Well…was just sitting here marveling (not in a good way) about how Trump and his minions have been trying to delegitimize the election results before they happen since they are so far behind and Donald is just so damn dumb it looks like it’s hopeless for them….if I were in the Clinton campaign, I would attack these charges straight on by invoking the hard working honest poll workers, our fellow citizens that volunteer their time to do a thankless job and who are the people who make sure our elections are fair…and, I would ask Donald point blank..”why do you think your fellow citizens that run elections for all of us are dishonest?” This would shut that blowhard and all of his followers up…elections don’t just happen…thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens give their precious time to make sure our elections can’t be questioned and they do a great job…okay, go ahead and attack again Donald…sad…
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Never before….
Well…the dumpster fire that is the Trump campaign hit a new low yesterday with the Donald actually threatening violence against Hillary and the judges she is going to appoint…yep, this idiot said this “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially, the second amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick-if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.” Now, never before in the history of this country has a nominee of a major party actually threatened to send his “second amendment people” to kill the other candidate if they get elected and do their jobs….and never before has the secret service had to talk to a candidate and his campaign to tell them that it is against the law to do this…but, I guess nothing is out of bounds in the modern repub party….led by the idiot Trump….how can this conceited, homophobic, asshole even be polling even one percent of the vote? This is not America…or maybe it is to the repubs…geez…
The country is moving on from the repubs…
Well….with the events from the Trump dumpster fire over the past week, it is looking more and more that the country is moving on from the core beliefs of the repubs….they want to build a wall and deport 11 million immigrants when a large majority of the rest of the country want some sort of sane immigration policy that would allow these workers to stay (a policy that was embraced by both Reagan an GHW Bush)….the Trump folks are still racist at heart and fear for the loss of “white privilege”…trying mightily to hang on to their shaky place in this society and decrying the idea that they just can’t be openly racist anymore..while supporting Trump for being a racist and “telling it like it is”…maybe it is to them, but the country has moved on and is trying to ensure all of us have the same opportunities….Trump and his followers salivate at the idea of overturning Obergfell and making gays second class citizens again while the country has moved on and accept the equal rights of the LGBT community…you get my drift? Trump and his followers are the last gasp of the idea that the rights of the “others” they don’t like is up to them…but the country has moved on from that whole premise…and is leaving them behind…all I can say is good riddance…this is 2016 not 1916….geez….
August 10th
Well…I did get to the beach yesterday…but the water was not 74 degrees as was listed on the web….more like 60 degrees…colder than heck and I still have water in my ears…there were clouds of those darn biting flies and I felt like I was in the middle of Africa….the drive out and back was fun, though, so that was something….I was going to take the day off the bike but when I got back here the guilts took over and I got out about 2:30 or so…riding is not fun without the jolt from caffeine that I get in the morning and the overhead sun was just too much…and, they had two legs of my trail shut off to do some repairs and that was just annoying….so, today I am getting back to the routine of working out and getting the ride in early….don’t need to cook today since I have leftovers but I do need to dig in the freezer to prepare for meals later in the week…and make a run out to the market to get some tomatoes….more later….
One little bit of truth…
Well….if you missed it, the Donald gave what could be called an economics speech the other day in Detroit…and, in between the Hillary bad crap, there was just one little bit of truth that came through…ole Trump was going off about how bad the Michigan economy is and how it would be so much better if the dems weren’t running it…yeah, well, Donald…take another look…the dems don’t control anything here in Michigan so of course, the crappy economy is the repubs fault…that wage stagnation is a result of policies that take money from retirees and give it to CEO’s so they can buy another summer home while we struggle to pay our bills….and laws that allow the repub freeloaders to not pay their fair share of taxes, and that allow freeloading union members to reap the benefits of union representation while not paying for that representation…but that is the repub way…bitch about freeloaders and then put policies in place that allow repubs to be the freeloaders while everyone else can go to hell…sad….
August 9th
Well…running early today since I needed to get this done before I head out to GH for my yearly beach morning and swim….yesterday was a total waste with the Olympics on but today, I think I’ll just ignore them and do the normal day after I get back here…not sure if I’ll get on the bike or not today…I could use a day off to heal the legs and with the disappointment from the past couple of days, I just don’t feel like doing much…..will fill you in on that one later once I understand what is going on….was good last night so the ride out today should be fun…it is a little cool, though, with it just breaking 60 so I think I may have to put the heat on a little with the top down….more later….
Marco Rubio is still evil…
Well…with the do nothing repubs fleeing town after playing politics with funding to fight the Zika virus that has invaded the US, most strongly in Florida, little Marco Rubio has weighed in on the birth defects that come from the infection. In an interview the other day, ole Marco said that since he is “strongly pro life” (or forced birth), he thinks pregnant women who may be infected with the virus shouldn’t be able to get abortions…or any women for that matter. Never mind that babies born with the defects will need a lifetime of specialized care running into the millions of dollars or that the stress of caring for one of these kids can shorten the lives of the mothers…no, no abortion for any reason is the only thing that ole Marco can say. Having a not too bright politician determine the direction of a woman’s life is just wrong on so many levels but that is what the repubs are all about…they sure don’t give a damn about woman’s health in this country…one of little Marco’s compatriots in Florida made the statement “there have always been birth defects…what’s so special about these?” That about sums up the cruel, evil repubs these days….geez…
Buzzardnado…
Well…out on the bike this morning, there was an odor along the whole trail that smelled like a dumpster fire…couldn’t figure out what it was until I remembered that Trump is going to give a speech on his “economic plan” in Detroit today….and that stinks even all the way to here…but, that’s not what this one is about…there were a couple of things that happened on the trail that I wanted to talk about yesterday but I forgot…so, I’ll do that today. Sitting at the park at my last water stop, I looked up as I usually do to find 11 black buzzards flying in a tight spiral that was a couple of hundred feet high…and the first thing I thought of was the “Shaknado” movies from syfy…and “Buzzardnado” popped into my head…so syfy, I have that name copyrighted….oh, one other thing…just getting to the trail today and there was a huge female red-tailed hawk just sitting on the top of the chain link fence that runs beside it…it was close enough to touch and didn’t move when I went by…pretty cool….
August 8th
Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for another one yesterday…not sure why other than I was distracted by the Olympics….didn’t get anything else done either, and that annoys me somewhat….I did get the slow cooked chicken done and it came out okay…will have food for the next few days now and that is good since I really don’t feel like cooking at all…my legs have been hurting the past couple of days and I can’t figure that out…I did go hard on the bike yesterday but that shouldn’t show up for a day or so…might just be getting old….feel a little slow today and I am forcing myself to get going…and that is not really working right now…maybe more coffee? I do need to get the workout and bike ride in today since tomorrow is going to be a beach day and that means I’ll miss both….the lake temp is almost 75 so that will make for a good swim….no waves though so that is disappointing but I need to keep the string alive…have been in the lake every year since I was 5 and that is a really long time…more later….
August 7th
Well…another Saturday passed with no damage so I guess that is a win…didn’t get anything done and the damn bike is still squeaking so I am a little irritated today….and there are way too many things to watch in the olympics and I fear that I am going to have a lost two weeks when they are on….too easy to make excuses and veg out on the couch….I do need to get moving and get the slow cooker loaded with the chicken and other stuff that I want to cook today…maybe that will be the taste that I need to want to eat again….still not a lot of pain right now but the boredom is getting pretty fierce….might have to spend some money to go out somewhere and just be around some people for a change…..not much to do today….just the bike ride and a race later and I am going to veg out most of the day…more later…