Well….over the past two elections, after Obama was elected, the repubs have led an unprecedented campaign to nullify the results of those two elections by their obstructionism; choosing to not do their constitutional duty on the debt, the budget, and especially in approving judges that have been presented by Obama. Their dis-ingeniousness continues with their new meme they are pushing in regard to the right that Obama has to appoint a supreme court justice: that the selection should wait until the voters decide in the 2016 presidential election. Now, if these liars would just look back to he 2012 election, one of the main themes was that if Obama was elected, he would appoint judges to the court that would be too liberal, that would grant equal rights to gay people…etc, etc…..and ole Mitt went on and on about the fact that he would appoint judges like the radical activist right wingers on the court…and when people were surveyed, almost 60% said that the supreme court was very important to their voting decision. So, the people have already voted and put Obama in for a second term to carry out his required duties of appointing judges to supreme court vacancies…and no matter what the repubs say, that is the truth….geez…
February 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but with feeling kind of crappy, I didn’t get much done….one good thing is that my back didn’t hurt walking into the store to get the papers this morning…that hasn’t happened in a long time and I am happy that it has….slept okay last night…no, that’s not really true…slept pretty crappy since I decided to not take an antihistamine so I could breathe just to see where I am…still need it so tonight will be different…and I was good last night so that might have had something to do with it…I do have work to do around here today but I may put that off until tomorrow….the kitchen still needs work and I do need to do some meal planning for later in the week…just way too much chicken in the freezer…not much to do today….still feel a little slow so whatever I do, it will be in low and slow mode….maybe I’ll work on some new music…more later…
Oh, one last thing…a belated happy birthday to Peter Gabriel who turned 66 last week….
This is what Obama should do…
Well…with all of the repubs in the senate promising obstruction to any nominee that Obama puts up for the supreme court, I think Obama needs to take those threats seriously and appoint a true progressive while the senate is in recess. This would not only really piss off the repubs but would get the court to a 5-4 liberal majority for the rest of his term…and, with the court docket having so many cases that could hurt women, unions, and really screw up this country if there was a conservative majority, Obama needs to do this right now. Then, when we win the presidency and the senate later in the year, we have the chance of making the progressive majority permanent…at least for a while anyway….get it done Obama….
February 15th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done but laundry…..still coughing like crazy and I’m not sure why….must be a bug…oh, I said that yesterday didn’t I? So, I feel a little crappy today and I am going to take it easy…easier? At least my back is better today…but it always is in the morning so I’m not going to get my hopes up too much…..at least it’s not 2 degrees like yesterday morning but the cold was still bad going out for the papers today…just another indicator that I am not feeling that hot…and my reading light crapped out today but I was happy I had an extra bulb to fix it…just don’t need a complication for my morning routine…not much to do today….going to just hang out and take it easy as I try to feel better….more later….
Hypocrites…
Well…as you have seen here before, one of the joys of my life is calling out the hypocrites on the right I guess whenever they open their mouths…now, they are at it again with the death of Antonin Scalia yesterday…now, you have heard me go on about Scalia and his wrongheadedness on almost every opinion he ever wrote, and all you have to do is read his Bush v. Gore, Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United opinions to see what I mean…he had a penchant for just making stuff up to meet his biases…and his ethical challenges were well known with his frequent trips to the Koch brothers secret meetings where at least the appearance of impropriety oozed out of him. But now that he has died, the repubs hypocrisy is on full display…on a daily basis, these idiots rail and rail about the constitution and that Obama is tearing it up….as soon as the death was announced, the repubs new meme is that, since Obama is in the last year of his term, we should wait to name a new justice until the next president is elected…and they are justifying that by constitution, constitution…something something….well…there is nothing in the constitution that says a president can’t appoint someone in his last term…not anywhere…and, to leave a vacancy on the court for a year has never been done…even saint Ronnie of Reagan appointed one in his last year….I really do hope that the repubs will carry through on their threats to not approve any nominee….and then, when we win the election and take back the senate, we can get a real progressive on the court that will start to repeal all of the wrongheaded crap that the conservatives have foisted on this country….geez…
February 14th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…it is nice to have a clean bathroom again…slept okay last night but have been coughing like crazy again and it feels like a bug…again…this is the third one this winter and I am tired of it….at least my back doesn’t hurt as much as it has over the past few weeks so that is something…I did make some slow cooker chicken that came out pretty good so there will be no cooking today and that is okay, too….I should clean up the kitchen after making a big mess yesterday and I might…but as I feel right now, that will be put on the back burner for now…..not much to do today….I do have to come back and do one on Scalia dying…the hypocrisy of the repubs on this one is just breathtaking…more later…
Typical smug asses…
Well…have been keeping up with the water debacle in Flint, and every day more information comes out in e-mails that the Snyder appointees in the Department of Environmental Quality…(the state department that is responsible for the mess in Flint) were a bunch of smug asses that thought they knew better than the EPA that there was a problem with not treating the water with anti corrosive chemicals. These idiots even went so far as trying to avoid returning the EPA’s e-mails since the person there was just a pain in the ass for harping on the fact they needed to treat the water…even going so far as getting their bosses to intercede so they guy would leave them alone. This is just another reason that political hacks who think government can’t do anything right should NEVER be put in charge of an important function like protecting the people of this state from poisoning….typical repub MO….hope these idiots go to jail…geez…
February 13th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…slept okay last night but no dreams again so I guess I’ll just have to get used to it…there were two good music shows on last night that I watched..one on BB King and another on David Bowie…and Bowie did Young Americans live so that was really cool….and I wasn’t good so I don’t feel that hot today…I have gotten the slow cooker going already and that is really an accomplishment for 8:25 in the morning…I decided to bake the chicken first instead of just putting it in the cooker…just didn’t want to have to pick the bones and skin out of the cooker…and I don’t really like the way chicken tastes in the cooker anyway….not much to do today…watching Man U right now and then I’m just going to veg it today with a little cleaning…the bathroom needs some work but that will be it….more later…
February 12th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…slept okay but the dreams are gone again and that is a little disappointing…oh, well…I just wish my back would stay as it is when I get up and not hurt all day….not sure what the heck is going on with it….I did make a good batch of chili yesterday and that was good and I got out to get some chicken for 29 cents a pound so I am going to make a slow cooker chicken dish tomorrow if I can get it to thaw by then…might have to use the hot water trick since it is a 10 pound block of ice right now….and I don’t have any room in the freezer for it but I couldn’t pass it up…not much to do today…pool, then back here for cocktails later with the Wings…but, I am not going to do what I did last week…way too long of a day not getting home until 7:30…more later….
Varied topics…
Well…I was just going to call this one noodling around but I’ve used that one before and I didn’t want to get bored…there was something cool announced today where the people running the LIGO experiment said that they have detected gravity waves that came from two black holes that merged 1.5 billion light years away…scientists have been working on this one since the theory of general relativity was published in the early 1900’s and it is the last part that remained to be proven…..just love this science stuff….I have been thinking about some political topics over the past couple of days and haven’t found one that lit any fire in me…it is fun to watch the desperation from the lower tier repubs as they try to figure out how to not be irrelevant…and that means attack, attack, attack, to the repubs…not policy, just attack…and I do want to say one thing…anyone who thinks John Kasich is a “moderate” is fricking delusional…he may look like a moderate compared to the right wing mouth breathers that are running…but, to see his true nature, you just have to look at the legislation that he has been pushing to de-fund PP based on the fake videos that were presented as damning to PP…they aren’t true but that doesn’t get in the way of Kasich trying to eliminate the good that PP does for poor women in Ohio…moderate? Hell no…geez….