Well..it was another no cocktail night but still no sleep so I guess I feel okay today….but I’m not thinking clearly yet so this one may be short…it was a nice day yesterday but I still don’t have the shifters fixed on the bike so it is getting a little frustrating but we’ll see when I take it out today….okay…I do have some things to do today…going to go out and shoot pool today…I’ll be back later to finish it…
Okay…have been out to get coffee and read the papers and I still feel really strange…like I’m disconnected from the world and really weak….might be not eating enough or it could be that I only slept about 3 hours last night with all of the tossing and turning…whatever it is, it is really disconcerting….and it’s not getting better….maybe I’ll feel better after I work out…more later…
Well…started to think outside the box with my conspiracy hat on tonight (no, it’s not made out of tin foil) and came up with this wild idea that I haven’t heard anywhere else. What if Komen was trying to put a competitor out of business? Hear me out….most of the services that the two organizations support are similar and there is quite a bit of overlap in the communities they serve….so what if Komen wanted to be the only provider so they threw their support behind the right wing conspiracies to destroy Planned Parenthood. I know, it’s something out of “The Sopranos” but it could be happening…you heard it here first….and probably last…
Well…I just wanted to comment a little on some things that really don’t have the meat to be an entire article here….yeah, I know, I’ve turned really small ideas into whole columns before but I don’t feel like it today…so, here goes…I am a little heartened by the unemployment numbers that came out the other day and my hope meter for ever finding another job went up a little but I know I have to temper it a little since this has happened before and I’m still not working…I did like the poll numbers that came out a few days ago, too…where Obama is 6-7 points ahead of ole Mitt in the general election polling but I do understand that a lot can happen in the next 10 months…one of the striking things from one of those polls is the results of a question that asked if people liked ole Mitt more the more they heard him….and 54% of the people didn’t…so now ole Mitt is going to not say anything the rest of the election cycle? Then there was the study done over the past couple of years that found that conservatives in the US are much less intelligent than the rest of the population…things that anyone would know if you ever listen to them…Oh, one last thing, the right wing idiot that was coordinating the attack by Komen on PP has resigned (or was fired)…I say good riddance….there is no place for politics in health issues, especially womens health that has been the hotbed of controversy since I was little…
Well…it was a nice day yesterday except that the Wings lost….had the night off since G had homework to do so with no cocktails, I feel pretty good this morning…and I had this repeater of a dream about flying into some isolated Italian island where you have to twist and turn the small plane extremely violently and, in this flight, the pilot actually scraped the side of the plane on the rocks coming in… could have reached out the window and touched them…pretty cool. Oh, and I forgot that I had the nicest lunch with T and that left me smiling the rest of the day…I did get the bike cleaned, too, and I think that has helped the shifters some…but, I’ll see later this morning when I get out again….not much to do today…more resumes, of course, but I have enough leftovers that I don’t have to cook so that is a little disappointing…I will be back later for more…
Well…I missed the big Clint Eastwood ad during the super bowl yesterday but I had heard that it was something special so I just went out and watched it…and a big part of the reason was that Karl Rove was offended by it saying that the phrase “it’s halftime in America and it’s time to play the second half” is just a thinly veiled endorsement of a second Obama term. Karl, any time you are offended by anything just tells me that who is speaking is on the right track…why would anyone care what ole Karl thinks anyway? This is the guy who brought us the nastiest, small politics in American history and planned and abetted the outing of Valerie Plame which put many of our CIA people at risk just to cover up the lies about African uranium that the bushies pushed to get us into war in Iraq. My take on the ad was this: that America has fought through the problems of the past few years and has stayed in the game…has gotten to the second half of the biggest game in our lives and now can build on what we did in the first and keep fighting to win…Karl…you ignored the fact that this was an ad that ran at halftime of a football game…what a more appropriate place for the metaphor that was used? I applaud Chrysler for trying to strengthen the American value that we are all in this together and we can win if we keep working together…something that ole Karl or the rest of the repubs will never understand…geez…
Well…it was a long day yesterday with all of the sports and the bad thing is that every team that I was rooting for lost…but that is the way things are and I won’t lose any sleep over it…I did have dreams last night that included running through the campus at Aquinas looking for my car with stops in all of the halls….not that interesting, I know, but it was something…feel a little crappy today with it being a cocktail night last night but I think more of it is the bug I’ve been fighting off over the past few days…I do need to take the bike to the car wash this morning since the shifters are so full of dirt they barely work anymore and that is a pain when you need a different gear…not much to do today…well…I do nave some things to do..lunch with T and then out for a couple with G I think…but that is about it… more later…
Well…it was a long day yesterday with me not feeling well until late in the day but it appears that I’m a little better today…even being sick didn’t keep me off the bike, though, and I had a nice long ride…it may be that I feel better because I took the bike ride..who knows? It was a little disappointing that the Wings lost last night but I didn’t stay up to see the end of it…I was up later than normal but still couldn’t make it with the 10pm start….okay, need to go start some laundry so I’ll have biking clothes…that’s done…it’s a big sports day today with Man U and Chelsea this morning, then Michigan Michigan Sate at 1 and then some football game later…I wonder if I’ll get sued if I use the term “Super Bowl”…it will be interesting to see…that’s about it for now…I will be going back into the paper again later for some topics….but, I need to read the online stuff first…more later…
Well…I was vacillating quite a bit whether to write one about this topic but I felt I had to…I’m sure you’ve heard of the huge fiasco between the Susan Komen foundation and Planned Parenthood that has played out over the past few days where Komen decided to stop funding womens health services through Planned Parenthood for some reason that kept changing as the week went by…which, to me, stinks of trumped up nonsense. The initial reason was that they will no longer fund any organization that is under investigation…and, it just so happens, that some obscure, extreme right wing congressman has opened a “personal” investigation into Planned Parenthood on whether they are paying for abortions through illegal means. What I think happened is a coordinated attack on Planned Parenthood by this congressman and people at Komen who colluded to give cover to the right wing pressure that has been building on Komen to cut ties with PP since it is the right’s favorite target in it’s attempt to put women back in their place and deny them the care that is sometimes only available through PP. How many more times do we have to see and listen to these right wing idiots who are hell bent on making life harder on the poor? When are women from the right and left going to say enough, that their bodies belong to them and for everyone else to butt out? I hope it’s soon, and I hope that Komen collapses with the loss of it’s backbone…geez…
Well…must have had a bug yesterday because I feel better today even after being out shooting pool yesterday and having a couple of cocktails last night….as I said, I did win again at pool but Tom gave me 4 out of the 7 games so I really can’t feel that good about it…but the weather is holding so I feel great about that..I did read that the first 5 days of Feb are normally the coldest days of the year but it’s going to be almost 40 again today so there will be a bike ride…maybe I should start counting down to the first of March when I consider winter to be over…if all winters were like this one, I could take it just fine…not much to do today…have the coffee and papers waiting so I’ll do that first…and then I’m not sure..I’ll try to get back later for another one…
Well…I don’t know why I felt so rotten all day but that feeling took away my ability to come up with a topic that I felt strongly about so I didn’t….I did go out and shoot pool (and won another week) and now I’m waiting for 7 pm to come so I can have a cocktail…I was going to apologize for not getting a second one out today but I am ahead for the month so I don’t think I’m going to…it was nice day to ride the bike today…okay….this one is not what I wanted to do so I’m not going to finish it…I will be back tomorrow to try it again…