Well…it was an okay day yesterday but didn’t do a lot…I did get out to see K for a few minutes and that was fun but the rest of the day was just a normal Saturday…slept okay last night but that bug that started on Thursday is still here and with it, no energy, so I think today will just be racing and napping…went into Olympics overload yesterday and just stopped watching…it goes on way too long and I just got bored with the whole thing….not much to do today…I am just going to watch the Daytona 500 today and veg…and try to come back for another one of these today to stay ahead…more later…
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Not much politics right now..
Well…have been working all day trying to find something to write about in politics, but I think I’ve covered most of the interesting ones this week…so, let’s talk about something else…how about some sports? Okay, let’s do that…I feel bad for the Wings with them losing Hank for the rest of the season with back surgery…but, he needed to get it done with the chunk of disc that broke off and stuck in the nerve…so now the youngsters have to really step up…might be interesting to watch…after the debacle of the US mens hockey team this morning, I can’t wait for the Wings to get back to playing…I will be rooting for the Swedes tomorrow morning to take the gold….boy, the new racing season has started out quite boring…the twin 150′s and the truck race were basically follow the leader all race…and the Nationwide race is just the same…might be a good time to take a nap…Man U did win this aft so that was cool…maybe I’ll just head back to the couch and watch the rest of the race…more later…not really…
February 22nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I lost at pool again and that makes it 6 weeks in a row…but, I did find out Tom’s secret weapon…not going to use it but we got a good laugh out of it…there was a surprise last night when I got a call from the oldest son that he is engaged, too, just like the other two boys…so it looks like a third wedding this year…and that will make all of the kids married…something I never thought I’d see…slept okay last night but up early again today but I’m getting used to it so that’s okay…I have been running late this morning but it is Saturday so I guess that’s okay…not much to do today…I should clean the kitchen but I probably won’t…just going to let the day unfold at a leisurely pace and see what happens…going to go out later for a couple with K and that should be fun…I do need to tell someone of the latest family bombshell….
February 21st
Well…it was a weird weather day yesterday with thunderstorms and lots of rain and it was good that at least some of the snow has melted….but, that warm weather leads to the next three weeks being in the teens and I am getting tired of it…slept okay last night but I am still tired this morning and the coffee is not working so today may be a little bit of a trial….didn’t do much but cook yesterday and that looks the same for today..other than the cooking, that is, today will be a leftover day and that makes it easier to eat enough calories….not much to do today….pool, I think, but that will be it for me…then back here for an easy night….there is a truck race on so that will be a nice change from the Olympics….really, really tired of them…more later…
The Kochs are still lying about the ACA…
Well…living here in Michigan, you would think there is a guy or woman named ACA that is running for every office they way that the Kochs are spending money to try to defeat him/her. The latest ad that they are running has some woman with cancer that goes on to say that with Obamacare and it’s out of pocket expenses, she is going to die since she can’t afford them and her plan got canceled…all of the talking points that the Kochs are pushing to hurt people for political advantage for their right wing nutjobs. The only problem that these ads are having is that all of them have been found to be full of lies and half truths and the media is finally calling bullshit on them….this one is no different. First, cancer is no picnic and I don’t wish this woman any more stress than she is already going through…but, by being in this ad, she opened herself up to fact checking…something that was done well by Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post. First, yes, her non-compliant policy was canceled….but, she was able to get one for almost 700 dollars a month less than she was paying….and the bitch about how she can’t afford the 6,350 out of pocket costs in the new policy? When you net the old payments with her new ones…her actual costs are lower than they were before….and, let’s make this one more point…before the ACA, her chances to get canceled because she was sick was a very real possibility…under the ACA they can’t cancel at all. Living in Michigan, I live with the crazy right that are so frickin delusional that they will believe anything, and I think this woman was probably paid well for her part in pushing these lies….how can she live with herself? Oh, that’s right, the right has no shame…geez…
February 20th
Well…it was just another day yesterday but I did get the top down on the car and take a drive…so that makes it every month for 18 months I’ve owned it I’ve had the top down…small victories…but, today looks like rain all day and then freezing up and ugly, then really cold for the next two weeks so the next time looks like March…slept crappy last night and on the wrong shoulder so I will be in pain the rest of the day…I do need to get out this morning to get the grocery run done so I can just hunker down here for the next few days and hibernate….I am getting tired of the Olympics so tonight it will be cocktails and races from Daytona….other than that, just cooking and cleaning today….and more of these…but, I am in good shape for numbers this month and I’m not sure how that happened….more later…
Bye, bye Scotty…
Well…i will admit I’m a little gleeful with the document dump that came out of Wisconsin over the past couple of days that shows that ole Scott Walker knew that his public employees who worked for the county where he was executive were illegally using county time and resources to support his campaign for governor….something he has said over and over that he knew nothing about. How’s that lying working out for you, Scotty? Not to mention this is public corruption that is a high misdemeanor and the same thing that at least one of those aides has gone to jail for. So, I call on the prosecutor there to take this new evidence and charge the idiot…I am heartened that there are still investigations going on in this matter and that is what should come out of it…let’s keep counting…third repub governor this year to be shown to be the criminal thugs that we on the left know they are…and again, just shows how the repubs don’t think the laws apply to them…only to the little guys like you and me…geez…
Stupid, stupid Republicans…
Well…as the repubs continue to gloat over defeating the union drive at the VW plant in Kentucky…this neat little tidbit came into the news this morning…the head of the union that represents workers at the plants in Germany said that there are now talks to possibly stop manufacturing in the US…and to certainly not expand production here…so, just to spite the unions here, the repubs have basically scared VW away from expansion and the prospect of thousands of new jobs is now gone….these idiots really thought, in their delusional minds, that VW would thank them for killing unionization even when VW told them that they wanted a union in that plant and that they are more profitable and efficient when they have a union shop. And, VW also understands that when their workers are paid fairly, they have enough money to buy their products and the entire economy benefits, not just the 1%. That is one of the major reasons why Germany is still a manufacturing powerhouse…workers and management work together to face the realities of the economy and share in the pain and gain…not the economy that the repubs want here…that the 1% gets everything and the workers get crap…geez…
February 19th
Well…running late today since I have been watching the Russia/Finland hockey game and the Finns are ahead 3-1 going into the third…yow….slept okay last night and had some dreams that I have already forgotten but I think they were good ones…it would be nice to remember them once in a while…it was an okay day yesterday and I finally got the bathroom cleaned so that was something…and I got out to have a couple with G and it was good to get out of here for a while…but, I do need to stop doing that to save some money…I am going to go back to the game in a minute…nope, not yet…intermission…not much to do today…going to use all the leftovers so there will be no cooking today…well…maybe I’ll make some stir fry again today since I do have a pork loin that needs to be used…more later…
Another difference between us and them…
Well…one of the things that has struck me lately is how stark the differences are between the right and the left and how the right has basically abandoned any idea of governing that is not related to scoring political points or pushing their crazy, regressive agenda on the US when the polls show that more than 60% of the people here don’t want to hear it anymore. How legislation used to work before the ideologues took control of the repubs was that you would look at the needs of the country, you would look at the problems of the times whether it was economic growth, unemployment, hunger or any other goal that would make the country better and then try to do something about it….and, normally when legislation was passed and after time, it was found that there needed to be changes to make it work better, both the right and left would get together to make it better…something that needs to be done for lower income middle class people in the ACA…but, with the right’s rabid fervor to kill government in any form other than the parts that would advance their social agenda, they have decided to not do their jobs so they can continue to try to score political points….with no thought to what the citizens of this country need to make their lives better. That sums up the difference…that repubs only thought is to score cheap political points and drive their ideology while the dems really do want to solve the problems of the country….geez…