Well…is this enough, repubs? Is having pimps and spies hanging out with trump at his Florida golf course enough? How classless can you allow trump to be before you frickin do something about it? The latest, if you haven’t heard already, is that a Chinese woman who owns a string of massage parlors widely know to be hotbeds of sex trafficking has been a regular invitee to Mar a Lago and there are photos to prove it…and trump and his swamp buddies know exactly what she and her husband do for a living and are perfectly fine with it. To make things even worse (how the hell can it be?), these same two Chinese nationals have also been selling access to trump and his cronies to Chinese “businessmen” (or spies since the term is really the same) through the Florida golf course whenever trump is there. Now, I’m not really being alarmist to say that there is spying going on here, in fact, trump and his cronies are so compromised by these activities that they are vulnerable to blackmail, and we can see how that works with trump and Putin….and the Chinese are no less aggressive in using this information to get what they want…making it look like they are just being “friends” with trump and his cronies. So, what is it going to take repubs? trump only thinks about himself and ways to make money off his “presidency” and I’ll bet he is getting kickbacks from these two Chinese nationals for these “meetings”…how can you continue to support this criminal? Impeach…
March 10th
Well…another damn time change and it’s going to take me all day to get used to it…I think the spring change is easier for me but we’ll see as the day goes on…slept normally for me and that means I am a little worn out right now before I get at the coffee and I hope that will go away in a while…I am going to take a rest day from the bike today with riding twice a day every day last week and my legs do need a rest to stop the low grade pain I’ve had all week….and I hurt everywhere again this morning so resting should help that, too…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but watch soccer and races and today is going to be the same with Moto GP and soccer that starts at 8 and then two more soccer matches ending with Man U at 12:30, then into the indy car race and Napcar later…so, I’ll have background noise for the whole day…I really should clean some, too but I’m not sure how motivated I’m going to be…more later…
500 miles on the bike…
Well…don’t really feel like doing one on politics today…just feel exhausted and have just been able to get up off the couch and move around for the first time today…well…not the first time…I have been on the bike twice today and that was a lot of work…but, I did get to a kind of a milestone on the bike today when I got to 500 miles for the year…with the majority of of that being indoors on the trainer after getting in a hundred miles or so before the weather got bad and closed the trails. I do like the idea of just walking across my place and getting on the bike but I am getting antsy to get back outside…I don’t miss being cold at all, though, and I may just wait to go out until after it gets warm enough to go with light gloves and no stocking hat. So, it looks like I’ll already have 600 miles on the bike before I hit the trails and that just may get me to 4,000 miles this year…
March 9th
Well…running a little late today with getting sucked into a tv show this morning and not really having any motivation to get moving…and I got up a little later than normal staying in bed until 6:41 after getting up for the first time at 5:18…and I didn’t sleep too badly with my shoulder no longer keeping me up at all…and the damage from yesterday is not too painful so it appears it was just a little muscle strain but we’ll see as I get moving around here today….I am going to try to make instant pot refried beans this weekend since, looking at the label on a can of them, they are just saturated with salt with each serving of half a cup having over 600mg of salt added and I can’t tolerate that much salt in my diet…and it will give me something to do later today or tomorrow…didn’t get a lot done yesterday since I am just idling waiting for them to come next week and fix the water pipe in my storage closet and I’ll probably not do much today…need to watch some soccer and ease into the day with coffee and a little news…more later…
It finally broke…
Well…my fitness program was interrupted today when my weight machine finally broke…or a cable on the machine broke as I was doing pull downs with 150 pounds on it…when it broke, it released all the pressure I had on my back and legs and I ended up hyper extending my left leg, hurting my hamstring and the ligaments in the back of my knee along with my calf…I could barely walk on it when it happened but I was able to get on the bike and keep it warm so it didn’t freeze up on me…but, it still hurts and I am a little irritated that the damn machine only lasted 15 years of almost daily use…yep, that was a little joke…I have a plan to fix it by splicing in a new piece of cable Monday…have been thinking about how to fix it ever since the cable started to fray quite a few years ago and it shouldn’t cost more than 10 bucks so that will be cool….
A blameless life?
Well…not sure if you’ve read about the sentencing of Paul Manafort that took place yesterday and the shock that almost everyone feels for the rogue judge when he ignored sentencing guidelines that would have put Manafort in jail for a minimum of 19 years and sentenced him to only 47 months in jail. The most jawdropping comment that the judge made before pronouncing sentence was that, until these crimes, Manafort had led a ‘blameless life”…a blameless life? What the hell world is this idiot living in? Manafort has been the “murderers lobbyist” for the past 30 years, working for some of the worst of the worst dictators in the world, helping to get people murdered and governments overthrown along with even helping a Ukrainian dictator attack American soldiers during unrest there. So, no judge, Manafort did not live a blameless life and you have just driven another stake into the integrity of the US legal system…and you have shown that if you are a friend of trump, you can get away with anything with just a slap on the wrist. For a little context here…a woman in Texas voted mistakenly…she thought she was eligible to vote but wasn’t…and she was sentenced to 12 years in prison…and a guy who bought legal marijuana in Oregon and took it back to Mississippi is now spending 15 years in prison. Manafort did not deserve any lenience since he continued to commit crimes almost up to his sentencing but this trump loving judge took it up himself to do what he could to de-legitimize and attack the Mueller investigation by this terrible travesty of a sentence. Impeach…
March 8th
Well…another morning of single frickin digit temperatures and that is pretty damn depressing for March…I am so tired of the cold and snow and winter and we are even to the daylight savings time change this weekend and it is still 8 degrees out there…oh, well…slept okay last night and feel just a little slow today and I can deal with that…just had the first sip of coffee and need it to work right now so I can get on with the morning…not sure why I still feel the need to adhere to a schedule every day but I do need to keep my days organized and that helps some…don’t want to have everything unstructured since that would mean I would have to think more and I don’t want to do that…didn’t get anything done yesterday and I think I’ll try to clean some today but who knows? I do need to get out and run some errands this morning with the powerball getting up to almost 400 million for tomorrow and I do need something upbeat to think about…but, I’m going to get more coffee and read some news first….more later…
A little nervous?
Well…I guess we now know what the response is going to be to all of the requests for documents from the trump criminal organization….bullshit and bluster that started with the idiot trump tweeting desperate “witch hunt” in all caps and then we had the spectacle of little idiot eric going on fox this morning and trying to laugh at the requests, calling them ridiculous and lying that they asked him for his correspondence with Putin when everyone knows that is not true…and that performance got to members of the committees who are investigating who calmly replied that it appears that eric is scared of something and that they are just doing the job congress should have been doing the past two years…and that’s the point here, if the repubs had been doing their jobs instead of protecting the criminal in chief, there wouldn’t be a need for congress to play catch up by asking for all of this information….it is going to be just delicious to see the trump idiots squirm when the subpoenas start to fly and it is no longer just the niceties of requests that they are getting…hey little boy eric….manafort tried the same bluster and bullshit and guess where he’s going for the rest of his life? Better get your tailor started on that orange jumpsuit…it’s what you’ll be wearing for the next 20 years…impeach…
March 7th
Well…running a little late today with doing the grocery run before this and not getting out of bed until almost 6…I did sleep okay last night and my shoulder continues to improve…slowly…and I have very little pain today so that is a welcome change even with working out yesterday…I did have to take some antihistamine last night since my head was stuffy and I had a headache that had gone on for a few days…I had forgotten how well the little red ones worked and I am still clear this morning…hadn’t taken any of those since last September since they raise your BP too much…I did take an ibuprofen to go with it and that may have something to do with my shoulder being better…need to get the swelling down in the tendons since I can feel them clicking when I move my shoulder…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I feel okay today so I think I’ll start sorting out stuff that I don’t need anymore and get rid of it…need to simplify and streamline so I’ll have less to move when I do…it’s another leftover day today so I won’t be cooking but I do need to plan for the next stuff I need to cook and get it out of the freezer…I think I have enough in there to eat for a month so…more later….
This is kind of overwhelming…
Well…I think there is a problem with me having some time on my hands lately…I have been sliding back to watching more news than is healthy for me…or for anyone for that matter…but it seems to be important with all that is going on in this country right now…but, that doesn’t make it any less overwhelming when new scandals explode every day….I think I need to try to pace myself and limit the amount of news that I watch or read daily…but, that is me…I’ve always been a news junkie and wanted to know what the heck is going on…not sure why…on a daily basis, not much of the news has any impact on my life and really never has so I can’t explain it…but, I can remember waiting for the newspaper to come when I was about 7 or so and watching the nightly national news shows with Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley from even earlier than that…so I wonder if it’s something in my DNA that makes me want to understand what is going on? All I know is that this is an interesting time and I am being sucked back into the news that I have been avoiding since idiot boy got elected….and I’m not sure how I feel about that…we’ll see…