Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I lost at pool…again…and that was okay, too…slept normally but no darn dreams again and that is a little disappointing…it did rain like crazy last night and this morning so the pollen is off the car and out of the air…hope that means some relief from the allergies that have been pretty bad the past few days….it is still raining so getting the bike back together can wait for a while until I have my coffee and wake up totally…didn’t do much else but pool yesterday but if it keeps raining, I’ll probably work on the kitchen today since I have already done the bathroom…need to do laundry today, too, so I’ll have something to do until Man U comes on this aft….not much to do today…cleaning, but that is about it…more later….
May 8th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool…got the bathroom cleaned, too…finally…but didn’t get much else done…slept crappy again and feel that way this morning but I hope the bike ride will help that….I did leave the windows open last night and I’m not sure if that was a good idea with all the pollen in the air…my car has a yellow tint to it and I am hoping the storms later will wash that stuff out of the air for at least a little while….have been really sore lately so I think there will be some Ibuprofen before the bike ride today….this years tendon pain is in my right elbow and that is not a good thing….actually it’s in my right tricep and elbow and it is really aggravated by being on the bike…not much to do today…pool, of course, but that is going to be it…more later….
The problem in Michigan…
Well….as everyone predicted, proposal one to fix the roads here failed by a huge margin…and, as predicted, the repubs are misinterpreting the result to mean that the people here support their tax cut at all cost policies that have put us in this mess over the past 6 years. What these idiots need to do is to read the polls of why people voted no…the largest being that the legislature abdicated its responsibility to the state and the people to maintain the infrastructure just to give tax cuts to corporations and the rich. The problem is that tax cuts do not work…let me say that again…tax cuts do not work to spur growth or increase tax revenues…never have, never will…and the giveaway over the past 6 years of repub control is estimated to be 3.5 billion dollars…more than enough to repair the roads, fix the schools, and to share the revenue with our cities, which is where the growth comes from…not giving tax cuts to millionaires with the blind hope they will invest and create jobs. Now, let’s put an end to the idea that we are overtaxed, too…that honor goes to Minnesota who has a tax rate that is 30% higher than Michigan and has outpaced us in growth every year…and they fund their schools, fix their roads, and their cities are thriving. We need to stop this tax cut nonsense that has put many repub controlled states into this same downward spiral we see here in Michigan…and stop the faith based economics that has kept Michigan from the growth it could accomplish with a rational tax policy…I don’t mind paying a little more in taxes…just as long as it doesn’t end up in a CEO’s pocket like the last tax cut for corporations did….geez…
May 7th
Well…running early this morning so I thought I’d get this one done before I get started…slept okay last night and had dreams that flashed from present day to WWII…I was driving an old Plymouth with a slipping clutch and brakes that leaked but with a gorgeous woman with me who was a trooper and went along with everything that happened….pretty cool one to say the least…but it ended as all my relationships have…with getting dumped…I did get a few things done yesterday and today is going to be bathroom cleaning day after I get the bike ride in….it is going to be 86 today and it will be nice to get this place open to air it out…I have this craving for a homemade pizza and that is what I’m going to make today…entirely from scratch and yummy…..not much to do today….I think I may take the aft off after I clean a little and get a few other things done…more later….
Another laffer…
Well…I am just amazed at the stupidity of people in the US these days…I wonder if it’s always been this way and the stupidity is just being better reported now or if this is a new thing…all I know is that this one almost takes the cake…don’t want to say that it does take the cake because the pattern has been that there is more and more stupidity of greater and greater depth every week. This one is a huge laffer, though…with a woman from Nebraska suing all gay people on the entire planet for breaking “religious and moral” laws…and she did it with a handwritten, misspelled, and lacking in punctuation petition….the suit is filed as “Driskell v. homosexuals” and slams gay people as “liers, deceivers, and thieves”…yeah, liar is spelled wrong multiple times in the suit….I really don’t know why I write about this stuff any more…it is a little soul crushing to think that people have so little to do and are so ignorant to think a suit like this would ever result in anything, but they continue…like the drip, drip, drip, of water torture, this idiocy is taking away the little hope of sanity I have for this country…how do these people live everyday? Geez….
This is pretty funny…
Well…if you were here yesterday, you saw my rant on the stupid in Texas…I thought mine was okay, but if you want a truly epic rant on the same subject, you have to go out to Daily Kos and read what Hunter had to say about it…one of the funniest things I have read in a quite a while…and when Hunter gets going, there is no one who does it better…and I rarely recommend other writers. I’ll try to do another later in the day but. for the third day in a row, I have work to do and need to get it done before the soccer match comes on….more later….
May 6th
Well…it was another work filled day yesterday but I have everything done but cleaning so today will be a little slower…slept crappy again last night and it was funny to get a text from T at 5:08 this morning…she had an early, busy day today and it was funny to talk to her that early….I was up anyway so it made smile a little….I did have dreams that had Kasey Kahne in them and my 1971 Fiat….he was going to buy it from me but it broke down in a huge way downtown…and the funny thing was that when we opened the hood, it had a different engine than is was supposed to have…weird….didn’t get on the bike yesterday with all the rain but that will change today…not supposed to rain until this aft so I’ll get a long one in this morning to try to work out the back pain I’ve been having…not much to do today…I do have to clean up after the work around here and do the bathroom but that will be it….there will be a nap this aft during soccer since I think I only got about 3 hours last night…more later….
The crazy train picks up speed in Texas….
Well…just when I thought it couldn’t get any crazier in Texas, the crazy train there just keeps on picking up speed….the latest head slapper comes form the newly elected governor who put the national guard there on alert the other day…can you guess the reason? Nope, you will never get this one in a million years….his reason was that he thinks that the feds are going to take over Texas, confiscate all the guns, and lock up the politicians. Yeah…from an elected governor no less…we have this new level of crazy that was triggered from the annual military practices that are held at the military bases there every year….and have been since the bases were established over 50 years ago. I wonder if it’s something in the water since ole Ted Cruz jumped on the crazy bandwagon and sent a letter to someone in the federal government asking them to reassure Texans that they have nothing to fear from these exercises. Now, it makes it really easy for me when these idiots go over the edge, like they seem to do about once a week now, but, c’mon…really? This takeover would just never happen….and now this idiot governor has the righties there worked up and polishing their guns getting ready for an attack…..let’s waste more time and money getting ready for something that is just a delusion….and not fund schools….geez…
May 5th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I finally got something done….worked on things around here all morning then had errands to run that took me almost all day from 8am….a good day that got me going….slept okay last night after I took an antihistamine to help the bad allergic reaction I had yesterday and it looks like I’ll have to do the same today….have been coughing like crazy and that needs to end…it was nice getting out for a little drive yesterday and the car is running great….I got a hundred miles out of the first 1/4 tank and that can’t be right….there is no way I can get 400 miles out of an 11 gallon tank….at least it’s never gotten that in the three years I’ve owned it…might be better than the 26 mpg that I got last time I checked, though…not much to do today…I do have more work to do around here and then get out to vote….more later….
No on proposal 1
Well…if you don’t remember, there is an election tomorrow to vote on whether to raise the sales tax here in Michigan to repair the terrible roads that all of us drive on. I am going to vote no on this proposal for a number of reasons…the first being that sales tax increases are hardest on the poor and middle class as a percentage of their income and that is not a fair way to pay for infrastructure projects. My second reason is that the people who do the most damage to the roads, corporations that use them for commerce, won’t have to kick a dime in to pay for all that damage…where is the tax increase on them to help? On top of the sales tax increase, the proposal would raise the registration fee on every car by almost $50 dollars per car that normal folks can’t just write off as corporations do. To raise the the 1.3 billion dollars that this proposal is supposed to raise, why not just rescind the 1.3 billion dollar tax cut the corporations got that was paid for by me and other people living on their retirement savings? This proposal is just another failure by the repub run legislature to do their jobs as they were elected to do…never before did a sitting legislature in Michigan abdicate their responsibility to do what was necessary to keep the state moving…I think it’s just a ploy for them to be able to say they never raised taxes…that the people did…what a bunch of crap…geez…