Well…it was another day yesterday and I felt so crappy I skipped the papers and coffee…but, feel much better today and have already been out in the snow to get some groceries…slept pretty crappy last night and was up really early this morning..oh, well…it has been okay lately so I guess I shouldn’t bitch…don’t like the way this winter is starting out but I’ll come back to that when I come back here in a few after coffee and the papers….
I promised another one….
Well…the recovery has started to take hold so I thought I’d came back for the second one that I promised today…don’t have a big topic but just some reminders and thoughts as we stumble over the fiscal bump…first, let’s forget the notion that SS has anything to do with the deficit…it is supported by its own tax structure and no general revenue or borrowing goes into supporting it…so let’s stop talking about using slashes to it to help the deficit…it won’t, and the only reason it is being talked about is that the repubs hate any program that helps anyone but their rich welfare recipients…the 1% and the corporations that pay no taxes. Hmmm….it has been a slow week for politics with everyone out of town from DC, so maybe I should talk about something else? There was a cool article in Slate today by Phil Plait…their astronomy writer about a star quake on a magnetar over 50,000 light years away that released so much energy 8 years ago that it almost fried satellites that are circling the earth…that was some frickin explosion….from an object that is halfway across the galaxy….and I think it’s cool that the explosion happened 50,000 years ago and it just got here 8 years ago….yep, I’m an astronomy geek….
December 28th
Well…it was a long day yesterday and I really feel like crap today…so this one is going to be short….for now, I did have dreams that included losing the Miata and replacing it with a 64 Sunbeam Alpine….yeah…that in itself is weird…okay…need more water and the couch…not even any newspapers today…
Okay…starting to feel human again but I did skip the papers and coffee today…it was fun to see T yesterday and a kind of reunion with G and that was fun, too…but going all day is a lot of work…I am going to come back to get to the one that I missed yesterday but, the USA is playing Russia in the world junior hockey championship so I’m going back to watch the third…
December 27th
Well…it was a night last night and I was not happy to see the snow on the car this morning…but, it did give me a chance to see how the car is going to be in the snow…seems to be okay but everything seems numb…seems to stick okay and it was cool to slide it a little going out to get the papers…braking and steering seem okay but really light…going to have to calibrate my driving for this one..at least it doesn’t feel dangerous….I did have dreams that included glue, Mars, and paint brushes…and they were really weird…but a little fun…might have something to do today…may have lunch with T and then other plans later…but, right now, the coffee is done and I do need to read the papers…more later…
Not much news…
Well…with congress out of town, there just isn’t much going on to write about…I have already done one or two on how to break the stalemate in Washington….and I really don’t have the desire to write about that again….there was a pretty good soccer match on this morning with Man U beating Newcastle 4-3…but letting Newcastle score three and having to score one in the last minute of regular time to pull it out? Just a porous defense again by Man U and it is going to bite them…the other good news was the Man City lost so that puts Man U up by 7 points in the table….it’s kind of hard to type in the dark…maybe I should turn some lights on….and get a glass of water…I am so bored that I am going to go back and read the online papers again…maybe there was news since this morning…
December 26th
Well…this used to be my favorite day of the year but it is just Wednesday now…and I am running late from just being so down about being broke…don’t want to do anything….but I did decide to go out and get the papers and have some coffee…maybe that will get me running…who knows…I did have weird dreams last night but I can’t get motivated to write about it…so, I won’t…
Just one more for the day…
Well…it has been a pretty good Tuesday and I am getting ready for cocktail time so I thought I’d come back for one more while I still feel creative…and that is one of the weird things for the day…I shouldn’t have had this much to say with all of things going on right now…I wonder if it is avoidance of the holiday since I don’t celebrate it? Who knows? There was something kind of cool out on the trail that I did want to pass on…you remember that I told you about the solitary christmas tree ornament that I saw on the trail a few days back? Well…today there were almost thirty of them on the same trail with one tree almost completely decorated…that made me smile again and my thoughts instantly went to the motivation and planning that went with the act. Who does this kind of thing? Oh, a bad thought just pierced my smiling…what if someone stole the ornaments from someones display at their house? Crap…I just took something neat and ruined it….crap, again….
Another reason to hate the Kochs…
Well…it there weren’t already enough reasons to hate the Kochs and their right wing craziness, they have outdone themselves with the latest out of the group they control, Americans for Prosperity. In the past few days, they have sent a letter to all of their pet senators they own warning them to vote against any and all hurricane Sandy relief bills that are now coming through the senate…with the threats included that they will spend millions to defeat anyone who doesn’t toe their line. One of the leaders of the Koch group went so far as to call the aid package a “disgrace” and rebuilding the damaged areas is “not a federal government responsibility…we need to suck it up and be responsible for ourselves..” More crap from billionaires who think the only function for the federal government is to do their bidding and make them rich…what a bunch of assholes…geez…
Haven’t done a sports one in a while…
Well…I’m sitting here with an eagle eye on the roast that I’m cooking for the big meal of the day (don’t want it to get over 130 degrees) and thought that I’d say something about sports…wait, better go check to see if I’m missing anything from the BPL…okay, just re-runs so I’ll continue here. First, I am getting used to there not being any NHL this year and I think that may be a problem for the league if they continue this disastrous lock out much further….and, I blame the whole thing on the owners and their greed; thinking only of squeezing more and more money out of the players with no thought to the thousands of people who are the support network for the league and whose livelihood depends on the games being played. Shame on these rich assholes…just more of the same form these folks…the same types who have said they will hurt their employees just to avoid Obamacare…what a bunch of idiots. Hmmmm….oh, the Lions…I think we have another Barry Sanders thing going on with Megatron…the best player in the league being wasted on a team that looks like it has quit…losing 7 in a row? Fire the coach and GM and let’s get rebuilding again so maybe they will be good for the first time in my long lifetime….Hmmm…okay, Man U. What the heck is wrong with these guys? I know they are top of the chart over in the BPL but tying Sunderland? With Rooney, VanPersie, and Chicharito on the team? Another case of a team underperforming for the talent they have…it seems like that is a pattern for the teams I follow….maybe I should stop and they’ll get better? We’ll see tomorrow when Man U plays….
Brave Americans don’t need guns…
Well…with the astounding obtuseness that the right is showing on the issue of gun control, I wish I would have thought of the title for this one myself, but I read it earlier this morning in a comment thread on Daily Kos about the NRA’s comments that the only way to prevent more gun violence is more, and more, and more guns. While I have been a hunter in my past life and a supporter of responsible gun ownership, the absolutist nonsense of the right that there can be no restrictions of any kind on gun ownership is just too far out there for me…and the idea that we are safer when everyone is carrying a gun is just one of the stupidist things I have ever heard. We have placed many restrictions on the rights that are guaranteed in the bill of rights; think of the libel laws that do restrict your first amendment rights, or the evolution of the rights that are contained in the fourth, so I think that some restrictions on the second can and should be done…especially since almost 80% of the gun violence is done by people using guns that were purchased at unrestricted gun shows where no background checks are necessary. I just want to end with this… I do believe in the title of this piece…and I will be one of the brave Americans who will live my life without guns or fear that is stoked by the right to further their own ends…geez…