Well…damn, I hate 2020…and even more with the news that Sean Connery died last night at his home in the Bahamas at 90…he was another actor that spanned much of my life and I enjoyed every performance of his that I saw, from the Bond movies through the later ones like the Hunt for Red October and the Indiana Jones Movie to many more…cripes I was only 9 when the first Bond movie came out…and I always found it funny that as a Scottish actor, he had to do a British accent for many of his films….but, I’m weird that way…I do know that he will be missed by Scotland and the rest of the world…RIP, Sean…
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Countdown…3 days til the election..
Well…yeah, I’m sure you noticed that I skipped day 4 until the election…I decided to stop counting election day itself so that makes it three days…and I’m writing it so I can change if I want…if you’ve been here on the weekends, you’ll know that I usually slack off some with the political ones on the weekends but with the election so close, I thought I’d try some discipline and make sure I do one…so, here goes…after the past four years of stress every damn day with waking up to some new outrage that the orange asshole has foisted on the US and the world, it has gotten considerably worse over the past month or so and I think my stress o meter is pegged at 11…it sure feels like my body is reacting to the news with ever greater nervousness as I see the repubs abandon democracy to try to cheat in the election with their willing enablers on the SC and other courts across the country….I remember when when there was a repub party that was somewhat honest and listened to the will of the people….or at least they didn’t cheat so openly or so widely…but now it appears to be all cheat, all the time across the entire country since they know that 70% of the country don’t want the policies they are selling…and that includes repubs who think that every vote should be counted no matter how long it takes…I mean how does counting mail in ballots a few days after the election proper in accordance with state law make them invalid? But that is the attack that they are going to make…and since some states, like Michigan, can’t start to count the votes until election day (another repub law that is designed to allow some votes to not be counted) we may not have the entire count done until a few days after the election with the huge increase in mail voting due to the pandemic. It is so disheartening to have one of our major political parties abandon democracy to try to protect their power and abandon the principle of “one person, one vote” that has been the bedrock of our country…okay, yeah…that sounds naive and I know that the history of the country is spotty at best giving everyone qualified the vote…but, isn’t it an ideal to aspire to? This is going to be a tough three days….
October 31st
Well…I’m getting tired of talking about my bad sleep so I’m not going mention it this morning…I will mention that I am frustrated with the cough being bad again with only spending an hour working downstairs yesterday…I am getting to the point that I am going to just tear out what is left of the downstairs project and fold it….there really isn’t any point of keeping it going and I am just damn tired of the coughing….got a few things done yesterday with finishing the prep work for the last painting project but I think I’ll wait til Monday to do that…just not feeling it right now and F1 qualifying is on in a bit and I do want to see that…and it is damn cold out side so the ride will have to wait until the aft but Michigan and Michigan State is on at noon so that will push me back til almost 3…I don’t think it will be warm enough before then anyway…didn’t get out yesterday with the cold and wind and I am finally okay with taking some days off since I will be able to do doubles next week with the last of the good weather coming and I may even be able to get out in shorts a couple of those days….not much to do today…just coffee, coffee, coffee and some sports until I get motivated to get my day started…and a half cup of coffee just doesn’t do it….more later…
Every dem should be asking this question…
Well…I think I’ve decided to take the day of riding today with the cold and wind so to keep the guilts at bay, I decided I’d do another one of these since this just popped into my head…why aren’t the dems asking the age old presidential campaign question: “Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?” We all know the answer to that one…NO! I’m sure the 250,000 dead from the virus would agreee…I’m sure the 8 million plus who have contracted the virus would agree…and I’m sure the 30 million people out of work (including the 1.1 million out of work in just the past week) would agree…along with the hundreds of thousands of business owners who have gone bankrupt or closed…and every damn dem should be asking that at every campaign stop, every press conference, and every debate. And the bullshit shouting by the idiot trump about the strongest growth ever in the economy needs to be met with…that may be true but we are still well below the economic activity that was given to him by Obama….and all idiot boy did was screw it up….so dems, if you are listening, ask the damn question and the watch the faces of the repub idiots as they try to lie their way out of answering…
Countdown…5 days til the election…
Well…there is quite a lull in polling right now so there is no movement to talk about but there is one thing that I do want to talk about and that is turnout. News reports from across the country are reporting record after record turnout…in Texas, they have already passed the entire turnout of the 2016 election with one day of early voting to go and election day to add…and this is being repeated in Georgia, NC, and other states including here in Michigan. But, what does this mean? There are some good results for the good guys with a million people voting in Texas that have never voted before (much of them the under 30 crowd) but there is no way to tell which way they will break in total…I think the other side is almost as motivated as ours and that is seen in Florida where we are only up by 2% in early voting and that has come down from almost 25% up….one thing that I see as important is the young, democratic county clerks in some locales who are being very creative in getting around the repub restrictions on voting as in Texas where their repub governor limited ballot drop boxes to one per county, even in counties with 5 million people in it…so Chris Hollins the country clerk opened 100 early voting locations, kept some of them open 24 hours a day for shift workers, and even instituted drive in voting for people who were concerned about voting in person…and this has led to an explosion in people voting who just couldn’t swing it with the restrictions that the repubs had in place. So, should we be optimistic that this explosion is going to help our side? Cautiously, probably…that is how I’m looking at it with the hope in the back of my mind that there is a landslide in the making for our side…and that we can finally drive a stake through the heart of the repub party…after all, and I’ve said this before…we outnumber them…and if we vote, we win….keep it up folks…vote!
October 30th
Well…that was weird…slept okay last night and didn’t get up til 5:44…and had dreams of a thousand foot tall hollow tree that was in danger of blowing over in the wind along with the old Aquinas dream that I was missing classes and couldn’t figure out how to get to them…and I haven’t had that one in quite a while…weird….so, I don’t feel too bad this morning… a little worn out but that’s to be expected after only a few hours sleep for months…and doing only one ride a day now is leaving my legs without any pain or stiffness and that is welcome after hobbling around here all summer…I did get the gardens taken out yesterday and now I just need to chop up the plants and bag them so I can put them out to the trash next week…I think I’ll try to seed the one in the yard but I need to fill it in first but I don’t know if I have enough dirt behind the garage for that…it’s going to be in the 50′s all next week so I’ll have plenty of time to do that and do the final cleanup of the lawn before winter…I am going to get on the prep for the final painting today so I can paint over the weekend…or maybe next week…I am going to need something to do on election day since I won’t be doing any news until the 4th….way too nervous about the outcome….more later….
Countdown…5 days to the election…
Well…a few good, high quality polls for Joe today that put him up by 6 in Florida and that means that he has an 89% chance of winning the EC according to 538, and a 95% chance of winning according to the Economist…if trump loses Florida the game is over and we should know that late on the third or the early hours of the 4th…and crucially, Joe is over 50% and that leaves only the undecideds that trump could get and he would need to get all of them to even get close…okay, I know we on the side of good have a habit of seeing the worst and remembering 2016 when Hillary was ahead (but by about 2/3rds less than Biden is now) and got almost 3 million more votes but still lost…so we need to keep working up to the night of the 3rd and then be ready to take to the streets if idiot boy and his minions try to steal the election…but, let’s also take a breath and think about all the work that has been done so far…have a drink, and get ready for the pull all the way to Tuesday…we are saving this country and that is damn hard work. Think of how good it is going to feel when we kick trump and his cronies to the curb…I have the cocktails ready…
The dog ate my homework…
Well….with the “wet laptop” smear of Joe Biden that was found out to be Russian disinformation that was given to the idiot Rudy Guiliani to push falling flat because it was just so ridiculous…we now have the moron Tucker Carlson going on his show last night to say that he had a “huge” packet of information that would destroy Joe and “prove” that he was a crook…but, here’s the catch…he then said that the packet had “disappeared” during transit from one of the “major” carriers that deliver packages…yeah right, just like the dog ate my homework dodge that every kid has used when he didn’t do his homework…look, Tucker, I have one question to ask: “what’s the tracking number from the package?” Every one of the “major” carriers routinely e-mails a tracking number when a package is on the way…even the USPS has started to do that so you can tell when the package will arrive and where it is in transit…and my second question goes to his assertion that there is no electronic copy of the information anywhere…yeah, Tucker we are not in the 80″s anymore…everything has an electronic record…where is it? I f this “information” is so important, there has to be an electronic copy of it somewhere…so, where is it? Look, we all know that tucker is a liar…he even got a court case thrown out by a judge BECAUSE he is a liar and the judge said you couldn’t trust anything he says…so, another try at smearing Joe crashes and burns…I wonder when these morons are going to realize that you can’t smear an honest man? They are so used to dealing with people on their side who are liars and cheats so they think everyone does it…but not Joe…tick tock….your time is coming to and end…
October 29th
Well….damn, running late again today and it is because I’m trying something new with my sleep…instead of just getting up when I wake up at o’dark thirty, I’m trying to stay in bed and see if sleep will come back…and I need it to since the sleep deficit has gotten so bad that I’m exhausted all day…it worked today with waking up at 4:30 but I forced myself to stay in bed and didn’t get up til 6:30…some of that time was even sleeping so I got over the 5 hour mark last night…hope that helps today…..I did get a bunch of stuff done yesterday after the grocery run and it makes me feel good that I have grown a nice lawn here for when my son takes over…and I got to use my new waterproof slip ons and they are pretty darn comfortable and warm so worth the 15 bucks I spent…and I got a ride in, too, and that made me feel better some….and it looks like I’ll get out today but later in the morning…I do want to get the first garden cleared out this morning and get the glass put back in the storm door on the front of the house along with more prep work to get the final painting done…it looks like the weather is going to get better next week with highs in the 50′s and it would be cool if I could get out on the bike in shorts a few more times….but, I understand that it is coming on to November and that means cold is on the way…I am getting used to it already so maybe it won’t be so bad this year….more later…
Countdown…6 days til the election…
Well…with the election coming up fast, I thought I’d do a countdown post every day until then to talk about what I see happening and what the state of the race is. So, here goes…in the overall, it appears that Joe has a pretty good chance to win with being up around 10% nationally but, as every pollster says, it not the national polls that mean anything but the state polls that are the important ones….so, if we look at the state polls for the swing states that idiot boy won by 77,000 votes in 2016, Joe is up by 7 in Pennsylvania, up by 9 here in Michigan, by 9 in Minnesota, and by double digits in Wisconsin….so what does that mean? It means that I would much rather be our side than the repubs…especially since the Cook political report just moved Texas from lean r to tossup…and that means that Joe has a 50-50 chance to win Texas…I’m not sure I really believe that yet but there have been a few good polls for Joe lately that puts him up by 3-4% so maybe…and if Joe wins Texas, it’s all over for trump. Even Florida has started to turn for Joe in the latest polls that have him ahead by maybe 2% there….so there are many paths to get to 270ev for Joe but as the days go by and we get closer to the election, the doors appears to be shutting on idiot boy…can we breathe a little yet? I think so, but damn it…get out to vote to make sure we are smiling on the 4th…I can’t go through another night like 2016….