Well…okay, I feel like crap this morning and I think it’s allergies since my head is plugged up and I have no energy…getting up at 5:30 doesn’t help, either but there really is nothing I can do about that…I am a little sore today too with being run into on the bike yesterday and hitting the pavement…some woman just rode her bike out of a blind side trail and hit me and I landed on my left shoulder this time and bruised my knee that hurt through the second ride…no damage to the bike so I guess I’ll live through it…no scrapes from this one so that’s something…didn’t get anything done after that since I was pretty sore but I don’t hurt much this morning…my back was really hurting all day so to get up to almost no pain is a good thing…I was going to clean yesterday but didn’t get to it…I do need to do some work around here today but my motivation level is so low that I’m not sure what I’ll get to…more later….
Monthly Archives: August 2019
Liz Cheney sticks a shiv in irony….
Well….there was a little bit of welcome news the past week when the tribal nations of the western plains won a lawsuit against trump’s Fish and Wildlife Service that prevented them from breaking the law and removing the grizzly bear from federal protections under the ESA. The only reason Cheney and her cronies wanted to remove the bear from the list was to pave the way for high dollar trophy hunts so some guides could make a profit from the sacred bear of many of the plains tribes…but this lawsuit stopped another huge deal….the lifting of leasing restrictions on almost 34,000 square miles that is made up tribal treaty land that would make it easy for outside interests to come in and mine, log, and graze livestock on this land basically for free while the Native Americans got nothing. In a breathtaking speech that was as ignorant as it was insensitive, Cheney actually killed irony with a shiv when she said ” this suit was motivated by the plaintiffs intent on destroying our western way of life”….which to Cheney, her dad, and the rest of the repubs/conservatives mean that they should be able to come in, gut the area, clear cut the timber, and leave the taxpayers on the hook for any environmental cleanup after the companies declare bankruptcy to dodge any responsibility for their actions. Now for a fake westerner to come in and say that is to deny the history of the country where whites came in and took the Native Americans “way of life” by murdering them and taking their lands for nothing…sounds like destroying a way of life to me….how about you? Poor babies…the courts stopped them from plundering more of the country and their entitled little minds just can’t take it…I feel so bad for them….ha,ha…
August 2nd
Well….don’t feel quite as sore this morning and I think it may be the two ibuprofens yesterday along with only doing one ride…my right thigh was screaming in pain yesterday, too, and that is gone this morning…or almost gone along with my right elbow and shoulder…so, after hobbling around here all day yesterday, this is a welcome change…but, it was another night of being up at 3:54 so that tempers my happiness with the decreased pain….I didn’t get anything done yesterday but cook but need to clean up the kitchen today and will get at that at some point…and the cobweb gremlins are hard at work again so that will have to be dealt with along with doing the floors so I’ll have something to do between rides…yeah, I’m going to be dumb again today and do two rides since I have the bike working so much better with the new shift cable and a week’s worth of adjustments that it is fun to ride again…they are still working on the roof of the house so working over there will be on hold until Monday and I’m okay about that…was doing too much and even K thought I looked tired when I saw her Wed so some time off should help with that….I do need to dig into the freezer today to plan food for the weekend but how hard could that be when all I have is chicken? More later….
Are you suprised?
Well…we all know that trump is an idiot and his trade policies are those that would be done by a 7 year old that was home schooled by goats…and has caused untold pain through the farm country by destroying markets that farmers had spent decades building…and today, with the farm welfare that is being doled out by trump that you and I are paying for, and that is supposed to help all farmers who have been affected, we see that most of the bailouts are going to the big corporate farms who have given millions to elect the asshole in chief. The report shows that the top 10% of farms in size got over 50% of the bailout money while the family farms who have been most damaged by idiot boy’s tantrum got less than 5,000 dollars each…while some of the big farms got almost 3 million dollars and are lobbying for more of our tax dollars to be paid directly to them…like the Venezuelan crony of trump’s who got millions just for buying up farms in this country and not even farming. Sounds a bit like welfare to me. As trump the idiot rails against American cities who need federal help for infrastructure and renewal and pledges not one dime to them to help, he doled out 16 billion dollars to his corporate farming buddies to continue to buy their votes and keep them donating to his election campaign. I can’t believe that this was not the purpose of the tariffs in the first place…to have just another method of looting the treasury for trump and his cronies while family farms are closing by the thousands and not one damn thing is done for them. I do have a hard time having sympathy for them, though, since they saddled this country with trump and still support him even though their farms are gone….not too bright in my book…impeach…
August 1st
Well…I think I’ve finally reached the breaking point with my body and need to take today off…I am just so stiff and tired that the last thing I want to do is go over and work at the house since it will aggravate the pain in my elbow and shoulders…so, I’m just going to take it easy today and may even skip the bike ride, too…but, that may be too much to ask of my guilt…at least I think I’ll wait for a while to go out and have the rest of the leftover coffee…I do have to remember that I’m not 30 anymore and have to stop trying to work like I am…have been taking too much ibuprofen to just cope with the pain and I hope that two a day won’t kill my kidneys….didn’t get anything done yesterday but work at the house but I do have to clean around here today and cook since I have no leftovers in the fridge…maybe I’ll make some pasta later…I did buy bad food yesterday since DD had brats on sale for 99 cent for 4 of them and I need some easy food with all of the running I’ve been doing lately…more later…