Well…with the news coming out of Washington today, all I can say is if the rumors are true, I am so disappointed in Obama that I don’t know what to say…it appears that he is going back on his promises to raise taxes on the rich and not cut benefits to the rest of us…the latest is that he has even allowed SS to be cut when it has absolutely nothing to do with the fiscal nonsense that is going on. At least Dick Durbin has come out and said that that kind of crap won’t get through the senate so at least there is one person in Washington who is looking out for the middle class and there needs to be more…I’m talking to you Harry Reid, it is in your power to make sure that Obama does not cave in to the repubs and if he doesn’t have the guts, you have to have them….geez…
December 18th
Well…it was a busy day yesterday and I did get a bunch of stuff done so that was okay…and I was good last night so I feel okay today…and it looks like a busy day again around here with some work to get done….I just realized I didn’t come back for a second one so that means two more for today but, as always, I have no clue what the topics will be…I did get three resumes out yesterday and hope to get a few more out today….it would sure be cool to get a bite and find a job….but, I still do need to have coffee and we are getting to that point…going to have to use change to buy the papers today since I have no cash at all in my pocket….which is kind of weird….but I will probably live through it…more later….
Okay….just a short update…one of the guys that work here just brought me a grill that had been abandoned by a tenant that had moved out….can’t be much more than a year old and is in great shape…just need to clean it up a bit…he is even bringing me a big tank for it tomorrow….doesn’t take much to make me happy…
December 17th
Well…it was another bore of a day yesterday and that is starting to get old…didn’t do much but hang out and watch the Lions stink up the place again….and without hockey, there are no teams from around here that are any good…oh, well… I did sleep okay and with being good I feel okay today…I did spend my last two dollars on the paper yesterday so it looks like I’ll have to dig through the change drawer for today’s….or, I guess I could skip the papers and save the money….I’m even down to my last coffee filter but I do need my coffee….okay…going to start getting the change ready and make coffee…more later….
Where’s my right to be protected from people with guns?
Well…with the latest tragedy and the many, many others that have happened over the past year, I have only one question that I want the government and the NRA to answer: “where is my right to be protected from people with guns?” Why do I have to live in a society saturated with guns and unstable people who won’t hesitate to use them? I know the right and the NRA make their living on the second amendment but what about the Declaration of Independence and my right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?” Aren’t these basic, essential rights of American society just as important as the right of a person to carry a gun or to own guns whose only purpose is to inflict carnage on other humans? Where are my rights when I am lying dead by the hand of a person using a legally purchased gun? I am normally a pretty strict constructionist when it comes to the bill of rights but not to the extent that my fellow citizens can be slaughtered every day, especially children, by the unreasoned adherence to words that were written for a different time. And now, we have a new law that was just passed here in Michigan that would allow anyone with “special training” to carry a gun into any school in the state…even when there is no one in the public that thinks this is a good idea or supports it. I’ve had enough…don’t my feelings count? I am so uncomfortable when I see the gun nuts strutting into stores and other places I frequent with their guns strapped to their hips…who knows when the “nice man” that lives next door is going to go over the edge? Do we have to give them the ability to destroy entire communities just to keep the repubs and the NRA happy? I want to feel safe in my life and having more and more guns in more and more places is not the way to do it…this is not Dodge City in 1845 where the only way they found to end the killings there was to confiscate all the guns when you came into the city…and return them when the people left….let’s do something…anything, to stop this crap…I’ve had enough…
It’s never a liberal or an atheist…
Well…I have to wade in on a thought that has been rattling around in my mind of late and it crystallized some over the past few days…when you see the shootings, bombings, or other assorted hate that pollutes our society, it never comes from liberals or atheists…two groups that the right would have you think are the ones who are destroying our society, but from the crazed right and with the rhetoric that the right and their followers have thrown around since their loss in the election; the secession nonsense, the “second amendment” solution nonsense, and the calls for armed insurrection, what the hell did you expect? When you have crazed parents that sit with their guns and rail constantly about taking back our country, filling their children’s heads with the nonstop Fox propaganda of hate, what the hell do you expect is going to happen? When you have one of the major political parties demonizing everyone that doesn’t agree with them, what the hell do you expect? When you have major Christan groups that applaud the killing of doctors that provide abortion services, what the hell do you expect? I am going to lay the blame for the coarsening, death, and hate on the place where it belongs…the modern right and its political party, the Republicans. Geez…
December 16th
Well…running late as always on Sunday and I blame it on the paper and the fact I stayed up late watching concert videos and having cocktails…so, needless to say, I feel a little crappy today but the coffee is starting to help…if it stops raining, I may even get out on the bike in shorts today…that will have to be the extent of things today since I spent the last 2 bucks I had on the paper this morning…so it looks like a week of laying low…and that’s not a bad thing…and we are halfway through December with no snow storms so that is a good thing, too….slept okay last night but I was up late and up early so there may have to be a nap involved sometime today…and some cleaning since I have been lazy….more later…
Mike Huckabee is the worst person in the world…
Well…after the tragedy in CT, most people showed restraint on their comments…but not the idiot Huckabee…within an hour after the event..ole Mike was all over the airwaves with his assessment that the tragedy was caused by “taking god out of the schools”…not by a mentally ill person with easy access to guns…nope, it was payback from god because we don’t worship him the right way. What a load of crap….so, god is so powerless that he can’t enter schools because the government says he can’t? I am stunned by the opportunism showed by this supposed “man of god”…trying top push his right wing, christo-fascist nightmare on the country on the backs of murdered children….at the very least he owes this country and the victims of this tragedy an apology…at the best he will go away and we will never have to hear his nonsense again…geez…
December 15th
Well…still reeling from the tragedy in CT and that makes being broke and unemployed seem kind of trivial….I did get the chance to meet up with C for a couple last night and I drove the car across town on the e-way with no smell and I am starting to think that they may have fixed the car….I did check the coolant levels yesterday and it is still full but I am going to continue to check it periodically for the next couple of weeks…I did wash the car and it just looks pretty cool with the black wheels….that’s the last time I’ll mention that…didn’t sleep well at all last night…right back to where I was a couple of weeks ago and that is frustrating to say the least….but, it’s not like I’m not used to it…not much to do today…going to get out on the bike but that will have to wait until Man U plays at 10…no hurry today….
A terrible, terrible day…
Well….how can you make sense of 20 kindergartners being murdered? My heart is broken in so many pieces and I cannot imagine living a parents worst nightmare…..not much else to say right now…
December 14th
Well…it was an interesting day yesterday but I lost at pool, again, and that is starting to irk me somewhat…well…not really….I did have fun meeting up with K for a couple and having a good talk….and I think the car may be fixed but I still can’t bring myself to lift the hood to check…I haven’t smelled any coolant for the last day or so but that may be that there isn’t any in it….I guess I’ll have to check it today….or maybe I’ll wait until Monday so I can have a weekend not thinking about the car…I did have the top down on the way out an back to Cascade yesterday and the stocking hat really helped keeping my ears from freezing…so, I’m leaving one in the car so I’ll have it when the mood strikes me to look like an idiot…I do like the badass look of the black wheels and the bigger tires and I can even take off in the wet without spinning the rears….oh, slept like crap last night and I’m not sure why…had a run of almost a week where it was okay and I can’t pinpoint anything that changed so I am just chalking it up to the vagaries of age….not much to do today…C might be in town later and I may meet up with him for a couple later and I do need to wash the salt off the car…but that is about it….more later…