Well….has the stupid in the repubs here in Michigan reached it’s peak? Nope, not yet it appears…our wonderful gov and atty general here have decided to defend the discrimination built into the protect marriage act after a federal judge has said that the law is unconstitutional and has said that a suit by a same sex trying to adopt some special needs kids can go forward. The reasons to reject the couple’s claims that these idiots are citing are the same ones that the supreme court laughed at in striking down DOMA last month…but, that doesn’t deter the haters here…with Snyder and Schuette going so far as to say that the 14th amendment doesn’t apply…in direct opposition to the specific findings of the supreme court decision. So, the government here in Michigan is going to spend millions to defend a law that even a lay person can see is unconstitutional; pandering to their quickly shrinking base who are now far in the minority here…what happened to the will of the people? Just another instance where these righties have to do everything in their power to keep people that they hate from getting the full rights as American citizens…their time is numbered and I can’t wait until it ends and we can get back the America that doesn’t hate, that doesn’t try to limits rights for political gain, and that doesn’t do everything it can to subvert our democracy…geez…oh, and if you had any doubts, the people I’m talking about are all repubs…
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July 23rd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t do much…I did finally get some of the cleaning done and a little other work so I feel better about that…slept like crap again last night and I am feeling exhausted today…but I am into the third day of no cocktails and I know I’ll feel better even without the sleep…I think I do need to get some allergy stuff since I was plugged up and almost choking all night which didn’t help…not much to do today…might meet up with T for a little while and I am going to continue to clean today but that is about it….just another boring day in GR…
Suicide birds….
Well…I have been trying to remember to do a trail weirdness one every week but my memory has not been doing it’s job lately…today there was some weirdness that I really want to report before I forget it, though, so here goes…as the title says today was suicide bird day on the trail…with all kinds of birds just darting out in front of me all along the trail…and not just one type of bird, either…there were blue jays, sparrows, goldfinches, and one robin who cut out of the trees, turned right down the trail and flew just in front of my bike for at least 20 feet…close enough that I could have reached out and caught it if I was just a little faster….not behavior that I have seen in a while…or maybe ever….that, along with the female red-tailed hawk who sat about 6 feet away from me while I had a water break the other day…birds are going crazy and I am not sure why….
More on the Keystone XL….
Well…it is getting toward decision time on the Keystone XL pipeline and before that happens, I think we need to understand the latest findings about the process and the effects that building it would have. First, over the past week or so, it has been discovered that the environmental impact study is not being done by any impartial body, but is being done by a company who has ties to Trans Canada…the company who stands to make billions if the pipeline is built so how can anyone believe anything that is in the report? Second, the leading climate scientist, who used to be the head of NASA, has said bluntly that it is “game over” for the climate if the pipeline is approved and all of the carbon that is now locked in the tar sands is exposed…not to mention that there will be no jobs created anywhere except for the Canadian company that will build it. But, the biggest surprise that I have reported here before is the fact that, if the pipeline is built, gas prices will rise by 20 to 40 cents per gallon in the Midwest since the discount that is paid for tar sand oil is now almost 30 dollars a barrel because they can’t move it. Once the pipeline is built, we here in the midwest will pay billions of dollars a year in increased profits to the oil companies and that is what this pipeline is really about… more transfers of wealth from everyone else to the 1% while they push the costs of trashing the environment on the people who don’t get any of that profit. We don’t need the oil and the pollution or the 1% getting richer so let’s just stop this thing now Obama…geez…
July 22nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday with a nice little running conversation with T that made me smile…first day of recovery after the birthday week and I am already feeling much better so that is a good thing…sleep was crappy so that kind of offsets being good but I am going to go until Thurs being good just to see how it works out….I am really sore from jumping in the pool Sat at K’s using all the new muscles but I guess aspirin will take care of that.,..I hope, I do need to get some stuff done today…mostly cleaning since I have been really lazy about that lately but I think baby steps will help…I do need to go over to Kos and do a couple of comments…more later….
Just a little trail weirdness…
Well…haven’t done one of these in a while but just wanted to relay one little part of weird that happened today…on one of the downhills that ends in a sharp corner, I came upon a bunch of turkeys that were walking on the trail and they just took off running right down the trail in front of me…not flying, but running until they could get off into the brush…it was one of the strangest things I’ve seen in a while and they can move quite fast….but, why not fly? I know they can…maybe I’m just not threatening enough…oh, one last thing, a group of turkeys is called a rafter…had to ask the phone….that it could understand what I wanted was pretty cool…
Need to talk about Detroit…
Well…with all of the drama going on with the bankruptcy in Detroit, I felt the need to comment with the latest crap from our wonderful governor on the mess there…first, I will say that some of the troubles there are a result of terrible mismanagement of the city by the string of incompetents and thieves…but, the shrinking of the city from over 2 million to under 700 thousand and the flight of most of the manufacturing base has much more to do with it…and then you have ole Snyder saying there will be no state help coming while he taxes retirees and gives almost 2 billion in tax cuts to business who have not created one job for the corporate welfare they received…isn’t Detroit part of the state too? The ones I feel the worst for are the retirees of the city of Detroit who are going to see their pensions decimated; getting only about 10 cents on the dollar that they were promised…and the bitch of it all is that they did nothing wrong…just worked their whole lives while the people in government they trusted screwed them over….but that is the repubs way of things…if you are unlucky enough to live somewhere where this can happen, you are just out of luck…you should have used your connections to get rich instead of working…what a bunch of crap….geez…
July 21st
Well…it was a long day yesterday but I had some fun at K’s….I am really worn out today but it is the start of the being good week so I will start to get better soon and should feel great in a couple of days…it was a long birthday week….slept okay last night but no dreams again..oh, well…I am behind on these so I will need to come back for two more today but right now I am going to get on the bike and burn out some of the toxins….more later…
July 20th
Well…it was a good day yesterday but I got my butt kicked at pool…just couldn’t shoot at all but that’s okay…I am happy that some of the heat is gone…it was getting wearing to have it over 90 all the time and to be constantly damp…looks to be a little nicer today but we’ll see after I get out on the bike in a couple of minutes….today is the last day of the birthday week and I am kind of looking forward to no more cocktails for a week or so…just feel so bloated and I am tired, too, so it will be good to be good…not much to do today…I do have a little bash over at K’s this aft but that won’t last too long and then just a veg day the rest of the day….should take a look in the freezer to see what to thaw for tomorrow…more later…
Here’s the difference between them and us…
Well….just a short one on a story I read in the papers yesterday about an anecdote concerning our VP Joe Biden told by one of the people on his SS detail….while visiting a donut shop, a man came up to Joe and asked him if he would meet his wife who was on her deathbed in a little house a few away…of course Joe said yes and went to the house, found that it was sweltering and turned to one of his aides and said “we need to get an A/C unit in here…” and they did it…just like that. The thing about it was this was quite a while ago and we are just now hearing about it…not from Joe but from someone who was there…I’m sure the Joe felt that just being a human being didn’t really merit being in the papers…it’s just part of life. In contrast, let’s look at the idiot Ryan and his fake washing of pots and pans with never a thought of really helping someone…the only thought being how he could exploit this fake for political gain. That’s the difference between us and them….we truly care about people and want everyone to do well and have a great life…they just don’t give a damn…geez…