Well…not sure if you saw this in the news over the weekend, but I think it’s a story that needs a little more attention so I thought I’d give it a little here. Earlier this year, there was a huge pushback against Amazon and it’s efforts to extort the people of New York for billions of dollars to locate one of it’s headquarters there…it was was reported that the cost would be over 3 billion dollars in bribe money to get them to come…but, AOC and many people in NY said no…they were not going to buy jobs on the back of the people and they rebelled at the disclocation of thousands of people and businesses that the project would hurt. There was a huge outcry by the usual suspects that AOC didn’t care about the people and that now Amazon’s 25K projected jobs would be lost…where they got that figure is still a mystery since Amazon only projected 700 jobs in the first year of the project and that maybe over 20 or 30 years it “might” mean that there MAY be more jobs coming…just as in every damn project like this…nothing but promises. So, the city rejected the project and the corporate welfare that came with it, but guess what? Yep, Amazon just announced that they are bringing 1500 jobs to NYC anyway…without the people having to buy those jobs and they are leasing in an area that won’t displace the low income people that their original plan would have….gee…I wonder who was right here? The repub hand wringers who were championing the giveaway to their rich buddies or a rep who was thinking about the people she represents? I hope this is not the only successful rejection of corporate welfare and maybe it will be a trend? These subsidies or extortions have been going on too long and left a trail of broken promises and theft that shows that if everyone rejects these projects, maybe corporations will start paying their fair share and we can get back to sanity where the rich don’t get to continue to steal from the rest of us….we can hope…
Monthly Archives: December 2019
December 9th
Well…damn, just noticed that it has been two days without doing a second one of these and I do need to do better about that…so maybe 3 today? I did sleep okay last night and I decided to take better care of myself by not having cocktails for a while and I do feel better so far today so I’m interested how that is going to feel after a couple of weeks off…might be part of a series that I could do…we’ll see…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but work downstairs for a while but I do need to get the sanding done in the dining area today so I can get started painting it…I have decided to keep some of the pink in there for an accent and some continuity to how the house used to look…while I like the all white, I am now starting to lean to having some color in various places…just starting to percolate that in my head but don’t really have any plans yet….I did get a nice long ride in yesterday but it looks like rain all day today so I I’ll just work in here and get some cleaning done….it looks like I’ll be off the bike until Friday but that’s okay…was going to set the trainer up but don’t want to do that yet if there are any days left that I can ride outdoors…more later…
December 8th
Well….running late this morning and am having another of those mornings where I just can’t get started and they are getting more and more common…and I’m sure I don’t like it….I did sleep okay last night and didn’t get out of bed until almost 7…but I was up since 5 and that is about normal and I wish that, just for once, I would sleep until it’s time to get up…oh, well….I did get a bike ride in yesterday and it looks like I’ll be able to get out today, too since it is going to be in the low 40′s before the extreme cold comes in Tuesday and lasts forever…the ponds on the trail are almost frozen over so all of the swans have disappeared and that is a little disappointing…but I still get the phrase “swan lake” in my head every time I ride past them…they look strange sleeping and floating and one time there were over 10 of them in a group and I’m not sure if I’ve seen that many in one place before…didn’t get anything else done yesterday but I will have work to do today with getting the sanding done in the kitchen so I can paint early in the week….but I don’t feel like doing anything right now but having more coffee and reading the news…so that’s what I’ll do….more later…
December 7th
Well…running a little late today since I just can’t get moving and wanted to ease into getting started…but that was going to turn into not starting at all if I waited any longer…so, here we go….slept okay last night and even had some dreams that I don’t remember….hmmmm…I wonder how I know I had dreams if I don’t remember any? I do know that I feel pretty worn out today…oh, I remember the dreams….there were all about being sick and not being able to go to work…or going to work and being told to go home so everyone else doesn’t get sick…yeah, I know…pretty damn weird since I don’t work anymore…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but run out to get the venison…even skipped riding the bike since I got so damn cold standing around out there and just couldn’t take being cold again…I am going to try to get out today but it will have to wait til later with it being in the 20′s until this afternoon…I was out last week when it was 33 and that is inching toward my low limit for being able to ride and not freeze my butt off…not much to do today…I do need to get the sanding done in the kitchen and clean up after that…and Man U plays City this aft and want to see part of that until they go behind but that will be about it for my day…more later…
Got some venison…
Well….I did get out to the south end today to pick up some venison that B hunted in November…he gave me almost 10 pounds of steak and burger and that will start being used in tacos tomorrow…stood round at the old complex shooting the shit in the cold so long that I didn’t warm up at all until I got under a blanket here for an hour or so and that is going to keep me off the bike today…just can’t get cold again and I am sore anyway so taking a day off will be okay…I need to wash the bike and get ready for bringing it indoors and setting up the trainer for next week…almost made it to 4500 miles outside this year but with highs in the 20′s next week, that just too damn cold to ride outside. I did get a little surprise today with one of my credit card bills that came in the mail….over 400 bucks for that one so I really do need to not spend another dime until February….yow….
Rudy’s up to it again….
Well…you would think that will all of the shit that is ready to hit the fan with Rudy Giuliani and his part in the extortion of Ukraine for his boss the idiot boy, that he would be laying low and not doing even more crimes…..if you think that, you are wrong, wrong, wrong. Ole Rudy is back at it, crisscrossing Europe meeting with every damn disgraced “prosecutor” and Putin toady trying to make what’s false true and support the right wing conspiracy theories that the Bidens were guilty of everything bad that has happened in the past 50 years including killing Jimmy Hoffa. I have a word for the SDNY and it’s investigators…get those damn charges that you are going to charge Rudy with on the fast track and lock his ass up so he can’t do any more damage to the country by his international crime spree. It’s just so damn ridiculous that all of us are going to pay the price for this un-elected asshole’s meddling in the world that could just lead to Russia increasing their attacks on Ukraine since Rudy is telegraphing that the only thing the US cares about is political bullshit that helps trump….I have just had enough of this crap…we are not the US of trump….geez…
December 6th
Well…running a little late today and couldn’t even get motivated to get out of bed after waking up at 5….so, it’s 7 and I’m just getting started on the first cup of coffee that I hope works pretty quickly…slept crappy again last night so were back at square on with that and it’s a little frustrating…but, I am so used to not sleeping well that it is no big deal…I don’t feel to bad this morning even with the crappy sleep but I feel like I’m in low gear that I hope the coffee will shift…I did get some work done on the dining room yesterday and need to sand the re-plaster today so I can get at painting it next week and today I need to clean out the spare room to get started working on the prep in there…but, this morning I need to run back out to the south end and pick up some venison from B so I can make tacos over the weekend…and he’s giving me some steaks that I’ll saute in garlic and butter and that will be yummy….my new soundbar for the tv is supposed to be here today and I can’t wait to hear how it sounds…if it works with my tv…my audio out is only optical and some tv’s don’t work with the modern equipment so we’ll see….have been saving some movies to watch with it so it could be movie night tonight if it works….I do need to get on the bike here as soon as it gets light so I can get that done before I head out to the south end around 10 and it is already warm enough to go…but it looks like next week is going to get ugly with highs wed of only 15…looks like a good day to hibernate….more later…
Barr has got to go…
Well…cripes, is everyone in trump’s orbit a damn racist asshole? It sure looks like it with the screed that William Barr delivered the other day in a speech…saying that there are some “communities” that need to cooperate and support the police more or they may just not have any police at all. Yeah, my jaw dropped too with the not even thinly veiled threat against communities of color who have been abused by police since the Jim Crow era and whose abuse continues to this day…and now ole Barr wants them to be appreciative for being abused? Coming from any political party but the completely corrupt repubs, this would have resulted in huge calls for Barr to resign immediately…but not the modern repubs…nope…Barr’s screed was met with nothing but silence by repubs and the media who reported this incident on the back pages…what the hell is it going to take to get rid of Barr? Lying to congress didn’t do it, running all over the world trying to get someone to support stupid conspiracy theories didn’t do it…and now being overtly racist isn’t doing it…I just can’t anymore….
December 5th
Well….back to not sleeping again and I knew that would happen…still don’t like it but this is more normal than sleeping is to me and it leaves me less confused…still feel like I have a little bug but it may be that I only had half a chicken breast to eat yesterday and skipped dinner altogether…just didn’t feel like eating…but I did make some pouch carrots with brown sugar, olive oil, and onion flakes that came out really good so I’ll have to remember that for another time…I do have a couple of pork chops marinating in the fridge for today and I think I’ll make one of those for lunch today….still don’t feel like eating but with being able to ride the bike every day, I do need to make sure I keep fueled up to be able to support that…I did get a bunch of stuff done yesterday with doing the grocery runs and then some organizing downstairs and I need to continue that today with working on prep for the kitchen painting that I want to do next week…and I need to defrost the upstairs fridge in the next week or so….and clean…it seems that this house needs a lot more cleaning than my apartment did…I think that may be the focus of the day today and tomorrow…need to start putting tools away since the major work is done and they don’t need to be on the counters anymore….I can’t wait until I get my new soundbar for the tv tomorrow…it’s my last purchase until January since I need to build up my cash reserves…won’t be comfortable until I have enough in reserve to put a new furnace in here if the old one dies….and that will take into the spring….more later….
The whiny baby runs away…
Well…with another performance by the idiot trump on the world stage where he embarrassed our country with his non-stop whining and attacks on the US and its representatives, is there any question why the rest of the world leaders laughed at him at a reception? This time it was even caught on video where their disdain for trump and his antics was on full display…and, according to multiple news reports, this is not the first time this has happened…at every summit, presidents and PM’s are doing everything they can to not talk to trump or, in the case of the almost as ridiculous Boris Johnson, to not have his picture taken with idiot boy since he knows it will cost him in the election that is scheduled for a couple of weeks from now. Do you know what the whiny baby’s reaction to the world laughing at him was? He called Macron names and then skipped his last conference, ran to his plane and ran away…the big, tough trump ran away because the other kids were mean to him….what a petulant little baby trump is…and this is the baby that the repubs think is the greatest leader in their party…well, looking at the rest of them, maybe he is…geez….