Well…there have been some interesting studies that have come out recently about the health disparities between conservatives and liberals and I find it pretty easy to understand…conservatives are dying earlier and are sicker than the rest of the population and they are doing it to themselves…listening to the right’s assholes go on and on about not trusting anyone and that uneducated people are just as smart as their doctor has guaranteed that conservatives are going to die at a higher rate since they ignore treatable illnesses because of that lack of trust in institutions and expertise…in fact, the demonization of expertise has been the hallmark of the repubs for decades now led by the idiot trump who thinks he knows more than anyone including doctors, economists, and scientists…and this lie has filtered down to his entire set of followers who think all they have to do is eat horse paste and everything will be okay…now, I’m a little conflicted by this state of affairs since I think the quicker these ignorant, racist assholes die out the better the country will be…but while they die, they raise costs for everyone and the blue states will have to bail them out just like blue states do for rural red states…without blue states, red states would be a wasteland of no hospitals or healthcare…or schools or anything else…I for one am tired of being demonized as we prop the red parts of this country up…where is their self sufficiency that the harp about all the time…I’m glad they’re dying…they’ve ruined this country…geez…
Ha, blanche is going to be disbarred…
Well…as I always keep saying, everything the idiot trump touches dies…and there are so many lawyers who have been disbarred for supporting his illegal schemes, I wonder why anyone would be anywhere around him…but, they still keep coming and the latest who is going to be disbarred is acting AG todd blanche who, just yesterday had an ethics complaint lodged with the NY bar that details the illegal crap he has been doing as AG to support idiot boy’s revenge tour…like the last one that was thrown out Monday by the courts that his subpoenas against Tim Walz for defying his orders to cooperate with his murdering thugs of ICE in Minnesota are just a retaliation for Walz’s principled stand to protect the people of Minnesota…now, if I was a lawyer and had a 74 page complaint against me signed by over 100 off my peers, that would make me think that maybe doing trump’s illegal bidding is not such a good idea…but blanche is too damn dumb to understand that the immunity that the SC gave idiot boy doesn’t apply to him…and that investigations are coming after this fall’s election that are going to expose every corrupt action he has taken…tick tock, todd, your days are numbered…geez…
June 24th
Well…it looks like I’m going to be riding indoors today for the first time in months with the rain that is starting before sunrise and supposed to continue all day…I may be able to wedge an outdoor ride later in the lulls in the rain but I need to keep my 950 day plus of riding every day intact so I’ll have a cup of coffee and go down and get started…it’s only 52 out there so no top down run for the grocery run today…we’re forecast to get and inch of rain today and that will make it a nice day to make the pork shoulder I have planned…the widget says the rain is coming in 1.5 hours but the radar says the rain is almost here and I’m not going to get wet in the dark…will need to get on the bike by 6:30am and that will be easy…I forgot to take my partials out last night and I didn’t choke to death on them but had to clean them this morning to make sure I don’t get an infection…will be able to catch up on the 3rd season of “Reacher” on the bike and I hope they do make a 4th…there are plenty of books to use and I’ve read most of them…I did see the Tom Cruise version of “Reacher” the other day and there is no way that Reacher is a 5 foot 8 inch person like Cruise…the Mandolorian and Grogu movie showed up the other day along with the latest season of “House of the Dragon” so I’ll have new stuff to watch this week…not much to do today…just the grocery run and cooking…have a new bag of books so I won’t be bored…need to do windows today and will clean at least 2…more later…
Took it too easy today…
Well…okay, I knew I was going to take it easy today after all the work on the yard yesterday as I always do…but, I think I went too far after just the rides, weight work, and the errand…after I got back here around 9:30am, I did absolutely nothing all day but read and watch soccer…but the world cup is only on every 4 years so I have an excuse…talked to my daughter today and she said there are some things we need to do in some parts of Italy where there are lots of criminals and pickpockets…she found a security bag for me that fits across my chest and is big enough to hold all my valuables like wallet, phone, money and passport…after I talked to her I ordered tsa approved locks for my suitcases and she ordered some security cables to secure our luggage when we are on the trains moving around the country.. I laughed at all that but better safe than sorry…finished up all the leftovers today so I will be making the pork shoulder with gravy, mashed potatoes, and steamed carrots tomorrow…and that will give me pulled pork sandwiches for the second meal of the day…I do need to make another batch of pickles and probably should do that right now…soccer time…
Something a little different…
Well…talking about the corruption/incompetence of the idiot trump and his cronies is pretty easy but it gets frickin boring after doing it for another year so I think I’ll try something a little different…not sure what that is yet but I’ll try to noodle through and see what happens…just read an article that said that the UN investigation has found strong evidence that the idiot netenyahu deliberately ordered attacks on children in both gaza and Lebanon and that is a war crime in anyone’s book…and look, who the hell does that…oh, yeah the idiot trump does that, too…let’s not let Minab slip into the ether and be buried in the chaos of war excuse…I wonder how we try to get consequences for these war crimes started? I mean it would just be delicious of idiot boy couldn’t travel to his Scotland golf courses without being arrested and sent to the Hague…and that goes for bibi, too…and he even has going to prison for the rest of his life in his future the next time he loses an election…I think that should be the theme of the ’28 election…holding criminals accountable…and that goes for hegseth, too for killing people with no justification other than he says they are bad people…okay, that’s it for now…back later…
June 23rd
Well…that was about a normal night and out of bed at 5:13 but I still want to sleep better and more…feel pretty sore after edging the sidewalks yesterday and I may have to take something for it before I get on the bike…it’s cold here again at 54 so I’ll be in long pants for the first ride at least but it’s going to warm up pretty quickly once the sun comes up…need to run an errand to the library this morning and the out to Meijers to get the ammonia and to check if I can get another small pork shoulder on sale…don’t really need it with one in the fridge waiting to be cooked tomorrow but cheap protein is pretty rare these days…need to clean today but I’m not sure if it will be the bathroom or some windows or both…I guess we’ll see later…I did get the spare bedroom closet cleaned and tossed out some old pillow I had been storing there since I moved in and figured it was about time to dump them…and that made 2 weeks in a row I put the trash out…as I clean this place out to live simply, I like the uncluttered look that I will need expand to include the dining room…not much to today…looking forward to getting the car out for the errands today and getting a little drive in….more later…
I did enough…
Well…after getting the rides in, edging the sidewalks for the first time this year, and mowing the lawn, I thought to myself I’ve done enough and skipped going to Meijers to get the ammonia since I knew I wasn’t going clean any windows today…I mean, 5 hours of hard work is enough for one day and my entire upper body hurts after wrestling the edger around for an hour and a half…and mowing didn’t help, either, so I’m taking the afternoon off to watch soccer and read and I’ll make the run to Meijers tomorrow…really don’t have a lot to get on the grocery run this week other than milk and a bag of pretzels…have the pork shoulder to make tomorrow and that should keep me fed for the rest of the week and I have another dozen eggs to make for omelets and egg salad…time for soccer..
I really hope vance does run…
Well…with jd vance floating the trial balloons of running for president in 2028, my only thought is I hope he does…if there is anyone on the right who is just an empty suit, it’s ole jd…after all, he’s never accomplished a thing in his entire political life…he didn’t even win the senate seat he was occupying when peter thiel told the idiot trump that jd was going to be his vp pick…and that follows on from thiel buying him the senate seat with hundreds of millions of dollars of his cash…what the hell does he have to run on? Iran ignoring him in the negotiations in Switzerland? Having a book ghost written for him? Or for the biggest ass kisser of the orange idiot’s ass? I can see the only people voting for him would be some of the maga faithful but only if idiot boy tells them to…and that is not a given with how the idiot discards people that can’t make him money…and with peter thiel picking up and moving to Argentina to try to make his mischief and take over the government there, it would be easy to show that thiel tried the same thing here with vance and that didn’t work out too well for him so the money tap will be closed…and no one else even like ole jd so finding someone to buy him the presidency is going to be a tough sell…so run, jd, I need some laughs…geez…
June 22nd
Well…up really early…again…but I feel okay so I must have slept okay…I know I didn’t toss and turn as much as I normally do so I guess that’s something…it’s going to be a busy day today with getting the rides in and then either mowing the lawn or heading for Meijers for ammonia depending on how dry the grass is…I’ll still do both but it’s the sequence that’s in question…and I need to edge the walks today so I’ll be sore tomorrow…started a 1973 mystery novel yesterday and I think it will be okay…need to finish it tomorrow so I can hit the library after the grocery run Wed…it’s only 56 here right now and I’m still wondering when summer is going to get here so I can get to the beach…it’s going to be weird not having beer for the beach runs but I guess coffee will have to do…going to make the pork shoulder tomorrow since I just have too much work to do today and won’t get done til noon or so and I want to make the pork for lunch…I did hear from 3 of my kids for father’s day yesterday and surprised the hell out of me…I really shouldn’t say not much to do today since I’ll be working my butt off all morning after the rides….more later…
Stayed cool out here…
Well…it was only 51 when I went out for the first ride this morning but it did warm up enough to get out in shorts for the 2nd ride and I saw tons of deer out there…that was kind of fun and I actually saw 3 bucks today which is pretty unusual…haven’t really accomplished anything else today without any ammonia to do the windows…I did get a father’s day message from my daughter saying “only 91 days til Italy” and that made me laugh…and my oldest son and daughter in law sent me a video of them out on the trails with father’s day wishes…and that was cool…the rest of the day was filled with soccer and races and reading and I have one book left to start and will do that after I make ice and clean my teeth…so that will put me back to Tuesday for the library run after hitting Meijers tomorrow for the ammonia…time for ice and reading…rain coming…