Well…not sure what is going on in the courts around the US these days, but I know I don’t like it….if you haven’t heard, on of the trendiest legal defenses that is being used across the country tries to get judges to take the economic impact or the “suitability” for jail time of the defendant when sentencing. The latest is this guy out in Oregon who got caught for his 7th DUI which has a mandatory minimum sentence of 120 days for repeat offenders, but this guy was let go with no time because the judge thought jail time would impact his business too much…yep, I guess now that the rich truly are immune to any law if it may cost them some money….just like the judge out east who wouldn’t sentence a money manager to any jail time after he stole millions of dollars since he didn’t think the defendant was “suitable” for prison when he should have gone away for at least 10 years…and you remember the defense lawyer that got a kid off in Texas for killing 4 people in a drunken driving accident by citing he was damaged by “affluenza”…being so rich all his life that he didn’t understand that there are consequences to his actions…what the hell is wrong with this country? No wonder there is so much criminality going on with the rich…they know they can get away with it…geez….
May 19th
Well…that was a washout of a weekend and I didn’t get anything done…slept okay but, again, up really early today but running late…not sure why other than I just haven’t been able to get moving…and I don’t have a lot to say right now…I do have some things to do today that I have been putting off and I may or may not get to them…I do have to work out and get on the bike and I hope the cold weather is finally gone so I can get out with just a t shirt…I do need to come back here to add to this one once my head clears enough to have an idea or two and I am now 3 behind for the month so I guess I have to catch up…more later…
Oh, forgot to say happy birthday to Pete Townsend…69 today…
May 18th
Well…sitting here waiting for the coffee to brew and thought I’d get this one done…slept okay last night but was up early again…that will come in handy if I ever find a job again…and the tooth is starting to really heal…not much pain today an I hope that will continue…have gone through a whole container of salt doing salt rinses and that can’t be good….feel a little crappy today but it looks like I will be able to get the bike ride in as soon as I finish the paper and coffee so that will help…not much to do today…I am going to continue cleaning but that is about it….more later…
This is just sick…
Well…just ran across this little tidbit about how bad income inequality has become in this country…the top 4 hedge fund managers made almost 11 billion dollars last year…and if that is not bad enough, guess how much the 157,000 kindergarten teachers in the US made….only 8 billion dollars…so, if anyone asks you why income inequality is important, just quote them this stat….and try not to get ill while the hedge fund idiots are put on pedestals and the teachers are under constant attack by the right…this country is just so screwed up…geez…
May 17th
Well…running late today, again, and it’s because I have been screwing with the computer trying to get the display to brighten…had it on battery last night and it shifted to battery saver and now it’s too dim…it was an okay day…okay…just figured it out…the computer wasn’t plugged into the docking station….now it’s nice and bright again…back to the day…I lost at pool but had a run of a couple of weeks of winning so that was okay…and, my tooth may be getting better, finally, since it only feels a little weird this morning…and I feel like I have some energy with eating enough yesterday…going to try to do that again today so we’ll see if it helps….not much to do today…racing and horse racing but that is about it…need to clean the bathroom and kitchen today but that can wait a while until I have the second cup of coffee…more later…
It’s revolution day….
Well…I am trying to stop laughing as I write this but it is not easy…if you haven’t heard, today is tea party revolution day…the day where the tea party says 10-30 million people will show up in DC and overthrow the government and return to “constitutional” principles…okay, still laughing at the irony of the whole thing…that you have to ignore the constitution to save it…kinda like the old Vietnam saying that you had to “destroy the village to save it”….but, nevermind that…I just loved the screenshot of the turnout at the designated gathering point….by my count from the shot, 10-30 million people have turned into 18-20 people…unless the rest of them are camouflaged and just waiting for the right time to reveal themselves….okay…still laughing…this is just the definition of delusions of grandeur….that’s enough for now….
May 16th
Well…it was a total veg day yesterday since I had absolutely no energy…hope it is from not eating enough but I think part of it is the infection I still have in my tooth…it has moved into the glands under my jaw and it hurts to swallow now but I think the tooth is getting a little better…it would be nice to have some antibiotics to help it finally finish up but with no doctor, that is not going to happen. Slept okay last night and it appears that I feel a little better today and it may be the huge ham I cooked yesterday and the constant eating that I have been doing since…not much to do today…it is too damn cold to get out on the bike until later and I may even skip again today and just wait til tomorrow to go out….I do have pool today and it will be fun to get out and do something after being in all week….more later…
Go Harry…
Well…today is not much better than yesterday but I thought I’d better do something here or none of you will keep coming back here…so, I thought I’d touch on the new constitutional amendment being proposed by Harry Reid that will reverse the wrongheaded supreme court decisions in Citizens United and McCutcheon that allows unlimited dark money into political campaigns. He specifically said what we all believe…at least the sane of us…that corporations are not people and money is not speech….both of these decisions reversed a hundred years of precedent and negated laws that are really necessary if we are to protect our democracy from the corrosive effect of money as evidenced by the Kochs trying to buy themselves the senate; to ensure their dirty energy profits forever. I know that this amendment is tilting at windmills…the chance of its passage is remote at best…but the political use of championing it is necessary to put the repubs on the spot for supporting this unlimited money…and their constantly kissing the Kochs asses…geez…
May 15th
Well…running late again today but it is because the computer decided to do all the updates that have been waiting…35 of them and it took almost a half hour to get that done….in the middle of my workout right now but I am going to skip the bike ride today…way too cold…still had the phone on Detroit weather and thought it was 60 degrees, but when I reset to GR, it is only 43 degrees and raining so that is not something I want to do….slept okay last night so I feel a little better today and, with doing the grocery run, I feel better to have food again…bought another ham that will take me through next week and help the fact that I’m not eating enough…not much to do today…finish the workout and then get lunch ready…then probably take the aft off and get caught up on “Fargo”…it’s stating to grow on me and now I want to know where it goes…more later…
Wasted days and wasted nights….
Well…it has been another wasted day and it looks like another wasted night….and I have just not had any motivation or energy to really get moving today….my tooth still hurts and maybe that is taking it out of me….I have been looking for topics today…no, not really…have just been wallowing around here today and I think that makes it worse…oh, well…I am going to try to find the Griffins game again tonight and watch that since there is nothing on tv…just watched all of “Silicon Valley” on the Plex server and that got me through the aft without too much introspection or anguish…so, I think I’ll do that now….no more later…