Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…slept okay bu just okay so I am a little tired today…there were some strange things that happened on the trail where two women stopped to talk to me and ask me how I was since they hadn’t seen me out there yet….that was weird…but, the night was cool with the Wings beating the Bruins in the first game of the playoffs…and, they played well…I guess the pundits talk about the Wings being the team no one wanted to see in the first round could be true….didn’t get much else done yesterday and today looks like more of the same…the temp is not coming up fast enough so it looks like a long wait to go out…and, this damn computer is screwed up again so it looks like a call to my son is in order…more later… Okay…have gotten this thing to restart but I’m still not sure if it is fixed or not…at least it doesn’t have a delay in the keyboard so that is a plus….spoke too soon…it still delays…damn…and now it’s freezing up all the time…crap…
Okay…it seems to be working now…at least for this sentence…we’ll see later today whether it holds up…
Well…int he wake of Citizens United and the McCutcheon decision, the supreme court has torn away the last vestiges of control of the government for and by the people and replaced it with one for and by the Kochs…let me explain…when the Kochs started out, limited by campaign finance laws, they concentrated on national issues since they were limited in how much they could spend…but now, since the supreme court has taken any limits away, these asses are now taking away the right to self determination across the country by getting into races as local as school boards. And, this is done with the single mindedness of hatred for unions, democrats, and the middle class that is just breathtaking…with them going so far as to spend millions in Tennessee to defeat a mass transit proposal that would have allowed people to leave their cars at home…something the oil rich Kochs could not stomach. This same interference and hatred for unions is seen in their assault on local school boards where they are buying seats for their tea party cronies on the boards and then instructing them to fight the unions, ensuring that teachers fall out of the middle class….so, when someone says the Kochs are not the problem, they are lying, lying, lying….geez…
Well…have been having computer problems this morning and that I am going to blame for being late…not really the problem but I’ll blame it anyway….slept okay last night but feel a little crappy today with not being good…but part of it is not eating enough…again…not sure why it is so hard to get the calorie count up but it is….didn’t do much yesterday but look for work and I am tired of doing that so today is going to be all Red Wings all day since the playoffs start tonight….might shoot pool today but I’m not sure…the computer is still screwed up so I need to shut it down and see if that helps…more later…
Okay…just had to pull the battery out of this thing but it seems to be working right now…so, I will be back later for more…but I need to have coffee and ride the bike first….
Well…even after yesterday’s post on the takers in the repub party, I still can’t work up a lot of the outrage that normally fuels this thing…it’s not that I haven’t tried….but I think I’m in outrage overload and just a little numb from the whole direction of the country….where the ACA is doing good across the country and the repubs are still trying to take insurance away form those who have benefited from the law…and the bad thing is that these same people will vote for them since…freedom or something…not sure why the poor folks who vote for the repubs keep doing it…it’s not like they give a damn about them…they don’t…and have shown that for decades now…and no amount of regulation or tax cutting is going to get them into or keep them in the middle class…it only works to make the rich richer and make the rest of pay for their pollution and stealing of the natural resources that belong to every citizen….I guess that is communism or something…will never figure it out….geez…
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so I don’t feel it was a totally lost day….didn’t sleep much and was up at 5:30 or so today but I was good last night so I feel okay today….at least it’s above freezing this morning so I won’t have to warm the car up…skipped the bike ride yesterday since I was still waiting for it to get above 45 at 4 in the aft….just don’t need the cold anymore…it looks like I’ll be waiting again today since it is only going to be around 55 for a high….I do need to do the grocery run this morning and I am out of food so that is really necessary….I am a little tired of the ham I cooked last week so I think I’ll put the rest of it in the freezer to make ham soup later and get back into the boring old chicken routine….think I’ll do leftovers first today, though, and start fresh tomorrow….more later…
Well…I’m not sure if you heard about the little showdown between a rancher out west who has been illegally grazing his cattle on federal lands for over twenty years in defiance of many court orders for him to stop…with the latest chapter being his use of armed right wing militia groups to stop the confiscation of his illegally grazing cattle since he doesn’t recognize that the federal government’s laws have any validity in his state. Yep, you heard it, just another instance where the “law and order” repubs pick and choose what laws they are going to follow…but, my big bitch is with the feds and their enforcement people for letting this tin horn idiot get away with it…when the militia folks arrived at the scene, they feds backed off since they didn’t want any bloodshed…armed men in defiance of the lawful actions of the government is against the law…so now felonies are allowed to pass since there may be bloodshed? What’s next, armed robbers being left alone to rob since there may be bloodshed? The more time that these so called patriots are allowed to get away with ignoring the law…and, in effect stealing grazing land from the federal government, the more emboldened they become…this crap needs to be stomped on right now and these folks need to go to jail…now…geez…
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get a few things done…I did lose at pool in an additional day but that was okay…but, it was so damn cold yesterday and the 3 inches of snow on the car when I got up was depressing….but, when I got home from pool, my new radar detector was waiting on my doorstep and I can’t wait to put it in the car…it has been strange not having one and I think I’ve been lucky to not get a ticket in the couple of months I’ve been without one…not much to do today…just more stuff around here and then resumes as always….still going to be cold so the bike ride will have to wait until it gets over 45….more later…
Well…after tangling with the IRS again for a measly 500 bucks or so…it just pissed me off when I was reminded about GE and how they have been able to manage their tax liability…and, by manage I mean avoid paying any taxes at all. Over the past three years, on 28 billion dollars in income, GE has paid no taxes…in fact, they have used the code written for them to get over 3 billion dollars in refunds…yep, folks…you and I are paying GE 3 billion dollars out of our taxes to bribe them to stay in the US…not that being here is the reason the company exists…that US markets have gotten it to where it is today…no, it is from their wonderful business savvy…if you can’t recognize it, that last part was all snark…the infrastructure, the education, and the market they depend on is all paid for by us and they use if for free since they don’t pay taxes…talk about free riders and takers….how many people would it take to take the 3 billion dollars they take every year? Parasites all……geez…
Well…it was a day yesterday and I got a bunch of stuff done but the surprise of having another 3 inches of snow on the car this morning was not conducive to starting this day on a good note….I did get my taxes done yesterday and the new printer worked like a champ so that was a good thing for 35 bucks….might even buy ink instead of throwing it away since it is set up and I won’t have to do that again…the damn tooth that has been bothering me has flared again and I may have to spend a few hundred to get it fixed…don’t have the money so maybe the whole thing is moot…not much to do today…need to get some stuff done around here and then maybe out to shoot pool since Tom has the week off…more later….
One thing I forgot is the eclipse from last night…got up a little after 2 to see if there was anything to see and the clouds broke just enough for me to see the start and then I stayed up until after 3:30 and got a glimpse of it at full…pretty neat red/gold and totally worth missing some sleep for…but, I think my neighbors here at the plex think I’m weird wandering around outside at 3:30 in the morning….
Well…I have been just shaking my head at the hypocrisy of the right for the past few years concerning the federal deficit but one new little tidbit of information that came out this morning highlights how the concern from Ryan, Cantor and their cronies is just so fake and partisan…this morning, the CBO reported that the deficit is going to be under 500 billion dollars for the year…the lowest since 2000, the year that ole GW took office…that means that every year that that idiot was in office, the supposedly terrible deficit was ignored by the repubs and when the dems were in control, they never held the government hostage to try to cut it. So, when you hear anyone on the right bitch about how out of control “Obama’s” spending is, you just have to tell them this little truth…they won’t believe it but you should tell them anyway…maybe their heads will explode and that will be fun to watch….geez…