A bad day for trump…

Well…not sure if it was coordinated or not, but there was loads of bad news coming out of the House yesterday for the idiot trump and his minions. The house Ways and Means committee who deals with all tax issues, formally requested 6 years of idiot boy’s personal tax returns along with the returns of about a half dozen of his holding companies….the key here is the request went to the IRS under a law that was specifically written in the 1920′s to get the tax returns of Woodrow Wilson and others in his administration as the House was investigating corruption…sound familiar? The key thing here is that they don’t have to get trump’s permission to get them and the IRS is required to hand over any requested return to the chair of the committee….and trump is so ignorant of how this works that he spouted off yesterday with his tired old talking point that his returns are still under audit so he can’t release them…donnie, donnie, get it through your thick head, you don’t have anything to do with this process…you can’t stop it you moron. The second bit of bad news that trump got was that the Jerry Nadler, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee got a subpoena approved to send to Bill Barr for the entire, unredacted Mueller report and all of the underlying information…not the justice obstructing 4 page propaganda letter that Barr released…and Nadler is ready to go to court to get the report, but he is being nice about it and giving Barr the opportunity to do what’s right instead of obstructing justice…remember, Bill…John Mitchell went to prison for 19 months for doing just what you’re doing when he tried to protect Nixon…oh, and one last thing…investigators and prosecutors who worked on the Mueller report are calling bullshit on Barr and his summary’s conclusion that trump didn’t obstruct justice…saying that it is a total misrepresentation of what is actually in the report….so, trump had a very no good, terrible day yesterday…and that is going to continue until he’s gone and in prison….can’t wait for today’s meltdown….impeach…

April 4th

Well…geez…got the grocery run done early today and got back here by 11 minutes after 7 and it only took me 14 minutes to read the paper…not sure why I’ve been in so much of a hurry today but maybe it’s that I feel okay…mostly okay, that is, I think I have a cold with the coughing and runny nose this morning but I have noticed that things are starting to flower so it could be allergies…but that doesn’t explain being warm to the point of sweating right now…feel okay so I guess I can ignore that and just get on with the day….I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but with the wind blowing at 20, it was brutal coming back to the West and that left me so sore that I had to take something for it last night….maybe that’s why I feel better this morning? The lack of pain is a welcome change from my normal creakiness in the morning….I finally got my stuff put back in my storage closet yesterday after they finished repairing the ceiling and it makes this place look so much bigger…I do need to clean some today with a run up to Mt. P happening tomorrow morning which will ensure I won’t get anything done then…but, that’s okay…don’t have a lot to do in here…if I just keep my glasses off, the place looks perfectly fine…more later….

Oranges and wind turbine cancer…

Well…cripes…as every day goes by, the idiot trump sinks deeper into dementia and abject craziness….just yesterday during a press conference with the head of the UN, idiot boy just had to go on and on about the Mueller report and it’s “origins”…the only problem is that trump didn’t say origins but oranges…and continued to say it until his addled brain moved on to something else as the world watched…with any other *president, that would have been enough to get him hustled off to Bethesa for mental tests to see just how addled his brain is…but that was not the worst of his day….during a fundraiser in front of other repubs, he went off on wind power again… but not his normal schtick that you won’t be able to watch your tv when the wind isn’t blowing, no, he came up with an entirely new reason why wind power isn’t good for the country…I guess now the sound from wind turbines causes cancer…yep, you heard that right..he really believes that sound causes cancer and that, if you can see a turbine from your house, your home value will plunge 75%….god, this guy is in control of our nukes? He finished up the day by repeatedly asserting that his father was born in Germany…something he has done for weeks now but guess what? He’s lying about that, too…his father was born here in the US and really shows his mental decline since the Russians installed him. What is it going to take, repubs? Is getting your radical right wing judges worth putting the entire world in danger? Okay…stupid question…it is to you….impeach….

April 3rd

Well…not sure why I can’t get started but I’ve been up for an hour and I’m just pouring my first cup of coffee….one good thing is I’m not too sore today…so far…and I slept as okay as I can so maybe that’s all the start I can hope for…one of these days, I’m going to break out of my routine and wait until later to do this…if I can put it out of my mind enough that is…okay, that won’t work..this gets my head started clearing in the morning and I do need that…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get out to ride in shorts but that is not going to happen today…the high is still going to be in the 40′s so it looks like light thermasuit to ride in today…but that looks like it is going to change for the weekend with it getting to almost 70 but then back to the 40′s again for the next two weeks and that is damn annoying…oh, well…April in Michigan…at least there is no snow in the forecast and that is a possibility any time until May…not much to do today…I ran errands yesterday so I don’t have to do that today…but, I do have to do some cleaning and I should be able to put my stuff back on the shelves after they finish up the ceiling repairs… so that will be my day….more later…

Snyder is going to get what he deserves…

Well…there was a little bit of good news from here in Michigan over the weekend that I almost forgot to write about…but, I remembered so here goes….you remember a few years back, the repubs in charge of the state were doing what repubs do, trying to make a profit off the water supply of Flint by switching it from Detroit where good, clean water was supplied for decades to the Flint river that was still polluted from years of industrial dumping from GM and other companies. With the finances of the city in dire straights due to population loss and cuts to state aid that is rampant under the repubs as they give tax breaks to corporations and the rich, Snyder appointed an emergency manager to take over the city…displacing the elected officials from the mayor on down whose only reason for being there was to cut costs with no regard for the safety of the residents.  When the switch to the Flint River was done, the corrosive nature of the water started to leach lead from the old pipes and expose 100,000 people to huge amounts of lead…the big thing here is that Snyder and his cronies knew about the lead problem for a year and did nothing about it as men, women, and children were being poisoned. So, this weekend, Snyder was added back to the class action suit filed on behalf of the poisoned city and is now exposed to paying damages for his incompetence/inaction or the repub disease of just not caring about anyone who is not rich or a donor to their party…I, for one, hope he ends up losing everything and the people of Flint can at least use those millions to try to help fix the damage that was done…typical repub….

April 2nd

Well…got all the way to 6 again this morning and seem to have slept okay…but I did sleep on my right shoulder and it hurts again and is very stiff….still feel exhausted, though, and I think that’s more from the lack of calories than anything else…I did have an interesting day yesterday with getting my taxes in and having to write checks for 2500 bucks but I am glad that I had the money to do it…and I got a call from my oldest son to let me know he is engaged to his girlfriend whom I met last fall in NYC…pretty cool and great news…so it was a good day even though I had to lay out a bunch of cash…other than that, didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I have errands to run this morning…going to head out to DD to get a pork loin for 88 cents a pound and that will be the first red meat I’ve had since I had a burger in NYC last September…but, I can’t pass up 88 cents a pound….I should get some cleaning done today and I probably will do the bathroom this morning since this is not a workout day and I don’t have anything else to do….more later….

Subpoenas are coming…

Well…with Bill Barr still trying to obstruct justice by withholding the entire Mueller report from the House committees, the chair of the Judiciary committee, Jerry Nadler, has had enough and is readying subpoenas for the report and all supporting information to be issued by the end of the week. In a normal administration…or any administration before the criminal trump and his cronies infested the government, it was normal for the special counsel to supply the report and the underlying data as soon as the report was issued…every SC in the modern era has done this and there is no reason why Barr should not follow precedent…other than he can’t protect trump if he does…and let’s remember why there was a SC in the first place…to ensure an independent investigation that would be free of interference by the trump political appointees who run the justice department. So now, the real fight starts…and if Barr ignores the subpoenas, Nadler can send officers of the House to round up those who are ignoring the subpoenas and they can be held in contempt of congress until they comply….this could be an interesting week…

Danger…your printer will explode…

Well…I am still a little amused when I replaced the ink tanks in my Epson printer with generic ones and got essentially that message when I hit the print button…that using non Epson inks will probably ruin your printer, anything you’re printing, and start WWIII. But, I decided to chance it since I got all 4 tanks for less than one Epson tank…and that is just nuts…I know that the printers are just loss leaders to get you to buy the much more profitable ink, but there is no way they have more than a buck fifty in each tank…and they charge almost 25 bucks for each one…and that is only 10 bucks less than I paid for the printer…the weird thing is they have a little button in the printer software that says to “continue printing” even after the dire warning comes up. I will say this about this Epson…when I fired it up for the first time after not using it for a few months and it barely printed since the nozzles were dried out and clogged, all I had to do was run the head cleaning program twice and it prints like new…something that the the three Canon printers I’ve had wouldn’t do…once they were clogged, that was it…there was no bringing them back and I just had to throw them away…I was kind of hoping for an explosion and ink flying everywhere…that would have helped alleviate the boredom…

April 1st

Well…got all the way to fresh coffee smell o’clock before I got out of bed this morning and that is a little later than normal…and I slept on my right shoulder again and it is grinding and popping like crazy like it has swelling in it again…and it hurts in new places so that will take a while to figure out….still feel pretty crappy just like I have for a while now but I hope that will get better today…not sure why I think that I will but I can hope…it’s kind of funny that I hadn’t used my instant pot for a month and then used it three times over the weekend…and now I don’t have to cook again until wed or so but I do have to decide what to do with the 4 boneless skinless thighs I still have in the fridge…will probably just freeze them for another time…didn’t do much yesterday and today looks the same but I won’t have all of the sports that kept me busy so I have to think of other things to keep me from boredom…not sure what that would be but maybe the coffee will get me thinking…more later…