Well…repub budget is out and guess what? Of course, they want to cut every program that benefits the middle class and poor here in the US so they can give more, and more, and more to the military/industrial complex. I, for one, have had enough of this continually increasing money for war while the rest of us can’t even get out roads repaired or get healthcare. The US spends more money on defense than the next 20 countries combined and you cannot tell me that this is necessary…the Russians, who the repubs are so scared of only spend about 60 billion a year on their military so why the hell are we willing to spend almost 500 billion on ours? It is time to stop building war machines and start building this country again before all of our bridges fall down and we stop educating our people…geez…
All posts by James DeVol
March 19th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…again…but, I didn’t have much to do so I guess that works out…,slept okay…okay for me that is, and another night of being completely good is not having the effect I expected…I should have lots of energy but I don’t and I think it’s from not getting enough calories still…haven’t been able to shift from starvation mode that I was in when I couldn’t ride the bike but today I plan on fixing that…bought a 10 pound pork roast from the off brand store out here for 10 bucks so I have protein that should last a couple of weeks…going to just whack a little off it for lunch today and then do a big roast Saturday…I have been getting out on the bike and have almost a hundred miles on it already this year…need to do 2413 miles to get to 25,000 on this bike this year and that would be a little accomplishment anyway….not much to do today…resumes, and more resumes but that is about it…I do need to do the spider patrol today and get rid of some of the cobwebs but that is about it…running short of cash so it looks like some hermitting is in order…more later…
More lies from the right on the minimum wage…
Well…I know that the right hates anyone but the rich getting anything in the US and they have lied and lied about the effects of minimum wage increases…saying that raises eliminate jobs as businesses stop hiring..or cut jobs (which has been found to not be true in every instance)…but they just got caught out in another lie about Seattle’s 15 dollar wage that is slated to start to take effect in April…the right wing rag “The new York Post” had an editorial the other day from a couple of right wing “brains” that pounced on the fact that restaurants are closing across Seattle and they attribute it to the minimum wage that has not even taken effect yet….one little problem…they never talked to any of the owners of the restaurants that are closing to find out why….never mind that places close all the time…and open all the time…these guys just “know” that it is only the minimum wage that is causing it. When Thinkprogess talked to some of the owners that were mentioned in the Post, all of the owners said it had nothing to do with the rising MW…in fact, they all supported the rise. The one fact that the righies failed to mention is that Seattle is in the midst of a “dining boom” with many more resataurants opening than closing, with one owner, who is opening two more places this year, saying ‘opening new businesses would not be smart if they would not be successful”. So, again…the right lies, again, since they just can’t stand that someone other than them gets a leg up in the US…shame on them…
A little trail weirdness…
Well…had a funny thing happen out on the trail this morning when I was out for the bike ride…going along the M-6 trail, I came upon a turkey that was stuck between the 4 ft fences that are on both side of the trail…as I came up to him, I shouted “run, turkey, run…” for some reason…and the turkey took off running straight down the trial in front of me for about a 100 yards until he got tired and just stopped…then I just rode by him with him looking at me…kind of weird…but a good weird…there hasn’t really been anything else to report on the trail until that…there have been wooly bear caterpillars all over the place but that is about it….oh, I did get the mp-3 player fixed it appears….have been out three times and it has worked the whole time…pretty cool…more later….
March 18th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done….I did get the computer working again and I think I like Chrome for the browser…it hasn’t locked up once since I switched over and I now have it configured as I had Firefox….slept okay again and I shouldn’t have….only one more step to being totally good and I may just try that tonight….did get a full bike ride in again but in the thermasuit but it was okay the legs and lungs are coming back pretty quickly but I haven’t done any sprinting yet and that won’t come until next week…shoulder still hurts a little but it is better than yesterday but I won’t try working out today…have to wait until all of the pain is gone…not much to do today…need to get some stuff done around here today but that is about it…..more later….
Good riddance Aaron Schock…
Well….we all know that the repubs think of the government as their own personal piggybank that they use to reward themselves and their big donors with tax cuts and other largesse…but, there has been one guy over the past couple of years that has raised taking advantage of the people to an art form…Illinois rep Aaron Schock resigned today amid ethics investigations for damn near everything..his “Downton Abbey” styled office started it off then there were the private jets to go to concerts (supplied by his big donors) and getting an inflated price for a house he sold…again to one of his big donors…but that’s not the extent of it…he had his own staff photographer that he took everywhere to document his exploits and took some staffers to NYC the other month for a “conference” where he spent about two minutes shaking hands and billed the people of his district for the trip. Now….this is what the grifters on the right think government is…you do some time currying favors and amassing dark money waiting for the time that they can get the big payday as a lobbyist when they leave congress….but you have to at least make it appear you’re doing some work for the people you represent…this guy just couldn’t be bothered with that…good riddance…geez…
Some updates….
Well…the computer crap got so bad this morning that I had to abandon Firefox and go over to Chrome just to see if that would help……haven’t had any script errors yet so maybe it will work out….Chrome seems to be a little slower, though, but I can handle that if I don’t have to continually take the battery out of the computer to get it to restart…so far, so good….my shoulder was good this morning until, like an idiot, I tried to work out and re-injured it…not as bad as the original injury but it hurts again and that is a pain…and I have pain between my shoulder blades that I didn’t have before but I think that is from sleeping with my should elevated…okay…need to get a bike ride in before soccer this aft so I’ll end here…just hope Chrome keeps working…
March 17th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got out on the bike in shorts and did the whole route for the first time…there was a lot of snow in the woods and I had to walk a little but that was okay….slept okay last night and I shouldn’t have…was really good and that should have made it bad but it wasn’t…and the shoulder is getting better to the point that I can lift it with only a little pain and I hope it will continue to get better today…it was so bad yesterday that I couldn’t work out but I think the ibuprofen is helping….it has gotten really cold out this morning and that is so depressing given it got up to 65 yesterday….if I go out on the bike today it will be back in full thermasuit and that is just not as much fun….not much to do today…don’t have anyone to go out and have a St. Patrick’s day beer with so I guess I won’t….more later….
Tom Cotton is an idiot…
Well…since my shoulder won’t allow me to work out, I thought I’d get to this one early as I wait for it to get warm enough to do the bike ride in shorts. If you haven’t heard, ole Tom Cotton is the ringleader of the 47 repub senators (I wonder what their fixation on the number 47 is?) that sent the ill advised letter to Iran warning that any agreement on their nuclear program with Obama could be rescinded once there is a new president…which he was wrong on by the way…and he showed even more ignorance on the Sunday news shows yesterday, trying to make the point that Iran is dangerous since they already control Tehran. Hey, Tom, do you even know that Tehran is the capital of Iran…and that they have controlled it since it was founded? That would be like saying that Germany has designs on all of Europe since they already control Berlin. It is just an indicator of the ignorance of the current crop of “brains” in the repub party who are either too stupid or too lazy to understand what they continually spout off about…another example being the Common Core standards that Ted Cruz thinks is a federal law the he thinks should be repealed…when it is a set of standards that was developed by the states that they can take or leave. Unless you know what you are talking about repubs, just shut the hell up…geez…
March 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was an improvement…another bad night of sleep, though, and I feel exhausted this morning…tonight will probably be worse and I am not looking forward to it…I did fix the mp-3 player for now anyway so I can get out on the bike today…just not enough fun without music…I should be able to go out in shorts today but then the weather turns cold and I’ll be back in the thermasuit tomorrow…at least I’ll get some exercise…..I hurt my shoulder somehow yesterday and I can barely lift it…the tendon is inflamed and it catches when I try to raise my arm….makes shifting the car a real pain and it is not fun…..not much to do today…going to do a few things around here but that is about it….more later….