Well…it was another day yesterday…just like all the rest and there is really not much else to say for it….I did sleep okay last night and had some weird dreams that were interrupted and that is a little irritating….but I feel okay today if a little sore from the bike ride…and it looks like I won’t be going out today with it only getting to 45…I do have some errands to run after I wait here for them to come and service the AC but that is about it for the day…but, need to prep for that visit first so I should get to it….more later….
Snyder’s toast…
Well…just a short one about the happenings here over the past week or so on the potential matchups for governor in a year and a half….in a recent poll that was just done here…a generic matchup of Snyder against the dems find that he is tied with these generics….and the funny thing is that the people they used on the dem side were almost completely unknown…with more than 70% of the respondents saying they didn’t recognize the names at all…and the dems still tied Snyder…and, as more and more people are hurt by the nonsense this governor has pushed, and the fact that he rolls over to the tp’ers and their nonsense, people are starting to turn against this idiot and his secret agenda that he wouldn’t have dared run on…after all, who the hell would vote for anyone who was promising to raise taxes on the middle class and retirees and handing that money straight over to ceos so they could buy another lake house or Ferrari….I hope we all remember this crap in 18 months and send this “nerd’ back where he came from…geez…
April 23rd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…I did see Man U win the title and the Wings finally win a game that may get them into the playoffs….and, I slept okay last night even without it being a cocktail night so maybe there is hope….I did take the car out for a ride to take a look at the flooding and for the first time that I can remember, the Thornapple has flooded across the streets in Ada…and the park out there is basically gone and I have the photos to prove it…I did get to put the top and windows down and even got a little sunburned….not much to do today…I do have some stuff to get done around here but that is about it….and I will be back later for one or more to get caught up for the month….more later…
The republicans are just mean bastards…
Well…I am just shaking my head today with the pattern of meanness that is erupting from the repub controlled legislatures across this country…from pinning poor families assistance to how their 8 year old performs in school in Tennessee to the draconian restrictions on womens rights that have happened in Arkansas and other midwestern states, to the new bit of mischief here in Michigan where they have passed a blatantly unconstitutional law that will force those that receive assistance here to pass drug tests and lose their benefits if they fail the tests…no matter that those on assistance actually use drugs less than the general population, these mean bastards are just continuing being the pricks that they are and picking on those that can’t fight back. As I wrote in an earlier post, it is just that these pricks are bullies and love pushing people around…I know they are pushing these new tests saying they will save the state a lot of money…but, before the law in Florida was declared unconstitutional, it was found that no one was failing the tests and it COST the state money to no effect…just because these pricks think poor people should be punished for being poor. I am amazed that they have so much time to pass all of this anti-people, anti-union, and anti-retiree laws but don’t have a bit of time to pass any jobs legislation…oh, other than tax cuts for the rich that they think is the solution to every problem…geez…
April 22nd
Well…running late again today and it is because I had to go to Meijers to get some food for the grill…making pork loin chops, twice baked potatoes, and cooked carrots for lunch…yeah, I know…but food is about the only thing I have left to get excited about so I’m going to….slept okay last night, I think, but no dreams so it couldn’t have been that great….I did get out to see K for a few minutes yesterday and it was good to get out for a while…but with having a couple, that kept me off the bike that I will have to rectify today with a double run…maybe not, I am really working on not feeling the guilt when I skip…not working too well but I’m trying….not much to do today…other than cooking, working out, washing the car, and watching Man U this aft….and I do need to come back for another one since I am behind for the month….more later….
April 21st
Well…it was a nasty, cold day yesterday and I gave up any thought of getting on the bike pretty early in the day so that meant I needed to do something so I got much work done around here…bathroom cleaned, and lots of other cleaning that I had been putting off…slept okay last night but got up with a screaming pain in my hip that has subsided some as I move around….it was a cocktail night last night but I feel okay this morning and can’t wait for the temp to come up so I can get out today and get a few miles in…the trails will probably be flooded but I want to see that anyway so that will be cool…if I don’t hear from K, I am going to put the top down on the car and take a cruise to look at the flooding…probably head out to Ada and then just follow the river for a while…want to see what the Thornapple looks like, too, so that might just be a plan….that looks like the only plans for the day so I am going to just hang out and let the day unfold….more later…maybe…
More hypocrisy and nonsense from the repubs…
Well…have been thinking about this one since last night when I heard of the repubs new talking points on why they rejected expanded background checks for gun purchases…but, first, I wanted to talk about the latest bout of hypocrisy…a breathtaking one, at that, that is coming out of the rpubs these days…you have to remember how many of these teabagger idiots voted against aid for the victims of the storm Sandy on the east coast using excuses upon excuses to punish the supposedly “liberal” east coast for whatever crazy-assed fevered reason they had….and now, we have these same teabagger idiots like Ted Cruz immediately asking for federal aid for the people affected by the fertilizer plant explosion and asking that it be done quickly with no offsets or cuts in spending that ole Eric Cantor asked for for the Sandy victims. The worst part here is that these idiots don’t see the irony in their positions and go their merry way using the government to punish those that will never vote for them.
Oh, the nonsense…the latest talking points that are coming out of the repubs on the rejection of background checks is just as breathtakingly stupid as it can be…it goes something like this: Since the background checks wouldn’t catch every person that shouldn’t have a gun, then we shouldn’t pass any law about them…yep, that’s right, if a law is not airtight it shouldn’t be passed…using that logic, there is no reason to pass any law that criminalizes any behavior….since people still murder, there should be no laws that make it illegal, since people still rob banks, there should be no law against it…you get the point…what a bunch of stupid maroons….maybe if we can ridicule these guys for their stupidity, more people will see it and start to vote them out…we can only hope….geez….
April 20th
Well…it was a really long day yesterday with lunch with T, out with Tom for pool, and then back here for cocktails…so I am feeling a little slow today…didn’t eat enough either, so I will be low on energy for most of the day…I did sleep okay last night but it was just from being so worn out not any long term fix….and I didn’t come back for a second one either but there is one that I need to get to and that will be for later this morning…other than that, not much to do today…it is still too cold to go out on the bike in shorts so I will take the day off from riding and get some cleaning done around here and watch some soccer and races later in the day…more later…
April 19th
Well…it was a day yesterday and I feel like a frickin mushroom with all of the rain….the top on the Miata leaked for the first time but I’m going to cut it some slack since we got inches of rain…didn’t do much but go out to the tool store and buy a c-clamp and got a free multi meter to test electrical circuits…cheap China stuff but they will do the job for the little I’ll use them…and 4 bucks? Can’t complain about that…the rest of the day was just the normal stuff that I’m sure you’re tired of hearing about. It was a cocktail night so I do feel a little slow today but the coffee should help that….not much to do today…oh, that’s not true…might have lunch with T, then out for pool, then drinks with K, then back here to rest….so it may just be a fun day for a change….more later…
Republicans are just bullies…
Well…as I was sitting here thinking a little this morning, a thunderbolt hit me…well, maybe some static electricity, not sure, but the idea that crystallized was that you can reduce all repub behavior to one thing: they are just bullies and love bullying people that can’t fight back. They bully gay people by trying to deprive them of their rights, they bully voters by making it harder and harder to vote, they bully 90% of the country when they gloat (I’m talking to you McConnell you dick,), that they have defeated Obama again on sensible gun regulation, they bully all minorities when you have ole Scalia saying voting rights are a “racial entitlement” and they bully the entire country when they ignore the will of the people and vote to reward their corporate owners at every turn. When this popped into my head, I immediately went to what happened here in Michigan when they stole the retirement income of seniors to give to corporate ceos and they just didn’t give a damn that a large majority of the state didn’t want them to do it….they take politics not as a way to better the lives of all people here in the US, but a game to be “won” by being the pricks and bullies that they are…I am tired of this crap and I think the majority of the people (except for other bullies) want it to stop…and I think we can stop it in 2014…I can’t wait…geez…