Well…after the debacle of Boehner’s defeat last night, now we can move forward with marginalizing the crazy assed right wingers in the House….and get a bill that the progressives can support. But, the problems there is we need to find around 20 reasonable repubs (I know, that is the ultimate oxymoron) to come with us for the good of the country…not just the 1%’ers that are still pulling the puppet strings for most of the repubs…but, one of the things we must do, or what Obama must do, is to take the SS nonsense off the table to get the dem caucus behind him…and then let Pelosi do her work to construct a bill that doesn’t compromise progressive principles. Look, you know the repubs don’t want to govern anyway when ole Boehner says “it’s up to the pres and the Senate now…” abdicating any responsibility to look after the well being of the country or its citizens…going over the cliff is going to be a fun ride….
Monthly Archives: December 2012
December 21st
Well…it was a day yesterday and I didn’t get much accomplished but that is getting to be quite normal…feel pretty crappy this morning and the allergies are still causing some of it…I did get to see K’s baby and hang out with them for a while and that was fun…slept pretty crappy last night, though, since I forgot the melatonin…and there were no dreams to speak of…I do get to see T this aft and hang out for a couple of drinks so that will be fun….okay, this is not flowing at all so I’m going to stop here and come back later…
Okay…feeling a bit restored after the coffee and papers but that is being counteracted by the snow falling outside and the realization that the Miata is not going to be the best car in the snow…I almost spun it yesterday getting on the e-way and it was just wet…I think my skills with rear wheel drive need to be resurrected and honed….we’ll see how bad it is when I go out later today….not much else to do today…I do have to get this place cleaned up a little since my son is coming over tomorrow to show me his new car and I have been a little lax lately…
Let “Plan B” go down the toilet….
Well….I have been getting easily sidetracked over the past few days and that is why this one is so late…but, I do need to talk about ole Boehner’s “Plan B” proposal and the absolute nonsense it contains…along with the minimal tax increase on the rich…his plan will cost the poor and middle class around 1,500-2,000 dollars a year in higher taxes…but, here’s the kicker, it will cut medicaid, SS, medicare, meals on wheels, food stamps and almost every other program that the middle class and working poor depend on to make their lives livable…and he had to include this stuff to get the rest of the repubs in the house to go along. This, to me, is the clearest example of who the repubs have become…protect the rich and corporations at all costs while they say go to hell to everyone else….Obama should stop “negotiating” with these thugs and just let the country go over the cliff…but then let the people know what this “Plan B” includes…it will continue to shrink their base to the point that in two years, they will be a fringe party in reality and we can start re-making the country in the image of those who care about good governance and all of the people who live here…and what is left of the repubs can go back to hell where they came from…geez…
December 20th
Well…it was a long day yesterday but I won at pool finally, so that was cool…but it was also a cocktail night so I feel a little slow this morning…I did have a bad dream last night that the Miata got wrecked by someone’s stupidity and that was not a good thing…but, in reality, it is running just like a new car so I guess I should live in reality…as much as I can anyway…the coffee is done and the papers are huge today so I am going to get to them and try to get the energy up….
Okay…I did have coffee and even went out to get my hair cut…I had a coupon that saved me 5 bucks that was expiring so I thought I’d get that done…I do like the way the car drives on the snowies…even in the rain it is much, much better…and it looks like I will be able to see how it works in the snow tomorrow when the rain changes over later in the day since I may be meeting up with T for drinks in the aft…okay…need to read the online papers to get some topics and my last cup of coffee is getting cold so I need to go…more later…
Snyder is still an idiot…
Well…it is with some satisfaction that I have been following the plunge in approval ratings of the idiot Snyder here in Michigan and I’m even more heartened with the same happening to the ratings of all repubs here….ole Snyder’s have fallen 28 points in the past two weeks after he screwed the people of Michigan with his stealth approval of right to work here…I have one question for him…if every state is right to work, where is the competitive advantage he is touting? As always, the repubs are leading the race to the bottom for workers while they continue to protect their rich donors….but, this time I think that they miscalculated and we will take back the entire state from them in the next election…we will be motivated and have the boots on the ground with issues that the people approve of…not just the money of the Koch’s and DeVoses….and one thing we have to remember is that all of this lame duck crap they have pulled can be reversed if we take back the legislature…including the 1.7 billion dollar giveaway to business financed on the back of the middle class and retirees….geez…
December 19th
Well…running late today since I did a grocery run and have been talking to T and one of my sons who is buying a new car….I do feel okay today with no cocktail nights since Saturday but I do still need to work out and get a bike ride in after the fog lifts…still haven’t had my coffee or papers yet so I do need to get to that, too….not much to do today…may have pool with Tom but that is about it…and more resumes, of course, but, right now the coffee is getting cold and I do need the news for topics…
Okay….I’ve been have trouble thinking about things to write lately and you can kind of understand it if you’ve ever tried to do this…after all, there have been over 2,000 of these of the past few years and how interesting can the life of an old guy be? It’s still interesting to me, sometimes, but other times, I just want to sleep all day so the days are over with quickly…there was something cool on the trail yesterday…someone had hung a christmas ornament on a tree along the trail and the tiny little splash of color really stood out and made me laugh…I mean, who thinks to do something like that? I guess it doesn’t take much to make me happy….I am working on topics for later but that is a struggle lately so I really can’t promise anything…
Obama is disappointing me…
Well…with the news coming out of Washington today, all I can say is if the rumors are true, I am so disappointed in Obama that I don’t know what to say…it appears that he is going back on his promises to raise taxes on the rich and not cut benefits to the rest of us…the latest is that he has even allowed SS to be cut when it has absolutely nothing to do with the fiscal nonsense that is going on. At least Dick Durbin has come out and said that that kind of crap won’t get through the senate so at least there is one person in Washington who is looking out for the middle class and there needs to be more…I’m talking to you Harry Reid, it is in your power to make sure that Obama does not cave in to the repubs and if he doesn’t have the guts, you have to have them….geez…
December 18th
Well…it was a busy day yesterday and I did get a bunch of stuff done so that was okay…and I was good last night so I feel okay today…and it looks like a busy day again around here with some work to get done….I just realized I didn’t come back for a second one so that means two more for today but, as always, I have no clue what the topics will be…I did get three resumes out yesterday and hope to get a few more out today….it would sure be cool to get a bite and find a job….but, I still do need to have coffee and we are getting to that point…going to have to use change to buy the papers today since I have no cash at all in my pocket….which is kind of weird….but I will probably live through it…more later….
Okay….just a short update…one of the guys that work here just brought me a grill that had been abandoned by a tenant that had moved out….can’t be much more than a year old and is in great shape…just need to clean it up a bit…he is even bringing me a big tank for it tomorrow….doesn’t take much to make me happy…
December 17th
Well…it was another bore of a day yesterday and that is starting to get old…didn’t do much but hang out and watch the Lions stink up the place again….and without hockey, there are no teams from around here that are any good…oh, well… I did sleep okay and with being good I feel okay today…I did spend my last two dollars on the paper yesterday so it looks like I’ll have to dig through the change drawer for today’s….or, I guess I could skip the papers and save the money….I’m even down to my last coffee filter but I do need my coffee….okay…going to start getting the change ready and make coffee…more later….
Where’s my right to be protected from people with guns?
Well…with the latest tragedy and the many, many others that have happened over the past year, I have only one question that I want the government and the NRA to answer: “where is my right to be protected from people with guns?” Why do I have to live in a society saturated with guns and unstable people who won’t hesitate to use them? I know the right and the NRA make their living on the second amendment but what about the Declaration of Independence and my right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?” Aren’t these basic, essential rights of American society just as important as the right of a person to carry a gun or to own guns whose only purpose is to inflict carnage on other humans? Where are my rights when I am lying dead by the hand of a person using a legally purchased gun? I am normally a pretty strict constructionist when it comes to the bill of rights but not to the extent that my fellow citizens can be slaughtered every day, especially children, by the unreasoned adherence to words that were written for a different time. And now, we have a new law that was just passed here in Michigan that would allow anyone with “special training” to carry a gun into any school in the state…even when there is no one in the public that thinks this is a good idea or supports it. I’ve had enough…don’t my feelings count? I am so uncomfortable when I see the gun nuts strutting into stores and other places I frequent with their guns strapped to their hips…who knows when the “nice man” that lives next door is going to go over the edge? Do we have to give them the ability to destroy entire communities just to keep the repubs and the NRA happy? I want to feel safe in my life and having more and more guns in more and more places is not the way to do it…this is not Dodge City in 1845 where the only way they found to end the killings there was to confiscate all the guns when you came into the city…and return them when the people left….let’s do something…anything, to stop this crap…I’ve had enough…