Well…just sitting here thinking about getting ready to head out to meet up with the other Miataistas…Miataites? And thought I’d do one more of these to get caught up…I did get out to get the bike washed and, even though I used a buck on it, it is still not completely clean…looks better than it was, but still not clean….I will have to re-lube the whole thing before I can take it out tomorrow without squeaks…I did get the car done, too and have found some abrasions on the inside of the top that need to be repaired before they go all the way through…still trying to think what to use…maybe some black iron-on patches would do the trick…duct tape for the time being should keep it from getting worse….it’s another day of being good so that will make for a boring night but I am getting used to them…that’s it….not much more to say right now….
Mitch McConnell is still stupid…
Well…have been reading a little about the senate matchup in Kentucky that has the turtle, Mitch, going up against Alison Grimes and as I watch, I see ole Mitch just melting down…or there is a sea change happening in the media that is finally starting to call the repubs out for their lies…either way ole Mitch is in trouble. The latest lie that Mitch is being called on is the one that if he is re-elected, he will repeal Obamacare completely but that won’t have any effect on the half million people in Kentucky who now have insurance through the state exchange there…which is Obamacare in action. Now, he either is just too stupid to understand that without the federal component of subsidies and insurance gaurantees, there will be no state exchange…or, he knows and just doesn’t care…and he just keeps on lying out of habit since the repubs have not been held responsible for them over the past 20 years. I am happy that Grimes is finally hitting him on this lie but there are newspapers that are doing the same on their editorial pages…is that a turtle in the headlights that I see? Hope it’s a semi that is going to flatten Mitch come November…geez…
May 28th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I slept okay last night…running early today since I am already bored so I thought I’d do this one to make sure I can get caught up before the end of the month….it looks like another one of those misty mornings…ha, ha…that’s a Zep song….that makes it interesting on the bike…well..not interesting but different…..I think I’m going to take the bike and car over to wash a little later…going to ride first since it is going to rain off and on this morning…and I won’t have to have it done until later….going to take it a little easy today but I will get to the bathroom today….looking forward to the meet up with the Miata guys later, too…might be fun…more later…
Okay, that last one wasn’t really cheating…
Well…running out of days to get caught up so I thought I’d better get going today…it has been an okay day and I finally got last year’s taxes done and sent the IRS a check for 1100 dollars…at least I don’t have to think about them any more now….now I have to do last year’s state return, too, but that one will get me back a few hundred bucks so that will be okay….I do need to take the bike over to the car wash tomorrow since I am going to wash the car, too, and the bike is so coated in mud and crud that I am getting embarrassed to ride it….and I do have to get the car done for the Miata meet up tomorrow night…will be cool to have a weekly thing going on just to get out of here for a while…hope these guys are a little more interesting than the MOMM group….okay…this one is long enough to count so I am going to stop here…
Still cheating…
Well…still not having much luck with topics today…but I did hear that the repubs are using the same tricks that they always use to try to take control of the senate….that is…don’t tell anyone anything…and lie, lie, lie….just what ole Walker did in Wisconsin and what ole Snyder did here in Michigan….try to look moderate to appeal to the independents and then unleash the war on workers, women, and immigrants when they are elected. I think they forgot for a few minutes this past week that no one wants their policies except the idiots and the rich when they said they would come out with policies they would implement….and now they are walking that back so fast their shoes are smoking….but, this is how they always operate…they know everyone hates them so they just lie, and lie, and lie…I wonder why anyone still believes anything they say? Geez…
May 27th
Well…it was a kind f weird day yesterday but I already talked about that…slept okay but I am tired today, again, and I can’t figure it out…maybe I’ll feel better after the bike ride….didn’t get anything done since my energy level was low yesterday, too, but I hope to get past that today…the bathroom needs to be cleaned and maybe that will break the dam of complacency…not much to do today…just going to do the normal stuff and try to come back here for three more to get caught up….
You know what this is….
Well…getting to the end of the month so that means one thing…I need to cheat a little to keep the string going but you know that…had a weird kind of day today where nothing much happened…I did get out to see K and K for a couple and that was nice…but the rest of the day was a washout…I am waiting for some storms that look like they are trying to form up over the lake so that might be something for later….there appears to be a new Miata group forming up independent of MOMM that is going to meet up Wed night right near me so it might be cool to have some new Miata people to hang with once a week…might even post it to the MOMM site to see if anyone might want to join…or, maybe not…those folks are all a little stiff and these new ones seem to be a little rowdier….so we’ll see…
May 26th
Well…I thought I was running late this morning but I guess not…I started out late but must have caught up somehow….it was an okay day yesterday but I got bored with the races after Indy but there was nothing else to do so I watched the rest of them anyway…slept okay last night but no dreams to speak of…didn’t get anything done at all yesterday other than cooking so today I do need to do a bunch of stuff after the workout and bike ride…the bathroom needs to be cleaned and there is laundry to be done…but, I am having a hard time getting motivated today….think I’ll just have another cup of coffee and think about it for a while…more later…
Heartless bastards…still…
Well…just as I think that the repubs can’t sink any lower…they come up with a way to do it…just this past week, the house repubs that are working put this little stunner into the ag bill…first a little background…in many “urban” environments, most of the children there get free breakfasts and lunches during the school year since their parents make so little money…and, some of those programs have been continued into the summer to make sure the kids have enough to eat…what the nasty repubs have just done in the ag bill is insert a little clause that said that no “urban” areas will be eligible for funding for summer lunch programs but that rural areas will continue to be funded…basically saying that we are going to let your children starve if you live in an urban area since you don’t vote for us anyway and the reason your children are hungry is that you are a lazy “taker”…not like the rural areas where it is a lack of jobs that is keeping children hungry. This is just the latest manifestation of the Paul Ryan hatred and contempt for the people that live in cities since they are not “real” Americans like those who live in small towns or rural areas….my outrage can’t be overstated here…using the power of government to punish children for being born into the “wrong” families…heartless bastards…still…geez…
Another analysis says cutting taxes and austerity doesn’t work…
Well…read an interesting little study today where Doug Drake, the former head of revenue and tax analysis for the Federal Reserve, finds that dramatic cuts in taxes and spending like those that have been done since the repubs took control here in Michigan do nothing to increase prosperity or create jobs….read that again, the only thing that the repubs know how to do, that they take for their religion does not work! I know I’ve harped on this before but I think we in the middle and on the left need to keep shouting it until these idiots stop this crap…until they stop making this country crumble with their tax cuts for business and the rich…until they stop allowing children to go hungry for those same tax cuts…until they actually use facts and not faith for economic decisions…this is malfeasance on a grand scale and they need to be held accountable for it…it is just like what I was taught in my masters program…that you can never cut your way to growth…doesn’t work in business, doesn’t work in government either…geez…