Well…my gag reflex is getting a real workout today with the hoopla around the opening of the ole GW library in Texas today and the idea that this moronic, lying, torturing, murderer is being feted as anything more than the abject failure that he was and still is, should turn the stomach of we Americans who understand and love the rule of law. No other president in history has presided over greater destruction of the US’s standing in the world and the fact that, when interviewed this morning, this idiot said he would do nothing different just shows he has the dept of a moron and truly believes the lies he and his cronies foisted on the nation….and he is still spouting the disproven nonsense that his approval of torture led to the apprehension of OBL and other terrorists. Since when do we celebrate failure in this country by building a propaganda hole that perpetuates lies and deception? I hope this idiot goes back to wherever the hell he has been the past four years…or, for that matter, goes to the Hague to be prosecuted for the war crimes he and his cronies perpetrated on the world….geez…
Monthly Archives: April 2013
April 25th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but it was basically wasted waiting for the service folks to come and work on the AC….I did sleep okay last night but again, no dreams to speak of…I did get 5 resumes out yesterday and expect to do the same today so maybe I’ll get a bite…I can hope anyway….I am kind of worn out today but I know it’s the allergies so I guess I’ll just endure it for now…and it will get nothing but worse but there is nothing to be done about it…don’t want to see the car coated in pollen but with the temps this weekend, it looks like that is going to happen soon….not much to do today….I do have the grocery run and some errands, then some work around here to get ready for having a couple with G to celebrate the end of the semester….and the Wings won last night so they only need to win the last two and they are in the playoffs….so that will be something for tonight, too….more later….
Austerity is still nonsense…
Well…had to comment on the latest revelation that the supposedly academic paper by Rogoff and Reinhart that the repubs and conservatives across the globe have used to justify the focus on austerity around the world is a fraud…yeah, big surprise that the repubs would use a fraud to justify being pricks and hurting people but it is such an obvious fraud that it was discovered by a grad student at U Mass who found that they had made mistakes in their Excel formulas…yeah, I couldn’t believe it either…ruining countless lives across the world from an Excel error? No wonder they wouldn’t let anyone see their source data or how they came to their conclusions, but the more egregious thing is that they did one of the most common frauds in research…they willfully excluded data that they knew would have made their hypothesis false….these folks are just frauds and I want an apology from them and from Paul Ryan for all of the damage they’ve done by relentlessly pushing this crap since the start of the recession…isn’t this the last time we should ever have to hear from the idiot Ryan? Geez….
More secrecy from the idiot Snyder…
Well…if it wasn’t bad enough when our gov here in Michigan, Snyder, conspired in secret with the tea partiers in the lame duck session to jam through the right to work for less legislation and many new abortion restrictions, now he is at it again with a secret group that is supposedly working on “eduction reform”. What kind of education “reform” will it be when reps from ALEC, lobbyists from tech companies, and avowed haters of public education are the only ones on this project? Where are the representatives of parents? Where are the representative of professional educators who live in the trenches and know what does and doesn’t work? None of these groups matter to this idiot thug whose only goal in this whole process is to lower the cost of education by the use of technology that has been proven to have no better outcomes than the normal public education. But, this just doesn’t matter to Snyder and his cronies in the legislature…their two goals are to lower cost so he can give more tax breaks to business and to break the unions that the repubs just hate so much….these guys just hate democracy…why else would they have to meet in secret? Just more of the same of the Koch and DeVos fueled ruination of our state…first in the race to be Mississippi….geez….
April 24th
Well…it was another day yesterday…just like all the rest and there is really not much else to say for it….I did sleep okay last night and had some weird dreams that were interrupted and that is a little irritating….but I feel okay today if a little sore from the bike ride…and it looks like I won’t be going out today with it only getting to 45…I do have some errands to run after I wait here for them to come and service the AC but that is about it for the day…but, need to prep for that visit first so I should get to it….more later….
Snyder’s toast…
Well…just a short one about the happenings here over the past week or so on the potential matchups for governor in a year and a half….in a recent poll that was just done here…a generic matchup of Snyder against the dems find that he is tied with these generics….and the funny thing is that the people they used on the dem side were almost completely unknown…with more than 70% of the respondents saying they didn’t recognize the names at all…and the dems still tied Snyder…and, as more and more people are hurt by the nonsense this governor has pushed, and the fact that he rolls over to the tp’ers and their nonsense, people are starting to turn against this idiot and his secret agenda that he wouldn’t have dared run on…after all, who the hell would vote for anyone who was promising to raise taxes on the middle class and retirees and handing that money straight over to ceos so they could buy another lake house or Ferrari….I hope we all remember this crap in 18 months and send this “nerd’ back where he came from…geez…
April 23rd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…I did see Man U win the title and the Wings finally win a game that may get them into the playoffs….and, I slept okay last night even without it being a cocktail night so maybe there is hope….I did take the car out for a ride to take a look at the flooding and for the first time that I can remember, the Thornapple has flooded across the streets in Ada…and the park out there is basically gone and I have the photos to prove it…I did get to put the top and windows down and even got a little sunburned….not much to do today…I do have some stuff to get done around here but that is about it….and I will be back later for one or more to get caught up for the month….more later…
The republicans are just mean bastards…
Well…I am just shaking my head today with the pattern of meanness that is erupting from the repub controlled legislatures across this country…from pinning poor families assistance to how their 8 year old performs in school in Tennessee to the draconian restrictions on womens rights that have happened in Arkansas and other midwestern states, to the new bit of mischief here in Michigan where they have passed a blatantly unconstitutional law that will force those that receive assistance here to pass drug tests and lose their benefits if they fail the tests…no matter that those on assistance actually use drugs less than the general population, these mean bastards are just continuing being the pricks that they are and picking on those that can’t fight back. As I wrote in an earlier post, it is just that these pricks are bullies and love pushing people around…I know they are pushing these new tests saying they will save the state a lot of money…but, before the law in Florida was declared unconstitutional, it was found that no one was failing the tests and it COST the state money to no effect…just because these pricks think poor people should be punished for being poor. I am amazed that they have so much time to pass all of this anti-people, anti-union, and anti-retiree laws but don’t have a bit of time to pass any jobs legislation…oh, other than tax cuts for the rich that they think is the solution to every problem…geez…
April 22nd
Well…running late again today and it is because I had to go to Meijers to get some food for the grill…making pork loin chops, twice baked potatoes, and cooked carrots for lunch…yeah, I know…but food is about the only thing I have left to get excited about so I’m going to….slept okay last night, I think, but no dreams so it couldn’t have been that great….I did get out to see K for a few minutes yesterday and it was good to get out for a while…but with having a couple, that kept me off the bike that I will have to rectify today with a double run…maybe not, I am really working on not feeling the guilt when I skip…not working too well but I’m trying….not much to do today…other than cooking, working out, washing the car, and watching Man U this aft….and I do need to come back for another one since I am behind for the month….more later….
April 21st
Well…it was a nasty, cold day yesterday and I gave up any thought of getting on the bike pretty early in the day so that meant I needed to do something so I got much work done around here…bathroom cleaned, and lots of other cleaning that I had been putting off…slept okay last night but got up with a screaming pain in my hip that has subsided some as I move around….it was a cocktail night last night but I feel okay this morning and can’t wait for the temp to come up so I can get out today and get a few miles in…the trails will probably be flooded but I want to see that anyway so that will be cool…if I don’t hear from K, I am going to put the top down on the car and take a cruise to look at the flooding…probably head out to Ada and then just follow the river for a while…want to see what the Thornapple looks like, too, so that might just be a plan….that looks like the only plans for the day so I am going to just hang out and let the day unfold….more later…maybe…