Well…running a little late getting here for this one today and I have good reasons for it that I’ll get to later…first, another day, another revelation that Bill Barr has used his position to try to help trump instead of upholding the law…late last year, a Turkish bank with close ties to Turkey’s strongman was under investigation for a multitude of crimes including money laundering and helping Iran get around the UN sanctions it was under for it’s nuclear program…and of course Erdogan didn’t like that so he called the idiot trump, knowing that he is a patsy who can be taken advantage of, and asked him to kill the investigation before indictments could be handed down by the SDNY…and, of course, idiot boy called up his fixer Barr and told him to kill the investigation which Barr tried mightily to do but the prosecutors at SDNY were having none of that since they had spent years building the case and it was clear that the bank was breaking the law….so before Barr could fire anyone in the SDNY office, they filed the indictments and got the case into the courts…now, from what we’ve seen lately, that doesn’t matter to Barr at all…if it benefits trump or his cronies, there is nothing Barr won’t do…and that makes me call for his resignation…again…along with 1,100 former prosecutors who signed a letter saying that Barr is corrupting the justice system and has to go….and now….
Monthly Archives: February 2020
February 17th
Well…it’s another 4:57 morning this morning and I am a little worn out…hope the coffee starts to work soon since I have work to do today that is going to start soon…I think I slept okay last night but 5 1/2 hours is not enough….I did get a lot of work done on the spare room yesterday with painting the door frames and cutting in all the corners and around the windows so today all I have to do is paint the walls and ceiling…but I have to go out and get paint first along with the blinds I need for the new window…but I won’t hang that for a few days until I see if I need a second coat of paint…have needed one on all of the walls so far so I guess I should plan on it and get two gallons of paint this morning…I still need to do 4 windows and the doors on the linen closet so I’m sure I’ll need the paint….so 50 more bucks but that will be the last I need to spend until I start on the outside in the spring….didn’t get anything else done yesterday but I think that was enough for one day…I did get a bike ride in and I am going to try to get one in again today after I paint and before Man U plays…and the 500 is on this afternoon after yesterday’s rain which I can watch since the idiot trump won’t be there… so I need to get started soon…but not until I have more coffee…more later…
I wonder if that is happiness?
Well….this one is going to be a little weird for me but bear with me…I decided to go out for a bike ride today and headed into the city to take a look around…when I got there, I pulled up to Rosa Parks circle to watch the skaters for a bit and something just waved over me and I couldn’t help but smile…it was a strange feeling that I don’t remember having in a long, long time…and it hit me…I wonder if it is happiness? I am getting older but but I’m pretty healthy…I have health insurance that doesn’t cost me an arm and a leg…I have a nice place to live…for now…my youngest son and his wife are expecting my first grandchild…and I have enough money in the bank that I don’t have to worry much about emergencies anymore….it has been so long since I have had almost everything sorted out that I really don’t know how to act when things are going good….but, I really do think that feeling was happiness and I liked it….I wonder if other people feel like that? Hope so….
February 16th
Well…running about on time today for a Sunday and I’ve already read the paper and did remember to come here before I settled in to read the ads…slept okay last night but was up at 4:37 for the first time…I did get back to sleep for an hour or so and I consider that a win…feel okay with only a half cup of coffee in me so maybe it will be a good day…and I’m only a little creaky this morning so I’ll take that as a win, too…had the third day off the bike yesterday but I am going to try to get out there today since it is already 28 degrees and that is almost warm enough to go…but there is ice on the roads from the little snow yesterday so I’ll have to wait until it gets above freezing later in the day….I did get the last room completely prepped for painting tomorrow so it will be an easy job to put two coats on in one day and then I need to get the door back on but that might wait til Tuesday so the paint on the door frame can harden some first….so, I may scrub the floor and treat it before I move anything back into the room as I wait….then the only painting I’ll have left is three window frames but they all need a bunch of repair and stripping so that will take some time…I do need to clean the blinds on two of the windows, too but that is not a big job and they look really good after they are clean…not much to do today….just going to screw around until soccer comes on at 9 and then maybe some cleaning this afternoon since I am skipping the 500 with the idiot trump going to be there…more later…
On a lighter note…
Well…okay, got my screed for the day out and now it’s time to lighten things up for one to talk about little nonsense things that I have been observing or that have happened that I haven’t had a chance to talk about yet…one thing I’ve noticed since I started filling the bird feeders is that sparrows travel in packs…I have never once see a solitary sparrow on either feeder…when they come, it’s in flocks of 25 or more and they push and shove each other to get to the feeders…yep, feeders…yesterday I had two of them at a time on the one that hangs on the window and that is the first time that has happened…and even though it’s just sparrows on the feeders, it is still fun to watch them. You know I talked about my disappointment with the adhesive that I used to attach the latch/stop to the side of the house when I built the new gate for the fence…it just turned to powder and the 2×4 I’m using for the stop was just hanging from the latch hasp as the gate swung…after that, I cleaned off the old adhesive but still had half a tube of it left so I tried it again and it is so weird to me that this time it is still adhered to the side of the house through winter while the first time it fell off after a couple of weeks…not that I’m complaining but I am a little confused since it is the same adhesive out of the same tube…strange…is that enough? Yep, that’s enough for today…oh, one more thing…I did get the last room ready for painting today with masking off the closet door and the windows, and playing finger painting with plaster to make the smooth repaired areas look like the rest of the textured walls…I can’t wait to see how they look after painting…okay, that’s enough….
NASCAR can go right to hell…
Well…I knew that the owners of nascar and most of the drivers are trump loving morons and that was shown when he was installed and drivers like Kesolowski and Bowyer expressed their glee on twitter and I responded to them with a question…” you have young kids, would you point to trump as a role model for them?” Of course, they couldn’t defend it so they didn’t respond…and we have seen the heads of nascar, the France family, palling around with the idiot boy and wearing their MAGA hats… we’ve even seen driver Austin Dillon giving the white power “OK” hand signal in the intros to the races…so nascar is a cesspool of trump supporting, entitled, right wing assholes…even with that, I have been ignoring those facts since I am still a race fan and wanted to see the races, but, with the invite of the asshole in chief to be grand marshal of the Daytona 500 tomorrow, I have reached my breaking point…normalizing trump with this type of event is something I will not be part of…so I will not be watching the 500 tomorrow…and, being honest, I have been losing my interest in nascar for years now and have basically used the races for background noise as I take a nap on Sunday afternoons…hence the term that I use, “napcar” to describe the series. I hope the trump loving France family enjoys their little bubble of right wing assholes…but for a lot of the rest of us, nascar is dead to us with this last straw….great way to grow the series, morons…
February 15th
Well…running about on time today with another morning of getting up before 6…one drawback of not tossing and turning so much is that I spend too much time sleeping on one shoulder or the other and that leads to inflaming the tendons in my shoulders…have had huge pain in my left for a couple of weeks now and that is going to make painting Monday a little hard…but I’ll try a little ibuprofen and see if that helps…I did get the rest of the sanding done yesterday and most of the clean up but still need to mask off the closet door and wipe down the walls to get the rest of the dust off…but that only leaves me a little work to do over the next two days and I can get that done easily….I do need to plan the next steps after I finish that room and I think the first thing will be cleaning the laundry room since I haven’t touched that yet and it is a little gross with all of the dust and cobwebs….and I do need to figure out the baseboard trim that will work in the areas where the original trim is missing…and I have the rest of the windows that need to be repaired and painted along with cleaning the blinds…so, it’s not like I don’t have enough work to do….and when it warms up I’ll have a full time job on the outside so I think I may have to get my rest time in over the next few weeks…not much to do today…I am going to veg a little and watch some soccer with my coffee before I get to working today…and I am going to try to get out on the bike but that will have to wait til late afternoon with it only 6 degrees out there right now….more later….
Bill Barr is a transparent liar…
Well…one of the drawbacks of getting up so early and getting all of my work done by 8 am is that I need to find something to do to keep from getting bored…and re runs of Leave it to Beaver are just not cutting it…so, I thought I’d come here for number two before I head out to HF…so, did you see that fake outrage that Bill Barr displayed yesterday saying that the idiot trump’s tweeting is “making it impossible to do my job”? The pundits who are almost always wrong or who have and agenda immediately piped up saying it was a huge break with Barr “standing up” to trump…yeah, that sound you hear is me laughing my butt off…if anyone believes this is standing up to trump, I have a nice bridge in NY to sell you…this is nothing more than Barr reacting to the outrage of his turning the justice department into trump central and doing his best to let trump’s criminal cronies off the hook for their crimes…and I’m sure he is coordinating this “outrage” with the WH to give him cover to continue to destroy the justice department, but to do it in secret instead of in the open as trump tweets expose his behavior. I’m sure Barr has already taken his crayons to the WH and drew up some nice charts and pictures that explained to trump that he is still going to do everything he tells him to but it needs to be quiet…we’ll see if trump’s tweets change to other topics now that he has gotten what he wanted from Barr…one good thing is that quite a few commentators have seen through Barr’s lies and it is being widely reported…but that doesn’t matter to the troglodytes that support trump….
February 14th
Well…running a little late today with getting all the way to 5:37 before I got up but I didn’t sleep that hot so I’m feeling it this morning…and I’m sore from sanding the spare room yesterday and will aggravate that this morning with the final work on the repaired areas…and then I need to clean up all the dust that it makes before I can start painting this weekend since I don’t want to track it all over the hallway and the rest of the place…after I get this done, it is going to be a busy morning with some work downstairs and then a run out to HF to get a bunch of stuff that I need…will probably spend 30 bucks there today but there are such good deals I can’t pass it up…I think it’s the first time I’ve had to make a list of things to get there and I have 6 coupons to use for the bargains…going to buy a little 4 1/2 inch angle grinder to remove paint on the front door since the old paint is so hard that my sander won’t cut it even with 100 grit paper…and I’ll probably do the same with the garage door that I did a fast paint job on just to meet code but doesn’t look good enough for me….I just discovered that the gutters on this house are copper under the paint that is peeling off so I’m not sure what I’m going to do with them…I may just try to remove the paint and clean them up but that’s for the spring and I have enough work in here to think about…more later…
We’re not scared anymore…
Well…whether or not you like Mike Bloomberg ( and there is a lot not to like) his actions and the money he is spending shows we are no longer scared of trump tweets…okay, I don’t think anyone on our side ever were but maybe we are modeling how to react to the idiot in chief for the repubs…just this morning, idiot boy was going off on Bloomberg again about his height of 5’4″ and Bloomberg shot this one back on Twitter: …”we know many of the same people in NY. Behind your back they laugh at you and call you a carnival barking clown. They know you inherited a fortune and squandered it with stupid deals and incompetence. I have the record and resources to defeat you, and I will.” Now, that’s how you respond to a con man who even bankrupted casinos he was so bad at business…and I think everyone else on our side should take a cue from Mike that now is the time to attack the bully in chief…and to make sure that Barr and the rest of his cronies know they are going to face the full measure of the law when trump is beaten like a dirty rug…and not the conspiracy theory, fascist use of the justice department that Barr is doing, but the transparent use of the law to uphold it and hold those accountable for breaking it…they should be very concerned but I think most of them are just too stupid to realize it..or have been able to get away with everything for the past twenty years under cover of the entire repub party…that is going to end in November…and not a day too soon…