Well….everyone but the repubs knew that the great tax giveaway of 2018 would benefit corporations and the 1%, and now we see that we knew what was happening…and the first crumbs are being sprinkled on workers starting with the big banks. and manufacturers. The banks have been crowing that the huge tax cuts they have been given is trickling down on their workers as they announced bonuses to some of their workers of up to $1,000 dollars…but, when you look at the comparison of the size of the tax cuts to the banks, the bonuses that are going to SOME workers are equal to less than 2% of the tax cut that the top 1% is going to get…so this huge tax cut that is going to decimate tax receipts is not going to anyone but the rich…or to put it in the words of a repub senator: “We need to reward our donors or they are going to turn off the money taps”…and that is the problem…many manufacturers and banks have used the tax cuts to finance laying off thousands of workers that they would have kept on without the cuts….again, the result of the shoddy bill that no one knew what it contained….but, there is only one thing you really need to know about the cuts…that the day after the tax cuts passed, Koch industries wrote Paul Ryan a check for $500K …talk about “pay for play”….geez…
Monthly Archives: January 2018
January 24th
Well…running early again today or is this the new normal? Slept okay last night and don’t feel too badly today…the bug I thought I was getting seems to be a low level one since I don’t feel worse today…but, I’ve only been up a little while so we’ll see in an hour or so….haven’t heard from T since Sunday and it is a phone problem and I can’t wait til that’s solved….today is a fresh coffee day and that starts out the day on a good note…it just tastes better the first day….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I will clean some today and try to use up the leftovers so I can cook tomorrow….probably won’t get on the bike today with it only going to be 30 for a high and that will leave ice on the trail that I don’t want to deal with….the news is calling me so I think I’ll go do that…more later….
The repubs are still working with the Russians…
Well…with the increasingly desperate attempts by the repubs to undermine the Mueller investigation into trump’s conspiracy with the Russians, the latest being the “explosive” memo created out of thin air by Trey Gowdy, one thing has to be remembered…that the Russians are STILL working with the repubs to undermine our democracy. During the campaign to get some traction for the lies in Gowdy’s memo, thousands of Russian bots were active on social media planting fake stories and trying to inflate the importance of the lying memo to undermine Mueller and to get people to believe there is something to the memo…just like the lies that were spread about Hillary’s e-mails by the same Russian bots….now, it is a little too much of a coincidence that thousands of Russian bots would take this effort up independently, so the question that Mueller needs to ask is “who in the repub party is still treasonously working with the Russians to subvert our democracy”….this question is for you, Trey Gowdy and Devin Nunes…you do know this is at least obstruction of justice? Can’t wait for the perp walk for these two….
Roads….
Well….I know it’s getting to be that time in Michigan where our roads start to fall apart from freezing and thawing…and I think I’ve found the worst road in GR when I was going out to Target to get some antihistamines…yow! There was one pothole that was almost 18 inches deep and it stretched across the entire lane…I was glad that I was paying attention and could swerve into the turn lane but the Honda behind me didn’t and I really expected it to stay in the hole….don’t think the Miata would take that kind of a hit….
Media bias?
Well….I know you’re probably tired about anything to do with the fake media bias that the repubs keep harping about, telling everyone all the time that it is biased against the right…well…not really true…but you know that….and all you have to do is look at the coverage of the women’s marches across the country that happened this weekend…from the coverage, you would think that there were 15 or 20 women total at all the marches, and there was absolutely no coverage on the Sunday shows of any of them…yeah…this is the true media bias….over 5 million women and men took to the streets to show their resistance to trump and his cronies and the destruction that continues by their ignorant, mysoginistic policies…and to keep the momentum up for voting in November. So, the next time someone on the right cries media bias, tell them to shut the hell up…I’m tired of hearing it….more later…
January 23rd
Well….running quite early today and I think getting up at 5:30 is the cause…slept okay last night but tossed and turned again with being good last night, but I feel okay today so that is something….but, I think I have a bug or the starting of one that I will have to monitor and treat if I need to….my lungs are kind of iffy right now and I was coughing like crazy yesterday afternoon but I wonder if it may have been from getting back on the bike and shaking all the crap loose….think I’m still under on calories for the past few days and I think that is that nothing tastes good anymore….this happens sometimes but I hope it goes away soon….it is a chore to eat when nothing tastes good….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and I will be trying to get some stuff done today…ran out of allergy stuff so I need to take a run over to Target to get another box….more later….
I’m sore…
Well…finally got back on the bike yesterday and today and I am quite sore from it…only did 12 miles on each day but it was a struggle to get through those….as I’ve bitched about before, an entire year’s fitness goes away fast…after only being off the bike for 4 weeks, I’m back to square one and I don’t like it….I may buy the new bike sooner than I expected since I am tiring of the Schwinn and would like to give my back a rest from all the pounding….today was really wet, too, and I was damn cold when I got back here since the trail was flooded in many spots…I guess I’m just cranky today for some reason…but, I do have riding later in the week to look forward to…in shorts on Friday maybe…..more later….
January 22nd
Well…running a little late today and just can’t get started….haven’t had coffee yet and that may be part of it….slept okay last night but I’m still tossing and turning all night and I would like just one night of sleeping through without waking up….oh, well…I did get out on the bike yesterday and I was going to try to get out again today but it looks like rain all day so I might not get out…going to try, though….I was really sore after the ride and that continues this morning but it feels good so I won’t bitch too much…..and I think I’ll be able to get out wed and through the rest of the week…..didn’t get a lot done yesterday…I did clean some and will do that again today…but not for a while….I need the coffee to work more before I’m going to do anything….more later….
Even the banks are turning on Kushner…
Well…in the category of “it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy”…it appears that even the banks are now turning on the idiot Kushner. Yesterday, I read that Deutsche Bank has turned a bunch of evidence on Kushner over to German bank regulators that shows “suspicious” bank transactions done by Kushner or one of his companies….and the bank is going to give the same info to Mueller to aid in his investigation. Now, I can understand why the bank is going after money laundering suspicions…they paid a fine of almost 650 million dollars a couple of years again for closing their eyes to the same type of stuff so I’m pretty sure they don’t want to get burned again. I wonder where that leaves little Jared now? He has been crossing the globe trying to get re-financing for his Park avenue building that he is so upside down on that no one will touch it and it is going to crash and burn the entire family fortune….Jared, just enjoy what little time you have outside of prison…Mueller is coming for you soon….and it can’t be soon enough for me….
January 21st
Well…woke up feeling pretty crappy today and I am going to blame it on going out to have a couple with K…..slept okay last night but feel a little slow today…took some work to even go out to get the paper today and the coffee is not working at all yet so I am going to just ease into the day….T got back into town yesterday and it’s nice to have her back here…I did see a funny thing while watching the car auctions last night…a 1.2 million dollar Ferrari had the same six dollar battery switch that I have on my car…I guess even rich people are cheap…..didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today is going to be the same…I may try to get out on the bike today after the sun comes up since it looks like the trails may be clear….I do need need to get some exercise….more later….