March 27th

Well…running a little late today and it is just because I can’t get going today for some reason…I did sleep okay so that’s not it…oh, well….I’ll figure it out later…didn’t get  much done yesterday but I started the kitchen so that is something and I did get a few errands done so that is something else…haven’t been on the bike all week and that has been a good thing since my back has started to heal and my shoulder only hurts a little…probably won’t be back on it until Sunday since it is going to be damn cold for the next two days….not much to do today…pool, of course, but not much else…I do have some stuff to get done around here but I may wait til tomorrow to do it…more later…

Indiana goes back to the middle ages…

Well…I am always amazed how the “small government” conservatives always rail about the overreach of government until they are in control and they start using it to discriminate against those they don’t like. In Indiana today, the governor signed into law a bill that would allow anyone to discriminate against anyone just as long as it was done for religious reasons…yep, it is now legal to deny gays, blacks, Muslims, or anyone else you don’t like services from your business, in housing, or anything else if you just spout “religion” as you do it….never mind that it is still against federal law and the lawsuits will start flying tomorrow…these American Taliban just don’t care…they think the government can and should be used to push their version of religion on everyone else….I agree with Keith Olbermann today when he tweeted that the Final Four should be moved…today..out of Indianapolis and played anywhere…even if it’s in a parking lot in LA or any of the other states that are sane…I’ve had enough of religion in this country..go back to your churches where it belongs and nurse your delusions there…don’t force them on the rest of us….

I still don’t like the cops…

Well….another day, another egregious case of police brutality here in Michigan…on January 28th, cops in Inkster pulled over another black man and proceeded to beat him on the pretense that he “rolled through a stop sign” and then yelled at a cop that he was going to kill him. Little problem here….this man has never been in trouble in his life…not once…and is a 37 year employee of Ford with a perfect record there. The primary excuse of the cops was that he was in a “new car in a known drug area” and, sure enough, they found drugs on the guy…the only problem was the dashcam that showed one of the cops, who had been accused of planting drugs and guns on people before, taking the bag of drugs out of his pocket and slipping it into the suspect’s pocket as he was beating him. Oh, and the drug test done at the hospital showed nothing…not even aspirin in his system. One neat little fact is the cop, nicknamed “robocop” cost the city of Detroit millions of dollars in settlements for shooting unarmed people and other abuse while he was employed there….but, guess what? He’s still on the job, still collecting his pay, still abusing citizens and nothing is being done about it…this guy and everyone involved should be in jail….no wonder I still don’t like cops…and I’m an old white guy…geez…

March 26th

Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I had quite a few things to do so that made it go by pretty fast…slept okay, too but that would have been a given after the no sleep the night before….would have expected some dreams but they didn’t come and that is a little unusual….my allergies are going off the charts and I have had to continually irrigate my eyes over the past two days to be able to get rid of the itching…and there is not even any green growth outside yet…going to be a bad spring it this keeps up….I will thank a little luck this morning after the grocery run when one of the bags exploded and dropped glass on the concrete stairs outside…no breakage or cleanup…which would be the last thing I would want to do first thing in the morning…not much to do today….just cleaning since I got the rest of the work done yesterday and I may have visitors over the weekend…more later….

Not much to say…

Well…it has been a busy, busy day today and I have been going since I got up this morning at 6…I did get everything done I wanted to so that is a good thing but I am exhausted from not sleeping last night…and, I didn’t get on the bike since the wind is blowing about 25 mph and that is just too much to enjoy the day…I have been thinking about politics but congress is out of town again so the only thing to talk about is ole Ted and that is already boring so I won’t do that again today….I have never seen such a laughable candidate since sister Sarah…okay, I guess I will talk about ole Ted again…his whole rationale for why he thinks he’s qualified to be president is that he tried to do a lot of things…he tried to stop Obmacare…he tried to stop out of control debt (even though all of it was the fault of repubs he supported) or stopping executive amnesty, or stopping Iran from getting a nuclear bomb…see a pattern here? He has never really accomplished anything…he has just tried…just like I tried to be an astronaut (in my own mind) but just never really accomplished it….if that makes people qualified to be president, I guess there are 330 million more in the US that are just as qualified….I just can’t believe this crap…geez…

March 25th

Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I had a nice lunch with T so that was cool…did not sleep at all last night and feel it this morning and it was by plan just to see if I could sleep without any aids…and the answer is no….got about 3 hours all night and now I’m coughing again which I don’t get…must be allergies again….there were some dreams that I don’t remember and the bedroom looks like something exploded in there with the pillows strewn across the room and the sheets wadded up in a ball….I think I may try the same thing tonight just to see how I’ll feel in the morning…not much to do today…I do have an errand to run this morning and some work to do around here but that is about it…more later…

No more Ted….

Well…I was going to do one of these on the fact checkers that went over ole Ted Cruz’s speech at Jesus university yesterday but I really don’t need to…there is no parsing of it…it was all lies or half truths that will endear him to the right wing, fact free crowd that vote for asses like him. I can’t understand why he was so giddy about the turnout at the speech, either…the kids that were there were required to be there or be fined by the school….nope…can’t write about this idiot anymore….when I was a kid, this kind of demagogue would have been laughed off the stage just like ole tailgunner Joe McCarthy was after he flamed out…let’s just hope the same thing happens to ole Ted…and now, not later….

March 24th

Well…sitting here waiting for the car to defrost and thought I’d get this one done….what a pain to still have to run the car…I mean, after all it’s almost April…and later in the week there is suppose to be a low of single digits…oh, well….slept okay last night and I was good so I feel okay today…had some dreams that appeared to be stuck in a loop and repeating themselves all night so I’m not sure what that is about….I did wake up without back pain for the first time in a week an d there is no shoulder pain right no so I think I’ll try working out today…probably still won’t ride today since it is not going to warm up much and I just can’t take the cold…not much to do today….may have lunch with T but I’m not sure about that with how busy she is….more later….

Ted Cruz is running…

Well…I’m not sure if I should cheer or just break out the popcorn…Ted Cruz announced he is running for president this morning. I can’t remember anything so surreal as this guy even thinking in his wildest fever dreams that he is qualified to be president….what has he ever done other than shut down the government? As his comments last week show, he doesn’t even understand how the internet works, or accept that the world is getting warmer…or believe in evolution, or know what common core is…or believes that a woman should have control over her own body. With his crazy antics in the senate where he has alienated everyone but the hard core tea party folks, where does his base come from? Where does he get the 51% he would need to get elected in the general? With the general consensus from almost all of the people that have met him that he just a just a huge asshole, this has to be his ego talking…or he is already tired of being a senator and wants to get the grift started just like the quitter from Wassila….whatever the reasons, it is going to be a lot of fun to watch…and it will give me things to write about again….yay….

March 23rd

Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…way too much sports on tv that I wanted to see and most of it came out the way I wanted…Man U won, State won, and Brad K won the race…probably should have bet on some of them…..slept okay and had some strange dreams that I don’t remember and that’s okay…still hurt everywhere and I may need to take another day off the bike to heal up…it is darn cold out there and I hate it….we’ll see…not much to do today….have some cleaning to do and may wash the car since it is so dirty after the cleaned the lots here….more later….