In addition to the typical Monday depression, I’m ungodly sore and tired today. That’s what happens when you get a little decent weather around here (especially on the weekend) – you try and cram in as much activity as you can because you know it aint gonna last. In fact, after another warm day today, they’re telling us to expect a couple inches of snow on Tuesday. Hey, Mother Nature, quit fucking with us, would ya? It’s not like I tried to slip you margarine or something (on a side note, I just checked – did you know you can’t buy Chiffon in North America anymore? It’s only sold in the Caribbean. Happily, Mother Nature, aka Dena Dietrich, is still with us).
Perhaps not with us much longer, hopefully, are Republicans in Wisconsin. Seems that the GOP there wants to have a vote affirming their right to secede from the Union (if not to actually secede – yet). Well, we already knew Wisconsin Republicans aren’t exactly union-friendly, so this isn’t much of a surprise, I guess. My only hope is that they’re just planning on leaving. Maybe they can all catch an iron ore freighter and head across Lake Superior to Canada.
Preferably during November.
I heard a clip of Ted “The Genius” Cruz speaking at whatever convention of dumb fucking teabaggers is going on (or just got ever with or whatever – the one where they booed a mention of Jeb Bush), and he was saying that the number one priority for Congress out to be to abolish the IRS (guess he’s taking some time off from repealing Obamacare).
The crowd promptly commenced to do some enthusiastic hootin’ and a-hollerin’ as you’d expect them to. I really wish I could have slipped into Ted’s mind (sick and twisted though that would be – no amount of showers cold get you clean after an experience like that) and finished his speech, ‘cuz (once their excitement calmed down a bit), I’d have continued with something like….
“We don’t need the IRS because we don’t need what the ‘R’ in IRS stands for – ‘Revenue’. We don’t need roads or highways, we don’t need schools, we don’t need Federal Prisons, we don’t need Social Security and Medicare, we don’t need an Army, a Navy, an Air Force, or Marines, we don’t need the VA, we don’t need to pay military pensions, and most of all we don’t need to pay for elections so dumb motherfuckers like you can elect stupid assholes like me.”
Oh well, I guess I should get back to work. Or at least go look out the window for a while.
I remain astounded at the stupidity of Repubs. But they really work at it. Facts are their enemies and they do their best to avoid them. When I complained to my ex-friend about the inaccuracy of her Alinsky (sp?) quote her answer was “but that’s still what Obama is doing.” She never missed a beat.
Anti-feminist Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly argued this week that Washington should stop trying to make sure women receive equal pay for equal work because men were not interested in marrying wives who make as much as them.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/15/anti-feminist-increase-the-gender-pay-gap-because-men-dont-want-well-paid-wives/
I don’t know where people get that shit from. I would be more than happy if my wife made about 10X (or more) what I do. Or more. I would be a most content house husband, baking bread, taking care of the critters, cleaning….
I’d even be happy greeting my wife at the end of the day wearing a french maid’s outfit.
Of course, if she made that much money she could do a lot better than me.
I had totally forgotten about the “you don’t fool with mutha nature” ads! :rofl2:
In the world of weather, we hit an all time April low last night. We got to 29 degrees. I covered what plants I could and brought inside a bunch I fortunately had waited to plant. I think we got through it a-ok. After that, we were back up to the 60’s and on to the 70’s tomorrow. Craaaazy.
Funny you mention the benefits of revenue. I was noticing on my walk this evening the sidewalks that are still in good shape and are stamped with “WPA 1941.” Wonder how many of these thugs’ grandparents worked on these sidewalks?
P.S. Phyllis Schlafly must be a woman in drag; no woman in her right mind would say the crud she does.
Now, Cuomo faces an investigation into his disbanding of an ethics commission he himself created with great fanfare, then worked feverishly to undermine, going so far as to squash subpoenas against political allies. But he can’t intimidate or defund or outmaneuver a federal district attorney. And so like his equally odious neighbor governor, we can hold out hope that justice will be served.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/15/1292228/-What-s-the-difference-between-Chris-Christie-and-Andrew-Cuomo-Nothing?detail=hide