Well…there was finally an interesting article on the debacle that is Kansas’s financial picture and it is not pretty…the “experiment” there of cutting taxes hoping for revenue to rise has found to be the sham that it always was…with deficits as far as the eye can see even after cutting almost every service and not funding the schools there. Tax cuts for the rich only decimated their economy…didn’t make it grow like the idiot Brownback said it would (the repub orthodoxy that the repubs want to try nationally) but essentially killed the economy. But, earlier this week, the dems and some republicans came to their senses and raised taxes to cover the shortfall and fully fund the services that have been axed by the repubs previously…and they even overrode Brownback’s veto of of the previous bill rescinding the tax cuts. So, maybe the repubs in Kansas will set the tone for reality in the national budget…that tax cuts for the rich do not spur growth and will only harm the country…..maybe sanity can take hold outside of Kansas?
Keep a cell open for Newt and Rudy….
Well….with the idiot trump and his cronies freaking out about Comey’s testimony tomorrow, another voice is weighing in to try to obstruct the testimony and discredit it before it happens. A super pac that is run by Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich is running ads both online and on radio and tv attacking Comey and and his personality…along with his trustworthiness….now, to me, this is witness tampering at it’s worse…using character assassination to try to obstruct the investigation into trump and his obvious collusion with Russia before and during the election….this kind of thing has never happened in the US before and if it was done in any trial in any court across this country, these two idiots would be hauled before the court and charged….if our system still works, these two should be in court explaining themselves tomorrow…impeach…
June 7th
Well….running early today and I think this may be the new normal since I seem to be up by 6 every morning…feel okay today and don’t hurt too much so I’ll take that…my back has been okay for two days now and that is a surprise with how much it has been bugging me lately….I did get some work done yesterday and I had to…the cobwebs were everywhere and that is a creepy feeling when you wake up and walk out of your bedroom and get one across the face…and I cleaned the bike pad and carpet from bike stains so I feel okay about that…need to do more today and the kitchen is the target…but not yest…have just started the coffee and need to have a couple of cups to get me moving…more later….
Don’t get too excited by Comey…
Well…there is so much hype building about Thursday’s Comey testimony to the senate, I think it’s time to throttle that back a little…I’m pretty sure that there are not going to be any bombshells in the testimony given that Comey is not going to want to screw up the investigation for Mueller by saying anything that may interfere with that investigation…I think it will be more that “yes he met with the idiot trump” but there will be not much else in it…he will let Mueller build the case that he knows is there for obstruction of justice. On that note, we have trump having Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio to the WH tonight to coordinate the obstruction….since Cotton and Rubio are going to be two senators that are going to be asking Comey questions Thursday…anyone want to bet that all of their questions are going to be about the bad, bad leaks that are the real problem? One thing to watch for is the threat that the idiot trump made to live tweet Comey’s testimony to try to call him a liar, I guess….that could be fun to see….stay tuned….impeach…
The 110 billion dollar deal that wasn’t…
Well…as the liar in chief and village idiot trump embarrassed us with his tour of Europe last week, he shot his big mouth off saying that he had brokered a deal to sell 110 billion dollars in weapons to Saudi Arabia…and it is the greatest, bigliest deal ever….but, there is one little problem with that…there is no deal…there are no contracts, there is no senate approval…no nothing…in fact this great deal is just agreements to start talking about maybe selling some new weapons to the Saudis…and all of it was started under the Obama administration…you miss him yet? So, as always, trump lied…and one good thing is that the media is starting to call this crap what it is…lies, lies, and more lies….and the world is starting to get it too, with the UK and Germany saying that they can’t trust a word that trump says so they are not going to pay any attention to him….understand that…the rest of the world has trump’s number and know that is useless to listen to anything he says…really making America great again….impeach…
June 6th
Well….running a little early today and it’s because I’ve been up since 5:30…another night of crappy sleep and I am feeling it right now….didn’t get a lot done yesterday since I didn’t feel that great most of the day and I’m not sure why…had no energy and a cough but the cough is gone today…so far…so I’m not sure what the heck is happening….maybe not eating enough again? Just don’t feel like it…but I will try to do better today…I am going to get the motivation to clean some today after the workout and bike….but I need more coffee and to work out the kinks first….it’s a bitch being creaky in the mornings….more later…..
Muskrats pushing rafts….
Well…just can’t get my brain working to do some political stuff right now so I thought I’d just do another one on some weird trail stuff from earlier in the week…a few days back, while I was riding past one of the retention ponds along M-6 I noticed a pair of muskrats pushing rafts of some kind of vegetation across the pond…not sure why they were doing it but it was strange to see…maybe food? Who knows? At least it took my mind off the idiot in the WH for a few minutes….
June 5th
Well….feel pretty crappy this morning and I wonder if it’s a day that I can take off and not work out and ride….slept really crappy last night and was up at 5:30 so I’m hoping there will be a nap involved later this morning….lost my earplugs overnight and I think that is part of it…haven’t been taking anything for the allergies and I think I should be…my head is filled up this morning and the headaches are starting…had one yesterday that felt like a stroke it hurt so much for a couple of minutes….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I am going to try to do the kitchen today…but maybe not…we’ll see….
Some things from the trail…
Well…there were a couple of things that happened on the trail today that I almost forgot about….not sure why that would be but I’m not going to dwell on it….at the top of the first climb that goes to the highest point along M-6…where I make my first water stop…I looked off in the distance and there was a helicopter hovering maybe a couple of thousand feet in the air…I watched it for a few minutes and it just stayed in one place until it moved off….not sure why it would do that since it was not carrying anything that I could see…oh, well…the next thing was that I came on a garter snake that was just warming itself on the pavement…and, of course, I had to pick it up…I just love the way snakes feel..that silky feeling…when I grabbed him, I broke into laughing since he tried to bite me multiple times…I’m not sure if he realized that he has no teeth or fangs or that his head is about the size of my pinkie fingernail but he kept it up until I grabbed him behind his head…then he calmed down and just looked at me while flicking his tongue……a pretty cool encounter…l made sure he was safe in the weeds when I let him go….I’m not sure why I didn’t remember this stuff until right now…..
An interesting team….
Well….I know I’m running late for the second one today but just couldn’t find something that interested me…..but, with reading an article on Mueller’s team that is investigating trump and his cronies, I found it. Just a little thing, really…but one I found quite telling…on the team that Mueller has assembled, you find the requisite amount of lawyers, but one is not a lawyer but is a history professor…whose specialty is…wait for it…impeachment. So, we know where Mueller thinks this is going, or why include an impeachment specialist? I am now allowing myself to have hope for this country and that trump and his cronies are going to end up in jail…where they belong…impeach…