Well…running really late today…I guess I needed the sleep…I woke up to having some sort of bug today with coughing and feeling a little crappy….took some vitamin C already and I hope that helps….had to work on the car in the cold yesterday but I know that isn’t the cause….oh, well….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but work on the car and today looks the same…I did brine some chicken to cook today and I need to roast some potatoes and carrots to go with it…need to try to get the calorie level up some….the pickled onions I made the other day go pretty well with the brats but I need to save some to have with tacos next week….they do look a little strange since the vinegar turns the red onions pink but I can live with that….not much to do today…going to just take it easy today….yeah, I laughed at that, too…that is the plan for almost every day now that I think of it….more later….
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Let’s compare…
Well….throughout this whole debacle of lawlessness that is the trump administration, and with the daily comparisons to Watergate, we really need to take a look at the two scandals to see which one is worse…got any idea? Over the course of the Watergate investigation/prosecutions, there were 40 Nixon administration personnel who were convicted of some sort of crime and went to jail, mostly for lying to the FBI or obstruction of justice. As of today, there have been twice that many people interviewed in the idiot trump’s crime administration…and Mueller isn’t done yet. While Nixon’s crimes were essentially domestic and dealt with political crimes…trump’s crimes are so much more than that…I mean working with a foreign government to steal an election and then trying to cover it up is both domestic and international crime…and that is not even touching on the money laundering, bribery, and spying for our enemies to try to undermine the US foreign policy. So, while the Watergate comparison is shorthand for a criminal conspiracy and is of some use here, trump and his cronies crimes are so much worse that to lessen them to the level of Watergate ignores the scope and scale of the idiot trump’s and the repubs lawlessness….this will turn out to be the biggest criminal conspiracy in the history of this country and has been coming since the repubs started thinking that the laws of this country don’t apply to them and they can do whatever they want…and I blame Obama for part of that, letting the torturers in the Bush administration get away with hundreds of felonies and breaking international law…after that, why wouldn’t they believe that the law doesn’t apply to them? Impeach….
February 1st
Well…crap….the hand brake on the car wouldn’t release this morning until I got all the way to Meijers so that means I need to get under it this morning and soak the linkage with oil…I wonder why it couldn’t have done this when it was over 50 last week? Oh, well….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but run out to aldi’s…and that made this morning a little cheaper than it normally is…but I have enough food now to last three weeks or so….next week should be really cheap…my elbows are hurting like crazy today so there will be ibuprofen later…but, my back started to crack again so that helps….I do need to clean today and I am going to try to make some homemade wrinkle releaser so I don’t have to keep putting my shirts back in the dryer all the time….more later…..
Bye, bye, Trey…good riddance…
Well…with all of the bad stuff that has been happening with the repubs refusing to their jobs to rein in the idiot in the WH, there has been some good news with the exodus of many, many repubs who see the writing of a dem tsunami coming at them for November. The latest idiot repub to bail is the easy to hate Trey Gowdy, who spent tens of millions of dollars investigating Benghazi only to have to admit at the end that there was nothing to the “scandal”…but we knew that when we heard at the time that one of his cronies on the committee admitted that it was all just to hurt Hillary’s election chances. Now this smarmy little shit is retiring to go back to the “legal system” whatever the hell that means…probably as a trump appointee to the justice department where his incompetence will be a feature and not a bug. All I have to say is good riddance…Trey, you are nothing but a waste of air….
Last one for the month…
Well….have had a little bit of a busy morning so far and the disappointing thing is that it is 10 am and I am already done for the day…I did get out and make a run to aldi’s this morning and got a ton of food for only 14 bucks…I mean, a self-rising crust pizza for 2.69 and avocados for 49 cents each? Got some chicken legs and two packs of brats, too…so the freezer is well stocked again….but, I know I shouldn’t be eating brats a lot since they are not good for you…especially not being able to gt on the bike. I did make some pickled red onions after I got back here…oh, the red onions were 69 cents for a two pound bag…I have been seeing pickled red onions on almost every cooking show for the past week so I thought I’d try to make some….I think they’ll go good with brats and I am going to give them a try with lunch…and, if they are good, I’ll probably make a double batch this afternoon since they keep for almost a month in the fridge….want to try some with tacos, too….okay, that’s about it for now but I may be back for another one later if I get bored or I can’t get the Man U game…the streaming on the server has been down for a while and I hope my son gets it fixed soon….more later…
January 31st
Well…another month gone…another month closer to spring and I can’t wait for it to come….slept okay last night but went to bed early with being so bored last night…so that means I’m up and moving early today and that is okay…time really doesn’t matter much anymore….my back had stuck for the past couple of days but it started to crack this morning and the pain is gone so that is cool…but, the tendonitus really flared in both elbows yesterday so I think I’ll take something for it today…I am going to try to get back on the bike today and take a short ride…there will probably be ice out there so it will be a little dicey….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I do have some errands to run today…need to go to aldi’s again for some cheap food….more later….
Nunes worked with the WH on his “memo”
Well…with the little tidbit that I just read, Devin Nunes behavior is explained in regard to the “memo” that was supposed to expose corruption in the FBI and Mueller’s investigation….he was working with trump and his cronies and was given marching orders to do the attacks…and this was done by selectively including and editing secret information that was given to Nunes by the justice department. So, let’s get this “bombshell” straight…..lies, lies, lies, lies, and more lies under the direction of trump and his minions…does this sound familiar? I mean the lies…this is a totally fabricated attempt to derail the Mueller investigation….I wonder if ole Devin is so stupid that he can’t see that this is obstruction of justice? Yep, he is…and he doesn’t understand that congress is supposed to be a check on the executive branch…not a co-conspirator in committing crimes….and Paul Ryan has to know what Nunes is doing and that brings him right in to the conspiracy, too…cripes, I don’t think there are enough jail cells for all of the repubs who are going down…impeach….
Not watching the SOTU tonight….
Well…there is no one in the world that makes my stomach turn as the orange nightmare in the WH does so I WILL NOT be watching any of the idiot’s speech tonight…you know what it is going to be anyway…trump is the greatest human to ever live and has accomplished more in his first hour than all the other presidents combined….that is in between touting his hotels and trying to remember how to pronounce the big words his staff has written into his speech….he will NOT be “presidential” he will NOT be pivoting to normalcy, and this will NOT be the night that he becomes “president”. So, find an old movie or anything else to watch tonight…it’s not worth anyone’s time to listen to this crap…especially not mine. Impeach….
Finally, another one for the B-3 count….
Well…haven’t done one in awhile about my obsession with the Hammond B-3 organ…I thought I’d seen and written about all of the groups that are important to me…and I had made the assumption that Ray Manzarek of the Doors never played one since I had never seen it in any of their concert films. But, today…while watching a documentary, there was Ray in the studio while they were recording “The Soft Parade” sitting at a B-3….so, add another one to the B-3 count….
Let’s stop this “presidential” crap….
Well…I want to put an end to the idea that if the idiot trump can get through reading a speech off a teleprompter that will make him “presidential”; the trap that every damn pundit falls into if idiot boy doesn’t drop his pants and moon the country. The idiot is not now and never will be “presidential”….he has no idea what the word even means so let’s just stop right here…he has not earned any benefit of the doubt with his behavior over the past two years and if the repubs would do their jobs, this would be his last speech anywhere and he would have been impeached and convicted for the thousands of lies and all the lawbreaking that he and his cronies have done in the past year. So, spare me the “presidential” crap….the bar has been set so low for idiot boy that you have to dig a six foot deep hole to find it….shame on you repubs…impeach…