Well…after the devastating tornados that ripped through the central part of the US, one of the first people there to help was Chef Jose Andres who has been instrumental to feeding people after every disaster since 2010 when he formed his World Central Kitchen…partnering with locals wherever he goes, the WCF has provided over 60 million meals around the world to survivors of natural disasters….but it’s not just food that he delivers…always a positive message that helps people understand that we are all in this together and to treat each other with kindness and respect…something that, in these times, people do need to be reminded of….if you can afford it, please send a few bucks Chef Andres way….this saint needs to be supported….
December 13th
Well….ick…a 4:14 morning this morning but was able to get back to sleep for a couple of hours so I guess that’s something…feel pretty worn out today and just can’t get moving…I am still marveling at how half assed the windows were done here with the previous owners just leaving the old shade/curtain brackets on them when they put up new ones….and there is not one of the shades up now that is level and there is one here in the living room that is a full inch lower on the right side than the left and I could eyeball it better than that….I did get the kitchen windows cleaned up yesterday and took the last of the ugly curtains down and now only have the three bedroom windows to do….but now the big work starts with having to sand and patch the frames to get them ready for painting….I may go out and get the new detail sander today but I’m not sure yet….trying not to spend any money until I get the next cash infusion on Wed…it looks like it will be warm enough to ride outside today but the damn wind is still blowing almost 20 so I guess it will be a downstairs ride today….my taking Sunday off the bike plan lasted one week with getting a ride in yesterday and I’m getting ready to get down there in a few minutes so I can get out to run the errand by 9 or so…..not much to do today…if I get the sander, I’ll get started on the kitchen windows but need to figure out what shades I’m going to put up in there…I’m going with grey ones in here but I don’t know what I’m doing in the kitchen…probably should plan it….more later….
Good on ya, Gavin…
Well…it’s been in the new a lot lately that the corrupt supreme court has let stand a new anti abortion law in Texas that lets private citizens sue anyone involved in helping a woman get an abortion even though it goes against the roe precedent that made abortion care legal….and the twist is that since private citizens are doing the enforcing, the state can’t be sued to overturn the law…too cute by half and that a non corrupt SC would have thrown out in a flash….so now that the SC has made this precedent, Gavin Newsome, the governor of California, is going to pass a new law that would allow any citizen to sue anyone who buys, sells, imports or possesses military style assault weapons such as the AR-15….if the repubs can take away a women’s right to choose, then the dems will take away the fake right to own these kinds of weapons. The court has gutted the supremacy clause in the constitution that says that federal laws are supreme to state laws with letting Texas get away with a law that is blatantly unconstitutional on a federal level so you can expect that dems will use this ruling in blue states that will smash the smug repubs in the mouth in where most of the population in this country lives…it’s about damn time the dems started to fight back with repub methods instead of just sitting there letting them ruin this country…good on ya, Gavin…geez….
Boycott Kellogg…
Well….I should have written about this last week when I read about it in the news but I forgot so I’ll do it today…not sure if you read about the crap that Kellogg is pulling on it’s workers who have been out on strike for better working conditions for a couple of months, and with the crappy offers that Kellogg has made to them the workers have had enough and want a fair share of what they produce….so what is Kellogg’s response? They are going to fire all of the workers and replace them with scabs saying that they can’t afford to give the workers any of the things they bargained for such as no more 80 hour weeks or weeks and weeks on end with no time off….this is the normal “we’re too broke to give raises” crap that every damn company uses when their workers want to get out of the poverty level even working full time…Kellogg can afford to pay it’s ceo almost 12 million dollars a year and made a profit of almost 2 billion dollars so that’s all bullshit….I will always support workers trying to improve their lives by collective bargaining and I will always hate that these greedy companies feel the need to hoard the fruits of the worker’s labor for the rich owners…so, as the title says…Boycott Kellogg….no more cereal for you…geez…
December 12th
Well…I think I’m on time for a Sunday since it’s only 7:25 and I’m here already….woke up early but went back to bed for 45 minutes and that meant not getting out to get the paper until almost 7 and I can’t believe how many people were out and about at that time….the wind has died down some and it was really crazy yesterday….had to tie my chair down on the front landing to keep it from blowing away but I probably could have just put it on the porch and I think I will after it dries out….had to pick up a bunch of trash that blew into my yard yesterday and it was fun being out in the high wind…it was hard to walk with the wind gusting to 50 but it was warm enough that I could be out there for a bit…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but ride the bike and lube the parking brake on the car and probably won’t do much today but ride after the F1 race is over…it is nice that there is not any snow in the forecast for the next week or so but it is going to get colder later in the week after getting to almost 60 Wed…..I may try to get out for a ride but the wind is going to blow almost 20 all week so that may not happen….not much to do today….going to just ease into it with more coffee and the last F1 race of the year and may take the curtains down in the kitchen but I’m not sure yet….have to let the coffee work and read the news first….more later…
All the repubs were in on it…
Well…even before everything is known about the traitorous attack on our democracy on January 6th, enough is known to be able to say that all of the repubs were in on it….in on treason against this country and yet are any of them even charged yet? Nope…and that means the danger is still there and still festering and there is circumstantial evidence that trump was in the middle of it…do you ever wonder why idiot boy was never moved to a “secure location” during the attack as he was when there were protests in the streets? It’s because he knew the plan and it didn’t include anyone going after him…and from the power point presentation, we know they were going to use a fake kidnapping of Pence as the excuse to call a national emergency…but at the last moment, Pence chickened out and wouldn’t get in the car the Secret Service sent for him….maybe after hearing the bloodthirsty crowd yelling for him to be hanged, he thought that there was more danger in carrying out the plot? Oh, and one last little tidbit came out today concerning Senator Chuck Grassley….he mentioned to an aide that he didn’t think Pence was going to show up to certify the votes so he would go ahead and do it…gee, I wonder how ole Chuck knew Pence wasn’t going to be there? Yep, he was in on it, too….as they all were….I can’t wait for the rest of it to come out since idiot boy lost the suit to keep his papers away from the January 6th committee….I wonder if any of the new justices that trump installed on the court were in on it, too…wouldn’t surprise me in the least…geez…
Got some work done….
Well…after the total slug day that I took yesterday, I really felt like I needed to get off my butt and do something today….even after getting up late, I was on the bike by 9:15 or so and got a nice, hard ride in and nothing hurt afterward so I decided to go out and work on the car…pulled both rear tires and squirted the parking brake linkages and cables with some ATF that I put in my new pump can, and I hope that will work in over the next week or so to keep it from seizing up like it did Monday….okay, Man U is going to start in a few minutes and I have to find the channel it’s on….more later…
December 11th
Well….running really late today with not getting out of bed until almost 8 and I must have slept okay but no dreams to speak of….the wind is blowing like crazy out here right now and it must be going at least 40 mph with gusts…..the chickens were being blown all over the place while they tried to feed and when the gusts come, it is really loud….it is 48 degrees out here and I may have to go out and just feel the wind in a bit….I did get some work done yesterday with taking the curtains and hardware down off the windows here in the living room but I just realized I missed the ones on the kitchen windows and will have to do that today….I can’t believe how sloppily the curtains and shades were put up….they must not have had a tape measure or a level since not one of them was in the same location on the window frames as the others….I am going to replace them with grey ones in here but that won’t happen until I do all of the repair work from the damage from all of the brackets, nails, and screws….oh, some good news the other day when it was announced that every insured driver here in Michigan is going to get a 400 buck refund on their car insurance that will just about cover my insurance for a year so that is cool….not much to do today…I skipped the bike ride yesterday but will get that done here in a half hour or so after F1 qualifying is over….and then more work on the interior…and Man U plays at 12:30 so I need to get everything done before that….more later…
Deaths in the news today
Well…there were a couple of deaths in the news today that I wanted to talk about…Al Unser of the famous Unser racing family died yesterday at the age of 82….Al was one of the characters that was in racing when I first started to follow it, especially at Indy and for 30 years he was still part of the scene…a great driver that could race anything and won in Nascar, Indycar, USAC, and on dirt and pavement…very smooth style and a personality to go with it. The second one was a little surprising to me when I read that Mike Nesmith of the Monkees died today at the age of 78….I remember the Monkees fondly and his dry wit on the tv show was something that I liked even at 12 years old….born a rich kid and heir to the Liquid Paper fortune….okay most of you probably don’t even remember Liquid Paper but those of us that came of age when typewriters were the only way to do school papers sure do, you would never know that he was a rich kid and I think he was the only one of them who could actually play an instrument when the group was formed for tv….this is starting to happen much too often as I age….more and more people who have been fixtures in life are disappearing at an accelerated rate….not too cool…RIP guys….
Why haven’t they been arrested?
Well…with all of the information that has already come out about the treasonous attempt to overthrow the government on January 6th, the question I have is “why haven’t they been arrested?” Why isn’t trump’s butt in jail right now? The committee even has the power point presentation that Meadows did to tell people what to do and how to do it…why hasn’t he been arrested and why is he being allowed to run around stonewalling the committee? The most serious attack on the country since the war of 1812 and no one is doing anything to stop the continuing attack that is still going on…the repubs are still rigging elections across the country and making sure that their 30% of the voters will win every election and no one is doing anything about it…where the hell is Merrick Garland? Where the hell is the justice department? There is enough evidence in the Mueller report to arrest trump right now…so why isn’t it happening? Every day we allow these criminals to roam free is another day closer to losing this country to these thugs but no one seems to care….I am tired of having to write about this every damn day but I will until they start holding people accountable for this treason…..geez…