Well…I know I’ve been doing a bunch of these today but a new revelation on ole Mitt’s sketchiness surfaced on Twitter and I thought I’d write a short one about it. As you probably already know, there has been an epidemic of repub business owners telling their employees that they should vote for ole Mitt with dire consequences if they don’t, with one idiot in Florida telling his thousand employees that if Obama wins he is going to close the business and fire everyone. Ole Mitt was caught talking to donors and giving them the same advice, in direct violation of the 1965 voting rights act….so, he is either too stupid to understand that you can’t intimidate people to vote for you or he just doesn’t care…after all, laws don’t mean much to the repubs unless they can use them for their own benefit…geez…
A short one on oil leases…
Well…I just wanted to do a short one on the crap about oil and gas leases that ole Mitt tried to hit Obama with last night saying that the number of leases have gone down under Obama…but, he conveniently ignored the fact that the oil companies are sitting on over 7,000 leases right now that they certainly don’t plan on using any time soon…you can issue a million leases but if the oil companies like the supply and price the way it is (which they do), they will never do anything (like bringing more supply to market that will lower prices) to upset that balance that they now possess. The other fact that exists here that ole Mitt conveniently ignores is that any new supply can be sold into the world market to go to China or anywhere else…just like the tar sands oil that will come through the Keystone pipeline and it will have no effect on our energy independence. Unless, of course, ole Mitt would pass a law saying that any new supply must stay in North America…which he would never be allowed to do by his oil company masters…and, if by some miracle he grew a spine and passed such a law, the oil companies would just stop drilling here to maintain low supplies and high prices in their largest market. I know ole Mitt doesn’t show that he understands economics at all…but I learned this stuff in Econ 101 many years ago and still remember it…maybe he could go back to Harvard for some remedial classes? Geez…
Sunken Condos….
Well…just made a mad dash and spent the last of my cash,…with the top down, I headed across town, to the building with the ticket on the side, and found what I was wishing for…more from Donald and a few more…okay, I know, I’ll never be Donald Fagen but I had to do something special to celebrate the release of “Sunken Condos”, Donald’s new CD….I’m on my second run through it right now and find the themes of the songs at once the same as always but different…of course you have the old guy, young woman theme in “Slinky Thing”, how could he do a cd without a song about that? But there are twists and turns that are unexpected…in “I’m not the same without you” Donald turns the breakup song on it’s head with the breakup turning the protagonist into a superman who “grows an inch taller and has heroic escapades”. I won’t go into all of the songs, there are nine after all, but one last one I want to mention is “Memorabilia”…a song about the aftermath of the nuclear tests and even mentions one of the tests names “Castle Bravo” in it…how the hell does he come up with this stuff? It looks like, to me anyway, that Donald has done again what Donald does…slinky, funky music that has all the biting lyrics that we have come to expect…if you’re a Dan fan…give it a try…it’s already in the mp3 player for the bike ride tomorrow…
It’s all optics to the repubs…
Well…I found the article about ole Ryan’s visit to a soup kitchen yesterday so damn funny that I would laugh if it wasn’t so sick…the repubs using the poor as props as they always do and when the election is over they go back to destroying the programs that help them. If you didn’t read the article, ole Paul dropped in on a St. Vincent DePaul homeless kitchen unannounced and then, since there was no meal being served at the time, proceeded to go into the kitchen, put on an apron and pretend to wash dishes…dishes that were already cleaned but he made a huge show of “cleaning” them…what a pure ass this guy is..fake compassion is worse than no compassion…geez…
October 17th
Well..Okay, I know, I’m running really late this morning and, as always, I’m not sure why….I did have to go over to Meijers to get some rice for the slow cooker chicken and rice concoction that I am making today…no recipe, just using stuff that I had after making soup the other day…and then I had to put it together but that only took about 5 minutes…maybe it’s the fact that I stayed up late to watch the post debate coverage after the Tigers game….who knows? I did sleep okay and it may be that I’m using ear plugs at night so as to not hear the furnace from the unit above me since the hearing centers in your brain keep working even when you are sleeping…saw that on a show on discovery or science the other day…it looks like it is going to be warm enough to go out in a t-shirt today so I need to get moving and get the workout done…more later…
This is what’s wrong with Romney’s vison of America…
Well…just had to do a short one on a bit of news that was revealed in the papers today that reveals in stark, graphic detail what is wrong with ole Mitt’s vision for America. In case you haven’t heard, the CEO of Citigroup retired today, under duress, and walked away with a golden parachute of almost 290 million dollars and he and the incestous board of directors feels that he deserved it….yeah, he deserved it when he presided over an almost 90 percent decline in shareholder value over his tenure…and this means something since, if you have an IRA or 401K, you probably lost money on this deal…in effect, this crook walked away with your money and my money and ole Mitt doesn’t think there is anything wrong with it…how do these people live with themselves? geez…
I just can’t believe it..
Well…with the latest polls that show that women are now putting ole Mitt ahead in the national race, I just can’t believe it. I know that it jibes with the rest of the folks that vote republican…those lower income folks that don’t seem to realize that by voting for them, they are cutting their own throats, they are giving up Medicare and Social Security; programs that these people count on to continue to live and have lives that are not mired in the abject poverty which was prevalent before they came along. But, the biggest puzzlement to me is the swing of women voters to ole Mitt…what the hell are they thinking? do they want their bodies to be controlled by the government and not by them? Do they want the recovery that is now just getting moving stopped in its tracks by the misguided ideas that have been proven wrong time and again? Do they want their 401K’s and IRAs to take another hit like they did under the 8 years of Bush? I just can’t understand what women are thinking these days….or anyone else that would vote for ole Mitt…maybe there is an outbreak of mass stupidity…what other explanation is there?
October 16th
Well..it was a kind of busy day yesterday with lunch with T and then out for a couple with G and the bug is still hanging on but maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel…but, I thought that about a week ago and was wrong then…hope I’m not wrong now…there were dreams again last night but they were kind of nondescript so I don’t remember them….it is going to be kind of an exciting day today with the Tigers going with Verlander and the debate…so the remote will get a workout again…might have to get new batteries to make it it will make it through…and I have to run some errands this morning to get some stuff done around here later…and I do need to come back and do my job here that I have not been doing lately…or not well, anyway…more later…
Still not a lot going on…
Well…I guess politics is in a lull in front of the debate tomorrow night so I think I’ll deal with some other stuff instead…first, there is the win in the second game of the alcs by our Tigers and I am so happy that the blown call at second base didn’t mean anything since the Yanks never scored a run…and we have Verlander on the mound tomorrow night so that will be a game to have a cocktail with…and keep the remote warmed up so I can flick to the debate…it was nice to have lunch with T today but I am a little tired so I think I’ll head for the couch and take a nap before I go out with g later…
October 15th
Well…it was a long day yesterday with going out for a while and losing at pool and then all of the sports that was on tv…and I am worn out today but I did have some dreams that included trains in the snow, the White House, and a plane that didn’t move….I do feel crappy today and I now know that it is another bug since I was good yesterday…up and down all night didn’t help and my stomach is giving me fits so I am going to stop here and make coffee to see if that will help…more later…