Well…this is going to be a short one since I have been a little distracted by the Washington Post project…but I had to comment on the absurdity of the photo op and comments of Mitt Romney yesterday at a manufacturing plant in Ohio….where ole Mitt and the owner of the factory essentially said the infamous line from the title describing how bad Obama and his policies are for business. Let’s forget for now that corporate profits are at their highest level in history….I hope they can explain to me how business is doing that in an environment where they are opressed by government regulation. What old Mitt and the business owner did not disclose was that they have been the beneficiaries of government action in the form of tax abatements and subsidized government contracts that are policies of the Obama administration….”keep your damn government hands off my Medicare”….what a bunch of hypocrites….
Delusions on the right…..
Well…in some of the reporting today, it appears that one of the greatest sticking points in this whole debt debate for the righties is they won’t agree to anything unless there is a constitutional amendment to balance the budget included in any deal…even though this “cut, cap, and balance” plan passed the house, both the senate and Obama have said that this legislation is dead on arrival in either the senate or the president’s desk. Even if this absurd amendment to the constitution were to pass both houses with the required 2/3 majority, it still has to go to the states for ratification; a process that will take years and that has about as much chance to pass as a return to prohibition. So, these idiots want to put the entire US economy on hold while they live their delusions that they never have to compromise and should get everything they want even though the majority of America does not agree with them? Even John McCain has called out these morons on the delusional state of their thinking….but that is what you get America when you believe anything the right tells you…..and I agree with McCain when he says the tea party folks are lying to the country when they say that their agenda is even possible….I’m not sure if the lie is deliberate or if they are just so ignorant of how the founders wanted the government to work that they think a minority in one house can set the entire agenda for the country…doesn’t work that way…
July 28th
Well…an okay night last night but didn’t do a whole lot…I was quite good so I feel okay even though the sleep was pretty crappy….I did get a response form the Washington Post and will be taking part in their series on the unemployed where I guess the format will be that there will be weekly submissions by the people chosen but I haven’t heard back about what the format will be…at least it will give me something more to do as I look for work….that was a pretty good set of storms that rolled through here yesterday….some of the thunder was so loud that the concussion was moving my t-shirt as I stood at my slider and watched…one of the neatest things I’ve seen in quite a while….not much to do today…I do have to get groceries first thing and then you know the routine….might go out with K later to celebrate the start of her birthday week but I’m not sure….I don’t think I can get to 5 posts again today but who knows? You’ll have to come back to see….
I guess that wasn’t the last thing….
Well….was just trying to relieve the boredom some so I went back to the Washington Post to see if there was anything new in the debt crisis….ran across a survey on what it is like to be unemployed and took it; they dealt with how much assistance you get, what your fears are, etc. and it made me even more depressed when I realized how precarious my position has become…I think I’m going to have to stop reading that stuff or I will fall off the face of the earth….okay…I’m about done with this for now….might come back later for more but this is number 5 for the day so I think I’ve earned a rest and a little tv….or a good book, not sure which yet….
One last thing for today…
Well…I don’t know what happened to my brain over the last couple of days but I have been able to work up some outrage and this one is just a jaw dropping example of the world as the repubs see it….over the last year, 25 individual hedge fund managers made over 26 billion dollars in income…yep, that’s right folks, these thieves took an aver age of a billion dollars home each…with the top guy making 4.9 billion dollars…and since they bought themselves a law from the repubs back when ole GW was running the whole show, they only pay 15% tax on that money; never mind that the secretaries that work at these funds and the janitors that clean up after them pay 25% of their pay in taxes. This is the repubs idea of fairness? How many jobs did this 26 billion create? Not one…yep, not one….
Where are the jobs, Boehner? Where are the jobs, Cantor? Where are the jobs, Snyder?
I do also want to take on the myth that the the low tax policies of gov Perry of Texas are the cause for job growth there…I have to laugh at that nonsense since almost all of the jobs are a result of the runup of oil prices and profits, so the rest of us are paying taxes in the form of higher prices that are subsidizing job growth in Texas…what are the repubs going to claim next as a result of their anti American agenda? That the oil in the ground in Texas is there because the repubs gave the rich more tax cuts? I think their crazy is starting to rot this country…geez….
Let’s stop this nonsense…
Well….with all of this nonsense about the right wingers holding the country hostage or, being allowed to hold the country hostage, I have had enough…what I want Obama to do now is take everything off the table; to stop compromising with the repub thugs and say you get nothing….the only thing we should give them is a sharp kick in the ass and tell them we are tired of their childish nonsense and they will not be rewarded for being children….and then just let the country go into the tank…maybe we need this kind of wrenching trouble to eradicate the tea partiers from this country…..Grover Norquist doesn’t own this country and he needs to be told that…that legislators pledge to uphold the constitution not some no tax pledge that he has bludgeoned the repubs into signing and upholding….geez….
More wandering….
Well….heard this lyric on the bike ride “now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything”….and, while I know it was a romantic lament from “Black” by Pearl Jam, I was struck by how it was a such a great descriptor of where my life sits at this very moment….and I still struggle to understand how age trumps everything that you’ve accomplished in your life…shouldn’t it be that all of that experience and education means something? Oh, well…I won’t bore you with any more musings about that…I’ve already done that enough….I’ve had this uneasiness that has settled over me the past couple of weeks and I know the core of it is this question “what if I never find another job?” This is a brand new sensation to me and I really don’t know how to cope with it yet….cripes, more musings…have to stop that.
I was going to talk about politics in this one but since I’m running behind in the count this month, I’m going to leave that for a later one today…probably in about an hour so come back after lunch…you really didn’t want to work anyway, did you?
July 27th
Well….a pretty busy day yesterday with going out to the beach in the morning and then having to keep up the fitness routine after I got back which kept me busy until after three….and I was good last night so it was kind of boring but slept okay….no dreams that I can recall and it’s been a couple of weeks now since I’ve had one and maybe that’s why I’m a little tired but I think I may have to take a full day off exercise to get rid of all of the aches…it seems I always have this low-level soreness all over but I just keep forgetting the ibuprofen that I know helps….not much to do today…going back to the normal routine with coffee at Biggby and then back here for more resumes and lunch….it looks like the rest of the week is going to be kind of a bore but maybe out with K for a couple tomorrow…more later….
The right misses again….
Well…I did go out to the beach and got a little sun…but that’s not what this is about…doing that a lot lately…I just have to comment on the rush to judgment by the right wing tv and newspapers who were all sure that the tragedy in Norway was caused by muslim extremists and went out of their way to trumpet the fact…even when they were completely wrong. Then we had Glenn Beck on his radio show comparing the youth camp where the murders happened to a Hitler youth camp…just because it was a Labor party party sponsored event. When are we all going to reject these folks and their hatred? I’ve had enough of the sloppy reporting and the assumptions being sold as the facts….when are we going to start holding the right responsible for this nonsense? Geez….
July 26th
Well…had a nice night last night with going over to G’s and cooking outdoors and having a couple of beers…made salmon on a ceder plank along with asparagus and had fresh mozzarella with tomatoes as a salad…had never had that combination before and it was really good…overcooked the the asparagus until it was crispy and it looked burned but it was so good….just a yummy meal….and I was good here after I got home so I feel okay today…trying to think what to do today and I think it may be the beach for the morning since it looks like a glorious day and I need to swim in Lake Michigan at least once every year…so, I do have things to do today and need to start getting ready if I’m going to go……I will be back later for a couple…still running 4 behind and am running out of month…