Well…have been busy as heck with my normal exercise routine and the lunch with T and now working on the house so I haven’t had time to really think about anything political today…I know there are plenty of outrageous things going on…like the idiot Barr telling people that don’t even work for the justice department anymore that they can’t talk to congress about the Mueller report….and Barr’s essentially threatening Mueller if he goes through with his testimony on the 17th…I mean, when does the House charge Barr with contempt of congress? Or when are they going to impeach Alex Acosta for his lawbreaking in the sweetheart deal he gave Jeffrey Epstein? Cripes, something came up and I was off taking care of it and almost forgot to come back here…so, I’ll end this one here…
All posts by James DeVol
July 10th
Well…got all the way to 5:41 this morning but I’m still exhausted just like yesterday and there has to be a reason for it…not sure what that would be but I need to figure it out soon…might be taking a nap here in a little while…just wish I could get enough sleep without resorting to that…oh, well….at least my shoulder feels a little better today and I don’t think I did any permanent damage…going to take it easy on it for the next few days…or until Friday when I need to rent a chainsaw to remove some stumps at the house…I do have a fence guy coming Monday for an estimate so that will be taken care of and I have some mortar work to do but I am having trouble finding a window person but will work on that tomorrow…I think I’m having lunch with T today and it will be good to see her after 6 weeks or so….I need to clean here after that but we’ll see how I feel…might have to take it easy if I’m still exhausted like I am now….more later…
Here we go…
Well…it looks like Jerry Nadler of the Judiciary committee has had enough of the stonewalling from trump and his cronies and is getting prepared to issue subpoenas to just about everyone who had anything to do with trump/Russia and the Mueller report. This is going to be a major test of the powers that the Legislative branch is granted by the Constitution and that have never been questioned by the courts…every time, the courts have ruled that yes, the House does have the power to compel testimony from anyone, no matter what the sychophant Bill Barr does or says. That includes Robert Mueller, who Barr has dangled help to avoid going in front of the House on the 17th in just the past few days…imagine that…the AG of the US trying to protect a criminal instead of upholding the Constitution as he swore to do…yeah, I know, after the past two years it appears quaint that the laws should apply to repubs but they still do and the only people in this country who still uphold them is the dems…this is a fight this country needs…impeach…
July 9th
Well…another morning of feeling pretty crappy with no energy and I’m not sure what is going on…slept a little last night but my allergies are the worst they’ve been all summer leaving me with a constant headache and my head plugged up…I’m just damn miserable and it didn’t help that I really hurt my shoulder trying to get the mowers running right at the house yesterday, either…almost couldn’t shift the car coming home so that is going to need some rest today…but, I did get one of the mowers running…a 40 year old Toro and I finally got the grass cut down to a manageable length…now I need to rent a chainsaw to get rid of the brush stumps so I can get some estimates on a fence later in the week…but today, I am going to rest the shoulder since I can barely move it….went back to one ride a day yesterday and I think I’ll continue that…just can’t get moving to get an early ride in with my lack of energy…I even took a nap by 8 am yesterday and I really could do that again today and I just might…I should do some cleaning, too, but that will be on the back burner for a while…more later…
One of trump’s buddies indicted for sex trafficking…
Well…who would have thought that one of trump’s best buddies would be indicted for sex trafficking of underage girls? Just now in the SDNY, Jeffrey Epstein was again indicted for sexual abuse and rape of teenage girls that went on for years in his mansion in NYC…this is the same Jeffrey Epstein who got the sweetheart deal on the same charges in Florida when the now Labor secretary Alex Acosta, who was a US attorney there at that time, allowed him to plead down to only 13 months in jail where he had his own wing and was allowed to leave all day, every day for work release. A federal judge there recently ruled that Acosta and others broke the law by not notifying the victims that there was a deal happening that would allow Epstein to avoid all federal charges in that case and that none of his conspirators could be charged. Now that is a sweetheart deal for kidnapping and raping teenage girls. trump has already said many times that he enjoyed going to Epstein’s parties…you, know…the parties where teenage girls were offered up to Epstein’s buddies…and, with trump’s history of sexual assault, it wouldn’t be surprising that trump was involved. There are many, many more shoes to drop here and you can bet your ass that Epstein is going to give up a bunch of people to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison…and the biggest one would be trump. Impeach…
July 8th
Well…another crappy night of sleep and I am just damn exhausted…one good thing is that it’s been two days in a row without any crickets in here so I guess that’s something…they are just damn annoying and there were days I killed 6 or more of them….just glad they are not the ones that make cricket sounds…that would be too much…it was an okay day yesterday but I only got one bike ride in with all of the sports that were on and the fact that I had no motivation at all and you can see that by the fact I didn’t come back for another one here…I do need to get a little discipline back to start getting things back to normal but that won’t happen until I get the house issues fixed…and I know I need to eat more but I’m just not interested in planning anything right now…I will get on some cleaning today since the bathroom and shower needs work…well..the whole place needs work but I need to start somewhere…more later…
July 7th
Well…cripes, I’m tired…even with not getting up til 6 and sleeping okay…the thought of not getting on the bike today has even entered my head and that never happens…maybe the coffee will help…I would just love to go out and get the paper and just sit here and read it with no pressure to do anything else…but, I won’t…I may just do one ride today since there are 3 soccer matches and a race on that I want to see but I will get out…didn’t get much done yesterday and won’t do much today…should clean the bathroom and I may but that is not a priority right now…need to get some coffee working so I can get going in the next 10 minutes….I am going to make some chicken for tacos today that I have been marinating overnight and not eating enough may be part of why I’m so exhausted today…all I know is that this one is going to be a struggle and no fun at all….more later…
A fouth grader gives a speech…
Well…yeah, I know, haven’t been here much to do political ones over the past few days with being so busy, but I decided to give myself a day off today since I am just worn out so that gives me time to come here and talk about that stupid speech the fourth grader president gave on the fourth of July. After the bullshit platitudes that we know were written for idiot boy since he has no thought about anything but himself, he went off on a jaw droppingly stupid passage that I am going to quote here since paraphrasing just doesn’t do it justice:
“Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets red glare it had nothing but victory. And when dawn came, their star spangled banner waved defiant.”
I don’t even know where to start with this stupidity…I mean, what the hell does “rammed the ramparts” mean? Were there airports in 1776? How did they “man the air”? And the whole bit about Fort McHenry…yeah…that was the war of 1812…Fort McHenry wasn’t even built until 1789. So the whole thing sounds like a fourth grader who didn’t study trying to bluff his way through an oral report in front of his class…and his stupid followers just ate this crap up since they are so damn ignorant they had no idea that nothing he said was true…what a pathetic show of fake patriotism that cost you and me in the 10’s of millions of dollars…and to top that off…idiot boy headed straight to another of his golf courses for another 1.3 million dollar vacation…and that makes it over 100 million dollars this moron has spent just on golf…impeach…
July 6th
Well…that was a little better…got up at 6:05 but feel pretty crappy after beating on myself at the house yesterday…all those muscles that I don’t use anymore are screaming at me and I’m sure I don’t like it…slept okay but my allergies are the worst they have been this year and I can’t breathe…just want to take a day off of everything and just lie on the couch and watch the TDF and the other races that are on today…but, I won’t…I need to get a ride in here in a few minutes and try to do a second one today but I’m not sure about that…with all the time over at the house, I didn’t get anything done around here and I need to do some cleaning today but there is not even a little bit of motivation that I can feel…so, I think I’ll just play it by ear and ease into it…man, I feel lousy right now…coffee, I need coffee…more later…
What a day…
Well…as you know, I have been trying to help rehab a house that my son owns over on the west side but after looking at it with hard eyes, the job is too big for me to do so I am going to try to find a contractor to do the work if it it economically feasible to do it…but that means getting a loan for 20-30K to do all the work…there are other options like just selling the house as is and having my son take the money to use for a down payment on another one…but he is not too cool with that and I feel bad for him…still have work to do next week…I did get hold of my brother and he might be able to help out with contractor referrals and even with a guy that would buy the house to flip it…so that was cool…hadn’t talked to him in a couple of years so it was nice to catch up…oh, and he bitched at me that I don’t know my credit score after building credit for the past 18 months or so…I was pleasantly surprised when I go my yearly free report today from all three agencies…my low score was 729, the next 736, and the best one was 758….and my brother said that I only need around 600 to get a loan for a house so that makes me a little happy after the disappointment of the day….now I need to find a house….with that credit score and over 40 k in cash for a down, I know I’ll be able to get one….