Well…if you didn’t know that the big beautiful tax bill that was rammed through by repubs had nothing to do with tax cuts for the little guy but it was just a giveaway to the rich, you just have to look at the results…taxes were cut massively for the 1%, and now the other shoe has dropped and the other big giveaway to the rich has been exposed…any superyacht, private jet, or private luxury travel can now be written of as a “business expense” with 100% of the cost being used to write off any taxes they may owe (which isn’t much)…so now, the 1% can buy as many luxury yachts they want and the taxpayers of this country are paying for it…and medicaid recipients are paying for it as medicaid has been cut to give these tax cuts to the rich…and everyone’s medical care is now more expensive to “afford” these tax cuts, and the latest one is Medicare drug subsidies that are being destroyed to pay for tax cuts for the rich…get the picture? The repubs are stealing money from you and me just to give the rich another super yacht or private jet…and I think there is something wrong with that we can fix if we get off our butts and vote this fall…geez…
August 2nd
Well…don’t really want to talk about my crappy sleep anymore so I won’t…okay, I did have a frustrating dream last night where I lost something and the entire dream was trying to find it…yeah, that sucks and it leaves me with discomfort right now…oh, well…we did get a bunch of rain yesterday and it was about time…the whole system set up and came at us from every direction as the day went on and the low moved through…it was our turn to get rain and it looks like there is more coming Wed and Thurs…glad I got the lawn mowed the other day…going to get out on the bike as soon as it gets light this morning which gives me 20 minutes or so to pour the coffee down and hope it works with how worn out I feel…need to toast a bagel this morning, too since I am in danger of not eating enough again even though I made popcorn again last night…feels like depression is coming again and I hope the bike rides will help that but I’m due for a bout since I’ve been good for such a long time…so today I’ll hunker down and sleep walk through the day until I know what’s going on….more later…
Accomplished something today…
Well…while I didn’t accomplish much today, I get a couple of things done and that was enough…both bike rides were in the rain this morning and with the wind blowing 25 out of the east, I darn near gave up after one ride but I gutted it out and got both in…some asshole ran over a couple of geese at the boat launch downtown and I can’t figure out why…I mean geese are annoying but to just run over a couple sure looks like a sociopath is on the loose here…someone who would kill harmless animals just for the hell of it is the worst kind of asshole…I did get out to get the new weatherstripping for the doors today and when I got back here I installed them and it was pretty easy but I did have trouble getting the old ones out of the back door…my kitchen shears cut them easily and I even saved a couple of the old ones to use on the garage door…I did finally make a batch of potato soup today and I may have made too much so I’ll be eating 2 bowls a day to use it before it spoils…I did make popcorn with real butter that I could really taste last night and I can’t figure that out…but I may try it again tonight since I don’t think a bowl of soup and a chicken sandwich is enough…don’t want to fall back into the calorie trap again but I’m on the verge of it with being exhausted this afternoon…oh, well…I think I’ve gained 5 pounds since I started trying to eat enough…and that sucks…
Another reason to hate data centers…
Well…with the resistance to data centers across this country rising and being codified into trying to capture the true cost of them including raising electricity rates and using all the water in communities across the US, the idiot trump and his corrupt EPA are now readying a new set of rules that would exempt captured power plants whose sole purpose is to power data centers from all rules on pollution coming from them…yep, you heard that right…these assholes are going to give their cronies a pass on them polluting the communities they build these stupid centers cin…and that means anything goes…coal fired plants that spew arsenic, mercury, and hundreds of other dangerous pollutants? Yep…any way they want to power these stupid centers will be fair game under the rules…and 60 years of making the air healthier for out communities? Bye, bye…just so billionaires can pass the cost of building these white elephants on to the public…just like idiot boy’s tax cuts for the rich, these rules will pass the costs on to everyone who lives near one of these travesties while the billionaires rake in the profits…we really shouldn’t be surprised since the only people who exist to idiot boy are his billionaire cronies and his trying to give them as much money as he can…geez…
August 1st
Well…damn, I may be getting this sleeping thing down with not getting out of bed til 5:31 this morning after going to bed at 10 or so…feel okay even without the coffee working yet but I am still pouring it down so I can get out for a ride before I head to menards to get the new door seals this morning…it looks like we may get some rain today but it looked like that yesterday, too but we didn’t get a drop…radar was filled with it but not a damn thing…oh, well…I did get some work done yesterday and will get a little more done today…want to wash and wax the front door after I put the new seals in and then I’ll get to the garage door…but not if it rains, I’ll have to wait a couple of days til everything dries out…don’t have any leftover food left so I’ll have to figure something out…if it rains, I think I’ll make potato soup since I still have 10 pounds of potatoes to use and they don’t last like they do when it’s cooler…have about 10 minutes before I need to get on the bike so I have to get going….more later…
Man, I’m sore…and exhausted..
Well…it’s been a busy day today with getting the two rides in, mowing the lawn, applying the weed killer, and then tearing the front door apart, then prepping and painting it…and then running to the library since I ran out of books…got done around noon after starting at 6am and I am sore and exhausted…and I’ll be heading out to menards in the morning to get the new gaskets for the doors so I can get them replaced tomorrow…have to cut them to fit but I have the old ones to measure with so that should be easy…need to lubricate the parts that slide in to hold them with some dish soap so they’ll be easy to install…will probably take a 10 minutes per door and I’ll finally have them looking and working like new again…the old ones are really weathered and looked like crap and I’m glad I got off my butt and got them started…next project will be the garage door that needs to have the trim painted, too…but right now I need to think about dinner and using up the last of the leftovers…and then get to reading…
Now we know what’s important…
Well…there were a few bombshells from the todd blanche hearings this week and the biggest one is that we all found out what’s important to idiot boy…two repub senators said they wouldn’t vote for the corrupt, unethical blanche until they got it in writing that the scam “lawsuit” against the IRS that gave idiot boy 1.8 billion dollars to pay the thugs who attacked the capitol but also gave him and his friends complete immunity from any investigations/audits from the IRS forever…this travesty was thrown out by the courts who then referred blanche and all of the lawyers working with him to their state bar associations for sanctions since they violated every rule in the book…so the two senators said they wouldn’t vote for blanche unless they had it in writing that the corrupt agreement was dead…when idiot boy heard that he withdrew the nomination of blanche until next year since he really wants the immunity agreement even though the courts have said it’s illegal….and the landscape for getting blanche through the senate is even going to look worse next year when we take control of the senate…so idiot boy is seething that he didn’t get his pet lawyer through or his immunity agreement…poor baby…geez…
July 31st
Well…slept a little better last night and didn’t get out of bed til after 5am and that sure as hell is better than 3:33…still had the damn lack of energy yesterday afternoon but it only lasted a little while and I’m hoping it doesn’t happen again today…I did look for new seals for the doors and they are really cheap…can get a set for 13 bucks at menards so it will be cheap to do both the front and back doors…and I’ll just remove them from the front so I don’t have to mask them off when I paint that trim…maybe today…I do need to mow the front of the lawn today but the rest of it can wait til next week…it’s supposed to rain tonight and into tomorrow with almost an inch forecast but again, I’ll believe that when I see it…the last rain didn’t do any good as far as I can see…damn, I’m running late this morning and should be suiting up to get on the bike right now but I haven’t had my bagel yet and I need the fuel to support everything I need to do today…I did see 24 deer on the first ride yesterday after not seeing any for a couple of days and that was pretty cool…and the full moon really lit things up so I could get out early…not going to happen today but I will be on the bike by 6:30 after I pour down another cup of coffee….more later…
Went out to the beach…
Well…after not being out to the beach all week, I decided to go out there today but the water was too darn cold to swim so it was kind of a worthless trip…I know I’m whining about going to the beach and that’s pretty weird…it was still an hour and half of relaxing but I’m still having problems doing that…oh, well…when I got back here I washed the back door and used car wax to wax it so it would look nice like the trim does…and it does look nice so now I guess it’s time to do the trim on the door to the garage and then wash and wax that door, too… and the front door trim is showing it’s age, too so I should give that a once over…but it will be easier since I don’t have to do the raw wood on the inside of the door this time…it was so clear today that I could see the smokestack of the power plant in Grand Haven today from 12 miles away and it’s been a while since I could say that….going to have to hit the freezer for meals tomorrow or make the potato soup I’ve been talking about for weeks…not sure which yet…I’ll have another easy day tomorrow with nothing to do but the weights and bike rides and maybe out to the beach again…we’ll see…I could probably get the front door trim painted but it may rain tomorrow night so I’ll have to check the weather first…
Heading for a recession…
Well…with the announcement this morning that growth in the economy slowed to 1.5%, I think my earlier prediction that we are heading towards no growth or a recession is on the mark…I mean the new tariffs that the idiot in chief just imposed is going to take away 1,100 dollars in spending power from every family in this country…essentially a tax increase of 1,100 dollars that will no longer be spent on growth but just to maintain what was already being spent…and every damn economist (other than the red hatted ones) know that tax increases of this size from the entire economy slows down growth that will be even worse with the costs of the Iran war thrown in that will show up in the 3rd quarter…so we have imbeciles running the economy…or I should say an imbecile since every thing that is happening is a decision of idiot boy not anyone else…so when you go to vote this fall, remember that…that the small luxuries you used to be able to afford are gone because of the idiot trump and his repub enablers…not “socialism” or “communism” but because of the repubs and the moron in chief…geez…