More calls for violence…

Well…the repub party has turned into a thug mob whose only purpose is to promote violence and lies. In just the past couple of days, we have the repub county executive candidate from Pennsylvania saying the he will take “20 strong men” and go to any school board that mandates masks to protect children and forcibly remove them if they won’t resign…oh, and this guys name is Steve Lynch and I have a little info for him….doing what he says he is going to do would involve multiple felonies and would open him up to federal charges for interfering with an elected official along with civil suits from those he tried to intimidate…so this blowhard would spend the rest of his life in jail and would be broke if he ever got out…but this leads right into the other repub insurrectionist, Madison Cawthorn who persists in calling the criminals who attacked the capitol on Jan 6 “political prisoners” and told a group of his thug supporters that he is working on “busting out” these criminals and that if they are not released “blood will flow” and his supporters cheered at the threat of violence…I have had enough of these thugs lying about January 6th and the “stolen” election….and the overt threats of violence should land them in jail or at least result in sanctions from repub “leadership”…but it won’t and that’s the problem…just like the noisemakers out here, there are no consequences to their criminal actions so they just keep escalating with people ending up dead….and Jan 6th will happen again….geez…

August 31st

Well…running a little late today with not getting out of bed until a little after 7 but I don’t feel like I slept well at all…but, that’s pretty normal and I guess I’ll just have to live with it….don’t hurt much today…so far…and that is even with getting two rides in yesterday but I’m not sure if I’ll do that again today….have to mow the lawn this morning and get at watering again….might go to the beach today since time for that is running out with September coming…I do remember going out to swim in October a few years back when it was in the mid 80′s and I will do that again if it stays that warm…I did get to running the string trimmer yesterday and did the whole yard along with doing the weed walk and took out the bean plants and the cukes that had stopped producing so I’m down to one cuke left to turn into pickles…I am going to make some lasagna this week along with a taco casserole to try to change up my diet a bit…getting so damn tired of chicken and tomatoes and need to branch out some and that will be easy to make and to re-heat….going to make the last handful of beans today with some leftover chicken breast and I think I need to pick the last of the green peppers and I may use them in the lasagna…..not much to do today…just the bike ride and the lawn and maybe the door frame on the garage but that will be about it….just tired right now and the coffee isn’t helping….more later…

Now a judge is forcing horse wormer…

Well…man, these right wing idiots are a plague on this country and that goes for the judges that have been installed by the idiot trump. Just today, one of those right wing judges in a blood red part of Ohio ruled that a hospital has to treat a covid patient with horse worming medication since that is what he wants….it doesn’t matter that the medication does nothing against covid and can do some real harm to human beings, the patient wants it and that’s all the judge thinks matters…so now a judge can order any treatment he thinks is necessary or that the plaintiff wants…so I wonder when someone is going to go to this judge with a lawsuit saying he needs to be treated with heroin and the judge will force a doctor to do it? This judge should be disbarred for a ruling like this…one that is rife with ignorance and conspiracy theories and should be removed from the bench…judges are not doctors and need to stay out of medicine…geez…

August 29th

Well…running late this morning with not getting up until after 7…and I ran the ac unit all night so I wasn’t soaked in sweat and that was nice…but, it was just as cool out here when I got up so I guess I could have just left the place open all night…hmmm…my darn elbow starting hurting again out of nowhere last night and I know I didn’t do anything to tweak it so that is a little confusing….didn’t even do two rides yesterday so I’m not sure what is going on….I did order everything I need to fix the old bike yesterday and it cost me around 75 bucks but that’s not a bad deal since these bikes are now almost 500 bucks with the cost increases over the past year…had to buy a crank removal tool and a chain tool that are about 25 bucks so when I do the new bike, it will only be about 50 bucks…the next thing I need to figure out is how to replace the swingarm bushings when they wear out…but that is what the old bike is for….I need to change up my diet soon since I am getting bored with all of the chicken and tomatoes….thinking of the taco casserole that I used to make along with some lasagna might be just the thing….we’ll see….not much to do today…going to get two rides in and then get on the lawn and the door frames….and I need to start clearing out the garden so I can put that stuff out for the trash today….more later….

There’s a rain shield over Muskegon…

Well…I’ve never seen anything like this…we were under a severe thunderstorm warning out here and the radar showed a huge blob heading right towards us….but, as the storm came in off the lake, it just fell apart and we didn’t even get enough rain to wet the street…I think there is some government project that they are working on to control the weather and they are testing it out here…that’s as good of an explanation as any, I guess….so I’ll be watering again starting tomorrow but there is no rain in the forecast at all this week so more money is going into water for the lawn….it better not snow like normal out here after not getting any rain in over a month…not once in August and that is just too weird….

These people will believe anything…

Well…not sure if you’ve been following the latest bit of idiocy that is going on with the right wing anti vaxxers but it is head shakingly stupid and makes me believe these idiots will believe anything….over the past couple of weeks there have been multiple stories about people buying and ingesting worm medicine that is made for horses and cows….yep, they won’t get the vaccine because they “don’t know what’s in it” but they will take a medicine made for horses that is toxic to the body and can destroy your intestines and make you even more stupid just because some guy on facbook says his brother in law said it works…and now there are thousands of calls to poison control hotlines from people who get sick from eating this stuff…again, that is made for killing worms in horses….not viruses in people. These people are so damn stupid and I think facebook has a responsibility to remove the thousands of posts and pages that push this stuff on these ignorant morons…but maybe this will clean up the gene pool some….geez…

August 29th

Well…woke up soaked this morning and probably should have left the ac on all night but then I get too cold even with it set at 74….so, I didn’t sleep too well and need to get moving with this to get out on the bike in 15 minutes to make it back here by 9 for the F1 race….and, still no rain out here and the forecast has changed to nothing for today from a 70% chance when I went to bed last night…it hasn’t rained out here for over a month and I am getting tired of spending all the money to keep my lawn alive by watering it….only did one ride yesterday with going out to swim instead and it looks like I will only do one again today with the F1 race and then Man U playing at 11:30…but, it it doesn’t rain, I may go out after the match is over….but I think I’ll probably run out of energy with only having a chicken sandwich to eat all day yesterday….just don’t feel like eating but can’t do two of those in a row….didn’t get anything else done and with the humidity and the heat, I won’t be doing much outside today…other than watering the lawn….my allergies are terrible this morning and I need to remember to take something for it before I get on the bike…..and I need to do that right now since I have only 5 minutes to get on the bike….more later…

Playin in the waves…

Well…yeah, no politics right now…and I may not be back to do one later, either…but, who knows? I did have a nice surprise when I went out to get a swim in with some 5 foot waves that had popped up out of nowhere…when I rode out there early this morning, the lake was basically flat so I was expecting it to still be later in the morning…but cool, I love it when I can play in the waves and get a couple of surfs in but I did forget to put sunscreen on so my face and head are scorched and I’m slathering everything with aloe to help….oh, well…I’m done for the day….

August 28th

Well….forgot to mention that yesterday marked my first 6 months here and I’m not sure how I feel about that…some good, some bad but I do own a house and that offsets a lot of it….slept okay last night but still feel pretty slow this morning but need to pour coffee down me and get out on the bike by7:30 to make it back here for F1 qualifying at 9….and I may only do one ride today since they have postponed the race from last night to 12:30 today and it may rain this morning…ha,ha, that made me laugh too….and there is soccer on, too, so I may be a slug today….didn’t get a lot done yesterday other than pick some tomatoes for a neighbor and water the lawn but it was so damn hot and humid that I didn’t want to do much…next week is going to be cooler…back in the 70′s for highs so that will help getting the back of the house cleaned and getting the painting done….not sure if I’ll get anything done today with all of the sports on tv today but I should clean some….I am already soaked from sweat and I think I may run the ac later today since there is a heat advisory on for today..supposed to feel like it’s over a hundred…and that may be the reason for only doing one ride…I was soaked through everything after the second ride yesterday and felt it the rest of the day….not much to do today…just going to wing it and try to stay cool…already running the fan and that is not a good sign….more later…

Some stuff…

Well…it’s been another day of trying to find a topic and I wonder if this is going to be the new normal? Nothing is grabbing me and that usually is what I need to have happen to work up enough outrage to take on a political one…so, maybe later…I did talk to one of the neighbors in the new houses across the alley and the good news is they bought the vacant lot next to them so no one can cram a new house in there like they are doing all over up here…we laughed that with some of the new houses up here, you can reach out your window and touch the next house they are so close….and I met another neighbor yesterday, too when I asked if they wanted some tomatoes…had a nice talk with him and learned more history of the area and that was pretty cool…he told me that there was a house on my second lot about 40 years ago and the whole area was a swamp that they pushed logs through back in the 1800′s….pretty cool….I just noticed I haven’t had a flat on the bike for almost two months after I put the electrical tape on the inside of the rim and that is pretty cool, too…but I do need to order parts and get the old bike up and running so I can do the same for the new bike…but, I  don’t feel like it right now…just worn out after two hard rides in the heat…more later…