Well…have just been reading about the new repub talking point that will try to distract voters from their war on women…a war that is clear from what they do, trying to restrict birth control access, trying insert the government into women’s healthcare decisions, and trying to charge women more for their insurance since they have “ladyparts” that are more complex than men’s parts and can cost their friends in the insurance industry more money for claims. But now, the new talking points are out and here is what they consist of: trying to say that the dems are really the ones who are pushing the war on women since Bill Clinton fooled around…yep…the false equivilency that they have been pushing in the media for years, that the haters and racists on the right are the same as the social justice folks on the left is now being rolled out to try to say that one man cheating is the same as an entire party who makes it their reason for being to restrict the rights of women. Just another bit of idiocy from one of the best idiots on the right, Rand Paul…I just can’t remember a more stupid thing to say in a long, long time…even with a bunch of these folks on the right trying hard to beat it every day…geez…
January 30th
Well…running early today and it is probably because I woke up really early…and there is nothing else to do until I go to the grocery store…a 15 minute window that I thought I’d use…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a start on the kitchen…need to finish it up today and get on the bathroom…probably should get on the leaning tower of papers but the snow piles are so high I may not be able to get to the recycling bin….slept okay last night even with another no cocktail night and I am really starting to enjoy having energy when I get up in the morning…and, for the first time since November, there is no snow on the car this morning…not even any frost but I’m still going to warm it up since it will frost over as soon as I get in it….not much to do today…I do need to clean and write some but that is about it….I do need to find some things to do to beat back the boredom….more later…
Some of the rich truly are evil….
Well…I have been amazed lately about the tone deaf response that has come from many of the rich in this country when they are criticized for any reason…they truly feel that they are the aggrieved party when people suggest that they share their wealth with the people that made it possible…and this week, we had a guy who truly is one of the worst people in the world comparing the OWS movement that is trying to address income inequality to the nazis and their treatment of the Jews…nope, not making this up. This idiot, Tom Perkins, then just couldn’t shut up and gave another interview where he is proud of his rolex watches and he must be okay because he has relatives that live in trailers…all while he spends 130 million on a new sailboat. But this is not the worst part of the interview…this idiot goes on to complain that he once had to pay a $10,000 fine after being convicted in a french court of running over a small sailboat with his huge one and killing a doctor that was on the other boat. He goes on to bitch that they tried him in French and he got railroaded…and he probably truly feels that way since the rich in the US can basically do anything they want and get away with it…how dare they hold him responsible? I am so tired of hearing from these worthless pieces of crap who think they should be treated like royalty and the rest of us should bow to them since they cheated and stole their way to wealth…geez…
The repub response…
Well…I’m not sure if you saw the repub response to the SOTU last night, but all I can say is wow…wow…how low can you set the bar and still have a bar to jump over? It was the most inane bit of nonsense I have ever heard…but, of course, Chuck Todd is calling it a masterpiece…what the hell speech did he watch? I laughed out loud when the idiot delivering it said that the repubs want everyone to make their own healthcare decisions…but, this is the idiot that voted to eliminate the birth control benefit in Obamacare…40 times…and has gleefully voted for more and more restrictions on women making their own health decisions by making abortions harder and harder to get. Now, I should not be surprised that the repubs talk like this, but the rest of the speech where it was all platitudes, all the time with no specifics on policy is the playbook that was used all across the country to get these hard right asses elected..if they open their mouths about what their true plans are, they would be laughed out of the election…or maybe even the country….so, don’t believe the spin that the pundits are putting on this stinker of a speech…the bar is set so low that even ole GW couldn’t trip over it…geez…
Need to get caught up…
Well…I’ll have to admit that I didn’t watch the SOTU speech last night…and, coming from a political junkie, that is saying something…it’s not like I didn’t want to hear it…from what I’ve read, it had some pretty good ideas in it…things like mother, apple pie, and chevrolet that no one should be able to argue with….and even a couple of pokes in ole Boehner’s eye for wasting the country’s time with 40 votes to repeal Obamacare…but, I just couldn’t get interested in it…I think it may have more to do with the mind-numbing weather we’ve had this winter…It has started to really affect my mood and every time I think about the fact that it is not going to get better any time soon, I slide a little deeper down in the trough…I wonder if it is SAD? But, as you can see, I am running behind for the month and I do need to to a few more of these today so if you think they are a waste of time, don’t read….I will try to get to a political one later…oh, there was one good story that I wanted to share….a NY congressman threatened to throw a reporter off a balcony after the reporter asked him about the investigation into the reps ethics…can you guess if he was a repub or a dem? Yep, you’ve got it…another bully repub who thinks he can do or say anything without consequence…geez…
January 29th
Well…have only been up for about a half hour and I am already bored,,,and my router is going brain dead that is starting to get irritating…have had to unplug it twice in the past two days to get it to recognize that it is supposed to be working….oh, well….at least it’s not 5 below this morning and that is something…I did have to go out and run an errand yesterday and the roads are still ridiculously slippery with the salt not working…and I am at the end of my tolerance of the cold and snow…might have to start having cocktails again just to survive it…slept okay last night but no dreams to speak of…I even skipped the SOTU speech last night which is not normal for me…I usually love that political stuff but not now, just don’t really care….not much to do today…I am going to clean some but I can feel the day is going to be an almost total loss…but I am going to try to do something….not sure what that will be yet…more later…
Dave Agema is still an idiot…
Well…if you haven’t been living in a cave over the past month or so, you have heard about the loathsome comments that the repub committeeman Dave Agema made…casting gays as murder victims and aids carriers and making the assertion that there has not been one incidence where a Muslim has done anything good for the US…these were bad enough, butt then this week, he stood in front of a repub group here in GR and doubled down on the comments, playing the normal conservative whine card that the media is trying to silence him with political correctness…yadda, yadda. Nope, Dave, you’ve got that wrong…no one is trying to silence you…especially those of us who are progressives…we just love it when you right wing idiots expose the truth of the repub party… breaking through the veneer of lies that have gotten Walker elected in Wisconsin and Snyder elected here in Michigan. One of the ironies here is that old Dave thinks that he has the right to spew his hate without consequence, but when people call him out on it, he wants those critics to be silenced so he can continue to foment hate and racism…but, Dave, it doesn’t work that way…sure, you get to be a hate filled asshole and I will defend your right to say whatever you want, but, your critics also get to call you out on your nonsense and you don’t get to play the martyr card to somehow justify your hate…keep it up, Dave, you are the best thing that has happened to we progressives here in Michigan in a long time…geez…
January 28th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I spent most of it just digging the car out of the snow…it did start this morning but it was a struggle so I will need to start it later today and let it run for a half hour or so just to get some heat in the battery since it is going to be 3 for a high today…slept okay last night and I am inching closer and closer to skipping cocktail nights all together..I feel so much better when I do…but, part of it is that I think I ate enough yesterday, too, which I have been struggling with lately…got all the way up to 1400 cals yesterday and I am going to try to do the same thing today…maybe even more but it is hard to eat so much…today looks like a total veg day with lots of cleaning in it after I work out…other than that, just need to get caught up here and I have an idea on the whiny conservatives and how they can say whatever they want but no one has the right to criticize them for it…hypocrites…more later…
The problem with religion in schools…
Well…reading a news story about how the chrisitanists in Louisiana are illegally allowing religion in their public schools, it points out just how far these supposed religious people will go to impose their brand of religion on everyone and use it as a weapon to intimidate those who have different religions. In a middle school in Louisiana, one teacher even goes so far as to teach her classes that the bible ” is 100% true”, and that “evolution is impossible” and that a buddhist student is stupid for not believing in her god. The response of the superintendent of schools there was even worse…when the parents complained of the teachers bullying of their son, this idiot suggested that the child “change his religion” since they live in the bible belt, or change schools…not a word about the illegality of this teacher’s action but just get he hell out of here if you are not a christian. This is what is wrong with these christian terrorists…they are no better than the Taliban who also want to impose their twisted interpretation of a religion at the point of a gun….but Louisiana uses the full force of the government to do it…I hope the ACLU will be successful in making these folks understand that the first amendment applies to them…geez…
Four down for the month…
Well…as you can see, I’m four down for the month and am running out of days to catch up so there is going to have to be some cheating to make the goal…so, let’s get started….the Wings are just disappointing me with the late game collapses that they have been doing all season…probably won’t make the playoffs for the first time since I was much, much younger…not getting excited about the super bowl…might watch some of it for the ads but it will be home here and not out…need to be able to flick through channels and can’t do that if I’m watching with anyone…even Man U is stinking up the place this year and maybe it is good that I haven’t been able to watch them this year…would just be angry all the time with the lack of effort…and why wouldn’t you put in effort if they are paying you millions every year? I wonder if they don’t have any pride…I’m sure I’d leave it all on the field if they were paying me all that cash….hmmmm…okay, need to go start lunch but I do have another one for early aft about religion and how it is being used as a weapon even against middle schoolers…