Well…with the sordid details coming out of how the repubs conspired with Cambridge Analytica and the Russians to steal the 2016 election, there has been one little detail that no one noticed…at least very few people noticed…and that is that there were Facebook employees “embedded” in the CA offices helping them use Facebook data to sway people either to hate Hillary more, or to try to suppress minority votes. Yep, that’s right…Facebook actually asked it’s employees how they felt about the idiot trump and then the ones with positive views were assigned to help CA trash our election and manipulate people. That’s enough for me to think about getting off Facebook totally…I never share any personal or political stuff there since I think giving companies like Facebook salable data on me is just a little too creepy…it’s the reason I refuse to get any discount cards that you have to use at the checkouts of any store…it’s none of their damn business what I do and what I buy, and that information belongs to me…and, with the latest revelations of how Facebook interfered with the election using personal data of their users, I guess my paranoia is pretty well justified…let’s boycott Facebook and make them pay for what they’ve done….geez…
Monthly Archives: March 2018
April 22nd
Well…running a little late today and, as you know, it’s usually the grocery run on Thursday morning….and, yow, 75 bucks without any protein at all? I did have to get a bunch of other stuff since my supplies were running low but darn, 75 bucks? Oh, well….slept okay last night and feel pretty good today…I guess I can thank being good for 4 days in a row and my allergies having lessened some…but, my back is still bugging me…geez, I’m getting old….did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but didn’t get anything else done so…nope….not even going to say I’m going to get something done…don’t really need to so no guilt today….I did hear from my youngest son yesterday and I am hanging out with he and his wife for a while tonight…I guess they have trivia night at a place in Dutton that is just a short ways from here and it will be cool to see them….and Michigan plays tonight so that will keep me busy….more later….
“DO NOT CONGRATULATE”
Well… the idiot trump show just how stupid he is again yesterday when he call Vlad Putin to “congratulate” him for winning the election in Russia last week….and this was against the advice of every damn person who works on foreign policy in this “administration”…and they even went so far as to put it in all caps in idiot boy’s briefing materials…and now, the so called *president shows his support for a thug murderer who rigged the Russian election, intimidated people who would vote against him, and murdered one of the people who was going to run against him…and the idiot normalizes this behavior by congratulating him…and he doesn’t even bring up the fact that Putin ordered a murder on UK soil of a former spy. When is it enough, repubs? When is the damage to this country enough? All of this damage just so the moron in chief can get a little praise from his master, Putin…who told trump that he is doing a “wonderful job” with the economy and trump ate that crap right up and praised Putin for his “leadership” in the world..and by leadership I mean meddling everywhere, murdering his foes, and screwing with elections across the world….just the kind of thing that trump would like to do…impeach….
March 21st
Well…running a little early today and it was another night of choppy sleep and getting up early…don’t feel too badly today, though, so I guess it wasn’t too bad…..and I was good again last night so that helps….it was an okay day yesterday but they had the water shut off here all day and that is annoying…and the wind was blowing over 20 all day so I skipped the bike ride to let my legs heal up a little…don’t think it did much good since they still hurt quite a bit today and I had cramps in my feet all night….and that is not really normal….probably should take some ibuprofen for it in a few minutes but I want to wait until just before the bike to help my hand cramps….and that won’t be until this aft since it won’t be warm enough until later….didn’t get much done yesterday but there is cleaning to be done today that I will get to…soccer is off for the week for the international break so that makes things a little more boring…but, F1 starts tomorrow and I need to figure out what channels it is going to be on this year….more later…
More links to trump….
Well…not sure if you saw the news stories yet that are revealing today that the data company, Cambridge Analytics, that was working for trump targeting vulnerable people during the election to spread Russian propaganda was also working for the Russian state oil company, Lukoil. Guess who controls Lukoil? Yep, you guessed it Vlad Putin…and CA met with the Russians many times before and during the elections. It was also revealed that CA stole the personal information from 50 million Facebook users and used that to micro target people to reinforce the lies that were told about Hillary and motivate right leaning people to get out and vote….and this was the determining factor in the election when only 77,000 votes were needed to steal trump a win in the Electoral College. One thing you need to remember here is how much Jared Kushner bragged that he worked with CA to win the election and Time magazine even put him on their cover for just that…but, at the time it wasn’t known how crooked CA was and how far in bed they were with the Russians. We now know what was going on not because any repub here would do their job, but because investigators in the UK are doing the job that the repubs in congress should have done…to protect the constitution but they are now like the congress in any banana republic…protecting the strongman at the top and the hell with the rule of law or the people of the country. I have this sinking feeling that the only way we can save this country is to throw the repubs out in November…but, if we miss that chance, this will be the end of the US as we know it…shame on you, repubs…impeach….
March 20
Well…running a little early today with not sleeping well and getting up early…and they are shutting the water off here for the day so that is a pain that I’ll have to deal with here in a few minutes…had an okay day yesterday and even had the top down on the car…and there is a reason for that that I’ll relate later….oh, and I won at pool….didn’t get anything else done but I will try to get some cleaning done today since I think I’ll skip the bike ride with not being able to shower after….and it is only 21 degrees outside so it will take forever for the temp to come up enough….and my back is acting up again so maybe it could use a rest….I do need to pay some bills today so that will keep me busy for all of 5 minutes….so there may be some vegging going on today….more later….
A war criminal to run the CIA?
Well…these are the “best” people? With the nomination of Gina Haspel to run the CIA, we are now going to have a war criminal who ran one of the CIA’s “black sites” running one of our intelligence agencies…a person who can’t even travel to Europe since there is a warrant out for her arrest for those war crimes at the Hague. How the hell did we get here? I know how… by the Obama administration not prosecuting these criminals when it was known what they had done…that they had tried to normalize torture by calling it “enhanced interrogation” and lying constantly that torture had worked to get vital information to protect the US….and, do you know the single factor that ties all of the torturers together? They are all repubs and all are walking free and still holding high level jobs in this “administration”….this has to end…and it has to end right now with the blocking of this war criminal from this job….geez…..
March 19th
Well…have been up for a while already but I’m moving pretty slow so far….just poured the first cup of coffee so that isn’t working yet and I wish it was….slept okay last night but I think I’m sore from the bike ride yesterday…it was the first day of going hard and taking a long ride so that is to be expected….it was nice to get out in shorts but that will be the last time for the next two weeks…it is going to be cold and I’m not sure I can take much more of it….I need spring to come soon…it is even supposed to snow next weekend so I think I’ll leave the winter tires on the car for another week….didn’t get anything done yesterday and I am not motivated to do anything today….I think I’ll leave that for tomorrow and just veg today….more later….
Another pair for the B-3 count…
Well…yeah, I know…it’s been a couple of days since I did a political one and it is going to be one more…there is a lot going on but my brain cleanse is not done yet so you’ll have to wait until tomorrow for one of those….right now, I want to do one on a topic that I haven’t done in quite a while…my obsession with the Hammond B-3 Organ and the groups that used them. Yesterday, while I was killing some time and trying to not use any data, I was going through my antenna channels and ran across some old bands on PBS and immediately my eyes looked to the stage and my ears perked up when Eric Burdon was on and his band had a B-3 and even had the Leslie speaker that is supposed to be used with it…right after that, Procul Harum came on and they too had a B-3…and if you remember their big hit “a whiter shade of pale”, you will remember the organ solo in the middle that is clearly a B-3…so, add a pair to the B-3 count…
March 18th
Well….not sure where I’m running this morning…but, I did remember that it is Sunday…and that meant I had to go out and get the paper…and I read it already and it’s not even 8 yet…had an okay day yesterday and finally got out on the bike without a stocking hat…something I need to do again today but that won’t be until noon or so…may even be able to go out in shorts if I wait….but that means I need to find something to do this morning…and the boredom is already bleeding in so there may be a little sense of urgency…nope, none at all….my right heel is finally healed for the first time this year and I have no pain when I walk and that is a relief…but, I have huge cramps in my hands when I’m on the bike and ibuprofen doesn’t help so I’m not sure what that is about….they kick in before I’m out a mile so that leaves 14 in pain…not much to do today….I should clean some and I might but I’m not sure when that will be….more later….