Well…with all of the crazy on the right these days, I guess ole Ted has to turn it up to 11 to just be heard…but the way that he is doing it just irritates the hell out of me…in trying to capture the religious right, ole Ted has put women in the cross hairs, again, by trying to get the religious nuts in this country to try to shut down Planned Parenthood and by doing this, eliminate healthcare for over 20 million women in this country. Now, you know how I feel about religion…that is should be practiced in church and not jammed down people’s throats….or even better, not practiced….and using it to hurt people is no religion that anyone should be proud of…who gave them the right to interfere with anyone’s personal choices? I know I’ve talked about this before and, as I sit here, I am tired..tired of the daily religious crap that we have to deal with here in the US…tired of the religious playing the victim all day every day….what ole Ted wants here is a theocracy pure and simple with him as the preacher in chief….all a bunch of crap…okay, this one was a little disjointed but I tried to get the point across…
August 24th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got the bike ride in before the rain so that was something…almost took the day off from riding but needed to avoid the guilt so I went….slept okay last night but no dreams again so I have given up on them…not sure if I miss it or not…have to think about that one…didn’t get anything else done yesterday but didn’t really need to so I avoided the guilt there…I do need to vacuum and do a little more cleaning today and it is going to be cool so that will help…have been having a hard time getting motivated but I hope to change that today…still sore in my neck and I think it’s from riding…just stiff, really, not sore and it is starting to get annoying…not much to do today…should clean the glass in the car since I did a pretty crappy job last time and there are streaks that I can see in the morning…more later…
The cost of Trump’s nonsense…
Well…if you’ve heard a newscast or read the paper lately, you know of the Donalds pledge to round up and deport all the undocumented immigrants that are now in the US on “day one” if he is elected president…yeah, I never in a million years thought I’d use Trump and president in the same sentence either…kind of creepy to say the least..okay, back to the topic…one of the things that ole Donald doesn’t talk about is the cost to do this…well…there are now estimates that do put costs to this idea and that makes it even more nonsense….the latest estimates say that it would cost from 400 to 600 BILLION dollars over 20 years to get the job done….so, he thinks that spending that money just to satisfy the haters is a better deal than say, fixing the roads and bridges, or paying for college for a whole generation of Americans? It is just like a repub that they can always find money for war and hate but never to make citizens lives better…I wonder why I’m surprised at this? Shouldn’t be, it’s been this way since saint Ronnie….geez…
August 23rd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get out to look at the cars on 28th street so that was fun…slept okay but I am feeling a little run down today with the allergies getting worse…sitting here watching the F1 race from Spa and I am a little disappointed since this is my favorite track and it’s not much of a race…oh, well…didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks like the same since I don’t really have any motivation to do anything today….not really sore today so that will be good on the bike…I was going to use the rain as an excuse to not ride today but it looks like it will hold off until the afternoon so I will go to avoid the guilt….not much to do today…going to just kind of veg it today and take it easy….more later….
August 22nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…sitting here watching Man U play and they are disappointing me again…they are not behind but there is no flow in the match..but, they have looked like that since the season started so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised…slept okay but had to get up early to get out to get the papers since the match started at 7:45…..and I am still not really moving too well….it was a nice ride out and back to pool and I finally got the rattle in the car fixed and I really didn’t know how much it bothered me until it was gone….the coffee is not working too well this morning but I guess I should go get more to help that…not much to do today….going to get the bike ride in after the match and have to go to the stand and get some tomatoes to have the blt’s that T suggested yesterday….and I do need to clean but I probably won’t…more later….
The grasshoppers are missing…
Well…just a little short one on an observation I made today on the bike..the grasshoppers are missing…normally this time of year there are clouds of them on the trail that popcorn into the air when I ride through…but today, I counted 5 of them in the entire 15 miles….and there are normally thousands of them by now…not sure what is going on but it is just weird….oh, one other weird thing…had a bee land on my handlebar bag and just stayed there for over 5 miles…not sure what the heck that was about either…
August 21st
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got wet on the bike again…but, this one was not as pleasant as the other day since it was a lot colder…and I am waiting for the temp to come up to go out today…the first time since May that I have had to do that..it is only 55 degrees outside and that is just a bit too chilly to go out in a t-shirt…slept okay last night for the first time in a couple of weeks but, with it being a cocktail night last night, I do feel a little slow this morning…hoping the coffee will do it’s job soon….and I am going to have a bagel with cream cheese in a minute since they were on sale this week….it will be interesting to see if having food in the morning will affect the bike ride….not much to do today…pool, of course, but that is abut it for the day…more later..
Oh…I forgot to say happy birthday to Robert Plant who turned 67 yesterday….
Another jaw dropper from the right….
Well….was reading some the past day and came across this jaw dropper from a right wing radio host…can’t find the article to get the particulars but here is the gist: his plan, which he espoused on his radio show was that we give all the undocumented people in his state….I think it was Idaho…30-60 days to ‘self deport” and after that, and here comes the jaw dropper…the state would “own” any of the undocumented that are found to be there and could be put to work doing work that needs to be done for the state for room and board…yep, the right is right back to what they still defend, slavery, for 11 million people in the US…I don’t know what to say about this one…the plan and words speak for themselves….the right still thinks slavery is a good idea….I’m shaking head….geez…
Okay, here’s an update…I didn’t want to just post this without the facts so here they are: the radio host’s name is Jan Mickleson and he is in Iowa, not Idaho….and he has hosted Walker, Fiorina, Carson, and Santorum…all repub candidates for president….and his question was” “What’s wrong with slavery”….where the hell do they get these guys?…geez…again…
Just thinking…
Well…I have been thinking of what to write about this afternoon and have come up empty…Trump hasn’t said anything today and the rest of the idiots on the right are just doing the argle bargle that they normally do…Rubio came out and said he supports what BLM is trying to do but then said that the government has no role in fixing the disparity in policing that is felt by blacks in this country…trying to have it both ways much? Just another mealy mouthed nothing from the water boy…and we have Walker saying that he would appoint a Wisconsin education activist to his cabinet and the activist saying “no frickin way” he would serve in a Walker administration and he hasn’t even talked to the idiot in over two years….another lying lie from the liar who is trying to blur his hard right hatred for education and teachers on the back of dems who are actually trying to make things better….I can’t believe there is even going to be another repub debate in September…really, what’s the point? they all read from the same talking points and are interchangeable, so why listen? The first one was for entertainment value and to laugh at their incompetence…but, that wears thin after a while so I won’t be watching the next one…geez…
August 20th
Well…it’s a gloomy morning and it looks like it is going to be that way most of the day….it may be the perfect day to take off the bike and let the legs heal some but we’ll see…if there is a break in the clouds I may try to make a run for it and at least get a short one in…slept crappy again last night but I have hope I can get back to the reasonable sleep I had a week or so back….don’t feel that bad today, though, so I’m not sure what is going on….I am running a little late today with the grocery run being done and not having a whole lot of energy to do it at my normal speed…then, I sit here and think “why” not sure why I have to do it fast when I have the whole morning to get it done…but, I do have to keep to the list to keep the spending down…and today was not bad at 38 bucks….and, I’m not too sore today so that is a good thing…not sure if I should take an ibuprofen this morning with the rain and getting on he bike being iffy…think I’ll hold off for now….not much to do today…and it’s true this time…I should clean but won’t…I did get some stuff done yesterday and I do need to build on that…more later…