My Life

March 2nd

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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…

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How can ole Nolan be wrong all of the time?

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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…

My Life

March 1st

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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…

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One last one for the month….

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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.

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Should comment a little on Michigan…

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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…

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February 29th

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Well…another day, another night and I feel pretty good this morning with it being a no cocktail night but I did go out and lose at pool yesterday aft…it was good to finally get out and do something after being in for the entire week last week and the start of this one…still have not gone out and read the papers this week and I am getting used to staying in and saving money but I do miss the coffee shop….oh, well…life changes and you just have to get used to it….I am going to make it to 60 here for the month thanks to the extra day but I really didn’t need to do that to get to the goal of two per day….and I should go over this aft after I get some stuff done around here and work out…I may be out on the bike in shorts this aft if the rain stops…it’s supposed to be in the 50′s and that will be cool since I haven’t been on it in the last week…not much to do today…just going to wing it and see how the day unfolds…more later…

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Okay, here’s more nonsense from ole Rick…

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Well…just wanted to weigh in one more time on the “snob” comment that ole Rick has been using to appeal to the repub primary voters where he lied about what President Obama said about everyone going to college:

“And so tonight, I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training. This can be community college or a four-year school; vocational training or an apprenticeship. But whatever the training may be, every American will need to get more than a high school diploma. And dropping out of high school is no longer an option. It’s not just quitting on yourself, it’s quitting on your country — and this country needs and values the talents of every American.”

That last statement was from Obama…here’s one from ole Rick in 2009:

“There’s technical schools. There’s additional training, vocational training. There’s skills and apprenticeships. There’s all sorts of things that people can do to upgrade their skills, to be very productive and great workers here in America who provide for their families and build their community.”

So…the two of them are saying exactly the same thing here…and not once did Obama say that ‘everyone should go to college” as ole Rick has repeatedly stated on the campaign trail….so we have our most religious candidate breaking another commandment…make you wonder if his purported faith is just another in the lies he will tell to be elected…geez…

Oh, I do have to attribute where the quotes came from…a great article from the Washington Post from this morning…

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More hypocritcal nonsense from the right…..

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Well…with all of the uproar on the right about the supposed violation of first amendment rights by the Obama administration in the contraception controversy, we have another bit of hypocritical nonsense coming from the right in Tennessee where the repub controlled legislature is trying to make it illegal for any teacher to ever discuss anything about gays or lesbians…they would not even be allowed to mention that gays or lesbians exist. How would this type of law help the two gay teenagers that killed themselves after being the subject of bullying for their sexual orientation? How can the party that wraps itself in the constitution every day basically eliminate the first amendment rights of every teacher in the state while legislating discrimination against gays and lesbians in that state? If you need to see what the country will look like if the repubs win in November…just take a look at the nonsense in Tennessee…this one bill does more to eliminate the guaranteed rights of the people than anything the dems have done…ever…

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February 28th

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Well…it was a wasted day yesterday and I’m not sure why…felt pretty crappy all day until I met up with T for a couple and we had some huge fun…feel better today but still not very lucid right now so this one will probably be short…I do need to get a couple of these out today and that will be the goal along with paying the electric bill…have to meet up with T for a short minute some time today but that will be it…and the Wings play later so that will be something to look forward to…..there were really weird dreams last night that involved a house I’d never been in and lots of cars parked in the house…yep, pretty strange…more later…

Completely forgot that it is primary day here in Michigan…so…go out and vote if you are a repub…the rest of us will just look on in awe of the nonsense…

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February 27th

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Well…this one is going to be short since I was out to meet up with C and then back here for cocktails last night…so, I feel a little off today and I will be taking it easy all day until I meet up with T later…there are things to do today with Daytona being postponed until this morning and licking the wounds that follow from bad decisions…heading to the couch for large amounts of ice water…

Okay….I did get moving today but I’m still feeling kind of crappy and I think some of it is from not eating enough yesterday…got my hair cut finally and I think that will be about it for the day….probably won’t even be back for another one since my lucidity is awol and I really don’t think it will come back any time soon…I’ll try but no promises..

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