Well….at least I remembered to put January in the title of this one…the past few days I was locked into December for some reason and had to come back and change a few of these…and no, it’s not from getting old…it’s from getting started before coffee and the jump start it gives my brain…at least that’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it…slept okay last night and just feel sore this morning and I know what that is from, too…the river finally flooded the trail yesterday and I had to turn around and run the trail backwards to get my miles in…and that added about 4 miles to the ride so I got 16 in yesterday and went pretty hard, too so I guess I’ve earned the pain…and there were multiple other place along the trail that were just inches from flooding so I am curious what it’s going to look like this morning when I get out…I did get dome work done around here yesterday…spent some time working on the furnace to get the noise out of the blower and was somewhat successful…had to re align the motor and tighten the hold down bolts along with tightening the set screw that holds the pulley since that was loose…then, I had to tighten the belt with some shims and that helped get rid of some of the slapping from the belt but not all of it so I need to work on that some more today…but it is quite a bit better so I may just let it run for a while before I work on it again….it does look like the dog poop idiots that were living next door have moved out since I haven’t seen a car there in over three weeks and the mailbox is overflowing with junk mail…the weird thing is I’m here all the time and never saw a truck or anyone move anything…and there were at least 6 people living there….we’ll see…just hope whoever rents it again doesn’t have dog and takes care of it better….okay, I need to check to see if there is any soccer on and read the rest of the news…more later….
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Lies and more lies…
Well…they open their mouths and they lie, they lie and lie and lie…and on Iran and their justification for murdering Iran’s top army minister they lie…reporters who have seen the evidence that trump and his stupid cronies used to justify murder all came from Saudi Arabia and it has been described by multiple reporters as “razor thin” and in no way says that a “major” attack was imminent….hey, you remember the last time the repubs lied us into war? Yep, they are doing it again and instead of Russia being the beneficiary, this time Saudi Arabia gets to see one of their chief rivals attacked and they have to do nothing more than feed the morons and trump and then sit back and see their stupidity in action. We know that this murder was done without proof by the reaction of the Pentagon folks who we asked by reporters why now? Why did they murder this general when the three previous administrations had the opportunity but declined to do it since they knew it would push the middle east into war with unknown consequences for everyone?All the spokesmen did was bluster, get pissed off and cut the press conference short…if there was such justification, why wouldn’t they make their case unless they couldn’t? Since all these people do is lie, we can all assume that every justification they say is a lie and now we are left to wonder…is this trading lives for trump’s reelection chances? He’s done it before…
January 4th
Well…another crappy night of sleep and I was tempted to get up at 4:03 when I woke up with having so much trouble getting back to sleep…and now I feel tired and slow that I hope won’t go on all day…I did just notice that my thumb is quite a bit better today and really doesn’t hurt much and that is a welcome change from the pain I’ve had for the past few months….it still spikes a little but I can live with that…I did get out for a nice bike ride yesterday and took the chance that the trails would be clear and they were passable so I didn’t have to ride into town on the streets…but the river is only a foot below the trails so I am curious if it got over the river portion of the trail overnight….will have to wait a while for that since it is cold out there and I don’t want to be cold just yet….I think the idiots next door that had the dogs that crapped all over my lawn moved out and I can’t be happier….haven’t seen any of them since before christmas but I’m not going to get my hopes up just yet….maybe the owner of the house will have to do the clean up I had to do here and get rid of the trash, old grills, and fire pit that is in the back yard…I can hope…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today looks the same but my internet tv is not working again so I won’t be able to watch sports until I can text my son to take a look at it…but that won’t be until later…most people don’t get up when I do….so, I may have to clean some until he can get it fixed…more later….
Now we know why Deutsche Bank lent money to trump…
Well…didn’t we all know that this was going to come out sooner or later? As no bank in the US would lend to the idiot trump after his multiple bankruptcies and stiffing of creditors over a decade, for some reason, Deutsche bank stepped in to bail trump out for hundreds of millions of dollars and no one could figure out why…but, now we know…the loans were being guaranteed by a sanctioned Russian bank, VTB, that no American was legally supposed to deal with…and by extension the loans were backed by Putin since VTB is supported by the Russian government and does the bidding of the government. So, Deustche had no liability at all but were just a conduit to get illegal money to trump and bore no risk if idiot boy defaulted….and gee, do you see anything wrong with the head of an enemy government having hundreds of millions of dollars of leverage over our useful idiot president? But that’s not all of it…this money that came from VTB was laundered through inflated real estate purchases at trump’s buildings…the same thing that Manafort went to jail for and something that trump would need to keep quiet…and we can see that Putin pressured trump with this fact with all of his ass kissing to Putin…now, I want to know what prosecutor is going to run with this one? Reports have the SDNY looking into this but it appears that they are going to let Deutsche off with just another in the billions of dollars of fines they have paid for being the biggest money laundering bank in the world….where are the criminal charges? Trump knew about what was going on and approved it so why is he not being charged? I hope that the prosecutors are just waiting for him to be out of office and then drop this on him like a ton of bricks….no one is above the law…or should be…
So now, trump just murders people…
Well…just when you thought that trump and his cronies couldn’t get any dumber….yesterday idiot boy ordered our military to murder the head of Iran’s army…and with that have set the middle east on fire no matter what they lie and say that this murder has made the middle east “safer”….but, if it is safer, why did the idiot Pompeo just tell all Americans in Iraq to run to the exits and get out right now? Look, this is just another example of the lawlessness that is rampant in this administration….not even bothering to inform the congress that has the only power to wage war…not the executive branch, not some liar of a president who is doing this for only one reason…to distract from the fact that he has been impeached and to give Moscow Mitch an excuse to go in front of the cameras and gravely say that impeachment should be put on hold in a time of war…see how convenient that is? All trump had to do was start a war and he is free and clear from the consequences of his criminality by being even more of a criminal….and the repubs are all chiming in with exactly that talking point…that impeachment of a “war time” president just can’t go on…even though there is not one “get out of jail free card” in the constitution anywhere. So now we have the most corrupt and dishonest group of criminals starting another mideast war that will cost thousands of American, Iraqi, and Iranian lives and the idiot trump doesn’t take to the tv to explain it at all since his too damn dumb to even understand what he has just done….and the rest of the world is going to pay just because this asshole just can’t stop being a criminal…this is the modern repub, folks….
January 3rd
Well…running a little late today and I’m not sure why….I did stay in bed til 6:30 so that may be part of it…I did sleep okay and had some weird dreams that were welcome after not having any for so long…I do need to ease into the day, though since I’m feeling a little slow and unmotivated right now…and I’m still getting used to the fact that they changed all of the shows I ran in the background on tv in the morning on the first of the month….I had gotten so used to the Lone Ranger that I never really thought about it or watched it as I did the first one of these and then got to catching up on the news…but now, the new shows actually get my attention which interrupts me and I’m sure I don’t like it…okay, just a little crabby this morning with the big orange idiot trying to start another war in the middle east that I will talk about later…..didn’t get a lot done yesterday after working on the bike and getting a ride in after the flat but I do need to do better today and get some cleaning done…the dust is turning from bunnies into wolves and need to be dealt with before they turn into raptors….but that is going to wait until more coffee and some news…and maybe another one of these before the ride…who knows? More later…..
It’s been a day…
Well…so, I was hoping for a nice easy day and a bike ride this morning…and when I rode over to JBP to take a look at the trails, it started out that way….the trails were snow an ice covered, as I expected, so I turned around and headed back here but got a flat just leaving the park entrance…luckily, it was a front tire and I didn’t feel like walking a mile and a half back here so I just started to ride it back here at about 3mph and waited for the tire to come off the rim as it usually does but it made it all the way back here so that was cool. So, I got back here and then headed to Meijers to get another tube and this Meijers had the Slime tubes that I like that are much thicker than the cheap Schwinn ones that I bought last time…and only 8 bucks so that made me smile a bit….so I replaced the tube, put the bike back together, and decided to scout out bike lanes on the streets around here and was able to find enough to get 10 miles in today…so, until the trails thaw, it looks like I can still ride every day…and I think I’m going to ride into the city tomorrow to just look around and see if they have any bike lanes there that may be usable after it gets warmer in the spring….I may just be able to ride outside all winter if this bike lane thing works out…pretty cool….
The media can’t do math….
Well…I really do wonder if most of the media are just stupid or if they are getting paid off to push the repub candidates. Just today, Andrea Mitchell went on her show to tout the fact that the dementia suffering trump raised 45 million dollars in the last quarter of 2019 and that it is more than any dem candidate and the dems are in trouble…yadda yadda…first…apple and damn oranges Andrea…trump is raising money for the general election while the dems are raising it for the primary season but, lets do some math and lump all of the dems together and see what the results are…with just the three that have reported so far, the dems have raised over 77 million dollars and that is without either Biden or Warren included…and their number should be close to 25 million each so, again, do we need to give the media a math lesson? Which is larger, dementia sufferer trump’s 45 million or 77 million+50 million? I’ll give you a guess but just one…yep, you got it…127 million is larger than 45 million but it seems that the media doesn’t get it. I think it’s just more of the “horserace” bullshit that the media has to push to keep the right wingers happy and continue to get access to the repubs…and that’s it….this isn’t a damn horserace, it’s the future of our country and the future of truth in our country…media, quit this bullshit and report dementia trump’s fundraising as anemic as it is….something like “dems smash trump in fundraising” would do it….and the bonus? It’s the truth so it’s a two-fer….geez….
January 2nd
Well…that ends that…I’m glad the holidays are over and things can get back to normal…even though I didn’t have a lot to do this year, it is still nice that it’s over….so, let’s get back to it…going to start getting healthier by gradually changing my diet over the next month or so…have been lazy and eating some junk food that I know I shouldn’t and that is going to end this month…okay, no these are not resolutions just realization that apples are better for me than chips so that’s where I’ll start…and no cocktails for a while, either….just don’t enjoy them like I used to so what’s the point? Slept okay last night but I think only eating a chicken leg quarter yesterday and skipping dinner is going to catch up with me later this morning…my stomach is bitching at me already so I may have to take something for it soon…yesterday was such a sports bust with all of my teams losing that I really don’t want to talk about that…oh, I already did yesterday so I don’t need to today…still sucks….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I will start to clean up some of the tools I have been using around here since the kitchen is a mess and I really don’t need all of them out…but that is going to wait for a while since I do need to have coffee first….I think I’m going to take the bike out today to look at the trails and see how bad they are after the snow Monday…they will probably be a mess but I need to get out with it already over 40…and then look for road lanes that are clear to at least get a few miles in today…more later….
Kind of a sucky sports day…
Well…I was really looking forward to all of the sports to watch today and it was okay until my teams started to play…both Michigan and Man U are stinking up the place and I really think I like games better where one of my teams is not playing….after all, you can’t be disappointed if you have no stake in it….and this year, it appears that every team that I root for is really bad and that just compounds the problem when you can’t say “at least the Wings are playing good” and have something to look forward to. Oh, well…so I think I’ll look for something else to watch other than those two games until the Rose Bowl starts at 5….and I’ll be back to politics tomorrow…I need to take the rest of the day off and just veg…still not feeling 100% with all of the pain I’ve been having and my lungs are still iffy so I’ll use that for an excuse….