Well…in this age of computer run cars, I guess this had to happen….the other day, it was discovered that Volkswagen used the computer software that runs their engines to cheat the EPA tests in their diesel cars sold in the US. The software was so sophisticated that it could tell when the engine was being tested and put in the pollution control protocol when, all the rest of the time, the engine would run basically without pollution controls, spewing from 10 to 40 TIMES the pollution that it was certified for. It was also revealed that there are almost a million cars with this software that are polluting our air…and the funny thing is the CEO of the company doesn’t know anything about it…okay, that was sarcasm…I just wonder why they would want to do this..better mileage? Okay, I am having a hard time working up outrage when this crap happens all the time…corporations are not people…but who are the people behind this? Nope…no outrage…damn…I wonder if my outrage meter is broken? Geez…
Monthly Archives: September 2015
September 21st
Well…running a little late today since I ran into Brian on the way back from getting the papers and talked to him for a while…he dropped off 5 pounds of fresh salmon that he caught yesterday and I need to find some recipes to cook something new….I think I am going to smoke one slab this aft since I really do like the smoked stuff…but that means I’ll have to go out and get some bagels and cream cheese to have with it…he suggested I make some salmon dip with cream cheese and chives and I just may do that, too….slept okay last night but still feel a little slow today but I will just let that heal as the day goes on…I did order the new front sprocket for the bike yesterday since it is skipping like crazy and that is annoying…only 22 bucks and that will take the bike back to where the final 300 miles will be good….not much to do today…have to run an errand this morning and then smoke the fish but that is about it…more later…
September 20th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday filled with sports so I wasn’t as bored as normal…and Michigan and State won so that was cool…slept okay but don’t remember it so I wonder if that’s true…didn’t get anything done but today will be different…I need to get the cobwebs cleaned out of the living room today but no cooking so that will make it an easy day….and another sports one with the F1 race on right now and the soccer, football, and racing on later so there will be a good nap when the Lions play….it is too cold to go out on the bike yet so I guess I’ll have to hit the couch for a while to wait it out but I do need to get out before 10 since Man U is on at 11 and I do want to see that….not much to do today…just sports it looks like and taking it easy….I will clean something just to keep the guilt at bay…more later…
Jade Helm is over…
Well…not sure if you remember this one or not but I find it funny enough to write about it again….there was a huge military exercise in Texas and other southwest states this summer…just like they have held it for years and years, but this year the crazies on the right went nuts with their conspiracy theories saying that it was going to be a takeover of Texas by the federal government. Not only a takeover, but there were secret tunnels under abandoned Walmarts and FEMA camps where “true patriots” were going to be rounded up and then their guns were going to be taken away…and something, something….you get my drift. The funny thing here is no matter how ridiculous this all sounds, almost half of all repubs believed this crap…now, how frickin delusional do you have to be to believe this nonsense? Now, they no longer have to be scared…Jade Helm ended last week and, as far as I can see, Texas is still there, no one has been rounded up and the tunnels under the Walmarts are still empty….I wonder what the next big conspiracy is going to be for these folks? What must it be like to live in that kind of a fevered brain? Something I never want to know…geez…
September 19th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t do much..no pool since Tom wasn’t feeling well…so, you would think I’d get something done but I didn’t…I did get my new Roku in the mail yesterday and got that set up and it is pretty cool…but it is slower than my old one and that is a little annoying….slept okay last night, I think, but I feel a little slow today with the pain in my lower back flaring up again…sitting here watching the Chelsea/Arsenal match and it is a little boring with the play being choppy…but, I still will watch since I really want Chelsea to lose…they have stunk the place up and are in 17th place after being champions last year…not much to do today…sitting here waiting for the F1 qualifying to start and that will put me late on the bike today but that is okay…I do have to try to find a new front sprocket for the bike today since the old one is just skipping all the time and it is annoying…more later…
September 18th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and another one that I didn’t get anything done but the grocery run…but that kind of describes a normal day for me right now so I guess it’s okay….slept kind of crappy, again, and that’s normal, too, but boring so I won’t talk about that, either….my upper back has started to heal from I don’t know what but now my lower has gotten worse with it hurting on the bike which it never has before…going to have to try to crack it later today to see if that will help….I do need to get moving and get the bike ride in early today so I can see F1 practice that is on a little later….not much to do today…pool, of course, but that is about it for the day…won’t even attempt to clean since I know I won’t get to it….and I don’t want to feel guilty by not doing it….more later….
JEB! really is the more stupid one….
Well…just had to make one more comment on the debate last night when ole JEB! praised his idiot younger brother with the lie “he kept us safe”….and I just couldn’t believe the rest of the idiots on stage just let that one go…yeah, JEB! he kept us safe except for the 2,790 people that were killed in the Trade Center and the other 300 Americans that were killed by terrorists during the rest of his terms…and even dumber than that statement is the new tweet that JEB! sent out this morning showing the idiot younger brother standing in the rubble of the WTC with a little JEB! logo in the corner…rubble that included the remains of the dead from those attacks which he disrespected by using the rubble pile for a photo op….I am beginning to wonder if JEB! really has anything between his ears but air….stupid, stupid, JEB!
The debates…
Well….that was a wasted 4 1/2 hours…just had to start with that and get it over with…I did watch both debates and I am still not over it…it still pollutes me like the slime from “Ghostbusters” and no amount of showering will wash it off. I am glad I chose to have cocktails since I have never seen such a moronic, stupid group of candidates in my life who only parroted the talking points that we have all heard way too many times…Obama bad, tax cuts good, Planned Parenthood are baby murderers, and that war, war, war is the bestest thing that the US can do…this along with the fact that none of them seem to understand how the government works, bitching about how the current repub controlled congress has not been able to get rid of Obamacare or enact any of the right wing nonsense that they have proposed…conveniently forgetting that even if they got this crap passed, it would be met with a certain veto by Obama. But the biggest and stupidist comments were reserved for the supreme court and again showed that these folks have no idea how the government works…calling the upholding of Obamacare and the gay marriage decisions “Illegal” decisions that could be ignored by anyone who wanted to. Geez….I want that 4 1/2 hours back…and I want these idiots to just go away…one good thing that came out of it was that whoever the dem candidate is going to be will mop the floor with any of these idiots…can’t wait to see that…
September 17th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…I did watch the repub debates last night and will do one on that a little later…I did need cocktails for that so I feel a little slow this morning….slept okay and had some dreams that I don’t remember so I won’t talk about those….I have been trying to find a new front sprocket for the bike and I’m not having a lot of luck…the old one is wearing out and skipping so it need to be replaced soon…makes the bike ride kind of annoying…the upper back pain is almost gone and that is a good thing..but now the lower back is hurting again and it hurt on the bike for the first time yesterday…I will be curious to see if it hurts again today since it hurts to walk….not much to do today…just the bike ride and some cleaning since I cooked yesterday…the half pork shoulder came out so good after the brining that I think I’ll buy another one when they are on sale again….more later…
More repub debates…
Well…today’s the day for the second round of the repub debates and I am not sure if I am looking forward to them or not…and the reason for that is that it is a no cocktail night and I usually need at least a few cocktails to be able to tolerate them at all…but, it may be fun anyway just to watch who screws up since none of them are too bright…and, I am a little interested to see who tries to out-Trump Trump by veering way to the right. The one thing I don’t understand is why no one tries to stake out the center…okay, less right positions that have a little compassion on immigration and that recognize that giving everything to the rich is just not sustainable…I know, the base primary voters won’t buy any of that but it would seem that there would be a way to lie to them to make them support a candidate that is pretending to be in the center…after all, they lie to the base all the time and they just keep eating it up and voting for these idiots…yeah, idiots electing idiots and the dems not voting has gotten us to where we are…so it has been successful for the repubs….hope not this time…make some popcorn, this might be good….geez…