Well…just watched the first “kiddie table” debate and all I can do is echo Hunter and say there was a whole lot of nothin there….other than troops to the middle east and more war…Clinton bad…yadda, yadda…small, small people with small, small ideas…geez…oh…and Bobby Jindal being very proud of taking healthcare away from poor women in his state….
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The repub debates….
Well….I’m not sure if I’m anticipating the debates today or not…I do know that the first one with the junior varsity at 5 is going to be hard to take but may be the most interesting one with the participants doing so poorly in the polls that they have to do something, anything, to get a little traction with the repub electorate. But, my problem there is that I won’t have any cocktails yet to numb me to the stupidity that is sure to ooze from that stage….and that puts my tv in danger since I may just have to throw something at it with all of the lies and idiocy…I have been contemplating taking notes so I’ll be able to comment on them tomorrow but there are so many sites that will be doing live blogging or summaries that I’m not sure I want to make the effort. The varsity debate at 9 should be palatable with at least two cocktails in me by then but there will be the same or even more danger to the tv after the cocktails….and there is a compilation of “The Daily show” on comedy central that I can turn to as a palate cleanser if I need it…I am kind of looking forward to Christie and Trump going at it but I think the rest of them will follow the talking points that have been issued by the billionaires and will include “Benghazi!” and many other attacks on Hillary….might be better than re runs…..maybe not….
Iran…
Well…I thought it pertinent to write about the pending Iran nuclear deal on the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 70 years ago today….almost 90,000 people died in that blast with thousands more dying in the years after…I know it was necessary to end the war but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn something from it. But now, we have idiots like Tom Cotton proposing we use nuclear weapons to take out Iran’s nuclear capacity and then send in an occupying force to ensure that all of their capability is gone… and this is the thing….the deal that was negotiated by the US and the four other nations…Russia, China, France, and England will ensure that there will be no capability for Iran to get a bomb…at least for 10 years while, by intelligence estimates, destroying their program now will only set them back 5 to 7 years…so, what do you want? An agreement that costs the US nothing and prevents the bomb for at least 10 years, or to bomb and invade Iran that would cost trillions (again) and thousands of US lives? I am tired of war…we have negotiated with our enemies throughout the history of this country and why not now? The only reason is that these idiots on the right have tunnel vision that war is the only way we will get what we want in the world…and they think the same way in the US trying to govern…our way or the highway is the only acceptable option to them…but, that is just not how the world works….these guys are just too stupid to know that….geez…
August 6th
Well…running a little late today since I had to do the grocery run this morning..how do you spend 45 bucks at the grocery store and come home with nothing? At least I had the 45 bucks to spend….slept okay last night but no dreams this time and I’m okay with that…I was good again last night but that is going to go away tonight…after all, how can you watch the repub debates without a cocktail or four? I do feel okay today but there is a general soreness that I haven’t felt in a while….okay…going to go get some ibuprofen…that’s done…have to prep for the bike ride or my wrists and right tricep will cramp up on me…not really cramp but I think it’s tendon swelling from irritation….I do like my new coffee maker…it makes better tasting coffee than the last one and it has chrome accents on it that I like…not much to do today…going to do the bathroom since I counted 12 spiders in there this morning and the shower needs to be cleaned…I do have to watch Jon Stewart’s last show but I’m not sure I’ll make it tonight…probably have to watch the rerun tomorrow night…more later….
Questions for the repub debate….
Well…with fox news running the debate for the repubs tomorrow night and 3 of their biggest toadies there being the moderators, I want to speculate a little about some of the questions that will be asked….let’s take them numerically…
1. Is Obama one of the worst presidents in US history or is he the worst?
2. Did Hillary order the attack on Benghazi or did she just cover up that the CIA did it?
3. Will Obamacare kill your grandmothers this year or will they wait until next year?
4. The liberals want to tax the rich to pay for infrastructure repairs….why shouldn’t we give them more tax cuts instead?
5. Some women in the country have the expectation that they should control their own bodies….tell us why they are too stupid to do that.
You get my drift…I am going to watch just for grins but I’ll bet there are at least one of the questions above that are really asked in some form….geez…
Energy….
Well…as you know, I get some weird thoughts when I’m out on the bike and I have had this one running through my head for a couple of weeks now…so, I thought I’d try to put it into words and just see what happens….the whole thing started with the realization or recognition that matter and energy are just two forms of the same thing and that everything that is living on the Earth comes from the photons that the sun emits….but, you know that…I hope…and those photons, when converted into matter by plants…are then used by me to make the chemical energy that I use to drive the bike…but, it doesn’t stop there….I find it kind of interesting how quickly this chemical energy can be changed into potential, kinetic, or heat energy while I’m on the ride. Ride to the top of the first hill, and the chemical energy has been converted into potential energy…you can’t see it or feel it but, at the top of the hill, the bike and I are full of this type of energy…and it is quickly released when I head down the next hill…..then the legs take over and the chemical energy is converted into kinetic energy…or the energy that comes with movement of a mass…and then when I stop all of that kinetic is converted into heat by the disc brakes…and then the cycle starts all over again when I start moving again….I find that kind of interesting…not sure if you will….
August 5th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I was good again so I feel okay today..slept okay again…not as well as the other night but still better than normal…my back hurts today, though so the ibuprofen will be necessary for the bike today…there were dreams again and my Miata keeps turning red in them so I don’t know what that is about….I did finally get out to replace the coffee maker and got a nice one for 15 bucks that I just ran for the first time…pretty good coffee so that is cool…I also made some cash yesterday so I can pay my car insurance next week….I am happy that the car is so reliable…have not spent anything on repairs in over two and a half years…I know I don’t drive a lot but that is still pretty cool…put 15 bucks in the car last week and it still has 3/4 of a tank in it…not much to do today…the normal stuff but that is about it….I do need to do something before the summer is over and I’ve already done the beach thing so I’m not sure what that something would be….who knows? More later….
What to say about Lindsey Graham?
Well…as we all know, repubs lie and lie and lie all the time since they know there is never any consequences to their lies…and the same is going on with ole Lindsey…he has been touting his 33 years of military service on his website along with his training of other lawyers in the JAG office…only one tiny little problem there, when contacted, the JAG office could find no record that he ever showed up…not once in the 33 years he has been sucking up his pay as a Lt. Colonel and Colonel has he done anything to earn his pay…over the 33 years the only records of anything he did was 108 hours of training…in 33 years of taking the money…108 hours. Let me put that in perspective for you…my younger sister, in her 20 years in the Army reserve did two weeks every summer at camp Grayling here in Michigan…learning the skills she would need if she was ever called up…and that doesn’t include the years she spent touring with the Army Reserve band…..so in 33 years ole Lindsay did less time than my sister did in two weeks every summer…and yet he just kept on taking the pay and railing against people on welfare getting “free money” from the government…I guess it’s okay if a repub does it…but not a poor person that needs it…I just hate these lying asses…there should be some discipline for stealing your pay for 33 years…geez…
August 4th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but another wasted one that I need to change today…slept pretty good last night and I feel okay this morning…which is something I didn’t think I’d say anymore…I think the no cocktail idea is a good one and I think I’ll do that for a week or so to just see how it works out….but, no…I’m going to need a cocktail for the repub debate and Jon Stewart’s last show thurs….but that will be a late starter since I’ll have to stay up until almost midnight…and that’s late for me….have been making progress toward the goal of 25K miles on the bike and it’s down to only 900 more miles to get there….feel pretty good about that and my legs are back to normal finally….it looks like a week of great weather so I do need to wash the car again but I’m not sure why it gets so dusty so fast…..not much to do today…I do have to go out for the new coffee maker today and get some cleaning done but that is about it…..more later….
Jose Mourinho has no class…
Well…this one is going to be about soccer so I thought I’d get that out so you’ll know whether or not to continue reading….okay, so yesterday morning I was pretty excited that the ‘Community Shield” match was on tv…pitting the top two teams from last year in the BPL (British Premiere League)…and it was a pretty good match since Chelsea lost to Arsenal….I always root against Chelsea for some reason that I don’t know and I was happy to see Arsenal win…but, what happened after with the coach of Chelsea was one of the most no class things I’ve seen in a while….after getting their medals for second place…Jose Mourinho, the coach of Chelsea, was greeeting and shaking the hands of some of the Arsenal players he knows but when Arsenne Wenger, the coach of Arsenal got to him Mourinho turned his back on him and walked off the field, throwing his second place medal into the stands….just like a petulant little boy…this idiot disrespected everyone involved with putting on the charity game with his antics and I think he should be ashamed…geez…