Well….how about we dispense with politics for a minute and talk about something else that is really important to the people of Michigan? Yesterday, governor Whitmer revoked the easement for Enbridge’s line 5 oil pipeline that runs under the Straits of Mackinac and that means that it must be shut down in 180 days…and that is good news for us here since the majority of our drinking water comes from Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and any oil spill in the straits would pollute both lakes and crash our economy. A couple of years ago, we came so close to that spill when a barge dragged it’s anchor across the dual pipelines and it was only by luck that the lines were only dented and not ruptured but how much luck can we count on with pipelines that were installed the year I was born…and I’m really old? Now Embridge has proposed digging a tunnel lined with concrete to put the lines in but why? It’s the reason why there is no offshore oil drilling allowed in the Great Lakes…that any spill would cause damage that the lakes may never recover from and the economic disruption would be catastrophic to the people of Michigan…and all so an oil company who is responsible for the worst oil spill in Michigan history can continue to rake in profits while they put the state at risk? I applaud Governor Whitmer’s tough stance to protect the environment and the people of Michigan…and now we have a dem controlled supreme court that will follow the law and protect Michigan from business that doesn’t give a damn about anything but profit…
Monthly Archives: November 2020
November 14th
Well….that was a little better…didn’t wake up til 5:34 and was able to get back to sleep for about an hour so I’ll take it after yesterday…and I don’t feel too bad right now…felt just exhausted yesterday afternoon and I still haven’t figured that out yet and I hope that doesn’t happen again today…I did get out for a 20 miler yesterday and had a weird thing happen when the fronts of my thighs hurt like crazy for the last 6 miles and that never happens….it was cold enough to go out in almost full thermasuit and was pretty damn cold when I got back here that lasted most of the afternoon….I think I still haven’t shifted to be used to the cold yet and I hope it happens soon…didn’t get out to shoot pool with some concerns about covid and that was the smart thing to do but it would be nice to have a few things get back to normal…I guess that won’t happen until there is a vaccine available….didn’t get much done yesterday but put the trash out and that got rid of all of the garden refuse so the cleanup on the yard is complete…I may rake some more of the leaves in the back yard after the rest of them are down but those will just be composted behind the garage….not much to do today…going to just wait out the weather and let it warm up before I even think about getting out and watch some football later….more later…
Rats, meet sinking ship…
Well…with no pool shooting today due to covid concerns, I though I’d come here and do a short one on more rats deserting the sinking ship of trump…just over the past two days, two law firms that were working on the trump delusion that he could overturn the legal results of the election have quit…in both PA and Arizona, two different firms have asked to allowed to withdraw from any further legal action on the part of trump as he flails around and just won’t accept that he lost by the largest amount of votes in history…and part of the reason for these withdrawals is the public shaming of these companies by a lot of organizations the shone a light on their anti American activities and made sure their other clients knew what they were doing…I wonder who trump will get now? Barry the ambulance chaser? Or I wonder if he will get Rudy to do it? Whoever they find, the new firms will be worse than the ones that just quit and those firms were 0-15 so I really don’t think this is going anywhere…and you know I think it’s just a grift anyway…a way to squeeze a few more dollars out of the rubes…I wonder how many rats there still are on the trumptanic?
November 13th
Well…that just sucked…up at 3:34 and then had the hardest time getting back to sleep…think it took til almost 5 but I guess I slept until almost 6:30 but that is just not enough…oh, well…slept on my right thumb that has arthritis in it and woke up with howling pain in it that did go away for the most part….it is going to hurt playing pool later…and that is cool…I am going out to play pool this morning and it will be the first time in months I’ve been out of here for something other than groceries or supplies to work on this house…and it looks like another lockdown is coming with the virus exploding here in Michigan and across the country…I guess that what we get when a lazy moron gets elected…okay, no politics here…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday and did almost 20 miles but I won’t get out today with it raining right now and I never go out after having a couple shooting pool so I’ll have to wait til tomorrow…I am really trying to not feel guilty about not getting out after getting to my goals and with the pain I’ve been in lately….my legs just need some rest…but that means I’m back to eating only one meal a day to compensate for less riding…not much to do today…pool at 10 and then I think I’ll take the rest of the day off and just take it easy…I can use a day off….more later…
Here’s the reason…
Well…there has been massive speculation on why the idiot trump has knee capped every head of the military and the IC since he lost the election last week…but there really isn’t any need to speculate…it’s clear that this is just another tactic to cover up his incompetence and wrongdoing and to hit back at critics and try to prove that Russia didn’t help him in 2016. The people he replaced, the sec def and others, were mildly competent and had shown that they would buck him in certain instances…as Esper did when he resisted putting troops in the streets to attack peaceful protesters in DC…and I’m sure they would have resisted the wholesale destruction of records that trump is counting on his new toadies to carry out before Jan 20th…you only have to look back at the entirety of idiot boy’s term where they wouldn’t even provide any information even under subpoena since they knew it would reveal lawbreaking across trump’s entire administration…so those records have to go even though that would be breaking even more laws…which I don’t get since once Joe takes over, all of this criminality will be exposed and these new toadies will be exposed to jail time. So, a coup? Nope, just trump covering his ass while he still can…
November 12th
Well…that was another night of okay sleep but I wonder when I’m going to start feeling better from it…still feel so damn worn out even without riding yesterday that I’m beginning to think I may be getting old…that can’t be it…had some strange dreams again and that is one bright spot of sleeping a little better and this one had all people I didn’t know and lots of pizza in it…and I was going on a group ride that I never do…strange….I wonder if I should order pizza? I did get some cleaning done yesterday and should do the kitchen today and I just might since it is only 29 outside and that is means I’ll have to wait to get on the bike until this afternoon….just don’t want to do full thermasuit just yet but I guess I’m going to have to sometime…after all, I did put jeans on the last time it was cold and I usually wait to do that until t-day….I think it was a good thing to take a day off riding…my right knee was starting to get sore and I am having pain in my foot that isn’t the gout coming back so maybe I need to take it a little easier…not much to do today…just cleaning and looking for houses…I did see a nice one in Hastings for only 118K that doesn’t even need any work and I may just take a run down there and take a look at it…I am a little limited of how far out I can go since I do need cable internet…I should have something picked out by the end of the month…I hope…more later
Some good news…
Well….I talked about a little disappointment I had yesterday when I was going out for the top down park run yesterday when the stereo in the car wouldn’t play my mp3 player through it…I tried a bunch of other cables and none of them worked so I assumed the unit was at fault…but, I wanted to make sure so I hit the dollar store this morning to get another one on the way back from aldi’s…just tried it and it works again…so I guess all the cables I have are shot….that is pretty cool and is one less thing I have to think about….a bit of good news…
The idiot continues to lose…
Well…this whole not riding thing has freed up way too much time for me so I thought I’d come here and do another one of these while I finish up my last cup of coffee…the idiot boy must just be fuming with going 0-12 in lawsuits to try to overturn the election…but he just keeps filing them…I wonder what the final count will be? Just this morning, he got a bit more bad news on two fronts…the international organization that idiot boy invited in to “watch” the election put out a statement saying they saw absolutely no fraud of any kind in the states they were observing…and then they put out a statement that he should stop lying about it since it undermines the public’s faith in our electoral process…ouch. Then he has the NYT this morning with the front page headline: “Election officials nationwide find no fraud”…that one must sting, too, but will it stop his lying crap? Notp…as I said yesterday, he needs to keep his cult whipped up so they will continue to give him money since his campaign is broke. While all this is going on, the rest of the country knows that Joe won the election with a poll from yesterday saying that 80% of Americans agree that he won…so we are going to move inexorably toward the inauguration and trump is going to be gone on the 20th of January no matter what he does….and he is hiding in his bunker right now…not being seen in public for 5 days…tick tock, asshole…
November 11th
Well…that was weird…slept through the night for the second day in a row and I can’t remember when that happened the last time….and I’m barely coughing now so maybe I’m feeling better…still feel a little slow and low energy right now but that is probably from not eating enough…or from too much riding so I think I’ll take the day off with getting to my last goal for the year yesterday…I do still have that damn headache I’ve had off and on for a month but I know it’s from allergies and I hope I can get some more meds this morning when I do the grocery run….it is a little strange that we had a storm last night and the power didn’t go out….was sitting here waiting for it and dreading the fact that it was going to get cold and I would need the heat to work…it is only 39 out there right now and that is a huge change from 64 yesterday…I’m going to have to get used to the cold all over again I guess….didn’t get much done yesterday but I got most everything done the day before so I didn’t have much to do…I do have to clean today but I really want to just take a day off after I do the grocery run…and I just might….it would be nice to just veg for a while and let my body heal up some….more later….
It’s just another grift…
Well….if you look closely at the “voter fraud” bleating of the repubs that are going on since the idiot boy lost the election you can see that even if they won all of the lawsuits and had those ballots thrown out they would still be behind and won’t have won the election. So, what would be the reason they are doing it other than they just hate democracy and are looking for any way to stab at it? You just have to look at the 200 fundraising e-mails that have gone out since this bullshit started…look, idiot boy’s campaign is broke and there is no way they are going to pay the 3 million dollars to get a recount in Wisconsin or any other state….but what they can do is squeeze more cash out of the rubes so trump can leave office with 20 million bucks and then set up rallies to keep the grift going…and that’s what he wants anyway…to still be able to to do the rallies and work up the idiots who follow him but not have to do any real work…it’s not like he does any now but after he is out of office, all he will have to do is show up, rant a little, and cash the checks…which is right up his alley…so it’s all a grift and he is going to use this chaos to make money…after all, he is going to need it with 400 million in personal loans coming due next year….