Well…running late again today…wanted to get the bike ride in before I got to this…it was an okay day yesterday with going out to look at some of the cars on 28th street…did see another Miata there that was in much worse shape than mine that they were asking 4500 bucks for so I feel better about what I paid for mine…and that one was a ’90 even….and it was hot out there and I sweated through everything…it was a too much sports night last night with the race, Lions and Tigers all being on…almost wore out the remote switching back and forth….won’t have that problem today since there is nothing on but the Tigers…not much to do today…I should clean the bathroom but the allergies are keeping me with little energy to do anything…we’ll see…
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Mitt is still a liar…
Well…this is going to be a short one about ole Mitt’s smug comment the other day that “no one has ever asked me for my birth certificate” while he was campaigning in Michigan….today, we find that it was just another lie since a reporter named Jim Newell came forward and tweeted that he has asked ole Mitt numerous times for the certificate…does this guy just have to lie about everything? Just points out that ole Mitt will say anything to get elected….and most of them are lies…I was going to quote a Pink Floyd lyric but I don’t want another letter from the record company…
August 25th
Well…running late this morning but I’ve already gotten the bike ride in so that is my excuse…it was a normal day yesterday but I did have to go to one of my nephews wedding…it only took about 15 minutes and then I blew out of there and came home…and had a cocktail night so that was fun…fell asleep on the couch again since I was up around 5 am and missed the end of the race from Bristol…probably should go out and see…it might be a fun day today with man U playing in a couple of minutes and then I may go over to 28th street and take a look at some of the cars that are there for the cruise…more later…
I just can’t believe this crap…
Well…it has been a day in politics…not a lot happened but we did have the tone-deaf ole Mitt spout in Michigan that “no one ever asked me for my birth certificate” and I’m not sure what he was getting at…did he mean that this is a difference between he and Obama that should matter in the election? It appears that ole Mitt has embraced the crazy-assed right wing of the repub party…no, that’s wrong…the whole republican party is a crazy-assed right wingers and all Mitt was doing was playing to the birthers. I hope he keeps this crap up because it is defining himself as one of the fringe…one other thing, the head of the repub party is tacitly admitting that the repub platform to be adopted at the convention is so far right it only appeals to the very right base by saying the the platform belongs to the repub party and not ole Mitt…how the hell does that work? Is Mitt not part of the repub party? I just love seeing them contort themselves to justify the craziness…this kind of stuff used to only happen with the real fringes like the John Birch Society…and now it is the repub party…geez…
August 24th
Well…running really late this morning since the internet connection was down all morning and I forgot that my phone can double as a wifi hotspot…but it’s fixed now…it was just another normal day yesterday and I really didn’t accomplish much which I plan to change today…I have work to do here and then I have to get ready for one of my nephews wedding for later today…and I think I should wash the car for it but I probably won’t since it is going to storm tomorrow….but, right now I do need to get working so I’ll come back for more later….
Just a little noodling…
Well…I’ve been sitting here thinking about what to write for the second one of the day and have had no luck…so, that means I have to just wander around a bit and see what happens…I think I’ll go out to the Post and try to find something…okay…no luck…so I’ll pose a question…why is work taxed at a higher rate now than investment? Why shouldn’t all income be treated the same? Why should a billionaire who makes his money through investment pay 14% while the worker sweating in a foundry or auto plant pays 30%? I think it all has to do with the lack of respect the repubs have for workers as evidenced by all of the ways they have tried to hurt them over the years. The Ryan budget would do more of the same…give more tax breaks to the rich while raising our taxes…doesn’t anyone else see this as immoral? This, coming from the party that holds themselves out as the morally superior one…the family values party…since when did stealing the whole country for the rich become a family value? And, when did women agree to give up all of their rights to their own bodies when they become pregnant as the repubs are putting in their platform….I am getting a little tired of pointing this stuff out to people…but, if not me, who? geez…
August 23rd
Well…just another day yesterday and I’m running late again today since I just can’t get motivated…I do have to do the grocery run this morning and it is a task I’m not looking forward to….but, I need to do it so I better get going…I’ll be back later to add to this one…
Okay…have to do an update of my day starting with some weirdness at the coffee shop…an older woman came out of the shop and commented that she liked my car…then proceeded to strike up a conversation that lasted more than an hour…and I was a youngster to her…she was 78 and by the time we were done, I knew lots about her from her childhood to now…maybe it’s that I have one of those friendly type faces…this happens to me quite a bit and I don’t mind it a bit..after all, what else do I have to do? The second thing is that I just bought my first pair of new shoes in almost 5 years and for only 20 bucks…my old ones were really shabby and these are pretty cool…so I think I’ll smile the rest of the day…and maybe come back for one more…
A short one on Medicare…
Well….had to comment on the new Romney ad that says he will restore all of the cuts to Medicare that happen under the ACA…as I said a couple of days ago, the cuts to Medicare that are contained in the ACA are to the big drug companies, for profit hospitals and other providers of service to Medicare recipients…not to Medicare recipients themselves…people on Medicare will see NO service change. But, you know what that means….that Romney doesn’t care about the growth in health costs in this country since most of them go to profits for the people that support him and will continue to make the 1% even richer on the backs of everyone else…so, when you hear the lies of ole Mitt, remember what he lives for…to concentrate more wealth in his buddies hands…geez…
The war on women continues…
Well…have been reading a bunch of stuff about the Todd Akin flap and the egregious nonsense this idiot has been spouting but the more troubling thing is that, while they try to distance the gop from what are radically stupid beliefs, the repubs are enshrining the same nonsense in the party platform…basically taking the rights of women completely away and giving them to any unborn fetus she may be carrying. Here’s the text:
“Faithful to the ‘self-evident’ truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed,” the draft platform declares. “We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.”
In these few sentences, the repubs have told every woman that gets pregnant in this country that the act of getting pregnant removes every right they have to control their own bodies and makes them less than those of the fertilized egg. There was an interesting article in Slate today that fleshed out what some of these effect could be…since the fetus has more rights than the mother, does that mean that there will criminal investigations of miscarriages? Since the fetus would now have rights that are individual to it, could a mother be prosecuted if she fell down some stairs and lost the baby? What if a women was diagnosed with cancer? Would she be required by law to not get treatment since the treatment may harm the fetus? Every woman in the US should be outraged at the repubs attempt to rescind their hard-fought rights and make them immediate second-class citizens just for getting pregnant…what a bunch of idiots…geez…
August 22nd
Well…I don’t know how long I need to keep saying that it was just another day but it was….and nothing really happened so there is nothing to report…other than another night of no sleep and it is really starting to wear….and I feel like crap even with being good so I think it may be a bug of some kind..or I’m not eating enough again but that has gotten so old that I don’t even want to talk about it…not much to do today…I do have to get my hair cut for the wedding Friday but that will be about it…need to conserve cash for the Seattle trip so it looks like I’ll be in lockdown for the next two weeks…more later…