Well….we all know that the repubs think of the government as their own personal piggybank that they use to reward themselves and their big donors with tax cuts and other largesse…but, there has been one guy over the past couple of years that has raised taking advantage of the people to an art form…Illinois rep Aaron Schock resigned today amid ethics investigations for damn near everything..his “Downton Abbey” styled office started it off then there were the private jets to go to concerts (supplied by his big donors) and getting an inflated price for a house he sold…again to one of his big donors…but that’s not the extent of it…he had his own staff photographer that he took everywhere to document his exploits and took some staffers to NYC the other month for a “conference” where he spent about two minutes shaking hands and billed the people of his district for the trip. Now….this is what the grifters on the right think government is…you do some time currying favors and amassing dark money waiting for the time that they can get the big payday as a lobbyist when they leave congress….but you have to at least make it appear you’re doing some work for the people you represent…this guy just couldn’t be bothered with that…good riddance…geez…
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Some updates….
Well…the computer crap got so bad this morning that I had to abandon Firefox and go over to Chrome just to see if that would help……haven’t had any script errors yet so maybe it will work out….Chrome seems to be a little slower, though, but I can handle that if I don’t have to continually take the battery out of the computer to get it to restart…so far, so good….my shoulder was good this morning until, like an idiot, I tried to work out and re-injured it…not as bad as the original injury but it hurts again and that is a pain…and I have pain between my shoulder blades that I didn’t have before but I think that is from sleeping with my should elevated…okay…need to get a bike ride in before soccer this aft so I’ll end here…just hope Chrome keeps working…
March 17th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got out on the bike in shorts and did the whole route for the first time…there was a lot of snow in the woods and I had to walk a little but that was okay….slept okay last night and I shouldn’t have…was really good and that should have made it bad but it wasn’t…and the shoulder is getting better to the point that I can lift it with only a little pain and I hope it will continue to get better today…it was so bad yesterday that I couldn’t work out but I think the ibuprofen is helping….it has gotten really cold out this morning and that is so depressing given it got up to 65 yesterday….if I go out on the bike today it will be back in full thermasuit and that is just not as much fun….not much to do today…don’t have anyone to go out and have a St. Patrick’s day beer with so I guess I won’t….more later….
Tom Cotton is an idiot…
Well…since my shoulder won’t allow me to work out, I thought I’d get to this one early as I wait for it to get warm enough to do the bike ride in shorts. If you haven’t heard, ole Tom Cotton is the ringleader of the 47 repub senators (I wonder what their fixation on the number 47 is?) that sent the ill advised letter to Iran warning that any agreement on their nuclear program with Obama could be rescinded once there is a new president…which he was wrong on by the way…and he showed even more ignorance on the Sunday news shows yesterday, trying to make the point that Iran is dangerous since they already control Tehran. Hey, Tom, do you even know that Tehran is the capital of Iran…and that they have controlled it since it was founded? That would be like saying that Germany has designs on all of Europe since they already control Berlin. It is just an indicator of the ignorance of the current crop of “brains” in the repub party who are either too stupid or too lazy to understand what they continually spout off about…another example being the Common Core standards that Ted Cruz thinks is a federal law the he thinks should be repealed…when it is a set of standards that was developed by the states that they can take or leave. Unless you know what you are talking about repubs, just shut the hell up…geez…
March 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was an improvement…another bad night of sleep, though, and I feel exhausted this morning…tonight will probably be worse and I am not looking forward to it…I did fix the mp-3 player for now anyway so I can get out on the bike today…just not enough fun without music…I should be able to go out in shorts today but then the weather turns cold and I’ll be back in the thermasuit tomorrow…at least I’ll get some exercise…..I hurt my shoulder somehow yesterday and I can barely lift it…the tendon is inflamed and it catches when I try to raise my arm….makes shifting the car a real pain and it is not fun…..not much to do today…going to do a few things around here but that is about it….more later….
A little more sports…
Well…yeah, I know…you’re expecting something in politics but it’s just not grabbing me so I’m going to do some sports instead…it was a nice morning watching Man U finally play like they can going up 3-0 in the first half and looking like they used to…but I am still a little concerned with how they looked in the second when they went a little flat and almost let Spurs back in it but I think that is the approach that many teams take when they get a lead in soccer…or hockey, too…why can’t they just keep their foot on the gas and keep doing what made them successful in the first half? At least they are well into 4th place which will put them in the Champions League next year. The second thing I wanted to talk about is the Wings and how terribly they have been playing lately…although they won in Pittsburg today 5-1…unless they can get back to some measure of consistancy, the playoffs could be in danger….but, we’ll see….there is a race on in a few minutes and I need a nap….
March 15
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I finally got out on the trail on the bike and that felt good…slept really crappy last night but I did everything the same as I did Friday night when I slept well so I don’t get it….I did get a few things done around here and need to continue that today…my mp-3 player died last night so I need to figure out how to put my music on the phone since I can’t afford a new one right now…not bad, though, I got 8 years out of that one and it would be cool to just replace it with another Sony….not much to do today…I have a little work to do before Man U plays but that is about it…more later….
March 14th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…didn’t do much else the rest of the day and I am a little disappointed about that but today is a new one and I am going to get at least one thing done….after soccer, that is…there are three matches on this morning and I may watch more than one…slept okay last night and had dreams about podcasts for some reason…oh, and car dealers…yep…some weird stuff going on in there but it was nice to have a dream last night…but, I was up at 5:30 and that was not fun…not much to do today…I do have some cooking to do and some laundry but that is about it…and a couple more of these if I can come up with some topics…
A little wandering around…
Well…haven’t really found anything that has grabbed me to write about so I think I’ll just wander around a little and see what happens…some idiot almost backed her trailer into my car today out at pool and that kind of ruined my mood for a while…but, the drive home with the top down fixed that….anyone else curious about the disappearance of ole Vlad Putin? He hasn’t been seen in over a week and the propaganda arms of his government are falling all over themselves trying to make like everything is normal using old news reports and saying that they are current and press releases that his “handshake” is a strong as ever…pretty weird stuff…it would be a shame if he has died…snark…..ole Mittens the Romney is back trying to do something on Iran…not sure what that would be but he thinks everything would be great if Obama just did what ole Mittens said and walk away from the negotiations….how much more irrelevant can one human being be? I just think ole Mittens is just too dense to understand he lost the election and that no one wants to hear a thing he has to say…what a sorry little man…geez…
March 13th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and i got a few things done so that was cool….slept okay but with sleep aids that leave me feeling a little slow this morning but I needed to sleep so I’ll take the trade off….my hand is much butter today with just a little stiffness and the swelling has gone down so no real damage done…I do like the way the car drives with the summer tires on it…much more relaxed feeling and calm….and it just looks better with the aluminum wheels on it….I just hope it doesn’t snow anymore….not much to do today…hope to get a bike ride in before pool and then out for pool with the top down…it’s suppose to be sunny and 60 today…not ready to get into shorts yet but probably the week after next….more later…