Well…running a little late this morning and it’s because I just can’t get going….may have to have 3 cups of coffee just for the jump start…slept okay last night but woke up really sore and I have been hobbling around which is really annoying….need to take an ibuprofen before the bike ride so my wrists don’t hurt…the good thing is my tricep has been better the past few days and that is a good thing…I don’t think my car has ever been as dirty as it was when I went out for the papers this morning…it appears that a whole flock of birds decided to crap all over it and it mixed well with the pollen that has been accumulating for the past week….going to wash it after I work out this morning since I just can’t stand it being so dirty….not much to do today….going to get some spider patrolling done and get rid of the stack of papers but that is about it…more later…
Jeb just keeps digging…
Well…just read a new piece over at Kos and thought I should comment on it…but first, happy birthday to Pete Townsend…70 years old today…okay, back to Jeb…his pandering to the religious right just got deeper yesterday with his weighing in on the religious “freedom” laws that are propagating in repub controlled states and on the idea that christians should be allowed to discriminate against anyone they want since it is part of their “faith”….here’s the money quote…actually a paraphrase: faith means the ability to do whatever they think is right based on their faith…..did you get that one? Ole Jeb believes that faith gives you the right to pick and choose whatever laws you want to follow….so you think it’s right to murder doctors that perform abortions? A-OK with Jeb. If you think it’s alright to murder people that are not the “right” color….A-OK with Jeb….you can see where this pandering is going, right? They guy who is running to protect the Constitution and our laws is giving a little wink to the religious nuts with that old quote form Orwell’s “Animal Farm” ”everyone’s equal but pigs are a little more equal than the others”….so now he is going to create a “special” protected class that get’s to do whatever they damn well please…as if they don’t already…geez…
A better question to ask…
Well…there has been a little uproar with the media in the past few days when many of them have been asking the repub presidential contenders the question “would you still invade Iraq with what we know now?”….but, that is the wrong question for me…the real question that should be asked is “would you allow your administration to manufacture a reason to take the country to war?” I admit that would be a pretty easy one to answer….and, I’m not sure if it would be pertinent or not, but what it would do is stop the media sanitizing how we got involved in Iraq in the first place and remind everyone that ole GW and Cheney lied to the world and America almost 200 times in the run up to the war. That needs to be shouted from the rooftops…especially since a lot of the liars from ole GW’s administration are getting back in place for Jeb’s run and are part of Rubio’s, too….that would be a story that I would like to see run somewhere in the media…geez…
May 19th
Well…running a little late today and It is because I stayed up late last night and was not good…feel pretty crappy and it is cold in here…forgot to close the window in the kitchen last night and it is 46 outside so I may have to turn the heat on…might have had a falling out with T….not sure why that would be but haven’t heard from her since early Sunday….may have to prepare for not hearing from her again…slept okay and got up late and the only thing I want to do is go back to the couch…..I did make a little cash yesterday so I have money for the next month or so and that does feel good…there will be groceries this week and I may even buy something special for the holiday weekend…not much to do today…going to be a recovery day and I don’t really feel like doing anything so I just might take the day off an do nothing….more later…
This is stupid…
Well…have been thinking about the nonsense that has been going on about ole Jeb’s response to the Iraq war question that went something like this…”knowing what we know now, would you go to war in Iraq?”…..and ole Jeb fumbled it for almost a week before he said no…but, that’s not the real question here since they DID know what we know now….ole Jeb’s brother W and Cheney knew then that there were no WMD’s and that Saddam was no threat to anyone but his own people…but they lied to us and went to war because they wanted a war…and wanted to reward their buddies in the MIC with war profits that they couldn’t steal if there was no war. It makes me almost puke when I hear the repubs changing the question away from the fact that they lied us into a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people and cost trillions…almost making it seem that the Iraq war is just a “hypothetical” as ole Jeb seems to think it is….geez….
May 18th
Well…running really late this morning and it is because of the martinis and Mad Men last night…just can’t get going and I kind of expected it but it doesn’t make it any easier….slept okay, I think, but I can’t be sure of that….no dreams again but that is expected, too….it is kind of cool that it is over 70 and it’s not even 9 yet and there is a neat breeze that is blowing through here…but, the humidity is still high and everything still feels wet….but, tomorrow is going to be 58 so I am going to enjoy today…..and get the bike ride in a few minutes….not sure if I liked the last Mad Men or not….going to have to watch it again today to make sure…..not much to do today….just the normal stuff and recovery….more later…
A lazy day…
Well…it has been a lazy day today and I really haven’t gotten much done…yet….okay, I won’t get anything done…I’ll admit that…but, I did clean yesterday so that counts for something, right? I did have a taste for potato salad and a huge bag of potatoes so I went out to get the rest of the ingredients…normally, I won’t go to the store unless I do it first thing in the morning when it’s not busy but I had another reason to go today…it is the last episode of “Mad Men” tonight and I thought it appropriate that I have a martini or two to close the show out…it has been a good one for all of these years and I have seen it from the start so I do need to do something to mark it’s ending. And, I haven’t had a martini in a year or so and it just seemed like it would be a good thing…we’ll see tomorrow if it is or not….I wonder how they will end it…probably should go out to the Plex server and see if it is there yet…might not have to wait up to see it….I wonder what they will replace it with? Hope it’s another good one like “the Walking Dead”….okay…there’s a bike race on so I think I’ll go watch that…..
May 17th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get a few things done and I hope to do the same today…slept okay last night but I think I have a bug…I think I said that yesterday….have been coughing like crazy and feel like crap but that may be that I wasn’t good last night or not enough calories…not sure….I did have a nice conversation with T by text yesterday and that was fun….the humidity over the past few days has been terrible and everything feels wet…the bike ride yesterday felt like I was breathing liquid and it feels the same today…came back completely soaked but did a long ride and that may have had something to do with it…that’s the plan today, too, in just a minute…need to get out before the Man U game at 11 and it could be a good one against Arsenal….not much to do today….there is qualifying from Indy and that will be great to nap to…and I do need to continue cleaning…more later…
May 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I lost at pool….for the third in a row…slept okay last night and feel okay this morning if a little slow but that is to be expected….no dreams at all and that is disappointing but more or less normal….didn’t get anything done yesterday so that needs to change today and I do need to clean the living room…not sure if I will but I need to…I did grill some pork chops that I had in a teriaki marinade and they came out really good so I may make some more today…I do have leftovers to use, though, so that may have to wait until tomorrow….not much to do today….I am going to get a bike ride in here in a few minutes even with it raining a little and then I need to do laundry when I get back….not much else but the Preakness and races later…more later…
RIP B.B. King….
Well…there is sadness for the music world today and for me personally…B.B. King died last night at the age of 89. Throughout his 75 year career, he influenced many of the rockers that I listen to from the Beatles, to Eric Clapton, Joe Walsh, and many others and once I heard his “The Thrill is gone” I was hooked on the blues. The world will be different without him in it….RIP B.B….and thanks….