Well…it was a long day yesterday and I knew I was going to feel like this today so I’m not surprised….so this one is going to be short…I did win at pool yesterday for the first time in a month but that was the only good thing that happened in sports….the Wings and Michigan State lost…oh, but Man U and Michigan won so I guess it wasn’t that bad. I’m back to feeling a little off like I was a couple of weeks ago and I’m not sure why….I think I may have to go back to no cocktails for a while…okay, need water and the couch right now…will be back later for more…
Okay…I’m back after a full morning where I just finished up the things I had to do for the day….and I do feel better after the coffee and the running around…still feel a little strange today like I’m crooked and the entire world is a little askew…oh, well…not much to do today after this morning…just going to take it easy and let the body heal….and I will come back for another one later today after I think of it…need to go out and re-read the online papers for ideas….more later…
Well…it was just the most ordinary day yesterday but I did make a slow cooked pork loin roast that came out quite well…not sure if I’ll add wine to the next time that I make it…probably replace that with some stock instead…didn’t really do anything else so there is not much to say…I’m sure I don’t like it being March and having to warm the car up to go out and get the paper…but I really can’t bitch too much with the great winter we’ve had…and the weather is going to warm up tomorrow so I can get back on the bike…okay, need to go start the car…will be back later for more…
Okay…I’m back after the paper and coffee and without a bike ride, I do need to find a way to burn off the caffeine…so I thought I’d come back here for a few minutes while I wait for Man U to come on…it does look like tomorrow will be too cold to ride but by Thursday, it is supposed to be almost 60…so that means no thermasuit….oh, that last part is from “Snowbound” by Donald Fagen…don’t want to get more letters…man, I’ve been working on this second part since about 9 this morning so I think I’ll end here and go back to the Man U game…nope, not yet…I do have things to do today…going out to shoot pool with Tom and I think K and J are coming, too…that’s the real end…maybe more later…
Well…with all of the uproar over the troglodyte comments that ole Rush made over the past couple of days, I thought I should comment on the nonsense but why? There is nothing that can be said for something so evil…it has been the way he has made his millions for the past 20 years so how can anyone be surprised? What really troubles me is the fact that he has millions of listeners (most of them repubs) that think exactly the same way…I wonder what they were taught in the churches that they were brought up in? But, this is normal repub behavior and again, we shouldn’t be surprised….saddened, but not surprised. geez…
Well…running really late this morning and this time I have an excuse…just loaded up the slow cooker with a pork loin in red wine and onion soup mix…haven’t used it in quite a while and, looking outside to see the cold, wind, and snow, thought it would be the perfect day for it. Can’t wait for the aromas to fill this place…it was a day yesterday with lunch with T brightening my mood considerably with all of the laughing and good conversation…it was the third time I’d seen her this week and I think that was some sort of a record…but, it was a cocktail night last night so I am a little slow right now…the Wings crushed Minnesota and were skating with so much energy I texted M that I thought they looked like they were angry about something….pretty cool to see…no dreams to speak of last night but that was okay…didn’t sleep for crap, though, and it is starting to get frustrating tossing and turning all night but what can you do? Not much to do today…there are some races on and maybe some soccer later but I don’t think Man U plays until tomorrow…so, I think I’ll just hunker down here for the day and read and write a bunch…you may even get more today but it is the weekend and you know my pattern…
Well…in the past couple of weeks, the repubs have latched onto gas prices as being one of the weapons that they are going to use to try to defeat Obama in November and get the Keystone XL pipeline approved. One of the lies they are telling is that the pipeline will have the effect of lowering prices to consumers across the US when they know it’s not true…even the pipeline company has said in sworn testimony that Keystone will not have any effect on gas prices and may even raise them in the midwest since it will allow them to move the glut of oil from Oklahoma to refineries in Texas for export. The noted oil economist, Philip K. Verleger had this to say in today’s Washington Post:
“Overall, the pipeline will have no impact on prices consumers pay. None. The reason is that the products produced from the crude will be sold into the world market — exported — if prices fall below world levels,” he said in an email. “This means that consumers outside the Midwest will get no benefit from the line while consumers in the upper Midwest may pay more.”
This isn’t even the worst of it…in testimony to Congress for approval of the pipeline, Trans-Canada (the company that wants to build the pipeline) admitted that it will use the pipeline to manipulate prices; just giving the oil companies one more tool in their bag to keep prices artificially high and steal more from you and I. So, whenever you hear the repubs lying about the pipeline and it’s effects, just remember who owns a large piece of the republican party, and who will benefit from its building……geez….
Well…it was a fun day yesterday with a nice text conversation with T going on…but it was a cocktail night so I feel a little slow this morning…and a good bit less than lucid so this one will be short…I did get out on the bike and with being off it for a week, I am sore today…but, I may be having lunch with T today so I guess I’ll get the ibuprofen out and make sure I’ll be able to move…okay…I am working on my second glass of water already so I am going back to the couch while I wait for the coffee to finish…back later for more…
Okay..it is later and I am back for more…I did forget to say Happy Birthday to Roger Daltrey yesterday and the fact that all of the groups that I still listen to have members that are approaching 70 is still a little unbelievable…70 year old rockers? Pretty weird when you think of it but then I see Neil Young on stage at 65 still blowing it up I get a dash of hope that I’ll still be on my bike at that age…oh, the lunch with T is on..yay!….and I need to get the bike ride in this morning since there will be beer and I won’t ride after that…I will try to get another one done before I leave but I can’t promise that I will…one last thing….only 16 more of these to get to 1500 so I need to start thinking about what I want to write for that one…
Well…i was wondering why I was feeling so clean lately with not reading the newspapers in the morning and then I bought the Detroit news this morning and found out why…that rag is just a print version of Fox News and it’s commentators are just as biased and idiotic as those that pollute the airwaves. Case in point, in this mornings News, ole Nolan Finley goes off on Obama (as always) with today’s talking point that Obama is the most liberal president in generations and is allying with radical environmentalists to make sure the price of gas exceeds $5 per gallon to further his left wing, socialist ideals and is just as far to the left as the repub party has driven to the right. But the thing that ole Nolan is ignoring or just plain lying about are the analysis that have just come out that say that the Democratic party as a whole has moved to the center over the past generation; and is far to the right from where they were only 10 years ago. It is the repubs that have moved so far to the right that it just looks like the dems have moved left….look at the what the repub party has championed in the past….the EPA was formed under a repub president…the clean water act was signed by a repub president…and the individual mandate for health insurance was proposed as a counter to Clinton’s health care overhaul in the early 90′s. So, tell me Nolan, which party has moved? It sure isn’t the dems…it’s your party of the rich and connected…
There is one last thing that I wanted to say here about the passing of Andrew Breitbart…the right wing commentator who died yesterday at 43….while I vehemently disagreed with almost everything that he said, it is still tragic for any young father to leave behind a wife and children to the sorrow that his death brings…
Well…another month gone and another month closer to being broke but I can’t dwell on that..it was a good night last night with no cocktails and I have lots of energy today and I think I’ll need it…I do have to do the grocery run today and I have lots of stuff to do around here so at least I’ll be busy most of the morning…and it will be good to have food in the place again although I’m not going overboard…there were some dreams last night but I can’t make any sense of them so I won’t report it…it looks like I’ll be able to get out on the bike again today and I hope it’s not as windy as yesterday…it was brutal at times but still a lot of fun…I will be back later for another one, or two, so come on back and let’s try to get this month off to a good start…
Well….it’s been another day today but with the running text conversation with T this morning I could smile a little bit..and I got back on the bike for a ride so that made a big difference in my mood….other than that, it was just a normal day, just like the rest of them and I had high hopes that there would be a few jobs out there but that was not the case….so, I stayed in for another day and didn’t spend the cash for the papers or coffee which does depress me a little but what can you do? I am looking forward to another evening with no cocktails…I wonder if I’m getting tired of that, too? Then what would I replace that with? I do love the ice water so maybe that would be the thing…it would probably be better for me so I guess I could think about it…okay….I thought this one was going to be better than this and I was going to have something interesting to say…no such luck…oh, well.
Well…with the passing of the repub primary yesterday, I thought I should comment a little on the event since I live here…first thing I want to say is “what were they thinking?” when both of the candidates bashed the auto bailouts and unions as they crossed the state…are they trying to lose the general election? One of the things that I think the repubs have lost sight of is the fact that the people in Michigan (even republicans) liked the auto bailouts and the hundreds of thousands of jobs they saved and the repubs slide to the right to unbridled and unregulated capitalism is not going to play well in the general…and ole Rick’s anti womens rights screeds and his lying attack on Obama for being a “snob” backfired to ensure his loss. Now, he is trying to soften his stand as the pope in chief and moralizer but, while it may work with the tiny sliver of the repub party that votes in the primary, it has caused the repub establishment to basically write off Michigan for the general election since even Romney has been dragged so far to the right that he won’t be able to repair the damage if he wins the nomination. But, let’s not cheer too much right now…as much as I love to see these idiots pummel each other, I never underestimate the ignorance of the electorate as evidenced by all of the lower middle class folks voting against their own economic self interest in the last election and putting the repubs in charge of the House…where did that get you? Where are the jobs plans and the plans to get the income of the workers growing again? Nowhere, since the repubs in control always revert back to the culture war when they are in power since they don’t even believe that there is anything that can or should be done by government to help the economy grow…geez…