Well…have been trying to stay away from writing about the Donald for a while since it really makes me feel slimed like in Ghostbusters….but today, I think I’ll give it a go since there are things to comment on…first, ole Donald brags that he has raised more money than any campaign in history but then a problem comes up…he has to tell the truth to the FEC and we find he has a little over a million dollars on hand for the entire campaign…and it is easy to see why when the RNC gives him a list of twenty donors to call and he gets bored after 3 and says the hell with it…let someone else do it…all the while, Hillary’s campaign has already spent 23 million dollars on advertising in swing states…..kinda funny if you ask me…then, today, we find that the Trump campaign has spent 35,000 dollars on some fake company that may or not exist for “consulting”….now, having lived through Watergate, this appears to be just a slush fund to drain money from the campaign and enrich someone on the campaigns cronies….just like happens all the time with any Trump project….and then we find that 20% of all expenditures from Donald’s campaign has gone to businesses that he owns…and he has spent more on hats than on staff to run his dumpster fire of a campaign….man, I hope he keeps this up through the convention…I have lots of popcorn and will watch it for the first time in many cycles….I really think Donald thinks that running for president is just like his reality show….or he is confused on what reality is…either way it’s going to be fun to watch the implosion….
June 21st
Well…running late today with some computer problems that I think I have resolved….slept okay last night but had a damn spider in my bed that woke me up around 3 and never really got back to sleep after that….I might have to spray again to make sure I don’t have more of them….feel okay this morning with being good last night and I think I need to do more of that…and, I’m not sore at all today so there will be a long bike ride today…I do need to get out and get tickets for the Mega tonight…333 mil and I can use the cash….the US plays Argentina tonight in the semis of the Copa and I’m not sure if I want to watch them get taken apart…will probably watch until they go down by 2 or 3….not much to do today….just the normal stuff and soccer…should wash the car but have to look at the weather first since there is just so much dust in the air that it will be filthy again later today….more later…
Too good to be true…
Well….I usually have to read some news item in at least a couple of places before I will believe it…but, sometimes something comes along that I just want to be true so that requirement is suspended…one of those came along yesterday with rumors the Clarence Thomas is thinking of retiring from the supreme court. I know, your first thought is “who would notice?” since he holds the record for the fewest questions asked by a justice in the history of the court and has no thoughts of his own…acting as little more than an echo chamber for Scalia’s rantings. I can understand why he would be thinking about leaving now…after all, when Hillary is elected and appoints a progressive judge, Thomas’s only job will then be to write dissents to cases that the conservative block will lose and that will just piss those asses off…maybe we can get Alito to do the same? Or all of the conservatives? All I know is that with progressive control, there won’t be any more “Citizen’s United” or cases that will infringe on a woman’s right to chose…to Thomas all I have to say is don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out….geez…
June 20th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but it was another one that I didn’t get anything done….slept okay last night and feel okay today but just a little slow…did hear from 3 of the 4 kids yesterday and that was cool….got a good bike ride in and feel good about that and will do the same this morning after the workout….l was hoping that it would storm and get ride of the humidity but it looks like that won’t happen…it’s almost warm enough to hit the beach one of these mornings and that might just happen this week…I do like to get the swim in early and there is not much else going on….not much to do today…just the normal routine and I do need to clean the kitchen but that will be about it…I am already sweating like crazy just sitting here so I should be soaked on the ride today…more later…
June 19th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get a lot done….did get a nice bike ride in and watched a lot of races so that was cool…and LeMans is still on right now and I am waiting for the F1 race to start in a while…slept okay last night and feel kind of crappy this morning…slept on my left eye and it is fuzzy so I am having a hard time even seeing this as I type…..I’m not sore, though, so that’s something….will have to wait to get on the bike until after the races and that is okay…might have to sunscreen before I go out since I have the ugliest biker tan going on….may have to lay out later today to start evening it out….not much to do today….going to kind of lay low and just veg out the day…more later…
Bye, bye Pavel…
Well…it’s the day we all saw coming but we hoped would never get here…Pavel Datsyuk announced today that he is retiring from the NHL to go home to Russia. There is something about Russia that seem to pull it’s people back to their homeland, and Pavel is no different…he just wanted to go home to be with his teenage daughter and the rest of his family…and who can fault that? I will always remember his magic on the ice, and his sense of humor that came through even his broken english….he could do things on the ice that earned him the nickname “the Magic Man” and, as he has gotten older, he wanted to take what’s left of the magic and play in front of Russian fans to finish out his career…he is 37, after all, and age catches up with even magic…we will miss him playing for the Red Wings, but the highlight reels are still there to help us remember what he meant to us…bye, bye, Pavel…and good luck!
June 18th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…and the drive out and back was fun but the 3 beers were hitting me pretty hard and I’m not sure what that was about other than I didn’t eat much yesterday…slept okay last night but feel a little slow today…tried to get the pedal off the bike and it was a no go….might have to take the arm off and heat it but I’m not too worried about it since the pedal is still good…my mp-3 player gave me a scare this morning when it wouldn’t work going out to get the papers….must have left it on when I got home yesterday aft and ran the battery completely dead…it is charging now and that takes a load off….it is going to be a cool race day today with the 24 hours of LeMans, and F1 this morning…so, I am going to wait to get on the bike until later or I may even take the day off…not sure yet….more later….oh, forgot to do the not much to do today…going to clean a little and make an omelet for lunch…remembered to get the green pepper and cheese this morning so I can make a good one….now, more later…
Another one for the B-3 count…
Well…back to do another one on my obsession with the Hammond B-3 organ and the bands that used it…was watching a concert with the original lineup of the Beach Boys the other day and there it was… a B-3 sitting on the side of the stage but this one was painted white which was quite weird but still easily recognizable…so, add another one to the B-3 count…
June 17th
Well…running a little early today since I want to see the F1 practice at 9 and need to get the bike ride in before then…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done…and today looks much the same…but I am going to make some cash today so that will be cool….feel okay today but shouldn’t…it was a cocktail night last night and I stayed up late for me….okay…need to get going…not much to do today…pool later but busy this morning so I will end here and come back later when I have time…not even going to have my second cup of coffee until I get back….more later….
Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy…
Well…I didn’t know if it was possible for me to hate one person as much as I hate Ted Cruz…but, guess what? It IS possible after his speech in the senate today that was dripping with so much hypocrisy I wonder why he didn’t drown in it. Everyone knows that ole Ted is one of the biggest haters of the LGBT community in the entire US and has made that known through his associations with people and organizations that advocate the killing of LGBT people if they can’t be “converted” by christianity….and these same groups have been instrumental in taking the culture wars to Africa…where, in Uganda, they have worked their dark magic to get the government there to make being gay a crime that is punishable by life in prison but their first iteration of the legislation basically let anyone kill anyone that is found to be gay. These are the people that ole Ted still supports so when he comes out and announces his sorrow at the killings in Orlando, he is being the biggest hypocrite in the US…he doesn’t give a damn about LGBT people and never has…just another of his calculated lies that he thinks will get him the repub nomination in 4 years….geez….