Well…haven’t been able to think of a political one to do today so I think I’ll just update and see if I can get in the groove…it has been an okay day so far…LeMans has been nice to have on all day and I have gotten some cleaning done finally…the bathroom is now spotless and I got the mat for the bike cleaned and removed a bunch of stains from the carpet…didn’t get to anything else, though, so I am a little disappointed…did get a nice bike ride in and got the squeak fixed again so that made the morning nice…I am counting down to cocktail time here in about an hour and that will be a light one tonight…I am a little frustrated that the storms have fallen apart again today and it looks like nothing across the lake so I guess I’ll just have to wait….might have to run the air later since it is still 85 and that contributed to the uncomfortable sleep last night….okay….done with this for now…
June 22nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool….but the damn storms that I was waiting for fell apart coming over the lake and it looks like the same thing is going to happen today…slept okay but there were spiders that drove me nuts…looks like I have to do a spider sweep today to get rid of them….I do need to eat more since I have been so tired lately and I know it’s from the 1400 cals a day I have been taking in….but, I did buy food today so I have some here and I am going to try to get over 2000 cals today…I am a little excited that LeMans is starting in a few minutes and there is like 15 hours of coverage throughout the day so I will have background noise as I clean…and I do need to clean today…both the bathroom and the kitchen…hell, the whole place needs it so I have work to do today….more later…
House idiots…
Well…I was going to call this one “snakes on the trail” since I did see 5 of them today….or “snakes in the house” for the nonsense that is going on there, but “House idiots” seem to fit better with the fiasco that was the farm bill that didn’t pass this week. The funniest part was ole Beohner and Cantor trying to blame the dems for it…saying that “the dems don’t know how to govern”….no, that’s not the case…the reason the dems voted against this ugly bill is the 20 billion dollars in cuts to food stamps an other onerous requirement that were put on the people that have the need for assistance. These ugly repub idiots wanted to use this bill to punish people for losing their jobs and needing temporary assistance…going so far as to mandate drug tests before any benefits are offered. I guess the repubs don’t know how to read since the same ALEC fueled nonsense was struck down by the courts in Florida last year and the same thing would have happened if this law was passed. What the hell did they expect when the dems said no? There is still one party that cares about people, not just corporations and the rich and it isn’t the repubs…..
June 21st
Well…another long day yesterday but it had a nice, long trip in the Miata in it so that made it okay…slept okay last night but it looks like I may have to run the air the next couple of days since it will be in the upper 80’s the next four…finally getting some summer here and I like it….I do have to remember sunscreen in the car with it this hot, though….the damn squeak is back in the bike but I’m hoping it’s the shock and wd will take care of it…going to be a really good sweat today with it being almost 80 and not nine yet…and going to take a long one today to get the toxins out from the cocktail night last night….not much to do today…pool day, of course, but that is about it….but, need to get the bike ride in right now so More later…
RIP James Gandolfini…
Well…I usually don’t do these…oh, I guess I do…so I think I’ll just keep going…it was sad news when I heard yesterday that James Gandolfini had died of a heart attack with his 13 year son old at his side….I feel just awful for that poor kid….when I was out with G last night she reminded me of the “Sopranos” marathons that we used to have when we first met and that a part of our memories had just died, too….not sure if I believe that but anytime a 51 year old dies, that is just too damn early…and I think of my own mortality….not much else to say right now so I’ll just end with rest in peace….
June 20th
Well…had a surprise night out with G last night so I feel like crap today and am running late because of it…..slept okay but that doesn’t help after a night out…and I am running late for an appointment out in Dorr so I need to work out and get the bike ride in right now so I’ll have to come back later and finish this…I do need to make a comment out on Kos first, though….
Okay…I’m back for a few minutes…got the run to Dorr done but he HLA’s were ticking like crazy when I got over to HF to get my brake bleeder…but it went away after the drive back here but I do know it needs an oil change…have to do that next week…I did get a ride in but the bike is squeaking again…damn….might just be the shock, though, since I can feel it through the seat…okay…not feeling it…I will try to get a political one in later….
Walmart…part two…
Well…have been thinking about this more this aft and have come up with an even simpler solution…every company in the US that pays wages so low that their employees have to have government assistance of any kind should be required to pay the assistance back as a sort of tax to take away the incentive to cheat their employees out of a living wage while enriching the owners. This would be classic economics at work and since the repubs are so hot about eliminating government assistance for anyone, how could they disagree? It’s all a a matter of eliminating the distortions in markets that are cause by a big company like Walmart and it’s political power…Walmart is essentially stealing from you and me and so the Waltons can get richer and richer…it would at least claw back the 3.5 billion dollars in silent subsidies that come from their employees being eligible for Medicaid and food stamps and stop the greedy Waltons from pushing these costs onto you and me…geez…
Here’s how to solve the Walmart problem…
Well….have been thinking about this for a while now…how do we solve the problem of each every Walmart store’s low wages being subsidized to the tune of almost a million dollars a year in Medicaid and food stamps? I know that people say that if the employees don’t want to work there, they should go find better jobs…but that is a just nonsense, many of the employees at Walmart have no other choices for work since Walmart drove the businesses they used to work for into the ground. So, let’s just get past that…and you know that every dime of the Walmart tax, as I call it, is going into the pockets of the Walton family and the upper management of the company; the worst kind of corporate welfare. So my idea is to make companies like Walmart and many in the restaurant industry pay their fair share is to fine them the difference between what they pay their employees and the amount that makes them eligible for benefits….if they want to pay someone 10 dollars an hour and the poverty wage calculates to at least 15…then we fine them 5 dollars for every hour that they force people to work for less…we need to take the incentive away for Walmart to leech off the rest of the country and make them pay the real cost of their labor…after all you and I subsidize each and every store to the tune of almost a million dollars a year…take that away and we take away the power these thugs have to suppress wages across the US…and I’m sure we never agreed to pay this “Walmart tax”…geez…
June 19th
Well…it was another day yesterday and I did get some stuff done…the papers are gone, finally, and I did clean the car but am having a hell of a time getting the haze off the glass…remembered that it is probably the type of paper towel that I used so I will try to fix that today…slept okay last night but I am still tired so I guess I’ll have to remember to eat more…one good thing from last night was that the Griffins won the Calder Cup for the first time and that was pretty cool….not much to do today…going to do a grocery run today since I am really tired of eating the same old crap and need some variety to jumpstart the taste buds….and then re-do the glass to see if I am right about the paper towel….more later…
Still trying to write…
Well…have been trying to figure out what to write about today and I have been having little luck….I am just so burned out writing about the crazy on the right….the legislator in New England that thinks his “man’s brain” is the only way to understand healthcare…saying that women are too emotional to think straight….and then the craziest thing I have ever heard from another repub saying that we should ban abortion since fetuses masturbate…yeah, not making this up but the daily toxicity of this nonsense is taking a toll on me….how are people so stupid? What do we do? Just hang on until we can vote some of these idiots out of office…it used to be that if any congressman said any of this stuff, his own party would put an end to it and marginalize them until they were gone..but, it seems to me that the entire purpose of the right and conservatives these days is the grift, the payoff that comes from being crazy…and you just have to look at people like Palin, Bachmann, Gohmert and Cruz who are out to make their bones so they can then leach off the stupid on the right for the rest of their lives while the people that voted for them eat catfood to survive as the safety net is cut….it’s not going to be th UN that is the end of the US…it is going to be the stupid….geez…