Well…another just normal day but I am getting started early today so that’s something, isn’t it? Oh, the normal day was yesterday, not sure what today is going to be but I can guess that it will be more of the same…slept okay last night even with being good but I was still up at 5:30 and I should have somewhere to go…but no luck yet on the resumes…okay, not going to think about that right now…Looks like a huge storm is going to miss us to the west and I am really ready for winter to be over….but, we will get some snow here so I guess I just have to suck it up and take it…not much to do today….just the normal stuff…but I do need to clean the kitchen and make it presentable to me….more later…
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Here’s an idea…
Well…with the ugly comments that were made by ole Scalia in the supreme court last week, and the general consensus that the Voting Rights act is going to be struck down by the conservative assholes on the court…an idea just popped into my head…as I sit here and think about it, it is seeming less and less like a good idea…oh, the idea is to extend the VRA to cover the entire country, not just the states that have been caught cheating to keep people from voting. I wonder where the court gets their news? In my news, the shenanigans of vote suppression and rigging is still in full force across the country so why not make it a federal crime to do this crap? Maybe if that was done, the repubs would stop spending all of their time trying to rig the vote and maybe, just maybe, they would start thinking about getting some jobs legislation going…nope, they’d just move on to more abortion legislation…what a bunch of crap…geez…
March 4th
Well…running really late on a Monday and it is just from the depression..or maybe the cocktails? Nope, just don’t feel like doing anything right now and that is bleeding over into this now…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a couple of photos from T in Atlanta that brightened it quite a bit but I think that just brought it up to tolerable…the Wings lost which dampened it back down after that…okay…need to work out….then I’ll be back later…
Okay…just finished up working out and feel somewhat better…I have been having fun with the posters out on Miata.net…never knew there were so may weird people in the world but I guess the definition of a Miata owner is that they are somewhat weird…just like me…I am getting really frustrated with the job search and, as you can see, it is bleeding through here and makes my brain feel like it doesn’t work too well anymore…so, I’m going to go read the online papers and try to get it to shut off for a while…
Mike Huckabee loves life?
Well…I just had to comment on the screed that ole Mike delivered to the Iowa right to force birth the other day…this guy is so far out there now that he compared the legal medical procedure of abortion that women choose to the Holocaust…I’m pretty sure that the Jews that were killed didn’t choose to be killed….and while this is the usual nonsense that runs through the crazy forced religion right that we hear all the time…ole Mike stepped it up in the next breath by being proud that he sent 16 times more people to be executed than any other governor of Kansas…I think it was Kansas anyway….but the utter nonsense he spewed is trumped by the whole idea behind the speech…that it is perfectly fine for the government to intervene in womens lives to stop abortion…but it is the worst thing in the world for government to try to make affordable healthcare available to it’s citizens…just another typical repub doing what they do…advocating using the government to take away freedom from people to further their crazy assed political or religious ends….geez…
March 3rd
Well…it was another long day yesterday…kind of getting to be the new normal and I’m sure I don’t like it much…I am running late today since I wanted to get the coffee and paper done first and I did…so now it’s time for this. there was a funny thing that happened during the Man U match yesterday…one of the commentators, Ian Darke, mentioned Grand Rapids during the game…not sure why he knows that GR exists but I thought it was pretty cool….Slept okay, I think…but I’m not sure…and no dream at all…crap…it was kind of fun hearing from T from Atlanta yesterday and having a nice running text conversation….didn’t expect to hear from her until she gets back into town….not much to do today….looks like a sports day with the Wings, a race, and then Michigan and MSU playing later in the day…so that will be it…total veg with sports…more later…
Bob Woodward is afraid?
Well…I don’t know if you have been following the whole nonsense surrounding Bob Woodward (you know, the Watergate Woodward) and what he said was a threatening e-mail he got from the White House…and his immediate need to run to Fox news to tell everyone about it. If you saw the e-mail, you must be scratching your head and asking “what threat?” That the aide that sent the letter said he may “regret” writing that the whole sequester mess is Obama’s fault….especially since it isn’t? This is supposed to be the guy that went up against the thugs in Nixon’s White House and didn’t blink? And Nixon’s thugs were really thugs that had no problem with breaking any law they didn’t like and using physical violence to get their point across…and now he runs crying to Fox because he has a little boo boo on his feelings? I have lost all of the respect I used to have for this guy…and he is showing the behavior that all of the right has….the “poor me”, all the world is against me and picking on me crap…boo hoo….had enough of this and the last thing I have to say to ole Bob is…grow a pair..geez…
March 2nd
Well…sitting here waiting for the ice to melt off the car and thought I’d get an early start today…for a weekend, that is….it was a cocktail night last night so I’m a little cloudy right now…and it was a long day yesterday with trying hard to keep the boredom at bay was hard work but I survived it…and today looks like another one but there are sports to help…Man U plays this morning and then there is a race…nope, two races on this aft so I may be able to get through it…I’ll be back in a while to add to this one…need to go to Meijers to get food and cocktail materials…
Okay…the third cup of coffee has worked wonders and I feel almost human…slept okay last night but no dreams to speak of but that is okay since none of them have been very fun lately….I am just getting tired of waiting for spring to come and the trails to melt so I can get back on the bike…I think my body misses the abuse and I know I miss the fresh air and exercise….and I feel fat with the 10 pounds I’ve gained….all that on 1200 calories a day…weird…okay…Man U is starting and I need to see it…more later…oh, one last thing…T is leaving for Atlanta for a few days and I am going to miss the texts we send every day…she sure keeps my spirits up….
One other good thing…just found out that Ian Darke and Steve Macmanaman are doing the match this morning! It’s like listening to Ken and Mickey do the Wings….
Some short comments…
Well…I am still laughing about the interview that the Romneys gave to Fox news the other day and the abject whining, whining, and more whining that ole Ann did again…you’ll remember her “campaigning is hard” comments from last year? Just more of the same of that crap this time…bitching about how when the campaign was over they were left alone and how they like to “give” so much…and the implied tone of the article was that it wasn’t enough to “give”, but they wanted to be thanked for it..thanked for helping screw up the country, thanked for just being such assholes…I wish they would just go away so we don’t have to hear from them ever again.
Oh, one last thing about austerity…if you want to see what the effects the sequester and it’s budget cuts are going to do, just look at what the same crap has done in Europe….record high unemployment and negative growth…let’s keep saying that…Keynes was right, again….
Okay…wanted to do one on Snyder and Detroit here but I’m just not feeling it today…I’ll be back later and try again…
March 1st
Well…it is the first of the month and I just hate these days…oh, said that in the last one…and it was a cocktail night last night so I feel crappy this morning and not very lucid so this one is going to be short…slept okay…I think, but who can tell when there are cocktails involved? Okay…as always, not feeling it right now so I think I’ll go back to the couch and have some more water…
Okay…back for a few…feeling much better and came across the movie “Airport” on AMC this morning…I think it’s dating me but I saw this 1970 movie in the theater when it came out…kind of soapy but I think it’s still a good movie and is making the transition into the day a little easier…not much to do today…I am going to do a total veg out today just hang out here and watch movies…so there is not much to talk about right now…I will be back later for another one…don’t want to get behind for the month and I do need content for my DailyKos account…
Last one for the month…
Well…even though I’m ahead by two for the month, I felt like I wanted to come back for a recap…maybe not a recap but just to muse a little…it has been a frustrating week and, as you know, the last day of the month is one of the worst ones for me since I have to pay the rent tomorrow…so, it is going to be a cocktail night tonight to try to shut the brain off for just a little while…and as a reward for being good all week…I do think I may need to stop reading the Miata forums since there are people talking about all of the failures in their cars…it makes it look like the Miata is the least reliable car that has ever been built and give me just a few more things to worry about that I don’t need right now…and, mine is reliable, now. But, the forums do help me pass the time and keep the crushing boredom at bay so I guess I’ll just have to take them with a grain of salt…and, no one writes to the forums to say that nothing has failed so I have to remember that….and, they like my car so that reinforces how much I like it. I have also been spending time out on DailyKos but I’m not sure how long that is going to last…it is nice to have like-minded individuals to talk and listen to but I would like some reasoned argument for the other side once in a while…okay…that’s it, it’s not cocktail time yet but it’s only 45 minutes to go and I guess I can amuse myself until 7….