Well, I hope everyone survived the weekend and the wild and whacky weather we had in the Northeast on Saturday. They predicted all kinds of nasty stuff for us, but at my house we didn’t get much more than some wind and rain. Not that I’m complaining. There were even a couple of tornadoes down in Queens and Brooklyn, so I hope everybody down that way didn’t suffer any major damage. The SU-USC football game (which, sadly, we lost after making a game of it into the fourth quarter, and did more to beat ourselves than SC did) had a 70 minute delay between halves due to a threat of severe weather.

I didn’t get a whole lot accomplished. It was too wet on Saturday to do much, which was OK because I’m still suffering from the poison ivy/oak/sumac/whatever the hell it was I got on me, and didn’t feel like doing much. Yesterday, I managed to do some more deck staining, but I had to wait until things warmed up a bit, so I didn’t get much done. And I didn’t watch much football. Just a minute or two of the Jets killing the Bills (which is always good). I guess this is the year that God is on the Jets side (assuming Obama doesn’t remove God from our society and – more importantly – our currency).

Mitt Romney said he wants to keep the part of Obamacare where people with preexisting conditions cant’ be denied coverage. Whoops, wait, not so fast. Only people who actually already have coverage can’t be denied the coverage (that they already have).

Wouldn’t you think that the RomRyan Express would be willing to tell us just how they’re gonna lower the tax rates and balance the budget? There you go thinking again. No, silly peasants, you’ll only find out what loopholes they’re planning on doing away with after they get elected and it’s too late to stop them. Seems somewhat telling, no?

Speculation, of course, would be to eliminate the home mortgage interest and property tax deductions, count employer contributions to health insurance plans as “compensation,” and who knows what else. If Romney would at least release his taxes, I could tell which loopholes he won’t be closing.

For the first time in 25 years, the Chicago Teacher’s Union is on strike. Best of luck to them. A strike is always hard on everybody – especially public employees, who are typically vilified in the media, and by assholes like “Democrat” Rahm Emanuel. :fist:

Oh well, time to get ready for my nine o’clock meeting (not the biweekly stupid one, but one that will suck anyway, no doubt).