Well…just read an article a few minutes ago that I just had to comment on…with the church shooting in SC in the headlines and the fact that it is a hate crime out of the mouth of the shooter…but no, that’s not good enough for Fox “news”…that doesn’t fit their narrative…the one they have been pushing for years now that there is a war on Christians…yep, they went there with this tragedy…using the deaths of 9 people to push more of their crap and fantasy of what is going on in the US, that Christians are under attack across the US and, of course, this attack is just more “proof”. I wonder how these asses live with themselves? Not a day has passed and here we have these cynical bastards using these deaths as if they were not people…but, that is the whole problem with Fox and the right, they don’t think of the African American community as people, they think of them as the “other” to be demonized and used for political purposes and if a few of them die, so what? it gave them the chance to pander to their base and that’s the only value they place on anyone who is not a white person…I am so sick of this pollution of our country….Fox can go to hell….
All posts by James DeVol
Sick but expected….
Well…I’m by now you’ve heard about the church shooting in SC that left 9 dead and the shooter on the run…at least they now have caught the 21 year old white guy that did the shooting and the only thing I have to say is that this is just sick…but expected, given the hate that spouts from the right across this country. When are we going to stop trying to have the south rise again..where in SC they fly the confederate flag over the state capitol? The theme that runs through the right hand bubble was quoted by this idiot as he was murdering these people “we are going to take back our country from you”…how many time have you heard this from the politicians on the right? And the nonsense of “second amendment remedies” gets mixed in an this is what you get…a racist punk who believes in and acts on this propaganda that is spewed from hate radio…I’m sure there are those on the right who will hold this scum up as a hero….all I can do is shake my head and worry for the future of this country….
June 18th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made some cash so that was cool…slept okay and had dreams for the second night in a row and that is really confusing….normally, I get one and then it’s a month or so for the second but I guess I shouldn’t complain….feel kind of refreshed this morning as you can see…I’m at this one early and that is just not normal….other than the cash, didn’t get much done yesterday but I am going to try to do better today and work on the kitchen…and put the winter clothes away….I was good last night even with having cocktail materials here and that is a first…just didn’t feel like it last night and I think that was a good idea…not much to do today…I should wash the car but it is supposed to rain later so I may wait until the morning since it is supposed to be nice tomorrow…more later….
A little music stuff…
Well…didn’t get to putting the clothes away but I did read something that I find to be really funny…during old Donald’s announcement yesterday, one of the reporters mentioned that he came on stage to “Rockin in the Free World” by Neil Young….and that was too funny because I knew what was coming next…and, sure enough, Neil Young sends a ‘cease and desist” letter to the idiot Trump who thinks (like most repubs) that he can take what he wants without paying for it….and the kicker of the thing is that Neil is a supporter of Bernie Sanders as I am…
One last thing that I have been thinking about lately that has me confused…what the hell does a DJ do that would make them famous? They play other peoples music in an order that is different than anyone else? I think that is called a playlist and I have made a bunch of those in my day….just don’t understand why that would make you famous…I know I’m not….weird…
June 17th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made some cash so that is cool…there will be groceries this week…might even splurge on some beef…nope…too expensive…slept okay last night but am having the same, repeating dream where the brakes stop working on the car…no matter how hard I push on them, they won’t stop it…wrecked a brand new Mustang convert last night and that was just a shame….I did get a nice ride in yesterday without a lot of pain and i am looking forward to doing the same thing today…I laid out in the sun yesterday to try to even out the biker tan and got scorched….I can’t figure that out with only 25 minutes a side…but the sky was clear and I am really white so I guess I should have expected it…..so, I guess I’ll have to wait a day or so until I do that again….not much to do today….already got the grocery run in and that was about all I had planned…I should put the winter clothes away and maybe that should be my goal for the day…..more later…
Weird, weird animals…
Well…while I was sitting here getting this afternoon’s post out, I looked out my slider to see some really weird stuff going on with the animals, both birds and others around the new tree that was transplanted in last year. Again, the guys here were spreading mulch around the tree and after they were done the Robins and other birds were doing the same thing they did last year…lying on their bellies in the mulch with their wings spread out beside them….and this time, they were joined by bunnies and squirrels just lying out flat, too…not sure what is in that mulch but I want some of it….
Donald Trump is in!
Well…I can hardly contain my glee after hearing the announcement that the Donald has declared his candidacy for president…and his speech announcing it was just the riches bit of absurdist theater I can remember seeing in a long, long time…starting with his rant that illegal immigrants are “drug dealers, they bring in crime, and they are rapists” wow, way to go Donald…alienate some 40% of the voters out there that are Hispanic and then all of us that are on the left…hmmmm…what does that leave for you? Oh, the 26% that are tea partiers…not the brightest way to get elected by any means. But, really….does this delusional idiot think he has any chance in this election? Yeah…I’ll be he does since he still believes in a fake Obama birth certificate…that there is no global warming, or that he is a businessman of any sort….I guess it would be pretty easy to be rich when you start out with 400 million dollars of daddy’s money and then use bankruptcy as your business plan to screw all your creditors and the people that work for you…I guess it’s not much different than ole Mitt’s plan from Bain…the two of them should work well together…it is going to be a fun summer listening to this idiot…and the rest of the idiots that are running…go Bernie!
June 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get a few errands run so that was cool….got a bunch of new t-shirts for riding the bike for only 20 bucks…that should get me through the summer….slept okay last night but a little fitful….and I am a little worn out today but have to get back to the fitness routine….the humidity has been so high lately that I am soaked at three miles out but that kind of feels good…came back yesterday soaked through my shorts….not too sore today so I may skip the ibuprofen before the ride just to see what it will be like…I do need to get some dusting done today…I can write my name in the dust and that is just too much…and it might help the allergies, tomorrow, but I will suffer today…not much to do today…going to get going early today so I can cook for lunch but that is about it….with all the rain, the car doesn’t need to be washed but I should clean it some anyway…more later….
Let’s learn a little on “free trade”
Well….with all of the drama over the new trade agreement that was scuttled last week by the dems in the house…thank you Nancy Pelosi, I think it’s time to look back a little at the other big “free trade” agreement, NAFTA, that has been in effect for over 20 years now. There was an interesting study that I read a little about a few days back and one of the big takeaways from the study was it’s effect on wages in the US…where it has been responsible for essentially a stagnation of wages here…with the huge pool of cheap labor that suddenly entered the market from Mexico, wages have been under downward pressure…after all, why would the auto companies want to pay an American worker 20 dollars an hour when the can pay Mexican workers 2 dollars? The study also predicted the demise of the Canadian auto industry in about 20 years which, before NAFTA, was an important sector of their economy. And, again, why invest in Canada when there is cheap labor south of the American border? What these trade deals show is that it is impossible to maintain an American middle class and it’s wages when you compete with countries that pay third world wages…we need to shout that every time there is another one of these deals that continue to take all the good jobs away from the US…let’s stop this race to the bottom before it’s too late….
June 15th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done, again, but I really don’t have a lot to do so I guess I can live with that…not sure I want to do the regular stuff here today…you probably don’t care how I slept…and I don’t either so I won’t talk about that…I’m not sore this morning and that is a good thing but we’ll see how that goes after the bike ride…I do need to get on that right now since the rain is going to start soon and it looks like it is going to keep up most of the day…I do have some errands to run this morning so I’ll probably get to that after the ride…probably won’t work out today since I won’t have time to do it before the ride…not much to do today…I have some things I should do and might do but I’m just not motivated right now…more later…