Well….it was an okay day yesterday but no pool….I did get out on the bike later in the day but with the wind, it was a brutal ride….slept okay last night but it was kind of cold in here for some reason…and I still feel cold even though the temp is set at the normal 75 degrees….after being off the bike for a few days, my legs are really sore from going into the wind and they shouldn’t be….probably from not taking any ibuprofen before I went…will need to do the thermasuit today since it is never going to get above 40 today….didn’t get anything done yesterday but make a ham so I will need to get some cleaning done since I won’t do anything if we shoot pool tomorrow….need to vacuum again and clean the stove since I cooked yesterday and made a little bit of a mess…and I like having a clean kitchen…not much to do today…watching soccer now and the 12 hours of Sebring is on later this morning so I won’t be bored…more later….
The Kochs will ruin anything…
Well….you know that I have written about the Koch brothers and all of the anti tax organizations that they fund…and the mischief these idiots do across the country…now they are even getting involved in local matters that have nothing to do with them…last year it was a bond issue for the Columbus zoo that they spent millions defeating…why they give a damn about that I’ll never know…and now a little town called Plainfield Illinois has felt the long tentacles of the Kochtopus. What was the dastardly thing the people there wanted to do? Raise taxes to pay for a new library for the town to replace one that was just too small. This small raise in taxes would pay for the new library and updating of technology, along with meeting rooms for the community to use. This project was proposed after years of surveying the city, of focus groups, and working with everyone who would have a stake in the new library…just how democracy is supposed to work…thanks Joan….but, not to the Kochs. They just HAVE to interfere everywhere…and they did…spending huge amounts of money on anti library robocalls and advertising…and the result of this attack on local self determination? The referendum failed and now the library will see a 20% cut in funding…ending many programs that were essential to the community. You could blame the voters, but I won’t do that here since we know that advertising is very effective in political campaigns and low information people can be easily swayed when only one side of an issue is covered. This is where we have to fight the Kochs…they don’t give a damn about America or democracy, they only care that their money and power is creating the kind of society they want…the regular folks get nothing while they take everything….geez…
March 18th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday but I had the up and down feeling crappy thing going on again and it’s been almost a week now and I am getting tired of it…slept okay last night but feel a little crappy this morning since I was not good last night but it was the first time this week so I don’t feel bad about that…it was another windy day yesterday that kept me off the bike and today the cold looks like it will do that again…where the heck is my 60 degree weather? Oh, well….I am almost 200 miles up on where I was last year at this time so I guess I shouldn’t bitch too much….and my back doesn’t hurt today so that is a plus, too….didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks the same with pool, maybe, so the weekend will have to be cleaning time….not much to do today…I have a ham to cook this morning but that is about it….just going to veg it out and have more coffee after I finish this…more later….
Snyder tries to shift the blame for Flint…
Well…with the hearings going on in congress about the screwups that led to Flint residents being poisoned with lead…we see the typical repub response from our governor Snyder that it was the “bureaucrats” in his administration that were responsible for the crisis…of course not him, even though he knew a year before he acknowledged it that there were problems in Flint. But, the most sick thing was his trying to shift the blame to the EPA, basically saying that they should have known that Snyder’s administration was poisoning people in Flint and should have stopped them…imagine what that would mean for criminal defendants if this crap was allowed to excuse this behavior….a murder suspect could just say “hey, you guys didn’t stop me from murdering so it’s not my fault…it’s the fault of the bureaucrats in the police department….” And, as you know, these guys are so big on “personal responsibility” until it gets down to them…then, anyone and everyone is responsible but them…especially the government…the repubs on the committee again tried to have it both ways, too, saying that the EPA should regulate more what states can do…when, just a week ago, they were complaining that the EPA is destroying the economy by too much regulation and the states should be able to do what they want without interference from the EPA. Typical repub behavior that killed people and put thousands at risk…but they never have any responsibility for it..even when they control the entire government of Michigan…what a bunch of liars…geez…
March 17th
Well….running a little late this morning with doing the grocery run…and I’m now down to 12 bucks in my pocket so it will be laying low for the next couple of weeks…I do have enough food to get through so that is cool and I prioritized so I will have cocktails for the next few days…slept okay last night but didn’t get up until after 7 so I had to go straight to the grocery run with any wake up time and that was a little tough….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done at all…didn’t even ride the bike with the wind gusting to 55…looks to be the same today and I won’t get out again…it’s cold, too, and I don’t want to go back into the thermasuit….not sore at all and that is a good thing…well..my shoulder has been hurting a couple of days after sleeping on it wrong….oh, well….not much to do today…even though it’s St. Patrick’s day, I don’t have the cash to go out since I am waiting for my fed check to come back…..more later….
Two bad prosecutors are gone…
Well….I know the attention in yesterday’s elections was on the presidential races, but there were two wonderful things that happened in down ballot races that I just had to comment on…first, Anita Alvarez, the prosecuting attorney of Cook county in Illinois was beaten in a landslide in her re-election race. This is the person who deliberately sided with the police in clear cut cases of wrongdoing by the cops…in one case, deliberately mis-charging an off duty cop who fired his weapon into a crowd, killing a woman that was just walking down the street…who later got off with no penalty due to her manipulation of the process…the second good outcome of the elections yesterday was the rejection of the corrupt prosecutor of Cuyahoga County in Ohio who did his best to protect the cop that shot 12 year old Tamir Rice less than two seconds after he rolled up in his squad car…ignoring the independent assessment of a state judge that said the officer should be charged with killing Tamir….and it got worse from there where this idiot, Tim McGinty did everything in his power to throw the case and make sure the cop wouldn’t be charged….all I say is good riddance to two people who are the poster children for what is wrong with our justice system…I hope the new prosecutors keep their thumbs off the scales of justice and follow the law…geez…
Bye, bye, little Marco….
Well…as expected, Little Marco Rubio got his butt kicked in his home state last night…winning only the county he lives in…which led to him dropping out of the race…and the concession speech was one that turned my stomach…where he decried the coarsening of the campaign by the rhetoric that was, to be generous, trashy on the right…something he was partially responsible for with his dick jokes at the last debate. But, the worst part was his invoking of god 30 times during the speech…saying that god said it was just not his time…now, if this idiot truly believes that god has a hand in an of this, then god must want the Donald to win since he is far ahead of everyone else and looks like he will get the nomination. To go back a little farther and extend this line of thinking, then god must have wanted Obama to win, too, since he won two terms….how does that square with the right’s supposed monopoly on god’s good graces? Just glad this little empty suit is going to be nowhere near the presidency….he’s never done any job he was elected to, and the presidency would be no different…geez….
March 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done but the workout and bike ride….slept okay last night but the storms that rolled through woke me up even with earplugs in…I still feel like I have that darn bug I’ve had for a week now and it is getting annoying….don’t really feel that bad all the time but still have flashes where I feel pretty crappy and the stomach goes wonky….not sure if I’m eating enough since I have gotten bored with counting calories and just don’t care right now….won’t get a bike ride in today with the rain and the wind blowing but that may be okay…got one in yesterday that made me feel better but it took a lot out of me….not much to do today…I should do some cleaning and I might but I might not…who knows? More later…..
Little Marco’s 2.1 GPA…
Well….have been reading a lot lately as I try to recover from this darn bug and ran across a funny little tidbit of information that describes Little Marco Rubio to a T…..some enterprising reporter was digging through his past and found his high school transcripts and the GPA he achieved explained a lot of what we see today….now, a 2.1 GPA is nothing spectacular…that’s just a bit better than a C and really shows that his backers who think he is a brilliant person or politician have got it all wrong…I mean a C average? Cripes I had a 3.4 average and I skipped 46 days in my junior year while I was working full time….what this makes me think is of the consistency of his lack of effort in everything he has ever done…skipping his job in the Florida legislature and then skipping his duties in the US senate…and half heartedly campaigning for president….depending on his rich backers and the next big thing he is going to do to ensure he does his present job in a half-assed way he has done everything in his life….now, to base an evaluation of this guys entire life on his high school GPA is not something I would normally do, but when he continues that same slacker mentality through everything he has ever done, it is one part of the puzzle that shows he is not a serious person….just another grifter looking for the next payday…geez…
March 15th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…and I felt pretty good but that has gone away today and I feel just as crappy as I did last Saturday…but more symptoms have revealed themselves and I feel clammy with coughing and and a sore throat this morning…darn….slept crappy again last night, too, and that doesn’t help….so today looks like a maintenance day and I will just have to roll with it and hope to feel better tomorrow….I am going to take the bike ride today to try to burn it out but I’m not sure how good of an idea that is….T has been sick, too, but I haven’t seen her in over a week so I don’t think we gave it to each other….it took forever to get through the papers this morning and I am running late today…broke my sunglasses on the bike yesterday but was able to fix them so that made me feel better that I don’t have to go out and try to find another pair…I really like these since they stay on my face without falling down my nose….not much to do today…I do have a funny one on ole Marco that I want to do in a bit and the maybe one on the primaries from today…need to get caught up…again…more later….