Well….it’s Thursday and that means I’m running late as always…had an okay day yesterday but being in the car for 3 hours made it a long one…but, it was nice to see C after a few months and get to play with Ren a little…slept okay last night and don’t feel too badly today but I have been up since 5:30 and that will probably catch up to me later in the day, but I had to get up to watch Canada and the US in curling…and that’s still on now….I may be able to get out on the old bike for almost the last time today but the temp needs to come up some with there being ice all over this morning…but, that won’t be until after noon and I am going to clean some until then since they are coming to check on the water tomorrow…and I’m not sure why that is but oh, well….need to get some pork loin in a marinade for tomorrow but back to curling and coffee right now….more later…
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This is too damn funny….
Well…it has been a busy day today with lots of traveling but, after I read this one, I had to do just a short one on this. Okay, buried the lede again…not sure if you saw it or not but twitter went crazy today getting rid of the bots that infest the site…and since most of them were supporting the right wing assholes that also infest the site, they went crazy today screaming “censorship” since they didn’t have any bots reinforcing their right wing assholery. But, the funniest thing was that the idiot trump went from 49 million followers to 14, and Twitter revealed that all of his “followers” were from a Macedonian bot farm whose full time job was to support trump…and now he is left with his idiot family as his only followers…and that makes me wonder why Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell or any other repubs don’t follow the idiot…could it be that they realize how ridiculous he is? And how worthless that anything that comes out of his mouth or out of his twitter account is….the poor baby must just be crushed tonight…cripes, I have more followers on Twitter than he has…and that make me laugh out loud…impeach….
It was a coup d’etat…
Well….with what we know now about the Russian’s attack on this country, it is clear that the Russians were successful in plotting and executing a coup d’etat in the US. With this coup, they have successfully installed the least qualified person in the world to be president here, and, when you look back in history, this really doesn’t look very much different from the many other coups that were done by Russia in the 50’s through the 90’s…although the earlier ones were done by military intervention instead of cyber manipulation of the electorate….the goal was similar, to ensure that an easily manipulated stooge was installed to sow chaos across the target country. The only question left to answer is what are the repubs going to do about it? When will they “protect the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic” as they all pledged to do when they took their oath of office…yeah, right…never…impeach….
February 21st
Well…running a little early today since I got up early and I’m heading to Mt. P around 8:30….need to do a little business up there and I hope the roads haven’t frozen up too badly with all of the rain the past few days…slept okay last night and don’t feel too badly today…still think I have allergy problems but they’re not that bad so I can live with it…but the stuffy head is getting a little annoying….I am looking forward to getting out on the bike tomorrow with the rain cleaning the trails and it going to get to over 40…and it looks like no snow for the rest of the month so I can get out almost every day…then I can start eating again and get my system back working again…not much to do today…just the drive up and back that will mean 3 hours in the car today…..then back to normal tomorrow….more later….
The right smears the victims…
Well…almost as predictable as the sun rising, the hard right, pushed by the NRA is smearing the kids who survived the shooting in Parkland Florida, calling them “FBI plants” and rolling out the right’s perennial bugaboo, George Soros, as being behind the student protests. No, assholes…these are teenagers who have had enough, who look to the adults in this country to protect them, and all they see is the repubs saying there is nothing that can be done, that dead children are the price we pay for “freedom”. I understand how they feel…not from a school shooting when I was young, but we did walk out at my high school to protest the Vietnam war and the lies that started it and continued it…and the same tactics were used against us that are being used now…calling us communists and un-patriotic while we were just trying to stop something we knew was wrong. Just like the Parkland kids. The knuckle dragging, NRA funded gun fetishists on the right are trying to use the fact that these kids are organized and putting together protests so quickly that it must be a left wing plot, that no group of teenagers could do what they’ve done in the past few days…hey, knuckle draggers…do you know any modern teenagers? With how social media is ingrained into their lives, they know how to use it to organize…I mean, I even set up my Facebook page in less than 5 minutes, and I’m an old guy. It is imperative that those of us on the right side of this issue, those of us who support these kids trying to finally DO something about children being murdered have their backs, and to push back on these right wing assholes who would smear and denigrate their efforts…go get ’em Parkland!
February 20th
Well…running a little early today and it’s just from not sleeping and then getting up early today….so that makes me a little worn out this morning…I was good last night so that can’t be part of it…oh, I did win at pool yesterday…and it was just nice to get out of here for a while…didn’t get the top down with all of the rain and, even though it’s already 57 degrees outside, it looks like I won’t get it down today either…but, the rain means that the trail will be clear tomorrow so I’ll be back on the bike and I will be able to get back to eating two meals a day with burning calories on the bike…and this week will be the next to last on the Schwinn since I am ordering the new bike Sunday….can’t wait to get the new one with full suspension to help my back….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I will have to do some work today to not feel guilty….more later….
Trump is just unhinged…
Well….as every day goes on, it gets clearer and clearer that the idiot trump is unhinged and divorced from reality. After the indictments that were released for 13 Russians and two Russian companies for throwing the election to trump, the idiot boy went into full meltdown mode, trying to reassure himself in tweets that, because he wasn’t indicted in this round, that there was not going to be one for him…something that anyone who has even one foot in reality knows is just not true…this is the first round of indictments, and I’m sure that Mueller released them now to insulate himself from being fired, and to make it completely clear that if trump tries it, he is doing the bidding of Putin…something he has been doing since he was installed. The second shoe that dropped over the weekend that fed into trumps madness was the announcement that Rick Gates (Paul Manafort’s business partner and trump campaign manager), is going to plead guilty and is going to help Mueller build his case…this is in addition to Mueller loading bank fraud charges onto Manafort to up the pressure on Manafort to flip. So, we know why the meltdown happened….and to rub salt into his wounds, the survivors of the Parkland school shooting have refused to meet with trump and be used for a photo op….that must just burn the idiot and I wholeheartedly agree with them….what’s the point of meeting with the idiot? He’ll just give a thumbs up and make it all about him…impeach….
February 19th
Well…didn’t come back for a second one yesterday, as you can see, and it was just because I was giving my brain a rest day…with everything going on, I just needed to not think about anything…slept okay last night and even had a short term dream that I really don’t remember…my heel is finally not hurting anymore and I think that will help my back as I get back to walking normally…..I am closing in on ordering the new bike this week and the weather looks like I may even be able to get out on the old one before that…going to be 50 today and 60 tomorrow with lots of rain so that may clean the trails enough to get out…and, I really do need that….not much to do today…not going to even attempt to clean but I may start taking the old bike apart to make room for the new one….more later….
February 18th
Well…running a little late today and I almost forgot to come here and do this one…but, there was a nagging that something needed to be done and I finally remembered…slept okay last night but still feel a little slow today and I know why…wasn’t good last night and I don’t feel one bit guilty about it….I am getting bored with the Olympics and I’m not sure why….and, I did see an article this morning that said the same thing so maybe there is something to it…didn’t get much done yesterday but I did do the bathroom and today I should do the kitchen and I just might…but, maybe not….my back is hurting again and that’s a little irritating…okay, need to have more coffee and read some news….more later….
six frickin minutes….
Well…I know, I promised to not do another one on the idiot over the weekend but I just had to comment on the hospital visit the moron did yesterday on the way to another golf weekend….and yes, it only lasted 6 minutes including the walk from his limo and back…so really, he was in the hospital for around 3 minutes to get the photo op that the repubs are so good (bad) at…just like Paul Ryan washing clean dishes at a homeless shelter, the idiot trump basically walked in one door and out another while trying to praise the staffers at the hospital where many of the injured were being treated…and failing spectacularly at that….the feeling of the community was conveyed succinctly by some of the students in Parkland who tweeted “just stay the hell away from us”…a sentiment that is shared by most of us here in the US…just stay the hell away from us….and go golf…geez…