Well…forgot to do this one yesterday…if you haven’t heard, Chuck Berry died yesterday…I’m sure some of you youngsters don’t even know who Chuck was but he was a pioneer of rock and roll whose influence was wide and deep…I remember the first time I heard “Mabelline” and the drive and pace of that song was something to hear and was different than anything else out there at the time….haven’t listened to much Chuck lately but I think I’ll have to make a day of it today…RIP Chuck….
March 19th
Well…as I expected, I feel a little crappy today with going out to have a few with K and V and then back here for cocktails…it was nice to hang out with K and V…hadn’t seen V for over a year and it was 6 weeks since I saw K and that is too long….did make the drive to Mt. P but C was sick so I only hung out for a half hour and got back here by 2 or so….still made it a long day and I am feeling it today…so it will be a veg day for me today…Man U is playing right now and then there are races and basketball this aft…Michigan plays at noon and I don’t want to miss that…and I do need to eat more today since I only had about 1K calories yesterday and my entire system is wonky today…..might even get out on the bike today but I’m not sure about that….more later…
March 18th
Well….as you can see, I didn’t come back for another one yesterday and I may not again today….have to make a run to Mt. P today and 200 miles in the car takes a lot out of me….it was a pretty good day yesterday and I lost at pool but that was still cool….I think I may have a bug since my head is plugged up…or it may be allergies…who knows? All I know is I can’t breathe and I don’t like it….and I feel a little crappy today so the drive is going to be even more of a chore….but, the coffee is done and I need lots of it so I think I’ll end here….more later….
March 17th
Well…feel a little slow today so I think I’ll take it easy for a while until the coffee starts to work….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but a few things here and today looks like the same…although I am going to make corned beef and cabbage for St. Patrick’s day in a little while…starting to like cooking in the pressure cooker and I can’t wait to see how the corned beef comes out….still sore everywhere again today and I think I’ll just have to live with it…but I think I’ll try some ibuprofen this morning to see if that will help….haven’t been on the bike for two weeks now and that puts me back to square one when it warms up next week….but I already have over 300 miles on for the year and that means only 700 to go to get to 30K…okay, need coffee so I am going to get more and then veg for a while…more later…
Just one more….
Well….there is so much absurdity coming out or the trump regime that I am getting tired of writing about it…but, the thing I just read made me get up the strength to do just one more….in trying to justify the idiot trump’s budget that cuts PBS, NPR and many many programs that actually help people, trump’s budget director today came out and said “can we really ask a coal miner in west Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to help pay for these programs?”…now this is just another phase of this regime’s trying to destroy the sense of community in this country and our shared society…going back to the “I’ve got mine” that has driven the repubs for decades now…but the really sick thing is that they are going to ask that coal miner and that single mom to give up their health insurance to give the rich an $800 billion dollar tax cut…to “pay” for that tax cut…how can they ask them to pay for that tax cut? Because they are immoral bastards that are using the coal miner and the single mom as props for their thievery….impeach…
Meals on wheels vs. golf….
Well…just a shorty here on what the priorities of the trump administration are…as I told you earlier, trump proposes to eliminate the Meals on Wheels program that serves some of our most needy and deserving Americans since we “just can’t afford it”….so let’s take a look at what he thinks we can afford…every time he goes to play golf it costs over 3 million dollars of taxpayer money…to put this into perspective that would pay for over 450,000 meals for our seniors delivered to their door so they can stay in their homes…but the immoral trump thinks it’s more important for him to play golf than feed our seniors…that is one of the most sick things I have ever heard…and I’ll bet quite a few of these seniors he wants to starve voted for trump….impeach…
The damage done….
Well…now that the trump gestapo has starting imposing themselves on American citizens coming back into the country by confiscating and searching their phones in direct violation of the 4th amendment, maybe there will be more outrage about what damage the Border Patrol and other immigration agents are doing in the name of trump. Over the past week, the Canadian Girl Scouts, called the Girl Guides, have issued a travel ban for any of their troops that were thinking of traveling to the US. Some would say that this is an overreaction to what is going on here but I say it is a perfectly reasonable thing to do with the horror stories of children being detained and handcuffed for hours by the INS if they were Muslim or had Muslim families. This is what this country has come to under trump…that Girl Guides from Canada are at risk of being traumatized by the INS or Border Patrol so they just won’t come here anymore…that is “freedom” to the trump followers and his gestapo but it is shameful to our country and all I can do is hang my head…I just hate these son of a bitches…impeach…
You’ve been screwed, trump voters…
Well…how do you feel now trump voters? Voting for hate and racism has gotten you this…once you got trump into office he has turned on you like the liar he is…filling his government with Goldman Sachs execs who will only pursue policies that will help the rich, not you ignorant fools. Both in his trumpcare proposal that will take healthcare away from many of you and make it un-affordable for the rest of you…leaving you to die early or go broke paying for your healthcare…to his budget which will destroy any program that helped you at all….jobs training? Gone. Environmental protections that finally gave you in coal country clean air and water? Gone. You get the picture…no, you probably don’t. You are propelled by hatred and racism and have been manipulated by trump and his cronies…aren’t you pissed about how much you’ve been lied to? Or are you too ignorant to turn off fox news and think for yourself? Your hero trump went on tv and admitted his policies will hurt the counties that voted for him most and then he said oh, well…that’s just how it is. Feeling pretty stupid yet? You should be….impeach…
The diary of Anne Frank….
Well….have been reading a few articles lately that describe the plight of immigrants in this country who have taken to hiding to avoid trump’s gestapo, and I am appalled at how much these stories mirror the Diary of Anne Frank. When I was young I read the book and saw quite a few television adaptations of the diary that showed the terror the family felt when the Gestapo got close and also the bravery of their friends in trying to keep them safe. That same thing is unfolding here in the US and I still can’t believe that we are allowing trump’s Gestapo to send these immigrants to their death as sure as the Gestapo did during WWII…and I can’t believe the media has not seen these similarities and blared headlines across the country pointing out these atrocities…this is not the country I grew up in…impeach…
Granny starver in chief….
Well…as every day goes by, the idiot trump reveals that his “I’m for the little guy” rhetoric is proven to be the sham that those of us on the left knew it was….every damn thing in the budget that he just released rewards the rich and the military/industrial complex at the expense of the people who voted for him…and the latest outrage is the elimination of a program that literally keeps many of our older citizens alive…his budget cuts the Meals on Wheels program completely…eliminating a lifeline for many older infirm folks and committing them to a slow death by starvation while he takes that money and gives it to the military that doesn’t need the money…we already spend more than the next ten countries that follow us and we don’t need to spend more money there when people are hurting across this country. This just shows that everything trump said on the campaign was a lie…he duped the gullible into thinking he cares about them…open your eyes trump voters….he does not give a damn about you…impeach….