Well…another night, more crappy sleep and up way too early….this place looks kind of strange at 5:03….it’s not 5:03 now…I did have to get a glass of water and stare at the tv for a couple of minutes after all….and no dreams again so I guess I’m in a slump with those, too. It was a strange day yesterday…not really strange but it floated by and made no impression on me…I don’t remember it…oh, well…not much to do today…I do have groceries now…..I may have a couple with K today but I’m not sure but that’s about it…okay, writing in the dark is harder than it looks and I don’t want to do that much work right now…more later…
Well…I was going to do a political one today but I am still in a state of disgust with all politicians…okay, not all of them..but all of the repubs for sure and even some of the dems who seem to think that compromise is giving the repubs everything they want and ignoring the wants of the people that elected them. The polls show that people do not want what the repubs are selling; the gutting of the last vestiges of the social safety net that still remain for more and more tax breaks for the rich and business. We are starting to see what the repubs vision is doing to America with the prospects of another recession growing every day, caused by how they have slashed the incomes of the middle class to the point that the economy can’t grow because no one but the rich can afford to spend anything. The latest figures show that middle class has lost over 7% of their income over the past 4 years while the income of the top 10% has grown by over 40% in that same time period. And the repub idiots continue to scream that the dems are all about class warfare…when they are the ones who have unleashed warfare on the middle class and poor and will not be satisfied until everyone but them is living in poverty….geez….
Oh, I guess this was a political one….I never know where the brain is going to lead me once I get started….
Well…a nice day yesterday and I finally won at pool after a couple of weeks of losing….but the Wings lost their first preseason game so that wasn’t good…but there is another one tonight and it is just the preseason…I wasn’t too good when I got home so I am feeling a little slow today…and I really don’t have a lot to say today, right now, that is…so I’ll come back later to add to this one….
Okay, I’m back…late, I know, but I did have a few things to do this morning and my head wasn’t working very well…it still isn’t much better but I thought I should come back for a while….didn’t get the three peat on the dreams last night…didn’t sleep too well and I think that may be the reason…I did have to go out for groceries today and I did get the bike ride done along with watching the last episode of “Dexter”…then I had to cancel the dvd’s from Netflix….not going to pay 8 bucks a month when they have slowed the processing down so I can only get about 4 a month…I can get 4 from redbox for 4 bucks….okay that’s about it for now….need to take something for my back since it hurts today for some reason….maybe more later…
Well…just a short one…the events of the last couple of days expose the repubs for what they truly are…the job killers that they are always accusing the dems of being. In front of the fed meeting that is going on over the next couple of days, the repub thugs have sent a letter to the fed chairman threatening him with some kind of action if he allows another bout of stimulus to prevent the economy from falling back into recession. Never mind that the fed is an independent entity that was specifically designed to prevent the kind of legislative meddling that the repubs hate unless it is to benefit business…when there is possibilty that the fed can use it’s few tools to benefit the economy as a whole, the repubs go off on their crazy train and start making threats like the terrorists they are. This time the public needs to step up and hold these thugs feet to the fire and force them to start to govern for more than the top 1%…geez…
Well…another night and I was good so I feel good today with a lot of energy but I am running late since I was up at 5 and then went back to bed to have the dreams that always come in the last hour of sleep…the last two nights have been a continuation with some weird serial killer trying to pin a murder on me….okay, I told you there were some weird things going on in there…I really can’t wait to see if I can get three nights in a row of the same dream….can’t remember that ever happening….there have been some jobs out there and had 4 more resumes go out yesterday….that’s almost 10 in less than a week so maybe something will happen soon…not much to do today….the hockey pre-season starts tonight and I have the last disc of “Dexter” coming…maybe there is a connection between that and the dreams? I will have another one later…since I feel my brain starting to work again…more later…
Well…waiting for the dryer to finish so I can get out for the bike ride and thought I’d just put down a couple of thoughts…first, the right seems apoplectic that a solar film company that got a government loan went out of business after Obama touted it as being part of our energy future and there are howls for investigations of any lawbreaking….which I really can’t disagree with. But, where the heck were the republicans when Halliburton was getting all of the no-bid contracts and stealing billions of dollars when ole GW was in office? And, where were they when GW and Cheney were committing felonies by approving torture and warrantless wiretapping? I just can’t believe that the American public keeps electing these folks when it has been clear for a long time that they have no principles or honor…that they are all too happy to put the future of this country at risk for political gain….they just remind me of a 6 year old…and that may be insulting to the six year old….geez…
Well…another night out for a couple with G and had fun…and I was kind of good when I got home so I feel okay today…but I know I didn’t eat enough yesterday and that will come back to haunt me today….at least it’s not raining today so I can get the bike ride in….not much else to do today…I am going to cook a big meal for lunch of a pork loin roast so that is something to look forward to…and I am going to skip the cocktails for the rest of the week just to finish off the recovery process and make sure I’m over the bug completely…I will be back later for more….
One last thing..154 days on the bike and counting..
Well…I don’t know what took so long but finally, Obama has taken the gloves off and is no longer playing nice with the obstructionist repubs. I think he has made the right decision to attack on the whole idea of tax cuts for the rich and has put the pressure back on the thugs by going to the American people with proposals to raise taxes (or just make them equitable) on those making more than a million bucks a year…listening to Warren Buffett who decries the fact that he pays less of a percentage of his income than his secretary does in taxes. How can anyone disagree with that? But, then we have the right winger hogs worrying that the trough they have carefully and single mindedly filled to the brim for the rich might just end up a quarter of an inch below the rim….and trotting out their tired old bleat that asking for the rich to pay their fair share is “class warfare” and pledging to make sure that none of their rich donors will have to pay another dime….all I have to say to Obama is: nothing else is working politically so go big….make those idiots defend the rich and powerful…it will make is just so much easier to differentiate the dems from these thieves…geez…
Well…it was a long day yesterday and with the lack of sleep, I’m feeling kind of run down today…I did try to sleep but it just didn’t work and I shouldn’t be surprised..it is normal after all. It’s raining out and I may be able to break the string of 152 straight days on the bike…I do have things to do around here and it may be a good thing…or I can wait until later in the day….who knows? I haven’t been getting to the politics lately but there is a reason for it…I am so disappointed with everything that is going on that I just haven’t been able to comment…maybe today…more later…
Well….a cold morning out on the bike but the sun felt good and I did too….I’m still amazed that I can keep this up every day…but, enough of that….the Great Blue Heron has gone missing from the ponds along M-6 but there was another sighting that more than made up for it…on one of the bridges I cross on the trail, there was some sort of raptor sitting right in the middle of the bridge and it sat there until I was about 10 feet away where I could see that it had just made a kill of a bluejay and had it in it’s talons. When I approached it, the bird took off down the trail to land about 6 feet up in a tree where it sat just watching me…tried to get the phone out to get a picture but it took off before I could….don’t know what kind of bird it was…at first thought, Peregrine Falcon popped into my head but this bird was all medium grey and the size of a large crow…maybe a Kestrel? I’ll have to go out and look it up…if I find out, I’ll update later….