Well….just lost the entire post that I was writing and I am a little irritated since I now have to try to reconstruct it….it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little money that I spent on groceries this morning but my head is still above water so that is okay…didn’t get much done yesterday but I didn’t have much to do so I guess that works out…did get out to have a couple with G and that was interesting…but, it broke up my no drinking week and I am not too happy about that….I am happy that the truck race on dirt from Eldora is on tonight…last year’s was a hoot to watch since a bunch of the drivers had never been on dirt before….and then later, Man U plays the LA Galaxy but it doesn’t start until 11 so I won’t see much of that…and they won’t bring the whole team anyway so it won’t be much of a game…that’s about all I have to do today…I am going to meet up with T for a HH later and I do have errands to run so it is going to be a busy day for me….more later…
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Another difference between them and us….
Well…with the refugee crisis that is occurring on our southern border where thousands of children fleeing almost certain death have crossed into the US, we can see another huge difference between the right and us….the right replied to the crisis by protesting and howling that these kids should be sent back to where they came from not caring that most of them will die if that happens and mistakenly picketing YMCA buses trying to prevent them from getting the care they need…all the while snarling that it’s not our responsibility to do anything for them…so, what was the response of us on the left to these children? Outpouring of aid and comfort and howling at the government for the appalling conditions these kids are being held in…a young Democrat group putting together a way through facebook to donate clothing and other necessities….once the word got out on Kos that we could help…Kos started it out with donating over 300 dollars and then the community kicked in with thousands more….and that continues now with hundreds of us doing our part to help these scared kids….so, we have the “christians” on the right ready to send them back to be killed while the atheists on the left see the problem as a humanitarian one and organize a way to help….that is just another difference between them and us…they profess to be caring christians but they’re not and they tar us as being godless socialists and we’re the ones that are looking for solutions that will save the lives of these kids….what kind of a person would allow kids to die for ideology? Geez….
This explains a lot…
Well…read an interesting study yesterday that compared how children raised in religious homes fared against those raised in secular homes in the necessary skill of discerning fantasy from reality….and the results explained a lot to me when they found that those raised in the strictest homes that teach their children that the bible is the word of god had a huge problem telling what is real and what isn’t since they are taught that that myth is truth….and, that explains why the religious adults on the right so happily believe the conspiracy theories and the lies that are spewed at them every day from the right wing media. I think this is the worst kind of child abuse that is covered by religion..who in their right mind would doom their child to a life without this critical thinking skill? Oh, that’s right, they don’t care about that…faith is all it takes for them in politics and economics…even when that faith is proven wrong on so many fronts…geez…
July 22nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got some work done around here…and, found some new equipment if I have to replace the old stuff…slept crappy and part of it was worrying about T and her tests today….but, most of it was just the same old crap…I have to do a better job of watching what I eat since yesterday I was under again…but, I still don’t understand why I’m not 150 pounds with only eating 1400 cals and burning 900 on the bike every day….need to lose another 20 pounds but I’m not sure how to do it….not much to do today…might make a little cash and that would be cool but that is about it…need to get out on the bike before it gets too hot but that’s about all I have to do…was going to go to the beach but business calls so that’s out until next week now….oh, well…
Some thoughts….
Well…politics are looking like they are going to get going again in a little while but this one is not about politics…it is just thoughts…saw a great special honoring Neil Young last night where they had assorted artists come on to do his songs…one of the best was Ben Harper…yeah, I don’t know who he is either, with three backup singers doing “Ohio”….wonderful voice and he got what the song was about..it seems that a bunch of them didn’t get the meaning of the rest of the songs and interpreted them strangely…one of the weirdest was Josh Groban doing “Harvest moon” where he overpowered that quiet little love song….no nuance to it at all…you didn’t feel the song like you do when Neil sings it….but, it was a nice diversion in a boring night…and one cool part was the CSN came on to do a song for Neil, too…pretty neat…in fact, I’m watching them right now on AXS tv….
July 21st
Well….it was an okay day yesterday but just a normal Sunday with a little cleaning and races in it….not going to talk about sleeping….didn’t eat enough, again, so that will have to be fixed today but that means that the legs will be dead for the bike ride…they were yesterday, too, so it looks like I may be taking a day off soon…maybe tomorrow, have been thinking about making a run out to the beach since it is going to be 90 or so tomorrow but T is going to be in the hospital for tests all day so I may want to be here for support…not much to do today…and that is true….not sure what to even think about doing….maybe I’ll figure something out later….
Everyone should read this one….
Well…I normally don’t link to other sites or articles but I read one by Laurence Lewis over at Kos today that everyone should read…it’s about how corrupt the supreme court has become with the advent of the conservative majority…I have railed about this same topic on numerous occasions but Laurence is in great form…go take a look…
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/20/1312504/-Born-of-corruption-why-would-anyone-expect-this-SCOTUS-majority-to-be-anything-but-corrupt
Looks like you’ll have to cut and paste…the links aren’t working for my site…
RIP James Garner…
Well….saw in the news that James Garner died over the weekend and that makes today a little sad…since I can remember, he was in the world that I inhabited…not in the same circles obviously, but in movies and tv….and “The Rockford files” was one of my favorite shows of all time..for so many years…Friday nights at 9 o’clock was time for Rockford….and it is funny and something that I always say is that you can be successful and a nice guy…and he was both…RIP…
July 20th
Well…sitting here watching the F1 race and thought I’d get this one done so I can get out on the bike as soon as it is over….it was an okay day yesterday but didn’t do much…slept okay but up at 5:30 again and that is getting to be a pain….and it looks like there are many more races on today so it looks like another wasted day but that is okay…and the wind is not blowing at all so it will be a good ride…man, this one is disjointed…maybe I’ll just go back to the race and come back later…
A progressive split…
Well…you’re probably not aware that there is a huge progressive shindig going on in Detroit this week where activists meet up to plan how to strategize to get progressive candidates elected…and to fight back against the billions of dollars that the owners of the rights politicians will spend to make sure that business and the rich continue to gut the middle class and poison everyone. This year, it was a pretty good meet up but there was one little bomb that was dropped near the end that has all of us on the left a little bewildered….the choosing of Arizona as the 2015 site for Net roots nation…as the meet up is called. This choice has split the progressive movement…well…maybe not split from the comments that I have read…but pissed us off..starting with the originator of the meetups, Kos, (or Markos Moulitsos) whose site, the Daily Kos, is the largest and most active of the progressive ones out there…with Kos going so far as saying they can go there without him or any support from his site or network. I agree with him…with all of the nasty, racist, anti gay crap that has been going on there over the past few years, to reward them by bringing millions of dollars into the state would just be wrong…we on the left have to live our principles and ensure that we don’t help the right wing asses continue to do what they do…hate and fear monger and get elected…it will be interesting to see if the decision sticks…with the outcry, I’ll bet that there will be another state chosen…one where the people are trying to restore the true American values of inclusiveness and cooperation to make this a better country for all…not just for the rich….geez…