Well…it has been a little bit of a weird day with T cancelling so she could get some rest…and with her schedule, I don’t blame her one bit. But, that’s not what this is about…it’s about the screaming bargain I got on pillows at Kohl’s today. Every Thursday, I pick up the Free Press when grocery shopping and today they had an ad for Kohl’s in it…and, in the ad, they had pillows on sale for 2.99 each that are regularly priced at 12 dollars each…so, I picked up 4 of them and got an even bigger deal at the register…my total for the 4 pillows was $10.30 so they were only a little over 2 bucks each. Now, they may not be the best pillows in the world, but damn…only 10 bucks? Couldn’t pass that up….can’t wait to try them tonight….
The proposals…
Well…as I said yesterday, with my medical procedure taking me out of commission Sunday and Monday, I am going to try to get to all of the politics that I would normally deal with on the day before the election. So, let’s start with the proposals on the ballot here in Michigan…oh, and these proposals are citizen led and deal with the fact that the repub cheaters that control the state don’t care what the people want…they just care about their donors and the rich so the people of the state took these important issues into their own hands and got the hundreds of thousands of signatures that put them on the ballot. Proposal one deals with making marijuana for personal, recreational use legal in the state…taxed and regulated like alcohol and the tax money will go towards many programs that the repubs have decimated in recent years. I have to agree that this one should be passed for no other reason than the damage the prohibition has done to the state and it’s residents…locking up thousands of people (and very disproportionately people of color) for possessing a plant that has been demonized for political purposed since it was first made illegal in the 30’s. Proposal 2 would create an independent committee to draw the state’s legislative districts, taking the control out of the hands of politicians (the repubs) who always cheat since they can’t win elections if they don’t. This control that the repubs used in last redistricting to cement their control of Michigan even when dems got more than 10% more votes than the repubs in the last election. So, this one is a yes if you think fair elections are necessary for a fair society. Really the only thing you need to know about prop 2 is that the DeVos family is spending millions to defeat it since they will no longer be able to buy the legislature if the districts are fair. Proposal 3 also deals with voting rights and makes it easier for people to register and vote…another thing that the repubs are against since they only want white repubs to vote and have done their best to make sure it stays that way even though the state is much more diverse than their power base here in West Michigan. So, a yes vote on every proposal will make this a much more fair state and get rid of the failed war on drugs….so do it, get out and vote!
November 1st
Well…finally on time today with getting out to do a small grocery run…going to be on this restricted diet until Monday so there was not much I could buy or that I needed…still spent 40 bucks and that is a little disappointing….slept okay last night but was still up at 5:39 that will be 6:39 after the time change….I did get a nice bike ride done yesterday in shorts but today will be back to thermasuit since the high is only going to be 48 and that is too cold for shorts and no gloves…I did have a pleasant surprise with the BP this morning when I got a reading of 97/74 that I thought must have been a mistake so I took it again and got 113/74 and that was closer to what I thought it should be…and that is the lowest it has been since I got my machine so I am not going to worry about it anymore…I did have to buy the prep stuff for my test on Monday and that set me back over 30 bucks…I just want it to be over…and the really nasty stuff won’t even happen until Sunday night…I do have a tentative meeting with T for this aft but, with her schedule, who knows? More later….
No market for American soybeans…
Well…I am stifling the urge to laugh at all of the farmers in red states and blue who voted for an ignorant moron for president and who are now seeing their livelihoods destroyed by his stupid tariffs. I know I’ve written about this before, but the carnage in the soybean markets just gets worse and worse with huge piles of beans spreading across the plains since there is no market for them anymore with China, India, and other huge markets now closed to us by the retaliatory tariffs place by countries who were attacked by the idiot trump. Even if our farmers can find anyone to buy their soybeans, there are selling at a loss of over 2 dollars a bushel and have put many, many farmers on the brink of bankruptcy…but, as I’ve said before, when these farmers are interviewed, they still back idiot boy 100%…which, to me, is the purest embodiment of the repub voters who have continually voted against their own economic interests just to support the racists and liars who infest the party today. There has been an outcry on the left during the election season to try to use the tariffs to convince the people affected to vote for the dems who will protect them from idiot boy, but if losing their farms and their life’s work hasn’t changed their minds, why would a dem who they hate be able to do it? I say let them sink…after all, they are the party of “personal responsibility” and need to be held responsible for inflicting trump on the rest of us…impeach…
Let’s talk about Michigan…
Well…with the colonoscopy rapidly approaching Monday, and the prep that is going to put me out of commission both Sunday and Monday, I thought I’d talk about some local Michigan election issues before that…to start, get the hell out to vote Tuesday if you haven’t already….that’s the start and I don’t care if you vote for dems (okay, yeah I do) or for the cheaters on the other side, just take an hour out of your busy day and vote. Let’s start with the race for governor here in Michigan where we have Gretchen Whitmer, the dem, up against the waste of space Bill Schuette, the repub….now, if you remember a few years back when the repubs were trying to insert themselves into every woman’s health care decisions by restricting abortion care…again…and Gretchen got thrown out of the state senate by the repubs who control it for saying “vagina” on the floor of the senate…that should be enough to vote for a feisty woman who cares about fairness and truth in government…but, there are so many other reasons to vote for her that I won’t list them here but will just say that she is a true progressive who will take this state forward, not back to the 1800’s like Schuette wants and has tried to do as AG. Now, let’s remember the millions of your tax dollars that Schuette spent to try to keep our LGBT friends from getting the equality they have a right to…that they are guaranteed in the constitution…but to Schuette and his troglodyte cronies, they are less than second class citizens who need to be hated and attacked. Only one other thing you need to know about Schuette, other than he’s a trump loving right wing asshole…and that is he didn’t care when Snyder and his incompetents were poisoning the people of Flint to try to save a little money….resisting all calls for an investigation into the decisions when it is the AG’s responsibility to protect the citizens of this state from malfeasance of the government….so, it’s a pretty clear choice of who would be better for you and I and this state…vote for Gretchen and let’s put the dark days of repub control behind us…for good…
October 31st
Well…slept all the way in til 6:03 this morning…okay, I did wake up at 5:23 but didn’t get out of bed until after 6 so that counts, right? I did sleep okay but have been feeling worn out a little lately and I’m not sure why…oh, well…I did have my lowest blood pressure reading since I got my machine a few minutes ago with a 110/74 and that makes the next goal to get it back into single digits where it always was before I got old…didn’t get much done yesterday but wash the bike and clean a little around here but I do need to get over to Meijers this morning to get the prep stuff for the procedure Monday…went over yesterday but they had to re-order the prescription stuff since they didn’t have it…so that will be after the bike ride that I think I may be able to do in shorts one last time since it is already almost 50…just need to wait for the rain to stop…then I need to start to clean this place up…but much later…on the first cup of coffee and need it to work first…more later…
Trump gets dumber every day…
Well…if you didn’t think that the idiot trump was the dumbest damn person in the entire country, you just had to hear of his latest “plan” to carry out his hatred against brown people by eliminating birthright citizenship for people he doesn’t like. Now, he has shown his utter lack of understanding of how anything works so damn many times that I am getting tired of writing about it but I just had to talk about this one since it is the pinnacle of ignorance…just this morning, idiot boy said he is going to end birthright citizenship by issuing an executive order to repeal the 14th amendment…now, just writing that made me laugh since it is so absurd and so the essence of that ignorant fool….every schoolkid who has gotten past the fifth grade understands that it takes 2/3 of the members of the house and senate or by a constitutional convention called by 2/3 of state legislatures and then would need to be voted on to repeal it…it can’t be repealed by the whim of an idiot president and his crony enablers…look, we all know what this latest trial balloon is, just a distraction to motivate idiot boy’s racist base to get out to vote next week….since that worked so well in 2016, he’s doing it again….what a moron….followed by morons…impeach….
October 30th
Well…the new normal reared it’s ugly head again this morning with getting up at 5:30 but it took almost an hour to get here after needing a glass of water and to read the news some…the tendonitis that I normally have just showed up for the first time this year in my right elbow and it hurts like crazy this morning…I wonder if it’s related to having to pull on the brake lever so hard on the bike…and, I’ve had cramps in my right calf the past couple of days, too, but I think that’s from not eating enough so I can try to fix that today…I did have a nice drive back from pool yesterday, which I think I won, with the top down but it was raining on the way out and I didn’t mind it being warm in the car with the top up….the new plugs have made the car run so good I wonder why I didn’t put them in earlier…hmmm….didn’t get anything else done yesterday so I’ll have to do better today…the fridge still needs to be done so I am going to try, for the 5th time, to clean it today…more later….
trump’s not invited…
Well…sitting here waiting for the sun to come up so I can get out on the bike and I just read an article that made this question pop into my head: “How bad of a person do you have to be to have an entire state tell you to stay the hell away?” This is exactly what happened this morning when the Mayor of Pittsburgh told trump in no uncertain terms that he is not welcome at any of the memorial ceremonies for the 11 people murdered by a trump follower over the weekend….and this follows being told to stay away from Barbara Bush’s and John McCain’s funerals, something that has not happened to a *president in the history of this country. Is this telling you something idiot boy? Your bullshit is wearing mighty thin with everyone in this damn country other than the trump zombies that show up at your taxpayer funded “rallies” which are nothing more than proto nazi ego fluffing at it’s worst….so, keep deluding yourself that you’re popular, that you are not the worst, most evil person to walk the face of this country…the mid terms are coming in a week and with any luck you and your bullshit will end….there is still an orange jumpsuit waiting for you when you leave office…and this time, unlike GW Bush, you will pay for your crimes…impeach…
October 29th
Well…as I said yesterday, I’m not going to bitch about how I sleep anymore…so I won’t…okay, one last bitch…was up at 6:01 this morning…is that a bitch? Not sure…I do know that I have been sore as hell the past few days and I am wondering if taking the day off the bike yesterday will help that…I know I could just take some ibuprofen and that takes care of most of it but then what would I have to report here? That everything is sunny and happy and there are rainbows with kittens dancing around them? As you know, that won’t happen…even though I’m pretty happy most of the time…I wonder how people my age get along when they aren’t? Hmmmm….have been draining the battery on my computer to see how long it will last under normal use the past day and, after a day, it still has 74% of the battery left…what that means I’m not sure but I was curious and bored so that gave me something to do…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but watch sports and Man U finally won a game so that was cool…and I probably won’t get much done today with pool this aft…it will be nice to get out of here for a while…more later…