Well…it was another day yesterday and I didn’t do too much…I did get out on the bike but that was probably a mistake since I coughed so much when I got back that my chest muscles hurt today…and back muscles, too…so I may skip today..not sure yet, I do have to put a set pf plugs in the car today since it misses a little when it idles and it is one of the things I need to do before winter…I may not change out the gear lube though, since it was 25 when I went out for the papers today and it shifted okay…I still have that bug that I had but I am out of the medicine that helped yesterday so I may have to go out and get more…it was a good thing to find out that it was a bug yesterday and not exposure to antifreeze or other chemicals around here…I am getting excited about the election and am going to plan some food and cocktails for tomorrow night while I watch the returns…it looks good for our side so it could be a good night…I will be doing an election one for later today…I need to get some thoughts down about this long slog…
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The one thing you need to remember..
Well…with what is going on across the country today where the repubs are blatantly denying people their right to vote, the one thing you need to remember is who is doing it…in ALL cases it is the repubs that control the voting process in their states…these guys know they can’t win fair and square so they are doing everything they can to fix the election and steal it for Romney…but this is just the latest in the pattern of the repubs cheating every system they come into contact with…cheating to get their kids into the best schools, cheating to allow their cronies in the financial industry to steal money from the rest of us, and cheating to try to make sure the middle class has no voice in their work life by attacking the only voice they have left…membership in unions. So, the one thing you need to remember is which party is the cheater…and it IS the repubs..geez…
November 4th
Well…still feel quite crappy today and I know it is a bug with the temp and coughing…so, today will be an easy day to try to get over it…does not help that I’m not sleeping again either…just realized that I wasn’t up at 5 as I thought…or, I was but it is actually 6 so that is about when I normally get up…but I was up til one so that makes it 4 hours or so…oh, well…I may have the car fixed since I took it out for a run on the e-way yesterday and it is still full after some miles…still have my fingers crossed, though, since I just guessed it was the radiator….I am sore everywhere from the work on the car, too, so I’ll have to take it easy on the bike today…if it gets warm enough to go out…I am getting so tired of chicken for dinner that I may have to go out for some fast food today…nah…maybe some pasta instead…I will be back for another one later..but right now it is time to get some water and hit the couch to watch the rest of the F1 race…
Shouldn’t being delusional disqualify ole Mitt?
Well…have been reading a bunch today and this thought came to me given the way that ole Mitt is acting in this last week of election season: “shouldn’t being delusional disqualify any candidate for the presidency?” After all, you have ole Mitt out on his “Victory Tour” over the weekend and to hear people within his campaign, Mitt truly believes that he is going to win in a landslide…never mind that all of the swing state polls have Obama ahead and the trend is moving toward him…and you have ole Mitt blaming the dysfunction in the congress on Obama as well…conveniently forgetting that it was his party that made it their life’s work to make sure Obama was not successful…and conveniently forgetting that in Mass he vetoed over 800 bills that were put up by the dem controlled legislature and they were all overridden…so this just goes to the ultimate delusion that ole Mitt has…that he has been successful in anything other than destroying peoples lives…getting set up in business by daddies friends is not a success…lying, lying, and lying is not a success…and losing this election is not a success…okay, it is to me when he loses…
November 3rd
Well…up really early again and I feel like crap again…think I may have a bug, again, since I am coughing like crazy and my head is plugged up…glad I got the radiator in yesterday but that may have made the bug worse..and using a bunch of new muscles to work on the car has added to the normal pain…bruises up a down my arms from forcing them into shapes that they are not supposed to make is not fun either…let’s top that off with not sleeping well…but there was good news yesterday with K having her baby and she looks just like her…with red hair and all…okay…I’m about done for now…going to take it easy today and watch football..but first, Man U is playing at 8:30 so I need to get out to Meijers before then…
Let’s talk jobs…
Well…have the car torn down and I’m waiting for the new radiator to arrive (it’s on a truck somewhere here in GR) so I thought I’d do a short one on the subject of jobs that the repubs think is going to be a winning issue for them…and again, these numbers point to the boiling pot of hypocrisy that is the modern repub party. Today, Think Progress came out with a neat little comparison of the jobs added to this point in both ole GW’s first term and those added under Obama…and it is not a pretty picture for GW…at this time in his first term, there were almost 1.2 million jobs lost…yep, that’s right, lost…while in Obama’s first term there has been a net gain of almost 800,000 jobs….a 2 million job difference that is all the more amazing considering that there were 2 million jobs lost in the first month of Obama’s term. So, the next time you hear that the repubs are “job creators”, remember these numbers and shake your head…just more of the lies, lies, lies that ooze from the modern repubs…geez…
November 2nd
Well…yeah, I know, I didn’t come back for another one yesterday so that means three for today and I will try to do that…but the sense of urgency is not there the first of the month…I did have a day yesterday with going out later in the day to shoot pool..I did have the top down out and back but it was cold coming home so that will be one of the last times I’ll do that…I am trying to have the top down at least once in every month of the year so November is covered…but, right now, I am having coffee and reading the papers so I’m going back to it…I promise I’ll be back later for more…
November 1st
Well…it was a kind of nice day yesterday with having lunch with T but, with the rain, it was the second day off the bike and I am starting to miss it…I’ve been good for 4 days now and I am starting to feel okay…even slept okay last night but still up at 5:30 and with no dreams I think I was bored sleeping if that is possible….well…that’s how it feels anyway, like an extension of being bored during the day…I do need to go out and track where my radiator is to see if I need to hang out around here today and wait for it…and I will come back for another today..but, right now I think I’ll veg for a bit…
This is how it’s supposed to be…
Well…I am amazed by the air time and analysis that has been given to the remarks made by Chris Christie praising the President’s actions in dealing with the aftermath of Sandy….I think it’s a sign of the dysfunction of our society and the republican party that Christie will probably pay a political price from his own party for the comments…why can’t anyone be honest? Why can’t anything happen in this country without it being viewed through the lens of politics? I know there are questions of politics that need to be answered, but I applaud Christie for shutting down Fox news when they tried to interject politics when our fellow citizens are suffering…and I applaud Obama for just being president and doing his job…maybe we can learn something from this…that repubs and dems can work together if the repubs can stop the pettiness that has paralyzed the country for the past two years…okay, I know…not going to happen but I am still the optimist….
October 31st
Well…it’s been an early morning with getting up around 5 and the crappy sleep again is starting to wear a little but I knew this was going to be a consequence of taking it easy on myself….and even with the little sleep, I still feel better than I did….so, I’ll keep it up for the rest of the week and see where it goes…have been laying low waiting for the new radiator to come and it is funny that I was feeling trapped with being broke last week but I haven’t spent any money this week even with having some…I do need to try to get out of here and do some new stuff and meet some new people…it is getting a little boring being by myself all the time…I may have lunch with T today so that will be fun if it happens…and then I do need to continue the cleaning and writing…I have met the goal for the month with this one but I want to do a couple more today…