Well….have already been getting stuff done today with the grocery run completed and getting here early….had some really weird dreams last night with the Miata rusting away and starting on fire when the fuel tank rusted through…hmmm….I think my brain is telling me to wash it later this morning….there were more to the dreams but I don’t remember them and it’s a shame…they were pretty good ones….feel okay today and that is strange, too…..my head is clear for the first time in months and that is without any allergy medicine….so maybe I’ll try to get through the day without it today…I do have a headache, though, but that will be taken care of when I get on the bike today….was hoping to get out in half thermasuit today but the temp has been revised down and now it’s only going to be 44….so that will have to wait….don’t have a lot to do today but I am going to cook some pork chops that I got for 1.19 a pound….more later….
All posts by James DeVol
Betsy DeVos really is an idiot…
Well…if you have seen or read about the confirmation hearing for Ed sec, you can see that the repub party has sunk to new lows of pay for play….where a totally unqualified person buys her way to a cabinet post. EdSec is a position that is supposed to think about and guarantee a good education to all of the children in this country..but, to hear ole Betsy, that stops if you are not a christian, or if you have disabilities, of if you go to a public school….in fact she has said that no one deserves a public education and has spent her time and untold millions of dollars screwing up the public schools here in Michigan…supporting taking public money and giving it to for profit schools run by repub cronies so to bleed the public schools dry and kill them off. This is all part of the coordinated repub plan to use public money to support religious schools (if they are christian of course) and damn the constitution that provides for the separation of church and state. She has shown that she knows nothing about education and has no training or experience in public education policy…but, that doesn’t matter since her family gave 200 million to the repubs over the years and that makes her qualified in her mind…but that is the only place she is quaified…geez….
January 18th
Well…got another bike ride in yesterday but it was a wet one and it took me most of the afternoon to warm up after the ride…slept pretty crappy last night and was up before 6 so there may be a nap later today to compensate for that….but, I feel okay this morning even with that but I am sore…again….and I know this time it’s bike soreness so that makes it okay…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today will be much the same since I really don’t have a lot to do….may have a little work but I may be able to put it off, too….not sure yet….I should wash the car today but that may wait until tomorrow when the weather will be better…it is going to be in the mid 50′s sat so that may be my top down day or tomorrow…not sure yet….more later….
Just some thoughts…
Well…have a few thoughts in my head right now so I thought I’d talk a little about them…not sure if any of them could be and entire post…so, the inaugural that trump says is going to be the biggest looks to be one of the most lame in history….at this time for Obama’s last one, you had to go 200 miles into Virginia to find a hotel room…a reporter checking it out found that there are rooms available at 61 hotels in downtown DC….and now the idiot is recording facebook messages begging people to come so he won’t look so lame…the CBO has come out with the cost to repeal Obamacare and it looks ugly…..premiums up by 50% the first year and 37 million people without insurance…and all Paul Ryan has to say is that the CBO hasn’t costed their plan out so how can they know that it isn’t the most wonderful thing in the world? All I have to say to that is where’s the plan, idiot? You keep saying you have one but it’s like double secret probation….you can’t see it…what a bunch of morons…geez…
Oh, forgot one thing…the idiot’s approval rating before he is even in office is down to 40%…to compare, Obama’s was at 84% at the same time period…and one last chuckle…one of the women who the idiot sexually assaulted is going on tv in a minute to announce that she is suing him for the assault…and she has Gloria Allred as her lawyer…I smell an 8 figure settlement coming…
January 17th
Well…running late this morning and I think it’s by choice…just haven’t felt like getting going and I think I am going to allow this one to be a wasted day….and I had another equipment failure yesterday…or the same equipment failure I had last week and now I am working on getting it replaced under warranty so the only cost will be shipping to send the old part back…or, maybe they will pay for that, too….maybe too much to ask….feel pretty crappy this morning and I am waiting for the coffee to work so my brain is not working that well….didn’t get on the bike yesterday since I had work to do around here and it rained most of the day…I’m now waiting for the rain to stop so I can get a ride in today…but I’m not too motivated so that can wait a while…more later….
An education secretary who hates public education…
Well…living here in Michigan, we’ve all gotten to know trump’s pick for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, as opposed to anything that has to do with public education, and her family bankrolling the effort to expand and deregulate the charter schools here. So, of course she’s the perfect person to run the education department in repubs eyes since they just hate teachers, teachers unions, and public education in general since you can’t make a profit for their oligarch buddies from it….never mind that she has no education or experience with the issues that the ed sec has to deal with…she does have that large checkbook that now seems to be the only qualification for anything for the repubs…after all, they elected the ignoramus in chief…the most ignorant person ever elected to any office in the US ever….geez….
Jason Chaffetz is a fraud…
Well… didn’t take long for the double standard that runs all repubs to rear it’s ugly head…a couple of days ago the top ethics lawyers for both GW and Obama came out and said that, unless the idiot trump divests himself of his business interests, he will be violating the constitution the day he is sworn in….and the person that is supposed to be investigating that on the house oversight committee, Jason Chaffetz, has said on the Sunday shows that he won’t be doing any investigation of this violation of the constitution…he even went so far as to threaten the chair of the government ethics office for pointing out this violation…and this is the same guy that said that if Clinton was elected, he would start investigations immediately on the supposed and fake Clinton lawbreaking….so, this is your new repub party folks, the laws only apply to their enemies, not to them…and the country starts to crumble….geez…
January 16th
Well…slept okay last night but my lungs are giving me fits today…have been coughing for some reason but I’m not sure if it is a bug yet….don’t have the normal symptoms so I guess I’ll wait to see what happens…it has been nice to be back on the bike the past few days and yesterday was a much better ride…my hands didn’t hurt too much so that was a good thing…but I am sore this morning and I don’t mind it…and the breaking of the news blackout has been less painful than I expected…still not into the entire news cycle but that will come later….not sure what I’m going to do today…it is supposed to rain the next two days so I may just have to veg until I can get back on the bike….and I do have some work to do around here but that might wait a day or so….more later….
The blackout breaks…
Well….it has been two months since I stopped reading or listening to the news but the boredom got to me today and I re activated my Twitter account….not to really read anything but to just look at the headlines…I do need to ease back into it…it would be way too much to go back to the old normal right away…but, there is one bit of news that I wanted to relay…that Clinton had over a million more votes than the idiot but the voter suppression that the repubs use to cheat worked….keep that in mind if the idiot ever mentions “mandate”
January 15th
Well…woke up feeling crappy again today and have lung congestion that has been coming on for a few days that is annoying….the pain from the bike ride yesterday has not kicked in yet but it should in a while…my hands are still stiff from yesterday and that will make today’s ride bad from the start…oh, well….I did cook the pork shoulder in the pressure cooker yesterday but the hour was not enough to get the center of it tender….next time I think I’ll go an hour and a half…still came out pretty good and I’ll have leftovers for the rest of the week…not going to do a whole lot today other than the bike ride later…Man U is playing at 11 so that will be something to keep the boredom at bay for a while and I should clean some but I probably won’t….more later…