Well…running a little late today and I think it’s from sleeping in a little…didn’t get up until after 7 today and I think it was the coffee alarm clock that woke me up again….slept pretty well last night but feel a little slow today and I think I’ll just ease into it …I am a little annoyed that the weather is not cooperating….have a new bike sitting here and I haven’t been able to get out this week and it looks like it may be early next week before I can get out again….I know that this is Michigan in March but I think it should be giving me at least a day or two in the 50′s….I did get a few things done yesterday and I am going to try to continue that today….I do need to cook and have a chicken brining that I’ll start roasting in a while…and I may even get out to see if I can get some 99 cent pork chops but I’m not sure about that….more later…
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Erik Prince is going down….
Well…just when I thought that the news was going to overwhelm me with all of the crap coming out of the WH, a little bit of good news made me smile this morning. Reporting from a lot of news outlets today have put together the case that Erik Prince lied to congress and the FBI about his supposed “chance meeting” with the Russians in the Seychelles. Now, if you remember, one of the charges that got both Popadopoulos and Gates in this investigation was lying to the FBI and both of them are going to jail for it…so guess where this leaves ole Prince? Yep, indictments are coming for him and they need to make sure he doesn’t run to Dubai like he did when his company, Blackwater, was on trial for murdering scores of people in Iraq. The meeting that he lied about was not the “chance meeting” he said it was but was planned weeks in advance and Prince knew about it as the planning was going on…and there is new evidence coming from a person that was at the meeting that the purpose of the meeting was for Putin to get his hooks further into the idiot trump and his amateurs that were trying to conduct foreign policy in secret. Now, I m sitting here with a smile on my face that Betsy DeVos’s brother is going to jail…and that these people of privilege who have been able to cheat their entire lives and live on inherited wealth and a feeling of superiority to the rest of us are finally being shown that they are not above the law….it is another step in getting directly to the idiot trump…impeach…
March 8th
Well….I am getting to hate the damn snow…another morning and I had to clean the car off again…okay…deep breaths…it is March and it is Michigan, and I’ve been here my whole life so I should be used to this…I remember back when I was a kid getting a snow day in late April so I guess this isn’t too bad….now, where was I? Oh, slept okay last night and feel quite good this morning and I think It’s from finally eating enough…I am a little irritated that Meijers didn’t have any of the 99 cent pork chops this morning…but, I did get a whole chicken so I guess that will work…need to get that in a brine today so I can roast it tomorrow….I did have a funny thing happen in the checkout today….I had to have an approval for some wine that I bought and when I told the woman running the self checkout that I needed approval, she looked me up and down and said “I certainly approve of you” and that made me laugh out loud. I do have a few things to do today…the trash needs to go out and the kitchen needs cleaning and I’ll get to that later….right now it’s coffee and news time…more later….
Dupes and dopes…
Well…not ready to work out yet so I thought I’d come back here to do another one of these while it’s still fresh in my head….with all of the crowing that the idiot trump and his minions did about the the tax cut scam, and how it would be a huge benefit for the workers in this country…with the increase in tariffs on steel and aluminum, the dupes and dopes who voted this idiot in (along with the Russians) are going to see any increase in their pay checks offset completely by the rise in costs from the tariffs. How is this not a tax increase on working people? Idiot boy and his minions have no clue how tariffs work…he really does think that the countries selling us steel and aluminum are going to send the US a check for the tariffs and that is just not how it works….and the job losses that were estimated yesterday at 146,000 have now been revised to over a million jobs…yep, the “greatest job creator” is going to be personally responsible for putting over a million US workers out of work….how’s that tax cut working for you now, trump voters? How’s that “make America great again” working for you? You know, I usually have empathy for people who lose their jobs since I went through that crap, but the willfully ignorant trump voters really deserve to share in the pain they’ve foisted on the rest of us and I have no sympathy for any of them…impeach….
March 7th
Well…woke up this morning to the depressing scene of 3 inches of snow on the car and have to remember that this is Michigan in March and that stuff can happen for a few weeks yet….slept okay last night and got up early today so this one is early….I do feel a little better today and that’s good since I have an errand to run this morning….yesterday was a total waste with not being able to get on the bike and not being motivated to clean much and today looks a lot like that, too…of course no bike ride with the cold and snow but I will work out before the errands….I do need to clean the kitchen and put the trash out and need to break down the carton the bike came in so that can go out, too….my right heel cracked again and I am limping around here trying to keep weight off it and I still don’t know how that happens….it has been a pain all winter and I hope it heals soon…more later….
Trade stupidity…
Well….as you probably already know, the idiot trump has proposed, in a fit of absolute ignorant stupidity, to put tariffs on all of the steel and aluminum that is imported into this country. As you can already guess, countries across the world have said they will match the tariffs on any exported American finished goods, raw materials, and food…setting the lie to the idiot trump’s assertion that “trade wars are easy to win”. In the fact based community who have studied the effects of tariffs on trade for decades, the fact is that these tariffs that trump says will “save” American jobs are projected to cost the US 146,000 jobs in the first two years and will crush the farm belt that stupidly voted for trump by curtailing exports of food that these farmers depend on to stay in business. In trying to hurt China with tariffs on the steel they export to the US, idiot boy forgot to think of the fact that 60% of the soybeans produced in this country are exported to China…and China is already looking for other sources than the US since, with the idiot in the WH, they can’t depend on us as a trading partner anymore…just as Mexico did when they stopped buying American corn and made trade deals with Argentina and other South American countries when trump started to try to dismantle NAFTA and attacked Mexico relentlessly for a reason that only exists in trump’s fevered brain. What do you think about your hero now, farmers? Voting for a game show host gets you game show governance and you wanted this by a large margin…maybe you won’t be so stupid next time…nope, stupidity runs deep in trump country….geez….
Poor little snowflakes…
Well…as you know, I haven’t been feeling too well today and that kept me off the bike and led to me having some extra time to read the news…sometimes that’s a good thing, sometimes it isn’t. Just now, it was a really good, funny thing that left me laughing at just how pathetic the whiny conservatives are. In DC, where there are a lot of single people trying to date, conservative men have been surprised that they are having a hard time finding women who will go out with them…and, I wonder why? Could it be that they are racist, misogynist assholes who support trump and the rest of the troglodytes in the repub party? Could it be that they support the government telling women what they can and cannot do with their bodies? Could it be that they have no problem giving billions of dollars of tax cuts to the rich while working people get nothing? Could it be that they support taking healthcare away from millions of their fellow citizens? To hear conservatives talk, it is just so unfair to them that once women they want to date find out they are conservatives assholes, that the women run the other way as fast as they can…poor little snowflakes…hey, why don’t you try not being a conservative asshole? Why don’t you try being a human being sometime? I’ve found in my long lifetime that having some empathy and not hating everyone who is not like you goes a long way to having people want to spend time with you….even women at times….maybe this is natural selection at work…and will help kill off the asshole conservative population by not allowing them to reproduce? Hope so…geez…
Under the radar….
Well…with the Nunberg meltdown that took all of the oxygen out of the news media yesterday, one little story flew under the radar that is just more evidence of Russian meddling in our country and the fact that the idiot trump is not doing anything about it. This story would be shocking in any other “administration”, but with all of the scandal and cronyism coming out of the WH, it has not gotten the attention it deserves….yesterday it was reported that Christopher Steele told Bob Mueller that his contacts in Russia have told him that Russia intervened when the idiot trump wanted Mitt Romney as his Secretary of State since Romney is a noted hawk on Russia and would ensure that the sanctions on Russia were not lifted. So, who did we get when the Russians vetoed Romney? Rex Tillerson who Putin awarded the Russian Order of Friendship to for his collaboration with the Russians when he was the head of Exxon/Mobil…and someone who has so many connections to Russia that Putin thought he would be easily manipulated to support removing sanctions. Is this treason, finally? How about it repubs…are you going to do anything now when the idiot in the WH is clearly doing Russia’s bidding? What a traitorous bunch…impeach….
March 6th
Well….at least I now know I’ve got a bug of some sort…sitting here warm and freezing at the same time and I have been coughing since I got up…but, here’s the weird thing…I felt worse yesterday morning and that’s not how it’s supposed to work…I barely got through the day yesterday with the lack of energy…oh, and I think we tied at pool but I really don’t remember…didn’t work out or ride the bike yesterday but I’ll need to do better today…probably won’t ride the bike since there is snow out there this morning…don’t think there is enough to make the trail impassable but I’d have to go out in full thermasuit and I just don’t want to do that….we’ll see later….I do need to clean some around here today but it is one of those days where I am just going to take it easy to start and see how I feel….more later….
What a meltdown…
Well…haven’t been feeling that hot this afternoon and I thought I wouldn’t be back for a second one…but, this was just too damn delicious to pass up. This afternoon, one of the idiot trump’s campaign aides, Sam Nunberg, went into a total meltdown on every news channel there is today in response to a grand jury subpoena that was served on him by Mueller, saying that he wouldn’t turn over the e-mails and texts to and from others on the campaign and wouldn’t even show up for his meeting on Friday…basically daring Mueller to arrest him. In the multi show meltdown, there was one nugget that came out that I’ll bet has the WH crapping themselves today…talking to Jake Tapper, Nunberg said that trump knew about the meeting in trump tower with Russian spies and talked about it a week before it happened…now, I’m not sure how much you can trust someone who has clearly gone over the edge, but, if true, this will just add to the obstruction of justice evidence that Mueller already has on idiot boy…can’t wait to hear Rachel tonight…this should be fun….impeach…