Well…as the idiot trump’s ignorance and stupidity is on full display with his moronic tariffs, we need to start talking about them not as tariffs, which people do not really understand, but as tax increases that are going to fall on every household and business in this country…and no, stupident, China is not paying for the tariffs no matter how much you bleat that, it is not now or will ever be the truth…but should we expect anything but ignorance and stupidity from someone who lost over a billion dollars in 10 years? Or who couldn’t even make a profit from casinos? Oxford has come out with a study (and no, Oxford does not do fake news) that says that with trump’s new tariffs on China that he imposed Friday, every damn household in the US is going to be TAXED an additional 800 dollars a year and this is in addition to the 100 farms that go out of business every week due to idiot boy’s stupidity. We need to hammer this home every day…that trump cut taxes for the rich but for everyone else, these tariffs are going to raise your taxes…enough winning, trump voters? Impeach…
May 11th
Well…I wonder if 3:34 is a new record for getting up for me? Okay, I didn’t really get up then but I was awake then and barely got back to sleep before I got out of bed at 6 or so…pretty damn tired right now and I think part of that is going 8 days of 30 miles per on the bike…there has to be some fallout from that since I’m not young anymore but I’m not too sore so maybe another one today…it’s going to depend on the temp and when it comes up enough to get out with the frost happening out there right now… and yesterday was pretty brutal with the wind blowing almost 20 all day…had a weird leak of coolant in the car yesterday where the top of the overflow tank was covered with coolant and there is no way that should be…checked the hose that goes to it and everything else but couldn’t find any reason it would be there…will have to wait until I run it and get it hot to check to see what that is about….at least it going to something simple to fix when I find it…didn’t get anything else done yesterday but I do want to do the bathroom today and maybe a little kitchen cleaning, too, but I’m not sure about that…more later….
A paradigm shift….
Well…just got back from my 8th day of 30 mile rides on the bike and I really can’t figure out why I’m doing it…you know I have the most well developed sense of guilt of anyone I know…guilt about what I eat, guilt about spending money, guilt about almost everything and it appears that my guilt has caused a paradigm shift in my thinking about riding the bike. It started out just doing one double just to see if I could do it and to see how much damage it would do…then, the second day, I felt okay and the weather was nice so I thought why not? Let’s do another one…and that led to day three, four, five, six seven and eight…the first 7 was to get to a goal but I met that yesterday…and today I went out early for the first time and froze my fingers and toes in the cold and brutal wind…so, I was going to skip this afternoon…after all, I had ridden a lot more than normal all week….but, I just couldn’t do it…no matter how inviting the couch was, or how fatigued my legs are, it now appears that one ride a day is no longer enough for my guilt and it is going to torture me by forcing 30 miles a day from now on…not sure I like that….
Did he really lose a billion dollars?
Well…sitting here trying to decide if I’m going to do a second ride today and a thought just popped into my head…with all of the news stories of how much money trump lost in the 90’s, getting to over a billion dollars, my question is: did trump really lose a billion dollars? With all of the evidence of tax fraud throughout his life, are these losses just paper ones that allowed him to not pay any taxes? I mean, how the heck do you lose 950 million dollars in one year? I can understand that happening to a corporation, but for the closely held trump criminal organization, really losing a billion dollars would be a lot of money and would be pretty hard to do…and we know that idiot boy didn’t pay any taxes for almost 10 years. So, what I think this is is just the extension of the fraud that trump has run since he and his siblings inherited 450 million dollars from daddy and didn’t pay any taxes on that…I’m sure he has the same attitude that most rich people have, that only “little people” pay taxes and wasn’t careful committing fraud his entire life…explaining the death struggle he is engaged in to prevent anyone from seeing his tax returns…impeach…
May 10th
Well…not sure how I can be running late this morning but I am…got up around 5:30 and just can’t get started…I am kind of liking taking an ibuprofen in the evening since it feels like it is still working now and my legs don’t hurt hardly at all…and after the week I had on the bike, they should hurt like crazy right now….slept okay last night but feel a little off today and the day has started with coughing and sneezing and my head is pretty plugged up but I don’t want to take anything for it since I need to have that available at night to be able to sleep…I just wish there was something I could take that didn’t screw up my BP…looks like I’ll just have to be miserable all summer and that is not something I look forward to…and the weather is making me miserable, too…I mean having to wear gloves on the bike on May 10th? I did get the bike cleaned since it was just filthy from riding in the wet the past couple of days and the shifter had started to hang up during the 6-7 shift…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but make potato salad that I have been craving all week but today will be different…not going to do a double on the bike today since it is so damn cold out there and I won’t get out until after noon and I don’t like going late in the day…more later…
Set two new records today…
Well….on a day when I thought I was going to be able to take off with the t-storms that were forecast, the rain moved out early so I got to get out and torture myself some more…and with that, I set two more new records on the bike….7 days in a row of 30+ mile rides and the most total miles in a week ever with 214.7 miles replacing the 205 miles of the old record that I set a couple of years ago. Until this year, I had never done more than 7 30 milers in a year let alone a week…and the last mileage record was an anomaly since it included my 105 mile one day record and I never got close to that again…until now. I am a little proud to still have the will and capability to keep doing this stuff at my advanced age and that has gotten me started on what I’m going to do for this year’s birthday feat of strength…and it popped into my head that maybe double my age in miles? That would probably be the last one of those that I do since I really don’t have anything to prove anymore…so why do I keep trying to prove it? Oh, well…all I know is that I frickin hurt everywhere right now and I’m going to need to take something for it or I won’t be able to move later…and no, it’s not a good pain…it’s just pain and that is a pain….
Forget about trump’s base…
Well…look…all of the hand wringing about motivating trump’s base by impeaching the idiot boy is bullshit…and even thinking about that and having it dictate our actions is even a bigger pile of bullshit….nothing, and I mean nothing that the dems do is ever going to have any damn effect on that cult of personality and hate so I say just ignore them and do what’s right for the country and for protection of the constitution…that means that impeachment has to be on the table now and forever until the criminal in chief is safely ensconsed in his cell at club fed. After the early reticence of our leaders in congress to even put impeachment on the table, it appears that most of them have had enough of the obstruction and defiance that idiot boy has shown at every turn and Nancy Pelosi is now building the impeachment case against the whole damn lot of them including Mnuchin, trump and Barr that will convince any court that they are criminals committing criminal acts every day….a smart bit of strategy that may be taking longer than we want but will give an airtight case for removal of the lot of them….let’s just have a little patience…but just a little…impeach…
May 9th
Well…running a little late with having to make two stops this morning for groceries…and that is a pain in the butt…slept okay last night but got up feeling really slow this morning and that may be the antihistamines I had to take to get rid of the headache that was killing me last night….and I topped that off with an ibuprofen for the neck pain that was keeping me from moving it…but, that helped the pain in my legs so I guess that was okay…that’s what I get from doing 6 30 mile days in a row but it looks like a day off today with rain predicted for the entire day…I will keep my eyes on the radar though to see if there is a break that I can go out in if even for just 15 miles…didn’t get much done yesterday but I’ll have to do better today since I have no excuses to use to justify being lazy…the kitchen counters can use some work and I should do the bathroom so maybe that will be on the agenda for the day…don’t have to cook anything…oh, yep I do…going to make potato salad since I have a lot of eggs to use and I haven’t made it yet this year…but that will be it….will be eating out of the freezer again for this week and I still need to make alfredo sometime this weekend so I’ll get away from chicken, chicken, chicken that is boring the hell out of me….more later….
This can’t stand…
Well…when did criminals get to say what evidence against them can be seen by prosecutors? Just this morning, trump and his criminal minions asserted a non-existent executive privilege to keep the congress from seeing the entire Mueller report, adding to his obstruction and turning it into a full-blown coverup that is being run by his toady AG William Barr…now it’s the time for Nancy Pelosi to step up and say that this can’t stand and start impeachment proceedings against idiot boy…if you discard all of the Mueller report, this action by itself is the “high crimes and misdemeanors” necessary to start the investigation process which gives the House broad powers to access anything they want…and this has been upheld by every court in the land since the country was founded. It appears that the dems are starting to grow a spine with the vote to hold Barr in contempt of congress this morning but that is not enough…Mnuchin and all of the rest who are part of this conspiracy need to be hauled in front of congress and charged with breaking the law and that includes Barr….the very existence of our democracy hangs in the balance and the dems need to stop thinking of the political fallout of impeachment since there may be no country left if they don’t get moving…impeach…
May 8th
Well…my coffee is not hot enough…aargh…back the microwave…okay…that’s better…but it doesn’t fix that it was another 5:34 morning today….but, I feel okay so maybe that’s enough…I think I slept okay last night…for me..so let’s not talk about that anymore…I did take an ibuprofen last night and probably took three years off my life but I hurt frickin everywhere after doing 5 days straight of 30 mile rides…and I have a brand new pain…yay? On the ride yesterday, I got a shooting pain under my right kneecap that I’ve never had before that is really annoying and it continued after I got off the bike…doesn’t hurt this morning but I think my legs are saying they need to have me back off a bit…so today will just be 15 miles and then it looks like a rainout tomorrow so I’ll take the day off…it may be cool to have thunderstorms all day if the forecast is correct…I did see a really cool soccer match between Liverpool and Barcelona yesterday in the semi finals of the Champions league…they play two games and use the aggregate score to see who goes to the finals…Liverpool was down 3-0 from the first game and came back to win this one 4-0 which sent them through to the final…pretty cool and there is another one on this aft with Spurs and Ajax…so guess what I’ll be doing this afternoon? Yep…not cleaning again but I do have to cook today…going to fire up the instant pot and do a pork loin that has been int the freezer a while…so, red meat and ibuprofen…crap, I’ll probably die tomorrow…more later…