Well…it was a busy day yesterday and I got everything done I wanted to but the bike ride…but, I substituted fixing the car for that…and it was too cold to go out most of the day anyway…slept crappy and had dreams of the CIA that were pretty weird….now, I’m just sitting here waiting for the car to melt so I thought I’d get this done early today….I did screw up my back leaning in over the car and it is stiff and painful today but nothing I can’t deal with….it was nice to catch the coolant leak in the car before it got worse and replacing the top hose is probably one of the easiest jobs on the car….not much to do today…well….not really, I have the grocery run to do then lost of stuff around here and then the normal workout and bike ride so it may be a little busy…more later….
I am appalled….
Well…I have never been so appalled at any administration as I was today when I read that Holder will not use any of the new evidence that came out of the senate investigation to hold anyone accountable for these violations of both US and international law. I am doubly appalled at his reasoning that goes right back to the “I was just following orders” that he Nazis tried to use at Nuremburg…his new take is that if there was a memo written by basically anyone that said that torture was legal, then no one can be held accountable…this right here is enough to have him fired or tried himself under international law and treaties and I fault Obama and this misguided policy for the continued ruining of the US’s standing in the world….I just hope that some other country will take up the cause and charge any one of these idiots that ordered torture…I talking about you Bush and Cheney and then arrest them when they enter their countries, which is perfectly legal under international treaties that the US has signed. I am speechless that the rot of the Bush years has been allowed to continue…this country is finished….and I mourn for it…
A little bit of luck…
Well…just had to pass on this bit of good luck that I had today…going out to get the papers today, I noticed what looked like coolant under my car but didn’t think anything about it since my car never leaks and I didn’t smell any coolant….but, being the worrywort that I am, I decided to open the hood and take a look just to make sure…and, sure enough, there was coolant under the hood and when I squeezed the top radiator hose, my thumb went right through it even though it looked new. So, 10 bucks later, it’s fixed and ready to go again but the thing that really made this lucky is that just yesterday, I made an 80+ mph run out to the north end and back and it didn’t fail on the road…and if you know Miatas, you know they will not tolerate being overheated…just once and you basically have to throw the engine away….so, I’m really smiling from that bit of luck…it’s about time I have some….
December 10th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool…ran round a lot, too, so I didn’t get much done around here….I do have much more to do today so it will keep the boredom at bay for a while at least..slept crappy, again, but I feel okay for some reason…probably from being good for the past few days that I am going to keep up for two more….hard to keep from being bored at night but I’m getting better at it….and tonight will be easy with a Wings game….not much to do today…I do have lots of stuff to do around here along with the workout and the bike ride and there is soccer on this aft so at least I will have something to do…oh, and I will come back for the movie one but I had to do the torture one yesterday…a subject that I will come back to again today, too…more later…
Torture….
Well…not sure if you’ve seen it yet, but the senate report on torture is out and it is not pretty…one of the biggest takeaways from the summary is that Dick Cheney is the biggest damn liar in the US and should be in jail for his part in building the torture regime. But, I said that a long time ago…that he committed multiple felonies that should have put him in the dock at the war crimes trials at the Hague…where his cellmate should be ole GW. One of the most egregious lies that ole Dick has been pushing for 10 years now is that the country was kept safe by information gained by torture…that is just not true…has never been true…and will never be true but those on the right still believe it, still parrot that zombie lie that has been debunked too many times to mention here. Every expert in interrogation has said that the only thing you get from torture is what you want to hear…and given ole Dick’s hand in fabrication of the “evidence” that took us to war, I could easily believe that torture was just part of his plan to gin up “facts” that would support their goal of war in Iraq. I have had enough of these folks…they have stained this country beyond repair and then just sit there smugly saying they were right…when they were completely wrong about everything…geez…
December 9th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and the bike ride is getting better every day…starting to get the legs and lungs back to where it’s only a little torture…back to sleeping crappy again but have about 4 days of okay sleep was a plus….and I didn’t get much done yesterday, either, but, that will change today since I do have some stuff today that will take me out for lunch and then for errands….I think the bug is mostly gone after only a few days so maybe it was food poisoning that made me feel crappy from Friday until Monday….who knows? I do have to do some maint on the bike before I go out this morning since it is squeaking and groaning again and I can hear it even through the earbuds….at least I know how to fix it quickly….not much to do today…need to get the workout in and then on the bike before lunch then I’ll be in and out all aft….more later…I do have one on the movies that I’m going to to later in the day….
Prosecuters are the problem…
Well…just sitting here thinking, no it didn’t hurt, and my thoughts went to the many police shootings that have happened in the past few months and the fact that the grand juries didn’t bring charges for the police that clearly murdered these people…and one of the lame reasons that the prosecutors spoke of was the fact that they have to work with these cops every day and they would stop cooperating if they had the threat of charges hanging over their heads, Yeah, I know, a bunch of bs but there is just one small change that can happen that would eliminate that problem….so, I propose that whenever a cop is involved in any act that would go to the grand jury, the local prosecutor should be replaced by a special prosecutor that has no ties to the police and who will do the job as it is supposed to be done…not like Ferguson where the prosecutor there did everything in his power to make sure the cop was not charged…even up to letting the cop testify for hours….when did you ever hear of a subject of a grand jury investigation being invited to testify to save his ass….never happened with a gang member or mafia don or anyone else. This small change would do more to restore faith in the justice system that has been shattered by letting these murderers go free…geez…
December 8th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much accomplished…still fighting the bug a little so I didn’t really feel like doing much…I did get out on the bike and it was a good ride even in the wind but I still have a few more days to go to get my legs and lungs back to where they need to be….but, it looks like the weather is going to cooperate this week so maybe by the end of the week it will be normal again….slept okay, too, but no dreams to speak of again so that is the one downside….not much to do today…going to get things done around here and run some errands along with the bike ride and a workout…it will be nice to get my eating back to normal after overeating Sat and try to lose the few pounds I gained not riding…more later…
December 7th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but a little bit of work…slept okay last night and feel just a little slow this morning from the wine at G’s party last night…had a lot of fun at the party but came home early since I am still fighting this little bug I have….left at exactly the right time and the drive home was fun…I just love the new headlights on the car…it’s the first time that I can say I have enough light to see at night from any car I’ve had…and today I am going to do as little as possible to continue to recover from the bug and the too much fun last night….I do have avocados to make some guacamole so that will be the only thing I do…well…that’s not true…I am going to try to get out on the bike after the temp comes up but that won’t be for a while since it is 22 right now…more later…
A little trail weirdness…
Well…haven’t done one of these in quite a while and it is mostly because or two things…first, haven’t been out on the trail a lot lately with it being so cold and icy…and there just hasn’t been anything weird until now….a couple of days ago, as I was riding by the retention ponds near M-6, some movement in the pond caught my eye….there was a duck being chased by a muskrat…that was so unusual that I just went out on the net to see what muskrats eat and ducks are not on the menu….maybe this muskrat is a mutant? Still pretty weird….then today, there were about 50 dead mice on the trail in the 13 miles I did today…the same thing happened at the start of last winter so it must be a normal thing but it is still strange to see…oh, this isn’t weird but the bike felt much better today and I stayed warm throughout the ride….I think it was from going harder than I did the other day at the same temp when I froze both my hands and feet….