Well…I was trying to come up with a political topic for the day and have had no luck so I’m just going to meander a while and see what happens…so, this one will be filed in misc…I am exhausted today and I can’t figure out why….possibly because I was up all night or I haven’t eaten enough…take your pick….how about some sports? Manchester United looked so bad yesterday that, even with now getting the channel that they are on, I don’t think I’ll be watching anymore this season…they just look so bad….one bright spot…not with Man U….is that the Wings looked okay last night but should have taken the game in regulation but gave up the tying goal in the last 30 seconds…but, they did finally win one in OT so it will be interesting to see how they do tonight….another good thing is that, if they don’t remember to shut off NBCSN, I will get formula 1 this spring…and that will be a good thing….what else? I think I’m going to fracture if I have to go out in any more of this crap cold weather…it’s gotten to a high of 7 today and is going to get to 7 below tonight…and it is almost frickin March…supposed to be near 50 by now and melting my trails so I can get back on the bike….damn winter….
Category Archives: Misc
Walmart still sucks..
Well…one of the things that has been galling about watching the Olympics this time is the commercial that Walmart has been running about how wonderful they are for planning…remember, only planning to spend 250 billion dollars to ‘revive” American manufacturing….and every time I see it, I gag at the audacity of the ad…the audacity of a company who has spent the past 40 years destroying American manufacturing by their relentless push to cut costs by selling billions and billions of dollars of cheap Chinese crap…all the while paying their employees so little that most of them qualify for food stamps and other aid that has we taxpayers giving Walmart almost a million dollars a store in subsidies. It reminds me of the old, old joke that has a murderer killing his parents and then throwing himself on the mercy of the court by saying he has an excuse, he is an orphan….that is just what this whole campaign smells like…hollow out the economy with your strategic plans, then make a big deal that you might go back and fix some of the damage that you caused…what a sorry excuse for a company, and a sorry excuse for Americans these Waltons are…geez…
Some of the rich truly are evil….
Well…I have been amazed lately about the tone deaf response that has come from many of the rich in this country when they are criticized for any reason…they truly feel that they are the aggrieved party when people suggest that they share their wealth with the people that made it possible…and this week, we had a guy who truly is one of the worst people in the world comparing the OWS movement that is trying to address income inequality to the nazis and their treatment of the Jews…nope, not making this up. This idiot, Tom Perkins, then just couldn’t shut up and gave another interview where he is proud of his rolex watches and he must be okay because he has relatives that live in trailers…all while he spends 130 million on a new sailboat. But this is not the worst part of the interview…this idiot goes on to complain that he once had to pay a $10,000 fine after being convicted in a french court of running over a small sailboat with his huge one and killing a doctor that was on the other boat. He goes on to bitch that they tried him in French and he got railroaded…and he probably truly feels that way since the rich in the US can basically do anything they want and get away with it…how dare they hold him responsible? I am so tired of hearing from these worthless pieces of crap who think they should be treated like royalty and the rest of us should bow to them since they cheated and stole their way to wealth…geez…
Four down for the month…
Well…as you can see, I’m four down for the month and am running out of days to catch up so there is going to have to be some cheating to make the goal…so, let’s get started….the Wings are just disappointing me with the late game collapses that they have been doing all season…probably won’t make the playoffs for the first time since I was much, much younger…not getting excited about the super bowl…might watch some of it for the ads but it will be home here and not out…need to be able to flick through channels and can’t do that if I’m watching with anyone…even Man U is stinking up the place this year and maybe it is good that I haven’t been able to watch them this year…would just be angry all the time with the lack of effort…and why wouldn’t you put in effort if they are paying you millions every year? I wonder if they don’t have any pride…I’m sure I’d leave it all on the field if they were paying me all that cash….hmmmm…okay, need to go start lunch but I do have another one for early aft about religion and how it is being used as a weapon even against middle schoolers…
Oddities….
Well…have been trying to recover today but I think I can’t recover from this bug until it gets really, really worse..it looks like that’s the path I’m on for the weekend so that is a bunch of crap…there have been some odd things going on…at least odd to me…have been getting Neil Young’s twitter feed lately and he is really going after the tar sands crap that is fouling large swaths of Canada…I know he is from there and I shouldn’t be surprised that he is socially responsible…but it is nice to see that even at this late date, he is still trying to make a difference….and it has been such a good weekend for those of us who think Chris Christie is a lying bully…the latest is that his thug aides withheld Sandy aid to Hoboken just because the mayor there wouldn’t give contracts to one of Christie’s cronies….and this time, the mayor has evidence of it all…I can smell indictment all over this last bit of news….and it couldn’t happen to a bigger thug…as I said in an earlier post..”bye, bye, Christie”….should do one more for this one but I can’t think of another right now…so, I think I’ll make the next idea the catch up post for the weekend…
Wandering around…again…
Well…I am still feeling like I have no energy even after lunch with three venison tacos and I’m sure that it is not eating enough….but, how do you eat if nothing sounds good? It took all the energy I had just to walk across my place and sit down here….and, with crap happening in politics…those idiots are going back on vacation after being back a week…and they bitch so much about the unemployed and how they think they’re lazy so they won’t extend UI benefits…since people are living large on the 300 bucks a week avg they get….that wouldn’t even pay my low expenses…what if you had children and a house payment? I hope the repubs pay in this years election…bastards….and now they are back at taking away womens rights to control their own bodies…once they are pregnant, the new laws that the repubs are pushing would make the rights of the fetus supercede the rights of the mother…essentially saying that the woman no longer has any rights to her own body if pregnant….what the hell is wrong with the repubs…I guess it goes back to their “faith” that says that women are property and should do what their husbands tell them to…and now, in Wisconsin, these asses have just introduced legislation that would allow a woman’s family to trump her decisions on abortion…even if a grandmother, or mother, or father objected…the wishes of the mother would be trumped…leaving women second class citizens with less rights than anyone else…this crap even hurts to write about…so, I’ll stop here….
The problem with open carry…
Well..If you’ve been here before, I know you’ve read how I feel on the open carry for guns laws that have spread like a plague across the US over the past decade or so…I will say right up front that I have been a gun owner and I see no problem with people having guns in their homes for protection or whatever else they tell themselves they need them for…okay, that was a little harsh since I have been a hunter and I do enjoy the venison I get from my hunter friends…but that is an entirely different thing than carrying a handgun around on your hip everywhere you go. As I’ve said before, I am extremely uncomfortable and will leave any establishment that allow people to bring guns into it…and the “responsible gun owner” is always responsible until he or she is not and takes the gun out and shoots someone…I just don’t want to be in that crossfire. So, a couple of days ago, a “responsible gun owner”, a retired police captain in Florida got into an argument with another patron at a movie theater…the guy was texting during the previews and the gun owner didn’t like it…you can guess what comes next…the retired officer took the gun off his hip and shot the guy to death…something that could have been avoided if the guy just didn’t have a gun with him…and that is the gist of my aversion to having everyone and their brother carrying guns around everywhere…what used to be just an argument that might have come to blows now is a life and death situation…and ends more more and more often with someone dead and a family shattered…I’ve had enough of this nonsense…geez…
It’s cold so there can’t be any global warming…
Well…it has been a day of hibernation with the cold and snow….the wind chill just hit 35 below and that crystallized something I read this morning in the Detroit news…it was actually a comment from some genius who was smugly declaring that there can’t be any global warming since the scientific ship that was studying climate change near Antarctica was stuck in the ice…and of course there shouldn’t be any ice since it is summer in the southern hemisphere. Hence, global warming is all a fraud…I think this just highlights how the right operates only on faith and made up “facts”….first, climate change is a set of changes that are taking place over time; not a single event like the bitter cold that we have here in GR today….to cherry pick “facts” as this idiot did, I could point out that the summer in Australia is the hottest on record…with temps over 125 degrees in places…so, of course the globe is getting hotter…these occurrences are just pieces in the puzzle of climate change…like the drought in California that we are seeing that will have some parts of the state run out of water next year….and the fact that there is so little ice at the north pole now that shipping companies are now plotting to run ships across it to save thousands of miles…so, let’s stop confusing weather with climate for a change…and start getting the facts straight…oh, that’s right, the right doesn’t believe in facts…geez…
Cheating away….
Well…sitting here waiting for the Wings alumni game to start and thought I’d do a short one on a death that happened in the past couple of weeks…and, I know, it’s cheating but I forgot to put this in this morning’s post. While I was reading the paper, I came across one of those lists of people who have died this year, and found a surprise…you probably don’t know who he is, but Ricky Lawson died last week…he was a drummer for a long time with Steely Dan and many other bands over his career and I saw him with SD quite a few times…always a smile on his face and a style that just fit them…now, he’s gone in his fifties and that is just too damn early….
This is just wrong…
Okay…just read an article that illustrates how the anti abortion crusaders have taken away womens rights in this country and it just pisses me off…in Texas, a woman had a pulmonary embolism that rendered her brain dead, and the family wanted to carry out here living will wishes to take her off life support…but, right to life in Texas got a law passed that said a pregnant woman can’t be taken off life support even if the family wants it….even if the person has it in their will to have it done…the law supercedes their wishes…now, this woman went over an hour without breathing and as a result, the fetus did, too…so now, this family has to keep this body alive for the next 5 months until they can determine if the fetus is viable…I’ve got a clue for you…no oxygen for an hour killed the fetus’s brain, too…but these right wing asses in Texas don’t want government involved in their lives until it is a pregnant woman…then they take away all the rights of the mother to control her own life…shame on you Texas…geez…