Well…as Devin Nunes did everything in his power to try to derail the impeachment hearings, reporting that came out Friday gave us part of the why…other than being a trump loving asshole, that is. In December of last year, ole Devie and three of his henchmen took a trip to Vienna to meet with, guess who? The disgraced former Ukrainian prosecutor, Shokin, who was thrown out of office for corruption…and guess what he was meeting Shokin for? Yep, to try to do trump’s bidding by looking for “dirt” on the Bidens, the server, and whether or not the moon is made of green cheese. This idiot spent 63K of taxpayers dollars to do it, and with that, he committed the same crime that the idiot trump did since ole Devie was part of the conspiracy that every other damn person in the trump crime family is guilty of….and reveals that his is dumber than a box of rocks and is just another repub who Putin is using to attack the US….like every damn on of them. Luckily, the dems are in control of congress for this ethics investigation and little Devie is not going to escape with a slap on the wrist this time…how about no more committee assignments where he protects trump? Oh, and the latest is that he is going to sue CNN for reporting on his crimes…just like is suing a cow for tweeting bad things about him…it ain’t going to end well, Devie….oh, one last thing…one of the Ukrainian “fixers” who were working for trump in his scandal has said that yep, Devie was there and he did talk to Shokin…twice…sue that Devie…
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November 24th
Well…it’s a little ominous when you wake up with the Eagles “Wasted time” running through your head…I know it’s about a breakup as a person gets older but it’s also gives me the feeling of just marking time in my life that I thought would go away when I moved in here…but, it hasn’t and there is a good reason for it…I am just marking time here as I work on this house that isn’t mine, and that I will be moving out of in the next year or so…and starting over, again, and I’m not sure if I have it in me to do it….hmmmm…it was an okay day yesterday and got a bike ride in but there are major repairs that need to be done in the near future…the entire drive train will need to be replaced since it started skipping under load last week and that means the big front sprocket, the chain, and the rear sprockets will all need to be replaced over the winter and that will run about 75 bucks…I am going to start saving for a new bike for next year since I want one that has a rocker arm rear suspension…and that will be over 500 bucks but it is about the only thing that gives me joy these days so I think it’s worth it….it was cool this morning that I could take the car out to get the paper without having to scrape the ice off the glass with it being parked in the garage…just a little thing that made me smile this morning…it appears it’s going to be a rough one today and I’ll take any little good thing I can get….more later….
They’re either dupes or traitors…
Well….you know this country is in trouble when one of the major political parties…and you know it’s not the dems…is working to further a Putin led disinformation campaign that Ukraine was responsible for the 2016 election interference when every damn intelligence service in the world knows it was Russia…and senators were briefed on the facts that it was Russia just recently but that doesn’t matter to the repubs..Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley, two repub senators who were briefed just this week asked for documents that the government might have on Ukrainian interference when, again, it is a Russian intelligence service driven hoax designed to sow confusion and exonerate Russia…and the repubs are either dupes or traitors for going along with it. It just doesn’t matter to the repubs anymore that they are working with the Russians to try to win elections…even with the evidence that hundreds of repubs used the stolen dem e-mails and other information int heir campaigns….something that should be a crime (one of the laws passed by dems that Moscow Mitch won’t allow to come up for a vote in the senate) and that the repubs won’t promise to do again. So, there you have it…the repubs are so corrupt that they prefer protecting Putin than our country…and we are all going to pay for it….until we vote every damn one of them out of office…
November 23rd
Well….the coughing continues this morning and now I know I have a bug of some sort…haven’t had a cold in a long time but this sure feels like one…and when I think of how I’ve been feeling worn out lately and unmotivated, it fits that part of it is this infection…but, I do feel better than I did yesterday…I think…and my stomach is not as queasy as it was so I guess I’ll take it…as you can see I didn’t get to a political one yesterday but I will promise to do one today with the revelation that the whole Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election bullshit is a Russian operation…will expand on that later today…didn’t get much done yesterday but the bike ride and with soccer coming back after a break, it looks like I won’t get much done today…well…I may sand the filler in the vestibule and tape off the front door to get it ready to paint but probably not much more than that…I did sleep some last night and had some dreams that were a little weird but that was cool just to have some….and I didn’t get up til almost 6 so that may be why I don’t feel too bad even with the bug…who knows? More later….
Some music…
Well…is anybody else bored at 8:30 in the morning? Today, I am so I thought I’d come here and talk about something I noticed when I got the stereo running again. With living in an apartment for so long and not wanting to disturb the other tenants, I didn’t really use my stereo much but used my mp3 player with the earbuds in…and quite a bit of the music I have I have never heard on the stereo before….so it was kind of funny that it sounds so different when I connect the mp3 player to it and play it loud…really loud…and adding the extra set of speakers that I found in the basement really fills out the sound…I do like how it sounds and it is like listening to the music for the first time in some instances….and did I mention loud? It is pretty cool to not have that to think about that anymore…I should probably play something right now and try to find a book to read since I don’t feel like working on the house….more later…
November 22nd
Well….I think I have a bug…crap….and I wonder how that could be since I am never around people…my lungs hurt and I am coughing like crazy…oh, well….but my thumb hurts less today so I guess that’s something…but, I do feel old today and just want to do nothing but that just makes things worse…okay, that’s enough bitching….I did get some patch work done on the vestibule yesterday and can get it painted if I can get off my butt and I almost have the last room cleared up so I can start on that next week…or over the weekend if I can get motivated….kind of wasted the day yesterday and didn’t even get out on the bike with the rain and wind…and the wind is still blowing this morning and it’s cold out there so the ride will wait til later…don’t really have a lot to do today…got most of the outdoor stuff done and I’m just waiting for the last of the leaves to fall so I can rake the back yard and get the leaves on the compost pile behind the garage…need to mix in some dirt to get the breakdown started but that will wait a few days until it’s a little warmer….more later….
Dr. Hill nails the repubs…
Well…I haven’t been watching too much of the hearings in the house but I’m glad I did today….the state department Russia expert, Dr. Hill, tore into the repubs for parroting Russian talking points that Ukraine was responsible for the 2016 election interference when every damn intelligence agency of ours and of our allies have shown that it was Russia and Russia alone who did it…and she said this disinformation is part of the Russian plan to continue to meddle in our elections and that the repubs are willing dupes for Russia. I can’t wait to see if the repubs will still push this nonsense later today since they have been crying that Dr. Hill has been mean to them by being blunt about their help for the Russian interference…this could get interesting later….
November 21st
Well…have been up for a while and still feel exhausted but I think that may be my fault…and not sleeping well has something to do with it…oh, and getting a late start on the coffee doesn’t help, either…so, I’m going to ease into it this morning…there really is no reason to rush anything today with the rain moving that will keep me off the bike today…so that leaves only inside work to do so I think I’ll continue to prep to get ready to paint the rest of the interior…I did get some grass seed laid down and fed the lawn for the last time this year and had to repair the gate stop since the exterior adhesive I used turned to powder so I will have to fix that in the spring…just used a tube of caulk for a temp fix and I think that should work…it is kind of fun to have a place to just fool around outside and in the garage….not much to do today…I may have to make a run back out to the south end to pick up some venison today if I hear from B…oh, I did get the t-day grocery shopping done and got a 14 pound turkey from Meijers for only about 4 bucks so that was cool…..and I am looking forward to making my first big meal here….more later…
I think I saw an elk yesterday…
Well…I almost forgot to talk about something I saw on the trail yesterday…after doing the river part of the trail and getting ready to make the turn into the swamp, I saw what I first thought was a deer crossing the trail about 30 yards in front of me…but it was not the color of the normal white tail deer that I see every day…it was almost a dark brown and had a set of antlers that looked like an elks…but it was only a little bigger than a deer so then I started to wonder what that would be….and the only thing I thought of was a reindeer but there are no reindeer here in West Michigan…at least they are not indigenous to this area…but, I did remember that there were some reindeer that escaped from a game farm in the area a few years back and I wonder if they are still at large? Pretty weird…
In any normal time, it would be all over after today…
Well….I wonder if they make a bus big enough for all the people Gordon Sondland threw under one today? If you didn’t see it, trump’s ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, testified in the impeachment investigation in the House today and boy, he laid out that every damn one of the department heads that work for trump was in on the extortion of Ukraine and took an active part in it on the orders of the idiot trump….let that sink in for a minute…almost every damn cabinet secretary has committed a felony in support of trump trying to get a foreign power to help install him just like Putin did in 2016…Mulvaney, Pence, Pompeo, Perry and many more people were in on the scam according to Sondland who was there and pushing most of it with those other criminals….and in any normal time, there would be a delegation of repub senators heading to the WH right now to tell the idiot boy that it’s all over and he needs to resign…but, these aren’t normal times since every damn repub has lost his mind and still supports the criminal in chief…and I can’t figure out why. After all, trump can’t even get repubs elected in deep red states and his influence is waning every day…so I wonder why all of the repubs still kiss his ass and protect him regularly…and here’s the kicker….we haven’t even heard the worst stuff yet since the courts haven’t forced any of the criminals from trump’s inner circle to testify yet…what are we going to hear when that happens? It sure as hell isn’t going to get better and more and more of trumps cronies are going to end up disgraced or in jail or both….and resigning like Perry did or that Pompeo is contemplating is no protection or a get out of jail free card…there are consequences for extorting a foreign government for personal gain and every damn one of them that don’t resign should be impeached…