Well….as we all know, the entire 4 years of the trump “administration” has just been one big grift to line the pockets of trump and his cronies…and that is the reason that he continues to shout “voter fraud” even with his toady Barr coming out yesterday to say that the justice department has not seen any fraud that would change the outcome of the election….he needs the cash that he continues to beg for and that his deplorables continue to send him to the tune of 175 million dollars and counting. This money, that is supposed to be used to litigate the “voter fraud”, is going straight to a trump controlled super pac that you know he is going to use to finance his lifestyle and will probably use to pay off the 400 million dollars in personally guaranteed loans that are coming due in the next two years. The latest money making scheme that the criminal trump has come up with is to sell presidential pardons for contributions to this same super pac…the Washington Post reported that there is an FBI investigation going on right now and some court papers were released that show the depth of the investigation…it is heavily redacted so you don’t see who the parties involved are, but I’m sure this is just the first in another criminal conspiracy that idiot boy is at the center of…and trump is the only one who could issue a presidential pardon and we all know he spends his days trying to monetize the presidency and still believes he is above the law…but only for now…the AG of NY is just sitting there waiting with indictments that will be filed on the 20th of January at 12:01 pm….it is going to be a glorious perp walk when the entire trump crime family ends up in jail….
December 2nd
Well…not going to do the engine size comment this morning since I don’t think there was ever a 6:19….maybe in a truck…slept okay last night but I’m back to coughing again and my head is stuffed up and that is pretty damn annoying…but I’m not too sore even after the ride into the high winds yesterday but that will come tomorrow especially after going out in the wind again today…I do need to continue to clean today but that is going to wait until after I do the grocery run this morning….might make ham soup today since I have lots of ham bones in the freezer and need to get rid of some of them before I buy another ham for the holidays…but I may wait until the weekend to try to spread out the work and help with the boredom…at least Man U plays this afternoon so that will take up a couple of hours….and there is an early game, too, so that might make three hours….not much to do today…need to hit three grocery stores on the run today since I want to check out DD for vegetable egg rolls that they have on sale for 3 pound for 3 bucks…and then just the normal aldis and Meijers stops for the rest of it….more later…
Got some work done today…
Well…sitting here freezing after getting out for a bike ride, one of the most brutal I’ve had in a while going out into a 15 to 20mph wind and it only being 31 degreess when I left here…oh, the sparrows just found the feeder and it only took them 6 days this time…have a flock of them out there right now…oh, back to the work….I got really tired of the laundry room looking so shabby so I got after that this morning, cleaning the lint and dirt up and vacuuming the paneling that was coated with it…then I replaced the rotting 2×4 that was used to level the dryer with a new piece of pressure treated stuff that was left over from the fence….I cleaned both the washer and dryer, too along with vacuuming off and washing the top of the fridge…getting rid of some spilled goo that had run down the side of it and then cleaning part of the floor and the laundry sink…and that was enough for the day…I still have a couple of hours more work to finish it but it does look a lot better than it did…and now I’m going to watch some soccer and take a nap….
The pardons have started…
Well…as everyone in the entire country knew, trump would pardon everyone in his orbit since it is filled with petty and serious criminals and that started yesterday with Michael Flynn who admitted lying to the FBI twice about his contacts with the Russians that he did to undermine Obama’s foreign policy. And this pardon is like nothing anyone has seen before since it covers every crime he committed or may have committed for his entire life and anything that he could commit in the future. Yep, the ultimate “get out of jail free” card and it is just the first of many we are going to see in the next 50 days and idiot boy is already discussing blanket pardons for himself and his entire family with his lawyers but, as I keep saying, these pardons don’t do anything for the state charges they are all going to face in NY and many other states who are in the qeue with their own charges after NY charges them. One other thing that pardons do that these morons are too stupid to understand is make them guilty of the charges they are being pardoned for and then cancels their 5th amendment rights so when they are called to testify in any other trial or investigation, they have to do it and can’t hide behind self incrimination as an excuse….so, when trump pardons himself, he will be an impeached and convicted ex-president as will the rest of his criminal family…and there is even some conjecture that a pardon with corrupt intent is not even a valid pardon but that will be sorted out in the courts over the next years….I wonder why it is that only repub administrations have to even think about pardons? Yeah, that’s easy…they think the law doesn’t apply to them while they are running the place and commit crime after crime….the law and order party my ass…geez….
December 1st
Well…it was another engine size wake up time this morning…woke up at 4:13 and that is the size of a Chrysler engine from the late 50′s to early 60′s…I wonder how many of these will come up? I do know I had some dreams after I got back to sleep that involved schools, partying on a river and topless women…yep, it was a weird as that sounds…but I slept okay and feel okay this morning so I’ll take it…didn’t get out for a bike ride yesterday with how cold and windy it was all day and today is looking the same with the wind blowing almost 20 right now and the temp is only 31 and not warming up until the afternoon….and the wind is still going to be over 15 and that is normally my cutoff for getting out…didn’t get much done yesterday but I didn’t need to so I guess I shouldn’t feel guilty at all…I do need to start cleaning this place up to prep for the move but I’m not really motivated for that yet…I kind of like that my legs don’t hurt at all this morning even going up and down the stairs into the basement but that will change if I go out in the wind….I haven’t even been outside in two days and that makes my world seem pretty small….not much to do today….again, pretty true but I will need to figure something out to keep the guilts at bay…probably dust patrol would be in order since I haven’t done that in quite a while…..more later….
Cripes, just noticed I’ve been doing this for 10 years…
Well…when I was looking to see what my record is for posts in a single month (it’s 105) I just noticed that I’ve been doing this since April of 2010…10 years of doing two of these a day…and that means almost 9,000 of them over the years and that is a lot of writing…and this month will be the second most in one month since I started…and yep, I am cheating some by doing this one but there’s not a placeholder in the bunch and I used to do that a lot when I found a topic but didn’t want to write about it just yet….so this ends out the month on a day when I have really done nothing but look for houses…skipped the bike ride today with the cold and wind gusting to over 30 at times…it does look like I’m going to have to change the way I look at houses since they are selling so fast…will have to pull the trigger as soon as I see one…going to make that my full time job this month with the goal being to have one purchased by the end of December….going to be a little nerve wracking since I probably won’t even have time to look at them and that will ratchet up my stress levels a bit…oh, well…that’s the new normal and I do need to have one bought by the end of the month….or just take my down payment money and find a cabin in Montana and live like a hermit…I am anyway here in GR….hmmmm….
Medical transparency?
Well…have been looking for a political topic all day today without much luck…I could write that Arizona certified it’s vote for Joe today putting what should be the last nail in idiot boy’s voter fraud coffin…but, I’m not….I am laughing about the right and fox news going off about Joe’s doctors trying to hide his medical problems and hooting about “medical transparency” while not even noticing their abject hypocrisy on this subject…yep, Joe does have a medical problem and it is serious…he cracked a bone in his foot when he slipped playing with one of his dogs Sunday…that’s it, having fun being normal playing with his dog and he cracked a bone in his foot…and the howl about transparency? Within hours of going for x-rays for the foot, Joe’s personal doctor made a statement that he thought it was just a sprain but would update after a CT scan that is more accurate…and within minutes after getting the results the doctor reported that Joe had a broken bone in his foot and would be wearing a walking cast for a couple of weeks but would be fine. Now, let’s contrast that with idiot boy’s rush to Bethesda over a year ago….and the lies were that it was just the first part of his “physical” and they wouldn’t share any of the results or why he was really there…and trump never went back for the “second half” and wouldn’t answer any questions about it…now, which incident looks the most transparent to you? It’s all the same bullshit from the right…trump can do whatever he wants and it is okay, but Joe is going to be nitpicked for the next 8 years…after all there was 15 minutes between when his doctor got the results and when he reported them…and that is unacceptable…because Joe is a democrat…bullshit hypocrisy….typical repubs….geez…
Is Manchester United for real?
Well…I was going to combine all three of these sports posts into one but the first one went a little long so I decided to break them up into their component parts as I sit here and try to stay busy…I am a little confused about Man U after their start this year in the Premier League….they were mired down the table at about 15th and it appeared they could be headed to relegation which would be one of the biggest shocks in English football…or soccer…but, something happened over the past few weeks and they have climbed up to 7th, only 5 points from the top and with a good shot of making the top four to get back to the champions league in Europe in the spring. But, damn, they are becoming cardiac kids that is a little stressful to watch…like their game yesterday, they went behind 2-0 early and the score stayed that way until well into the 2nd half when I just turned it off with frustration with how they were playing…but then, like someone turned on a switch, they came back to win in the final minutes of the game 3-2 and I missed it until I saw it on the game highlights later in the day….I was shocked to say the least and maybe I’ll have to stay with them in their next match just to see if it’s a fluke or not….it would be nice to have one team that I follow do well since all of the rest of them really, really suck this year….fingers crossed…
Finally, the Lions fire Patricia….
Well…as you know, the Detroit Lions have been one of the worst teams in football since they won their final championship in 1957, only making the playoffs a few times and never winning a playoff game…and the past three years have been one of the worst stretches in that time…with the current regime going something like 13-39 in that time. But, finally, the head coach and GM of this debacle were fired over the weekend and we start another “rebuild” of the team that seems like it has been going on since I started watching them when I was five or so. Matt Patricia came to the Lions from New England along with the GM Quinn and they were supposed geniuses that were going to bring the “Patriot way” to the Lions…after all the Patriots won 3 super bowls while these two were there so they just had to be great….but, not so much….they failed miserably in Detroit and joined the long line of other “saviors” that failed to even put a credible team on the field…so now the rebuild begins and we wait another two years until the Lions can be even a mediocre team….I could be dead by then…I think we need a new team here in Michigan….geez…
A little sports….
Well….I have been sitting here pondering whether or not to go out for a ride and have come up with many reasons not to…okay, not reasons but excuses but they look like reasons to me…it’s cold, the wind is blowing, I have coffee to finish, my legs are sore…you get the idea…but, that’s not what I wanted to talk about…if you watched the F1 race yesterday, you saw one of the most horrifying crashes that I have ever seen…Roman Grosjean, driving for the American Haas team cut across the track to avoid a car that was trying to spin out and clipped the front of another car that sent it straight into the guardrail at around 140 mph….when the car hit, it broke in half, puncturing the fuel tank and driving the drivers protective cell straight through the guardrail leaving it stuck in it and engulfed in fire….track marshals arrived quickly but it looked to be a fatal accident…then, you see the driver climbing out of the remains of the car and running away from the scene with the help of the doctor and driver of the medical car…I was shocked that Roman even survived the crash, but to see him walking away was one of the coolest things I have ever seen…and yesterday evening, he posted a video with his burned hands saying he would be okay and he was in good spirits and looking forward to getting back to the track…go out to you tube and watch it…it is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen at a racetrack….