Well…just a short one on a jaw-dropper that I read somewhere today…our buddy Eric Cantor, had a wonderful idea (yep, that’s snark) to eliminate government funding of elections that would do nothing but increase the influence of corporations and the rich, but he tried a little bit of misdirection to confuse people what the whole thing was about…including a clause that would take some of the money and put it towards funding medical care for sick kids…but the sick, heartless bastards of the hard right (yeah, you can read that tea partiers) came out in full howl that helping sick kids would create a “constituency” that would then have to be helped forever…just like people that get food stamps or unemployment insurance. I am at a loss how to respond to someone as heartless as this…of course you should help sick kids forever! Who is a government supposed to help forever? Oil companies? Oh…I forgot…that is exactly who these bastards want to help while kids die from lack of health care…geez…
June 8th
Well….it was a long day yesterday and I am running late this morning as always for a Saturday….I did win at pool for the first time in a month so that was cool but then the night devolved into the bore that it normally is….I did get out to hit some golf balls yesterday but that means I am sore today…but not as sore as I expected so that is a plus…still going to need the ibuprofen today, though, hit okay until the end where I was hopping the driver and that is a little concerning…I did hit the 9 iron pretty well..dropped one right on the flag and that was pretty cool…the bike is still quiet and I may have found the squeak finally…and I am up over 600 miles since April which is really under where I was last year but I am resolved to not be so anal about it this year and just have fun….not much to do today…getting on the bike right now and then going to clean the living room and get rid of the spiders…more later…
June 7th
Well…it was just another day yesterday and I really didn’t get much done…did go out and have a couple with G and that was fun but that was about it…slept okay, I think, but I always feel the same when I get up so who knows? I am getting tired of it being so cold that I can’t put the windows and top down in the car….where the heck is our spring or summer? I am planning on going out to hit a bucket of balls this morning to see if the back will hold up to playing 9 next week…to do that, though, I have to buy some tees and that means a run over to Meijers in a minute…more later…
Typical republicans…
Well…just a short one a little article that just came over Twitter about the student loan debacle…in case you haven’t heard, the interest rate on student loans is set to double if the senate doesn’t do something about it in the next week or so….and the dems had a perfectly reasonable plan to pay for it by cutting some corporate subsidies and tax loopholes for the rich..but, in typical fashion, the repubs are protecting these tax giveaways and have basically said to all the students that have loans to go to hell…they would rather have students pay more tax (and that is what it is is a tax and the extra money goes straight to the big banks) than to have the rich folks pay their fair share. I just can’t believe…oh, wait…I can believe the repubs would do that…it just shows they don’t give a damn about anyone but their donors…geez…
June 6th
Well…running late today and it on purpose, really…catching up on the last two episodes of “Burn Notice” from last season to get ready for tonight’s last season premiere…it was an okay day yesterday but didn’t do much but laundry and a little cleaning…just can’t get motivated to do much else right now…might even skip working out this morning since the catching up won’t be done until 11….but, it is raining so I may not have to ride the bike today….might be going out to see G for a couple but I do have to get back here by 9 tonight but that looks like my only thing to do today…okay…need to get back to the show…more later…
Oh, I almost forgot…today is the anniversary of D-day in 1944…thank a vet if there are any left..
Haven’t been doing much thinking lately…
Well…it’s been tough lately to think about anything of any importance and I’m not sure why my brain has shut down….I seem to have lost my sense of outrage or maybe it is that I have finally resigned myself to the crazy state of this country where we have a tiny minority of crazies who are ruining it for everyone…bridges falling down, potholes as big as my Miata, and children going hungry seem to be acceptable now. When the hell did this happen? I think it’s the result of the “I’ve got mine” attitude of the repubs here in the US and the fact that they don’t believe there should be any government..or that the purpose of government is to be subservient to business and do what will make more and more profit for the 1%. Yeah, maybe that’s it…when we have millions of people out of work, millions of college grads flipping burgers, and million of people like me that can’t find work of any kind…and no one seems to give a damn…maybe that’s why I don’t anymore….who knows?
June 5th
Well…not running late today…have been up since 6 or so and it was a night of no sleep again but who really cares anymore? It was an okay day yesterday and I had a little money come in so that was cool…and I got to drive the car around a little finally which was fun…did have a setback with my face swelling with it being worse this morning that it was last night and I am getting really tired of it…look really old and shedding skin like a snake is just not a good look….I am going to make the grocery run today to get supplies in before I run out of cash so there will be food today….not much to do..other than that…after getting some stuff done around here, I am going do the kitchen today…kind of wish it would rain so I could take the day off riding to get a head start….more later…
No one does stupid like the repubs…
Well…have been thinking about doing a weekly series on the abject stupidity coming out of the repubs these days, and that may happen, but I just think I’ll do this one first and see how it goes…not sure if you know but there is still a huge controversy going on in Alabama where the repub idiots there are spending most of their time trying to get around court decisions that outlaw teaching creationism in their schools…and one of the reasons that was used in the debate why evolution just can’t be true is that no one has been able to take an e-coli bacteria and make it evolve into a human in a laboratory…yep, I am not making this up…this was suggested by one of the elected repubs there…man, the stupid runs deep in Alabama.
The second bit of stupid goes out to all of the repub governors who have decided that the poor residents of their states do not deserve any type of healthcare and have rejected the Medicaid expansion that would be paid for by the feds…and the funny part (well..none of this is funny) is that it has been calculated that rejecting this expansion is going to cost these states almost 9 billion dollars in uncompensated care that these idiots are going to end up paying for anyway….so, to recap, cover all your people for free, or cost your states billions….which would a smart person choose?…as always, it just all ideology to these idiots…and poor people pay…geez…
June 4th
Well…it was another day yesterday…and I woke up to my right eye being closed again…this is getting to be a pain, after all, it’s been since last Thursday that I got sunburned and you’d think it would have healed by now…slept okay even with it being a no cocktail night so maybe I’ll get a few things done today…the kitchen does need a complete teardown but there are other things to do before that….I do look like a peeling snake today with losing all of the burned skin…it would be nice if it would get warm enough to go to the beach one of these days…what the heck is s Miata for? Might have to take a road trip one of these days..it can’t be good for the car to only drive it 300 yards a day….but, it does save me money on gas…more later…
June 3rd
Well…this damn software did it again…my June 3rd post disappeared…no wonder I’m behind…so, I’ll try to re-create it…slept okay last night but the eyes were swelled shut when I got up and I have been massaging them to be able to see ever since…I did get the squeak out of the bike for at least one day…had to tear the front fork off and grease the bearings with some lithium grease…but I made the mistake of lubing up a bunch of other stuff so I really won’t be sure where the squeak was…just glad it’s gone for now…I think I’m just going to bite the bullet and replace the clutch master cylinder this week…it has just been acting weird and I don’t want the damn thing to fail on me somewhere on the road…okay…that’s about all I remember so I’ll stop here…