I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Home from my long work Friday....well, have to admit...the graphics were easier to use.  Pick a scandal, almost anyone will do.  They all belong in the loser's corner.

Going to sleep in tomorrow morning ( like I really could ) but I'm actually going to try.  Dh has his truck back which means I now have my Blazer back....yipee.  Like I had anywhere to go -- well, I don't now.  I rushed around to do it all while I could just assuming it would be at least another week.  I do feel good that I can come and go as I wish or need. 

See you all in the morning.  It's almost 10 p.m. and I'm fading pretty quick.  See you in the morning.

Jackie

Libby, me too.

"I am actually rather more concerned about the National Security Letters to the AP"

Hugs to E, Athena and everyone else fighting this bloody battle.

Cleaned the pool cover today, what a nasty job - I've decided to buy a new mesh one - the old plastic bubble one annoys the hell out of me - I will save up enough money to get a new one!!! Imagine just blowing the leaves off it - love it!! Probably close to $2000 but it would make my life so much easier.

Found out my mother was really upset because I didn't call her or send her a card for Mother's day - well she did say she doesn't do Mother's day - so, what else does she expect.

Time for bed. Bought a microfibre mattress topper today - memory foam was too high for my existing sheets. Looking forward to a soft night's sleep.

Tired Susie

Blue....loved that Janis Joplin song.  Sure brought along a truck load of feelings and memories.  Always wonder how 'long' her career would have been....some hang in there and some don't.  She sang life in a really special way though and I missed her the minute she was gone.

Jackie

This is why I soooo love the block features that we have to use.  Now I can feel quite comfortable with my out-spoken attitudes re: the idiotic Republicans who always wind up in the ALLRIGHT for me, but WHO are you to do the same thing.....how dare you!!!!  Seems to me the biggest bunch of hypocrites that ever evolved from pond scum.

I am ashamed to admit that my dh often holds the umbrella for me.

Let me see...the military has held umbrellas for previous presidents and I don't recall hearing a peep about that...what could be different about this president...I know it can't be that he's black because all those who are complaining well they all keep saying they're not racists so there must be something else...something only they can see...hmm...I'm going with the black thing.

Q:  In the eyes of the TeaGOP, what's Obama guilty of?

A:   BPWB. 

This umbrella thing is really just something they jumped on to feed the meme that Obama is arrogant.  I'm surprised some of them don't just come out and say 'uppity'   Once you figure out what 'talking points' they are selling it's pretty easy to spot when they are throwing red meat out to feed it.

He's a Democrat ... they lost the election.  White, black, blue or purple they are going to hate and attack him.  They are starting in on Hillary again now.  It's standard mode.  If they ever want my vote they need to dazzle me with how efficient and capable they are at getting things done for the good of the country instead.   How good they are at blocking anybody else from getting anything good done does not win favor here.      

Pip, your DH is a gentleman.

PS: - I agree about the AP letters.

Great night's sleep on the new mattress topper - Steve loved it - best $100 I ever spent.

Our massive software upgrade went live over night - it's great to see all of our hard work over the past 9 months or so come to completion. I should have volunteered to be on call - I could have been earning money for sitting around waiting.

RR --- I got that.  Sorry --- I ended up with a huge amt. of marks in my entry.  Well, at any rate most of the above info is how I saw it from the get-go.  The pathetic bunch of Republicans in the loser's corner don't KNOW how to get over it and do what they were elected to do.  That may make for some surprises in '14 and '16.  Sadly we will still be stuck with some of the Tea Party ( sigh - sigh ) but life will go on. 

Going to see if any more graphics have come in.

Jackie

The key thing about regressives is -- if there isn't anything bad to be said about the person they hate, they will just make it up. In the real world, that is called LYING. The birth certificate, death panels, his mother, his father, his education, his wife's education, their law licenses, Benghazi (even fabricated documents, which should get someone fired at the least, if not charged), the deficit, the stock market, taking the guns, taking children away from their parents, letting the UN run the country, being a Muslim, swearing fealty to the king of Saudi Arabia, having a verse from the Koran on his wedding ring, being a socialist, communist, fascist whatever ... Oh yeah, this country is going to hell in a handbasket, things are terrible, the American people want the President impeached for (fill in the blank), we are losing our freedoms (never mind they cannot name even one freedom they no longer enjoy under the Obama administration). Er ... Except the stock market sets record highs nearly every day now, the CBO just scored the President's budget as lowering the deficit more than 1 trillion dollars, the deficit is falling at a record rate and is lower than when he took office (and was handed the steaming pile of crap by the smirking traitors in the Cheney Administration), and the Treasury actually made a payment on the debt. Yeah, going to hell in a handbasket except for all that stuff. Really, plain and simple -- the mouthbreathers would be all for making the President a king if he were a white guy.



And there is stuff I don't like. I want him to be more liberal. The recovery would have been faster and deeper had there been more stimulus -- and oh, BTW, DH (whose degrees are in economics in spite of being a cop) says that this recovery and the steps the Obama Administration took to get us here completely validate Keynes (take THAT, austerity advocates!). I do not want help for the poor on the negotiating table. Food aid comes OFF the table at the very least. WIC off the table. SCHIP OFF THE TABLE. Eliminate the earnings cap on Social Security contributions. Stop agricultural subsidies to any corporation that does more than $5million in annual farm business. Or phase it out between $5 and $10 million. If you serve in the House or the Senate, you cannot get agricultural subsidies. Corporations don't get a pass on paying taxes. Tax carried interest as ordinary income. And start criminally investigating some of the people who caused the great recession. That's a little of what I would like to see. There's more, but for another time.



Yeah, as soon as they start with "I am not a racist," they have lost credibility. Just like with comparisons to Hitler - they have automatically lost the argument. And anybody who calls the President a POS and uses insulting names for the First Lady and the girls is automatically a racist and a loser as far as I'm concerned.



And I am not particularly exercised today - it was a Xanax day for me! (Edited to fix a grammar error and a money error.).




L

Jackie, thanks for that Elberto Willies piece. It illustrates something that I believe is important.

When a Democrat is in office it seems like the Republicans will go after the Dem for anything and everything, even things that they have previously done or supported and they just can't stand to see the Democrats enact any democratic policies. When a Republican is in office they have to do something pretty egregious before Democrats will start screaming.

Democrats realize that elections have consequences and that the winner is supposed to get to set some policy. The Republicans seem to have lost the ability to recognize that this is what the public expects - that's why they voted for the guy. Becoming the party of obstruction, obstructing things that they have supported when proposed by Republicans leads one to believe that the Republican Party has become bankrupt of both moral vision and ideas.