Well…i will admit I’m a little gleeful with the document dump that came out of Wisconsin over the past couple of days that shows that ole Scott Walker knew that his public employees who worked for the county where he was executive were illegally using county time and resources to support his campaign for governor….something he has said over and over that he knew nothing about. How’s that lying working out for you, Scotty? Not to mention this is public corruption that is a high misdemeanor and the same thing that at least one of those aides has gone to jail for. So, I call on the prosecutor there to take this new evidence and charge the idiot…I am heartened that there are still investigations going on in this matter and that is what should come out of it…let’s keep counting…third repub governor this year to be shown to be the criminal thugs that we on the left know they are…and again, just shows how the repubs don’t think the laws apply to them…only to the little guys like you and me…geez…
Stupid, stupid Republicans…
Well…as the repubs continue to gloat over defeating the union drive at the VW plant in Kentucky…this neat little tidbit came into the news this morning…the head of the union that represents workers at the plants in Germany said that there are now talks to possibly stop manufacturing in the US…and to certainly not expand production here…so, just to spite the unions here, the repubs have basically scared VW away from expansion and the prospect of thousands of new jobs is now gone….these idiots really thought, in their delusional minds, that VW would thank them for killing unionization even when VW told them that they wanted a union in that plant and that they are more profitable and efficient when they have a union shop. And, VW also understands that when their workers are paid fairly, they have enough money to buy their products and the entire economy benefits, not just the 1%. That is one of the major reasons why Germany is still a manufacturing powerhouse…workers and management work together to face the realities of the economy and share in the pain and gain…not the economy that the repubs want here…that the 1% gets everything and the workers get crap…geez…
February 19th
Well…running late today since I have been watching the Russia/Finland hockey game and the Finns are ahead 3-1 going into the third…yow….slept okay last night and had some dreams that I have already forgotten but I think they were good ones…it would be nice to remember them once in a while…it was an okay day yesterday and I finally got the bathroom cleaned so that was something…and I got out to have a couple with G and it was good to get out of here for a while…but, I do need to stop doing that to save some money…I am going to go back to the game in a minute…nope, not yet…intermission…not much to do today…going to use all the leftovers so there will be no cooking today…well…maybe I’ll make some stir fry again today since I do have a pork loin that needs to be used…more later…
Another difference between us and them…
Well…one of the things that has struck me lately is how stark the differences are between the right and the left and how the right has basically abandoned any idea of governing that is not related to scoring political points or pushing their crazy, regressive agenda on the US when the polls show that more than 60% of the people here don’t want to hear it anymore. How legislation used to work before the ideologues took control of the repubs was that you would look at the needs of the country, you would look at the problems of the times whether it was economic growth, unemployment, hunger or any other goal that would make the country better and then try to do something about it….and, normally when legislation was passed and after time, it was found that there needed to be changes to make it work better, both the right and left would get together to make it better…something that needs to be done for lower income middle class people in the ACA…but, with the right’s rabid fervor to kill government in any form other than the parts that would advance their social agenda, they have decided to not do their jobs so they can continue to try to score political points….with no thought to what the citizens of this country need to make their lives better. That sums up the difference…that repubs only thought is to score cheap political points and drive their ideology while the dems really do want to solve the problems of the country….geez…
February 18th
Well…it was another day yesterday and I got some stuff done so that was a good thing…slept okay but tossed a lot and I think I’m sore from it…did have a dream or two last night and I think I incorporated T’s loss of water into one of them…but the water was still on at times in the dream…just another one where I was supposed to be somewhere and couldn’t get there….way too much snow again last night and I will be curious to see if we have gotten to the all time record for snow in a winter her in GR….don’t want to clean the car yet again…ick…not much to do today…I do need to clean that damn bathroom I have been thinking about for a week…I will get it done today….more later…
The stupid runs really deep in Kentucky…
Well…as time goes on, I am more and more amazed at how stupid the workers in repub areas are….this was shown this past week when the workers at a VW plant in Kentucky voted to not unionize even though VW wanted them to to bring the plant in line with every other VW plant across the world…and a big part of it was the outside money and interference in the election by elected officials across Kentucky. So, these idiots in Kentucky think that it is better to have no say in their wages, working conditions, and problem resolution? How brainwashed must they be to believe the crap that the repubs were spewing…the lies that one of their senators in particular spread…that VW would not have any new products built at the plant if they unionized…something that VW flatly denied? I am stunned that these folks are so steeped in the Fox news propaganda against unions across this country…unions, by the way that built the middle class and without which, the workers at that VW plant would be making half what they make now…does that make them takers? I think it does…geez…
February 17th
Well….running late again this morning…and, I didn’t come back for another one but I have an excuse for that…went out to meet up with T for a couple so that put me off my schedule for the day….and, I just haven’t been able to get motivated lately…but, I will do better today….slept okay last night and got a second night in without the earplugs in so my ears feel better today…didn’t really do much yesterday other than watch Olympics…no cleaning even and that will be the same for today..I do have some stuff to do but not cleaning…still don’t feel all that hot and I wonder when that will end? I hope it will be soon but who knows? More later…
February 16th
Well…it was another long, long day yesterday but I did get some cleaning done…nothing else, but that is a normal Saturday…slept okay last night and, for some strange reason, the furnace in the unit above me has stopped making noise so I could go without earplugs last night for the first time in quite a while and that felt pretty good….still being a total veg with the Olympics on but still no guilt, too…..but, I am starting to get a little bored with it so maybe a little less of them today….not much to do today…may meet up with T later for a couple of minutes and I do need to clean the bathroom…have been a broken record on that for the past few days but maybe today is the charm….more later…
February 15th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I lost at pool for the fifth week in a row so I think I need to try harder..not really…was a good, tight match and lots of fun so that’s really all I need…back to the crappy sleep again so that will give me a good excuse to take a nap later…but, I do need to clean the bathroom today since I put off the rest of the work I need to get done until Monday and the bathroom is starting to get pretty ugly….but first, I need to finish up the USA/Russia hockey game and then get a shower…after I finish the coffee, that is..go USA!
The crazy has exploded in Kansas…
Well…I have been working up the outrage I need to do this one but a new law in Kansas is so jaw-droppingly crazy that I am struggling with how to even describe it…let’s give it a try…yesterday, the Kansas house passed a new law that says that anyone working in any job can refuse to provide services to anyone they suspect to be gay and use the “religious” excuse…and there are no exemptions for police, firefighters, or state employees…so now, in Kansas, if a firefighter pulls up to house that is on fire and he thinks the owner looks gay, he can just drive away without any consequences and let the persons house burn down…the same for any police officer there…if he/she sees a crime in progress and they think the victim looks gay, they can then just walk or drive away and leave the person to fend for themselves…and, the same goes for any state employee…if you walk into the DMV and the clerk thinks you look gay (whatever that is) they can refuse to provide the service they are being paid to do…what the hell is wrong with Kansas? They must know that this crap is against federal law and will be struck down…so why do they want to spend millions defending this institutional discrimination instead of using the money to benefit the people of Kansas? I just have no more words about this crap…geez…