Now they’re hypocrites about free markets…

Well…as the pressure mounts on the corporate supporters of the NRA to flee before permanent damage is done to their brands, we now have another huge bout of hypocrisy by the repubs in Georgia (are you surprised?). The free market is just fine, fine, fine, as long as it supports the right wing assholes in this country, but as soon as it doesn’t go their way, they screech that it’s unfair and try to use the government to force business to do what they want. The latest is the idiot repubs in Georgia threatening Delta airlines with increased taxes sine they broke with the NRA and decided to not be part of NRA sanctioned murder machine that almost daily kills children across the country. And, do you know what Delta did? They immediately started looking for a new state to move their headquarters to…putting 30,000 jobs in Georgia at risk and making real the possibility of billions of dollars of economic losses just so the lieutenant governor can earn his NRA bribes. This has fallout past just Delta moving…with the politicization of business tax breaks in Georgia, Amazon is now re-thinking putting a headquarters there citing the uncertainty of doing something that would make the idiot repubs there mad and bringing retaliation down on them. So, nice job hypocrites…I hope the bribes you got from the NRA are enough to offset the billions of dollars you are going to lose with your bullshit….and I can’t wait for you to explain to the 30,000 people who will be out of jobs that the NRA is more important than them…November is coming….geez…

What a morning….

Well…it has been a strange morning this morning…the whole thing started with getting up so damn early that my entire schedule is off and I feel a little out of sorts. Then, after working out, I get out on the bike and my earbuds lose a channel after about a mile out so I decide to just ride with the right channel and that was a little weird when you only hear half of the music….then, the whole thing was topped off by breaking a shift cable on the Schwinn on it’s last day on the trail….so, I rode it back with two speeds and that kind of hurt since the lowest gear was 5th and it is a steep climb coming back toward here. But, now, I am about done except for cleaning where the Schwinn is going to be stored to get ready for the new bike that is coming tomorrow…can’t wait. More later….

February 28th

Well…running really, really early today with getting up at 4:30….decided to skip the sleep aids last night and it was as ugly as I expected…was up and down all night and I think the total sleep time was about 3 1/2 hours…so today is going to be ugly, too, with a nap in the future this aft…I did get out to have a nice HH with T yesterday and we had a great conversation and a lot of laughs….even had the top down over and back…got the next to last bike ride in on the Schwinn in shorts yesterday and today’s last ride will be in shorts,too, since it is already almost 48 degrees and that is the threshold for shorts…but, I am going to wait a while since it is still only 5:30 am right now….I did get the old bike stripped yesterday and got the frame out in the trash and it didn’t bother me in the least…it’s usually hard to get rid of things I’ve had for a long time but not this time…I think having the new bike on the way helped that some…not much to do today…just the workout and the bike ride and then I need to head over to depot to get some zip ties to transfer the computer over to the new bike tomorrow…I do need to remember to eat more than one meal today since I skipped dinner yesterday and that might make the bike ride a little tough today….more later…

The bike will be here Thursday…

Well….just got notice from the company I bought the new bike from that it has been shipped….and the fedex tracking shows it will be here Thursday…but, any time from morning until late afternoon so I’ll have to be here all day since I do need to sign for it…and it looks like it is going to rain or snow all day so I won’t be able to ride it until Friday but it looks like it’s going to be sunny then but still cold and I can live with that…and Sat and Sunday is looking the same so I’ll be able to get rides in all weekend….I sure hope that it is not damaged in transit so I have to go through the crap of sending it back and waiting for a new one to come…

Now they’re trying to kill children…

Well…can the repubs get any lower? Their continued support for the NRA and the gun manufacturers have meant that children are just fodder for their political games…they will protect the hell out of them until they are born but after that they are on their own…and that was emphasized by the announcement yesterday that the idiot running the EPA….”first class Pruitt” will be closing the lab that studies the effect of new chemicals on children…yep, idiot Pruitt can fly first class all over the world but he says the US can’t afford to ensure that the new chemicals pushed by the chemical companies don’t kill children…this is all part of the dystopian vision that these idiots have for this country, that corporations will do the right thing and not kill us in the service of profit for the rich. Remembering back to my anatomy classes when I was working on my psych degree, it was known that chemicals affect the fast growing tissues of children in completely different ways than adults….and it is necessary to study these effects before using the children across this country as guinea pigs by introducing new chemicals without study. This is the modern repub party, folks…it’s okay for corporations to profit off of the killing of our children as long as the political donations keep flowing…geez….

February 27th

Well…running a little early today with getting up before 6 and that is getting annoying….slept okay, though, so that is good…and even had some weird dreams about houses, windows, and plumbing fixtures that were in the wrong place…yeah, sounds weird to me, too…and I’m not sure what any of it meant….I did get a nice ride out and back to pool yesterday with the top down and it looks like another one today if I get out to hang with T for a while…oh, and I won….not feeling too badly today but I have had a crick in my neck for a couple of days that is a little annoying, too….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but today I do need to get the old bike torn apart since the new one is coming later in the week…I am a little excited about that…with spring coming and being able to ride as soon as I get it….more later….

The NRA is a bunch of whiners…

Well…I have been laughing at the meltdown that has been coming out of the NRA over the past couple of weeks as their advertisers and partners flee them in the aftermath of the Florida murders…as people rightly assign blame to them for preventing meaningful gun control by buying repub politicians. The response from the NRA to these latest developments started out with denial…that there was no problem with losing partners since it was a only a few leaving…that changed when almost all of their corporate partners bailed over the past week and then they turned to anger at the companies that left calling them “unpatriotic” and bleating that the NRA was the only organization protecting our “freedom” and that these companies would be sorry for leaving…that one made me laugh since it was just so predictable…sounding like an 8 year old throwing a tantrum. The latest is that they are now attacking the survivors of Parkland, calling the teenagers “bullies” for working to neuter the NRA and make sure that anyone taking money from them will be voted out of office. Now, that is just too rich..the biggest bully in the political sphere is calling a bunch of teenagers bullies for standing up to the NRA and fighting their nonsense….I just love that the nuts at the NRA are finally getting a dose of their own medicine…maybe we can get some sensible gun legislation now…..geez…

February 26th

Well…not feeling too hot today and my lungs are filled with crap again….not sure what is going on but I think it’s another cold…not the flu since I don’t feel flu bad…slept okay last night but no dreams to speak of and I wonder if that’s part of feeling a little tired today…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I do want to wash the car today to get the Mt.P mud off of it…and to get some quarters for pool later….already thinking about putting the summer tires back on the car since it looks like the snow is over…but, this is Michigan and only Feb so maybe I’ll wait a while….I do need to strip the old bike tomorrow and get the broken frame out of here so I’ll have room for the new bike…and I need to get out to get some new zip ties to install the computer on the new bike…okay, I need more coffee and to read some news…more later….

Just ordered the new bike…

Well…the day I have been waiting for for quite a while is here…just ordered the new bike and I am excited about that….this new one has all of the features of the Motobecane and it was 50 dollars cheaper than that was over 9 years ago…bought it from the same place that I got the last one from and you just can’t beat the pricing…only $329 bucks with free shipping and it should be here sometime this week… so I need to ride the old one another 100 miles to get to the goal of putting 1,000 miles on it before it’s retired to backup status again….

February 25th

Well….running a little late today and just can’t get started….I did get out to get the paper and the wind is blowing like crazy and that will keep me off the bike today….it was bad enough yesterday with it only blowing 15 and today will be 20-30 with gusts to over 40…not sure if I’ve ever ridden with that much wind but I’m not going to even try it…slept okay last night and just feel a little slow today…and sore with getting back on the bike so I think I may have to take something for it later….didn’t get much done yesterday with two races on and today is going to be much the same….I do need to cook today but that is about it….and I may clean the kitchen some but that looks iffy right now…still feel crappy with crud in my lungs so I’m not going to do much other than watch soccer right now….more later….