Well….need to be running early today to get back here before F1 qualifying at 9…and then soccer starts at 10 but it is only 55 outside right now so I need to wait until 7:30 to go out…it was an okay day yesterday with all of the sports on and today looks the same…identical, actually, so it will be a good day….other than the sports, didn’t get anything else done but I will get some cleaning done today….the kitchen and bathroom need to be done and I should go on cobweb patrol, too….I just need to get motivated and that is the hard part….my back has been giving me fits the past few days and it is starting again this morning…not too bad so far but just annoying…okay…need more coffee and to read a little news…more later…
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A little more World Cup…
Well…just watched a stunning match with my guys from Belgium knocking off Brazil 2-1 and I actually stood up and cheered when the final whistle blew…and that leaves my two teams still in it…at least until tomorrow when England plays Sweden early in the morning…Belgium went up 2-0 in the first half but the Brazil just kept throwing attack after attack at them….and scored a goal at around 75 minutes to make the rest of the match pretty nerve wracking….this is the best word cup that I have seen since I started watching them in 1994 when the US hosted them…. and my guys from Man U, Lukaku and Fellaini were terrific all day…I’m still smiling…
Bye, bye Scotty…
Well…sitting here waiting for the first match of the day to start and thought I’d do a short one on the good news that the swamp thing, Scott Pruitt, resigned yesterday under the threat of a 19th investigation into his tenure at the EPA. His ethics challenges and criminality should be no surprise to anyone who has seen him do the same damn things when he was in Oklahoma but it appears that no ethics and criminality is a job qualification for trump’s administration…and his resignation letter was as deranged as trump’s speech was yesterday…saying that it was god that put trump into office…now they are calling Putin god? But, we can’t breathe easy yet, the guy coming in is just as bad and will continue the damage that trump and his cronies are doing to the country and the world….impeach….
July 6th
Well…need to get going early today since it is a huge sports day…F1 and soccer on all day and it all starts at 9…slept okay last night and don’t feel too badly today…the pain from working on the car is abating so I can move without wincing and that is a relief….I did get a good bike ride in yesterday and eating more appeared to give me more energy in my legs…we’ll see about today…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today will be the same….I am looking forward to Belgium playing Brazil this aft and I really hope Belgium wins….this world cup has been a good one and two of my teams are still in it so that is cool…okay, need to have more coffee and get ready to get on the bike…more later….
19 investigations and counting…
Well…the one man swamp that is Scott Pruitt continues to ooze more corruption ever day and today is no different…it was revealed this morning that Pruitt and his staff has been has been “scrubbing” his calendar and has falsified or hid records of meetings he has had with the industries the EPA is supposed to regulate since they may
“look bad” since the only people he meets with are lobbying to gut all environmental regulation in this country. “Willful concealment or destruction” of records is a federal crime that could result in jail time…but this is not the worst part of the destruction of the EPA…independent analysis has concluded that the regulations that are being cut will result in 88,000 deaths over the course of 10 years…yep, trump and his administration are going to kill over 8,000 Americans a year just so he and his cronies can profit more from polluting this country….but hey, what’s 8,000 lives compared to the need for the rich to get richer?
See, I told you I was going to get back to politics…
This is too funny…
Well…with the idiot trump heading to England this weekend for some reason, the protesters there are gearing up for massive rallies in every city he is scheduled to visit, with estimates of over a million people who are committed to showing their displeasure of trump in general, and his racist immigration policies specifically. One of the funniest damn things that is going to happen is a balloon of a trump baby in diapers that is going to fly over Parliament…the permit was issued by the mayor of London yesterday and it was met by cheers by the people who have been raising money to build and fly the balloon…I don’t remember what the Obama protest balloon looked like…oh, that’s right, there wasn’t one…he wasn’t the buffoon that trump is…impeach…
Where’s the new civil war?
Well…sometimes the hard right bullshit that I try to avoid bleeds into my news feeds and makes my jaw drop…the latest one came from Alex Jones and his crazy assed website called Infowars when earlier in the week he bleated breathlessly that he had discovered a super secret liberal plan to start a new civil war and lock up all of the conservatives in the country…and he “knew” it was going to happen on the 4th of July….and that was yesterday…I tweeted all day trying to find out where it was so I could go and participate but it was so secret that no one knew where it was…I’m sure that was part of the super secret plan…darn, I am a little miffed that I missed it…I could have waved some sparklers to show my support…and have a cocktail to toast the participants…I wonder how I can get into the super secret loop so when the next one happens I can be included? Darn….
Back to politics…
Well…as you know, I’ve been a little short on political ones here lately, but I’ll try to do more as things get weirder and weirder. Last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee released it’s findings that yes, the Russians did interfere in the 2016 election and yes, they did it to elect the idiot trump. You would think that this bombshell would have repubs keeping their heads down since it was not just trump that they helped…they poured money into almost every repub race across the country…but, no…guess what happened just yesterday? A bunch of repub senators were back in Russia to hold secret meetings with high level Russians, including the spy/ambassador Kislyak who was implicated in the conspiracy to help trump…no meeting notes, no reporters, just more secrecy and more conspiracy. I wonder if they are there to get the Russians started on attacking the 2018 election? Whatever their motives, these senators work for us and we have the right to know who they are talking to and what they are talking about…and the same crap is happening when the idiot boy meets with Putin to get his next batch of orders in the next week or so…no reporters, no record of the meeting or what is talked about…this is bullshit and they know it….trump got played by Kim and it is even going to be worse with Putin….impeach…
July 5th
Well….running on time today even with doing the grocery run…woke up feeling pretty crappy today and that is a continuation of how I felt all day yesterday…just had no energy and felt off all day…not sure if it’s a bug or not but it sure feels like one….we’ll see how it goes today…I did try to eat enough since it felt kind of like I was short on calories the past few days….one of these days I’m going to take a day off the bike and fight the guilt from it….didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks much the same…I should clean some and I might but it is still so damn humid that I’ll be sweating through everything in about 5 minutes….I’m still pretty sore from working on the car but it seems to be getting a little better….my hands are still pretty beat up but better today, too….not much to do today….going to get the bike ride in soon but I need to finish the coffee first….more later….
Neil Young…
WeIl….thought I’d come back this morning and do a short one about the free Neil Young concert from last night….it was similar to the one from earlier in the year that he did from Omemee, Ontario, a town that Neil lived in as a kid. Lot of just Neil wandering around the stage and picking up instruments in a seemingly random way and the songs seemed to be random as well…he went way back into the Buffalo Springfield catalog and did a lot of songs I have never seen him do before and that was an unexpected treat…as was the electric version of “Ohio” that he did with an alternating quiet/screaming loud arrangement that was just too cool….he even went into how he wrote the song after seeing the iconic photo on the cover of Time Magazine of the woman kneeling next to a dead student at Kent State that he saw lying on a table in the rain…..it was a very personal performance that I was blown away by…he even called David Crosby a great friend…maybe it’s the first step in their reconciliation? Hope so….