Well…kind of bombshell today when the crazy bastard Jim DeMint decided to resign his seat in the senate to take charge of the Heritage foundation…a right wing “think tank” that is one of the echo chambers funded by the crazy billionaires in the repub party. Now, if you are a progressive like me, this is a great bit of news since ole Jim was the biggest backer of “legitimate rape” Todd Akin, and gave him almost 100k for his election run. But, this is not the only bit of craziness that ole Jim has exhibited in his time int he senate…this idiot once promised to put holds on any bill introduced in the senate unless it was cleared and approved with his office first….and on and on…he even criticized Boehners stupid plan for debt reduction for not being far enough to the right…what a maroon.
Okay…now the bad news…our wonderful governor here in Michigan has broken his promise to the people of Michigan by changing his mind and supporting right-to-work legislation that is the darling of the owner class and a direct attack on the middle class. All I have to say to him is actions have consequences…and the amendment that didn’t pass last time that would have protected workers right to organize is going to win in a landslide in the next election. Why do all of the repubs need to participate in the race to the bottom for our middle class…thankfully, in two more years these clowns will be gone and we can begin to repair the damage that has been done to workers here…geez…
Well…running late this morning and this time I know why…too many cocktails last night and I feel pretty crappy right now..but, I think I am coming to the realization that I don’t really want to do that much anymore…I like getting up in the morning and feeling good so I think that this weekend will be the last time….okay…I’m only half way through the papers so I’m going back to that and I’ll come back here in a while to finish up…
Okay…I’m back for a few after getting the workout in and reading the papers…I do feel a little better but the lack of energy I felt yesterday is continuing today and I’m not sure what is causing it….probably not eating enough, again, but the habit of keeping to under 1500 cals a day is pretty strong and it is a lot of effort to eat more…I did feel it on the bike yesterday with flat legs but my lungs were giving me fits, too…just don’t want another winter where I’m sick all the time…okay…that’s enough for now I’ll be back later for another one….
Well…not sure if there is anything that would be a big topic for the day so I think I’ll do some small ones and see what happens…I found the surveys that have been done on the aftermath of the Papa John’s healthcare debacle quite interesting…in addition to the huge sales drop they have seen, the public’s attitude towards PJ’s and the idiot owner have crashed and burned, too…and the promotion that they have now to give away 2 million free pizzas, assuming a 3 dollar cost per pizza, would be enough to provide health insurance for everyone that works there…you can see the priority that this moron has…and it is sad since his underpaid workers are who has made the company all the money over the years…the second thing I found funny was that Fox news has put the use of ole Karl Rove and Dick Morris on hold since they have proven that they are not the geniuses that they promote themselves as being…now, if we could get the same standard applied to the rest of the talking idiots over there we might be getting somewhere….hmmm…what else? Not much right now…but I may come back for more later…I did have one I wanted to talk about but I forgot what it was…
Oh…just found out that Dave Brubeck died….ever since the first time I heard “Take Five” I’ve felt that it was what jazz should be…I think I’ll go out and find a copy on the web…l
Well…another day…more boredom and I am getting tired of it…at least I slept okay…well…not really, but not bitching about that….didn’t do much at all and today looks to be more of the same but I do have to do the grocery run today since I am out of food here except the fish in the freezer and I just am not in the mood for it…I guess I could clean and do some things around here but have not been able to get motivated to do that lately either…I will try today and see where it goes….I did have to make an appointment to have the car fixed Friday and I hope it will be under a hundred bucks…just have gotten tired of working on it and want it to be normal again….I will be back later for more since it is about the only thing I can afford…
Well…a weird thought just popped into my head…what if the intransigence of the repubs is rooted in the fact that they just don’t have the capacity to think? What if they are just not bright enough to understand the complexity of this country and that is why they stick to their doctrinaire nonsense? It is certainly easier to stand up and say that you’re “flabbergasted” then it is to put forward a serious plan…I think they just got into this “put Obama out of office” crap and used that as a replacement for governing and they don’t have the intelligence to replace it….I can’t wait for the country to go over the cliff and stomp on these idiots once and for all…they and their ideas don’t deserve any respect and I applaud Obama for finally calling “bullshit” on them…geez…
Well…I have been amazed over the past few days with the behavior of the repubs in congress and their response to the Obama plan to start to tame the deficit…I am particularly amazed that these guys are still so unserious that they offered the Romney plan that had no details or numbers in it other than some general numbers that it looks like they pulled out of their asses. Repubs, you lost the frickin election and if you think you have any leverage, you are certifiably crazy. Who the hell are you representing? When the majority (over 60%) of the American people looked at your plans and said HELL NO….you must be delusional that you think that anyone other than your rich masters want what you are selling. Let’s get this perfectly clear..tax cuts for the rich DO NOT LEAD to jobs….every economist, except the one the repubs listen to, Arthur Laffer, tells you the same thing and yet you want to keep doing it expecting different result…this is the definition of mental illness…and some of the repubs in the house even came out today and said that they wanted to let payroll taxes rise on the working class saying “they have to feel some pain”…I kid you not…they want to protect the rich from any “pain” in the form of higher tax rates, but they are willing to push that pain onto workers…these folks do not deserve to have anyone take them seriously…I hope the White House see it the same way…geez…
Well…up at the normal time this morning and slept okay last night so I am a little motivated to get to this early…and it was a no cocktail night so that helps, too….I am sore today, though, and it is that same neck problem I’ve been having for the last couple of weeks and I think it’s from sleeping on it wrong…or from sleeping better so I don’t toss and turn as much as I used to….still haven’t figured out the car but I am going to look at the last place the coolant can be leaking…but the bad news is that there are 5 things on that small part that can be leaking…at least I’ll take a look to see if there is something I can see….not much to do today…might have pool with Tom but he sounded really sick last night…if he feels like I did, the only thing he will want to do is hit the couch…more later…
Well…I am laughing my butt off about ole Boehner’s statement the other day that he was “flabbergasted” about the WH’s offer on the budget negotiations…and he couldn’t understand how Obama could be so tough….John, there was an election, you guys lost…and Obama is doing exactly what he campaigned on and what the American people approved….and what do we get in response from mr. flabber? We get a re-run of the Ryan budget that has been rejected twice now by the American people….and 65% of Americans want taxes raised on the rich…can’t these people move into the real world? I hope they keep it up….the only reason they still have the House is that they fixed the election in many districts….so, the order of the day is attack from our side…keep just going on putting our ideas to the American people who love them…no negotiations with these thugs…not now, not ever…geez…
Well…it was a long day yesterday but I was good last night so I feel okay this morning…I did get a top down run in yesterday to see if I’ve fixed the car…not sure yet…it smelled a little while I was driving it but not much when I got back…maybe it’s just burning off all of the coolant that was spilled on the back of the engine…we’ll see today…going to take it out for a long run and get some heat in it…then I’ll move on to the next thing if it is still leaking…slept okay last night and there were dreams but again, I don’t really remember them…I may be able to get out on the bike in a t-shirt for the last time today but it is foggy right now so that may have to wait for later…not much to do today…I do need to clean some today and then get some resumes out…….but that’s about it…more later…
Well…have been reading a lot about the proposals that have been floated over the past few years about how to “save” social security since it is not going to be too long before I’m going to be that age…so, it has a real meaning to me. One of the things that the repubs are lying about again is the need to raise the retirement age since people are living longer…and, as always, they are just bad at math or are deliberately misleading people about the changes in life expectancy…which one do you think? I’ll go for the deliberate lies…I will admit that life expectancy has risen over the past 50 years, but you have to look into the numbers to see why…and the major reason is that less children are dying young from preventable diseases so the average goes up…not hard math to understand but it appears they don’t understand it. But, the second part of this puzzle is that the people that are living longer are concentrated in the upper classes…people who have had easier lives and good health care their entire lives…these people actually do live longer, but those that have done physical labor their entire lives don’t…so, raising the retirement age for these folks puts them at an age where they will probably die within a few years of retiring…just what the repubs have said jokingly is the solution to SS’s problems…don’t let them get away with this lie…geez…