Well…as the idiot boy continues to push to get as many of his cronies installed in the government before he is gone in 6 weeks, Joe needs to come out and make this statement: “Anyone who is considering taking any position offered by trump before his term ends will be fired at 12:01pm on the 20th of January 2021″. I really don’t know why the idiot in chief continues to try to do this….even if Joe doesn’t say it, it is going to happen but the statement would certainly stop the waste of time and money that trump really doesn’t give a damn about….I’ll bet the reason the idiot is still doing this is that it is easy and it makes it look like he is doing something…and that has been his whole life…just looking like he is doing something or taking credit for other people’s work while his lazy ass watches fox news and tweets all day….just frickin go away already….you’ve lost asshole…geez…
Monthly Archives: December 2020
Ham soup for breakfast….
Well…another day of trying to find a topic in politics to write about with very little luck so I think I’ll talk about ham soup instead…I tried the instant pot to make ham soup for the first time this morning to get all the ham bones out of my freezer and I was pleasantly surprised at how it came out…it tastes just like the stuff I used to make in my big stew pot but it only took about an hour total instead of the 4 hours that it takes in the stock pot…and that includes all the veggie chopping…and, of course, I had to try some of it but it was only about 9:30 when I finished it so I guess there was ham soup for breakfast today…a meal that I never eat…I’ll probably never go back to the stock pot now that I have the process down for the instant pot since it is so easy….so now I have 3 containers of ham soup in the freezer again and even room for the leftovers from the pork shoulder I am making in the pot Sunday….more later….
December 4th
Well…it another 4:14 morning…sung to the tune of “Tequila Sunrise” by the Eagles…it does fit…I tried it….but I did go back to semi sleep until 6:30 so I don’t feel too bad this morning…my lungs are a little raw and I’m coughing again but that’s pretty normal for the mornings….the wind wasn’t as bad on the bike yesterday and that made the ride a little better but it was still damn cold and that hung on for hours after I got back here…still feel it this morning,too, even though it’s the normal temp in here…maybe the coffee will warm me up…just got a little cleaning done yesterday but today is going to be a soup making day…going to use up the ham I have in the freezer and use the veggies that I got for t-day that I didn’t use….and do it in the instant pot again since that cuts the time down to an hour or so instead of the 4 hours it takes in my big stew pot…I do have an 8 pound pork shoulder that I have to make Sunday and I think I’ll look for sauce recipes to go with it…and make some pulled pork sandwiches….that should last me a few days and I couldn’t resist at 99 cents a pound….not much to do today…going to start the soup here in a few minutes and then get a bike ride in but I don’t know how much else I’ll do today….they have just issued a warning that no one over 65 should be grocery shopping or be around anyone with the virus going nuts but I’m still going to do it…with precautions it should be okay…I hope….more later….
A bit of a struggle…
Well….amid all of the crap that is going on and all of the changes that have been happening, I’ve had a bit of a struggle lately with losing my long term friendship with T and having so much time alone around here…and that made me wonder, how are other people handling this? I’m pretty good at being by myself and I can adapt readily to changes, but what about the people who can’t? I worry that there is going to be long term psychological damage that won’t surface for years in many people…especially those who are on the front lines of this pandemic…who is going to take care of them when this is over? I read a story this morning about a traveling nurse who showed up at her new job in Arizona and lost 4 patients on the first day…and it didn’t get any better after that…what happens to her? I know people are tough but are they tough enough to handle that? I guess what is happening in this country is weighing on me a bit….and not being able to find a house is stressing me the hell right out…but, we move on…one foot in front of the other…what else can you do?
Still thinking…
Well…as I sit here trying to warm up from the bike ride, I am having trouble coming up with a topic for the day…I could talk about the freak show that happened here in Michigan as rudy brought his traveling roadshow of liars to try to get the certified results of the election nullified with a cast of characters who something, something, ballots, rhinestones, etc. Yep, it was that crazy and one of the witnesses was so nuts she has exploded on the internet with the hashtag drunklady since it did appear that she was…and since there is no evidence of fraud, all they could say was that the vote counting looked fishy and there is no way that idiot boy could lose. I think even the repubs here in Michigan are getting tired of this bullshit and just want it to be over…but that was not even the craziest thing that happened yesterday…you remember Roger Stone, another felon that trump pardoned? Well…he was in the news yesterday when some stupid reporters actually listened to his rantings and reported them….and these really are crazy…he thinks that north Korean boats brought boatloads of ballots into a port in Maine and they were counted and that was why trump lost…how frickin crazy is that? To cap that off, his supposed “proof” came from a q anon website so it just HAS to be true….I am not surprised at all that the repubs have devolved into this…they are really stupid after all…
December 3rd
Well…I learned something yesterday morning…it’s probably not good when your half and half is chunky when you pour it into your coffee…woke up at 5:11 this morning and it was real close to the 500 cubic inch engine that Cadillac put in their Eldorados in the 70′s…but I went back to sleep…kinda…and didn’t get up til almost 7…that didn’t help me feeling pretty slow this morning but I have fresh half and half so I guess that’s something…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t accomplish much…I did finally get the bike washed after running through the mud that they made in the road the other day working on the water mains again….and they still didn’t fix it since I found water bubbling up from one of the caps that cover the shut off valves when I was on the ride and had to report it so thousands of gallons didn’t just run down the storm drain…it will be interesting to see if they fixed it when I ride by there this morning….I couldn’t believe how sore I was in the afternoon after riding yesterday….my hands and wrists hurt like crazy and that was new….but, they are better this morning so I guess I can live with it….well…kind of better…they are still stiff and my triceps have a dull ache that I hope doesn’t get worse…not much to do today…just going to work on the laundry room some more and clean here in the living room…I did dry rub some big pork ribs overnight and can’t wait to see how they turn out for lunch…I normally marinade them but thought I’d try something new this time….more later…
Prophets…
Well…there is not enough money in the world to get me to visit the fever swamps of the right’s “evangelical” movement, but there are a few people over at Kos that perform that service for us…and those folks should get combat pay. Over the past few days there have been posts about the preachers over there that have declared themselves “prophets” before the election…or maybe even before that and to a man, they screamed and screamed that god told them that trump would win the election and there was no doubt that it would happen…and the louder they screamed, the more popular they became and more people believed them….then the election came and idiot boy lost…but did that deter these “prophets”? Nope….they just shifted to “god told me that this is all part of his plan” and just wait until christmas when it will all be revealed and trump will be “anointed” president by god…so keep those checks coming so we can support whatever trump needs…yep, that’s the new grift…that god didn’t want trump to win yet, but he will at christmas. Look, I am going to tell you where this whole prophecy bullshit is going to go…after nothing happens at christmas, they will all say that god told them that he allowed Biden to be elected to reveal that all the dems are baby eating communists and after 4 years he is going to make trump president again…oh, and by the way, keep those checks coming so we can be ready to support trump any way we can….is everyone on the right just a damn grifter whose only job is taking money from the rubes? What the hell happened to these folks to make them such terrible people? Or, were they always terrible and now they are just being exposed? Whatever it is, I can’t wait until they are all gone back to whatever fever swamps they crawled out of….
Just an idea…
Well…I know that in this time of rampant hunger and the looming eviction crisis, to think about science and figuring out a way to fund it is pretty far down on any list until we get this country back up and running again…but, I had a thought today after the sad news that the rest of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico collapsed over the weekend and took the support towers down with it….so, there is nothing left but a pile of aluminum panels and cables that used to support the science instruments…and that thought is to fund a replacement by selling off the damaged panels in 6inch by 6inch pieces for 20 bucks each…I would buy one of those and turn it into a display to sit in my living room…and since you could get almost half a million or more of them out of a dish that size, that would give you seed money of 10 million dollars to start to replace it and when it was done, you could point to the new one and know you had a part in furthering science in the world. There are times when we need a distraction from what is happening in the world and when we can find something that makes us smile and forget for just a few minutes, we need to allow ourselves to do it…and not feel guilty about it.
More on the grift…
Well….as we all know, the entire 4 years of the trump “administration” has just been one big grift to line the pockets of trump and his cronies…and that is the reason that he continues to shout “voter fraud” even with his toady Barr coming out yesterday to say that the justice department has not seen any fraud that would change the outcome of the election….he needs the cash that he continues to beg for and that his deplorables continue to send him to the tune of 175 million dollars and counting. This money, that is supposed to be used to litigate the “voter fraud”, is going straight to a trump controlled super pac that you know he is going to use to finance his lifestyle and will probably use to pay off the 400 million dollars in personally guaranteed loans that are coming due in the next two years. The latest money making scheme that the criminal trump has come up with is to sell presidential pardons for contributions to this same super pac…the Washington Post reported that there is an FBI investigation going on right now and some court papers were released that show the depth of the investigation…it is heavily redacted so you don’t see who the parties involved are, but I’m sure this is just the first in another criminal conspiracy that idiot boy is at the center of…and trump is the only one who could issue a presidential pardon and we all know he spends his days trying to monetize the presidency and still believes he is above the law…but only for now…the AG of NY is just sitting there waiting with indictments that will be filed on the 20th of January at 12:01 pm….it is going to be a glorious perp walk when the entire trump crime family ends up in jail….
December 2nd
Well…not going to do the engine size comment this morning since I don’t think there was ever a 6:19….maybe in a truck…slept okay last night but I’m back to coughing again and my head is stuffed up and that is pretty damn annoying…but I’m not too sore even after the ride into the high winds yesterday but that will come tomorrow especially after going out in the wind again today…I do need to continue to clean today but that is going to wait until after I do the grocery run this morning….might make ham soup today since I have lots of ham bones in the freezer and need to get rid of some of them before I buy another ham for the holidays…but I may wait until the weekend to try to spread out the work and help with the boredom…at least Man U plays this afternoon so that will take up a couple of hours….and there is an early game, too, so that might make three hours….not much to do today…need to hit three grocery stores on the run today since I want to check out DD for vegetable egg rolls that they have on sale for 3 pound for 3 bucks…and then just the normal aldis and Meijers stops for the rest of it….more later…