Well…looking outside and seeing it snowing has made me depressed so I thought I might just as well get into something else that depresses me….the shenanigans that the insurance companies are starting in response to the ACA….while before they could use pre-existing conditions to screw over people…now they have to get more creative to screw people over…just like when it was exposed that every major insurer had whole departments whose sole purpose was to deny claims. Now, they are trying some new stuff…like sending letters to people whose policies are granfathered under the law saying they have to cancel and choose a new policy…and then only offering them plans that are many times more than what they were paying while making sure they never mention the exchanges where they have to compete on price….or the short sighted ploy of leaving a state completely so they don’t have to compete on price and the collusion that comes with it…where more than one company leaves a market to ensure there is only one or two companies left to compete so they can raise the prices and feed at the government trough with the subsidies that are available to the individual purchaser. I do feel good that the conversation has started to come back to single payer, Medicare for all to cut these damn crooks out of the gravy train…maybe we should root for the law to fail so we can take the house back and then get single payer…geez…
Monthly Archives: November 2013
November 11th
Well…not sure where my head is at this morning..almost forgot to come here and do this after being over at Kos…it was an okay day yesterday but the bug is still here and I am getting really tired of it…I think I said that yesterday, too….didn’t get anything done at all but some laundry and that is contributing to the general malaise I’m feeling…just don’t want to do anything right now…maybe a workout will help? The Lions even won and that didn’t help….I did sleep okay last night so I feel somewhat okay today but, with it raining, I may not get on the bike today…and, since it is Veteran’s day, the battery for the walkman won’t be coming in the mail today…just another little disappointment in a sea of them…not much to do today…I do have to cook and I am going to try a new method for cooking pork loin….500 degrees preheat and then shut the oven off for an hour…weird…more later…
What happened to the news?
Well…not sure if you’ve read or heard about the latest implosion of a news organization, where CBS’s 60 minutes ran a supposedly new report on Benghazi that was going to finally get to the bottom of it…even when there is no bottom to get to. They ran the report a couple of weeks ago and almost immediately, other news organizations dug just a little bit to find that the person they hung the entire expose’ on was a liar…saying in official reports to his company and the FBI that he was at his seaside villa when the attack was going on, but in the 60 Minutes report and his book, this liar made himself out to be a hero…scaling a 12 foot wall to get into the consulate and killing an insurgent by hitting him in the face with his gun butt. When did 60 Minutes become just another hack news show? And, how can the producers there throw away 50 years of integrity just because they want to get on the right wing bandwagon…ignoring the basic tenets of journalism for sensationalism? The fallout from this sordid affair continue with even the publisher of the book who is well known for publishing right wing screeds removing it from the shelves and the supposed author going into seclusion. I do have to thank our liberal attack machine, Media Matters, for their work on exposing this blatant set of lies…good job.
November 10th
Well…it was a busy day for the first part of it yesterday…I did get the insides of the winter wheels painted, made soup…which came out the best of any that I’ve made so far…and started to clean..but, just started…that is something I need to continue today….slept okay but the damn cold is still with me and I woke up sneezing which continues right now and I am getting really, really, tired of it…I’m getting really tired of the dead battery in my walkman, too, but I hope the new one will be here in a couple of days…it is just no where near as much fun riding without it….not much to do today….I do have to get the bike ride in and then do some laundry but that is about it…it’s leftover day so I don’t even need to cook….more later…
Music Musings….
Well….have just been watching a special on the Who’s “Quadrophenia” that was talking to the remaining band members about making the album…and one thing struck me..or a thought struck me when they were showing “Love, reign oe’r me”, one of my favorite Who songs when it was being done live back in ’73… I’ve started to not want to share the emotionally wrenching songs with a crowd…I am starting to prefer to listen to those alone since the reactions of others pollute what I’m feeling…or, maybe it’s that you have to be guarded in public settings and keep the mask on that you show to the world? I guess I just don’t want to share the moment with anyone…maybe that is a product of being alone most of the time? Who knows? Now that would have been a title for a Who album….
November 9th
Well…it was a long day yesterday and I still feel like crap today…but, it is the same pattern I seem to have for every cold…start feeling better and then relapse…feeling worse than I did before…but, don’t have much to do today so I can take it easy…after I ride the bike and make soup and paint the insides of the winter wheels….then I’ll take it easy…I did win at pool yesterday and made some good shots so that is something….slept okay for a third night without the sleeping pills so I feel good about that, too….but, no dreams to speak of and that is kind of bad…but, I’ll live through it….I do have to come back and do three more of these today to get caught up so that will be something…I do have the soup on already but that takes all day to get the chicken carcasses to melt down…more later…
November 8th…
Well…I am sitting here doing this while I wait for the car to thaw out…it is coated with ice and I just don’t want that to happen yet…it was just another lay low day yesterday while I wait for the bug to leave…and it hasn’t yet so the lungs are still crappy…so, didn’t get much done yesterday…and that looks like it will be the pattern for today, too….can’t continue to skip the bike so I will have to do that but that will be it…other than pool, that is….slept okay with the second day without a sleeping pill so it looks like that pattern is broken…..okay, I need to get out to get the papers and have my coffee so I’ll end here…more later…
I find this so damn funny…
Well…as Christie won the governorship of NJ again on Tuesday, I find it funny that the knives have come out from the other potential ’16 candidates from the repubs already…both Rubio and Paul have attacked starting with the contention that Christie’s lopsided win has nothing to do with any future elections…basically saying that NJ is just NJ and the rest of the country just doesn’t care for Christie….and the second one I heard of today was that ole Paul, at a senate hearing the other day, laid into Christie’s use of some of the Sandy aid for commercials to get people to come back to the NJ shore to try to jumpstart tourism there because most of them had Christie in them; calling them a blatant waste of government money for personal political gain…this is where I really start to laugh since ole Paul was one of the drivers behind the gov’t shutdown that cost the country over 24 billion dollars…and, for what I can see, it was for Paul’s and Cruz’s personal political gain and fundraising, since there was never any chance of them getting Obamacare repealed. The more I listen to ole Paul, the more I think he is just another of the privileged repubs that were born on third base and think they hit a triple, and just can’t take it when his bad behavior is called out…like in the plagarism scandal…what a sorry piece of work who can’t even be bothered to do his own work…anywhere….geez…
November 7th
Well….running early again today and part of it is that I was up really early with some weird dreams that included giants, wild pigs, and other strange stuff…and it was a no cocktail, no sleeping pill night that was not as bad as I expected it to be….so, I may do it again tonight to see how bad it is going to be…it was an okay day yesterday but I felt like crap again with the same damn bug I’ve had for a week now and I was coughing again, and again….it will be interesting to see how I feel today…hope it will be better…I do need to accomplish some stuff today…just don’t want another no energy day…the guilts will envelop me if I do…not much to do today…I did get an e-mail that said my battery for the walkman has been shipped…should be here in a week or so so that will be cool…I do have the grocery run today so I will finally have some food here and then have to get back on the bike today….more later…
Elections and other stuff…
Well….it’s another day of being so damn tired I can barely stand it and I’m not sure what is going on….okay…it’s from not eating enough but could be from not sleeping…aargh…I do want to say a few words about the elections yesterday but the only one that really meant anything was the gov of Virgina that we won…and got rid of the crazy that was running on their side…but, he will get a cushy, million dollar lobbying job in Washington or will work for the Heritage foundation or some other right wing scam operation that does nothing but grift from the idiots on the right….oh, the other stuff….not sure what that is….it just seemed like a good title…more later….maybe…