Well…not sure if you noticed, but the supreme court of Kansas just stunned me and almost everybody else when they ruled that their state constitution protects bodily autonomy..and that means the absolute right of a woman to control her body and terminate her pregnancy. The cool thing about this ruling is that the determined that there are “inalienable rights” that are immune from government intrusion and that self determination and control of ones body is one of those rights…but the ruling didn’t stop there…it determined that all individuals are free to excise personal autonomy and are free to make choices about how to conduct their own lives. One of the parts of this ruling that I find most heartening is that it is not reviewable by the US supreme court and the right wing ideologues who have been installed there by McConnell…so this ruling affirming personal rights can’t be reversed by the legislature, either…so the repub assholes who live for taking away women’s rights to control their own bodies made a huge miscalculation by trying to make them second class citizens in Kansas and the court slapped them down….now, let’s hope that this ruling will be a challenge to the rest of us to do what we can to protect the rights of our sisters, daughters and friends…and of all women by voting the repubs out in 2020…
April 28th
Well…I can walk this morning! My right big toe hurt so bad when I got up yesterday that I could barely walk and I know it was from how contorted I sleep at times…tried not to do that last night and the pain is almost gone this morning so that is cool…I still have the low level pain in my legs from all the riding last week but that’s manageable and is not going to keep me off the bike today…but, I am going to have to wait to go out since it is still in the low 30′s right now…even had to scrape the windshield on the car this morning since it had snow on it…ick…sure hope it’s the last time I have to do that…didn’t get much done yesterday but cook and today is a leftover day so no cooking…but that leaves me with way too much time on my hands so I guess I’ll clean some later after I have my coffee and read the news some…there is lots of sports on starting with soccer in a couple of minutes and then F1 and the napcar race this afternoon…oh, and Man U plays but I am not excited about that with how crappy they have been playing….more later…
Taking the day off…
Well…still just damn exhausted still today and I thought I’d figured that out…but then this afternoon came and it’s hard to get up off the couch again…I’m sure part of it is the double miles I did this week and I know that I didn’t eat enough to support it…but, I wonder why I still feel so full even with eating only two little boneless skinless chicken thighs and a half a roasted potato…I’m even uncomfortable and that is wrong somehow…oh, well…oh, taking the day off…I decided this morning I was going to take the day off of everything today…I’m way more beat up than I recognized when I got up and I’ve even had to take some ibuprofen to be able to tolerate it…and my brain is just not into thinking today and I don’t want to hear anything about politics so that means I don’t want to write about it, either…so, this is all you get today…I have done almost 10 extra ones for the month already so I don’t feel too bad giving up today…okay, I do but not bad enough to do anything about it….no more later…
April 27th
Well…cripes, I’m sore this morning and hobbling around here like I’m old or something…slept with my right foot folded under me and now my big toe on that foot hurts and that makes walking a little painful…and my legs are feeling the 150 miles I did on the bike this week…but, I did make my goal of 1,000 miles before May 1st so I guess that’s something….and I did get the back wheel almost straight after breaking a spoke and that surprised me…felt sure I’d have a wobble in it but it looks good so I am going to leave it alone…back to not sleeping again so there will be a nap sometime today since I am just exhausted sitting here doing this…part of that could be that could be all the riding this week, too, since I didn’t adjust my food intake to match up with the extra riding…I am going to cook today so maybe I can make up for it today…making some boneless/skinless chicken thighs for lunch but I’m not sure what I’ll have with them…maybe a salad since I have all the fixings for that in the fridge….not much to do today…I am going to skip the bike ride today since it is going to be cold and I need the rest…and, it’s going to snow later with maybe 3-4 inches overnight and that is depressing so my day will be cleaning but not now…going to ease into it with more coffee and some F1 practice before soccer starts….more later….
No collusion, no obstruction? Yeah, right…
Well…I wonder if the idiots trump and Barr think that no one in this country can read….after Barr’s lying press conference that attempted to clear trump of all charges of obstruction of justice and collusion with the Russians, idiot boy has been bleating all over the place that the report has “cleared” him and that he did nothing wrong…and the dutiful propaganda machine of fox news has been amplifying it for the mouth breathing crowd that follows them…one little problem…we can read and the Mueller report does NOT exonerate trump and his cronies…in fact, it lays out clearly that the trump campaign DID collude with the Russians many, many times but, as Mueller pointed out, the lying of everyone in the campaign and the use of encryption and just general stonewalling of Mueller is the reason why he didn’t recommend charging anyone with conspiracy with the Russians…he just didn’t have enough evidence to prevail in court. On the obstruction side, Mueller documented at least 10 times where trump attempted to obstruct justice and the only reason he wasn’t charged is that DOJ rules won’t allow it. Since the report was released a week ago…many, many former prosecutors have made it clear that if they had the evidence just from the report, they could easily get a conviction for obstruction…a fact that no repub will even acknowledge as they call for the country to “move on” from the Muller report findings. the only way to save this country is for the dems to ignore these calls and do their job to remove this unqualified ass…and then we need to make the repubs pay for their toadying support of this criminal….impeach…
April 26th
Well…after my third day of 30 mile rides this week, my legs are a little sore this morning and I think I’ll have to take something for them…and my back is a little tweaked from working on the bike so I think the painkillers will help that, too….just checked the back wheel that I was trying to true up with the new spoke installed and it is perfectly straight again and that is just so damn cool…I really thought I’d have to take it to have it straightened and spend 20 bucks so to get it done by myself makes me smile…didn’t sleep for crap last night and am feeling it this morning and a big part of that is my allergies…there is starting to be a pollen coating on the car in the mornings so it will probably get worse before it gets better…and I am not looking forward to that…will probably have to ignore my BP and take something for it….other than the three hours of working on the bike, I didn’t get much done yesterday but I will clean some today…I have been feeling more energy the past few days and the exhaustion has been receding so that is a good thing or I wouldn’t have been able to fix the bike or get the 30 mile rides in this week…more later…
What a day…
Well….it has been a busy day today and I am now just getting to relax for the first time….I was out doing my second 15 miles of the day since the weather was so nice and I do need to get 40 more miles in before the 1st of May….but that was derailed a little when I broke a spoke on the back wheel of the bike after going over a curb to avoid some wet paint…that has never happened before on any bike that I have owned and it immediately led to the wheel warping that looked like the tire had failed…that was my first thought since the rear tire was almost worn out so I tore the thing apart and discovered the broken spoke…and, guess what? You can’t just buy a single spoke since there are different hubs that mean different lengths…so, I went over to the local bike shop and they have a machine that actually makes spokes to whatever length necessary, flattens out one end and then puts the adjustment threads on it….and he gave it to me half price at 3 bucks so that was cool….but to replace it, the entire rear wheel had to be taken apart and that is really a pain…and I am still working on getting the thing trued back up so it doesn’t wobble…that could take a while since I don’t have the specialized equipment to do it so it will take trial and error…it’s back together now and I am looking forward to the ride tomorrow to check out how the wheel and tire feel….too damn busy of a day…..
Almost forgot…
Well…it’s been a busy day today and I almost forgot to come back here for another one…but, I did want to touch on one little item that I saw in the news yesterday but just didn’t have time to get to…even with all of the idiot in chief’s bluster and bullshit that he will never turn over any records of his finances to the House, he really is going to have to at some point…and I saw an article or a news show, I can’t remember which, that this type of behavior is always his pattern…he comes out and says that there is no way he will cooperate and then caves or the laws catch up and he is forced to cooperate….so, the little item….just yesterday, it was reported that Deutsche Bank has started to provide all of their records on trump and his businesses to the AG of NY who is investigating the funding for many trump projects due to the testimony of Michael Cohen and the records he provided…and this dovetails nicely with the investigations by the House financial services committee and the Intelligence committees who are also looking at money laundering through these projects….so, the bars are closing in on the idiot and his family who continue to bleat that Mueller exonerated trump in his report…once the SDNY and the NY AG get done with him, trump is going to jail….and I hope soon because the NY AG is not constrained by the Justice department’s rules that a sitting president can’t be indicted….impeach…
April 25th
Well…running about on time for a Thursday and doing the grocery run…spent 70 bucks this morning and didn’t get anything but staples that I have been running out of for the past month…I did have a 4 buck coupon so I got 10 shavers for 99 cents so that was cool…and I got all the fixings to make a pizza for lunch and I am looking forward to that after the boring meals I have been making…I mean, how many times can you have tilapia and pasta before you go nuts? Have been feeling okay the past couple of days and the exhaustion seems to be abating and that was either a bug or not eating enough…but, whatever it was, I’m glad it’s gone and I feel almost normal…or as normal as I ever feel…didn’t sleep much last night but that is normal, too, so I don’t need to talk about that…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday with the wind getting down to tolerable levels and today looks like another good one…may even be able to get out in a t-shirt around 10 if I want to wait that long…and I just might…not sure why I need to rush around here other than trying to keep a schedule and a little consistency in my life…the damn car has sprung another leak that I can’t find so it looks like I’ll have to take it somewhere to have it fixed…not a bad leak but just annoying…it probably leaked a quarter cup of fluid the past two days but those never fix themselves…not much to do today…I am going to clean some…maybe…but I’m not sure how much….starting to lose my motivation already so we’ll see…more later…
Again…this is not how it works..
Well…another day, another jaw dropping bit of stupidity by the moron in chief when he opened his mouth and farted this out…that if the dems in the House impeach him, he will go to the supreme court to stop it…and he believes his toadies that were installed there illegally by Mitch McConnell will tell the house that they can’t do it…and one of his reasons is that he already survived the Mueller investigation and that the House has no authority to investigate since he was already investigated. Yeah, the logic of a 7 year old being spouted by the so-called president…damn, do I have to keep pointing out how ignorant this ass is? That is not how any of this works…in precedent that runs almost all the way back to the founding of the country…every damn court including the supreme court has ruled that the courts cannot interfere with the constitutionally mandated powers of investigation and impeachment of the co-equal legislative branch…so, even if stupid boy tries to go there, even Kavanaugh should rule that he has no standing to bring that kind of suit…unless he has had his daily 12 pack and then all bets are off. This is what happens when someone so glaringly ignorant is put in a position of power…he thinks he can make things up as he goes along and the law is what he wants it to be…and, even the repubs have to know they need to do something to stop this idiot from nuking the entire party…impeach….