Well…not a lot going on today except for the Tigers home opener so I thought I’d just talk a little about politics….there has been some huge amounts of sniping going on between Bernie and Hillary over the past month or so and I’ve had a problem with it…after all, we’re supposed to be the party of ideas not of nastiness like the repubs…but, in a good sign for the general, the two campaigns have called a truce…at least on who is qualified to be president anyway…but, I think they need to stretch that truce to include everything…we have made the mistake in the past of being repub light when that’s not what people want…at least on our side…and, you don’t appeal to independents by being meaner and nastier than the repubs…and I don’t think anyone can be nastier than Trump or Cruz….what we need to do is continue to highlight the policy differences between us and them…and we’ve had 35 years to figure that out since the repubs have been saying the same things that don’t work since Reagan and they aren’t going to change now…geez…
April 8th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get a lot done….made a little cash and that was cool but I am so damn tired of the cold weather…had to warm up the car again this morning since it had ice on it…and that has kept me off the bike for a week now and that makes me cranky, too…slept okay last night but the Wings lost so now the suspense carries over to a must win Sat night…aargh….I’m not sore today so I guess that’s something….haven’t had a lot of energy lately and I’m not sure why….and I’m tired of thinking about it….I would love to have a week where I didn’t count calories for every bit of food I eat….but, that’s not realistic so I guess I just have to live with it….not much to do today…going to make a little cash later in the aft and the Tigers have their home opener today so I guess I’ll watch some of that and clean a little but that’s about it….more later…
Let’s Go Red Wings!
Well…it has been a nail biting couple of weeks watching the Wings try to get into the playoffs for the 25th year in a row….their play has been inconsistent and infuriating at times but, with two games to go it comes down to winning one of them. Last night, they put in one of their best performances of the year beating the Flyers 3-0 and looking like a complete team for one of the first times that I have seen. Tonight, they go up against the Bruins in Boston and, if they win, they’re in since Boston is tied with us and that will be the four point swing we need….so, the only thing left to say is…Let’s Go Red Wings!!
Ted Cruz is just damn dumb….
Well…it isn’t very often that I see a political story that makes me laugh out loud but it just happened a few minutes ago. How dumb is Ted Cruz? If you remember a few weeks back, he attacked the Donald for his “New York values” that I guess are not as good as his “Texas values”….then the idiot goes to the Bronx yesterday and tries to do campaign stops to raise money from New Yorkers…as you can guess it didn’t go well…at one stop, he had all of 12 supporters listen to his normal, racist crap while hundreds of protesters stood outside…then he was confronted by a protester who told him to get out of the Bronx with his anti immigrant bs….then, after it was announced that the idiot would be doing a speech at a school there…the student body sent a letter to the principal stating why he shouldn’t be allowed to speak there…again citing his anti immigrant, women, gays, and everything else views and threatening to walk out if he came there…the administration agreed with the letter and cancelled the speech….New York values in action! I think this idiot is getting payback for his spouting hate at every turn and denigrating the values of a huge portion of the country…I really do hope he gets the nomination…he will lose in a landslide everywhere outside his tiny little right wing bubble…couldn’t happen to a bigger asshole….geez…
April 7th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool….running late today and I’m not really sure why….the computer was giving me some problems but that only took a few minutes to fix so that can’t be it…oh, well….I was not good last night since I suspended my cocktail rules for the remaining Wings games…I won’t comment on last night’s game since I want to do one on that later….feel okay today and the elbows don’t hurt so maybe I can escape the moving tendon pain this year…but, my big toe hurts and I think I have a cramp in it…darn….I haet this darn gloomy weather we have been having and that looks like it will last until next week…it is time to get into shorts and I don’t want to wait….not much to do today…there is another Wings game tonight and I need to go to Meijers again but that is about it for today…more later…oh, and three more of these to get caught up….
April 6th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool….boring dreams again last night made the okay sleep seem a waste of time but I guess you do have to sleep….didn’t get out on the bike and today looks the same but I really don’t feel bad about it…I’ll just double up when the weather gets better and get back into shape….still no pain to speak of but I can feel the twinges of the moving tendonitus starting to show up in my elbows again this spring….some stiffness is starting and that is usually how it starts….but, I’m not going to dwell on it until it gets to the point I can’t use my hands without pain….I did get the car washed yesterday and it needed it…couldn’t see out of the glass and you know how that bugs me…not much to do today…the wing play the first of their last three games tonight and have to win two of them to make it into the playoffs…might break my cocktail rule to root them on but we’ll see….more later…
And to hate….
Well…just when you thought that the repubs couldn’t get any worse or hate any more, here comes Mississippi with a hate filled anti LGBT bill that is such a piece of crap and is so unconstitutional that there must be lead in water down there….this bill will allow anyone to discriminate against anyone just as long as it is a”strongly held religious belief”…this one will allow gay folks to be evicted from their housing, fired from their jobs and even goes farther to allow discrimination against anyone that doesn’t believe as these haters believe…unmarried and living together? Yep, you can be evicted from your housing and fired from you job….a woman wearing pants? Yep, employers that claim the religious crap exemption can now force women to wear skirts and I guess for men to wear beards or they can be fired…. a gay person in an emergency room? This bill allows the doctors and nurses to refuse treatment for religious grounds. There is just one thing I want everyone to remember, whenever there is hate in this country, it comes from the repubs…and whenever rights are taken away, it is the repubs that are behind it…come on ACLU…this one is ripe for a lawsuit today…get on it….geez…
The republicans only know how to cheat….
Well….not sure if you read about the latest supreme court case where the repubs again tried to cheat the system and destroy how voting districts have been drawn since the beginning of the country. In the case Evenwel v. Abbott, the repubs tried to get the court to throw out over 200 years of precedent and the constitution with it to allow them to draw districts only taking into account voters in the districts…a change that would allow rural areas to out vote cities since cities have a larger concentration of people that can’t vote…or don’t vote and the motivated repub base in the rural areas then could dictate to the cities what goes on there. This runs directly counter to the one person, one vote tradition that has been the interpretation of the constitution since the country was founded….and since when do only voters deserve to have a voice in our society? Don’t kids and non-voters deserve representation? The only thing you need to know about this suit is that was brought by the same asshole billionaire who got the court to gut the voting rights act when Scalia was alive…I hope this 8-0 drubbing will keep this guy from filing any more frivolous suits whose only goal is to cheat and tilt the playing field to the repubs…but, the repubs only know how to cheat so I guess we will see more of this crap in the future…geez…
April 5th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I had no energy at all so it was basically vegging…and I don’t like that….feel much better today and have a little energy so I will be back to the workout and bike regimen today…the bike will have to wait until this aft since it will be cold but that’s okay…I have things to do until then….slept okay last night but had disappointing dreams that really didn’t have anything to them…no revelations, no flying, no nothing so that is disappointing…one cool thing happened last night…on “Better call Saul”, they had the last flying B-29 bomber as part of a plot point…and I have actually touched that one and took pictures with my sons in front of it when they had it on display here in GR…..pretty cool….not much to do today….have a couple of errands to run this morning…need batteries from Harbor Freight…but that is about it….more later….
This is sick…
Well…as days go by the repubs get more and more sick in their treatment of women who seek to use their constitutional right to control their bodies and seek an abortion. Starting with Utah, I think, who just recently passes a new law that says that women having an abortion must undergo general anathesia when the procedure is being performed….never mind that this decision should be between the doctor and their patient, these idiots have just made it dangerous to get an abortion when it is one of the safest medical procedures that is done…much safer than colonoscopies even…now we have Arizona joining in on the hurt women bandwagon by ignoring the FDA and legislating the dosage of the common abortion drug. Over time, as drugs are used and more data is available, doctors and the FDA will frequently change the dosing recommendations to reflect the usage data. That is just what happened with the most commonly used abortion drug, doctors have tried lower doses to good effect, that the side effects are greatly reduced by the lower doses…but, what do the sadist, misogynists repubs do then? They pass a law in Arizona that forces doctors to prescribe the drug at the old dosage levels…and the only reason for that is that they truly want to punish women for getting abortion by making sure they get sick from the drug. What the hell is wrong with these assholes? And, what is wrong with the people who vote for this crap? Nevermind that this law is unconstitutional and comes from the idiots who supposedly revere the document, what business is it of theirs telling doctors what to do? What’s next? Do they bring back bleeding people to cure them of diseases? Geez….