Its 10:35 am
Still trying to recover from the weekend. Not the way I had hoped San Jose State would play USC in losing 56-3. I guess the answer will come this weekend...if SC walks back in the Horseshoe and whips Ohio State's ass by 21-28 points,I'll tip my hat to the USC for being that much better....but if they struggle and we get wiped out again by Utah at home,then I guess we'll have accept SJS is not very good and hope for a decent WAC season and 6 wins.
Okay...just had to get that off my chest.
So here I am laboring on Labor Day to find a new and improved job. Suffice to say,here in Michigan,its going to be a real challenge. Detroit's unemployment rate is 29% within the city limits. The new mayor,Dave Bing,is fighting a huge blackhole that is called the City Budget and is looking to lay off a 1,000 city workers and cut bus services. Its getting very grim over here as over half of the people who drive are uninsured. Fact is this...if you get into any accident in the city,chances are the only info you'll be getting from the other driver is telling the cops which way she/he ran. The bus lines actually are extremely critical to many Detroiters and to cut lines means many people will lose jobs,struggle with basic life needs like shopping and doctor appointments. I think Bing can do better cutting off the fat then cutting the people who elected him to serve.
Detroit's woes has sparked some serious goofiness from many officals like councilman Kwame "Walk Away" Kenyatta. Kenyatta,who despite drawing a 82,000 a year salary chose to walk away from his house instead of paying for it ,is now deciding to do the old "throw everything but the kitchen sink at the wall and hope something sticks". He has proposed a Detroit-only lottery....great,people can play the lotto with thier welfare money in hoping to what? And where would the money come from to jumpstart this foolish idea? Maybe Kenyatta can donate that 82,000 a year since he ain't using it to pay his debts...
And ol Kwame ain't done! He also is proposing that Belle Isle be turned into a "resturant/nightclub" district. Guess he failed to notice that many eateries like Seldom Blues which owes the city hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans,are struggling to stay afloat,that one of the 3 major casinos was this close to declaring bankrupty.
The local clubs are also struggling to put people in their venues....and he wants to dilute the market even more?
Went to see my in-laws this weekend. Its extremely hard seeing what is going on. They live in a post stamp town in Central Michigan,my father-in-law is 87 and my mother-in-law is going to be 84. She has an adavnced case of Alheizmer's and they are all alone. We have tried over and over to get him to think about assisted living by us but he refuses. He does the best he can but she gets out of the house and or gets it in her head she needs to be somewhere and its very hard to sway her off track. The meds she takes are no longer effective. Four times she insisted on going for a walk,four times I did. The lady can foot it! We walked a combined 6 miles,she and I.I needed it but I once again am dreading the winter....despite the little warning buzzers he has the doors,if my mother-in-law gets out once in the winter and he is asleep,in shower....its a tragedy just waiting to happen. I wrote this same thing last year but the condition is worse this year.
My disgust with anyone Republican just grows and grows,thier blatant racism and facism towards Obama is quite alarming. While our healthcare and education systems need to be badly reformed to make it affordable for Americans,these tiny-minded Nazis continue to use the word socialist at him,of course they are being told this by liars,junkies and non-Americans.
And now this disgrace about Obama wanting to address the school kids and the Nazis raising cane about it.....well fuck you too,we had to listen to Reagan and the first Bush cram thier thoughts down when they addressed school kids,I remember Reagan's speech,we HAD to watch it because we were being quizzed on it during a civics class.
Yet you didn't hear the Democrats blast him for pushing his right-wing POV on drugs down our throats,did you? Its a total disgrace the way the right is hiding thier racism and calling it socialism. And listen to these little minded "disrupters" at these town-hall meetings....instead of asking in a civil tone the questions about healthcare reform,they seem to think that yelling and causing a ruckus is the answer. It is in a way....the answer that yeah,so called neofacist Christians are as dangerous and as zealous as any suicide bomber in Iraq or Palestine. Like the Republican who took a loaded gun to a speech Obama was going to give.
My fellow Americans......don't let these Hitlers in training brainwash or bully you. We truly need heathcare reform and education reform. Obama may be spending a LOT of money but at least he didn't murder 3,000 Americans like Bush and Cheney did.
He didn't lead us into two wars,one which was entirely founded on a lie.
He hasn't condoned or encouraged violating the Genova Convention in dealing w/POWs and torture. He didn't lead us into this recession but he trying his best to get us OUT of it. One president led us into death and destruction,one is trying to right the course...
This isn't to say I agree w/everything Obama is doing....but I admire his courage in trying to fix it.