Well…with the redacted Barr report being released this morning, we know a couple of things…that the Mueller report does not “exonerate” the idiot trump at all…not on collusion with the Russians or with the issue of obstruction of justice as Barr would have the country think by his lie filled press conference before the report was released. We do know that Barr is now complicit in the coverup of trump’s criminality and should be removed from his post or resign before he does more damage to the Justice Department…does he not know that people are going to read the report and see how he was lying his ass of this morning? We also know that Mueller followed the rules that a sitting president can’t be indicted and that is why there were no indictments of trump…not that there was not enough evidence to charge him but that he was only following the rules…one little tidbit that was exposed from the report is that the evidence of trump’s criminality is being preserved for further action after idiot boy is out of office…and that there are still 12 or more investigations related to the report that are still ongoing that may lead to charges being filed. Let’s be clear on one point here, that the Russians DID work to elect trump…and no matter how much the repub bleaters still try to say that it’s just “sour grapes” that the dems have focused on that point…not that we care about our country but just sour grapes. I do have more to talk about, but I need to digest some of this new info to make a lucid comment…but, cripes…trump is a criminal…that much is clear….impeach…
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April 18th
Well…damn…running really late this morning with not getting up until almost 7…yeah, that is so damn weird that I don’t know what to say about it…it was even starting to get light when I got up and that made this place look so strange….and that whole thing made me late after doing the grocery run…that I’m not really sure why I did since I didn’t need to get anything…I guess it’s habit more than anything else…feel just run down today and I’m glad that I just have the passport thing to do this morning…and the bike ride if I can get that in before the rains start…it’s already over 50 and I may be able to get out in a t-shirt if I get out at all…didn’t get much done yesterday and I may not get too much done today, either….just not feeling it right now and I hope the coffee will change that…don’t have a lot of hope that it will but what else do you have but hope? More later….
Got my passport stuff ready….
Well…have been talking about getting a passport for the first time in my life for some time now so I decided to just do it and get the forms filled out today…holy crap…it costs 145 bucks but I guess if you break it down to the 10 years it’s good for, that’s only 15 bucks a year and I guess that’s not too bad. So, I need to head over to the Kentwood city offices tomorrow to file the paperwork and get a photo taken to submit with it and in 6-8 weeks, I get my passport….pretty cool since my daughter wants to visit friends in Belize late in the summer and she wants me to go with her…I think I may just try to find a rental there and try the tropics for a year instead of buying a house here…just found a 1,700 sq ft 3 bedroom house on an acre for rent for 500 bucks a month…the only problem is that it is 10 miles from the beach in the jungle and I’d have to buy a vehicle down there to get around…
Loneliness…
Well…okay, that title is a little misleading in the fact that it appears to imply that I’m lonely…but that’s not really the case…it’s just that I read a new study that got me thinking about loneliness and what the effects are for people who suffer from it. I can never really remember a time when I’ve been lonely at any time during my life…I really have always liked being alone and spent a lot of time alone as a kid by my choice…after all I had 8 brothers and sisters and could have had someone to hang out with all the time if I wanted it…but I reveled in my time alone with my thoughts as I still do as an old guy. But, in reading this new study and many others that have been published in the past year, it appears that loneliness has been identified as a real, physical problem that needs to be dealt with since almost 40% of the people surveyed feel lonely on a regular basis…I wonder how that feels? Now, you may think that I lack empathy if I can’t understand loneliness or don’t feel it…maybe I should be lonely spending 90% of my time alone? One thing the study said was that intelligent people are much less likely to be lonely and I have considered myself intelligent and my academic achievements support that I am…but, there has to be more to it than that…not sure what that would be, though….maybe I should just consider myself fortunate that I don’t get lonely and just leave it at that? Probably…..
This is interesting…
Well…since it has now become clear that William Barr sees his job as protecting the idiot president versus upholding the law, there have been some interesting developments in a case that was brought before a judge by a news organization using FOIA to get the entire Mueller report…now, this judge didn’t rule that he will order the report to be released, but he did say that he is going to look at the entire report to see if the redactions done by Barr and his team of lawbreakers are really necessary…and he has also said that he finds the fact that Barr is muddying the waters around the report “troubling” and has telegraphed the he doesn’t think Barr is following the law or legal precedent in the case. So, on this front, Barr is losing the fight to keep the damaging parts of the report secret, just as he did when he tried this crap before while he argued that kidnapping foreign nationals was supported by a “secret” report that he “summarized”…sound familiar? Just this morning, Jerry Nadler, the chair of the Judiciary committee in the House, has signaled that he has had enough of Barr’s crap and is preparing a subpoena for the entire Mueller report and all of the supporting materials that will be delivered to Barr Friday which means it should end up in court by the early part of next week when Barr refuses to follow the law and honor it. I wonder if Barr is so dumb that he doesn’t see that he has fallen into the trump mire and is opening himself up to contempt of congress charges at least, and obstruction of justice charges if the congress wants to play hardball…which they should to protect the rule of law. So, the next few days are going to be interesting but I don’t think the bastardized Barr report is going to show anything when it is released tomorrow…we’ll see…impeach…
April 17th
Well…it looks like I figured out that I am going to have to keep using the generic flonase before I go to bed at night to be able to breathe….was miserable and coughed all night Monday night when I skipped it but last night I was back to being able to breathe and slept quite a bit better…but that goes against my trying to not take any kind of medicine on a regular basis so I guess I’ll have to figure that one out….got up at coffee time this morning and I can live with that if I can keep that up…much better than 4:53 that had become almost normal…had a nice day yesterday with getting my hair cut and running a few errands in the morning and getting out for a long one on the bike in shorts….it looks like it’s going to rain some the next few days but less than they were predicting yesterday so I may still be able to get to 1K miles in the next couple of weeks…I did talk to my daughter for almost an hour yesterday and it was nice to get caught up with her…lots of laughs and she suggested that I move to Belize instead of buying a house here…she has friends who are building in an American enclave there and they just love the place…going to check it out over the next few days to see if it is affordable for me on SS…would be nice to live in a warm climate and be able to go to the beach every day….not much to do today…I was going to clean yesterday but didn’t get to it but I probably will today…just need to get started but that has been the problem lately…and I need to get my paperwork ready to apply for a passport next week….more later…
A new record…
Well…trump and his idiot minions just set a new record…one that no administration in the history of the country even came close to…after being confirmed 4 days ago, the new Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt, is already under investigation for ethics violations…only the best people…trump only hires the best people…the investigation has been prompted by multiple requests by lawmakers owing to the clear conflicts of interest he showed while working for the last corrupt Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, and meeting just with oil and gas companies, then giving them everything they wanted…rolling back regulations to give these companies almost free access to public lands along with gutting regulations protecting endangered species. Oh, and after the Deepwater Horizon explosion that polluted the Gulf of Mexico, this guy was the one pushing weakening safety regulations so the oil companies will never have to pay when they are responsible for the pollution that comes after these accidents. So, one frickin day is all it took for this guy to be under investigation…and the repubs are doing what they always do when a repub is found to be ethically challenged…ignore it and diminish it….until it’s a dem…impeach…
April 16th
Well…that was a mistake…have been trying to not use to much allergy stuff since it screws with my blood pressure but not using the spray last night kept my nose plugged up so I couldn’t breathe all night….I should have known better with how bad my allergies are getting already but I was pretty clear all evening so I thought I’d take the chance…so, that leaves me exhausted this morning and sore from all of the tossing and turning…oh, well….I did get my huge turkey cooked yesterday and it came out great…I’ll have turkey to eat for the next 5 days or so and still have a bag to put in the freezer…along with the two for the carcass for soup that I’ll make later that pretty much fills my freezer…still have some ham bones to use, too, and I’ll probably have to use those first…I did get out on the bike yesterday but it looks like rain for the next week or so and I am thinking about putting the bike back on the trainer for a while so I can get to 1,000 miles by the end of the month…but, it’s just not the same so, if it’s warm enough, I’ll go out and get wet….not much to do today…I do need to get my hair cut and run a couple of errands this morning and Man U plays this afternoon so it appears my day is pretty much set…I do need to clean my living room and vacuum but I can do that while the match is on…or not…the coffee needs to work much, much better before I’ll be motivated to do much….more later….
Still thinking…
Well…it has been kind of a busy day today with cooking my 16 pound turkey for lunch and then getting out on the bike (in shorts) for a ride before I came back here…the problem is that I’m still thinking about a topic right now and haven’t been able to figure one out. So, let’s just start and see what happens…idiot boy trump is in meltdown mode today after it was announced on his teevee that the Barr report is going to be issued Thursday…you notice I didn’t say the Mueller report since it no longer is Mueller’s after Barr edited it to protect trump…and it was revealed that Barr misled the congress at least once before to justify for his bosses at the DOJ that the kidnapping of foreign nationals without the permission of the country where they lived was just peachy…and then they proceeded to grab Manuel Noriega and bring to the US…the only problem was that his “summary” in that case was misleading, according to the congressional committee who had to subpoena that background info that Barr used to write his opinion…and once misleading, always misleading when it comes to Barr…and it looks like another subpoena is going to be necessary to get the Mueller report and it’s background material…so, Barr has been a partisan hack since at least 1989…surprise, surprise…impeach…
April 15th
Well…we’re half way through April and I have 4 inches of snow on my car this morning…and that is just damn depressing….at least I didn’t get up until 6:03 so I guess that’s something…had to flip the turkey over this morning so the bottom half of it could get brined for the next three hours and spilled the brine everywhere and that was damn annoying for first thing in the morning…even before coffee and that is way too damn early to be cleaning anything…had a pretty nice day yesterday even though I didn’t get anything done…didn’t even ride the bike and might not be able to ride again today since the snow is still on the pavement and will probably still be on the trails most of the day….but, it is supposed to be almost 60 tomorrow so I may even be able to get out in shorts…I think I may be able to substitute aspirin for ibuprofen for the overall pain that I have been feeling…tried it yesterday and it seems to have helped some so I think I’ll try it again today…my shoulder was okay most of the afternoon but it hurts some right now…I just realized how much it has improved with taking the turkey out of the fridge…the last time I did one was just after the crash and I could barely lift it then and my shoulder was howling in pain…not much to do today…just cooking and cleaning…am looking forward to having turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy today…but not until much more coffee and some news….more later…