Well….I was going to do this one before the Putin one but figured you’d really want a political one first…but, I still wanted to do this one so I will. It has been a pretty good day today with getting up feeling better and I’m not sure what that’s about…I mean, how does a bug go away in 3 days? With that timing, I am leaning more and more that the reason I felt so crappy on Monday was 4 days of not eating enough…you’d never think that could be with looking at me…I’m by no means thin and have never been in my entire life….hmmmm….oh, and I got a bike ride in today even with it only being 30 when I went out…the ride was supposed to be just a recon run to see how much snow was on the trails but, by 10 when I went out, the trails were clear except the bridges and I was able to ride across those without any trouble…I was pretty damn cold by the time I got back here but it was worth it…I did have to go out in full thermasuit today and it looks like it will be that way for the next week or so…but, the new bike make the ride so much fun that I really didn’t think about that too much….and, I made roasted whole chicken for lunch that came out perfect so it has been a pretty good day….and I have some pork chops marinading for dinner…had to go out to Meijers to get them this morning but at 99 cents a pound, I just couldn’t resist…oh, and I got my lottery tickets for tonight and tomorrow, too…almost 300 mil tonight and 350 mil tomorrow…I can still dream…
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Trump’s buddy Putin just tried to murder another one…
Well…I wonder if anyone will tell the idiot trump that his buddy Putin just tried to murder another person in England? Sergei Skipal and his daughter were found poisoned in a park this past Sunday and the “nerve agent” they were poisoned with could not have come from anywhere than a state actor…there is no individual or terror group (unless you consider Russia a terror group like I do) that has the means to create the poison that was used and it is well known that Russia routinely goes after former spies or anyone else who stands in the way of Russia’s goals in the world. And, this is Trump’s buddy…the person he believes over our intelligence agencies…I guess I shouldn’t be surprised about idiot boy’s affection for murderers and thugs…he has loved those type of people since he worked with the mob in New York to build most of the buildings he built…and just loves Duarte of the Philippines who has been on a murder spree since he was elected a few years back, killing thousands of “drug dealers” who just happen to be his political enemies. You know trump won’t do a damn thing when he is told that Putin tried to murder another person…and the repubs won’t do a damn thing about it either…impeach…
March 9th
Well…running a little late today and I think it’s from sleeping in a little…didn’t get up until after 7 today and I think it was the coffee alarm clock that woke me up again….slept pretty well last night but feel a little slow today and I think I’ll just ease into it …I am a little annoyed that the weather is not cooperating….have a new bike sitting here and I haven’t been able to get out this week and it looks like it may be early next week before I can get out again….I know that this is Michigan in March but I think it should be giving me at least a day or two in the 50′s….I did get a few things done yesterday and I am going to try to continue that today….I do need to cook and have a chicken brining that I’ll start roasting in a while…and I may even get out to see if I can get some 99 cent pork chops but I’m not sure about that….more later…
Erik Prince is going down….
Well…just when I thought that the news was going to overwhelm me with all of the crap coming out of the WH, a little bit of good news made me smile this morning. Reporting from a lot of news outlets today have put together the case that Erik Prince lied to congress and the FBI about his supposed “chance meeting” with the Russians in the Seychelles. Now, if you remember, one of the charges that got both Popadopoulos and Gates in this investigation was lying to the FBI and both of them are going to jail for it…so guess where this leaves ole Prince? Yep, indictments are coming for him and they need to make sure he doesn’t run to Dubai like he did when his company, Blackwater, was on trial for murdering scores of people in Iraq. The meeting that he lied about was not the “chance meeting” he said it was but was planned weeks in advance and Prince knew about it as the planning was going on…and there is new evidence coming from a person that was at the meeting that the purpose of the meeting was for Putin to get his hooks further into the idiot trump and his amateurs that were trying to conduct foreign policy in secret. Now, I m sitting here with a smile on my face that Betsy DeVos’s brother is going to jail…and that these people of privilege who have been able to cheat their entire lives and live on inherited wealth and a feeling of superiority to the rest of us are finally being shown that they are not above the law….it is another step in getting directly to the idiot trump…impeach…
March 8th
Well….I am getting to hate the damn snow…another morning and I had to clean the car off again…okay…deep breaths…it is March and it is Michigan, and I’ve been here my whole life so I should be used to this…I remember back when I was a kid getting a snow day in late April so I guess this isn’t too bad….now, where was I? Oh, slept okay last night and feel quite good this morning and I think It’s from finally eating enough…I am a little irritated that Meijers didn’t have any of the 99 cent pork chops this morning…but, I did get a whole chicken so I guess that will work…need to get that in a brine today so I can roast it tomorrow….I did have a funny thing happen in the checkout today….I had to have an approval for some wine that I bought and when I told the woman running the self checkout that I needed approval, she looked me up and down and said “I certainly approve of you” and that made me laugh out loud. I do have a few things to do today…the trash needs to go out and the kitchen needs cleaning and I’ll get to that later….right now it’s coffee and news time…more later….
Dupes and dopes…
Well…not ready to work out yet so I thought I’d come back here to do another one of these while it’s still fresh in my head….with all of the crowing that the idiot trump and his minions did about the the tax cut scam, and how it would be a huge benefit for the workers in this country…with the increase in tariffs on steel and aluminum, the dupes and dopes who voted this idiot in (along with the Russians) are going to see any increase in their pay checks offset completely by the rise in costs from the tariffs. How is this not a tax increase on working people? Idiot boy and his minions have no clue how tariffs work…he really does think that the countries selling us steel and aluminum are going to send the US a check for the tariffs and that is just not how it works….and the job losses that were estimated yesterday at 146,000 have now been revised to over a million jobs…yep, the “greatest job creator” is going to be personally responsible for putting over a million US workers out of work….how’s that tax cut working for you now, trump voters? How’s that “make America great again” working for you? You know, I usually have empathy for people who lose their jobs since I went through that crap, but the willfully ignorant trump voters really deserve to share in the pain they’ve foisted on the rest of us and I have no sympathy for any of them…impeach….
March 7th
Well…woke up this morning to the depressing scene of 3 inches of snow on the car and have to remember that this is Michigan in March and that stuff can happen for a few weeks yet….slept okay last night and got up early today so this one is early….I do feel a little better today and that’s good since I have an errand to run this morning….yesterday was a total waste with not being able to get on the bike and not being motivated to clean much and today looks a lot like that, too…of course no bike ride with the cold and snow but I will work out before the errands….I do need to clean the kitchen and put the trash out and need to break down the carton the bike came in so that can go out, too….my right heel cracked again and I am limping around here trying to keep weight off it and I still don’t know how that happens….it has been a pain all winter and I hope it heals soon…more later….
Trade stupidity…
Well….as you probably already know, the idiot trump has proposed, in a fit of absolute ignorant stupidity, to put tariffs on all of the steel and aluminum that is imported into this country. As you can already guess, countries across the world have said they will match the tariffs on any exported American finished goods, raw materials, and food…setting the lie to the idiot trump’s assertion that “trade wars are easy to win”. In the fact based community who have studied the effects of tariffs on trade for decades, the fact is that these tariffs that trump says will “save” American jobs are projected to cost the US 146,000 jobs in the first two years and will crush the farm belt that stupidly voted for trump by curtailing exports of food that these farmers depend on to stay in business. In trying to hurt China with tariffs on the steel they export to the US, idiot boy forgot to think of the fact that 60% of the soybeans produced in this country are exported to China…and China is already looking for other sources than the US since, with the idiot in the WH, they can’t depend on us as a trading partner anymore…just as Mexico did when they stopped buying American corn and made trade deals with Argentina and other South American countries when trump started to try to dismantle NAFTA and attacked Mexico relentlessly for a reason that only exists in trump’s fevered brain. What do you think about your hero now, farmers? Voting for a game show host gets you game show governance and you wanted this by a large margin…maybe you won’t be so stupid next time…nope, stupidity runs deep in trump country….geez….
Poor little snowflakes…
Well…as you know, I haven’t been feeling too well today and that kept me off the bike and led to me having some extra time to read the news…sometimes that’s a good thing, sometimes it isn’t. Just now, it was a really good, funny thing that left me laughing at just how pathetic the whiny conservatives are. In DC, where there are a lot of single people trying to date, conservative men have been surprised that they are having a hard time finding women who will go out with them…and, I wonder why? Could it be that they are racist, misogynist assholes who support trump and the rest of the troglodytes in the repub party? Could it be that they support the government telling women what they can and cannot do with their bodies? Could it be that they have no problem giving billions of dollars of tax cuts to the rich while working people get nothing? Could it be that they support taking healthcare away from millions of their fellow citizens? To hear conservatives talk, it is just so unfair to them that once women they want to date find out they are conservatives assholes, that the women run the other way as fast as they can…poor little snowflakes…hey, why don’t you try not being a conservative asshole? Why don’t you try being a human being sometime? I’ve found in my long lifetime that having some empathy and not hating everyone who is not like you goes a long way to having people want to spend time with you….even women at times….maybe this is natural selection at work…and will help kill off the asshole conservative population by not allowing them to reproduce? Hope so…geez…
Under the radar….
Well…with the Nunberg meltdown that took all of the oxygen out of the news media yesterday, one little story flew under the radar that is just more evidence of Russian meddling in our country and the fact that the idiot trump is not doing anything about it. This story would be shocking in any other “administration”, but with all of the scandal and cronyism coming out of the WH, it has not gotten the attention it deserves….yesterday it was reported that Christopher Steele told Bob Mueller that his contacts in Russia have told him that Russia intervened when the idiot trump wanted Mitt Romney as his Secretary of State since Romney is a noted hawk on Russia and would ensure that the sanctions on Russia were not lifted. So, who did we get when the Russians vetoed Romney? Rex Tillerson who Putin awarded the Russian Order of Friendship to for his collaboration with the Russians when he was the head of Exxon/Mobil…and someone who has so many connections to Russia that Putin thought he would be easily manipulated to support removing sanctions. Is this treason, finally? How about it repubs…are you going to do anything now when the idiot in the WH is clearly doing Russia’s bidding? What a traitorous bunch…impeach….