Well…with the news this afternoon that Jimmy Carter went home from the hospital and is entering hospice care today, I just wanted to do a short one about his life…now you know I am an atheist who doesn’t hate religion…I hate the things people do in the name of religion…but if you want to see what a real Christian looks like, just look at the life of President Carter…while in office he never attacked anyone, never said anything bad about anything, brokered peace in the Mideast and tried his best to guide the country but had the unfortunate luck of 14% inflation and a repub party who had begun the slide into lies and slander…and with Carter being an honorable person, he couldn’t use those tactics and lost the election to Reagan who put the country on the path to where we are now…after he left office he threw himself along with Rosalyn into doing good works around the world and made Habitat for Humanity the force that it is today….that is what I remember of christians from when I was young…they really did do good work and stayed out of politics and hate….I know that maybe a little bit of wearing rose colored glasses but the christians I knew weren’t nazis like many of them are now…so, maybe this would be a good time for some of those folks to reflect on their actions and re-discover the true meaning of the god they purport to follow…
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What the hell is wrong with the NYT?
Well…after this week and reading about the attacks on trans people by the NYT, my question is “what the hell is wrong with the NYT?” All week, they have been trying to justify their support of JK Rowling who wrote the Harry Potter books and her well known transphobia…and it has gotten so bad that hundreds of well known people have written letters to the Times asking what the hell? Who is calling the shots at the times who supports attacking an already besieged minority? All across the country, repubs are passing laws actually trying to outlaw trans people’s just living…outlawing the medical care that they need to survive and why is the Times piling on to that bullshit? Look, this same playbook was used to attack gay and lesbian people in the 60’s and 70’s but no one remembers history anymore so they are doomed to repeat it…what benefit do these attacks have for the Times? They’re never going to get the right wing assholes to subscribe to the paper so why attack just like the asshole repubs? I just don’t get it…a once objective paper now seems populated by fox news wannabes who just want to spread their hate…it’s a long way for the Times to fall…geez…
February 18th
Well…okay, got to 5:14 this morning but stayed in bed until 7:23 and that is getting to be the pattern…well…not yesterday…I think getting up before 6 yesterday set me up for sleeping more today…still feel worn out but part of that is staying under 500 calories yesterday but I don’t think I can hit that goal today since I have some chicken thighs that need to be cooked…one thigh and half a potato with some green beans is going to put me at about 500 before I have an orange this afternoon…so today will be a 600 calorie day…didn’t have a good day yesterday with obsessing about the missing keys and wallowing in the resulting depression but today will be better…it has to be…not sure if I’m going to do two rides today…I may just wing it and see what happens….lots of sports on today with soccer right now and the truck race on at 10:30 so I need to get a ride done before then…and that gives me about an hour before I need to get on the bike….and there are two races on this afternoon that I want to see from Daytona so I’ll need to get the second bike ride in right after the truck race at 12:30….not much to do today….just the races and to try to find a topic in politics for a change….more later…
Ohio, you deserve better…
Well with the huge environmental disaster caused by the train derailment in Ohio a week ago, Joe Biden has offered federal help to Ohio to help cope…and guess what the governor’s response was? This asshole DeWine wouldn’t take Joe’s call just because he’s a maga idiot who would love to poison his people to score political points and try to make himself look tough…so, people of Ohio, your governor doesn’t give a shit about you…and this poisoning of a quarter of Ohio is the largest environmental disaster in my lifetime…and I’m older than hell….and to top this off, the reason that train derailed is that the idiot trump and his business cronies who run the railroads got an Obama era regulation removed because it was going to cost the railroads to retrofit the train cars….so this completely avoidable tragedy was all the result of repub governance and it is just a little taste of what will continue to happen to you, Ohio, if you keep electing these asshole…geez…
Looking for a topic…
Well…haven’t been out on any of the sites today so finding a topic has been a bit of a chore…and I still haven’t found my keys and that sucks…that means I’ll have to go out next week and have another one made for the car but I have spares for the door keys so that’s okay…was going to look if I may have dropped them in the yard but with the snow last night it will be a week or so before I can look for them…I did get a bike ride in this morning and I’m going to ride again today in a few minutes…and I think I’m done with food after having small chunk of ribs (3×5 inches) and I’ll probably have an orange for later this afternoon and that will keep me at about 400 calories for the day and 1K combined for two days….must have gained 5 pounds when I was off the bike even with keeping the cals under 800 for the three weeks and I can’t stand it…feel so fat that all the work I did over the past year is gone…I wonder why no one else has to do this to maintain their weight? I mean, I’m burning an extra 1200 calories and not taking anything in so why am I gaining weight? This just sucks and I need to get on the bike again in 10 minutes….oh, well…
February 17th
WelI….damn this sucks…up at 4:16 and then out of bed at 5:23 and I am so damn worn out…not sure how misplacing a set of keys could send me spiraling into depression but it has…I was balancing on the edge of it anyway with all of the health problems and doctor and dentist appointments coming up in the next 6 weeks…and the snow…we got almost 6 inches out here last night and I’ll need to get out to shovel it here in a bit…I did keep my calorie count down around 600 yesterday and need to do the same today to get rid of the weight I gained being off the bike…and I need to ride twice but it’s 6:30 and I can’t imagine doing that right now…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and I am going to obsess about the keys all day until I find them but I’ve already looked everywhere I can think of with no luck…crap…and I hurt my left knee and right shoulder somehow and I may even need to take something for it…another crap…not much to do today…just going to try to survive it and at least get the rides in…have leftover ribs to heat up today so I won’t need to cook until tomorrow and will need to put the chicken in the freezer and will consider it a good day if I can do that….more later…
Idiot boy should be worried…
Well…with the release of the special grand jury report from Georgia today…or I should say parts of it…the one thing that the pundits agree on is that idiot boy should be very worried…and not just him but some of the 75 witnesses who the GJ said “committed perjury” and recommended that indictments be issued…and this is just one investigation…there is another federal investigation that is heating up with Smith sending out subpoenas to some of the same people…among them is Mark Meadows who was on the line when idiot boy made the phone call asking the AG to “find” 12k votes to give him the state…so, as the days go by, the noose tightens around trump and his cronies but it needs to lead to indictments…after all, it’s been more than two years since these crimes were committed and if it would have been you or me, we would have been be sitting in jail a year ago…get after it, Fani…
February 16th
Well..man, getting out of bed was a process this morning…woke up at 5:04 but was able to get back to sleep in small chunks that ended at 7:23…had some weird dreams in that time that had “The Way of the World” by Genesis running through it….feel pretty worn out today with having to think about the health problems I’m having and the logistics of all of it…figuring out how to get to and from the appointments for my teeth and what needs to happen before then…oh, well…I did sleep okay last night so I should feel okay but I don’t….need to run an errand this morning but that’s the last thing I want to do…but we are supposed to get 5-8 inches of snow out here tonight along with high winds so it looks like a hibernation day that I hope will be the last one….there are races on from Daytona tonight so that will be the plan for later and I’ll push the good shows on Plex back until Friday night….but the truck race is on then so I don’t know if I’ll get to them…not much to do today…just want to get the errand run soon so I can settle in and take it easy for a bit…don’t need to cook until tomorrow with leftover chili and ribs in the fridge but to need to plan what will be next….more later…
Another okay day…
Well…have had another pretty good day and got a few things done so that is cool…started out with doing the grocery runs and for once, got everything that was on my list…even some navel oranges at Aldis for under three bucks for a 4 pound bag…when I got back, I did a ride indoors and decided that one was enough after doing 30 miles yesterday…I do have to arrange my freezer since I had to put stuff on top of the ice cube trays and that won’t work when I fill them later…there is some food in there that has been there since I bought this house two years ago so that can go to make room…just marinated some small rib pieces to have for dinner tonight and the dishes are done and now I am done for the day….need to watch some soccer…Arsenal needs to get it in gear to beat Man city down 1-0…
Go get ’em, Joe…
Well…I like the new Joe Biden…just today he attacked the repubs attempts to crash the economy so they can force cuts to SS and Medicare by releasing a fact sheet that shows that repub plans would increase the debt by 3 trillion dollars while Joe’s plans would cut it by almost two trillion…and that shows that the repubs using the debt for anything is just so much bullshit and lies…and Joe was blunt in a speech yesterday when he pointed out that the first bill the repubs passed would add 114 billion to the debt to protect tax cheats…and the 159 billion they would add to the debt by repealing reforms to medicare drug pricing…and they want to repeal corporate tax increases would add 269 billion to the debt….you get the picture…the repubs are willing to crash the world’s economy for the lie that they care about the debt when the only thing they care about is getting rid of Medicare and SS as they have since the start of them…but they won’t…for that they will need complete control of the country and that is not going to happen soon…I love the fact that Joe is getting aggressive in pointing out the truth…he needs to keep it up…geez…