No market for American soybeans…

Well…I am stifling the urge to laugh at all of the farmers in red states and blue who voted for an ignorant moron for president and who are now seeing their livelihoods destroyed by his stupid tariffs. I know I’ve written about this before, but the carnage in the soybean markets just gets worse and worse with huge piles of beans spreading across the plains since there is no market for them anymore with China, India, and other huge markets now closed to us by the retaliatory tariffs place by countries who were attacked by the idiot trump. Even if our farmers can find anyone to buy their soybeans, there are selling at a loss of over 2 dollars a bushel and have put many, many farmers on the brink of bankruptcy…but, as I’ve said before, when these farmers are interviewed, they still back idiot boy 100%…which, to me, is the purest embodiment of the repub voters who have continually voted against their own economic interests just to support the racists and liars who infest the party today. There has been an outcry on the left during the election season to try to use the tariffs to convince the people affected to vote for the dems who will protect them from idiot boy, but if losing their farms and their life’s work hasn’t changed their minds, why would a dem who they hate be able to do it? I say let them sink…after all, they are the party of “personal responsibility” and need to be held responsible for inflicting trump on the rest of us…impeach…

Let’s talk about Michigan…

Well…with the colonoscopy rapidly approaching Monday, and the prep that is going to put me out of commission both Sunday and Monday, I thought I’d talk about some local Michigan election issues before that…to start, get the hell out to vote Tuesday if you haven’t already….that’s the start and I don’t care if you vote for dems (okay, yeah I do) or for the cheaters on the other side, just take an hour out of your busy day and vote. Let’s start with the race for governor here in Michigan where we have Gretchen Whitmer, the dem, up against the waste of space Bill Schuette, the repub….now, if you remember a few years back when the repubs were trying to insert themselves into every woman’s health care decisions by restricting abortion care…again…and Gretchen got thrown out of the state senate by the repubs who control it for saying “vagina” on the floor of the senate…that should be enough to vote for a feisty woman who cares about fairness and truth in government…but, there are so many other reasons to vote for her that I won’t list them here but will just say that she is a true progressive who will take this state forward, not back to the 1800′s like Schuette wants and has tried to do as AG. Now, let’s remember the millions of your tax dollars that Schuette spent to try to keep our LGBT friends from getting the equality they have a right to…that they are guaranteed in the constitution…but to Schuette and his troglodyte cronies, they are less than second class citizens who need to be hated and attacked. Only one other thing you need to know about Schuette, other than he’s a trump loving right wing asshole…and that is he didn’t care when Snyder and his incompetents were poisoning the people of Flint to try to save a little money….resisting all calls for an investigation into the decisions when it is the AG’s responsibility to protect the citizens of this state from malfeasance of the government….so, it’s a pretty clear choice of who would be better for you and I and this state…vote for Gretchen and let’s put the dark days of repub control behind us…for good…

October 31st

Well…slept all the way in til 6:03 this morning…okay, I did wake up at 5:23 but didn’t get out of bed until after 6 so that counts, right? I did sleep okay but have been feeling worn out a little lately and I’m not sure why…oh, well…I did have my lowest blood pressure reading since I got my machine a few minutes ago with a 110/74 and that makes the next goal to get it back into single digits where it always was before I got old…didn’t get much done yesterday but wash the bike and clean a little around here but I do need to get over to Meijers this morning to get the prep stuff for the procedure Monday…went over yesterday but they had to re-order the prescription stuff since they didn’t have it…so that will be after the bike ride that I think I may be able to do in shorts one last time since it is already almost 50…just need to wait for the rain to stop…then I need to start to clean this place up…but much later…on the first cup of coffee and need it to work first…more later…

Trump gets dumber every day…

Well…if you didn’t think that the idiot trump was the dumbest damn person in the entire country, you just had to hear of his latest “plan” to carry out his hatred against brown people by eliminating birthright citizenship for people he doesn’t like. Now, he has shown his utter lack of understanding of how anything works so damn many times that I am getting tired of writing about it but I just had to talk about this one since it is the pinnacle of ignorance…just this morning, idiot boy said he is going to end birthright citizenship by issuing an executive order to repeal the 14th amendment…now, just writing that made me laugh since it is so absurd and so the essence of that ignorant fool….every schoolkid who has gotten past the fifth grade understands that it takes 2/3 of the members of the house and senate or by a constitutional convention called by 2/3 of state legislatures and then would need to be voted on to repeal it…it can’t be repealed by the whim of an idiot president and his crony enablers…look, we all know what this latest trial balloon is, just a distraction to motivate idiot boy’s racist base to get out to vote next week….since that worked so well in 2016, he’s doing it again….what a moron….followed by morons…impeach….

October 30th

Well…the new normal reared it’s ugly head again this morning with getting up at 5:30 but it took almost an hour to get here after needing a glass of water and to read the news some…the tendonitis that I normally have just showed up for the first time this year in my right elbow and it hurts like crazy this morning…I wonder if it’s related to having to pull on the brake lever so hard on the bike…and, I’ve had cramps in my right calf the past couple of days, too, but I think that’s from not eating enough so I can try to fix that today…I did have a nice drive back from pool yesterday, which I think I won, with the top down but it was raining on the way out and I didn’t mind it being warm in the car with the top up….the new plugs have made the car run so good I wonder why I didn’t put them in earlier…hmmm….didn’t get anything else done yesterday so I’ll have to do better today…the fridge still needs to be done so I am going to try, for the 5th time, to clean it today…more later….

trump’s not invited…

Well…sitting here waiting for the sun to come up so I can get out on the bike and I just read an article that made this question pop into my head: “How bad of a person do you have to be to have an entire state tell you to stay the hell away?” This is exactly what happened this morning when the Mayor of Pittsburgh told trump in no uncertain terms that he is not welcome at any of the memorial ceremonies for the 11 people murdered by a trump follower over the weekend….and this follows being told to stay away from Barbara Bush’s and John McCain’s funerals, something that has not happened to a *president in the history of this country. Is this telling you something idiot boy? Your bullshit is wearing mighty thin with everyone in this damn country other than the trump zombies that show up at your taxpayer funded “rallies” which are nothing more than proto nazi ego fluffing at it’s worst….so, keep deluding yourself that you’re popular, that you are not the worst, most evil person to walk the face of this country…the mid terms are coming in a week and with any luck you and your bullshit will end….there is still an orange jumpsuit waiting for you when you leave office…and this time, unlike GW Bush, you will pay for your crimes…impeach…

October 29th

Well…as I said yesterday, I’m not going to bitch about how I sleep anymore…so I won’t…okay, one last bitch…was up at 6:01 this morning…is that a bitch? Not sure…I do know that I have been sore as hell the past few days and I am wondering if taking the day off the bike yesterday will help that…I know I could just take some ibuprofen and that takes care of most of it but then what would I have to report here? That everything is sunny and happy and there are rainbows with kittens dancing around them? As you know, that won’t happen…even though I’m pretty happy most of the time…I wonder how people my age get along when they aren’t? Hmmmm….have been draining the battery on my computer to see how long it will last under normal use the past day and, after a day, it still has 74% of the battery left…what that means I’m not sure but I was curious and bored so that gave me something to do…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but watch sports and Man U finally won a game so that was cool…and I probably won’t get much done today with pool this aft…it will be nice to get out of here for a while…more later…

A typical Sunday….

Well…have a half hour before I get to have my one and only cocktail so I thought I’d come here and do one of these while I wait…it was a typical Sunday today but I did clean my oven after I spilled in it cooking lunch…found out the gloves I bought to use for cleaning it are about worthless….they didn’t rip or leak but they must have let the caustic through by osmosis or something because my hands feel like they are burned again just like the last time I cleaned the oven…I think I’ll have to splurge and buy a pair that are much thicker….don’t want to keep peeling the skin off my hands…and it may help to go back to the regular strength cleaner since I never peeled my skin off using it…other than that, it was just the normal sports all day and mostly just vegging and I’m not too guilty about that…a little, but not too much….no more later….

October 28th

Well…forced myself to stay in bed until after 6 this morning just trying to get a little more sleep…if didn’t work but I had to try something…don’t feel too bad this morning even with the crappy sleep so I guess I shouldn’t bitch too much…didn’t get much done yesterday other than cleaning the shower…had to try some new cleaning stuff I got Thursday…yep, that’s my life now…being excited about new, foaming cleaner for my shower…oh, well…I am going to clean my fridge today and maybe even the oven but I might not….it looks like I won’t be on the bike today with rain starting in a few minutes and going most of the day but I may be able to carve out an hour to do a short one…just have to keep watching the radar…there are lots of sports on today that could provide a distraction from the boredom but I’m not sure about watching Man U at noon…they have been really terrible and hard to watch so I may watch the Lions lose instead….more later…

This is on you, trump…

Well…damn trump and his minions all to hell…8 more dead by the hand of a trump follower who murdered spouting the same shit that comes out of trump’s mouth at every one of his “rallies”….and that trump is going to continue to spew at another proto nazi rally he is going to hold tonight…never mind that 8 Americans were just killed today by one of his ardent followers…there is never enough hate for the repubs so he has to added to it every damn day…he has to revel in the hatred and it is the sole reason for his being now…to stir up the right wing terrorists to send bombs to his “enemies”, to kill 8 Jewish Americans, and to kill 2 African Americans…all just this damn week…this terrorism is just a joke to trump and to his enablers that include every damn repub in this country…never in history has a political party become a terrorist cell like this whose only purpose now is to hate and kill it’s enemies…how much is enough, repubs? This is all on trump and the repubs….and I just hate every damn one of them…but that is the difference between us on the left and the modern right…we bitch and protest but violence is abhorrent to us…the right just thinks it’s okay to murder if it gets them the power they crave…assholes, all…impeach…