Well…with the defeat of Janet Mills in Maine, maybe we are seeing a return to true dem policies that she did her best to destroy…and she was the hand picked candidate of the repub lite dems like schumer who think the way to electoral success is to appeal to repub voters and be like them…but there is a new wave of dems out there who are not shy about being dems and proposing policies that will help regular people who are struggling in this billionaire dominated economy…and these policies start with taxing the rich to have the money to help people have better lives with affordable child care, affordable housing, and getting billionaire money out of elections…when these ideas are polled, ever 60% of repubs like them along with 80% of dems…so with popularity like that, why is the dem leadership still hanging on to ideas no one likes? This is one reason why people really don’t like dems…and it is for the fact that they never fight for the little guy, they never take the repubs on head on and call them out for their bullshit…so now a new generation of dems are making their voices heard and they are not scared of laying out a new vision for this country where one job will support a family, where higher education is affordable to all with no crushing debt to go along with it, with a social safety net that will relieve the threat of being one crisis away from bankruptcy, and that healthcare is a right not a profit center for the rich to get richer…this is not radical stuff…it’s how things used to be until the repubs stole the country and gave it to the rich…and it can be again just as long as the new dems get a voice and schumer and company get relegated to the dustbin of history where they belong…geez…
May 2nd
Well…up a little before 5am this morning…again…but I’m not going to bitch about that…I am going to bitch about the weather since it’s only 33 out there and we have a freeze warning on…I wonder if this is going to be the first year in history that the high never gets to 60 in May? That’s in the forecast for the next two weeks and it is so damn depressing for someone who loves it hot…looks like I’ll have plenty of time to get the bathroom cleaned today since the F1 sprint race doesn’t come on til 11…this may be a day that I’ll take off from the weights since you’re supposed to give yourself at least one rest day every week to allow your muscles to recover…okay, that’s some weird third person phrasing that I shouldn’t do…I am going to use my new semi wok to make some stir fry teriaki chicken for lunch today and that will keep me fed til next week…going to make rice with it so it should be pretty filling…still eating lots of fruit but I’m going to toast a bagel for breakfast this morning instead of an apple but I will have both an apple and an orange at some point today since I have lots of them…tomorrow will be 30 days with no cocktails and I feel pretty good so that will continue…maybe permanently…we’ll see…not much to do today…just going to drink coffee and get my body jump started right now and then on the indoor bike for a ride and that will still give me time to clean…more later…
Got more books…
Well…man, I have been so worn out today and really didn’t do anything to make that happen so I’m a little confused about that…didn’t do anything but go to the library and make potato soup ao I wonder if it’s fallout from doing the lawn and other work yesterday? Who knows? Have been having the inflammation in my eyes again and they have felt like they are full of sand for the past day or so and it looks like I’ll use up all of the ointment that I was hoping to take to Italy in case they got bad there…crap…so, I really need to figure out what the hell is going on…I know I didn’t eat enough yesterday with just an apple for breakfast and then the last of the pork shoulder and that is less than a thousand calories for the day…and I think I did the same thing with an apple again, then a bowl of soup and an orange…I’m just tired of thinking about that all the time…it looks like we are not going to get back into the 60’s until June and that just really sucks…I’ve never seen a spring so damn cold and we even have a freeze warning on for tonight…I just frickin give up…how the heck can you have a normal life when it’s never warm? Oh, well…back to the new book..
A day of protest…
Well…not sure if you know this or not but May 1st has been designated a “day of protest” where people are being asked to forego any economic activity in protest of the idiot trump and his destruction of this country…here in Michigan the protest centers on gas prices that have increased 70 cents a gallon this week due to the idiot’s stupid war against Iran…and the repubs are trying to gaslight the country saying that gas prices were 6 bucks a gallon under Biden when they averaged less than 3 bucks a gallon…so, I’m going to do my part and not go into any store or even buy anything online…just going to the library to pick up some more books since I ran out last night and then do household stuff…let’s make a point to the asshole repubs who have gotten us into this fix that there are more of us then them and they are going to pay this fall…geez…
A lunatic running for governor…
Well…I guess we have a lunatic running for governor here in Michigan and I’m not happy with that…not sure if you’ve seen the ads for this moron, Perry Johnson, but they read like all of it crawled out of trump’s ass…starting with his promise to cut all income taxes and provide a tax cut of
4747 for all the people…yeah, I got that, too…how much more can you pander to the loser in the WH than to repeat his 47th presidency in your plans…now I’m not sure how this idiot will fund Michigan’s government with no tax revenue but he goes on and on with the old saw of “cutting waste” I guess just like doge did on the federal side that was shown to have COST money instead of saving it…but this delusional asshole goes on saying what ever damn repub has harped on for years that most government is “waste” and then cuts all the programs that help regular citizens…oh, and this idiot goes on to say that he supports ICE 100% and will give them all the cooperation they need to terrorize Michigan just like they did in Minnesota…something that no one in Michigan wants…I really do hope this delusional moron gets the repub nomination…it would be so easy to show people the modern face of the repub party in this distilled trump disciple…geez…
May 1st
Well…damn, it’s May 1st and we are under a frost/freeze warning for the next two days and there are no 60’s in the forecast until the middle of the month…yeah, there is no spring here this year and that just sucks…I’m glad I didn’t do a garden again this year or I would be all stressed out trying to keep the plants alive…we’re staying in the 40’s until Sunday and then we streak up to a high of 52…yeah, that’s sarcasm…pretty sore from mowing the lawn yesterday and I had to put heat on my legs to keep from taking ibuprofen last night…I was just out of synch yesterday and everything felt odd and I don’t know what that is about and I hope it doesn’t happen again today…I do have to cook today and will be making potato soup for lunch and then the chicken stir fry tomorrow so I’ll have food for a few days and won’t have to think about it…trying a new sauce for the chicken instead of the envelopes I have been using…it’s a teryaki sauce I got from aldis for less than two bucks and will do two batches…it will be an easy one today with just the indoor stuff and then a run to the library…I do need to clean the bathroom and the kitchen floor and might get to that…more later…
Good riddance, Janet Mills..
Well…it was announced this morning that the governor of Maine was stopping her campaign for senator of that state, lying it was for “financial reasons” when the truth is people have figured out she is just another corporate shill who has been vetoing all of the bills that would help the people of Maine…the latest being a moratorium on constructing new data centers for AI that use more energy than some towns and have caused water shortages across the country…and she ignored the studies that have found that there is no benefit to the towns and counties where they are located since a million square foot facility only needs about 4 people to run it…and all of the benefit and profit goes to the owners of these monstrosities…and, in areas that have these stupid data centers, electricity rates have exploded as they gobble up all the capacity in the system and use more water in one minute than a hundred houses use in a year…and they don’t pay to increase capacity of these resources, they just make them scarce so the price of both explodes, pricing residents out of the water and electricity they need to survive…so, it’s good she lost or we would have her bullshit, corporate favoritism on a countrywide scale…geez…
Things are easier…
Well…as I run up on 30 days with no booze, it hit me today that things have gotten easier to do as time has gone on…the 8 miles on the indoor bike today just flew by and I averaged over 14mph when I normally struggle to keep it at 12…and then I went out and mowed the lawn this morning and it was just easy…or easier than it has been for years…I know part of that is the lighter lawnmower that I don’t have to wrestle around to do the job but even after I was done, I just felt good and was walking easily instead of dragging my butt back into the house…oh, and I saw a bald eagle fly over my house as I was mowing…pretty cool…just finished the last book and I think I’ll take the rest of the day off reading and just fool around with little things to keep myself busy…or not even busy since I haven’t had a day like that in a long time…so, I think I’ll read some news and few of the car websites I like and just take it easy…I do need food since I’m done with the pork shoulder after dinner so I guess it will be potato soup tomorrow morning so I’ll have some for lunch…stir fry in the new pan will wait til sat after the chicken thaws…
A license to cheat…
Well…we all know that the SC is filled with partisan hacks trying their best to give the repubs a permanent ruling majority even though 70% of the American people don’t want that at all…and yesterday, they drove the final nail in the coffin of the voting rights act that roberts has made his life work to destroy…and the asshole alito wrote for the majority that gerrymandering to take away minorities voting power is just fine with him…and he went on with roberts overriding theme that racism in the US is over even though hundreds of suits have been brought against repubs who only want white people to be able to vote…so now do you get why we need to take back the house and senate and win the WH in 2028? this is the most corrupt court in the history of the country and reform should be the first item on the dems agenda…take away robert’s power to put his thumb on the scale…after all, it was roberts ruling in citizens united that let billionaires buy elections and he has be dismantling out democracy ever since with his nakedly partisan rulings…expand the court or impeach this corrupt son of a bitch…geez…
April 30th
Well…that was better…not out of bed til 5:23 with no sleep aids at all and I think I like that…feel okay but I’m pretty sore from all the overhead work getting rid of the cobwebs downstairs…still have to go through the cabinets where I keep all my maintenance supplies and clean off the top of them…it’s going to be March like weather here the next few days and that sucks when it’s the first of May tomorrow…there still has been no consistent spring here and it looks like I’ll be mowing the lawn today with the temp about 45 and that’s just not right…I did get my new semi wok yesterday and it’s really nice…can’t wait to use it later in the week but that means I’ll have to take the chicken out of the freezer but I may wait to do that until after I make a batch of potato soup with having more than 10 lbs of potatoes in the kitchen…still have lots of fruit that needs to be used so I may substitute an orange for the normal morning bagel…it was kind of funny that I read
“Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” this week and the movie was on Amazon that I watched last night…Tom Cruise does not fit the description that Lee Child laid out for Reacher with him being 5’8″ and Reacher in the books is 6’6″…I like the books better…not much to do today…just the normal stuff and finishing up the last book so I can go to the library tomorrow…oh, and cleaning the bathroom….more later…