Well…with the indictment of Steve Bannon on charges of contempt of congress, all I have to say is it’s about damn time…these assholes have been in contempt of our country and the rule of law for way too long with no consequences…but now, the first domino has fallen and stevie boy is looking at 2 years in the klink and no trump to pardon him…and this is an open and shut case…there is no question that he did what is alleged in the indictments and the judge in the case issued an arrest warrant but stevie has said he will voluntarily surrender to the cops on Monday…I just hope they are watching him closely so he can’t make a run for it…I wonder what Mark Meadows and the rest of the refusers are thinking now? If I were them, I would be scrambling to get my interview scheduled and get the papers ready that the committee has subpoenaed and that they refused to provide….finally, Merrick Garland has seen fit to do his duty and uphold the rule of law but let’s see if that continues..it better….geez…
November 13th
Well…damn, it snowed out here last night and all of my leaves are covered in snow…but, it’s raining out here right now so that should all melt by the end of the day and I hope the lawn dries up enough to pick them up Monday…this rainy/cold snap had made a bunch of them fall so it appears I’ll get most of them off the lawn this week…got a neat little gift from my daughter yesterday when she sent me the couch blanket she had been knitting for me…it is dark red made out of the softest Peruvian wool I have ever felt…feels more like silk than wool and she has has tags made she sewed on that say “handmade by J”…it is so well done I would guess it would go for a hundred bucks in a store…and it is going to be well used when it gets cold out here…or stays cold I should say….I really like having a clean fridge and the hour and a half I invested in cleaning was well worth it…not sure what took me so long to do it but it won’t be that long again….looks like another day on the inside bike with the rain going on out there and that isn’t bad…much more work to ride that one so 8 miles is more than enough to do….especially since it is one long ride with no rests and I come away soaked every time I use it….not much to do today…need to do some cleaning but I still have leftovers so no cooking…I did make chili the other day and had to remember the recipe since I can’t find any of the ones that were hanging on the fridge…it came out just like it should so I must have gotten it right….more later…
Explain this repubs…
Well…if you have seen the news lately, almost every damn story is about inflation and we see the repubs incessantly blaming Biden for it and the pundits wailing that it will be the end of the dems……but, a new report out today shows inflation up by about the same amount the last month everywhere it was measured…Europe, Asia, Australia, and everywhere else shows the same percentage…so I guess Joe Biden controls the entire world’s economy now…and I’ll bet that would be a surprise to the rest of the world’s leaders. Look, with the pandemic and the similar way it has been dealt with around the world, of course inflation is going to be similar…as the rise in oil prices driven by Saudi Arabia effects every country that buys oil and the supply chain bottlenecks also effect every country…so, again, we see the repubs lying their asses off again for political gain and to smear Biden since they have no truth to do it with…but the lapdog press just keeps reporting these repub talking points, giving them a free way to attack Biden and I am tired of it…geez…
Got the fridge cleaned…
Well…I finally got off my butt and took the fridge apart and cleaned it from top to bottom…it was pretty darn dirty and I can’t remember if I cleaned it before I moved in…with how bad it was, I’m pretty sure I didn’t since it still had stickers on the shelves that I had to remove with a razor blade and goo gone and all kinds of spills under the drawers and I know I didn’t spill anything….it came out great and sparkly but that is the only thing I have done today and I am contemplating not riding at all today…still pretty sore from riding in the wind yesterday and, if I ride at all, it will be downstairs since it is even windier today…I hope the wind keeps up and keeps blowing the leaves out of my yard…I will have to pick them up Monday and get them out for pickup but I don’t think it’s going to be as bad as I feared….I do need to try to find a political topic for alter but I’m not having any luck right now….more later…
November 12th
Well….damn, got up at 6:23 but don’t feel like I slept at all….my ribs hurt for some reason and I feel stiff even without doing much work yesterday…might be how I slept last night….and that sucks because I’m getting old and that happens….it looks like a wasted day today with the rain that is coming in waves so I’m going to stay off the outside bike today but will probably ride downstairs…I keep forgetting that I have that bike set up…I am going to clean the fridge today and probably do some dusting…don’t have to cook with having leftovers but need to plan food for later in the weekend to get more food out of the freezer before t-day so I’ll have room for the carcass…still have two ham bones in there for ham soup but I may just discard those since I have a container of ham soup in there, too, and don’t need 4 of them…I am going to wait until next Friday to buy my turkey so I can just thaw it and then cook it on t-day…I think I left it in the fridge too long last year when I bought it on the wed a week before t-day and it was a little off….I wonder what I’ll do if there aren’t any available that day? Just shrug it off I guess and cook something else…not sure what that would be…maybe a chicken? Not much to do today…need to run an errand this morning but I’m not too motivated to get out yet so I’m going to sit here and have coffee for a while…going to watch the new James Bond movie tonight but I just noticed it is over 3 hours and that is just weird….most movies are 90 minutes to two hours so I wonder why this one is so long? One good thing is that it will take up almost the whole night and allow me to not think for a while…more later….
Not as busy today…
Well…I went into today with the idea that I wasn’t going to ride the bike at all with all of the rain and wind that was forecast but when I had a couple of cups of coffee and noticed that is was already over 50, I decided to suit up and at least take a bill over to the post office…the wind was blowing pretty hard but, being the idiot that I am, I took a right turn on 7th and decided to give a ride a try. Going out was pretty cool with the wind blowing at my back at about 15 and I was able to just fly…and for once the wind changed in my favor before I started back and swung to the south which isn’t bad since my ride back goes generally west to east so it was more of a cross wind and it was not nearly as brutal as I expected…I even entertained doing a second ride but, thankfully, it started to rain just as I was putting the bike in the garage so I didn’t do something stupid…after getting back here, I took most of the afternoon off and just made chili for dinner…oh, I think I may have seen an otter today along the shore of Muskegon Lake…sure moved like one but it could have been a muskrat….hmmm….the leaves have started to fall finally and I can start picking them up soon…if it stops raining…yeah, I’m not bitching about rain…we really need it out here so I’ll take whatever we can get to help the lawn prepare for winter…today was surely the last day out in shorts…the temp is going to drop like a rock over the next few days so thermasuit will be necessary….tomorrow may be the day off if the rain comes in and I can use one…have lots of work to do around here and the fridge is first on the list….I’m done for the day….
The idiot loses three times in one week…
Well….things appear to be closing in on the idiot trump this week when a federal judge shut down his claims of “executive privilege” as he tries to hide his role in the insurrection…and she did it three times with three rulings that slapped him down hard and opened the way to release of some of the information tomorrow. She really had to explain to idiot boy’s lawyer that executive privilege resides with the current president and knocked down trump’s assertion that privilege “exists in perpetuity” and the money quote was this one…”but presidents are not kings and plaintiff is not president” and made sure to make the point that privilege belongs to the office, not any individual and that Biden has made it abundantly clear that he will not invoke and privilege on any of the records. So, finally, we may start to see just how deeply idiot boy and his minions were involved with the planning and operation of the insurrection….and then maybe some charges will finally be brought…but with Garland as AG, I don’t hold out a lot of hope for that happening…geez…
November 11th
Well….darn…woke up at 4:55 this morning but was able to go back to sleep until a little after 7 so I guess that is all I can expect….don’t feel too bad today and I don’t hurt a lot so I’ll take that…have had Aja running through my head all morning and I’m not sure why that would be….haven’t heard the song in quite a while and I can’t remember if it is in any of my SD playlists…hmmm….I did get two rides in yesterday but it was supposed to rain today and I was going to take the day off or ride inside with the wind out there but I just might try to get one in here in a few minutes…the rain band is way over in Illinois and won’t be here til later in the day…but I do need to rest my legs and don’t want to do another day of coming back into a 15 mph wind….I am stiff from running the edger two days ago but there isn’t much pain so I won’t take anything for it…still waiting for the leaves to fall so I can get them picked up and out to the curb before the end of the month…they are changing colors so the fall should come soon with cold weather coming in this weekend….not much to do today….should clean some and today would be perfect for doing the fridge but not right now…still working on the first cup of coffee and will need two more of those before I even think of doing that….more later….
Three days, no birds….
Well…dang, I know I sound impatient but it’s been three days with the feeder up and not one bird yet..what the heck is wrong with the birds out here? Okay…I know it took two weeks for them to find it in GR and that was in an area with a lot more birds than I see out here….so, I guess I’ll be patient…or try to be….can’t wait to have another sparrow mosh pit…last winter, I could even recognize individual birds and their behavior and I would like that to happen out here, too….and soon…
Merrick Garland has to go…
Well…you know, I really wanted Merrick Garland to be a good AG and start restoring the rule of law in this country…but, he sits on his hands as all of trump’s cronies ignore congressional subpoenas which is braking the law…a few of them actually and yet Steve Bannon thumbs his nose at them and refuses to even acknowledge that he has received the subpoena…and what about the ten counts of obstruction of justice that Mueller had evidence for in his report? That surely should be enough to charge trump and now, the special prosecutor has shown that 13 people in the idiot’s circle broke the law by campaigning on government time…a violation of the Hatch act that makes this crap a felony….where are the charges for that? Look, I can understand getting your feet under you in new job but 10 months is enough…it’s time to start fixing our broken justice system and if he is not up to it, it’s time for him to go….geez….