Well…it was just another Sunday yesterday and I have gotten up today feeling quite down for some reason…even the prospect of having lunch with T is not bringing me out of the funk…didn’t sleep well and my tooth is giving me pain again…it seems like a perfect storm to depression…but, it’s not new so I guess I’ll just have to get used to it….not much to do today…I think I may just turn this into a day to just nurse the wounds and survive…I do need more coffee and a workout so maybe that will help…who knows?
Typical howl from the right…
Well…it has been funny to hear the howl coming from the right here in Michigan…was actually looking out the door to see if I could see or hear any heads exploding…on the ruling on equality that was handed down Friday afternoon in favor of everyone having the same rights. The cries were the same ones that you always hear when the repub sponsored bigotry is found to be unconstitutional…damn activist, liberal judge! But, the only problem with that is that this guy was appointed by Reagan…so that makes him a liberal? I am so tired of the repubs loving government when they can use it to discriminate, but when the result is to increase equality and freedom, they just howl like crazy….and one other funny thing is that in every state where these types of cases have come to the court, every judge has come down on the side of the 14th amendment and equal protection…so now all judges are activist liberals? Get over it haters…get over the fact that this country is changing toward equality and tolerance for all, not just the people you agree with…geez…
Oh, on last thing… Schuette, stop spending my tax money to defend discrimination with the appeal…especially since you have no case…
March 23rd
Well….it was a long day yesterday with all of the sports on but all of my teams won for the first time that I can remember so that was cool….I was not good last night so I feel a little slow today and it looks like I won’t be able to get out on the bike today since it won’t get above freezing and the snow melt will be ice again…not going to risk crashing….and it looks like it will be Thursday until it’s warm enough again….not much to do today…I am going to make another home made pizza and then just veg for the day…racing and hockey is going to be the order of the day…more later…
Equality marches on…
Well…just a short one on the cool developments here in Michigan where a federal judge just struck down the discrimination that was enshrined in the constitution when the marriage inequality act was passed in 2004. I really like what the judge did with the supposed “experts” that the state of Michigan called in to support continuation of inequality, basically calling them lying hacks who had nothing to add to the case….but, the best part is that the judge used the 14th amendment to the constitution and it’s equal protection clause to say that everyone has to be treated equally…you don’t get to discriminate just because you have the votes to do it…I do feel bad that the appeals court has stepped in an stayed the ruling until next week but it won’t last forever and everyone in the state will be equal when it happens…yay…
March 22nd
Well…as you can see, the site was down for a day and I’m still not sure if it’s working right…still can’t access from my phone but that might be that the IP address has changed and I may have to re mark it to make it work…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool for the third week in a row…but, not by much…I think my allergies are going crazy already and I feel like crap today…but, I did get out and get 8 miles on the bike today and it looks like I’ll be able to get to ten or so in a week if the temp stays up…it does feel good to get exercise again….lost this one for a third time not sure what the hell is going on with the software today…
Some sports?
Well…it has been a semi productive day today but if I add in all of the sports I have been trying to see, it gets much more so….just finished up watching Man U win one and take the three points and now am watching the Wings play a kind of lethargic game but they are still tied so I guess that is okay…and, after I finish this one, going to go back to basketball as my flashback channel…oh, and there is a race on in an hour and a half with Michigan starting about the same time…and State later…geez…my head is spinning with all of the work just trying to keep them all straight….so, I’m going to go back to the couch and just potato for a while…probably a long while but I do need to do 2 more of these today or maybe tomorrow?
A little news…
Well….have been working a little around here today…got the bathroom cleaned, finally, and am in the middle of watching Man U and the Wings play…but, I almost forgot this little bit of news…my oldest son got married Friday…got a call from him last night and he sounds happy…and I laughed when I heard from my daughter that he was pretty geeked that his whole wedding only cost 35 bucks instead of the 10,000 that she spent on hers…so it will happen that all of my sons will be married in one year…and I worked so hard trying to teach them never to get married…that was kind of a joke…I’m happy for all of them…
Life is life?
Well…I was going to name this one “life sucks” but that is a little bit too much of a downer even for me….but it does…at least that’s how I feel right now…going broke again and I spent 60 bucks I didn’t have for food and gas for the car today….and there are no prospects to make any more for quite a while…I wonder if I should just stop eating and see how far I can go? But then I’d feel even worse than I do….not sure what to do…at least Ohio State lost today so that made me smile a little this aft but I haven’t been able or willing to work on a political one today….after the rain yesterday, the trails may be clear enough to go more than a half mile…probably should go check before the State game comes on…that might help and I did get the gear muddy a couple of days ago…damn, just remembered I have clothes that have been sitting in the washer…should go take care of those…
March 20th
Well…running late today, again, and it’s just because I couldn’t find the pizza sauce at Meijer’s this morning…looked all over for it…took about 20 minutes and I was not happy that they moved it…but, I am going to make a homemade pizza today so that makes it a little better…just getting so tired of chicken or pork loin…slept okay last night but I was not good so I feel a little under the weather…and now, the soreness from the 5 miles the other day has hit and I am just grumpy….not much to do today…there is way too much sports on today with basketball, college hockey, and the Wings on so it is going to be a wasted day, again….but, it doesn’t cost any money so that is a plus…more later…
Something on the Ukraine…
Well….still not feeling all that great but had a couple of thoughts that I wanted to get down on the Ukraine situation…I wonder where people get the idea that anything can be done? Especially by us…do the hawks here think we are going to attack Russia? And, the thing is that Putin knows it…not only because they have a real army with real tanks and attack helicopters and fighter jets…something that Afghanistan didn’t have and we are still there 13 years later and still haven’t won. Plus, you just need to look at the supply lines if you are going to consider a real shooting war…Russia has 20 divisions within a day of the Ukraine…it would take the US 6 months to get ready for any sustained attack…yeah, we could maybe lob a few cruise missles at them but all that would do would be to piss them off…so, where does that leave us? In the reality based world, it means doing just what we are doing…talking to the UN and other organizations that can levee economic sanctions to make them hurt some…like the new suggestion that Russia be expelled form the G8, making getting loans almost impossible to get and forcing them to basically go on a cash basis….will that work? Who knows? But it is better than a shooting war…geez…