Well…yeah, I’m running late for this one today with being busy with all kinds of other stuff that has left me sore as heck…it even hurts to type so this one is going to be short…if you are getting disheartened with all of the damage that trump and his cronies are doing to this country, just remember one thing…everything they do can be undone if we just get the hell out and vote in November. Just today, we had the trump toady Barr put his fingers in another case by dropping the charges against Michael Flynn who admitted to lying to the FBI and plead guilty to that and other charges…but that doesn’t matter to Barr…he dropped the charges anyway and the speculation is it was to head off the idiot trump pardoning Flynn since the pardon could be used against trump in the campaign…not that he wasn’t guilty, the justice department is now just another part of idiot boy’s campaign apparatus…and that is something that has never happened in the history of this country. But, guess what doesn’t happen, the evidence against Flynn doesn’t magically disappear…it will still be there when an ethical AG is appointed by Biden in January and the charges can then be re-instated and Flynn will still pay for his betrayal of this country…and this goes for every other damn thing trump is doing….letting polluters off the hook for killing people? Not after January….favoring red states over blue? Done after January….and so on and so on….all we need to do is vote and this nightmare will be over…and trump will be in jail….
May 7th
Well…running a little late today with not getting up til coffee o’clock and I can’t get started for some reason…but, my overall pain is better after remembering to take something for it last night…I even hurt so much that I took something for it yesterday afternoon and that made a huge difference on the bike and for the rest of the afternoon…not sure if that can be sustained but it was nice to be able to move around here without pain for a while…but now I’m coughing again and that is damn annoying….but at least I know it’s allergies with my head plugged up too….enough of that…I do have an errand to run this morning to return the hose I bought Tuesday since it blew an end off the second time I used it…but that spurred me to buy another expanding hose instead and I got the chain lube I have been thinking about with it and that will be here in a couple of weeks since Amazon is still slow with all of the people using it….and that hose was only 19 bucks…the same as the one that exploded so that was cool…but I lost the receipt so it may be a pain to get the refund….oh, well….I did get the trim on the garage wire brushed yesterday so I can paint today if I feel like it…but it has to be today or I’ll have to wait for a week or so with the cold that is coming in…I mean 24 degrees in May? Pretty sure I’ll lose the tomato plants that I planted but I have more seeds planted downstairs so they’re not needed but we’ll see how that goes…not much to do today….will probably only do one ride today if I get to the painting and that will help with healing the legs some…it’s a little weird that only doing one ride a day now feels like a failure after doing doubles for almost two weeks….more later….
31 million out of work…
Well…if the idiot trump’s incompetence wasn’t clear before, and really, it has been damn clear for years now, the new number of unemployed will clear out all of the smog…31 million Americans out of work…let’s put that in perspective…this is the same percentage of people that were out of work in the great depression…24-25%…even at the trough of the great recession of 2008, the unemployment rate only reached 10%….and the carnage isn’t over yet….layoffs are still happening with at least another 5-7 million yet to come…so I guess trump does have a record that everyone can point to. The bitch of the whole thing is that it didn’t have to happen…many other economies in developed countries who have competent leaders who don’t just hold rallies and golf are doing so much better than the US…and let’s shut the repub apologists up right here….that the virus is an “act of god” that no one could have done better against…just look at Germany and France for example, who do have competent leaders who believe in science and think it IS their responsibility to protect their nations…same virus but different outcomes…many fewer deaths and much less economic damage…and all of the pain here was and is still being caused by the fact that trump is just so damn stupid…and he doesn’t really care about what the effects are on regular Americans…repeat after me…he only cares about getting re-elected and that is why he wants the economy to be “opened” no matter how many deaths it causes…but re-election is not going to happen even if he learns to shit gold and gives a million dollars to everyone….he is going to continue to kill Americans by his stupidity…and when the number reaches 200,000 or more as the summer comes, more and more people are going to have a friend or relative that has died because of trump and who, other than trump zombies, will vote for the idiot who killed grandma, or sister, or brother, or son, or daughter, or grandpa? Not many of us who live in the sane world that’s for sure…..
May 6th
Well…that was a mistake…didn’t take any painkillers or allergy meds last night and I am miserable this morning…coughing with a stuffed up head and every damn thing hurts…maybe I shouldn’t put this old body through that much torture….I did sleep okay last night but my energy level has crashed too and I can barely do this right now….just want to lie down and stop thinking but I won’t…I did get a few things done yesterday…got a new lightweight hose from Aldi’s for 19 bucks and it is cool that I can now reach the entire lot here and with getting my new compressor a couple of days ago, I have everything I need for this house and the next one…but I do need to get out to depot to get my tomato cages and some lawn food in the next week or so but I’m not in any hurry for that with the cold that is coming…I mean 46 for a high in Michigan in May? Damn…when Is spring going to come? I really wish that it would rain so I could take a day off the bike…it has become a chore but I think that’s the double rides every day…and having to put the thermasuit on to ride….my thighs are screaming at me just sitting here so maybe I cut back to one today….damn, my brain is only working a little this morning so maybe I’ll cut this one short…not much to do today…need to do a grocery run to get some stuff that I need to make pizza this weekend and I want to get a ham before they’re not available any more…that will get me through for a couple of weeks if I break it down….more later…
trump’s goalposts are mounted on a Lamborghini…
Well…hey, idiot boy, didn’t you say that there were only going to be 15 cases of the virus and that “it will be gone soon”…then didn’t you say that there would be 30,000 dead and that meant you had done a”terrific job” of dealing with the virus? Now, I wonder where those goalposts are? Yeah, mounted on the back of Lamborghini that you are driving at full speed trying to keep up with the results of your bungling of the response…now where are they? Halfway to Cleveland as you announced that there was going to be at least 100,000 deaths but then your “secret assessment” that includes the effects of “reopening” the country predicts this stupid move is going to cost the country 3,000 deaths a day…and, let’s do the math….3,000 times 30 is 90,000 deaths in just one month…and as more and more people are exposed that could rise to more than a million a month….and that means the goalposts are now in the middle of the Pacific ocean mounted on a 4 engine ocean speedboat moving at 150 mph. And he still takes “no responsibility” when all of the experts say that if he had actually done anything in January and February, 90% of the deaths would have been prevented….I guess this is one thing that the idiot trump will be the “best” at…killing Americans with millions of deaths on his hands…more than the Civil War, more than every other war combined….I wonder where the goalposts will be next week…the moon? Space X has probably been contacted by idiot boy to use a Falcon 9 for that move….and trump tweets as Americans die….
May 5th
Well….that wasn’t too bad…didn’t get up til 6 after going to bed a little early and I was good last night so I think that helped, too….but, I’m still damn sore from all of the riding and working outside and I may have to take a day off to rest everything and start the healing…I am old after all and I don’t know how long I can keep up the pace…but, if I don’t keep up the pace I know I’ll lose my ability to and I just can’t stand that thought….so maybe this is what everyone goes through when they over extend themselves….at least that’s what I’m going to tell myself until the facts say otherwise…it looks like the weather is going to go cold again for the next week at least so I’ll have to cover the tomatoes I planted yesterday if they are going to survive…it’s frickin May and the heat is still on…there has been no spring around here and I still haven’t smelled the spring smell that usually comes in April….so, we hunker down for both the virus and the weather and that is a little depressing….but I am getting my 1200 bucks on the 8th so I guess that’s something….I do need to make a run out to Aldi’s this morning to try to get some chicken and they have a 50ft expanding hose on sale for 20 bucks and I need one of those to reach the rest of the lot here…and I really like the one I have since it is so light to drag around as I try to repair the bare spots in the front lawn and clean up everything else…it is so cool to have the luxury of water to work with around here…not much to do today….just the run to Aldi’s and then maybe only one ride today…I do have some cleaning to do today but I think I’ll start on the garage trim so I can paint it later in the week instead…more later….
We have an eaglet…
Well…during the ride today, I decided to go down the unpaved trail that leads nearer to the eagles nest and when I was watching the male, a tiny little eaglet head popped up and started waving around and it looked like the male was feeding it…pretty cool…and I can’t wait to see it get bigger and bigger over the summer until it fledges. I did get out to HF today and got my new compressor and it is a pretty cool unit for only 39 bucks…of, course the first thing I used it for was to air up the tires on the bike and it was pretty neat that it only took a second of air to get them from 35 to 60 psi….and I bought a kit of all the air tools and fittings that I needed to get started for 11 bucks…and it even came with a 25 foot curly hose that is just damn convenient…oh, and one last thing…my 1200 buck payment is supposed to be in my account on the 8th so I can afford to get out and get the rest of the garden supplies…I planted some tomatoes outside today since they had fallen over downstairs and I was going to start 4 more from seeds so I’m not losing anything by planting them even if they die….but I am going to wait to plant the rest of them until we get past this cold spell….probably next week…
50 years ago today…
Well….May 4th 1970….four dead in Ohio…four students killed at Kent State University for exercising their first amendment rights to protest the actions of their government…this one hurts every year…as a 16 year old kid staring down the very real possibility of going to Vietnam to die for whatever reasons, these murders shattered what was left of the innocence and pride that I felt to be an American…I mean, how can the government send soldiers to kill students who did nothing but assemble and protest? Until that point I believed that the government of the US operated in good faith but that naivete was only the safety blanket that had insulated a 16 year old who only thought of 16 year old things til that day….but the thought of kids who were just a little older than I was being killed just because they pissed off Nixon and the others who were running the government really shocked me and took away the safety that I felt…I still feel that day even 50 years later…and seeing the archival footage shows me how we haven’t progressed as a nation at all in that 50 years…and I still think Neil’s song says it best…just substitute trump for Nixon….”tin soldiers and Nixon comin, we’re finally on our own…” RIP…..Allison, Sandra, Jeffrey, and William…
May 4th
Well…this is weird…it’s only 37 degrees outside and it’s 68 in here and the heat hasn’t come on all night…I wonder if it’s because this brick house stored heat over the past couple of days with it being almost 70? I’m sitting here in shorts and that is the first time I’ve been able to do that since I moved in here….hmmm….I did make it all the way to 5:29 this morning and don’t feel too bad today so I’ll take it….and I think I’m going to ease into this morning and might just only ride once today since my legs are sore and heavy and I really felt it on the second ride yesterday…I do need to make the run over to HF this morning to get the new air compressor before the coupon expires so I think I’ll use that to fill the time while it’s too cold to ride….still haven’t put shorts on yet this year and I think it’s probably the latest I’ve ever waited…I normally switch in April but for some reason the cold is getting to me this year and I just want to be warm….didn’t get anything done yesterday and I’m not sure what I’m going to get done today…probably should start on prepping the trim on the garage to paint and work on the trim on the front of the house, too….I am going to get a 120 flap disc at HF to work on the front door, too since the paint is so hard my sander won’t cut it…and that paint will finish off the front of the house….geez….my allergies are bad today…my head is plugged up and I am miserable….and I need more coffee….more later….
This is what I’ve been waiting to hear…
Well…back to politics! Bet you didn’t think I’d do another one of these after slacking off for quite a while…but there were other things going on that took my attention and I didn’t feel too motivated. But not today! Just today, Joe Biden and Liz Warren published and op-ed that is saying what I’ve wanted the dems to say for a long time, that no matter how much trump an his cronies try to hide their criminality in everything they’ve done, they better not get too comfortable with what they’ve stolen….once Biden is elected every damn thing that trump has tried to hide is going to get the nice clean disinfectant of transparency and all of the theft, graft, and self dealing is going to be exposed and then turned over to a real justice department for prosecution….and that means you jared boy….all of your thefts of the state’s medical supplies that they have paid for is going to be exposed and you sorry little ass is going to be sitting in jail. This is going to extend to every shady damn thing that Barr, McConnell and the rest of them have done…and even if idiot boy pardons them they are still going to do the investigations anyway…to drive a stake through the heart of the repub crime machine and then there will probably be state charges that are filed that are outside of the reach of any of the idiot’s pardons…as I’ve said before, I’ll bet this is already in progress in states across the country and we are going to see a flurry of activity by the end of January next year. I really don’t think the repub morons are bright enough to understand what is coming and will continue to grift right up until the election…keep at it idiots…more charges mean more jail time…