Well…with ambassador Gordon Sondland going back to congress to “clarify” last weeks testimony and confirming in no uncertain terms that yes, he did tell the Ukraine that they wouldn’t get any military aid unless they issued a statement saying Russia had nothing to do with helping trump in the 2016 election and that they were opening investigations into the Bidens. On top of that, trump and his minions dictated the statement that they wanted Ukraine to say….I think that Sondland saw the transcripts that were released this week of the other people testifying and saw that, crap, he was in big trouble and then used the typical liars dodge that the other testimony jogged his memory and NOW he really remembers…all the while hoping that this “clarification” will keep him out of jail. Now, with this testimony that, yes indeedy, trump and his cronies did try to extort Ukraine to lie and help trump in 2020, this should be enough to end trump but it won’t be with the repubs carrying around their own moveable goalposts…and now saying that a crime isn’t a crime. One thin is certain, that even if they do keep trump from being removed and he serves out his term, he will be prosecuted after he is out of office and, with the evidence that is now public against him, a first year law student could get a conviction and send him away for the rest of his life…can’t wait for that perp walk…and for everyone else from Barr on down who will go to jail too…
Monthly Archives: November 2019
November 5th
Well…running a little late this morning with not getting up until almost 6:30…but that included getting up for the first time before 3 and then getting a new set of ear plugs to use to try to get back to sleep…that only took about an hour and a half so it was another night of 5 hours…ick…I am sore again from wrestling the new gate around yesterday…the dang thing must weigh more than 60 pounds and it is going to take more fitting today…I think I have to trim another inch or so off the width since I made it a little too wide for easy fitting in the hole…and I need to trim the height, too since I need clearance for the uneven ground…going to try to work on that this morning….but, it’s too damn cold out there right now and I haven’t had my coffee…oh, and it’s dark out there, too…I did get the last bike ride in wearing shorts yesterday and now the weather is going to go to hell and be cold for the next three weeks with highs almost 20 degrees below normal for this time of year….I am dreading getting my first heating bill for his place…it could be over 300 bucks a month and that is going to hurt….more later….
Getting close…
Well…yep, running late again today getting the political one out…I wanted to get the work started on the new gate while it was not the freezing temps we are going to see for the next 3 weeks…it was not a good day for the criminal trump when a federal appeals court ruled that Mazars has to give up trump’s tax returns to a grand jury that is investigating trump’s crimes in NY…and, of course, his lawyers have said they will appeal to the SC but with losses in two courts, there is a chance that the SC may just let the appeals court ruling stand and not take the case…but, with beer boy Kavanaugh on the court now, he needs to pay trump back for getting him there and will break any precedent to do it so it appears that they are going to say that trump is above the law as his lawyers have been contending for months now. I think the first thing we need to do when we take back the government in 2020 is to codify in law all of the norms of our society that trump and the repubs have been shredding for three years now…a law an order commission that would pass a law that says that all presidential candidates must release their tax returns…and finally get rid of the DOJ guidance that says a sitting president can’t be indicted…saying that the law apply to everyone at all times and when a crime is committed, indictments come as a matter of course….at least then we wouldn’t be in the situation we are in now with a criminal running the country…
November 4th
Well…running about on time this morning with getting up at 5:15 but that followed the first 3am wake up…feel a little worn out today but that is pretty normal these days…just don’t have a lot of energy today so far and I hope the coffee works soon…it is nice to have the electrics sorted out and have everything back to normal after the repairs I had to make this weekend…I still need to put all the covers back on the electrical boxes but that’s pretty easy…going to get started putting stuff away today starting with the fence stuff outside and start measuring the boards to see how much I need to cut off the bottoms to make the new gate fit that I am going to build…the ground is not flat and I want it to follow it…I am going to get one last warm bike ride in today with the weather getting really cold for the next two weeks…so I need to get out the full thermasuit with it going to be in the 30′s…I am going to get the final 60 miles in outside then I need to make room downstairs for the trainer and the little tv so I can ride the rest of the year…not much to do today…I am going to get the front door masked off so I can paint tomorrow and finish the vestibule and then just putter around here and do more detail work…more later…
Got stuff fixed today…
Well…felt a little like an idiot today when Tom came over to check out the three outlets that stopped working yesterday and found that the problem was that I didn’t reset a breaker that was mislabled…as soon as Tom reset it, all of the outlets worked and I could move the fridge to the side of the the dining room where I wanted it since I did the outlet change right and got the ground fixed so the fridge would run…and, with that fix, I could move the microwave and coffee maker back to the counter where I had them until yesterday and put the table back that I had them sitting on…so, everything is how I wanted it again and I don’t have a fridge sitting in the middle of the kitchen with the extension cord running down the hallway into my bedroom…so, thanks, Tom….
November 3rd
Well….I’m not sure which direction is worse with the time change last night…springing forward or falling back…I do know that I slept all the way til 6 on the clock which is really 5 and, once I realized that, I was quite a bit less happy…I guess we’ll see how I feel later in the day…I do know that I usually do conversions in my head for the first day of the change…so, it’s actually 8:12 as I write this and that is a little weird in itself…I did sleep okay last night with not a lot of tossing so I think I’ll focus on that…feel okay this morning and I think my thumb may be healing some…still hurts but I can use it without wincing so that is progress…I did get out on the bike yesterday and I am only 65 miles from getting to my goal…I do want to do that outside and not on the trainer but the weather is not cooperating….it looks like the trail along the river is going to be underwater in the spring since the river is only 3 feet below it with just the rain we’ve had lately…I wonder how much of the swamp floods with it? That may keep me on the trainer until the water recedes in the spring….not much to do today….after the work the past couple of days, I am going to just fool around and get some detail work done…did the bathroom yesterday and it looks good with all the excess paint and plaster removed….I may work on the vestibule when the Lions are on today since I am tired of looking at the ugly old paint….more later….
Old houses are weird….
Well….after the problems I had with the water heater yesterday…today didn’t start out any better when I had two outlets stop working out of the blue…both in the kitchen but no breaker tripped or anything….so I had to move the microwave and coffee maker from the counter to a table on the other side of the kitchen and still have the new fridge on an extension cord from the only outlet it will work on…but I know which lines they are downstairs so I am going to try to move them to another circuit…but, it is just weird that only those two outlets quit…everything else works just fine so I am at a loss why that would be…..and I’m not going to pay an electrician to figure it out….so, I’ll just splice them into another circuit and and cross my fingers….
November 2nd
Well….cripes…I wonder if my sleep is going to keep moving until I get to the point that I don’t sleep at all…this morning, I was up at 2:36 and that would be 1:36 after the time change tonight…..oh, well…I did have an “interesting” day yesterday…got the new little fridge but it will only work with one outlet so far and that means an extension cord and the thing is not sitting where I want it for now…but, it works great so I’ll work on that later today…then, when I was doing the dishes, I started to run out of hot water so I checked the water heater and the pilot was out with the end of the thermocouple was bad so I had to run out to depot and get another one…only 10 bucks and it was an easy fix…but, that reminded me of the things that can break in a house and I have to fix them all…..it was nice to have ice upstairs this morning so I could get my day started with a big glass of ice water and to have milk for my coffee instead of the dry creamer I have been using for the past week or so….and I have my bagels with cream cheese up here waiting for me in the fridge…need to transfer more food here in a while…the fridge is plenty big enough for almost a weeks worth of food and one cool thing is that you can’t hear it run at all…quietest fridge I’ve ever seen…not much to do today…Man U plays at 8:30 and then I think Michigan plays at noon and I think there is a race on later, too, so I think I may take a day off and just veg and clean some…I do need to get moving on some outdoor stuff and completing the painting in here but I think I have the time….going to start looking at plans for the gate and might just get it built before winter…more later….
Isn’t this bribery?
Well…the stench of desperation is wafting off the orange idiot today with reporting that he is meeting with repub senators and offering to fund their campaigns with lots of cash if they don’t convict him after his impeachment. Now, I’m not a lawyer but with the repubs dodging reporter’s questions about trump’s guilt by saying they are jurors in the impeachment trial and can’t comment…this appears to be more blatant bribery on trump’s part…and I read one commentator, who is a lawyer, say that this is as blatant attempt of felony bribery he has sever seen….and it sure looks like that to me, too. Gee…doesn’t that make every damn repub that takes the money a felon, too? It looks like the idiot trump is continuing to practice his quid pro quos so he gets better at it I guess…since he was so lousy at it with the Ukraine. Look, this just shows you that the repub party is the criminal party that has no business being part of the political life of the US…they do have business with the prison industry and that’s where quite a few of them are going to end up…
November 1st
Well….damn, it’s cold outside…just dragged the trash bin out to the road and that was a chore with how much I have in it…it must weigh 150 pounds with putting the old microwave in it…slept okay last night but it took a sleeping pill to do it and that is always a mistake…feel really crappy and I know that is going to last most of the morning but I just couldn’t do another night of 4 hours of sleep…I did make a run to the downtown post office to get some bills mailed last night and stopped at the bar near me to have one…not one that I’ll repeat in the future…it is as run down of a dump that I remember filled with old guys that could do nothing but bitch that the dems are trying to remove trump in a “coup”….geez…and I wonder what the deal is with the hatred of California? That was the second topic these guys were bitching about and they went on and on about the fires and they hoped they would burn the whole state down…I did get some stuff done yesterday and want to finish up the vestibule painting today…but, I’m not sure if I will…no motivation at all right now and I hope the coffee will help that….more later…