Well…running really late this morning and I feel like crap so I am a little confused…was good the past two nights so I guess it must be allergies…slept okay but no dreams again….okay, that boring so I won’t talk about that…didn’t get much done yesterday but I will today…need to do the kitchen and the spiders have grown larger so I need to get them out of the bathroom….not much else to do really but get a bike ride in…thankfully, the legs are better but I have been getting cramps in them the past few days so bananas are on the grocery list for tomorrow….didn’t win the Mega last night but someone did so there goes that last little shred of hope….not much to do today…going to shift into slow mode today and just sleepwalk through cleaning but that is about it…more later….
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The cost of brutality…
Well…just read an interesting little article in the Free Press about the individualized costs of just one police brutality case in the city of Inkster…if you recall, an idiot cop dragged a guy out of his car under false pretenses and beat him mercilessly…in this one case the cop was fired and is now under trial for multiple felonies in relationship to that beating…never mind the many, many others he was responsible for. This article put a new spin on the 1.38 million dollar settlement to the beaten man…they broke it out as a per household amount that is going to have to be paid through a millage increase that will tax everyone in Inkster…and that comes out to $178.30 property tax increase for a house that is only worth $55,000…yep for each homeowner they are going to have to kick in almost 200 bucks to pay for this one case of police brutality…I wonder if this will help end this nonsense? If I lived in Inkster, I’d sure be yelling for changes so this wouldn’t ever happen again…and, I would press the city to file a recovery lawsuit to get the money back from the fired officer….geez…
Special rights….
Well…I have just about had enough of the right’s railing against the “special rights” that they think gays will get if they get the same rights as the rest of us here in the US…I have yet to have anyone that supports discrimination against gays explain to me what these “special rights” are but there was a huge dose of irony that has come out of North Carolina over the past week dealing with the “special rights” that they are close to granting magistrates there that have “deeply held religious beliefs”….yeah, I put that in quotes because that phrase means they have deeply held bigoted beliefs that they think they should be able to act on…even if it is their job to issue marriage licenses. This new law, that was vetoed by the governor but looks like will be upheld with a veto override, grants these magistrates the ‘special right” to refuse to issue any couple a marriage license if they just shout “deeply held religious belief” before they discriminate…and, while the purpose of the bill is to allow discrimination against gays, it’s scope allows any magistrate to not give a marriage license to anyone they don’t like…interracial couple, check….Mexican couple, check, couple from a family they don’t like, check….how can we just saw these stupid states off and let them float away? These guys hate “special rights” unless it is for them and no one else…..geez…
June 2nd
Well…running a little late today since I just haven’t been able to get going…and the computer is giving me fits again but I think I have that fixed…and, we tied at pool for the second time in a row which is really weird….slept okay and had some dreams that were too boring to tell so I won’t…and, it’s frickin 42 degrees? In June? just can’t take this crap and forgot to put the heat on for the second night in a row…so, it’s cold in here and I’m having hot coffee to try to cope…it just on principle that I won’t put the heat on now….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and probably won’t today either….just can’t get moving….but I will in a few minutes when I start the workout and then get on the bike…more later….
Tax cuts don’t create jobs…again….
Well….as the bidding goes on and states keep falling all over themselves to see how much money they can give to corporations to “create jobs”….there have been a couple of new studies that have come out that say that it doesn’t work…two repub budget directors from here in Michigan have weighed in on the Snyder tax cuts for business that were supposed to create jobs…or that ole Snyder is lying about saying they did…there have been no jobs found that can be attributed to those tax cuts…the only thing they have done is bust the budget and ensure that the roads won’t be fixed…there was also another study that I would think would be the final nail in the tax cut coffin….in New York state, they doled out over 30 million dollars to the “job creators” and guess what was the result? 76 jobs…yep, 76 jobs for 30 million dollars of taxpayers money…..when is this idiocy going to stop? geez,,,,,
June 1st
Well…running really late this morning and I have an excuse this time…my internet has been down all morning and has just come back up…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…and today looks like more of the same…I did shave my beard off this morning just to see what it looks like and I’m not sure if I like it or not…I don’t have any lips and it looks kind of odd…but I do this about once a year and think I’ll just let it go for a while….slept okay last night and feel okay today so that’s something….I do have to get the workout in and then I’m going to wash the car since it is not going rain all week and it is still pretty cold out there so the bike ride will have to wait until after I get back….might have pool today so that is something to look forward to if it happens….more later…
Filler, filler, filler…
Well…might just as well admit it in the title that this one is a filler to make the quota for the month….not much going on in politics right now so I haven’t had a lot to write about…oh, the Patriot act may expire tonight…I hope Rand Paul keeps his promises to kill the damn thing and just get rid of that monstrosity of a law that has done more to destroy civil liberties in the US than anything else….it’s the most hated day of the month tomorrow…don’t even want to think about paying the rent…so, I won’t…going to do a GOT marathon tonight starting with the first episodes…didn’t see a lot of the early ones so I hope I can find three or four that I haven’t seen….and, I am going to make it a cocktail night since I am so bored…I am going to make tacos for dinner so I guess I should get to it…there…made the goal!
Whitecaps on the puddles…
Well….it has been a cold morning but I did get out on the bike but not without some issues….got about 2 miles out and the bike just didn’t feel right so I stopped and noticed that the bolt that holds the swingarm on was loose, leaving about a half inch of play in it…so, I had to come back here for that repair and it made the bike so much better….it just hasn’t felt right for a while now…it was almost impossible to go in a straight line with it but that is fixed now….yay…but, that’s not what this one is about…well…kinda…on the ride today the wind was blowing almost 30 mph from the northeast which made parts of the ride just brutal…there were times that I was just stopped dead by a gust and that is just no fun….with the wind blowing that hard…I laughed when I saw there were whitecaps in the puddles on the trail today…..one more to go…
May 31st
Well..it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…the spiders are still in the bathroom and the kitchen still needs to be cleaned but for some reason I just don’t care…slept okay last night but forgot to put the heat on and it was cold in here when I got up…still haven’t put it on but it seems tolerable with it only being 48 outside…will need to wear a sweatshirt if I decide to get out on the bike today…didn’t ride yesterday with all of the rain and that may have been a good thing to get rid of the soreness….feel a little crappy today and I have a few things to get done but not a whole lot….I do have to do two more of these to get to the goal for the month and I hope they are not fillers but I can’t promise anything….more later…
May 30th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and we tied at pool…which is kind of weird…slept okay but had a melancholy night last night…just one of those nights where it feels like an ending is coming but I’m not sure what that would be….had to run the air in the car on the way back from pool since it was raining and it was not bad….I think that is the longest time I’ve ever run it and the car was nice and cold….I just can’t believe that a 21 year old car still functions like a new one…I think it’s the only car that I have owned that the air actually worked…have had some weird food cravings lately and they continue today…going to make chili dogs today…something I never eat but they just sounded good…weird…not much to do today…may not ride today with the rain that is coming in since I don’t feel like going right now….just going to watch races and veg…more later…