Well…with the repubs across this country doing everything they can to make sure dems can’t vote by many different types of voter suppression laws they have passed since the supreme court gutted the Voting Rights Act…saying that racism doesn’t exist anymore (yeah right)….it looked like they were going to be able to rig the election this fall. But, over the past few days, the courts have started to understand that these laws intent is not to prevent “voter fraud” but to make sure the poor, minorities, and anyone else that traditionally votes for dems can’t vote. The most egregious of these was North Carolina…big surprise…who called a special session the day after the supreme court ruled to blatantly use statistics on how blacks vote to make sure the new law would make it harder for them to vote….and the court slapped them down by saying that the new restrictions violated the constitution and immediately stopped them. The same thing happened in both Wisconsin and Texas this week so maybe the tide is turning and the rigging of the system by repubs will stop…and if they can’t cheat, they can’t win…geez…
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July 30th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday but I lost at pool….made some cash so that was cool, too….slept okay last night and feel okay this morning…not too much pain today but I am going to take something before I get on the bike…was really hoping for an entire day of rain today so I could justify staying off the bike but no such luck…didn’t get anything done yesterday with all of the traveling so I will have to get the kitchen done today…and I have other work to do too so this aft will be a little busy….it is nice that it is cooler today…I am getting tired of the relentless heat but I guess that comes back next week….not much to do today….need more coffee and going to watch F1 qualifying then on the bike….more later…
July 29th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done….went out to have a few with G last night and that set me on the path to feeling pretty crappy this morning…so I do….slept okay last night and I have no pain this morning and that is still confusing the heck out of me….I hope I have gotten the squeak out of the bike…went out and got some new grease and greased the heck out of the swingarm…..I am really tired of dousing it with water all through the ride….going to get out an try it here in a few minutes after I have the second cup of coffee….not much to to today…pool…maybe…and then I have an errand to run…going to make a little cash so that will be cool….more later…
The DNC…
Well…I’ll admit that I didn’t watch much of the repub convention last week…someone would have had to pay me to watch the idiots there spout their hate and nonsense…I did read about it though to get a pretty good idea what it was about…fear, fear, some more fear, and then more fear….the contrast of that crap to the DNC this week is just so striking I can’t believe that Trump is almost even with Hillary in the polls….and the narrative that the media is trying to push, that the normal, everyday disagreements that pop up between people is dooming the dems to a loss in November has gotten so bad, even from MSNBC, that I reverted to C-span to get rid of the commentary. The meme that Bernie supporters are not going to vote for Hillary is another one that is getting a huge push from every network…and they are conveniently ignoring the polls that say that over 80% of Bernie’s supporters are already on board….when did the media get so lousy? Oh, well…at least we have had inspiring speeches from our side…I mean I was clapping when Joe Biden was on last night…going to miss him when he is done in January….and I am looking forward to Hillary’s tonight and I laughed at a tweet that I saw today…that Trump’s speeches are rated as wonderful if he doesn’t punch somebody but Hillary’s have to be better than the Gettysburg address or they are a total failure…yep, that’s just about right….geez…
July 28th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool….slept okay last night but feel a little off this morning…hope the bike ride will fix that….had a nice lunch with T with a lot of laughs and that made it a nice afternoon….didn’t get anything else done but I will try to do better today since the kitchen needs lots of work….going to try no painkillers on the bike today since I don’t really hurt anywhere today and I kind of want to know where the pain is before I mask it….had the top down on the car on the way out to get groceries today…hmmmm….I kind of do that every thurs….oh, well…not much to do today…just the bike ride and then cleaning…need to figure out the day to go to the beach and I think that will be next week….more later….
Another one for the B-3 count…
Well…watching the DNC convention and Lenny Kravitz is playing…his band has a B-3 on stage…so I get another one for the B-3 count….
Pythons, turtles, and garters…
Well….haven’t really just noodled around in a while but today seems like one of those days since I am still too shocked to write about ole Trump asking Russia to hack Hillary….yep, but that’s not what this about…there have been a few things on the trail lately that were just these small flashes that just go in and then out of your brain and only leave a shadow that you only remember briefly…that happened a few times the past few days and, now that I remember them, I wanted to talk about it a bit…out on the ride over the weekend, I come upon a young woman, maybe in her middle teens walking barefoot down the trail but the weird thing was that she had a three foot python wrapped around her arm and neck and had a look on her face that it was just the most natural thing to do…I’m sure I’ve never seen that before….a few days back, heading into the woods where the deranged bee attacked me, I come upon this really cool box turtle just sitting in the middle of the trail….it had cool yellow stripes on a black background shell….I just missed it and kept riding, hoping it would still be there after the half mile run through the woods…and it was, still just sitting there so I had to get photos and then move it off the trail so no idiots would hurt it…a pretty cool thing…oh, and there was a huge Garter snake just sitting on the trail yesterday…took off like crazy when I ran near it…now, that’s not that unusual…but it was interesting to me….
July 27th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and no bee stings….slept okay last night and feel okay today…the soreness that I had in my back is almost gone and there are only hints of pain in my elbow that I can deal with easily….I finally got the bathroom cleaned yesterday after thinking about it for a week or so but I have spiders again already and I am just shaking my head about that….today should be clean the kitchen day but I’m not sure about that…may have lunch with T today and that will take precedence….still haven’t been able to find the squeak in the bike but a splash of water on the bushing usually fixes it…not sure why oil doesn’t work the same way….but, it is riding better with the shims so I guess I can live with it…not much to do today…lunch maybe and then cleaning….yeah, I know, pretty boring but that is my life right now….more later…
How is this different than Watergate?
Well…with the hack and spying that was done to the DNC by the Russians to try to throw the election to the idiot Trump, I have only one question: “how is this different than Watergate?” The Watergate burglars got caught breaking into and bugging the DNC to gather information for Nixon to use to against his “enemies”…and the Russians broke into and bugged the DNC..although electronically, to do essentially the same thing…to dump the e-mails to give Trump information to attack his “enemies”. Where is the difference? There isn’t any and the very idea that Trump can spout off about Islamic terrorism and the threats to the US while at the same time he colludes with Russia to hurt the US is treason pure and simple…and we can connect the dots to the influence that Putin would have with a president Trump by looking at the only thing that Trump was interested in the repub platform…to soften the promise that we would protect the Ukraine in case of a Russian invasion…just what Putin wants. It is breathtaking to have a presidential candidate already doing the bidding of a foreign power…foreshadowing what Trump will be like if elected…the first wholly owned president of a foreign power….sad!
July 26th
Well…it was an okay day other than the bee sting….didn’t get a lot done since I was nursing the pain most of the day…I’m not sure what the heck is going on with my skin….laid out for only 50 minutes yesterday and I am scorched today…I mean, 25 minutes front and back and I’m burned? Oh, well…..slept okay but have been up since really early and I’m not sure what that is about…feel kind of worn out this morning and I hope the bike ride will help that….it usually does….I am sore everywhere again and that is a little confusing since I didn’t do anything different yesterday but I did forget the ibuprofen before I got on the bike so I think I’ll change that today….not much to do today…might have lunch with T but that is about it…if I don’t, there will be cleaning to do….more later…