Well….you’ve heard me criticize the right here many, many times over the past few years and they have deserved it…but, I have tried to make it on the facts, not name calling, or lies like you normally hear out of the right and I think that is what separates the right from the left. But now, when I’m over at one of my favorite progressive sites, I see that many of the commenters there are starting to devolve into the same type of inflammatory name calling nonsense that greets us every day from the right…and I sure don’t like it at all…we have been proud over the years to make our arguments based on the facts and sound policy that we feel is best for the country, not the talking point sound bites that passed for good policy on the right. We are better than that…let me repeat, we on the left are supposed to be better than that and when any one of us goes so low as to match what the right does, it just feeds into the idea that the right pushes every day that “everyone does it” that has given them a pass to discriminate and use the government to hurt people, not help them. So, stop this crap Kossacks…we are better than that and we need to show that the quality of our ideas is all we need to win the day…geez…
February 25th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t do much but look for work and veg out to the Australian crime show I’ve been watching….still feel like crap and my head is plugged up so there must still be a bug that is here and working….have felt like this most of the winter and I may have to try some allergy medicine to see if it may be allergies…slept like crap last night and up really early again today and that is getting to be an unwelcome pattern…just not much to do at 5 in the morning….not much to do today…I do have a few things to do today around here but that is about it…going to need to cook at some point but just can’t get motivated right now…more later…
This is delicious…
Well…just read an interesting article about the continuing woes that Walmart is experiencing with drops in profit, growth, and stock price this week and the first thing that popped into my head was “couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people..” As you can tell, that last comment is full of snark and aimed at the owners of Walmart, not the people that work there and suffer everyday….it appears that shopping patterns are changing and the weekly drive to the ugly big box retailer is starting to be too big a pain for people…especially since the stuff that they are going there to buy is probably not on the shelf anyway with all of the problems Walmart has caused itself by cutting staffing and going to temp workers instead of full timers…the only thing I have to say if Walmart goes bye-bye, is good riddance…I will feel for the people that lose their jobs but allowing a profitable company like Walmart to push it’s labor costs off on the taxpayers to the tune of almost 3 billion dollars a year is just wrong…it’s just like you and me writing a check to the Waltons every month…and they don’t need more of my money….geez….
February 24th
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for a second one yesterday…I really meant to and had some ideas but just felt so crappy that I couldn’t do it…don’t feel much better today but now I am just even for the month so I do need to get moving…slept okay but back up at 5:30 again and that is getting tiring…yesterday was basically just a bore…didn’t watch the end of the Olympics…I think that if I did, my head would have exploded…they need to shorten it down to a a week at most and get rid of some of the events that have been added like snowboardcross and the other made up events…too much biathalon, too….and not starting the Daytona 500 until almost 9 last night was just so strange…didn’t get to watch much of it and really didn’t care…not much to do today…I am going to just take it easy and let this bug play out…just have no energy and am not going to force anything….more later…
February 23rd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but didn’t do a lot…I did get out to see K for a few minutes and that was fun but the rest of the day was just a normal Saturday…slept okay last night but that bug that started on Thursday is still here and with it, no energy, so I think today will just be racing and napping…went into Olympics overload yesterday and just stopped watching…it goes on way too long and I just got bored with the whole thing….not much to do today…I am just going to watch the Daytona 500 today and veg…and try to come back for another one of these today to stay ahead…more later…
Not much politics right now..
Well…have been working all day trying to find something to write about in politics, but I think I’ve covered most of the interesting ones this week…so, let’s talk about something else…how about some sports? Okay, let’s do that…I feel bad for the Wings with them losing Hank for the rest of the season with back surgery…but, he needed to get it done with the chunk of disc that broke off and stuck in the nerve…so now the youngsters have to really step up…might be interesting to watch…after the debacle of the US mens hockey team this morning, I can’t wait for the Wings to get back to playing…I will be rooting for the Swedes tomorrow morning to take the gold….boy, the new racing season has started out quite boring…the twin 150’s and the truck race were basically follow the leader all race…and the Nationwide race is just the same…might be a good time to take a nap…Man U did win this aft so that was cool…maybe I’ll just head back to the couch and watch the rest of the race…more later…not really…
February 22nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I lost at pool again and that makes it 6 weeks in a row…but, I did find out Tom’s secret weapon…not going to use it but we got a good laugh out of it…there was a surprise last night when I got a call from the oldest son that he is engaged, too, just like the other two boys…so it looks like a third wedding this year…and that will make all of the kids married…something I never thought I’d see…slept okay last night but up early again today but I’m getting used to it so that’s okay…I have been running late this morning but it is Saturday so I guess that’s okay…not much to do today…I should clean the kitchen but I probably won’t…just going to let the day unfold at a leisurely pace and see what happens…going to go out later for a couple with K and that should be fun…I do need to tell someone of the latest family bombshell….
February 21st
Well…it was a weird weather day yesterday with thunderstorms and lots of rain and it was good that at least some of the snow has melted….but, that warm weather leads to the next three weeks being in the teens and I am getting tired of it…slept okay last night but I am still tired this morning and the coffee is not working so today may be a little bit of a trial….didn’t do much but cook yesterday and that looks the same for today..other than the cooking, that is, today will be a leftover day and that makes it easier to eat enough calories….not much to do today….pool, I think, but that will be it for me…then back here for an easy night….there is a truck race on so that will be a nice change from the Olympics….really, really tired of them…more later…
The Kochs are still lying about the ACA…
Well…living here in Michigan, you would think there is a guy or woman named ACA that is running for every office they way that the Kochs are spending money to try to defeat him/her. The latest ad that they are running has some woman with cancer that goes on to say that with Obamacare and it’s out of pocket expenses, she is going to die since she can’t afford them and her plan got canceled…all of the talking points that the Kochs are pushing to hurt people for political advantage for their right wing nutjobs. The only problem that these ads are having is that all of them have been found to be full of lies and half truths and the media is finally calling bullshit on them….this one is no different. First, cancer is no picnic and I don’t wish this woman any more stress than she is already going through…but, by being in this ad, she opened herself up to fact checking…something that was done well by Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post. First, yes, her non-compliant policy was canceled….but, she was able to get one for almost 700 dollars a month less than she was paying….and the bitch about how she can’t afford the 6,350 out of pocket costs in the new policy? When you net the old payments with her new ones…her actual costs are lower than they were before….and, let’s make this one more point…before the ACA, her chances to get canceled because she was sick was a very real possibility…under the ACA they can’t cancel at all. Living in Michigan, I live with the crazy right that are so frickin delusional that they will believe anything, and I think this woman was probably paid well for her part in pushing these lies….how can she live with herself? Oh, that’s right, the right has no shame…geez…
February 20th
Well…it was just another day yesterday but I did get the top down on the car and take a drive…so that makes it every month for 18 months I’ve owned it I’ve had the top down…small victories…but, today looks like rain all day and then freezing up and ugly, then really cold for the next two weeks so the next time looks like March…slept crappy last night and on the wrong shoulder so I will be in pain the rest of the day…I do need to get out this morning to get the grocery run done so I can just hunker down here for the next few days and hibernate….I am getting tired of the Olympics so tonight it will be cocktails and races from Daytona….other than that, just cooking and cleaning today….and more of these…but, I am in good shape for numbers this month and I’m not sure how that happened….more later…