Well…running a little late today and had a little problem getting the computer to start….seems to be okay now, though, so I guess I’ll just ignore it…slept okay last night but got up late today which put me late for groceries and for coffee which needs to work soon or it will put me late for the bike ride….I know, I don’t have anywhere to be so how can I be late for anything? I did have a nice lunch with T yesterday and that is always fun….I am a little worried about her and her health problems so I’ll keep her in my thoughts today and every day…didn’t do a whole lot more yesterday but lunch but will have to do more today…I am looking forward to the final Sharknado Sunday night…such a stupid movie series but it still makes me laugh some so I’ll be watching it with cocktails….I am going to clean some today and cook, too, but not until later so I’m going to get another cup of coffee and read some news…more later…
Monthly Archives: August 2018
1,000 more jobs…gone…
Well…wasn’t going to come back for another one today but this little tidbit of news just came across my phone so I thought I’d do a short comment. It was announced this afternoon that at least 1,000 more jobs will be lost just in Illinois due to the idiot trump’s asinine tariffs….two companies are packing up and leaving for Mexico since the tariffs have made manufacturing here in the US unprofitable for both companies with the huge increases in raw material costs that they have seen. How’s that MAGA bullshit working for you now, trump voters? Yeah…I guess it’s not so smart putting an ignorant moron in charge of trade policy, huh? I feel absolutely no sympathy for any trump voter that still supports this moron after what he has done to this country since he was installed by Putin….impeach…
Boycott Sam Adams…
Well…sitting here waiting to feel better and just read an article about the founder of Sam Adams beer kissing trump’s ass about the tax cut that gave away the country to the rich…so, of course, I call for a boycott of every damn Sam Adams beer there is….there has to be a cost for these assholes supporting the racist, idiot in chief just to make themselves richer….don’t they understand that taxes go to make this country a better place to live? That they pay for schools, roads, and infrastructure that makes brewing and distributing his crappy beer possible? As part of my silent protest against these guys, I will never buy or drink another Sam Adams beer….and, I hope you won’t either….
August 15th
Well…running really late today…just can’t get started and feel a little crappy this morning so I guess I’ll ease into it and let the coffee work it’s magic….slept okay last night but still feel tired right now and I’m not sure if I’ll work out today….just want to go back to bed but I know I won’t….I did get out to have a couple with G last night and it went okay…had some reservations about that….I did get some quotes for car insurance out yesterday and should get them back today…it’s crappy that turning 65 costs you extra money….but, I guess I’ll just pay it and move on….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today will probably be the same with having lunch with T….I do need to brine some chicken that I have thawing to cook tomorrow….okay, just not feeling this right now so I am going to end here and have more coffee…more later….
Some politics…finally…
Well…have been busier than crap this morning trying to get quotes on new car insurance but I found out the big rate rise was because I enrolled in Medicare…and that sucks…but that’s not what this is about…there is so much going on in the country right now that my head just swims and that make it harder to pick a topic and make a lucid comment on it…so, I think this one will be just a few short hits on things that have happened lately…starting with the Manafort trial, the defense rested today without calling any witnesses since I’m sure they realized that their client is sunk and will be found guilty on all charges..they did try to make the argument (that happens in every trial) that the prosecution didn’t make the case for Manafort being guilty but the judge stopped that right away and refused the motion…so now, we move on to closing arguments and then to the jury which means we may see a verdict by the end of the week…I wonder how the idiot trump will react when little Paulie is found guilty and is sentenced to 20 plus years in jail…and this is just the first trial…the second one starts next month and could lead to an additional 20+ years in the slam….and, I know I’ve mentioned this before but all of the things that Manfort did was the standard operating procedure for trump and his minions…so he has to be sweating it or he is so delusional that he thinks he is going to get away with it…I’d vote for delusional after reading about his speeches over the past few days….impeach…
August 14th
Well…up early and pretty sore this morning…slept wrong on my right shoulder and it hurts like crazy…hope that will work out after I get on the bike…might be a little hard to do the workout but we’ll see in a few minutes….had a nice day yesterday…and I won at pool but the drive out and back was a pain with more and more road work being done….and I’ll have to wash it to get all the dust off it from the fresh gravel….I wonder when they are going to re-stripe the lot here? Hmmmm….I do have to try to find car insurance today since my current company jacked my rates way up and there has to be a better deal out there…and I need to find a doctor this week, too, so it will be a busy week….and, I may have lunch with T today or tomorrow if she’s feeling up to it….more later….
August 13th
Well…running late this morning…have been up for quite a while but just feel a little foggy that isn’t going away…it’s another one of those days when it would be easy to go back to bed but I won’t…have things to do and will get started on them here in a few minutes….slept okay last night and I wonder if my dreams are gone forever….haven’t had any in quite a while and that might be why I’m so damn tired every morning…I did get out to get some cheap bacon yesterday and charged the battery up on the car doing it…but the bacon looks like someone just took a handful and threw it into the packaging…not like the orderly slices that you normally get…it still tastes good so I guess it’s something to just be amused about….didn’t get anything else done yesterday and it looks the same today….just have no motivation so I think I’ll just drink more coffee and sit here for a while….more later…
A perjury trap?
Well…hey, the idiot trump’s apologists have rolled out the latest reason why they don’t want him to talk to Mueller and it is head-shakingly bad as you can expect from the bottom feeder attorneys that infest the WH. The latest bleating from noun, verb, 911 Rudy is that Mueller is being unethical by asking trump to sit down and testify under oath…citing that it is a “perjury trap” that Mueller will use to prosecute the liar in chief. Yeah, just on thing about that…you can only get caught in a “perjury trap” if you lie…and, by any objective measure, trump is the biggest damn liar to ever infest our government…with the count up to over 4,000 since he was installed by Putin. This is just the latest in the trial balloons that have been launched by these idiots to try to protect the idiot in chief…and this one won’t work, either….Mueller is building a case against the orange idiot that certainly doesn’t need a “perjury trap” to be effective and put trump in jail for the rest of his life….he probably doesn’t even need trump to testify….he has him on money laundering from his real estate deals and probably on tax evasion, too…so let’s just forget the hype about perjury….Mueller doesn’t need it to bring down trump and his crime family…impeach….
August 12th
Well…darn, almost forgot to come here on another Sunday morning and I am still trying to figure out why…oh, well….slept okay last night and don’t feel too badly this morning…my neck doesn’t hurt much and my back is okay, too, which is just a little weird…they have both been annoying lately and I’ll take any relief I can get….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done with all of the sports that were on…the EPL season started this weekend so I’ll have something to watch every weekend morning until next spring now…I did cook yesterday and made some roasted cauliflower that came out great…so, I’ll do the rest of the head today along with the chicken that I brined overnight…have to remember to do that every time since it came out so tasty and juicy…not much to do today…need to get out on the bike in a few minutes and then back here to watch soccer….more later….
I told you…
Well…as you remember back when the great repub tax scam was being rammed through congress without any scoring by the CBO, I told you that the reason the repubs were using to sell it, that it would raise wages for workers, was just a blatant lie…the only thing that was going to happen was the rich were going to get much, much richer and the deficit was going to explode…I think you can guess where this is going…yep, real wages that people like you and I earn have fallen almost a half percent in the past year…and the sick thing is that people are working longer hours and their wages are still less than they were last year…so the hourly rate has dropped and people can’t even make up for it by working more hours. Every damn bit of the rise in productivity, and every damn bit of the tax cuts went to the 1%…again, while the 99% of us that have worked for a living are being left even farther behind….I don’t think this is an accident, I think this is the direct result of the repub war on workers that they have been pushing for the past 40 years and they are sitting in their congressional offices rubbing their hands with glee that they have been able to lie, cheat, and steal to reward their rich donors…and they know the ignorant asses that elected them won’t ever catch on since not a bit of this appears on fox news….that makes this fall’s election even more important than normal…we need to take the house and senate back to start to repair the damage the repubs have done to this country….tired of all the winning yet MAGA folks? impeach….