Well…just a shorty on something that just came across the news…as expected, the first of the murderers who was identified as one of the Saudis that tortured and murdered Jamal Khashoggi has died in a “car accident” back in Saudi Arabia….let’s make sure that we understand the connection to the leadership of Saudi Arabia that Mashal al-Bostani had…he was a member of the Saudi Royal Air Force and was one of the 15 suspects that Turkey identified who landed in Istanbul the day that Khashoggi disappeared…and the Saudi, Istanbul consul was recorded telling the 15 men “do it somewhere else or I will be in trouble”…and one of the men replied “shut up if you want to live when you are back in Saudi Arabia”….if you understand the structure of the Saudi government, you will clearly see that nothing happens on this scale without the blessing of the very top of the government…and that is Mohammed bin Salman…the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and the “reformer” who Kushner gave classified intelligence to so he could arrest and kill his enemies….trump has made this country complicit in murder just to protect his personal financial interests and keep the flow of Saudi money coming in….impeach…
Monthly Archives: October 2018
Is THIS high crimes and misdemeanors?
Well…how much damn evidence does this congress need that the idiot trump should be impeached and removed from office? Is helping Saudi Arabia cover up a murder of a journalist enough? That is exactly what has happened over the past week with the Saudis torturing and murdering Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Turkey while the Saudi ambassador looked on…and then we had trump spouting the Saudi line that “rogue elements” were responsible for the murder when he knew ahead of time that the Saudis were going to kill him and probably even cheered them on since he has pronounced his hatred for reporters and the media in general. Now, is this frickin enough for you, repubs? We know from all of the evidence that trump is a criminal and runs criminal enterprises that the repubs are ignoring daily….but, to condone him covering up murder? With everything else the repubs have done to destroy our democracy, this is just the damn worst…the “law and order” party is now the party of murder when it fits their goals….and their base will just shrug and say there is nothing that can be done about it…there will come a time of reckoning…and it’s only three weeks away…impeach….
October 18th
Well…back to running at the normal time for a Thursday but I guess I could have come here earlier with getting up at 5:45….but, I didn’t feel like it so normal will have to do….slept a little better last night and feel okay this morning but I had to warm the car up to get the frost off of the windows for the first time since March and that is a little depressing…but, I know that the seasons change here in Michigan and that is part of why I still live here when I could move anywhere I want….I did get a bike ride in yesterday and finally was smart enough to use the heavy gloves and that made all the difference….not cold at all….but, I think I’ll wait to go out until later today and maybe be able to go out int shorts for the last time…and I need to wash the car today to get it ready for winter with a full cleaning and doing the interior and windows….need to get them treated with rain x…for some reason, I got motivated to clean the bathroom yesterday when I had it planned for today but I’ll take it…that means I can clean the kitchen today after the car…have been freaking out about salt lately since I can’t get my BP down far enough and thought I was doing okay with my intake but I was really, really wrong….I mean, 686 milligrams for 50 calories of sliced ham? That is almost 1/2 of what is allowed if you want to not affect your BP…and I thought I was doing so good with processed foods…just another thing that I can’t eat anymore…more later…
First problem with Medicare…
Well…I probably should have anticipated that there would be problems with Medicare but I didn’t think they would start so soon….just today, I got a notice from Medicare that they were not going to cover my “welcome to Medicare” appointment with my new doctor and that I was on the hook for 318 dollars…then the fun started…called Medicare and they said that it was just a coding error and to talk to the billing department of Spectrum to get it fixed…but, they were less than no help saying that because my doctor took my blood pressure and then talked to me about it, the appointment was not covered…well…that put me off on a rant that I am not proud of…I mean, why don’t they tell you that one sentence from your doctor is going to cost you 318 bucks? If you’ve been here before, you know me and that just wasn’t going to stand without me doing something about it…so, of course I couldn’t get through to the doctor’s office on the phone, and the only course of action was to get in the car and drive the 2 miles to the office and talk to them in person…well…I just happened to get a woman at the desk that knows what is going on and she thinks she can fix it…at least she is going to try and get the bill re-submitted and paid…and that was a pretty big surprise…but a good one and now I’m just going to wait and see…
October 17th
Well…damn…up at 5:09 this morning and had another really bad night of sleep so I’m here pretty early, too…not sure what’s going on but I know I am going to have a nap later and the prospect of that is not a bad thing…the ibuprofen worked for the bike ride yesterday and it was a good day out…but, today looks like it may be a day off with the rain showers coming in later and the temp supposed to be dropping all day down to around 40 for a high…but, tomorrow looks better so it will be a clean the car day to get it ready for the winter with waxing it and treating the windows with rain x….I do have some errands to run this morning and that will make it easier to wait to try to get on the bike….I need batteries and a bunch of other stuff from HF and then have to get some chicken from Aldi’s…need to freeze the second pack of ham I bought from my cheap store to get my salt level down…way too much in it even though I like it…not much to do today…going to clean some more after I get back here since I feel good about the progress from yesterday…it looks like I’m going to have to warm the car up tomorrow for the grocery run…will be frost on the car and I refuse to get the scraper out this early…more later….
It’s been a day…
Well… Had to sign a new lease today and I’m not sure how I feel about that…it means I’ve failed at finding a house on my timetable but it has also reduced the stress I was feeling of not getting that done…and, I could do it online so it was quite easy….at least I still have a place to live for now…oh, and I found out that this place is now reporting rent payments to credit reporting companies so I’ll finally get credit for paying my rent on time for a change…and that should raise my credit score and lower my interest rate when I find a house….I did get some other stuff done today and that made me feel a little better….mostly just some cleaning but that is something…and I found a catalog from Harbor Freight that had some coupons in it for stuff I need so I’m going there tomorrow and just look around…that’s always a trip….okay, it’s time to wind it down for the day and watch a little tv….oh, and it appears that I have fixed the top on the car…no leaks after the rain yesterday so I guess that’s another something….
The Saudis are now murdering for trump?
Well…I just can’t fathom how breathtakingly stupid and naive the idiot trump is…and he showed how far out of his depth he is over the weekend as the Saudis tortured and murdered the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in their consulate in Turkey…the idiot boy made the whole thing possible while Khashoggi was still alive but being held by saying that the most important thing to him were the “jobs” at defense contractors that would go away if the US were to impose sanctions for the kidnapping…essentially giving the Saudis the green light to do what they wanted to Khashoggi since there would be no penalty for it….and, since Khashoggi was anti trump and trump has, over and over, said that journalists who oppose him should be “weeded out”…the Saudis took it as doing trump a favor by killing Khashoggi…now, idiot boy has sent SoS Mike Pompeo to talk to the Saudis about the killing and the photo ops are just as bad as you can imagine…Pompeo sitting next to the Saudi king laughing and grinning like and idiot while a resident of America was murdered…can you imagine if Hillary had done that? Impeachment for both Hillary and Obama would have happened before they got back to the US…and yet, the repubs in congress keep going along with this farce…and they all have Khasoggi’s blood on their hands, too…impeach…
October 16th
Well…it’s almost 7 so that means I’m about on time today…have been up since before 6 and that is too damn early…oh, well…and I am sore from the ride yesterday…have been creaking around here this morning and if this is what it’s like feeling old, I don’t like it…it was pretty brutal out there yesterday with it being cold, wet, and windy and I just about froze my hands…they hurt like crazy as they were thawing and they still feel like there was some damage done…will get out the heavy gloves for the ride today even though it will look weird…didn’t get out for pool yesterday so I didn’t win or lose but I did get out to my daily deals store for some cheap food….I mean who can pass up honey ham for 1.49 a pound and two pounds of coffee for 3.99? Need to get out to Harbor Freight this morning for some batteries and some gloves that I should have bought long ago to clean the oven…my hands appear to have healed after peeling a couple of layers of skin off from the oven cleaner…they are still really shiny, though so maybe they need a little more time….not much to do today…need to clean some and the normal stuff…and there is some soccer on this aft…finally…so I won’t be too bored…more later….
trump really is a toddler…
Well…not sure if you saw the debacle of an interview that the idiot trump did on “60 Minutes” last night but if you didn’t, wow…just wow. It is now clearer than ever that trump has the mentality and emotional maturity of a toddler…and showed for all to see that he has no grasp of the world or reality….and that should scare the hell out of everybody and drive those of us in the sanity based world to get out to vote in three weeks to make sure there is a check on his insanity….the thing that shocked me the most was his toddler like assertions that…na na na na na…I won the election so whatever I do is okay…I can mock Dr. Ford, I can call people names, and I can ignore all of the norms of this country as I have my whole life because I won…and did I say that I won? Look, when my kids were growing up, they knew more about the world than trump does at about age 5 and they were much more articulate, too…so, we need to get into damage control mode for the next three weeks and still try to take the senate, too…I know it’s not looking good but it can if we just get off our asses and vote, good things can still happen…impeach…
October 15th
Well…slept all the way in til 6 this morning and don’t feel any better for it…I am still sleeping better than I have in a while so I guess that’s something and I shouldn’t bitch too much…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get anything done but watch races and today will be the same with pool this aft…I did get the top on the car repaired and I can’t wait to see if I guessed right with the rain last night and this morning…as I think back, it dawned on me that it’s been leaking all summer since there was always water on the drivers side every time I put the top up after a top down run…so we’ll see today if I can put the top down on the way out to pool…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but I’m not sure about today…there is a lot of rain out there right now but it appears to be moving off pretty fast so I may be able to go out around ten or so….not much to do today….other than pool that is…I could clean some while I wait out the rain but I’m not too motivated so we’ll see…more later..