Well…running normally today and I have had the coffee and paper but, with cocktails and the bug I have, I feel a little crappy this morning…had a nice day of talking to T yesterday and I feel bad about her broken thumb…something she just didn’t need at all…fell asleep on the couch last night and I have the stiff neck to show for it…it was a pretty boring night so that was it…I am going to make a home made pizza for lunch today and I have been looking forward to that for a couple of days now…yeah, I know, my life is really, really boring if that is all I have to look forward to…oh, and Man U plays this morning so that is something, too…and the Wings play this aft…geez…my memory is going today….other than those things, not much to do today….got most of the cleaning done yesterday so this morning is going to be soccer, coffee, and couch….not a bad way to spend a Sunday….more later…
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Just some stuff…
Well…even after reading three real newspapers and 8 more online, I have not been able to come up with a topic that grabbed me today…so, I am just going to talk a bit and see what happens…it has been a long sports day today and the good thing…or two good things is that the Wings won and looked good doing it…and that Manchester City lost…yay….that means that Man U can go up 12 points in the BPL if they win their match in the morning….I have been having a pretty good day today but still feel crappy….have gotten much more cleaning done than I expected and that will make tomorrow an easy day….I really don’t like the weather channel naming winter storms…it just seems weird to say ‘snowstorm Nemo” and I think there will be backlash…but, who watches that anymore anyway? Since I got my smartphone…my weather comes from the internet from many different sources and I never turn the tv to weather anymore since you can’t get what you want when you want it….one question…who runs political attack ads against someone who is not running for anything? Oh…it’s the idiot Rove….who has an ad up attacking Ashley Judd just in case she decides to run against Mitch McConnell….a real case of someone who has more money than brains…and who is giving ole Karl more money…after all, he burned through hundreds of million in the last election and everyone he supported lost….keep it up…geez…
February 9th
Well…waiting for the car to melt so I thought I’d get to this early for a change…it was an okay day yesterday but the bug is still killing me so it will be a total veg day today….I did get a chance to get the car out on the road for the first time in a couple of weeks and that felt good for me and the car….I think I slept okay last night but I can’t breathe too well so that was a little problem and my energy level is quite low…so I guess I’ll have to shift into the low gear I use when I don’t sleep…I so have to go over to Meijers in a couple of minutes…I have been craving a salad for a couple of days…yeah, I know, most people crave bacon or ice cream…you know I’m weird…more later…
Stupidity alert!
Well…was just getting the rest of my online papers read and ran across this huge piece of stupidity from Fox news….if you pay any attention to the right, and not just for laughs, you know that they hold any form of energy that doesn’t come out of the ground with utter contempt…trotting out the failure of Solyndra whenever anyone talks about solar energy. Yesterday, though, in looking for ways to denigrate the solar industry here, they held Germany up as the only success in the world and for a really startling and really stupid reason….Germany has more sunny days than anywhere in the world! Yep, they actually had a “scientist” come on and say that….and say that California only has a few sunny days a year so solar can never work in the US. The problem is that this “scientist” was just plain wrong…wrong, wrong, wrong….when you actually look at the data (yeah, I know, the right doesn’t believe in facts or data) every state in the US has more sunny days than Germany….well…it’s tied with Alaska but that doesn’t change the fact that Fox is at the top of the stupidity scale once again…..and they completely ignore the fact that the subsidies that the Germans have given their industry is many, many times more that that given to get the industry moving here….what a bunch of maroons…geez…
February 8th
Well…it was a long day yesterday with waiting for the snowmageddon to happen…that didn’t….we did get 6-7 inches of snow but for Michigan that is not a big number…already have the car cleared off and I’m waiting for it to heat up so I don’t have to scrape the windshield….the bug has bitten back today and I am coughing with my head plugged up so I think I’ll just take it easy today and just watch a couple of movies…it didn’t help that it was a cocktail night last night but the Wings won so that makes it a little better…need to shower and go out for the papers…more later…
It time for us to become the party of no…
Well…I listen and listen to the folks that we re-elected and I only have one bit of advice for them..we need to become the party of no for a change…every time the repubs suggest that we cut benefits for the poor and seniors to subsidize the rich…we need to say no. Every time the repubs protect tax breaks for corporations and want to pay for them by raising taxes on the middle class we need to say no. Every time the repubs say that increased revenue from the rich can’t be on the table we have to say no. After all, the top tax rates were lowered under ole GW to cause the deficit mess we are in…why can’t they be raised to help pay the bills? Let’s not accept the crap the repubs are peddling that it is the dems fault because of “runaway spending”…as usual, they are wrong about that, too…spending as a percentage of gdp is far under the same measure for any repub administration since Eisenhower….one last thing I have to say for the dems that were elected to push the protection of the safety net and raise taxes on the rich…”just frickin do it”…the political climate has changed and you are the right side of the issues…grow a frickin backbone and do your damn job…geez…
February 7th
Well…getting an early start today since I was good last night and have a little energy this morning…I did win at pool yesterday so that was okay but it is still crappy to be broke…but, I am going to the grocery store this morning to lay in supplies for the snowmageddon that is supposed to happen later today…if it does, I’ll just hunker down here and wait it out with the slow cooker pork tenderloin and fresh baked bread that I just took out of the freezer….I may be getting over the bug that I’ve had for the past week but I’m not sure of that yet….if the snow does happen, I’ll just clean around here all day and then look forward to having a cocktail night and some tv later…more later…
Just another one…
Well…have been thinking all day trying to get some ideas and they just aren’t coming…I did laugh about ole Eric Cantor’s great policy speech yesterday…and the fact that it is just more of the same shows that the repubs have run out of ideas…at least ones that anyone wants to hear anymore…and then you have ole Karl Rove out there raising money again…not sure what for other than to line his own pockets since this great political brain has only won one election for the people he has supported…and that was ole GW’s second term that was won with the smallest margin in history…I do find it heartening that someone in congress is starting to question this whole killing everyone that the president thinks should be killed with drones…this needs to be stopped or at least have some congressional oversight….hmmmm..what else? I am sitting here waiting for the snowmageddon that all of the news outlets are screaming about…possibility of 8-12 inches of snow over the next day so I do need to go out for supplies in the morning…okay…met the quota for the day so I’m not going to bore you any more…
February 6th
Well…not running as late as normal and part of it is that I was good last night…so how I feel today is all bug, all the time and I am exhausted..but, I do feel better than yesterday so maybe I’ll be better tomorrow…said that yesterday, though, didn’t I? I did sleep okay…I think…but I am still struggling with the conundrum of eating…if I eat enough to not feel tired, I gain weight like crazy without being able to ride the bike…and I refuse to go back to running and the pain that comes with it….so, I guess I sit out the next three weeks and just live with it…life is no fun on a thousand calories a day….not much to do today…leftovers in the fridge so no cooking today so I guess I’ll clean and get out more resumes….ick…
They’ve got some ‘splainin to do…
Well…the “lipstick on a pig” project continues over on the right with a chorus of the big thinkers over there just positive that their only problem is that they didn’t ‘splain themselves good enough during the last election…nope it’s not their ongoing war on women’s rights…their clear hatred of anyone that is not white like them…or that they are just not too bright…nope, it’s just that they think the American people are so stupid that they just need to shout their crazy assed ideas louder and then they will get it and vote for them. Never mind the hatred they are showing for our democracy by trying to rig elections in every way so that they will stay in power even if they don’t get more votes…and never mind that the House repubs are not even going to let a vote come up on the Violence Against Women Act because it may protect some women that they don’t like…oh, hell, they don’t like any women unless they are barefoot and pregnant….how do you make this terrible message that more than half of America will stay unprotected, second class citizens just because their archaic, nonsensical religious beliefs tell them so, palatable to the progressives of us out here that see the utter, shameless power grab for what it is. Why do the repubs always need to control everyone they don’t like? I, for one, have had enough of this nonsense…but, I will say keep it up…we’ll take the house back in two years and they will be done permanently…geez…