Well…I just hate it when these smug billionaires buy themselves legislation and then strut around like they are kings of the world…just like the idiot Dick DeVos did yesterday after he and the Kochs bought themselves the right to work law here…but, I have news for these guys, their days of doing whatever they want are numbered….go ahead, gloat like hell for the next two years but when we throw your bought and paid for legislators out and repeal all of the nonsense that is being passed you will never have the power to take and take and take from workers again….it is coming so smile that smarmy smile one more time…it just energizes the people to take this state back from your ilk….geez…
December 13th
Well..running really late today and there is a reason for it…not sure if it is a good reason but I stayed up late watching the concert and had one too many cocktails so I do feel like crap today…I did have a fun happy hour with T yesterday and we laughed so much…certainly a highlight of my week….I slept okay last night with the combo of the melatonin and cocktails but there were no dreams to speak of that I can remember…I do think the car rides much worse with the snowies on it but that might be pressure so I’ll have to check that later today…and I do have things to do today…out to shoot pool in the aft then HH with K later…but I am so broke that I am going to have to skip the papers tomorrow….oh, well…I will be back for more later but I do need to work out and get the bike ride in this morning…
A message to independents here in Michigan…
Well….with all of the furor and the shenanigans going on here in Michigan driven by the repubs…I have one message to the independents who elected ole Snyder to office and believed he would do what was right for all of Michigan and not just the Kochs and DeVoses….REPUBLICANS LIE! They lied in Wisconsin, they lied in Indiana, they lied in Ohio, and they continue to lie that they have the workers in mind with their right to work nonsense…remember that in the next election if you have any thought of voting for another one of the wholly-owned corporate party here. These guys do not give a damn about you but they will lie to you and use you to get elected and then stab you in the back as fast as they get to Lansing. The one thing you have to know about ole Snyder’s explanation of why he pushed these bills was that the even the repubs on “Morning Joe” eviscerated him on the nonsense that these bills will benefit workers…they went so far to laugh at ole Snyder when he tried to trot out the ALEC talking points…this is what you independents have given us…making our wonderful Michigan no different than Alabama or Mississippi and we are now the laughing stock of the country….vote these idiots out in 2014 so we can start to take our state back from the billionaires that just want more and more and more for themselves and do not give a damn about anyone else….geez…
December 12th
Well…it was and okay day yesterday and the melatonin is working quite well, I think…much less tossing and turning but I still feel a little tired when I get up….other than that, it was a boring day and i didn’t accomplish much….today should be different with the grocery run first, a workout, putting the snowies on the car, getting a bike ride in and then meeting up with T for a couple….I am still quite depressed that I haven’t gotten a resume response in over 6 months…not sure why that is but I guess I need to figure something else out….I’m not sure what that is yet….more later…
Okay…just had to do a quick comment on the car…with the winter tires and flat black wheels it looks pretty badass….finally, something to make me smile….
Dark days in Michigan…
Well…it is a dark day in Michigan as the Koch brothers and the Chamber of Commerce, along with the DeVos family have bought themselves a right to work law that will go a long way to gutting organized labor…the House has just passed the bill in this lame duck session with no debate allowed by the repubs. One thing everyone has to understand is that this bill was written by ALEC…the extreme right wing organization that is behind the “stand your ground” laws that have resulted in murderers getting away with murder in the states where they have been enacted, and it is wholly funded byt the Kochs and the Chamber…the most anti-American worker organizations in this country. The bitch about this whole thing is that the Koch’s ideas and candidates were rejected at the ballot box in the last election but they still found a way to hurt the American economy by this new law…what do you think will happen when people have 1,500 dollars less in their pockets? They are going to spend less and the economy will head back into recession…just what the repubs want….so they can say it is the failed policies of Obama that did it…what a cynical, terrible group of people…geez…
November 11th
Well…just a quick one before I get going to take the car in, again, it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t really do much….so, I have to make up for that today….errands to run and work to do around here…I hope the car only takes three hours or so…more than that and I think the boredom of waiting will just about kill me…more later…
Okay…just got back and I’m not sure if the car is fixed yet…still smell coolant but that could be from spills when they were working on it…I am going to be really pissed if it is still leaking and I paid 200 bucks to repair something that wasn’t leaking…at least it was 90 bucks less than they estimated and it took an hour less to get it done…why can’t anyone do anything right the first time?
The 6% solution…
Well…have been sitting here stewing about the liar Snyder here in Michigan and his betrayal of our state and the workers here….in this whole mess, a new fact popped up in the news tonight about a poll that was taken over the past few days on how much support this labor attack law has…when the question was asked if people supported this new law, only 6% of the people said they wanted something like this passed…only 6%…so how can Snyder sit there and lie through his teeth saying that most of the people want this? Just another instance where the Kochs and DeVos’s have purchased a legislature and whose voices count for more that the people who actually work here…..I am getting excited for 2014…we will take back this state and return it to the path of a labor/management cooperation where the workers share in the profits that derive from their labor and have a true voice in their lives…geez…
Lost in the shuffle…
Well…with all of the uproar over the repubs latest gift to their corporate masters…the Kochs and the DeVos’s…another piece of legislation is being jammed through in this same lame duck session that is not getting any attention…although it should. These middle class/worker hating folks that now control our state are stabbing them in the back with new legislation that would allow employers to use their own “conscience” to decide what they will provide in the health care plans for their employees…don’t like abortion? Don’t have to cover it….don’t like smokers? Don’t have to cover anyone who smokes….don’t like people that ride motorcycles? Don’t have to cover any of them either. Can’t anyone else see how big an intrusion this is into people’s lives? It’s bad enough how workers are treated here in the US; why do employers need another tool to make their lives even more miserable? But, that is the repubs across this country…all of the rights that have been fought for by generations of workers will be gone if they get their way…and, I’ll bet that a lot of these jokers passing these laws have benefited from the sacrifices of labor over the years…but they don’t give a damn about that…can’t wait for the next election when we can send them back home….geez…
December 10th
Well…feeling like crap today and there is only one reason…but, tonight will be different so that is something to look forward to…I did win at pool yesterday so that is a plus….but I am still suffering from the malaise that I am in the grips of and even this is a monumental effort…so, I am going to go have coffee and read the papers and then come back for more…
Okay..back for a few…a little disappointed that lunch with T got canceled but I didn’t have any cash anyway so the few bucks I have in my pocket can stay there….and I can just stay here and lick the wounds a little…slept okay last night and I think it just may be the earplugs…I should put the snowies on the car but it looks like it will be nicer later in the week so I’ll just wait until then…not much to do today…I do have to get caught up here and now have to figure out what to have for lunch….but that will be later….right now it’s water and a little work…
December 9th
Well…just sitting here waiting for the Manchester Derby to start and thought I’d get this one done….it was a day yesterday and didn’t get the car fixed since the part is not here yet…but, that’s no big deal….I did have an okay day yesterday once I got back home but didn’t do much…haven’t been on the bike in three days and I think it’s part of the whole malaise that I have been feeling lately…will probably not go out again today since it is going to be so cold and the wind is already blowing about 15…not much to do today…I may be shooting pool but that will be determined by how much coolant the car is losing…will check that in a while but right now, the match is on…