Well…just sitting here watching Man U play and I finally feel like I have a little energy…that took a long time today and I think part of it is trying to control the calories again…but, that’s not what this about…I finally got my 1099 in the mail today so I can get the taxes filed on Monday…and it looks like, with the state and fed withholding, I will have enough coming back to pay for my car insurance and buy the new bike…but, I don’t think I’ll wait that long to buy the bike…I think I’ll put it on my credit card next week so it will be here if we get another winter thaw…I hope that I won’t have to pay any taxes this year…only paid 22 bucks last year on more than twice the income so that should work…and, it looks like I’ll never pay taxes again if I don’t find a job….
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February 3rd
Well…have been up for a while but just can’t get started…have the first cup of coffee going but that isn’t working yet….slept okay last night but still feel a little crappy today with coughing but it’s not too bad…glad it’s not the flu…but I am sore everywhere and that must be from using new muscles to work on the car the other day….and my back is stuck again…cripes, that is annoying….but I guess I’ll live through it….still waiting for some dreams to come that I will remember and I wonder why they have gone away….oh, well…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I am going to do better today…need to vacuum and start prepping food for tomorrow….have so much stuff in my freezer that I won’t have to buy food for a while…I did get some avocados wed but they are not really ripening….even have them in a paper bag like you’re supposed to but that’s not helping…okay….need coffee and to put soccer on….more later….
It’s trump’s fault….
Well….if you’ve seen the news today, other than the nonsense about the Nunes “memo”, you would have seen that the stock market crashed almost 700 points today, making for the worst week for stocks in the past two years. Now, with the idiot trump taking credit for the stock market rise for the last year, do you think he’ll take the blame for this crash? Ha, ha, ha…yeah, I even made myself laugh about that one…from a person that has never taken blame for any of his failures over the years, I can’t wait for his excuse for this one…oh, okay, I know what it will be: Clinton and Obama went to the stock market and convinced everyone to sell today to make trump look bad…and I’ll bet he will believe it since he has no frickin clue how anything works in government or business. Now, I wonder where he’ll be over the weekend after his crash? Working with his economic advisers to figure out what is going on? Nope, he’s already heading out to one of his golf courses to golf for the umpteenth time on our dime…a damaged little child who really thought that everything would be okay after he released the fake Nunes memo but that left him even more wounded and bleeding support even from repubs….why don’t you just stay at your golf course? Mueller is coming for you and your days of golfing are almost over….impeach…
The “memo” is out…
Well…as I said here a few days ago, the supposedly “bombshell” memo that trump and his minions wrote and passed along to Devin Nunes is just a whole lot of nothing…just more of the crap you have been hearing if you watched Hannity (and I hope you haven’t been watching that moron) over the past few months. You know what is going on with just one little fact, that fox news got the the first copy of it hours before it was officially released…which is fitting for the propaganda arm of the trump administration. So, go out and read it if you want but there is nothing in it that will do anything to derail Mueller’s investigation as it gets closer and closer to the idiot in the WH…oh, there is one other thing that I wanted to include here, John McCain commented that releasing the memo and attacking the FBI and the Justice Department is just wrong and only helps Putin…I hope that gets reported more places than just here…impeach…
So far, so good….
Well…haven’t had many car problems this winter and part of that is I just don’t drive it much anymore….had a week a couple back that I drove less than 5 miles and that is setting me up for another year that I ride my bike more miles than I drive the car. But yesterday, the driver’s side rear brake froze up when I used the parking brake and dragged all the way over to Meijers and back, making it hard to even get the car up to 30. So, after it got light, I suited up and want out to try to fix it, glad that it was still 35 and not snowing…after I lubed both sides, the driver’s side was still sticking so I jacked the car up and took the tire off to get a better look at it…didn’t find anything wrong that I could see so I soaked it with about a half can of penetrating oil and even took off the adjuster cover and soaked what I could of the mechanism inside of it. Even after all that, it was still sticking and I couldn’t think of anything else to do so I just put it back together and decided to just not use the brake..thinking that I would have to replace the caliper in the spring…but, after 20 years of driving cars with sticks, it is such a habit to pull on the brake that I continue to do it. To my surprise, when I went up to the office to pay my rent in the afternoon, the brake released just like normal…and it did it again today so maybe it’s fixed? Hope so…everything still works on the car and I want to keep it that way…oh, other than the battery going dead but I can fix that in the spring…
The results are in…
Well….I thought about doing one of these on the fake “memo” that the right is screaming about but, I don’t want to…so, I’ll talk about the tax cut scam again since some of the results are in. As you know, this scam was pushed by the repubs as being a “middle class” tax cut that would make the sun shine and would shower the MC with money…yeah, you know where this is going…as the results come in there is huge cherry picking going on in the reporting even from the “mainstream” media….centering on the “bonuses” that a few companies are dribbling out to their employees but not talking at all about how much excess profit the companies are getting at the same time. One of the biggest selling points of this scam was the same old “trickle down” bullshit they have been using since the 80’s…that if you shower money on the rich and corporations, that money will end up in the pockets of workers, something that every frickin study has shown just does not happen…and this new tax cut scam reinforces those studies if you look at the numbers. So far, less than two percent of the tax benefits that are going to the already rich has “trickled down” to workers…and most of that is in the form of one time bonuses, not wage increases that would have a lasting impact and that workers could count on every year…giving corporations one more hammer to hold over the heads of their workers. This is all crap and the repubs know it…but they had to deliver to their donors after the donors threatened to turn off the money tap if they didn’t get the payoff they paid for…impeach them all….
February 2nd
Well…running really late today…I guess I needed the sleep…I woke up to having some sort of bug today with coughing and feeling a little crappy….took some vitamin C already and I hope that helps….had to work on the car in the cold yesterday but I know that isn’t the cause….oh, well….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but work on the car and today looks the same…I did brine some chicken to cook today and I need to roast some potatoes and carrots to go with it…need to try to get the calorie level up some….the pickled onions I made the other day go pretty well with the brats but I need to save some to have with tacos next week….they do look a little strange since the vinegar turns the red onions pink but I can live with that….not much to do today…going to just take it easy today….yeah, I laughed at that, too…that is the plan for almost every day now that I think of it….more later….
Let’s compare…
Well….throughout this whole debacle of lawlessness that is the trump administration, and with the daily comparisons to Watergate, we really need to take a look at the two scandals to see which one is worse…got any idea? Over the course of the Watergate investigation/prosecutions, there were 40 Nixon administration personnel who were convicted of some sort of crime and went to jail, mostly for lying to the FBI or obstruction of justice. As of today, there have been twice that many people interviewed in the idiot trump’s crime administration…and Mueller isn’t done yet. While Nixon’s crimes were essentially domestic and dealt with political crimes…trump’s crimes are so much more than that…I mean working with a foreign government to steal an election and then trying to cover it up is both domestic and international crime…and that is not even touching on the money laundering, bribery, and spying for our enemies to try to undermine the US foreign policy. So, while the Watergate comparison is shorthand for a criminal conspiracy and is of some use here, trump and his cronies crimes are so much worse that to lessen them to the level of Watergate ignores the scope and scale of the idiot trump’s and the repubs lawlessness….this will turn out to be the biggest criminal conspiracy in the history of this country and has been coming since the repubs started thinking that the laws of this country don’t apply to them and they can do whatever they want…and I blame Obama for part of that, letting the torturers in the Bush administration get away with hundreds of felonies and breaking international law…after that, why wouldn’t they believe that the law doesn’t apply to them? Impeach….
February 1st
Well…crap….the hand brake on the car wouldn’t release this morning until I got all the way to Meijers so that means I need to get under it this morning and soak the linkage with oil…I wonder why it couldn’t have done this when it was over 50 last week? Oh, well….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but run out to aldi’s…and that made this morning a little cheaper than it normally is…but I have enough food now to last three weeks or so….next week should be really cheap…my elbows are hurting like crazy today so there will be ibuprofen later…but, my back started to crack again so that helps….I do need to clean today and I am going to try to make some homemade wrinkle releaser so I don’t have to keep putting my shirts back in the dryer all the time….more later…..
Bye, bye, Trey…good riddance…
Well…with all of the bad stuff that has been happening with the repubs refusing to their jobs to rein in the idiot in the WH, there has been some good news with the exodus of many, many repubs who see the writing of a dem tsunami coming at them for November. The latest idiot repub to bail is the easy to hate Trey Gowdy, who spent tens of millions of dollars investigating Benghazi only to have to admit at the end that there was nothing to the “scandal”…but we knew that when we heard at the time that one of his cronies on the committee admitted that it was all just to hurt Hillary’s election chances. Now this smarmy little shit is retiring to go back to the “legal system” whatever the hell that means…probably as a trump appointee to the justice department where his incompetence will be a feature and not a bug. All I have to say is good riddance…Trey, you are nothing but a waste of air….