Well…trying to get used to falling back this morning and I’m not sure which affects me more…springing forward? Who knows? It was an okay day yesterday but Michigan lost so I had to take the gear off before the game was over….they just looked bad…oh, well…the Wings won convincingly and I am now questioning the move to the east after the 3 wins in a row on this swing back to the west….slept okay, I think, but I think I still have that bug that was really bad on Thursday…and the lungs are still a little off….not much to do today…going to keep it a little low key today and rest up for going out for a couple later on to meet up with C….should clean a little but that probably won’t happen…maybe…more later…
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A little sports…
Well…it has been a while since I did some sports talk here so I think it’s about time…the first and most important one is the Michigan/State game this aft…all of the pundits are calling for State to win the game by anywhere from 3 to 14 points…a little discouraging but I am still hoping that Michigan can suck it up and get a win in East Lansing today…who knows? The Wings have been doing better over the past couple of games and they look like they are just working harder than the opponents but I still think they look inconsistent…but Helm is coming back tonight and it will be interesting to see where he is with only playing one game in the last year…and I really hate these west coast games that don’t start til 10…but it is much better being in the east than in the west…I think this is the only west coast trip this year…I would talk about soccer and the BPL but I don’t get to see it anymore so the hell with them…I hope NBC sports dies after them moving soccer to a channel I don’t get…taking formula one, too…I am still pissed about that…oh, well…
November 2nd
Well…already behind for the month and there is no reason for it other than I felt like crap yesterday and really had nothing to say…but, I’ll try to change that today and get caught up…that is, if I can find something to say…it was an okay day yesterday after I started to feel better and stopped coughing…oh, and I won at pool so that was okay…I’m not sure what the heck the bug was that I had but it only lasted 2 days…and my lungs feel okay today…going to try to get out on the bike in a little while since I took the past two days off with the rain…not sure if I’m going to like riding without music today since the walkman battery has completely died and I haven’t bought another one yet….it was a little different listening to the radio in the car yesterday…felt like I was a little more connected to the world getting some local news and even the commercials…and I got to hear music that I haven’t heard in a while….not much to do today…going to clean a little and then the Michigan/State game is on later and I will have to gear up for that…more later…
November 1st
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I did a total veg since I came down with something in the afternoon…have been coughing like crazy and feel warm so today looks like another one of those…it was good to not get on the bike, too, but that leaves me with a huge case of the guilts since it looks like I won’t be going out again today…oh, well…and it is rent day today and that is the worst day of the month for me….okay, not feeling that hot right now so I am going to end here for now…
Last one for the month…finally
Well…this has been a long month doing these but I have started to regain my political outrage and that has led to finally getting back in the political arena…and there is one big thing that is going to happen in the next week or so that will be worth watching…the repubs have again broken their promise (big surprise) to not filibuster presidential appointees, especially judges, so it looks like support is building to kill the filibuster and get rid of the obstructionism that is the hallmark of the modern repubs…they have nothing that the country wants to hear anymore so all they can do is try to sabotage government, take away rights, and make sure that people they don’t like don’t have any….so, I say to Harry Reid and the rest of the dems in the senate…nuke ’em…they deserve it…and the country will certainly support getting things done….geez…
October 31st
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done…and I started to feel better after eating enough for the day but I just can’t get past the idea of eating breakfast…just don’t know why other than I’ve never eaten it in my life…might have to try something different…slept okay but no dreams to speak of…which means no rem again so I will probably be running out of steam pretty early today…but, that is okay since it is raining and I am going to take the day off the bike to let the legs rest…they just hurt like crazy and need some repair time…I do have some stuff to do today that involves dry ice…Tom, you know what that means…and both arms are now sore and I am getting really tired of it…should try to remember to take the ibuprofen to get the tendon swelling down and get a long term solution….more later…
Is John McCain really this ignorant?
Well…forgot to do this one yesterday when it was fresh in my mind so I thought I’d follow up today and just say how incredulous I am…okay, maybe not, that John McCain is so ignorant on a piece of legislation that is coming up for a vote in the senate…the legislation is the Employment Non-discrimination Act or ENDA which would just add sexual orientation to the list of things you can’t discriminate against in the workplace…just like race, color, ethnicity, and sex are now….and the reason that this is so sorely needed is that in most states, you can still be fired by your employer if you come out as gay…yep, in this day and age you can still be fired for being gay….so this bill just adds this to the protections afforded everyone else…and ole John’s objections include that it can lead to reverse discrimination, quotas, and all of the other boogeymen that the right uses when they are looking for cover for their hate…I guess he didn’t even read the bill since it specifically states that, under the law, quotas of any sort are illegal….but, that’s not new from ole John…I guess he is just another of the right who are willfully ignorant and proud of it….read the bill before you go on the talk shows and show your ignorance to the country…geez…
Suzanne Summers is a “medical expert”?
Well…got another nice laugh on how far the Wall Street Journal has fallen since ole Rupert Murdoch took control of it a few years back by the events this week where they named the “Threes Company” star a medical expert for its editorial page. Yep, a hack actor who has spent the last twenty years hawking informercial crap to the American people is now qualified to critique Obamacare…what’s next? A puppy to critique the state of veterinary care in the US? This idiot goes on in her screed that healthcare in Canada is better for pets than it is for people…using fake “facts” about how long you have to wait and that doctors are becoming vets since they can make more money and that Obamacare is bad for the elderly here in the US even though they are covered under Medicare and have nothing to do with the ACA. Then she goes on to misquote both Lenin and Churchill (reading off one of the many right wing websites that have the quotes wrong) trying to make the point that healthcare is the path to controlling everyone. What a piece of crap the entire article is…who wants to listen to an idiot who thinks that when a woman goes through menopause, it is a signal for the body to create cancers and kill itself unless you buy the hormone supplements she is shilling….geez…
October 30th
Well…it was a low energy day yesterday and I didn’t do much other than the normal stuff….and today looks quite the same other than I have to go up to the office here and straighten out my lease….and I am going to do that right now so I’ll be back later to continue…okay…that’s taken care of and I got a cut of 20 bucks a month for signing for another year…not going to be out of here before then anyway….slept okay last night but I do think I have a bug of some sort that is sapping my energy some….I do have to send good thoughts to T for her two interviews today….but that is about it…I still need to get caught up today but I made some strides toward that yesterday…and I do have topics for later that are just as jaw dropping as yesterdays….more later…
Dick Cheney really is crazy…
Well…my jaw is dropping after just reading an article about an interview that ole Dick did the other day pushing a new book…I don’t know why he needs the money…especially after all of the loot he stole along with Halliburton…but, that’s not what this is about…it is about his absolute lack of irony since, when he was pushing the Iraq war, it was all about he just KNEW there were weapons of mass destruction there so that was the reason for attacking Iraq…now, in this new interview, he has morphed that into we were justified going into Iraq since it proved they didn’t have WMD…what a hypocritical lying piece of crap….this idiot war criminal should be in the dock at the Hague answering for his crimes…over a half million Iraqis dead and 1.8 trillion of yours and my money wasted there….why does anyone still listen to this idiot who has been wrong, wrong, wrong about everything in his whole career…I guess it’s the old boy network at work…you never need to succeed…just cash the checks an move on to the next scam…geez…