Well…haven’t been able to come up with one topic to fill this thing so I think I’ll just muse a little and wander around in my head a bit….I just love ole Rick Perry….as I said a few days back, he is going to be a hoot commenting on over the next year or so and yesterday, he did not disappoint. He told a youngster in new England that they teach creationism in Texas schools….something that is illegal in the US…nice job, Rick, you don’t even know what is going on in your state…how are you going to run the country? Okay, that one sounded better in my head but you get the idea….
I did want to talk about cars a little today…it has been on my mind for a couple of days. What was your first car? I still remember my white 1962 Comet that I inherited when my father died…144 cubic inch straight six with a three on the tree as we used to call it…the laws back then would let you get your license on the day you turned 16 and take off in your car with no restrictions that same day…and that’s what I did…it was so cool to get in that thing and go…and gas was only 24 cents a gallon so the 55 cents an hour I made at the Dog and Suds in Ada would pay for both gas and beer….can you remember pulling into a gas station and asking for a bucks worth? The next car was the family wagon…a 55 Ford that I took over after the Comet died…but that’s another one for later….
Well…I didn’t come back and write another one yesterday…just couldn’t work up the outrage necessary to do it…and my brain was just too fuzzy all day…and it looks like today is about the same…stayed in last night since K was stuck in Flint until late in the day…but we might hang out later this aft…had some weird dreams again last night that included potato peelers and tornadoes..yep, it’s pretty crazy in there at times and it has been almost a week with dreams every night…not something that happens often…not much to do today…I do have to maintain the bike at some point which means I have to put it on the back of the car and take it to the car wash since it is looking really ugly and there are some squeaks when I hit bumps so it needs a complete lube, too….but that won’t be until later…I need some water and the couch…more later…
Well….it was another day yesterday….just like the others, but I did get out for a while and have a couple with T and it was good to see her…and I wasn’t too good last night so the brain is a little fuzzy and I am having a little trouble writing this stuff….so, I won’t continue right now…I need a glass of water and a little couch time….more later…
Okay…I’m back…got the bike ride in and lunch is cooking so I thought I’d come back for a couple of thoughts….have been having weird dreams lately and the latest one was about Nik Kronwall retiring…he didn’t and it was kind of weird since it’s not hockey season and I haven’t been thinking about the Red Wings…I think I may do one here about the cars I’ve owned later in the day or over the next few days….I do need to comment on the economy stalling out and the repubs thinking it’s a good thing….bastards…
Well…two days on the campaign trail and we have the first of what I expect to be many gaffes coming from our latest Texas tragedy, Rick Perry. This idiot came out a a couple of days ago with one of the most telling statements of the strategy of the repubs to keep the economy in the tank until the 2012 elections when he said that if the Fed did anything to help the economy in an election year it would be akin to treason and that Bernanke would not be treated well if he came to Texas. So, Rick, because there is an election over a year away, we should do nothing to help people get back to work and ease their financial distress because it may help Obama get elected? We can see that the repubs are no longer even lying about caring about anyone but the rich and powerful that buy them elections and that Rick Perry is just another underachiever who thinks that the minimum wage jobs that he has created in Texas is a template for the rest of the country in the repubs race to turn the US into another Mexico or China…geez….
Well…this is going to be a quick hitter for now….as the world has been gripped by the nonsense of the right across the world that austerity is the right path to take in a recession, we have started to see what the results of these programs are in Europe and they mirror the slowdown here in the US. I cant wait to say that Keynes is right and has always been right…the proper path to take in a recession is to continue to stimulate until the economy’s growth is self sustaining by the increase in demand that comes with rising incomes. It’s not really that complicated and it works every time when there are educated adults in charge….that are not so ideologically driven as the right is here….and since the austerity program was enacted first in Europe, the troubling slowdown in France and Germany that is happening now is what we can expect here, too…nonsense, nonsense, nonsense….thank you tea party….geez…
Well…another night of being good but the fitful sleep offset it somewhat….it’s been 4 days since I drove my car but I will break that string today since I need to do the grocery run….oh, should have left that for the “not much to do today” section…oh, well…I’ll come back to that later….the wounds from the crash are getting better every day and now I can even sit without the hip bruise hurting so all should be well by the weekend….I am really surprised that my allergies are not worse than they are…this is the first year in a long time I haven’t taken anything for them and I may just be able to muddle through….do allergies get better? Not much to do today…I did mention the grocery run…not as much for food this time as for cleaning products…and I do need the fixings for cocktails for tomorrow…and resumes, of course…I did get two out yesterday and maybe I’ll find a job before I go completely broke…more later…
Well….I was just shocked a few minutes ago when I read of the newest way that the repubs are excluding people…even their own constituents….they are now charging people from 15 to 35 dollars to gain entry and ask questions at their political events. Yep, folks…the repubs have sunk to a new low in trying to exclude people from their right to petition their elected officials…what are going to do next? Sell autographs? Turn their houses into bed and breakfasts? I’d like the tea partiers like Paul Ryan to try to find charging for access to them in the Constitution….what a bunch of hypocritical idiots….gezz…
Well….took the night off last night and I feel okay today…the soreness from the crash has spread and I’m a little hobbled today so I need to get to the ibuprofen soon….more dreams last night that had a lot of cars in it but lots of frustration with not being able to get them fixed..probably related to the exhaust leaks I have with mine…and need to have fixed as some point…not much to do today….just looked at the radar and there is no rain in the picture so it looks like I’ll keep the string alive of riding every day since the start of May and I don’t know how I feel about it…pain in the legs seems to be constant these days and I may have to take a day or two off to rest them…who knows? I will have a better political one for later today with some corrections on the Rick Perry one from yesterday….all of the jobs are not in the oil industry…but the ones that aren’t are all low wage, crappy jobs that you can barely live on….
Well..now that Rick Perry is in the repub race, I thought I’d do a preemptive strike against his boasts that he is a job creator that can do a better job than Obama has done is this nasty recession. I laugh because he is trying to tie the creation of jobs in Texas on his watch to the same old tired repub lines of tax cuts and union busting. What has really happened is that the run up in oil prices has added the only jobs that have been created in his term, oil related jobs…yep…and as I have said before, that means that everyone else in the country has subsidized these jobs by paying more for gas and oil…basically, the entire state of Texas is only growing because of the corporate welfare that the rest of us pay to the companies based there. So, the next time you hear this right wing religious zealot talk about his success, take away the accident of oil in the ground there and you have the same no growth policies that have never worked and will never work….but that doesn’t matter to the repubs….
Well…not much more sore this morning from the crash so i feel pretty good about that…and the bruise is starting to clear already so no war wounds to show off…didn’t do much last night but hang out and watch tv so I feel okay today…I think the tiredness is connected to my allergies since my head feels like it’s filled with concrete and I have been coughing….so it’s just hunker down time while I wait for them to go away….not much to do today….oh, one other thing…weird dreams again last night…this one centered on no brakes in the cars again and I did a lot of agricultural work plowing across peoples yards…backwards…..they are running the Watkins Glen race this morning so I need to get going to be ready by 10…more later…