Well…it was a pretty good day yesterday with such a nice lunch with T…it was good to get caught up and laugh a lot….and there is free HBO on the dish so the afternoon was a total veg out…I’ll try to do better today and get some things accomplished but I think my allergies are flaring like crazy…it can’t be another bug…at least I hope it isn’t. Didn’t even make coffee or read the papers yesterday but I am going to go out in a few to get them today….I do need topics for later and I miss reading them…not much to do today…going to do a long ride and then do some cleaning around here then try to do some meal planning since I am getting tired of the same old things…I think I’ll get out the cookbook that T gave me and see if there is anything easy to make…more later…
A preview of things to come with Romney…
Well…it was an interesting week last week with the revelation of a 2 billion dollar loss at JPMorgan that was caused by trading in the same kind of unregulated derivatives that caused the meltdown in 2008/2009, and the losses might even be bigger once all of dust settles. I find it funny that the companies that have fought the re-regulation of the financial sector the hardest continue to make these types of trades putting the economy at risk with their “trust us” attitudes but little else…and if ole Mitt is elected, he has stated that one of his first goals is to cut the weak regulation that has been passed in the past few years and “get government out of the way” basically letting the banks do whatever they want, including risking the entire economy to make the obscene profits that flow to the 1%; never to anyone else. It’s just another example of the vision that the repubs have for the country…that the lucky and connected few reap all of the rewards and everyone else takes the risk….and the middle class continues to disappear…geez…
May 14th
Well…another long day and I am worn out today so this one is going to be short for now….I did win at pool yesterday so that was something but there were so many bad drivers out there that I am still stewing a little about that…but, I need to get over things like that a be a better person but it is harder than I expected…have to keep trying, though, and I will. No dreams to speak of and I didn’t sleep well but I really don’t need to talk about that anymore…HBO is free for the next couple of days so I think there will be some serious vegging here and I am looking forward to it…I will be back later for more but right now it’s couch time…..
Okay…got out and got the ride in and there is life left in me so I’m back for a short update…there was some trail weirdness to report today…first, there have been lots of small, black birds that have been flying out of the grass alongside the trail for the past couple of days with quite a few near misses to report…today, though, I ran over one of the little things and I felt so bad until I turned around to see if there was anything I could do and it was flying away….and I had hit it full on with the back tire to where it was like running over a rock…that made me feel a lot better….oh, the other weird thing was the guy practicing roller disco in the parking lot of the little park that is my last water stop…he just seemed out of place…more later…I do need to read the papers…
May 13th
Well….it was a total veg out day yesterday but I did bake some bread and got a long bike ride in…and, I was good last night so I feel okay today…and that shows in getting this one out so early for a Sunday….I did have dreams last night that included weddings with lost shoes, Russian baseball, and inappropriate gifts….one of those dreams that you just can’t make sense of….could have slept better, though, but no plans for today so I can take a nap later….the bike ride isn’t going to happen until later in the day since there is F1 race on in an hour or so and then the final day of the EPL..looks like Man U is not going to win the championship but that is okay….I will try to get another one out later today and it may even happen….more later…
May 12th
Well…I am running late today and I’ll blame it on the F1 qualifying that I watched until 9 and then I had to run out to Meijers to get a bread pan since I am going to make some bread today…but, I’m here now an that’s all that counts…okay, that’s not all that counts but it sounded good…don’t have a lot to do today but have my coffee, read the papers and get on the bike and it looks like it may rain here in a bit so I may even have to put the bike ride off until this aft…we’ll see…right now I am going to go read the papers before my coffee gets cold…more later…
Okay..it has been an absolutely veg day so far today and it looks like I may just have to write it off…or I would if the guilt wasn’t too bad..but, what to do? I could clean but that is not appealing right now…I did make some whole wheat bread that came out okay…the only reason I made it was to use up the flour I bought to make pizza crust…it is just way too much nonsense for a crappy loaf of bread…I think I’ll go look at the online papers and see if I can find a topic for today…
Let’s remember this about Mitt…
Well…just a short one to share something that has been troubling me since the “Mitt the bully” story broke earlier this week….while ole Mitt dismisses the attack as just a prank, if it were to happen today, let’s remember that this would be a felony assault and Mitt wouldn’t be running for anything but the president of his cell block….the country has evolved to view these “pranks” as the vicious violence that they are and Mitt can’t just dismiss it with a wave of the hand and an “I don’t remember”….this kind of stuff, that continued to happen as ole Mitt went through college and into his “missionary” work in France and through the Bain years where he had no feeling for the people who he threw out of work for personal gain, is an accurate indicator of the man’s personality that continues to this day…you can imagine what an administration run by a man who “likes to fire people” and thinks that everyone can start a business with loans from their parents would look like…and it’s not pretty…geez….
It’s a matter of priorities…
Well…if you remember back a few months, there was this long, drawn out negotiation that led to the debt ceiling being raised and the repubs agreed to cuts in the Pentagon budget while the dems agreed to some cuts to the social safety net…a necessary compromise to keep the government from defaulting on its debts. Now, though, we have the repubs in the House reneging on the agreement by proposing that the Pentagon cuts be restored and paying for them by taking an axe to programs like food stamps and others that help support the poor and middle class. When does the military/industrial complex have to sacrifice like the rest of us? And, when are the repubs going to think of the citizens of this country and not just the businesses that buy them their seats? It’s a matter of priorities and I think the repubs have theirs all wrong….cutting a few billion out of a bloated military budget won’t make us less safe…hell, we could save over 10 billion a month just by ending the Afghan war and bringing our troops home…so why don’t we do that instead of asking the poor and middle class to give up what little is left of their safety net? It’s this backwards thinking by the repubs that keeps us from rebuilding our roads and the rest of our country just so these chicken hawks can puff out their chests and scream “we’re number one”…..and you’ll get even more of that if more repubs are elected in the fall….geez…
May 11th
Well…it was a long day yesterday with going out with G for a couple and then a couple of cocktails here…so, I am a little worn down this morning but that’s okay….I earned it. I am still a little confused with T shutting down our communication this week but I am almost over it and used to it…this time it has been quite easy to accept…so I won’t talk about it again. I did have some weird dreams that centered on wearing a suit that didn’t fit but that is all of the detail I can remember…don’t know why I mentioned it….not much to do today….I think I’ll just hang out and lick the wounds for a while and then go out for the papers when it gets a little warmer…I will be back later for more but right now I am going to go back to the couch and wait for the F1 practice to start…more later…
Not going to pile on….
Well…that last one was supposed to be short but it came out longer than I expected…so, I will keep this one short…I find the whole furor over what ole Mitt did in high school to be funny…in case you haven’t heard, it has been revealed that in his oh, so exclusive prep school, ole Mitt was somewhat of a bully and in one incident, he and his gang held down another student that didn’t look like them and actually cut off his hair….okay, no, I am going to pile on since this goes to his character and rides a thread of his life right up to today….that he has no empathy for anyone who isn’t like him…that he lacks the capacity to feel what others feel if they are not rich, white, and connected. What did he expect, that being a thug would be excused just because he was 18? It’s the same kind of privileged nonsense that goes on in all of those so-called “better” schools where contempt for anyone who isn’t like them is almost in the course curriculum and is never corrected since they really do believe that their lessers can be treated any way they see fit. It’s the same way that abusers as adults can be predicted by their behavior as teens…and the incident with tying the dog to the top of the car shows that he has not evolved in any significant way…he has just learned to hide the behavior better…but that is not even true…when you hear him interact with supporters at his rallies, he is all sweetness and light…but when challenged by someone who doesn’t feel as he does, there are numerous times that his true contempt for anyone not like him shows and has been recorded…let’s look at the tape…it will show he is still the teenage bully that cut off a classmates hair for fun…geez….
It’s about time…
Well…just a short comment on the decision by the president to continue to “evolve” his views on gay marriage to the point that he now supports it and all I can say is “it’s about time”. It’s about time that millions of our fellow citizens don’t have to hide anymore…it’s about time that everyone in this country has the same rights as everyone else…and, it’s about time that we tell the homophobes on the right that our gay and lesbian friends are no different than we are…they want the same chance to be happy in a committed relationship with the benefits of marriage…they want to be able to go to the hospital and visit their loved ones and not be shunted aside since they have no legally recognized relationship….especially here in Michigan where this discrimination has been codified into our constitution…and needs to be removed as soon as possible. This is the fundamental difference between the parties in this election; one party wants to continue the historical duty of a democracy to extend the rights of that democracy to more and more people while the other, the repubs, try to do their best to limit the rights of citizenship to only those that agree with them and over the past decade or so, have done their best to disenfranchise everyone but them….I hope that time is over and those of us who believe that deriving the benefits of citizenship should become easier over time…not harder and harder as the repubs do. I know that just having the president come out in favor of this civil right will not automatically tear down the roadblocks the repubs have built…but, I find it heartening that Obama has found a spine finally and has said enough to the right…now it’s up to us to support him at the ballot box to make this a better country…