Well…did you see this one coming? That the first response of the repubs to the FBI not finding any crime in the Clinton e-mail “scandal” is that the investigation the FBI did needs to be investigated? Because everyone just “knows” that Hillary is guilty and there must be a cover up going on since nothing was found…just like nothing was found in the 9 Benghazi investigations, like nothing was found in the Whitewater investigation…but the repubs continue to think that it is because the Clintons are “above the law”, not that there is nothing there…and now they are going to waste more of our money holding hearings on the investigation…I have had enough of these partisan hacks using our government for scoring political points….why don’t you do your job for a change? To go along with the obstruction that has been the centerpiece of the repub agenda for the past 8 years, we now have the idiot Ryan opening a new front by saying that he will ask the DNI to withhold security briefings from Hillary since she just can’t be trusted with the information….and Trump can be? God I hate these guys….they have done more to destroy the trust in the institutions of this country than any terrorist group could ever do…geez….
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July 6th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool….slept okay but I burned myself yesterday trying to get the tan straightened out and that is not fun….but, 25 minutes in the sun and I am scorched? Oh, well…..had a good bike ride yesterday and I am not sore at all today but I will still take some ibuprofen before I get out…it is raining right now, though, so that will wait a little while…most of the rain is missing to the south so I’ll be able to go in a few minutes…after the workout, that is….didn’t win the Mega last night but no one else did either….so over 500 mil Friday…not much to do today….just the normal routine and then some cleaning…I guess I say that every day and don’t do it so maybe I’ll stop…more later…
Juno….
Well…as you know if you’ve been here for any length of time, I am a science geek and just love it when I can talk about new scientific discoveries and this week we have another one….on the 4th of July, a new spacecraft named Juno entered into orbit around Jupiter to do a two year scientific mission…and one of the cool things is that, after an adjusting burn, the thing is going to skim the cloud tops, at times only 50 miles above them which should give us just some of the coolest images ever…..can’t wait to see close ups of the great red spot and I am excited about the other things that will be discovered…..I’m hoping that Juno will get to the end of it’s two year mission…and that is not certain given the radiation environment it will be working in….whatever happens…it’s going to be cool…
Trump is still an idiot…
Well…I guess now we know what the right wing meme is going to be over the ending of the Clinton e-mail “scandal”….the Donald tweeted that now that Clinton won’t be charged, then the administration has to pardon David Patraeus for doing the same thing…guess what you thin-skinned fraud? It’s not even close to being the same thing…Patraeus knowingly gave classified information to the woman who was writing his biography and who he was having an affair with…Clinton never gave classified information to anyone who didn’t have the clearance for it….she just used an un-secured server…the same thing Colin Powell and Condi Rice did…not a crime versus a clear crime…but, you don’t understand anything since you are such an idiot…..you should be right by accident at least a few times but even that never happens….what a maroon….geez…
The e-mail “scandal” is over….
Well…was just watching the FBI director’s news conference on the Clinton e-mails and I can hear the heads exploding on the right with the announcement that they are not recommending any charges in the case. Now, I really didn’t think there would be any charges since if there were, they would have to go back and charge every secretary of state from the past 25 years since e-mail was invented because they all did exactly the same thing…using private e-mail accounts for public business….but I agree with the director that this was sloppy and there was the possibility that some secret material could have been stolen. I can’t wait for ole Trump to tweet about this one….should be fun to see…maybe I’ll came back when he does…..
July 5th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made some cash so that was cool….slept okay but feel a little slow today…had a tough bike ride yesterday that I hope does not repeat today…only added a couple of miles but felt quite crappy by the end of it….I did get some stuff done around here yesterday and I will need to continue that today but it is so sticky already I may have to turn the air on the next couple of days since it is supposed to be over 90 until Friday….and maybe some storms that we really need….so, I won’t wash the car until Friday…I do need to remember to take the ibuprofen again today since it has been helping on the bike…my hands are not cramping anywhere near what they were….not much to do today…need to work out and the bike ride of course, and maybe clean the kitchen…..not too motivated, though, so that could wait…more later….
July 4th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done….slept okay last night and had some dreams that I can’t make sense of…just bits and pieces of unrelated stuff….weird…..I did get a good bike ride in and it looks like a long one today since I’ll have to take a detour with the July 4th parade going on in Kentwood which runs along my route….they have the streets blocked off so I’ll have to add a couple of miles….don’t hurt anywhere so that won’t be too bad…don’t think I ate enough yesterday so the legs may be a little heavy today….finally got rid of the snacks that I was binging on…almost fell back into that bad habit but now that they are gone, it makes it easy to keep the calorie count under 1500….not much to do today…going to get the bike ride in and then just take it easy for the rest of the day…I do have some stuff to get done around here but that can wait if I don’t feel like doing it…more later….
Are you surprised?
Well…with all of the evidence that the repubs economic plans of tax cuts for business and the rich do not work to create economic growth, are you surprised that another state has weighed in and it is not pretty…for workers, that is…for the rich it’s great. The latest analysis centers on Wisconsin and the tax cuts that the idiot Walker said would magically create jobs even though they have never worked anywhere else. But, that’s not the worst part of the whole scheme….these idiots missed the projections on what the tax cuts were going to cost the state and now they are more than doubled to almost 300 million dollars a year….and these cuts were a direct transfer to the rich with people with incomes of over a million dollars a year getting almost 80% of the cuts…a direct lie from ole Scotty who said the “middle class” would benefit. Where did the money for these cuts come from….hmmm…it seems like it just matches the amount of money they cut out of the University of Wisconsin system…after all, there are no repubs who want educated people…it makes them much harder to lie to. After the wreckage of Kansas and now the unfolding one in Wisconsin…and in every other state run by repubs that are in dire fiscal states, shouldn’t we be able to bury this tax cut nonsense once and for all? Probably not…since there are so many people driven by hate in this country….and they are all on the repubs side…geez…
July 3rd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…slept okay last night but I am still feeling a little under the weather with all the coughing and that is getting annoying….the ibuprofen worked on the bike yesterday and my hands were better….the ride was good one and I am not sore at all today….other than the little sunburn I got trying to even out the bike tan….I do need to get a few things done today but I’m not sure I will…there is a 6 hour sports car race that starts at 10 so I’ll have to get the bike ride in right after the F1 race…..and I do want to see Iceland play later today so I’ll have to get everything done before that….not much to do today…just going to veg out and see what happens…everyone is out of town so it will be another day of just hanging out…more later…..
July 2nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made some cash so that was cool….slept okay last night but wasn’t good so I don’t feel that hot today….have been coughing again so the bug is still here and it has been a week so that is a little frustrating….not sore anywhere else but had massive cramps in my hands yesterday so I need to take some ibuprofen before I get on the bike….no pool this week so I didn’t win or lose….didn’t get anything else done yesterday so I will have to try to get moving some today….I do have some errands to run but I’m not sure if I’ll do them or not….just don’t have any motivation today….not much to do today…I am going to grill today but there will have to be a nap later…the wheezing in my lungs kept me up a lot last night so I’m pretty tired….more later….