Well…I am getting really tired of this BS….just the other day another one of the supposed “real” Americans threatened Hillary Clinton’s life by saying that “blood will flow in the streets” if she is elected. And this didn’t come from just any Joe Schmoe…this came for the frickiing governor of Kentucky…the idiot tea partier Matt Bevin. Now, advocating violence against the government or the president is called sedition and this idiot has certainly committed it and now the justice department needs to do their jobs to see if he is connected to the white supremacist groups that regularly spout this crap and murder people…that would be conspiracy and it is another felony. Where the hell do these idiots get off constantly wrapping themselves in the flag and then in the same breath egg their followers on to destroy the country if they don’t get their way? And, of course, these remarks were delivered at the Values Voters summit…the thinly disguised convention of hate where every repub spoke over the weekend to groups that overtly push hate of minorities, gays, immigrants and everyone else who is not a white evangelical….some religion you got there…Jesus sure wouldn’t recognize it….geez…
September 13th
Well….running a little late today since I have been trying to find Keith Olbermann’s new show on GQ…man, they are really bad at making it available…just a link or something would be good on their part….did get a few things done yesterday and ran some errands and it was nice to get out for a while….the pain seems to be subsiding in my right thigh but I am still at a loss at how I hurt it….just getting old, I guess….it looks like it may rain in a while so I need to get out on the bike soon to miss it….but, every time it looks like rain around here it doesn’t so I’m not sure why I’m even thinking about it….I do have a bunch of work to do around here today so that will happen after I get the normal stuff in….it was nice yesterday that the humidity had dropped….and it was cooler…probably shouldn’t hope for that with fall fast coming…don’t want to wear gloves on the bike…..more later….
And another one….
Well…needed to do this one before I forgot it….was watching tv the other day and Steppenwolf’s “Born to be Wild” came on and the organ part is certainly a Hammond B-3….so, add another one to the B-3 count…oh, and I saw another commercial that had “Magic Carpet Ride” in it and that is almost all B-3…
Another one for the B-3 count….
Well…keeping with my obsession with the Hammond B-3 organ…am watching a concert on AXS tv right now with the jam band from Colorado, the String Cheese Incident…it it raining so hard that they have the instruments covered but there is no mistaking a B-3 when you hear it…so, let’s add another one to the B-3 count…
Okay, they just uncovered the organ and it IS a B-3….
Here’s a scandal for you….
Well…I think it is a conscious plan for the right to make up lots of fake scandals so when a real one comes along, no one will notice. Luckily, someone did notice this one…a real one, and did a story on it last week. As you know, the right would love a country where companies can pollute as much as they want and push the cost on to the taxpayers when cleanup time comes…and that any environmental regulation is a “job killer” that has to be stopped by any means possible. To the repubs, that means suing the government any time we try to do anything to improve the environment…but this time the suits against the new carbon regulations have a buried little scandal that no one is talking about….before any repub state AG filed any suits against the new regulations, they met with all of the usual suspects to plan strategy…and that means coal companies, oil companies and every other one that poisons the people for profit. It was also revealed that these AG’s received millions of dollars in political contributions….and, of course, this didn’t have any bearing on whether the suits were brought (snark)….but, the worst part is since these repub state AG’s are bringing the suit, you and I are paying for it…yep, our taxes are paying to sue our own government to allow companies to poison us…and the companies walk away with their only cost being the donations to the repubs, not the true costs of the suits which would be hundreds of times more cost to them. Pretty normal for the repubs…use government to reward their buddies while we pick up the tab…geez…
Now pneumonia?
Well…I am so damn tired of the media these days when they ignore the slush fund that is the Trump foundation that has been used illegally to make political donations and to secretly fund lawsuits against AG’s who sued the fake Trump University…and what do they focus on? Hillary has pneumonia…every network, every news show…wall to wall today about a common sickness and the effects she showed from it. Of course, the right wing slant in the media is that having pneumonia disqualifies her from the presidency…and that has already morphed into: “what is she hiding about her health”….now, I’ve had pneumonia and the symptoms I had mirrored what Hillary had…the long term cough that drags on and then the rest manifests in quickly declining…it put me in the hospital in the course of one night after walking around with it for a couple of weeks…and yes, you do feel weak…I hit the floor after getting off the bed getting ready to go to the hospital….the really sick part is that there is no sympathy for her feeling bad…just the normal Clinton conspiracy crap that is constantly floated by the right….while Trump continues to lie, cheat, and steal and not a word about it in the press….I fear for this country if the media continues on this path….geez…
September 12th
Well…got up this morning and I feel a little off…not sure what it is but I don’t like it…I did get the chicken roasted yesterday and it came out so darn good…very juicy and flavorful with the rosemary butter that I put under the skin….my thigh is just killing me this morning and that is almost a week now and I wonder what I did to hurt it…have done nothing out of the ordinary so it is a little confusing…so, it’s back to the ibuprofen again today….maybe it’s my hip…have had problems with them in the past…since I was a kid, really, but I hope it’s not something chronic….need to run some errands today but I just can’t get motivated to get going yet…as I said, just feeling off today and just want to go back to the couch and finish my coffee…so I will…more later….
Lots of hawks…
Well…out on the ride today I had a thought…there seems to be lots of hawks out there now…every day I see at least one and sometimes up to five of them and that never happened when I was young….I remember that when we sighted one then, it was something of a special event…the same goes for turkeys and geese…I never remember seeing any turkeys when I was a kid and we spent lots of time in the woods back then….the only geese we saw were in the sky, not in the crowds of them everywhere we see now…I wonder what the change was? Is it the cleaner environment or that we are encroaching into their habitats? Just musing a little…..
September 11th
Well…yeah, I know what day this is but I’m not going to talk about that today…it’s been done too much…I had a pretty productive day yesterday with getting the cobwebs taken care of, doing laundry, and vacuuming…the place looks pretty clean now and that is cool…got sucked into the Star Trek marathon again last night and that was okay…just have gotten bored with races….I did get the chicken brined but had a huge leak in the first gallon bag I put it in….brand new and the damn thing leaked….it was nice to have the humidity go away last night…I am really tired to be damp all the time and not being able to sleep…okay….the Moto GP race is on so I’m going back to the couch to have more coffee…more later…..
There are no trees….
Well…with all of the delusional stuff on the internet, it is not often that something fresh comes up that make you shake your head and laugh…but today is one of those days. Just read an article about a video out there called “There are no trees” that posits that the forests we see on earth now are not really forests and don’t contain “real trees” just small versions of the real trees that used to exist and towered hundreds of kilometers high carrying it’s own ecosystem. For proof, the makers cite Devil’s Tower as being the stump of one of the real trees and then goes on to say that other geological formations are more stumps. Now, you just have to hand it to the flat Earth folks…doing all the work to invent a brand new delusion for people to embrace…and the internet fringes have with over a hundred thousand views of the video…I haven’t seen it…not going to waste and hour and a half of my life on someone else’s delusions when mine work perfectly fine….oh, one last thing…these “real trees” sound suspiciously like the “Integral Trees” of the novel of the same name by Larry Niven…that was a pretty good story…but, just a story…