Well…it was a day yesterday with lunch with T and then over to K’s for a couple to hang out with C…then it was just back here for the Wings game…which they won, finally, and that made me smile a little….there was a weird thing that happened this morning…when I was out to get the papers “Mississippi Queen” by Mountain came on the overhead….and I just laughed out loud at the weirdness…I mean 3 minutes of the best rock and roll ever played, on the speakers at Family Fare? It brightened my morning even with it being a cocktail night last night….today looks like an easy day…I am making ham bone soup…well, it’s actually pork and ham bone soup since I just discovered that two of the three bones are from pork shoulders, not ham, but I think it will be okay…I hope so anyway. It is a sports day, too, with Man U playing this aft and then the 24 hours of Daytona starting at 3 so I will have something to nap to…and I will come back later for another one….more later…
Monthly Archives: January 2013
This is the party of morality and ethics?
Well…not sure if you’ve heard of the latest outrage by the repubs across the country and their continuing push to rig elections by any means possible, starting with the gerrymandering of congressional districts, various methods of voter suppression, and now trying to rig the electoral college so even if their candidate loses by as big of a margin as ole Mitt did, he would still be president. This latest, nasty little trick by the Koch’s and ALEC, seeks to change the way electoral votes are awarded from the winner take all method in most states, to apportioning them by congressional districts that the repubs have already rigged. If you need any evidence of the seriousness of these proposed changes, you just have to look at our state of Michigan where Obama won by 9% but with the new scheme, the majority of the electoral votes would have gone to ole Mitt. An analysis I saw yesterday that was done on the national level found that if the votes were awarded as the repubs propose, even though Obama won by almost 6 million votes, ole Mitt would have won the election. How much more un-American can you get? But, that is the repubs pattern, wave the flag to distract people and then steal elections by any way they can. In all of my long life, I have never seen a party, other than in the Soviet Union, that would go so far to rig an election that they wouldn’t win on their ideas…these guys should be arrested…oh, one last thing…it is being proposed here in Michigan by the same folks that brought you right to work for less and guns in the schools…geez…
January 25th
Well…it was another boring day yesterday and another cocktail night so I feel like crap…well…not really like crap but a little tired…and I do need to make a run out for groceries since I do want to make some soup tomorrow….it looks like another day of snow today and I think we’ve already had more than all of last year…not happy with that since I want to get out on the bike…I’ve already gained 10 pounds and that feels like crap….I may have lunch with T today and that is something to look forward to…kind of excited about that, too….and C is coming into town so I may have something to do all day…more later…
These crazy bastards and their continuing war on women…
Well…my jaw just dropped this morning when I read of the latest gambit by the women haters in the repub party who are still trying to intrude into women’s rights…this one is one of the most egregious, terrible things I have ever heard…a legislator in New Mexico, a woman repub even, just introduced a bill that would force a woman that had been raped and impregnated to carry the baby until after the trial making it a felony to have an abortion under the guise of “tampering with evidence”. How much more terrible can this be for a woman that has just suffered the trauma of rape to then be threatened with a jail sentence for ending a pregnancy that resulted from it? How can these folks sleep at night? I am speechless that this kind of thing can happen in 2013 in America…why aren’t women across New Mexico lining up for a recall for this batshit crazy legislator? I have had it with the repub party wasting the time of all Americans with this nonsense…stop injecting yourselves into our personal lives and get to work on the things that people want you to work on…or just go the hell home….geez…
January 24th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I am starting to have a lot of fun driving the car in the snow…I think it’s getting up there with the best ones I have owned…but I think it’s probably the tires that make the difference…I did win at pool in the last game so that was cool but I was up 5-1 and then barely won so I probably shouldn’t be too happy….I did sleep okay last night but, with it being a cocktail night, I am running late today…I did get the new shifter on the bike and almost have it adjusted but the fine tuning will have to wait until I can ride it…I’m glad it is done since the old one was so greasy that every time I worked on it it left grease and dirt all over….will have to get that cleaned up today…not much to do today…it looks like I will just take it easy today and get the kitchen cleaned…I am baking bread later and that will be cool to have that smell in the place…
Not sure about this one…
Well…just got the new shifter for the bike in the mail and have been working on it for a while trying to get it installed and adjusted…I did have one revelation in the process…it helps to read the instructions….okay…as the title says: I’m not sure about this one…I know it will be political later but right now I am getting ready to go out and shoot pool with Tom…and the car is running so I guess I should get dressed and get out the door…there is a lot of nonsense going on in Washington today especially with Hillary testifying in Congress and tearing these know nothing hacks a new one…fun to watch…back in a while…
January 23rd
Well…it was a day yesterday and I did have a little fun with having a couple with G…the car barely started with it being -1 but there is a heat wave today and it is 6 so it should be okay….need to go start it up again here in a minute to warm it up for the trip to Meijers since I am out of food….slept okay last night with some dreams but they were about not finding work so that is not something I want to dwell on right now…I think I may be coming down with another bug with all of the sneezing and coughing but I don’t feel that bad so it can’t be the flu…I hope so anyway….I do have things to do today…it is a pool day with Tom but that is about it…more later…
The repubs are the big spenders…
Well…just found this little nugget out on the web that I thought I’d share as a rebuke to all of the repub cries of “socialist, big spender” when they talk about Obama. I know, why am I responding to what is just another in the litany of lies that the right has told about Obama,…with his “uncontrolled spending” being one of the biggest whoppers. Bloomberg (not a hotbed of liberalism) came out with an analysis today that shows with math..yeah, I know the right doesn’t believe in math….that government spending under Obama has grown slower than under any repub president since fricking Eisenhouwer…yep, that’s right the right’s biggest spender in the “history of the country” is just another lie and the percentage of spending to GDP is lower under Obama than under Reagan, Bush 1 and 2, or even Nixon…so, the next time they say big spender just think “another lie” and you will have it right….no wonder the president no longer cares to work with the right…they do nothing but lie, and lie, and lie all of the time…started with Clinton and continues to this day….geez…
January 22nd
Well…it was just so fricking cold going out to get the papers…the car was struggling to start and I left it running for almost a half hour since I could barely shift it into neutral…once it was a little warm it was okay and I do love the Blizzaks…I am starting to have fun sliding the thing around and using some of the skills I built in my younger days…and the Miata is so much more responsive that you can hold a slide quite easily…today is T’s big day and will be presenting for her new job in about an hour…I’m kind of excited for her and hope that maybe, someday, I may be able to find another job…the Wings almost disappointed me again last night but they did look better than the pounding they took Sat…not much to do today…an that is the truth… feeling crappy with a new bug so I need to lay low for the next couple of days…
Predictability from the right…
Well….watched most of the inaugural speech and thought it was much more liberal than I expected…and I hope it signals a more assertive Obama that has learned that reaching out to the right and treating their crazy-assed ideas as if they have merit is the wrong path. They are never going to work with him anyway so why not push the agenda that more than 60% of the country wants…raising taxes on the rich and protecting the programs that we paid for over our lifetimes. The response from the right was a predictable as the sun rising…they bitch because he never mentioned compromising with the hostage takers on the right…they bitch because the speech is too partisan…they bitch because he uses the speech to tell the truth about gays, the economy, and the environment…and they just generally bitch because he is not Mitt Romney….and that really makes me smile. I’ve had enough of trying to compromise with the right when their idea of compromise is that all of us in the center and on the left just roll over and let them ruin this country with their Randian nonsense….and I was especially happy that Obama drove a stake into the heart of the “makers vs. takers” meme that the repubs have been pushing for way too many years. Now, I just want Obama to live up to the speech and do the things that the people want…that’s what winning elections is about.