Well…just a shorty on the jaw dropping stupidity that is the management of a Walmart here in Michigan who fired an employee for getting into a fight with some men who were assaulting a woman in a Walmart parking lot…and their reason? That they have a zero-tolerance policy for workplace violence….so, this guy is supposed to just leave this woman being attacked to keep his job? What a stupid, nasty company Walmart is…I’ve got nothing more to say…geez…
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October 18th
Well…it was another depressing rain day yesterday but I lived through it…but, I feel pretty crappy today with having cocktails last night…but, I am going to stay with only two nights of cocktails this week…so, I will feel better after tonight…the Tigers disappointed me with another loss and they are one away from going out of the playoffs….oh, well…but the Wings won and ended Colorado’s winning streak so that was good…didn’t do much yesterday and even skipped the bike ride with all of the rain…and it looks like it will be a late ride today since it is only 40 degrees outside right now and I do not want to get the gloves out yet…not much to do today..it is a pool day so that will be fun but nothing else is going on….I do feel good that I got caught up yesterday and I will try to not get behind again today…might give me something to do as I wait for the temp to come up…more later…
The 24 billion dollar tantrum…
Well…just a short one to get caught up for the month….I am just stunned by the damage that the repubs little tantrum has cost the US economy…24 billion dollars and counting…yep, 24 billion dollars just so the repubs could get more names for their mailing lists and raise more money for the next election…never mind that this 24 billion could fund all the programs for the poor for an entire year…these pricks just don’t care unless it affects them…and the worst part is the continuing damage this stunt is going to cause with some estimates going as high as shaving 1% off the growth in the next quarter…in dollar terms, this will cost the economy over 100 billion dollars….so, the supposed party of fiscal conservatives don’t have a problem pissing away 100 billion dollars but they have a problem spending that same amount of money feeding the nation…what a bunch of hypocritical asses…geez…
Nolan Finley is still an idiot..
Well…the rationalizations start with the repubs this morning and they are reaching for any straw that might make them feel better about the implosion….and ole Nolan Finley from the Detroit News is leading the charge here in Michigan….he conveniently discards the polls saying that most of the country holds the children of the repub party responsible for the mess in Washington…but then hangs his theory that those don’t mean anything on another poll that asks “did the shutdown affect you personally” which a majority answered no. I will say this again…Nolan Finley is still an idiot…what he doesn’t get…or conveniently forgets is the the lack of empathy that this question reveals…he thinks that it is a good thing that people don’t give a damn about anything that doesn’t affect them personally. This trait is seen in repub circles as a good thing…the old “I’ve got mine, everyone else can go to hell” theme that permeates the repubs these days….they don’t give a damn about gay rights until it affect someone in their family, or they don’t give a damn about abortion rights until one of their daughters needs one…I know ole Nolan thinks he’s being clever, but his cleverness is just the same old crap from repubs…they don’t give a damn about anyone since they have theirs…geez…
October 17th
Well…running late this morning, again, and part of it is the grocery run…and part of it is commenting out at Kos…had to do a cheers and jeers this morning and almost forgot to come back here for this one…yesterday was a really, really down day for me with the rain and darkness all day…and the funny thing is I used to love those kinds of days…and today looks like a repeat…going to skip the bike ride since the rain has started and the radar looks pretty ugly for the next few hours…but, the legs have been really tight lately so a day off might not be too bad…slept okay last night and I am really starting to like no cocktails at night…I feel the best I have in a long time today but that might be I ate enough yesterday….not much to do today..I am still going to do the weight work this morning and then get some stuff done around here…might go out for a couple with G later and then there are both Wings and Tigers on tonight so that should keep the boredom at bay…more later…
Republicans are nothing but grifters…
Well…one of the most sickening press conferences I have ever seen was just on tv where Ted Cruz the idiot senator from Texas admitted that the only reason he damn near put the country into default and spurred the shutdown of the government was to raise money from his idiot tea party base…and he admitted that the petition on one of the conservative websites gave him two million names that he could use to grift even more money out of the rubes…all the while he knew that he could never get Obamacare repealed but he just didn’t care that he was costing the country billions of dollars….and his assertion that two million people signing his petition meant that a majority of America wanted it repealed just reveals the repubs only passing acquaintance with math…after all there are 330 million people in this country and I think that is quite a lot more than 2 million…but not on the right or in the Fox news world…what a delusional bunch…geez…
Republican waste…
Well…with the deal to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling almost done…let’s do a short tally of the cost of this tantrum to the US economy and the people it has directly affected…first, there is the 6 billion dollars in direct cost of the shutdown…yep, the party that talks insistently about waste in government has just wasted 6 billion dollars that could have been used to feed children, take care of the sick, or lower college debt…but no, these pricks would rather waste money spouting their nonsense and preening in front of the cameras that take care of the people…but, that’s not new…these folks don’t give a damn about anyone but themselves and they show it every day….then there are the 900,000 people who have been put out of work by the shutdown and who have not been paid for three weeks…but, again, the repubs don’t give a crap about them if they can try to score political points…and last, there is the long term damage to the economy that will again be in the billions by the increase in borrowing costs that will come from this bullshit brinksmanship…there are already ripples of this spreading through the economy…and for what? So Ted Cruz and Michelle Bachmann can get on stage and spout their nonsense? I wish the election was next week and we could say goodbye to this crap forever….geez…..
October 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but an electronic failure had me running out to replace some necessary equipment…but, got that done so everything is back to normal…or as close to normal as my life ever gets…got the chance to go over and see the youngest son’s new house and it is really nice…that’s pretty cool…and it is three minutes from here….slept okay last night and another no cocktail night has me feeling like I have a bit of energy today…but, that usually ends after the bike ride so we’ll see today…the Tigers really stunk up the joint yesterday and I don’t think they are going to make to the WS…but, the Wings won so that was a good thing…not much to do today…I do have to catch up here so that is the goal for the day..and, with the big court decision coming this aft on the gay marriage ban here in Michigan should give me at least one topic for later…and I will have to do one on ole Boehner’s failure as a speaker…and as a person for that matter….more later…
Scott Walker is at it again…
Well…there is no other description necessary for ole Scott of Wisconsin than that of a liar and a thief…the latest outrage centers on what he is doing for his cronies that work for him in the state government…with controls on the amount of pay he can pay his synchophants, he has devised a scheme to circumvent the laws of the state by moving them into phantom jobs and raising their pay since it is a “new” position even though they continue to do the same job they had before….then, he does this a few more times, allowing him to reward these cronies while he cuts the pay of union workers and takes away their rights…this is the face of modern republicanism that I have railed about here for years…they hate government until they find ways to use it to steal for their friends and donors….this crap should be illegal and this hypocrite should be in jail….geez…
October 15th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and with it being a no cocktail night, I feel pretty good this morning…I wonder if I need to make every night a no cocktail night? That will be something to think about…didn’t sleep well…but, I will take that over feeling like crap all day…and, I am going to the youngest son’s house for the Wings game tonight so that is something to look forward to…even bought beer….and I did have a nice lunch with T that always raises my spirits…I did freeze my butt off on the bike yesterday but I am not ready to go full thermasuit yet…or even to wear gloves…I even put the top down on the car going out to lunch while I was still shivering….but I just had to…it LOOKED warm…not much to do today…the normal routine and then the Tigers play at 4…and I do have some errands to run so that will be something…more later…