feel much better today and thought I’d get this update out before the coffee finishes and Man U comes on….one good thing that will come from the Wings losing is that I can stop having cocktails watching them and I can use the rest…not much to do today..I really do have to get to cleaning this place up and laundry….but I’m going to read the papers first and watch a little soccer…I will get at least one more of these out since it looks like it’s going to rain most of the day and I will need to use the caffeine some way…more later…
May 13th
Well…I’m the soul of depression this morning since the Wings lost last night….so, this is it for now…just wanted you to know I’m still alive….
The torture lies…
Well….this one is the continuation of the one down below where I started to comment on the article by John McCain in the Washington Post today where he takes the torture apologists that fox news has trotted out to task…calling their assertions that the information that led to Osama bin Laden came from torture lies….you know I’m not a big McCain fan…but it is about time someone on the right stood up and told the truth just once….It was not ole GW that did everything but order the raid that killed him…his waffling and reliance on his “gut” instead of facts let bin Laden live for so long and these are facts…something I know that the repubs really are not acquainted with. So, I will thank McCain for this too little, too late, denunciation of the fox liars…and hope that more on the right discover the truth and their spines…geez…
Look down…I added to the Red Wings post…
Let’s go Red Wings!
Well…this has got to be one of the most exciting days in sports for us folks here in Michigan with our Wings taking on the Sharks in Cali later today…I don’t know if I thought this day was possible when they started out with three losses but the comeback has been one of the most nerve-wracking, exciting, examples of teamwork I have ever seen. We love our Wings, but this performance, win our lose tonight, will keep me smiling throughout the summer but will be tinged with some sadness because we all know that it will be Drapes last season, and possibly Nick’s too. It is so great that I will be able to see this one and have the chance to listen to Ken and Mickey one more time…or maybe a lot more times, who knows? I will be back to add to this one as the day goes on and I get even more geeked than I am right now…don’t know if that is possible….
Okay…I think you’ve figured out by now that I won’t be doing a political one today….oh, there was one thing that I wanted to comment on…John McCain had an editorial in the Washington Post today where he calls…nope…going to make this a new one…look up
One thing I failed to mention was the fact that this will probably be Ozzie’s last year with the Wings, too, and I know that many fans never really warmed to him…but, you win two cups, doesn’t that deserve respect? I think so…more later…it’s later….this is going to be an all Red Wings night with Tuesday’s game being replayed at 6 and then a full hour long Red Wings Live at 8…then the game at 9…I hope I remember it since I’m going to get started with K for HH and that is going to make it a long night and a Friday I’m not looking forward to….but you do have to pay to play…
May 12th
Well…overdid it a little last night…seems like a pattern for the last week and I’m going to blame it on the hockey playoffs…needless to say, I’m a little sluggish and part of it is allergies…I hope. Did have fun out with G last night and I am looking forward to the Wings game tonight…got a long bike ride in yesterday and I’m a little sore today but I might survive it…got a compliment last night where one of the people in the bar didn’t believe I’m as old as I am….small things can make me happy. Not much to do today..going to lay out in the sun and start to get some color…or even out the stripes that I get from being out on my bike…going to have a couple with K later and then get ready for the game….more later…
Manny is still an idiot….
Well..just when I thought I wasn’t going to have a topic for today, ole Manny Lopez from the Detroit News comes up with another of his ideology driven, ridiculous columns that I just have to comment on. Manny actually went to California and goes off on the administration and it’s attempt to lower the countries oil usage by the subsidies for hybrids…basing all of his vitriol on his observations that everyone in California is not driving one. He then goes on to try to make the point that California’s regulations are so stringent that they will force only small cars to be purchased then in the next paragraph he contradicts himself by saying people are still buying what they want using the example of the Ford F-150 being the best selling vehicle in the country. It was hard for me to even get my head around this pretzel logic (thanks Steely Dan) to see what his point is. I think he was trying to make the point that the government is interfering in the markets by the hybrid subsidies and trying to force us into cars we don’t want.
But, who knows….you should go read that for yourself…if you don’t have a headache after it, I am jealous…and I can’t figure out why he still has a job…