Well…running late today and at least this time I have a good reason…read the paper and got the bike ride in before it gets too hot…and, I didn’t come back for a second one yesterday since I got such a late start on the day…and, you know how weekends are…this is a somewhat special day…it’s my birthday and I’m not sure how I feel about that…it is good making it to another one, but is also another one…and they are piling up at a greatly accelerated rate it seems…there is one good thing, though…my birthday is the one day of the year that I allow myself to do absolutely nothing and not feel guilty about it…of course there are other days I do nothing, but I’m always guilty on those days….not much to do today…as I said, I’m going to do nothing today but watch races and take a nap…and maybe one more of these…but, don’t hold your breath…
July 14th
Well….it is the afternoon so that is pretty late huh? I had some things to do today…met up with the Miata owners club for a while out a Fallasburg park and it was fun but they all seem to be Obama haters and that will probably be a deal breaker for me…we’ll see…I did get a bunch of cool stuff for the Miata so that was neat…one thing, though…they all seem to be older than I am and most of them can barely move…weird…I am now just getting cooled off from being out in the sun for 3 hours and that feels good…but I do need to eat something since it is almost 3….so, I’ll be back later for more if I can get the brain working better….oh, and I do have one of the most rare Miatas…in color that is…so that is cool…
July 13th
Well…it was a day yesterday but didn’t accomplish much other than getting the car washed and waxed…but, I hope today will be different with what I hope will be a trip to Mt P and then getting a bunch of other stuff done…feel a little crappy today with the allergies going crazy and that led to no sleep last night…which really is not unusual lately…just realized it’s Friday the 13th…whatever that means…okay, going to come back in a while and continue…not feeling it right now….
Okay..been in the car all day and that has taken all of the energy I had….drove almost 250 miles today and I am tired and sunburned…so, I may just leave this as it is and come back for more tomorrow…but you never know…
Mitt is still a liar…
Well…I have been trying to winnow out the happenings of the day to get to one that I want to write about, and have decided to go back to that gift that just keeps on giving…ole Mitt. Today, the story of Mitt not being responsible for all of the reprehensible behavior at Bain Capital fell apart with the disclosure that his assertion that he had left Bain in 1999 is not true…SEC filings show that he was still the CEO of Bain until 2002; well into the bad days of gutting companies for profit and throwing thousands and thousands of people out of work. But, this is just more of the same for ole Mitt who feels (like most repubs) that the truth is what he says it is, not what it really is…and goes along with the latest revelations that he has hidden large amounts of income in havens like the Cayman Islands so he doesn’t have to pay taxes on it…not something available to normal folks and a good indicator of what his administration would look like…more privilege for those that have money and connections and everyone else can go to hell. Coupled with his weird assed speech to the NCAAP the other day where he tried to convince the delegates there that he would be better for black people because he would end “Obamacare” and give more tax cuts to the rich, it is abundantly clear that ole Mitt is so out of touch with the 99% of us that have to work for a living that he should just go back to his house with the car elevator and leave the rest of us alone…geez…
July 12th
Well…it was a long day yesterday but I won at pool so that was okay….with that long day, I feel a little crappy today and slow so this one will be short for now…not much else to report….today looks like a car cleaning day since I need to head up to Mt. P tomorrow…okay…I need more ice water and couch so that’s where I’m going..more later…
Okay…got the bike ride in and waxed the car so I feel much better and the brain is starting to show signs of life so I thought I’d come back and add to this one…haven’t had the tv on yet today and it is after noon so I feel good about that…but I did eat way to much salty foods yesterday and I look like a blow up doll…could hardly get my shoes on this morning…oh, well…ice water should help that and I’m on my 5th glass of the day already….there are many things to comment on later but I may have some lunch first…
Is the 33rd time the charm?
Well…you need to look no farther than the repub controlled house to see why the unemployment rate is not improving here in the US. Today marks the 33rd time that the repubs have brought bills to the floor of the House to repeal the ACA…a lesson in political futility that has many in this country wondering if they have lost their minds…after all, one of the great philosophers said that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” but that is just what we see from these guys…the senate will never even take up the bills and the president will veto it if it ever got to his desk. So, why are they wasting the country’s time when there are still 50 million people without health care and over 8 percent unemployment? Where are the job creation bills? Where are the infrastructure restoration bills? This is just another example where it is clear that the repubs don’t give a damn about anyone but themselves and their wealthy backers…geez….
If you had any delusions about Mitt…
Well…just a short one on some new revelations on who is trying to buy the election for ole Mitt…an article in one of the papers this morning lists 30 billionaires who make up the bulk of the giving so far with one saying he plans to give Mitt over 100 million dollars to defeat Obama. Now, I don’t care if it looks like I’m against rich people even though I’m not, but 30 people out of 330 million deciding the election? Do you think Sheldon Adelson is giving the 100 million out of the goodness of his heart? No, he is giving the money so he can get laws passed that will help him make back the 100 million in a couple of months if Romney is elected…an investment that anyone in the US would love to be able to do but that is restricted to those that can help the repubs buy the election…what happened to free and fair elections…after all, that is what the repubs used to favor but now all they want to do is rig them like some third world country…people, we need to defeat this money…if we do, and there is no return on investment for these billionaires, they will stop trying to buy elections…geez….
July 11th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday with getting out for a while for a couple with G and having some really weird dreams…there is a benefit to waking up at 3…the dreams included jet packs, John Force, circle track racing, and lots of fighting bad guys….there was an earlier one where things didn’t go well for me but I woke myself up from that one so no harm done…but, still the same sleep patterns so I am a little tired today…not much to do today…not really, I do have things to do…might have pool with Tom and I have to do the grocery run since I may have to go to Mt. P tomorrow…and then the regular stuff…and I will be back for more later….
Let’s tackle voter fraud again…
Well…with the heating up of the controversy over the repub sponsored voter I.D. laws across the country, I thought I’d throw a few new facts that have surfaced over the past couple of days. First, let’s remember what the purpose of these laws are…they are to suppress the votes of people that are likely to vote for the dems…the poor, minorities, and college students, and, in Pennsylvania, that leads to almost 800,000 people (almost 10% of the voters in the state) that will not be able to vote under the law signed by their thug governor Chris Christie…and, if you are at all confused by the repubs public cries of widespread voter fraud, you just have to listen to Romney’s campaign chair from Pennsylvania who crowed to a crowd of Romney supporters that the voter I.D. law will ensure a Romney victory in the fall. I want people to remember what the truth is behind the numbers of recognized mis-voting….the Bushies did a study looking at 5 years of elections across the country and only found 86 cases…yep, 86 cases in the hundreds of millions of votes cast and even some of those were just people who voted that were not eligible for that election. So, the facts are that there is no voter fraud in the US and these laws are just another example of the repubs trying to rig another election that they can’t win on merit or ideas…when are we going to wake up to this nonsense and toss these un-American bums out? Geez…
July 10th
Well…it was a fun day yesterday and great to see T…oh, talked about that already….slept like crap and was up at 4 and then back down until around 6 and that leaves me more tired than I should be since I was good last night….but, I am getting started earlier on this stuff today so that’s something….but not much so I am going to try to accomplish something more today…after I read the papers, work out, and get the bike ride in, that is…I do have G later in the day so that is something to look forward to….it looks like the Mt. P trip is going to happen Thurs or Fri so that opens up my weekend to join the other Miata owners for the picnic which might be fun….so, I’m going to go back to get some water and try to get my eyes open a little further…more later…