Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…slept okay but kind of fitfully but feel okay today…I think that’s from eating enough yesterday…still not where I need to be but making progress is a good thing….it was nice to get out and see K for a couple later in the day but that had me tired here last night…fell asleep on the couch, which I never do, and that made a little tightness in my neck today….didn’t get anything done yesterday and today looks like more of the same…there is soccer on right now that is getting my attention since it is s good match with Arsenal and Spurs and I think I’ll go back to that here in a minute…not much to do today…going over to one of my sons house for the Wings game later but that is about it….more later….
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February 6th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday but the tooth hurt like crazy last night and that was not fun….but, it only hurts a little this morning so I’m hopeful it will be okay today…slept okay last night but feel a little slow this morning and it is my fault…didn’t get anything done yesterday and today looks the same…need to just kind of relax today since my stomach is burned out from the ibuprofen from yesterday…I may do some laundry and other chores this morning but nothing too heavy….not much to do today…pool, of course, but not much more than that….T is having some medical procedures done this morning and I am a little consumed with that so that will be my focus today…more later….
The supreme court isn’t one….
Well…I have had this little tidbit rattling around in my head for a little while yet and thought I’d take a stab at it before it rattles out one of my ears…with all of the bad, bad decisions that this court has made, it is no longer a court…but it is the judicial arm of the repub party whose only goal is to further the aims of the right in this country. Starting with Bush v. Gore, where the case should have been sent back to the House where all election disputes are supposed to be resolved according to the constitution….this court took the case with the ruling that said this was a one time thing and could never be a precedent to be cited in any other case (something that had never happened in the history of the country) this court has been radically doing the right’s bidding. Then we have Citizen’s United that made corporations people in complete disregard with a hundred years of precedent and guaranteed the seven figure speaking fees for the justices when they retired…while ruining our political process and allowing the billionaires on the right to buy elections ( as they just did in 2014). Then there is Hobby Lobby, a decision that allowed employers the right to impose their religious beliefs on their employees and which gave the right one of the items that was high on their wish list….to impose Christianity on everyone in this country. In just these three instances, we can see that this supreme court is no longer the impartial arbiter of law they are supposed to be, but the judicial arm of the right using it’s power to advance the right’s aims to the detriment of the country…they need to go…geez…
February 5th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool…had a nice lunch with T that was a lot of fun and then out to have a few with G that wasn’t…slept mediocre last night and had dreams about a baseball game that used a oblong ball that was just weird…..the teeth don’t hurt this morning and I can’t figure that out…but, I hope it keeps up…other than lunch, I didn’t get much done yesterday so today will be filled with accomplishment…not really but it sounded good….I do have to do the grocery run this morning since I am really, really tired of chicken and need something different….didn’t eat anywhere near enough yesterday so I am planning on running out of steam early as I always do when I am under on calories…not much to do today…other than the grocery run, that is….I do have one errand to run but the whole day will hinge on whether or not the car will start this morning….more later…
The real death panel….
Well…during the repub fight against the ACA, one of their go to phrases was the law included “death panels” which would condemn people to death by restricting what type of care people would get under the law…ignoring the fact that that most elderly folks are covered under Medicare and it would have nothing to do with them….but, with a new study that came out today, the real death panel is going to be the supreme court if they rule against subsidies for people who buy their insurance through the federal exchanges…and condemn an extra 10,000 people to death per year since they won’t be able to afford unsubsidized insurance. This total can then be added to the estimated 17,000 people a year that die since the Medicaid expansion was made optional by the court and the governors of repub states decided not to expand the program. So, the only thing you need to remember is there truly is a death panel here in the US, and it is called the supreme court…geez…
February 4th
Well…running a little late today and I’m not really sure why….I guess I chose to not get this one out when I got up at 6:30 since there was a Miami Vice marathon on the new channel the just put on Dish…still a pretty weird show but better than the rest of the reruns that are on…slept pretty good last night…yeah, strange, right? And feel pretty good about that although my lower tooth is hurting this morning for the first time since last Thursday…not a bad run for a temporary repair…..and I have them figured out so I can repair them when necessary….it was an okay day yesterday but no lunch with T since she had so much going on but we are going to try for another one today….didn’t get much done but look for a new battery for the car and found one on Amazon for 20 bucks cheaper than I can get it around here…and it has more power, too…it looks like tomorrow will be the test for the current one and if it still starts I may just try to get through the winter with it….not much to do today…I do have to run some errands after lunch but that is about it….more later…
More on vaccines….
Well…I guess the repubs haven’t gotten to their monthly quota of stupid yet so they all have to weigh in on the vaccines “controversy” that they have manufactured all by themselves…and I want to start with just a month or so ago to show how crazy these folks are…of course you remember the Ebola scare where there was one case in the US and everyone on the right was just freaking about about it…and one of the memes that they were pushing was that it was Obama’s fault that there was no vaccine for Ebola that everyone could get to be safe…fast forward to today and you have all of the repub idiots out there saying it should be a parents choice whether or not they vaccinate their kids…never mind the fact that millions and millions of lives have been saved by vaccines since they were invented…under the guise of freedom, these idiots are willing to have their children die from readily preventable diseases since, according to their great minds like Rand Paul, vaccines can cause “severe mental problems” even though there has never been case of this that they can refer anyone to…they just “know” it’s a fact. Then, today, we have another great light from the right…some senator from Tennessee or some other backwater of science deniers, go on and on that the current measles outbreak is caused by “illegal immigrants” coming over the border since none of them are vaccinated…but he missed the fact that all of the central American countries including Mexico have vaccination rates that are much higher than the US. So, I guess what all of this means is the repubs are still the party of the stupid; denying science to pander to the stupid in their party and putting many people in danger for it…geez…
February 3rd
Well…sitting here waiting for the car to defrost so I thought I’d get this one done before that happens….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done other than digging the car out from the drift it was in….plowed snow with the front bumper all the way out to the store for the papers but the cool thing was the plower came and cleared my spot while I was gone….I guess it works being a nice guy sometimes…slept okay last night and the teeth are still not hurting today so that is s really good thing…we’ll see how they go today….especially with maybe having lunch with T and having some errands to run…the car started okay this morning but it is not that cold so I guess I’ll have to wait until tomorrow when it is really cold to see if I need a new battery or not…..hope not….not much to do today…just lunch and that’s it…more later….
Is the stupid in the water in Texas?
Well…as you know, I read a lot every day and I come across some really stupid stuff…and a lot of it is from Texas where it appears that the stupid is in the water like flouride. This latest one happened a couple of days ago where a grade school principle suspended an 8 year old for bringing a ring to school and saying it was the magic ring from “Lord of the Rings” and he could make one of his classmates invisible with the ring….the idiot principal of the school said that saying he could turn someone invisible was a “threat” so she suspended this 8 year old…for having an imagination, I guess. The worst thing is this same kid was suspended a couple of months ago for bringing his copy of “The Big Book of Knowledge”, a popular children’s book to school…and the reason for that suspension? The book has a picture of a pregnant woman in it…yep, in Texas the stupid runs so deep that kids get suspended for having a picture book with them….where do they think babies come from? Probably by magic…just like the rest of their thinking on everything….geez…
The anti-vaxxers are nuts…
Well…there has been a building story over the past year or so about people opting to not get their children vaccinated due to some stupid, unfounded belief that the vaccines cause autism in children….all driven by some doctor in England who faked the numbers in a “study” he did to make it look like there was a causitive relationship between getting the standard MMR vaccine and the increasing incidence of autism…not sure what his reasoning was but that’s not the point…the point is that modern vaccines are safe and effective. But, that doesn’t stop the idiots out there that think their beliefs are better than the scientific evidence…I’m talking to you Jenny McCarthy…and have put many children with other illnesses at risk by their stupidity. When my kids were little, they all got all of the vaccinations on time…why would any parent subject their kids to to the pain and possibly life altering effects that come with getting the measles or mumps? I had all of those diseases when I was a kid and can remember being out of school for weeks with chicken pox and I remember the pain from the mumps that I would not wish on anyone…let alone my own kids. I think not vaccinating your kids is a form of child abuse that needs to be stopped…but the repubs keep making it easier to opt out of vaccinations for “freedumb” or some such nonsense…I guess that is just a normal outcome of their anti science and ignorance…still doesn’t justify it…geez…