Well…as you know, I couldn’t bring myself to watch the creepiness that was the repub debate in Vegas last night but there were a few takeaways the came up in the news feeds this morning…the first one I’ve commented on before…the Donald’s vow that he would commit war crimes if elected by going after and killing the families of ISIS members…isn’t there a law against threatening a war crime? Isn’t that terrorism in itself? After this low point, the night degenerated into a talking point showdown…and the general consensus by pundits is that none of the people on the stage are presidential material….and that none of them can ever get elected…so, I think they should all just grift away and make money from the rubes that they lie to every day….I think that’s the purpose of most of them running anyway…or they truly are delusional and that is even worse…geez…
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December 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool….it looks like I’ll be able to pay the rent in January so that takes a load off…slept okay and had dreams of landslides and Ada and that was weird…running for your life in front of a landslide is kind of exciting, though, so I’ll take it….my frickin back is still hurting like crazy and it is taking all the energy out of me, but trying the old things to help it is just making it worse….need to think that one through and see if I can figure out something new….the new tire on the back of the bike is making me smile…I didn’t realize how bad the old one was…reminded me of the cartoon bikes with square wheels that were in my youth….not much to do today…pool, I think, and making lunch but that is about it….I did do the grocery run this morning and got some russett potatoes that are just huge…one could make two meals for me so I’m not sure how to cook them…may have to make mashed to portion them out….more later…..
The repub debate…
Well…didn’t know if you knew, but there is another repub debate tonight…okay, I should have said didn’t know if you cared….I was going to do one about that but I just frickin can’t…how can anyone listen to these losers without wanting to tear your ears off so you don’t have to hear it anymore…Muslims bad, Obama worse, tax cuts, tax cuts….close the borders…built a 10 mile high wall…ISIS, ISIS, ISIS….we’re all gonna die! Yeah….I just can’t take it anymore…hope you can’t either…going back to the couch to watch tv….and no debate….
December 15th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a lot of stuff done so that was cool…slept okay but my back seems to be deteriorating to the point where it is hard to move around at times when it decides to stab me…I know what the problem is but I don’t know what to do about it..and that is the most frustrating part…at least my neck is starting to heal some but that is not enough….think I need some ibuprofen…I did have to get a new tire for the rear of the bike since the old one split across the tread on the way home Sunday…glad I had the tube protectors in it…rode home with them sticking out…the bike is so much smoother now and it was fun to go out yesterday….but 20 bucks for a bike tire? The tires on the Miata were only 40 bucks each….not much to do today…have to run an errand and then out with G later but the rest of the day is going to be trying to get my back to pop so it will stop hurting…more later….
Nathan Deal is the new worst person in the world….
Well….it any of you out there are from Georgia, I really do have pity on you for your asshole of a governor. If you haven’t heard this prick signed an executive order saying that no one that deals in social services for the state of Georgia can give aid to Syrian refugees…including the food stamp program that is paid for by the feds. Not only is this illegal, and I hope the feds get right on taking this asshole to court for this illegality…but, it is also one of the most immoral and reprehensible things I have ever heard of…to single out a family who is legally allowed to come here and basically say “you can just starve” is not what America is about…maybe in the repubs world of fear and nastiness….since they have been doing that to American citizens in every state that they control….but not in our world, not in the world of compassion that their bible tells them to make either…but, I know the prick will be in the pews on Sunday being the hypocriitcal, useless POS that he is…and the rest of the “Christians” will be patting him on the back for his “principled” stand on heaping more hurt on people who have already lost everything…easily the worst person in the world…geez…
How much more stupid can these folks get?
Well…I’m just sitting here shaking my head at this one…in North Carolina, a town called Woodlawn just refused a rezoning request from a solar energy company to build a solar panel farm in the town. Now, here comes the stupidity…a retired science teacher from the town testified that she was concerned the panels would prevent plants from growing since they will “suck up” all the photons from the sun; saying that she has seen that plants around the other farms that have already been installed are turning brown….the company building the farm tried to explain that the panels only use photons that hit them directly and they don’t suck up all of the photons in the area and that the plants could be dying, if they are, for many other reasons unrelated to the panels….my question is if this kind of stupidity is coming from a former science teacher, what the hell kind of schools do they have there? Oh, that’s right, they don’t believe in science, just faith….what a bunch of maroons….geez…
December 14th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool…didn’t get anything done around here but that will change today since I have lots of stuff to do and I can’t avoid it…slept crappy again last night and I am getting tired of it…and my neck still hurts so that is going to make doing what I need to do even more of a pain…it looks like no bike ride today since there is rain all the way to Tennessee that is aimed right at us but that’s okay, I can use a day off the bike to get rid of the everywhere soreness I have had for the past few days….the car is still starting fine and not leaking so that is cool and I don’t have to think about that anymore right now….not much to do today….just work around here that will take me til at least noon if I start right now…but, I need to finish the coffee first and get out to Kos to read a little…more later…
One last thing…if I hear the build a bear workshop commercial again, I am going to scream….
Give me more El Nino….
Well…don’t really have anything earth shattering to talk about today since I have been avoiding politics lately since it is all Trump all the time and I just don’t have the stomach to listen to that idiot or comment on him….not today anyway…I do want me some more of this el Nino weather…and no, it’s not global warming causing the temp to be 64 on Dec 13th….the same thing happened in the last El Nino a few years back and, if i remember correctly, I was out on the bike in shorts on New Years day that winter…hope that happens again this winter…I was out on the bike in a t-shirt today and it felt so good I did a long ride…my neck still hurts, though, and that is really a pain…for three days now….the car is back to normal after the dead battery on Friday and I am not curious enough to get the meter out and stand in the rain to try to find the problem….okay…dinner is ready and I do need to eat….
December 13th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get a lot done…I am sore everywhere and I think it must be a bug….have had a pain in my neck for the past few days and it just won’t go away and I’m not sure what the heck it is…I did have a nice running text conversation with T as she was working with her volunteers yesterday and that kept me from getting too bored…I di get a nice bike ride in but it looks like that won’t happen again today…there is s frickin thunderstorm going on right now and the rain goes all the way south of Illinois so maybe today will be the day to rest and try to heal a little…not much to do today…have an errand to run this aft and I’ll make a little cash so that will be cool…I should clean but I probably won’t since I am low on energy today and it hurts to just sit here….more later…
Oh Canada…
Well…with all of the posturing and bigotry by the repubs here regarding the Syrian refugees and their repeated attempts to make it harder for them to settle here, we only have to look to our north to see how the refugee crisis should be handled. You know I’ve talked about the Canadians before and how much I like and respect them for their good nature and resonableness…and yesterday was no exception. When the Syrian refugees that are going to settle in Canada arrived there yesterday, guess what he response was….not fear, not loathing, not bigotry like they see here in the US but a welcome from the prime minister in person who said “you are home” as he met them. This is the newly elected liberal PM Trudeau not the conservative ass that held the office before. What the hell is wrong with us when we can’t do that? Where is the “American exceptionalism” that the right goes on and on about? For a country with a 10th of our population and economy the Canadians are taking on more than double the refugees that we have committed to and that is just shameful…what would be a better way to show the world we care about something more than war than to do everything we can to help refugees from around the world? I salute our neighbors to the north for showing us what it means to be human at a time where we appear to have lost our way.