Well…I guess the repubs haven’t gotten to their monthly quota of stupid yet so they all have to weigh in on the vaccines “controversy” that they have manufactured all by themselves…and I want to start with just a month or so ago to show how crazy these folks are…of course you remember the Ebola scare where there was one case in the US and everyone on the right was just freaking about about it…and one of the memes that they were pushing was that it was Obama’s fault that there was no vaccine for Ebola that everyone could get to be safe…fast forward to today and you have all of the repub idiots out there saying it should be a parents choice whether or not they vaccinate their kids…never mind the fact that millions and millions of lives have been saved by vaccines since they were invented…under the guise of freedom, these idiots are willing to have their children die from readily preventable diseases since, according to their great minds like Rand Paul, vaccines can cause “severe mental problems” even though there has never been case of this that they can refer anyone to…they just “know” it’s a fact. Then, today, we have another great light from the right…some senator from Tennessee or some other backwater of science deniers, go on and on that the current measles outbreak is caused by “illegal immigrants” coming over the border since none of them are vaccinated…but he missed the fact that all of the central American countries including Mexico have vaccination rates that are much higher than the US. So, I guess what all of this means is the repubs are still the party of the stupid; denying science to pander to the stupid in their party and putting many people in danger for it…geez…
February 3rd
Well…sitting here waiting for the car to defrost so I thought I’d get this one done before that happens….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done other than digging the car out from the drift it was in….plowed snow with the front bumper all the way out to the store for the papers but the cool thing was the plower came and cleared my spot while I was gone….I guess it works being a nice guy sometimes…slept okay last night and the teeth are still not hurting today so that is s really good thing…we’ll see how they go today….especially with maybe having lunch with T and having some errands to run…the car started okay this morning but it is not that cold so I guess I’ll have to wait until tomorrow when it is really cold to see if I need a new battery or not…..hope not….not much to do today…just lunch and that’s it…more later….
Is the stupid in the water in Texas?
Well…as you know, I read a lot every day and I come across some really stupid stuff…and a lot of it is from Texas where it appears that the stupid is in the water like flouride. This latest one happened a couple of days ago where a grade school principle suspended an 8 year old for bringing a ring to school and saying it was the magic ring from “Lord of the Rings” and he could make one of his classmates invisible with the ring….the idiot principal of the school said that saying he could turn someone invisible was a “threat” so she suspended this 8 year old…for having an imagination, I guess. The worst thing is this same kid was suspended a couple of months ago for bringing his copy of “The Big Book of Knowledge”, a popular children’s book to school…and the reason for that suspension? The book has a picture of a pregnant woman in it…yep, in Texas the stupid runs so deep that kids get suspended for having a picture book with them….where do they think babies come from? Probably by magic…just like the rest of their thinking on everything….geez…
The anti-vaxxers are nuts…
Well…there has been a building story over the past year or so about people opting to not get their children vaccinated due to some stupid, unfounded belief that the vaccines cause autism in children….all driven by some doctor in England who faked the numbers in a “study” he did to make it look like there was a causitive relationship between getting the standard MMR vaccine and the increasing incidence of autism…not sure what his reasoning was but that’s not the point…the point is that modern vaccines are safe and effective. But, that doesn’t stop the idiots out there that think their beliefs are better than the scientific evidence…I’m talking to you Jenny McCarthy…and have put many children with other illnesses at risk by their stupidity. When my kids were little, they all got all of the vaccinations on time…why would any parent subject their kids to to the pain and possibly life altering effects that come with getting the measles or mumps? I had all of those diseases when I was a kid and can remember being out of school for weeks with chicken pox and I remember the pain from the mumps that I would not wish on anyone…let alone my own kids. I think not vaccinating your kids is a form of child abuse that needs to be stopped…but the repubs keep making it easier to opt out of vaccinations for “freedumb” or some such nonsense…I guess that is just a normal outcome of their anti science and ignorance…still doesn’t justify it…geez…
February 2nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday except for all of the snow….but, the car started this morning and it is only 3 degrees and the lot is already cleaned so that is something…slept okay last night but this damn bug is still here and I am getting really, really tired of it…still coughing and now my head is plugged up so today may be a recovery day for me….and my teeth have started to hurt again after 3 days of no pain so more repairs are in order….didn’t get much done yesterday with all of the soccer and football on so I do need to clean some today….but, after I have my coffee and get this one done…I will be back here for another one today since I am already behind for the month….more later….
February 1st
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…I did make a little cash so that was cool but sleeping was bad again and that wasn’t….and, there is snow out there that is going to go on all day until tomorrow morning so it looks like a hibernation day for me…the car started fine again this morning and the tire is still up so maybe those things will be okay until spring…it is going to be cold later in the week so we’ll see if it continues to start….still feel crappy today and I am getting tired of this bug just hanging on with all of the coughing but it may be getting a little better so I can at least hold out a little hope….not much to do today…going to clean and get some work done around here after I watch soccer but it will be an easy day…more later…
Last one for the month…
Well….it has been a long month but at least I’ve stayed current here and haven’t had to do any fillers…you may consider this one a filler but there just isn’t anything to write about that interests me right now….politics have gotten a little repetitive with the repubs saying the same old stupid crap they have been spouting since I started this a few years back….I really think there has been a change in this country where no one really cares anymore…the repubs can lie and lie and no one calls them on it…they can take one position in the morning and then another in the afternoon and no one in the media calls them on it…they just sit there like the worthless cheerleaders they are…okay….need to get the blood pressure down and get back to the calm that I have found over the past few months….it has been a pretty good day so far with Man U winning and the Chelsea and Man city tying and that moves us up by 2 points…still in 4th but 2 points closer….okay….the Red wings are on and I want to watch that so I’ll end here with another month’s goals met….yay….
January 31st
Well…running a little late for the weekend and it’s because I had to run out for some groceries and I just haven’t been able to get motivated to do more than that….slept okay but still feel worn out today…but much better than yesterday so I guess that’s something…and the teeth are okay this morning, too, and I think that should be something to celebrate…and I am…yay…..had problems with the car for the first time yesterday and I’m not sure why…one of the rear tires was soft so I decided to air them all up but when I got out to shoot pool one of the fronts was soft…so, I aired it up with my compressor but it was soft again when we finished so I aired it up again but doing that ran the tiny little battery dead and I had to jump the car…thanks, Tom….the weird thing is that the tire stayed up overnight and the car started just fine this morning…but I had to reset all of the settings on the radio again and that is a pain in the butt…so, I have my fingers crossed that everything will be fine going forward…I did check on a new battery and the store near me has one in stock so I can replace it if need be…not much to do today…going to do a little work around here but the Man U game is on at 10 so that will be first…one more later…
January 30th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I woke up feeling like crap today and I’m not sure why…so, this one is going to be short since I can’t really think too well right now and it is all I can do to just sit upright in a chair….slept okay but no dreams to speak of and my lower tooth is killing me…just feel so damn decrepit today like everything is falling apart and I don’t like it….and my lungs are bad again today and that doesn’t make it easier….not much to do today..pool and then back here to rest and relax….and I will come back to add to this one in a while after I get the energy level up….
Here’s the sick thing with ACA repeal…
Well….not sure if you’ve been following the King v. Burwell case that is in front of the supreme court…you know, the onethat the repubs think will undo the ACA because of 5 words that they want to interpret that healthcare subsidies are only available to those on state run exchanges even though every lawmaker that worked on the law says is not the correct interpretation…they intended that all people on the exchanges, both federal and state would get subsidies for their healthcare costs. Here’s the sick thing about this whole case…if the repubs are successful in gutting the law, the fallout will be on people who live in repub dominated states who petulantly refused to set up state exchanges just because they hate Obama and don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich…and the real irony is that most of the people who will no longer be able to afford insurance will be the ones that elected the repubs….I would say they get what they deserve but no one deserves to be without health insurance…and I should know…I have been without it for 13 years now and not a day goes by that I don’t think about what could happen if I get sick…will have no choice but to pull the plug and just die….something the repubs think is how healthcare should work….and I hate them for it…