Well…I wasn’t sure union buster Bob Corker could sink any lower in the senate today…but, he did it! In negotiations for aid to the Ukraine…ole Bob is holding the package up until he gets something for his bosses…the Koch brothers…a special law that would exempt them from rules that govern tax benefits given for the Kochs to donate to their own supposedly non profit political action committees…yep, you heard it right…. ole Bob is trying to alter foreign policy just to get the Kochs millions more in exemptions from paying taxes that they owe. I do applaud both Dick Durbin and Harry Reid for calling this crap out on the floor and adding it to the outrages that the bought and paid for legislators of the United Kochs of America have done over the past few years…we need sunlight and pushback to make people understand how toxic these brothers are to our democracy…geez…
Paul Ryan is still the worst person in the world…
Well…I just don’t know what to say about this lying, race-baiting idiot other than wow…wow that he would even be so blatant the other day to say that the problem with poverty in the “inner cities” is the men there have never learned the “culture of work” that the rest of the country has…blowing as hard on the right wing, racist dog whistle as he can to motivate the rabid, right wing, racist base that keeps these idiots in power….and to compound this crap, he comes out today and says that he didn’t have any racist intent and then goes on to describe that there is rural poverty too…but, rural poverty is caused by the “lack of jobs” not by a lack of the “culture of work”….so, let me get this straight, in minority areas, poverty is caused by the people themselves but in white areas it is caused by a lack of jobs? What about the lack of jobs in the cities that can support people there? I am not stunned by the lack of understanding from this idiot…he has just let slip the overt racism that has been rampant in the repub party forever…but now, they show no need to conceal it since the only people who vote for them are their white base…they know no independent is going to buy their agenda of hating gays, minorities, and women so they have just given up…and their “leader” is the worst person in the world…geez…
March 13th
Well…sitting here waiting for the car to defrost and thought I’d get a short one done….still can’t believe that it is only 7 degrees this late in March…it was an okay day yesterday and I think I’m finally getting over the bug…at least there is light at the end of the tunnel…slept okay last night and feel pretty good this morning with it being a no cocktail night so maybe I’ll get a few things done today that I have been ignoring with being sick….I do have to do the grocery run today to get the corned beef and cabbage for St. Patrick’s day…not sure why I do it….I’m not religious but I am Irish, I guess…more later….
Another day…
Well…it seems that I’m still feeling a little hot and crappy today so the effort to do a political one is just not something I want to do right now….so, maybe just some more meandering until I lose the urge to write at all…I am tired, tired, tired of the damn snow…it’s the 12th of fricking March and it is going to be 3 below tonight…I think the cold is starting to sap my creativity since I am quite depressed with being off the bike for 5 months…and I am feeling so fat with gaining 10 pounds this winter that I am trying to not eat anything anymore…but, I know that makes me feel worse but what can you do? Not much, it appears…I have given up cocktails to cut the calories and I guess I’m going to try to keep it below 1,000 for the next few weeks and see if that helps…okay, that was pretty crappy meandering…but, what can you do?
March 12th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I want out to have a couple with G which I probably shouldn’t have with the bug still being here…but, I think I feel better today, not sure yet, but I think better…I did put the top down on the way home but I think that makes the 4 inches of snow we got last night even worse….I think I need to just hibernate until all of the snow piles are gone or I am going to go crazy….slept okay last night and had graduation dreams again last night that I shouldn’t be having…it was 15 years ago, after all, and I should be past that by now….not much to do today…I do have a couple of things to get done around here but that is about it…more later…
The repubs sudden concern with poverty…
Well…I have almost been laughing at the sudden concern that the repubs have been showing for poverty in the US….ignoring the fact that it is just election year pandering and lies, there is a demographic component to this new found concern that can’t be ignored. When the face of poverty in the US was the brown “other”, it was easy for the majority white party to ignore them since they were lazy and it was their own fault that they were poor…but now, with the increasingly white face that is repub caused poverty..,.caused by the policies of the repubs that want to destroy unions, the social safety net, and outsource jobs…they no longer want to ignore the problem since, even in poverty, these poor whites will continue to be their constituents…not like the minorities who are just takers who don’t deserve representation. This overt racism is so evident in all of the repub party today that it will be interesting to see the pretzels that will have to be made with their logic…may even see some heads explode…hope so…geez…
March 11th
Well…running late for a weekday and part of it is because I went out to Kos first today…Cheers and Jeers gets going early and I wanted to get my post in about fridge magnets…sitting here trying to figure out if I feel any better this morning…still sweating so maybe not…slept okay last night but up and down all night just doesn’t work that well…didn’t get a lot done yesterday since I was really fighting the bug but I was good last night so I’m hoping that will help today…I did get a little plastic piece fixed on the car yesterday that has been bugging me but to have that be the only accomplishment is pretty bad….I am going to try to do more today but we’ll so how I feel after I work out…not much to do today…oh, I did get the driver’s side floor mat cleaned in the car, too, to get rid of the salt and the laundry soap I used left a nice little scent in the car….okay, need to finish the coffee and get to the workout…more later…
The Kochs truly are evil…
Well…feel like crap again today but I do need to do another one of these to try to stay close to the goal for the month…I find it heartening that Harry Reid has started to shine a light on the nefarious actions of the Kochs…even going so far as to use them as the poster boys for most of the evil that is being done to the middle class here in the US…and you can see this evil in all of the repubs that want SS gone, who want to cut off unemployment benefits, that want to do away with environmental regulations, who want to cut taxes on the rich and corporations, and who want to kill unions…all things that the Kochs have been pushing with the 400 million dollars they spent in the last election cycle…just like cockroaches, I hope these evil people will scurry away once they find that the country is on to them and their ilk like the Waltons, and Adelsons….we need to just keep hammering on them for the evil they do and make people understand that these billionaires never feel like they taken enough from you and me…they always want more….geez…
March 10th
Well…it was another day of feeling like crap yesterday and it looks like the bug is still with me today…having temperature whiplash today with freezing one minute and sweating buckets the next….at least the coughing has stopped….needless to say, I didn’t do much yesterday and today will be the same…I do have to wash the salt out of the drivers floor mat from the Miata today…it just doesn’t look right that a black mat is now white from salt…but, that will be almost all I am going to do…just feel too crappy to do much but hit the couch and shiver……so, that is what I’m going to do…I’ll be back to add to this one when I feel better….
They couldn’t see this?
Well…have been reading this week about how much money the Kochs spent in the last election cycle and it just makes me sick…412 million dollars…yep, you heard it right 412 million dollars from just two guys trying to buy themselves a democracy…and anyone that calls him/herself a tea partier, has had their seat in the congress bought by these two idiots…and, the one thing I want you to remember is that they are not just giving this money away out of the goodness of their hearts…they want something for it…they want what they have been given in Wisconsin for example…where their toady Walker and the rest of the repubs there have gutted the rights of the people to organize…they have been given right to work here in Michigan since the Kochs hate workers and unions….you get my drift…that just two brothers could do so much to damage the middle class and environment has one cause and one cause only…the supreme courts Citizens United decision that made unlimited money the new norm in elections…and made people like the Kochs just a little bit more equal than the rest of us….my question to the court is…”you couldn’t see this?” everyone else did and now our democracy is at risk because of the activist repubs on the Roberts court…what a bunch of crap…geez…