Well…just a little shorty on the vote that happened this aft in the senate where we saw more and more lipstick being put on the republican pig with 22 repub senators voting against the VAWA..that’s the violence against women act in case the acronym wasn’t familiar. I think today’s vote will mark the end of ole Marco Rubio’s anointing as the “savior” of the repub party, as Time magazine called him this week since he voted against protection for women in this bill owing to his “principles” whatever they are….could it be the “principle” to let men get away with beating their wives? The repubs just don’t get it at all…history in this country has shown that women have been treated like second class citizens for far too long…and I am glad that there were 78 senators who stepped up and did the right thing in passing this bill…but, now it goes to the repub controlled house where it won’t even get to a floor vote since the knuckle draggers are in control over there…keep it up repubs, time is passing you by…and none too soon…geez…
State of the Union hysteria…
Well…have been reading about the right’s responses that are coming to the State of the Union address and I am kind of laughing about the hysteria that is rampant in those responses…and there will be not one but two, count ’em, two responses…one from the crazies that represent the “mainstream” repubs, and the second from the tea partiers that is sure to be full of “socialism, freedom, freedom, and freedom and guns” that should be fun to see. I am surprised at the level of hatred of this country and it’s institutions that we are seeing from these folks…the foaming at the mouth nonsense that Obama is taking our guns, has FEMA camps ready for gun owners, and is going to turn the whole country over to the UN. Then, we have the nut from Texas that has invited Ted Nugent to the SOTU…the same Terrible Ted who has threatened the presidents life on many occasions…I really do hope they talk to that batshit crazy, washed up has been…it will just highlight the sober adult that Obama is when compared to these idiots and the public will be even happier that they returned him to the White House instead of ole Mitt. The funniest thing that is going to happen tonight is that the repubs are rolling out Marco Rubio to do the right’s first response…and the advance copy of the speech shows that it is just more of ole Mitt and the ideas that were rejected in the election…the US just doesn’t want that crap but the repubs just don’t get it….geez….
February 12th
Well..it’s after 9 and that is really late for a weekday…no excuses, really…just haven’t had much to say…slept like crap last night and the damn phone had a software update come through at 4:45 that sent the alarms dinging for a half hour as it updated the apps…I finally did remember that you can turn the ringer off but the damage had already been done…the phone seems to be faster now so that is cool…I think I may be getting over the bug that I had for the past week since I haven’t been coughing nearly as much since yesterday….I did have one thought that popped into my head this morning as I lay there trying to get back to sleep…what would be your theme music? What music would you have them play when you walk out on stage for “the Daily Show?” I’ve been leaning toward “Pretzel Logic” but that builds really slow…maybe something from Led Zeppelin or Neil Young? Or, something obscure from Lee Michaels?
Have to think about that for awhile….you can see I have too much time on my hands…and that is going to continue today with not much to do…more later…
No big topics…
Well…have been thinking and thinking to try to come up with a big topic for the day with no success so I guess I’ll just go on about a few small ones…let’s start with the pope resigning…the first thing that came into my head was “who cares?” Can’t think of a more irrelevant person in the world today…presiding over an institution that has long outlived its usefulness and has devolved into almost a hate group…I mean, did you read his “Christmas” message where he went on and on about how bad gays and lesbians are and tried to justify discriminating against them? The world would be a better place if they would just go away and stop trying to impose the 12th century on women in this country and across the world…and that goes for the rest of organized religion as well.
Okay…new topic…you can see how far the repubs have sunk into crazy with the threat from Lindsey Graham to filibuster the presidents picks for Sec Def and CIA director…let’s put this in context…this has never happened in the history of the country…not once has a cabinet selection been blocked in this manner and I am so tired of the repubs thinking up new ways to screw up the country…
Moving on to Michigan….where are the jobs Republicans? Oh, no jobs legislation? No, nothing but more of the same…raise taxes on the people, cut taxes for corporations, and try to restrict womens rights to control their own bodies….I think you can see the genesis of the malaise that I have been feeling lately with the crap that is going on across the US…and don’t get me started on the extra-legal drone policies that Obama has just released…I think this country has lost it’s collective mind and it’s taking mine with it…geez…
February 11th
Well…sitting here running late again and there is no reason for it other than I’m just not too motivated right now…it was just another long Sunday for me yesterday some good news that Man U and the Wings both won but then the boredom that usually marks my days flooded back in and I had to shift back to enduring mode…but, I survived it and now we have Monday to deal with…and the coffee isn’t really helping yet…the wind was blowing so hard when I went out for papers this morning I had a hard time walking straight and now it is blowing even harder…I can feel it running through this place like I have a window open….I’ll have to watch to see if any of the patio stuff takes off and I have to chase it…not much to do today…and this time I mean it…I can’t think of anything right now so I think I’ll go back to “Flying Down to Rio” and try to escape for a while…
I have to ask why…
Well…not sure where this is coming from but a thunderbolt just hit me with an idea for one of these…and I’m not sure if it is from my advancing age or if the daily overload of meanness and injustice that comes from reading as much as I do…but this just popped into my head….”why?” It is an interesting word and I think it goes to the core of what make us human…why? Why do religions that purport to follow the peaceful Jesus hate so much? Why to they ignore the rest of his teachings like taking care of the sick, loving your neighbor, or feeding the poor? Why does the Catholic church especially hate gays so much? Why do they think so little of women that they try and try to take away their basic human right to control their own bodies?
Why do politicians who purport to be religious people go out of their way to hurt the poor by cutting and cutting the safety net? Why do they then spend so much time and energy protecting the rich?
Why do the people that hire have to go out of their way to reject people like me? Why is age so bad? Why is being unemployed so bad? Why, why, why…….I don’t have any of the answers, but the questions are starting to corrode me…they are starting to hollow me out from the inside….and they are starting to make me think that maybe there isn’t another job out there for me….and that is the worst thing I’ve ever felt….
February 10th
Well…running normally today and I have had the coffee and paper but, with cocktails and the bug I have, I feel a little crappy this morning…had a nice day of talking to T yesterday and I feel bad about her broken thumb…something she just didn’t need at all…fell asleep on the couch last night and I have the stiff neck to show for it…it was a pretty boring night so that was it…I am going to make a home made pizza for lunch today and I have been looking forward to that for a couple of days now…yeah, I know, my life is really, really boring if that is all I have to look forward to…oh, and Man U plays this morning so that is something, too…and the Wings play this aft…geez…my memory is going today….other than those things, not much to do today….got most of the cleaning done yesterday so this morning is going to be soccer, coffee, and couch….not a bad way to spend a Sunday….more later…
Just some stuff…
Well…even after reading three real newspapers and 8 more online, I have not been able to come up with a topic that grabbed me today…so, I am just going to talk a bit and see what happens…it has been a long sports day today and the good thing…or two good things is that the Wings won and looked good doing it…and that Manchester City lost…yay….that means that Man U can go up 12 points in the BPL if they win their match in the morning….I have been having a pretty good day today but still feel crappy….have gotten much more cleaning done than I expected and that will make tomorrow an easy day….I really don’t like the weather channel naming winter storms…it just seems weird to say ‘snowstorm Nemo” and I think there will be backlash…but, who watches that anymore anyway? Since I got my smartphone…my weather comes from the internet from many different sources and I never turn the tv to weather anymore since you can’t get what you want when you want it….one question…who runs political attack ads against someone who is not running for anything? Oh…it’s the idiot Rove….who has an ad up attacking Ashley Judd just in case she decides to run against Mitch McConnell….a real case of someone who has more money than brains…and who is giving ole Karl more money…after all, he burned through hundreds of million in the last election and everyone he supported lost….keep it up…geez…
February 9th
Well…waiting for the car to melt so I thought I’d get to this early for a change…it was an okay day yesterday but the bug is still killing me so it will be a total veg day today….I did get a chance to get the car out on the road for the first time in a couple of weeks and that felt good for me and the car….I think I slept okay last night but I can’t breathe too well so that was a little problem and my energy level is quite low…so I guess I’ll have to shift into the low gear I use when I don’t sleep…I so have to go over to Meijers in a couple of minutes…I have been craving a salad for a couple of days…yeah, I know, most people crave bacon or ice cream…you know I’m weird…more later…
Stupidity alert!
Well…was just getting the rest of my online papers read and ran across this huge piece of stupidity from Fox news….if you pay any attention to the right, and not just for laughs, you know that they hold any form of energy that doesn’t come out of the ground with utter contempt…trotting out the failure of Solyndra whenever anyone talks about solar energy. Yesterday, though, in looking for ways to denigrate the solar industry here, they held Germany up as the only success in the world and for a really startling and really stupid reason….Germany has more sunny days than anywhere in the world! Yep, they actually had a “scientist” come on and say that….and say that California only has a few sunny days a year so solar can never work in the US. The problem is that this “scientist” was just plain wrong…wrong, wrong, wrong….when you actually look at the data (yeah, I know, the right doesn’t believe in facts or data) every state in the US has more sunny days than Germany….well…it’s tied with Alaska but that doesn’t change the fact that Fox is at the top of the stupidity scale once again…..and they completely ignore the fact that the subsidies that the Germans have given their industry is many, many times more that that given to get the industry moving here….what a bunch of maroons…geez…