Well….was reading some the past day and came across this jaw dropper from a right wing radio host…can’t find the article to get the particulars but here is the gist: his plan, which he espoused on his radio show was that we give all the undocumented people in his state….I think it was Idaho…30-60 days to ‘self deport” and after that, and here comes the jaw dropper…the state would “own” any of the undocumented that are found to be there and could be put to work doing work that needs to be done for the state for room and board…yep, the right is right back to what they still defend, slavery, for 11 million people in the US…I don’t know what to say about this one…the plan and words speak for themselves….the right still thinks slavery is a good idea….I’m shaking head….geez…
Okay, here’s an update…I didn’t want to just post this without the facts so here they are: the radio host’s name is Jan Mickleson and he is in Iowa, not Idaho….and he has hosted Walker, Fiorina, Carson, and Santorum…all repub candidates for president….and his question was” “What’s wrong with slavery”….where the hell do they get these guys?…geez…again…
Well…I have been thinking of what to write about this afternoon and have come up empty…Trump hasn’t said anything today and the rest of the idiots on the right are just doing the argle bargle that they normally do…Rubio came out and said he supports what BLM is trying to do but then said that the government has no role in fixing the disparity in policing that is felt by blacks in this country…trying to have it both ways much? Just another mealy mouthed nothing from the water boy…and we have Walker saying that he would appoint a Wisconsin education activist to his cabinet and the activist saying “no frickin way” he would serve in a Walker administration and he hasn’t even talked to the idiot in over two years….another lying lie from the liar who is trying to blur his hard right hatred for education and teachers on the back of dems who are actually trying to make things better….I can’t believe there is even going to be another repub debate in September…really, what’s the point? they all read from the same talking points and are interchangeable, so why listen? The first one was for entertainment value and to laugh at their incompetence…but, that wears thin after a while so I won’t be watching the next one…geez…
Well…it’s a gloomy morning and it looks like it is going to be that way most of the day….it may be the perfect day to take off the bike and let the legs heal some but we’ll see…if there is a break in the clouds I may try to make a run for it and at least get a short one in…slept crappy again last night but I have hope I can get back to the reasonable sleep I had a week or so back….don’t feel that bad today, though, so I’m not sure what is going on….I am running a little late today with the grocery run being done and not having a whole lot of energy to do it at my normal speed…then, I sit here and think “why” not sure why I have to do it fast when I have the whole morning to get it done…but, I do have to keep to the list to keep the spending down…and today was not bad at 38 bucks….and, I’m not too sore today so that is a good thing…not sure if I should take an ibuprofen this morning with the rain and getting on he bike being iffy…think I’ll hold off for now….not much to do today…and it’s true this time…I should clean but won’t…I did get some stuff done yesterday and I do need to build on that…more later…
Well…I know you’ve heard all the just frickin nuts things that ole Huck has said over the past few months but yesterday just vaulted him into village idiot status when he took issue with Black Lives Matter activists and their tactics, saying that MLK would not approve of them…and then going into the right’s talking point that “all lives matter” and that no lives are any more special than any other. Where have you been living, Huck? In your bubble of white privilege, you just can’t understand what the problem is…after all, no one is trying to take black people’s vote away…oh, wait, yes you are….no one is jailing black people on trumped up charges or murdering them …oh, wait, yes you are….and there are no overt racists in your party that will do anything to ensure that blacks are second-class citizens…oh, wait, yes there are. MLK would be standing as he did through the 50′s and 60′s…standing up to the entrenched racism in this country, standing up for equal rights and opportunity for all…and that is what BLM is doing now…what do you expect, Huck? You and your ilk have treated minorities in this country like crap forever…do you expect them to just take it? I applaud the work of BLM for shining sunlight on the racists and racism in this country…keep up the good work BLM!
Well…there hasn’t been a lot happen today in politics so I think I’ll do one on some strange things that have been happening on the trail over the past week…going down the trail, I noticed a pile of hickory nut shucks that were put there by some kind of animal I suppose…probably squirrels…and the funnier thing is that on 5 of the past 7 days that I rode through that area, either the bike or me was hit by a nut that was dropped from above…now, I’m not sure if they are trying to hit me or if I just startle them when I come through but whatever it is, they have pretty good aim to hit me 70% of the time…one other thing, today when I was going up the hill to the last water stop, I ran across a huge painted turtle on the trial just ambling across it…it had really cool patterns on it’s shell and I think it’s probably only the second one I have seen in the 25K miles I have put in riding out there….pretty neat thing to see….
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and another normal one where I didn’t get much done…I did get soaked on the bike since it started raining just as I took off and kept raining until I got back here…was not unpleasant since it was over 70 and there was no lightning but I skipped sitting in the park at the last water stop since stopping was a little chilly…..slept okay last night and no dreams but with the all of the Miata wreck dreams lately, it was okay to have a little break…not as sore as I have been lately but I still do need to take some ibuprofen before since my wrists were killing me yesterday…no back pain, though, so that is progress….not much to do today…oh, one other thing….Man U won their first leg match yesterday and looked a little better so maybe they will get to the knockout stage…okay, back to not much to do today…just the ride and cleaning since I made popcorn last night and found out that butter is not the right thing to pop the corn in…tiny little, burned kernels that were pretty darn tough…more later…
Well…just like always, the repubs are supporting new legislation that would codify the ability of the haters to discriminate against the GLBT community…again…now, we have the RNC endorsing the Orwellian sounding First Amendment Defense Act….which would prevent the government from enforcing any anti discrimination laws that protect the LGBT citizens of the US. Yeah, I know…just more of the same old crap from the right wing assholes that are running the repub party these days…but the thing is, the country has moved on from this fight after the supreme cout’s same sex marriage ruling but the repubs just can’t…they just have the need to feel put upon and to restrict the rights of their fellow citizens just to be the mean assholes they are…it is settled law that once you enter the sphere of secular business that you cannot discriminate against any group and cloak it in “religious freedom”…didn’t work when they tried it against black people… and it won’t work this time against gays…just give it up pricks..you’ve lost….geez…
Well…I was going to do a political one talking about the Donald and his huge lead over the rest of the rider in the clown car but, there is a little bit happening in sports that I wanted to talk about first…just saw that Danica Patrick has signed a new deal with Tony Stewart’s team and I really can’t figure out why…I think her average finish for the year is in the 20′s and the only place she is competitive is at the restricter plate tracks like Daytona…and this is in the same equipment that Kevin Harvick has driven to 4 wins this year…I know that Tony Stewart himself isn’t doing much better but I don’t remember a race that Danica was even close in…and that would have gotten a mediocre driver fired at any other team…oh, well…I did want to talk a little about Manchester United and it’s inconsistent progress over the past two years…I know they have won both matches so far in the premier league, but they were unconvincing at best in both…I know they are kind of happy with 6 points in the first two matches with only getting 5 in the first 6 last year but I haven’t seen anything that would make you believe that they can win the league this year…the one suggestion I would make is to have Fellaini and Chicharrito start for a change…Rooney needs some help with service so he can be a striker again…or even better, move Rooney to the role just behind the striker and let him do his thing with the good set ups that we have seen him do…okay, that’s enough for now…more later…
Well….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done, again, but I did get out to have a couple with G and it was not terrible so that was cool….even tried to eat enough yesterday and may have been successful but I won’t know that for a while….and it looks like I won’t be on the bike this morning with the rain that is coming in but going in the aft is cool, too…or, I may take a day off and just let some of the soreness go away…didn’t sleep well again but it wasn’t as terrible as it could be so that’s a plus…had Miata wreck dreams again where an idiot person ran into it while it was parked and since it is so old, it was totaled…and that was not good….oh, well….there is a soccer match with Man U starting the champions league today so that will be cool to see if they come to play…if they play like that last two games, they will be out of the playoffs today…just can’t figure out how they can be so bad again this year….not much to do today…have to go to the bank after the workout and then have to work on the computer to see id I can free up some memory…more later….
Well…this one happened a couple of weeks ago but I just remembered it right now so I thought I’d say my piece so I don’t forget…lately, on one of the cable channels that I some times watch, this innocuous music comes on and the ad shows people going about their days with little stars on them that I didn’t understand…then they show them in some kind of gun training course where they are obviously training to shoot someone..oh, and did I mention that most of the people in the ad are women? Then they close it our with more daily life stuff and more stars showing a woman running, then carrying a purse with it’s own little gun pocket in it as she goes about her errands, I guess….now, you’ve heard me talk here about how I just hate these companies and extremist groups that are trying to normalize the carrying of guns everywhere..but this ad just pushed me over the edge…it was by the gunmaker Glock, and it just made me sick…I have been on this earth a long, long, time and have never once felt the need to carry a gun everywhere I go…and I don’t want to live in a society where people are encouraged to be “squirting metal all over the place” to quote Donald Fagen…..you are much more likely to be hurt or killed by some damn Rambo or Ramboina that think they can save the day than by anything else…needless to say, I will never watch the channel that ran that ad again….oh, that channel is FETV…channel 82 on Dish….geez….