Well…it was a day yesterday and had a little fun going out to meet up with the twins and V…it was nice to get out for while and to have the cash to do it…after that, it was just the normal thing of hanging out around here and watching the 24 hours of Daytona that I am waiting to come back on here in a few minutes for another 6 hours…it will be a nice screensaver for the day while I get some stuff done around here. No dreams to speak of…I know I had some but I don’t remember them so I guess it’s about the same thing as not having them…more snow last night and today and that is damn depressing but I guess I’ll live through it…after all, it has been a pretty good winter and only another month to go…I may have another one today but probably not…I am on pace for the month and I just don’t have the outrage necessary for me to be lucid…
January 28th
Well…running late this morning and part of it is the snow we had last night that took the air out of me and shifted me into a lower gear…but I survived it and got the papers and I’m now ensconced here for the day with Man U playing right now and the first race of the year coming on later in the day. I just love the 24 hours of Daytona and Speed has 7 1/2 hours of coverage on today so that will give me something to watch all day…..I did sleep okay last night but it was cocktail driven so I don’t know if that counts or not….other than that, not much to do today…might have a couple with K later but I’m not sure about that…I am going to make another pizza today with a scratch crust so that will be something to look forward to…going back to Man U….more later…
I think this is part two…
Well….I have been thinking about politics for some time today and have had a heck of a time coming up with a topic that would mean something..I mean I could go off on ole Mitt’s Swiss bank accounts or his tax shelters in the Cayman Islands…but that would be an easy target that I have already touched on here and I just can’t get worked up about a repeat…I did go out for a bike ride today after the flat yesterday but I was on edge the whole time waiting for it to go flat again even though I put a new tube in it…but, it looks like today was the last one for a week or so and that may be good since I am sore everywhere….I could go off on ole Newt for his wild ass promise that he will put a base on the moon if he is elected….good luck with that Newt….you’ll never get that through even a repub controlled Congress when they won’t even approve fixing the crumbling roads and bridges that cover the country…okay….that’s about it for the day so I’ll say come back tomorrow and see if I get better…it’s almost 1500 of these…it has to happen sometime…
January 27th
Well…it was a long day yesterday but I won at pool for the second week in a row so that was okay….I did have another flat on the bike yesterday and another 3 mile walk back here so I have new soreness to go with what is left from the crash…but that is getting better so maybe there will be no lasting damage….I was up all night last night with just getting to sleep for the final time around 3:30 but back up at 6:30 so there may have to be a nap later today….I need to fix the bike, too, so that means a trip out to get a new tube this morning….don’t want to miss the ride today since it is going to be almost 40….not much to do today…I have stuff to do around here so that will have to do it for the day….more later…
Is ole Mitt delusional?
Well…this is going to be a short one to comment on one of the more delusional statements made in the past few weeks by ole Mitt…his latest attack after the Sotu speech by Obama was that Obama was “out of touch” with real Americans…okay, if you’re not laughing about that comment, you have no sense of irony…let’s go back and look at some of ole Mitt’s comments…first, we have the $10,000 dollar bet with Rick Perry at one of the debates…next, we have ole Mitt saying that almost $400K of income from speeches is “not much”, and then we have the statements that he pays all of the taxes he owed under the tax code and “not a dollar more”…when it is well know that he was running Bain capital when they (and others in the venture capital business) lobbied congress and bought themselves the law that allows them to pay less a percentage of taxes on income than anyone in the 99%. So, I’ll contend here that ole Mitt is the one that is out of touch, that he is the one who has no damn idea of what it is like to be 58 years old with too much education to find a job in this economy….go back to where you came from, Mitt…this country doesn’t need silver spoon people like you telling me how to think about the state of the country and economy…geez…
January 26th
Well…another night with no cocktails but still no sleep and that is starting to wear on me a bit….and the wings looked the worst I’ve seen them all year so I am glad we are at the All Star break and the guys will get some rest….I did have some weird dreams after I got up at 3 and then went back to sleep…it included boats, 66 Galaxies, an some rich old fart trying to ruin me just because he didn’t like me….yeah, I don’t know what that means either, but it was weird and fun and that’s a good thing…as I said yesterday, I did crash the bike yesterday but the most damage appears to be in the left wrist today…it is making some weird grinding noise when I move it but the pain is really low so it is probably just a sprain…and I am going out again today since it is going to be almost 40…not much to do today…I do have to make the grocery run but that is about it…more later…
The State of the Union…
Well…just wanted to elaborate on the earlier comment I made on the sotu by Obama last night…there were parts of the speech that I found interesting to some extent…the new found populism and themes that echo what the majority wants was a little refreshing but I still fault him for not learning that you can’t compromise with the repubs; that the only thing they want is less regulation, more subsidies for business, and to defeat him….they don’t give a damn about moving the country forward…but the one thing that the repubs are misreading is the people’s desire to stop the nonsense they have been pushing for the last three years….that the repubs don’t see the new emphasis on income inequality and inequality of opportunity is not a flash in the pan but a long term realization that as the top 1% take more and more, there is less left for the middle class to earn and spend and as it continues, the economy will stagnate and never return to the growth necessary for a healthy economy….geez…
Okay…look down…I added to the last one…
January 25th
Well….it was another night but one with no cocktails so I feel better today and a little clearer….I did watch the big speech last night and there were parts that were okay but I skipped the repub response since I could write that one myself…taxes and government bad, class warfare good, job creators are gods…etc, and just couldn’t stomach any more of that nonsense…I will read it later in the papers just to see if there is anything new but I’m not expecting it…I did sleep a little better but still no dreams so I guess I’m still boring…I am going to try out the George Foreman that K gave me today but that is about the extent of the new stuff that is going to happen…I am going to clean again today since the papers are towering over my computer and I don’t want a landslide to cause any injuries…I am going to try to get out on the bike today but I’ll have to wait for later to make sure that the ice is melted….more later…
Okay…thought I should update this one with today’s happenings on the trail…crashed the bike big time on the ice today and I’m now sitting here taking inventory of what I hurt…there’s the left wrist, right wrist, elbow, and shoulder, my neck and my back…don’t think there is any permanent damage but I do need to get some ibuprofen and see….I’ll keep you updated…
The Supreme Court finally got one right…
Well…I was shocked and pleasantly surprised when the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the fourth amendment’s sanction against police searches without the use of a warrant this past week. This case stemmed from a police action in DC where a suspects car was tagged with a GPS unit without the use of a warrant (actually, the warrant they had obtained had expired) so they could track his movements for weeks on end. The court got it right to throw this case out and support the overturning of the suspects conviction, stating that the use of the GPS unit was a “search” that was covered under the fourth amendment….I have not had much to applaud from the Robert’s court that gave us “Citizens United”, and has been the type of activist court the the repubs howl about…but, this one time, they got it right…now they need to extend this protection to other intrusions that come from the tracking of cell phones without warrants that some police departments have started to use…
Is anyone surprised?
Well… I have to laugh at the surprise that has been coming out of some quarters in Europe that the economy there has slowed markedly over the past few months with the head of the IMF now saying the continent will go back into recession this year. What did they expect? When you slash spending and pay for workers, the result has always been slowing growth…just as Keynes postulated in his economic theories that have been so derided by the right here in the US. One of the things that everyone seems to be ignoring in the headlong rush to austerity across the globe is that you can never cut your way to growth….that cuts in spending and infrastructure investment will certainly mean years of slower growth instead of the robust growth that comes from deficit spending in a recession. I feel we have lost the ability to be objective in economics as the partisanship of politics and ideology have blinded us to what works in climbing out of recession…but, I think that is the aim of the repubs with their only stated goal over the last 3 years is to defeat Obama; no matter how much damage is done to the country…geez…