Well… didn’t get out to shoot pool today since Tom is sick so I thought I’d come back here to do another one of these…and, with it being the 50th anniversary of JFK being assassinated, I thought I’d talk about this little epiphany that I had watching some of the historical shows on the topic. What strikes me about the climate of that time and of this time is how similar they appear when looked at in the context of right wing hate….when Kennedy was going to Dallas, there were fliers put on cars calling for Kennedy to be tried for treason for something or other…and, when you see any right wing rally these days you see the same thing on signs and fliers…that Obama should be tried for treason, again, for something or other…probably for just being president. One of the things I find to be a little disturbing with this kind of crap is that people are supposed to be more informed these days but the actions of the right and repubs show that they are just where they have always been….a hate group under the guise of a political party who should be marginalized and pushed back under the rocks they crawl from…geez…
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November 22nd
Well…it was just another day yesterday and nothing happened…to me anyway…and that is what my life is like now…slept okay but no dreams…that’s getting repetitive, too….running late…that’s getting repetitive, too….oh, well…didn’t do much yesterday but get the bike ride in and got some cleaning done…and that looks like the same for today…other than pool, that is…the Wings finally won a game last night and that was cool…not much to do today…I’m just not feeling this right now so I am going to go finish the coffee and look at the radar to see if I can get out on the bike…might be nice to take the day off from riding since the lack of music is pretty de-motivating….only got out the door yesterday before the thing died…I am starting to think I may have been taken by the joint in Hong Kong that I bought the battery from since it’s been two weeks and it is still not here…oh, well…
The filibuster is gone…
Well…have been waiting for this day for a while now…with all of the repub efforts to nullify the results of the last two elections in the senate by the egregious use of the filibuster, Harry Reid and the dems have finally said enough…enough of the lies from the repubs, enough of the obstruction, and enough of coddling the children on the right, and have changed the rules today to allow presidential appointees to be approved by a simple majority instead of the 60 votes that was the standard until now. But, to hear the repubs whine, and whine, and whine…you would think that this rule was enshrined in the constitution…it’s not..the senate gets to set it’s own rules and change them any time the current rules will not let the senate do it’s job. It is on the repubs that this rule had to be changed…they have done nothing but obstruct qualified nominees for nothing but ideology…to make sure that Obama is not successful…this never happened under ole GW when the repubs ran the senate…the dems voted for qualified candidates and most of his appointees were approved..even while we were holding our noses at some of them….it’s about time we took this weapon away form the children on the right…they have shown that they are not responsible enough to use it…good for you Harry…geez…
November 21st
Well…it was just another normal day yesterday but the boredom was cut by the Doctor Who marathon that was on BBC…slept okay but tossed and turned all night…there were some dreams but I don’t remember them…well.. some of them…big old houses, lots of water leaks and weird people…and, as you can see, I am here early today since I just felt like doing this now instead of later…I am starting to feel like the bug is leaving…as it should be after 3 weeks but the lungs are still a little bit of a problem…still waiting for the battery to come for the walkman and I am now moving from irritated to pissed….I am so tired of only having 4 songs on the ride…not much to do today…I do have to make a short grocery run here in a few minutes but I do need to try to not spend much…haven’t made any cash in a month so brokeness is fast approaching…more later…
Almost forgot Joe…
Well…I was going to put this in the morning one on my life but I forgot for some reason…so, I’ll do it here and it will serve two purposes…it will get me caught up, and it will say Happy Birthday to one of my favorite rock and rollers…Joe Walsh turns 66 today and he has been a large part of the soundtrack that has accompanied my life from the days of the James Gang, through the Barnstorm years,, and into his solo stuff…who could not like an album named “The Smoker you drink, the player you get” or “you can’t argue with a sick mind”….so, Happy Birthday, Joe…and many, many more….
More hypocrisy..guess where from?
Well…this one would be funny if it was just so sad how much hypocrisy is oozing from the repubs these days…if you haven’t read it yet, there was another repub congressman caught the other day buying cocaine from a dealer in DC…and he explains it away by saying that he is an alcoholic so that should excuse his lapses…no, it shouldn’t…now, I know full well that people have their failings and sometimes it can lead to drug use…but, the searing hypocrisy here is that this idiot voted to test food stamp, welfare, and unemployment recipients for drug use and throw them off assistance if they tested positive…well…I guess there is a different set of rules for the ruling class…they get to do whatever they want and still collect their government pay but if someone that has reason to use drugs to cope with being poor and unemployed, off with his head! I have had enough of demonizing the poor for doing the same things that everyone does…if they want to test the poor, then anyone who votes for the law should be tested, too, after all, they shouldn’t mind if they don’t have anything to hide…snark…geez….
November 20th
Well…running really late this morning and the reason is that I just forgot to do this one…did a long one over at Kos and then straight into the workout…and the power went out, and the dog ate my homework….heard enough excuses yet? It was an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much accomplished….the Doctor Who marathon on BBC is drawing me in and I just did some vegging…oh, one last excuse…when the power went out, I restarted the computer and it had 27 programs to update and that takes forever…slept okay and had weird dreams about Singapore…yep, strange to me, too….my elbow seems to be getting more sore as the weeks go on and I am getting really tired of it….can barely pick anything up if I have to squeeze it…maybe I’m just getting old…not much to do today…I am going to wait a while to go out on the bike since my hands and feet got really cold yesterday…and, I’ve got the whole day so what’s the rush? Should clean some but I don’t want to do the kitchen until after thanksgiving since I will make a huge mess…more later…
Bad, bad Walmart….
Well..I don’t want you to think that the only thing I can write about is Walmart, but the terrible, terrible company is starting to have it’s methods exposed and it is being held responsible for them. The latest of their cringe inducing tactics to underpay and control their employees has come to the attention of the NLRB who is bringing legal action for the company’s thug-like tactics in trying to prevent their employees from organizing to get better working conditions; which is their right here in the US…but not if you hear the right talk about it…according to the right, this organizing is either communism, socialism, or an affront to the owners of Walmart who should be able to suck 3.5 billion dollars out of yours and my pockets in subsidies to their employees….it is their right as part of the 1%. So, finally, the government is saying enough to this kind of crap…but the thing I just can’t understand is the bleating from working people on the right attacking their friends and neighbors who just want to be fairly compensated for their labor….the brainwashing of the working poor on the right is one of the things I just can’t understand…they will consistently vote for people who continue to steal from them and then make sure that everyone else gets taken by the 1%, too….what happened to pride in intelligence? Doesn’t exist on the right anymore…geez…
November 19th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday…didn’t get much done but I did have a nice HH with T that lasted a few hours and it was nice to get caught up and have an adult conversation….slept really crappy again and I have to remember to turn the heat down at night….no dreams but lots of tossing and turning and I am getting frustrated again….I did get started on getting the new printer set up…well.. I took it out of the box and started to read the instructions….looks like a neat little unit for 35 bucks…and I got the papers recycled so the room looks less crowded…not much to do today…I do need to get back on the bike since I took the day off yesterday with the wind blowing so hard….I ca take the cold but not the wind….more later…
Can Walmart get any more tone deaf?
Well…if you follow the news at all, you’ve seen the veneer start to crack on the supposedly wonderful company Walmart over the past year or so, exposing the just awful employee policies the company has…and the amount of subsidies that the American people give to each and every store (over a million dollars a year per store, 3.5 billion dollars total). But now, it has even gotten worse…with a store in Ohio setting up a food donation area in an employee lounge so workers can donate food so other workers will have a Thanksgiving dinner…yep, you heard it right…Walmart wants its poorly paid employees to subsidize even worse paid ones so they don’t go hungry. There is so much wrong with this I don’t know where to start…if Walmart was so damn concerned that it’s full time employees don’t make enough money to buy food without food stamps (and it’s not…it’s a policy they support), why not just pay them more? Or, buy every employee Thanksgiving dinner? But, even with the countless billions of dollars in profit they make every year, they won’t pry even a few extra dollars out of their grasping hands to make sure their employees don’t starve….what a poor excuse for a company…and the reason I will never set foot in one….geez…