Well…it was a day yesterday but I didn’t do much..there was a “Game of Thrones” marathon on HBO that I got sucked into…there wasn’t really much else to do…I did work on the car and might have the braking issue fixed with greasing the slider pins on the front calipers…at least it worked going out to get the paper this morning…I lost one of the anti rattle springs, though so I have to try to find another one…might be hard with the car being so old…it will still works without it so no big hurry…slept crappy again last night but that is normal now so I really don’t care anymore….not much to do today…there are still the HBO and showtime free previews today so I may be able to find a movie or two to watch but that is about it…more later…
The stupid is really deep in Texas…
Well…I have been a little lax in doing these lately but I have an excuse that works for me…and I guess that’s all I need…I did read a funny article…just a shorty…or maybe even on Twitter…not sure…but the gist of the article is the fight that is going on with the repubs for board of ed in Texas…and there was a scene straight from “Inherit the Wind” about the Scopes monkey trial early last century…yep, that long ago…when one of the candidates actually stood up in a public forum and asks for votes since she believes that “we didn’t come from no monkeys” …in this day and age, running for a position that will affect millions of Texas children…they still have viable candidates who are proud of their ignorance and passing that same ignorance on to their children…I’ll ask this one again…”what the hell is wrong with Texas?” geez…
January 11th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I have started to have brake problems on the car…think the caliper is hanging up on the right side front so I think I’ll have to take it apart Monday and grease the slider pins…I did win at pool again so that was okay but I do feel like crap today for some reason….slept okay…no, not really, slept crappy so maybe that’s it? I do hope the rain continues or the sun comes out to keep the melt going…need to get the snow piles down a little so I can see over them…as you can see, I only did one yesterday but that will be fixed today since there are topics again with congress back from it’s continual vacation and the stupid is flowing again from the right..okay, not feeling this so I’m going to stop and have more coffee…
January 10th
Well…just noticed that yesterday’s first post has disappeared and I’m not sure what happened…might be the new software that runs this thing…so, I guess I’ll have to update…it was just a normal day yesterday but I did go over to C’s house to get the water heater turned on so they could show it…have to go back over there this morning to shut the place down so he doesn’t have to spend 50 bucks on gas to come down and back…slept okay last night but had some disturbing dreams…not the happy ones I normally have but I guess the plus is that I had dreams two days in a row…yesterday’s were about cell phone problems and were related to real cell phone problems that I had…not being able to get texts…had to go over to Verizon to get those fixed but they couldn’t figure them out…just started to work again on it’s own…not much to do today..getting ready to head across town and then back here for a while before I head out for pool later…more later…
Monkey see, monkey do…
Well…I just had to comment on the continued saga of ole Chris Christie and the political payback his staff laid on the mayor of Ft. Lee NJ just because he wouldn’t endorse ole Chris…I know he fired someone that is supposed to be responsible..but that doesn’t get to the root of the problem…and that is Christie is a bully, and he runs his administration like any bully from the playgrounds to the internet…how else does anyone expect his staff to act when they see bullying as accepted practice day in and day out? It all boils down to the tone that ole Chris has set for his administration of confrontation and attack against anyone who dares to not do what he says…and it showed up in this bs incident…monkey see, monkey do….geez…
A Limbaugh smackdown…
Well…as we always expect, ole Rush went off the deep end again showing his ignorance and stupidity during the latest cold snap that has gripped the US over the past few days. When meteorologists stated to explain the weather pattern using the term “polar vortex”, ole Rush just went ballistic saying that it was a brand new term made up by the people who are pushing the “fallacy” of global warming and just a part of the conspiracy to do whatever he thinks the conspiracy is for…maybe taking away freedumbz? But, yesterday, Al Roker skewered his assertion by tweeting a page from a meteorology textbook from 1959 that used the term to describe exactly the phenomenon that we are seeing…and then betting anyone 1,000 dollars if they could come up with any instance where he related the vortex to global warming…and, guess what? No one could do it…one question I have is: doesn’t ole Rush have a staff that researches the bile he is spewing? Oh, of course not…he doesn’t give a damn about the truth so why would he pay someone to find out what it is? I have really tried to not write about ole Rush since I feel I need brain bleach every time…and I’m sure my brain won’t survive that much bleach…geez…
Bye, bye Christie…
Well…I am relishing this obscure little story that pulls the curtain back on how Chris Christie and most other repubs operate…if you didn’t read this, in the fall, the mayor of Ft. Lee NJ, a democrat, declined to endorse Christie for his re-election and any other dem should do given that Christie is just another thug repub. What happened next is a case study in repub thuggery…the people in Christie’s administration conspired to close down two of three lanes of the GW bridge (the busiest in the world) that run into and out of Ft. Lee, causing massive traffic backups and hampering the ability of emergency responders to move through the city. At the time, Christie’s aides said it was a “traffic study”, a blatant lie given the release of texts and e-mails that clearly show that Christie’s top aide was part of organizing payback for standing up to Christie and his thugs. Christie even did a press conference, again blatantly lying that no one from his office had been involved. So, we have another example of the thugs in the repub party thinking that laws don’t apply to them and using the levers of government unlawfully to punish their foes… an offense that should result in Christie’s resignation at the very least, and prosecution for all involved…geez…
January 8th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and, with being good, I feel okay this morning…even slept okay which is really weird given how bad it has been lately…maybe it was the 4 hours I got yesterday? The rest of the day was just like all of the others but it looks like I made it through the “polar vortex” okay….the car started fine this morning and it is going to get warmer so the worst is over…I was even out in shorts this morning to clean off the car and warm it up…the lack of wind helped, though…not much to do today…have to meet up with C at his house that he has for sale to help with getting it ready to be shown tomorrow and then close it back down Friday morning but that’s no big deal…then, just more of these and resumes….more later…
Politics are coming back…
Well…I have been waiting for the congress to get back into session so I can comment on the idiocy that comes out of the right almost…no, every day….oh, and one if most stupid politicians out there, Scott Walker, had to comment on the battle to extend UI benefits saying that they shouldn’t be extended since anyone can just go out and get a job and the benefits just allow people to be lazy mooches…oh, and that no one that is unemployed is qualified to work since their skills are not up to date…do you get the incongruity there? So, anyone can just go out and get a job but they can’t because they have no skills? What a piece of crap this guy is…first, the advanced manufacturing jobs that Walker is touting and that the unemployed is supposed to not have the skills for just don’t exist…especially in the workers utopia of Wisconsin that Walker runs…where are the 250,000 jobs you promised Scott? That your tax cuts and union busting was supposed to deliver? Just another idiot on the right that has no clue about the economy but what their ideology tells them…not the truth….geez…
January 7th
Well…running really, really late today with trying to get the driver’s door on the car thawed so I could get in it…had to run an errand yesterday where I had to get in the passenger’s door and climb over the shifter to get it…it’s hard enough for me to get in it normally but this one hurt both my hips and I am sore today…I did make up a brine solution that I heated in the microwave that opened it fine even at zero this morning….and, the damn radar detector died yesterday so I guess I’ll have to go without one for a while and just slow down…slept really crappy last night didn’t get to sleep until one and then back up at 5:30 so today is going to be a low energy one…not much to do today…going to finish my coffee and read the news and then make lunch but that is about it…more later….