Well…I am really quite amused with the outrage..outrage, I tell ya, that is coming out of the repub party in response to the Obama win and the inaugural address where he laid out the progressive path forward that the electorate voted for in November. He ran on some very clear progressive principles like having the rich pay their fair share, protection of social security and the rest of the safety net and now he has the gall to try to give the electorate what they voted for? That is one of the big problems with the liars on the right…they think everyone lies like they do and they can’t even fathom that someone would keep promises that were made; that everyone are the venal, amoral crazies that they are…and I think they get it from the false equivilancy that has been pushed in the news media over the past 20 years or so that equate the parties as being just mirror images from the left and right. That’s why I laughed so hard at the surprise that ole Paul Ryan exhibited on the Sunday shows this weekend…never mind that he changed his positions three times in 5 minutes; showing the utter lack of principles the idiot has…it is the surprise that any politician would keep their promises to the country that revealed what an utter empty vessel this supposed “brain” of the repub party is….keep it up Paul…things get better for us every time you open your mouth…geez…
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January 29th
Well…the first thing that popped into my head this morning was this Pink Floyd lyric..”the sun is the same in a relative way but we’re older….shorter of breath and one day closer to death…” yeah, it’s pretty depressing but that’s how I feel this morning…slept okay even so that can’t be it…I think it’s that another month has gone by without a bite on a job and with the money just going out it feel like tiny pieces of me keep going out with it…when the money runs out, I think I’ll probably just disappear into the ether…and leave no trace…I do have a few things I should do today but I’m not sure if I’ll do them or not…just don’t have a lot of interest in it at this point so I guess I’ll just let the day roll and see what happens….more later…
Haven’t noodled in a while…
Well…still in the funk from this morning and even I’m getting bored with my topics…so, no politics today…or, I should say it won’t be the primary topic…or, it could be…this one is just a free form one that I have no idea where it will end up…it’s been a tough couple of weeks with being so broke but the car is running right so that is a plus…and I may even be able to put the top down tomorrow…got to keep the crazy bubbling or I won’t be me…I think I may have slept about 3 hours last night and I am still just exhausted so there may be a nap in my future…have been wracking my brain for most of the morning trying to figure out what to do to figure out how to get some cash coming in…I never would have expected to be my age with 4 degrees and not be able to find any sort of work…but, you’ve heard me bitch about that a lot so I think I’ll stop….okay…there is some politics that I wanted to talk about…what the hell is is with those batshit crazy repubs that think that just because they don’t agree with the president, it is an impeachable offense? That has been the theme from a bunch of the tea party nuts over the past week or so…the latest introducing a constitutional amendment that would make not balancing the budget raise to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that is the bar for impeachment…but the idiot boy forgets that it is the congress that spends money….this is the quality of the tea party folks that seem like they flunked high school civics class….stupidity, thy name is tea party…geez…
January 28th
Well…another crappy night of sleep and I am just exhausted this morning….up almost once an hour and that is not good at all…oh, well…it happened and it’s time to live with it…it was a lazy day yesterday that was dominated by waiting for the stormageddon that was forecast all day for last night but it doesn’t look like we got too much ice so that is good….don’t have anywhere to be anyway so I’m not sure why I care…I do have some things to do today but I’m not sure what they are yet…just can’t get the brain going yet and that’s even without cocktails last night….more later…and I mean it this time…
Another 1% er crying in his beer…
Well..when are the pampered one percent going to learn to keep their mouths shut? I’ve just about had it with these spoiled idiots complaining that they are going to close their business, fire employees, or quit their job because Obama raised their taxes. These guys are so stupid they don’t understand it was the congress that raised the taxes…Obama just signed the law so get your fricking facts straight. The latest of these idiots to spout nonsense is the golfer Phil Mickleson, who late last week talked to a reporter and whined that he was going to quit golfing because California raised state taxes and the federal rate went up 3% on people like him that make millions…notice I didn’t say “earned” millions because getting 48 million dollars in one year from making commercials and playing golf is not earning it by any stretch of the imagination. Well Phil, go ahead and quit..go back to your gated community and the other one percent idiots that you seem to identify with so much…and, let me give you one piece of advice: the money you make is paid for by people like me who buy the products that you endorse so it’s probably not a good idea to rub our broke noses in the shit that you are spouting…we’d love to have 24 million dollars after taxes so, shut the hell up…geez…
January 27th
Well…it was just another day yesterday but I did make some ham bone soup that came out good but that was about it…sitting here watching Chelsea losing to Brentford…which would be like the Tigers losing to a high school team…and I really don’t like Chelsea so that is pretty cool…I do feel a little crappy today but I know it’s a bug so I guess I’ll just have to live with it…okay…can’t think at all right now so I’m going to go back to the couch and have another cup of coffee…
What a stupid reason…
Well…if you were here yesterday, you know about the Koch fueled push to change how electoral college votes are awarded to try to rig the election for the repubs….the reason that the repubs in Virgina are using to justify this blatant attempt to steal presidential elections is so damn funny that I just had to do another one dealing with it. One of the idiot repubs there explains that the areas with less population are feeling that their votes aren’t counting as much as the urban areas…yep, that’s right, this idiot is proposing that a town or rural area with a few thousand voters should count the same as the urban areas that have millions of voters…oh, and the area with millions of voters are the scary “urban” voters that the repubs don’t feel are “real” Americans…or, more likely, won’t vote for the batshit crazy repubs. That is what apportioning electoral votes by congressional district would do….it would mean that the white, rural areas of states with less than half the votes would still control how many and to who the electoral votes would go to. What else are these guys going to do to destroy our democracy? One of the things these short sighted, amoral asses just don’t get is that they have just handed our side the best issue we could have hoped for for the 2014 elections…just imagine the ads that will be run against the repubs that are doing this nonsense…especially since more than 80% of the American people are dead against this kind of shenanigan….please proceed….geez…
January 26th
Well…it was a day yesterday with lunch with T and then over to K’s for a couple to hang out with C…then it was just back here for the Wings game…which they won, finally, and that made me smile a little….there was a weird thing that happened this morning…when I was out to get the papers “Mississippi Queen” by Mountain came on the overhead….and I just laughed out loud at the weirdness…I mean 3 minutes of the best rock and roll ever played, on the speakers at Family Fare? It brightened my morning even with it being a cocktail night last night….today looks like an easy day…I am making ham bone soup…well, it’s actually pork and ham bone soup since I just discovered that two of the three bones are from pork shoulders, not ham, but I think it will be okay…I hope so anyway. It is a sports day, too, with Man U playing this aft and then the 24 hours of Daytona starting at 3 so I will have something to nap to…and I will come back later for another one….more later…
This is the party of morality and ethics?
Well…not sure if you’ve heard of the latest outrage by the repubs across the country and their continuing push to rig elections by any means possible, starting with the gerrymandering of congressional districts, various methods of voter suppression, and now trying to rig the electoral college so even if their candidate loses by as big of a margin as ole Mitt did, he would still be president. This latest, nasty little trick by the Koch’s and ALEC, seeks to change the way electoral votes are awarded from the winner take all method in most states, to apportioning them by congressional districts that the repubs have already rigged. If you need any evidence of the seriousness of these proposed changes, you just have to look at our state of Michigan where Obama won by 9% but with the new scheme, the majority of the electoral votes would have gone to ole Mitt. An analysis I saw yesterday that was done on the national level found that if the votes were awarded as the repubs propose, even though Obama won by almost 6 million votes, ole Mitt would have won the election. How much more un-American can you get? But, that is the repubs pattern, wave the flag to distract people and then steal elections by any way they can. In all of my long life, I have never seen a party, other than in the Soviet Union, that would go so far to rig an election that they wouldn’t win on their ideas…these guys should be arrested…oh, one last thing…it is being proposed here in Michigan by the same folks that brought you right to work for less and guns in the schools…geez…
January 25th
Well…it was another boring day yesterday and another cocktail night so I feel like crap…well…not really like crap but a little tired…and I do need to make a run out for groceries since I do want to make some soup tomorrow….it looks like another day of snow today and I think we’ve already had more than all of last year…not happy with that since I want to get out on the bike…I’ve already gained 10 pounds and that feels like crap….I may have lunch with T today and that is something to look forward to…kind of excited about that, too….and C is coming into town so I may have something to do all day…more later…