Well…as the idiot trump tries to use his go to racism to get re-elected, that pathetic little man has now attacked Bubba Wallace in a tweet calling the noose incident in the garage area a “hoax” and screeching that Bubba should apologize for his part in getting rid of the confederate traitors flag from nascar events and for elevating the idea that black lives do matter in the nascar community. Look, there are people giving trump a pass today on this racist piece of crap he spewed out of his twitter hole but I won’t…he knew exactly what he was doing…playing to his dwindling racist base and trying to use the bullshit tactics that helped putin install him. Let’s get the facts straight here….Bubba didn’t find or report the noose, that information was brought to him by nascar management and it was nascar management who called in the FBI, Bubba had nothing to do with it and not once did he do anything to exacerbate the problem…and nascar made the decision to ban the traitor’s flag not Bubba, in response to their recognition that nascar had a racism problem. I think the idiot trump is just going nuts because he had lots of support from the brass at nascar back in 2016 and that support has evaporated as it becomes widely known that he is an incompetent racist who is responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 Americans by his abdication of his responsibilities to go and play golf and have hate rallies. If any other *president had attacked a private citizen this way the calls for his resignation would have shaken the roof of congress…but the repubs give this moron a pass on all of his egregious behavior…but the voters won’t…tick tock…
July 6th
Well…that just sucked….up and down all night last night and feel like crap this morning…and I was an idiot and ate some nuts that I know I don’t tolerate anymore so I’ll be paying for that all day…and my toe feels like it’s going to start hurting again even though it doesn’t right now…it just itches which it has never done before…I don’t remember a streak of weather like this in a long time…it has been over 90 for more than two weeks now and looks like there is another two weeks before we get a break…and that is just damn tiring…I did get two rides in again yesterday and I am going to try to do two today but I just have no energy right now so I’m not sure if I can manage it….I did pick some beans from my gardens yesterday and I am going to cook them today for lunch…pretty sure I didn’t plant enough of them since I cleaned off the plants of 5 inch ones and only got enough for one meal….I do know that when I get my house I need to do a better job of conditioning the soil since my plants seem to be somewhat stunted and my green pepper plants never developed any fruit….but that is the learning process that this garden is supposed to serve…and I will get tomatoes by the end of the month and that will be cool….didn’t get much done yesterday but I am going to work on the back of the garage today so I can get it washed and painted this week…so that may keep me to only one ride today but we’ll see…I do need to clean the stairs to the basement today since that door is the one I use most and I drag lots of dirt in from working outdoors that collects on the landing and then I track it into the kitchen…and that is annoying when walking barefoot in the summer….still have too damn much to do….more later…
This is weird…
Well…okay, this is a little weird…my foot stopped hurting yesterday morning and it still doesn’t hurt today…and most of the redness is gone from my toe…how the heck did that happen? The only change I’ve made over the past week is to drink a lot more water…oh, and I only did one ride yesterday so maybe that had something to do with it? This one is going to be a little confusing since my foot is still puffy…it just doesn’t hurt anymore…I wonder if it’s going to fall off? I do know this is a welcome change and another strange thing is I was ready to use up the rest of the gout medicine I have Saturday but decided that the ibuprofen was working well enough so I’d save it for a bad pain day…and then it just stops hurting….I’ll take it though….now I need to get the pain in the rest of the foot from favoring the toe to go away and I’ll be back to as normal as I can be…
Trump’s new trial lead balloon…
Well…hey, we have a new talking point coming out of the most incompetent and corrupt administration in US history on it’s coronavirus response and it is the epitome of bullshit….with now over 140,000 Americans dead from trump’s ignoring or quitting on any response to the virus…oh, by the way…he’s out golfing again today as cases explode in Florida and Texas to the highest daily total of new cases…again…but that doesn’t matter to trump’s toadies…their new talking point is that trump has “stepped forward” (whatever the hell that means) since we didn’t have the worst case of 2.2 million deaths by now….so now, murdering 140,000 Americans is a success? The only reason that we haven’t seen a million dead is for the efforts of governors across the country who listened to the scientists and made the hard decisions of lockdowns and requiring masks to stem the spread….Like our governor here in Michigan who made the hard choices early but even with that, we still lost 6,000 Michganders and had almost 60,000 cases here…and it’s easy to see what would have happened if we would have had a repub governor and trump suck up in charge…just take a look at Florida and Texas whose combined daily infection totals reached almost 50,000…yep, in one damn day they had as many cases as Michigan did in months…but trump “stepped forward” and through his heroic efforts more than 100,000 additional Americans are going to die….or possibly even 150,000 since the morons in red states are spreading the virus back to the blue states who busted their asses to do the right thing….so let’s let this trial balloon crash and burn like it should…and maybe instead of “stepping forward” trump should just step down instead….
July 5th
Well…running early for a Sunday with getting up at 5 or so after not sleeping much last night…it sounded like a damn war zone around here last night and it was so loud I had earplugs in and pillows on my head and still couldn’t sleep…going to put a complaint in with the city today to see if I can join with the people trying to get fireworks outlawed in GR…there just is no reason the whole damn neighborhood has to suffer just because some ass wants to play soldier….but, my foot doesn’t hurt even without ibuprofen so I guess that’s something…for right now anyway….it did feel good to only take one ride yesterday but I’ll be back on for two today…and I need to get the first one done before 9 so I can watch the F1 race…I am a little sore from weeding the gardens yesterday but it feels good to see them looking neat and tidy….I may even pick some beans today to try them…have never gone straight form the garden to the plate with beans and I am looking forward to that…can’t wait for tomatoes later in the month….I am going to try to clean up the back of the garage today so I can make some headway on painting the garage siding this week…and I started trying to save the front lawn by watering it yesterday and it looks like I’ll need to keep that up for weeks until the next time it rains…whenever that will be….more later…
First crop!
Well….the day I have been anticipating since I planted my gardens is here! Today, I picked my first crops, 4 Jalapenos, from the plants in my garden so I could make pickled Jalapenos….and I did but added red onions and green peppers to make a sandwich topping that I used on a chicken sandwich with dijon mustard for dinner tonight. Yow, 4 jalpenos and the other vegs in a quart of pickling liquid and they are still damn spicy….and I’m not sure how my body is going to react to them but they tasted good and I ended up sweating from them so I’ll just hope that I can tolerate them this time…not sure what I’m going to do with all of the jalapenos if I can’t eat them but I guess I can give them away…and the green beans are almost big enough to pick some for a meal but I should have planted double the plants I did…I have 5 of them but I can eat all of them that are ready in one meal so I guess I’ve learned something for when I get my own house…plant lots of bean plants…maybe a dozen or so….plant more of everything except tomatoes….I think I’ll have plenty of those….still it’s pretty cool that my gardens have started to give me some good, healthy food to eat….can’t wait for the tomatoes….
Joe sure looks and sounds like a president…
Well….after watching a few of the ads that the dems have put out with Joe Biden being Joe, the thing that strikes me is that he looks and sounds like a president, like a decent guy who does want to do what’s best for the country and doesn’t have a bone of hate in his body…I know we’re just getting into the meat of the campaign but I hope they do something like a split screen with Joe on one side and the idiot boy on the other going off on another of his hateful, ignorant, racist screeds….I do think that would bring home the chaos fatigue that most people are feeling right now…if they are anything like me, they are just damn tired of the awfulness of trump and his cronies and the constant lies they spout every day…and the fecklessness of trump’s coronavirus response which is now getting a new slogan from the trump camp…”you are just going to have to get used to it”…..not we’re digging in and will snuff out this scourge but meh, I’m bored and it’s too much work so just get used to your loved ones dying so I can go golf. Can you imagine this coming out of Joe’s mouth? Yeah, I can’t either and that’s the difference..trump doesn’t give a damn about you or me or anyone else…and Joe would die to protect you…pretty stark difference, huh? Get out and vote….
I just remembered something…
Well…not sure what is going on but I have felt pretty good today…I wonder if it is only doing one ride today or something else going on? All I know is that I got the gardens both weeded today and cleaned up so they look good again…and my toe doesn’t hurt too much so that is cool, too…but, I just remembered something when I was outside working…you know I’ve been concerned about the swelling in my foot and not having any luck getting it back to normal no matter how much water I drink or how much I keep it elevated…then it dawned on me today that it has been in the 90’s or close to it for a couple of weeks now and whenever that happens, my foot swells up some…and that has been happening since I was in my 20’s but that memory was pushed to the back of my mind by the recurrence of the gout and thinking that they were related….but, what if they aren’t? What if they are two overlaying problems that just happen to be occurring at the same time? If I didn’t have the redness an pain from the gout, I probably wouldn’t think much about the swelling or I would have remembered that it happens all the time when it’s hot. so, I’m not sure what to think now…I’m still going to keep drinking every bit of water I can since that will help with the gout but I may just live with the puffiness until we get a break in this weather in a few weeks and see what happens…nothing seems to work anyway and it may take a little stress off my brain….hmmmm…
July 4th
Well…damn, it’s still hot and I just looked at the weather forecast and it is going to be in the mid 90’s as far out as the forecast goes…that means at least another two weeks of this crap and that is depressing in itself…I didn’t sleep too bad with a fan running all night and now I have two going to try to pump cool air into this place before it gets sweltering again…but it looks like I’m only going to do one ride today with F1 coming back for qualifying at 9 and then Man U plays at 10, Indycar races at noon and then nascar at 2 so there isn’t a window to do two today…and that is not a bad thing…I can use a semi rest day since I am pretty damn stiff this morning….so stiff that I took an ibuprofen already for both my foot and for the stiffness….didn’t get much done in the heat yesterday and today will be the same since we old guys have to be careful when the temp gets to 95 and the humidity goes nuts…I may try to do a short, hard cleanup of the back of the garage and then back into the fans inside…even with a half hour I can make some progress there and I need that to try to stop the depression…just feel so damn useless not being able to work around here as time ticks away and I need to find a house to buy…not much to do today…okay, I’ve already said what I’m going to do so I won’t repeat myself…don’t need to cook but I may pick some jalapenos to pickle them for some burgers…sure hope I can tolerate them but if not, I’ll have some to give away….more later….
Now we know why Barr fired Berman…
Well…I know there has been tons of speculation of why bill Barr chose now to fire the US atty in charge of the SDNY last week and, of course, it’s more obstruction of justice on Barr’s part. Just yesterday, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s conspirators in the procuring of young girls for the rich and powerful in New York, Ghislaine Maxwell, was indicted and arrested by guess who? The SDNY and the new US attorney that Barr did his best to try to sideline with his bullshit firing of Berman…let’s back up a minute…Barr tried to say that Berman “resigned” which would give him the ability to appoint another of his toadies to an essential prosecutor’s office just like he did in DC which made all of the trump investigations go away…but Barr is not too bright and didn’t realize that Berman refusing to resign and Barr getting the idiot trump to fire him triggered another process that put the number two in the SDNY in charge instead of his toady. Without his guy in charge, the investigations of trump and Epstein’s co-conspirators have gone forward, resulting in the indictment and arrest of Maxwell…and guess who she has info on? Yep, trump attended many, many of Epstein’s parties and there have been rumors flying around that he was involved with raping underage girls just like Epstein was convicted of. But, with Epstein dead, the person who knows the most about those parties is Maxwell and do you think she may have some incentive to flip on trump and the rest of those pedophiles to get a lighter sentence? Yep, if the SDNY operates like any other office, they will trade a lighter sentence every day to get at the powerful people who were behind the exploitation of minors. That’s why Barr was so hot to get his guy in charge…to make the investigations of anything trump go away including the rest of the Epstein investigation…now we have the AG of the US trying to protect child rapists…I think this may be a problem for Barr when trump loses…you can bet he will be called to the congress to explain and there could even be criminal charges included…couldn’t happen to a worse person….tick tock Barr….