Well….you gotta hand it to the repubs, they never miss a chance to try to enact unconstitutional laws across this country, and now we have another repub sooper genius trying it in Iowa. Mark Chelgren, sooper genius, has just introduced an unconstitutional bill that would require universities in Iowa to “balance” the political affiliation of professors and would force the state to use…hmmm….what’s the phrase? Oh, affirmative action, to make sure that white repub professors would be given preference in hiring until there is essentially an equal number of repubs and dems in the ranks. Now, I wonder why there are more dem professors than republicans…could it be that dems believe in science and the scientific method, and think that objective facts are what should be taught and not opinions? Or could it be that dems value the idea of giving back to the society and that we have a duty to try to make it better instead of plundering and pillaging it for personal profit? I think the dems in Iowa should attack this law with the same derisive use of “affirmative action” that the repubs used to demonize any preference to help make society more equal….and turn it around on this idiot…this sooper genius….
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February 22nd
Well…another night of being good and that puts me here early today….feel a little sore but my legs were much better on the bike yesterday with most of the burning being gone….and it looks like I’ll be able to get out early today since it is already over 50 right now at a little after 7 in the morning….I made a little cash yesterday so I will have money for groceries this week and that takes a load off….but, the funny thing is I don’t have a lot to get this week…going to clean out the freezer and use what I have in there…lots of chicken and ribs so that will be the meals for the week…oh, and it was a top down run for errands yesterday so that was cool….don’t have a lot to do today but work around here…no cooking since I have so many leftovers…man, my allergies are terrible this morning and I think I may have to take something for it before the sneezing drives me nuts….more later…
Poor little snowflakes…
Well…the idiots on the right are raising up with indignation that the sane of us are not going along with their racist, ignorant destruction of this country….and are crying daily that we are not letting trump do his job…hey, I got news for you, snowflakes, it’s better for you if trump doesn’t do his job…if he does, there goes your social security, your medicare, your health insurance through the ACA, your clean air and water and your country’s standing in the world….but, I guess none of this really means anything to you…you just want the ability to be openly ignorant racists again and that is what trump gives you…but, if you think we’ll take this ruining of our country lying down, you are even crazier than you sound…and you can whine about us not “shutting up and letting trump do his job” just remember what you and your ilk did for 8 years under Obama…the birtherism, the overt racism, and the obstruction you people showed for 8 years is shutting up and letting the president do his job? Keep whining, snowflakes….we’re going to keep up the pressure until you and your troglodyte ideas are discarded to the dustbin of history…
I just noticed….
Well….I just noticed that I have broken the record for posts in a month but I don’t think that is enough…I am going to shoot for a hundred for the month and that means I need to get going…and there may even be a couple of fillers…who knows? One thing that I notice when I watch the travel shows is the huge difference in how inviting the people of other countries are…and I do understand that these are just shows and the reality could be different, but with all of the hateful rhetoric and actions coming out of trump and his supporters, it makes us here in the US looks like a bunch of small minded, unwelcoming fools that seem to have forgotten that the people that trump is demonizing are still people….that just want to live and get away from the perpetual war that we had a hand in starting. And that hate is now being institutionalized by the idiots that trump has surrounded himself with and by trump himself…when asked if he rejects the hate and threats that have been on the rise against Jewish people and organizations here…trump couldn’t even do that simple thing since he is just like the idiots who surround him…full of hate and racism…just like his followers….that is not the rest of us here in the US….but we are being tarred with that ugly brush…and we don’t like it….
February 21st
Well…I think doing a double ride so early in the year may have been a mistake….my legs were burning throughout the ride yesterday and most of the afternoon after….and they still hurt some this morning and I may take the day off to let them heal….and it’s raining right now so that makes it easier to rest….feel okay today after the second day of being good but I still need to add calories…but, I’m back in the mode that nothing appeals to me to eat so I think I may have to spice everything up so I can taste it….going to make some slow cooked pork chops this morning and I hope that helps….don’t have a lot to do today but some work around here and I should do some cleaning so I won’t be too bored….but, that will wait for a while until I have some coffee….that even tastes odd today and I can’t figure that out….more later….
Where’s the outrage?
Well…just catching up on some reading and found a little bit of news that should spark some outrage…outrage I tell you….in the one month on the job for the idiot trump, he has spent more on travel than Obama did in his first YEAR…so, repubs…the supposed party of fiscal responsibility, where is the outrage…especially since trump harped so much on Obama’s outrageous expenditures on travel? No outrage, of course, it’s perfectly fine for repubs to spend like drunken sailors and then come up with a budget that cuts every program for their voters….but, they’ll never wise up since trump “speaks the truth”…yeah, right…..geez…
February 20th
Well….running late this morning and I just can’t get started…maybe the coffee will help…had an okay day yesterday and got 30 miles in on the bike so I should be more sore than I feel right now…but, I haven’t moved around a lot so maybe I just haven’t noticed the pain…I do like the weather we’ve been having…I mean, 62 degrees in February…and that is going to continue…almost 70 wed? But then snow sat? That’s Michigan for you….didn’t get anything done yesterday and I may do the same today….I do need to get the state taxes done and pay my car insurance today…and cook something…should get the pork chops in a marinade this morning so I’ll have a choice what to eat later….and I do need to start eating more if I’m going to be on the bike….was really short on cals the past few days and I can really feel it…more later….
Republicans, what does it take?
Well…I am getting scandal overload and yet the repubs don’t see anything that the idiot trump does is wrong….so maybe this will push them over the top…Politico just revealed that they have recordings of trump selling off access to sit in on interviews with his potential cabinet secretaries….read that one again…trump is lining his pockets by trashing our democracy…why am I not surprised? This venal asshole would probably rent out the white house if he could get away with it…..what does it take, repubs, for you to do something? Jason Chaffetz, I’m talking to you….
Drip, drip, drip….
Well…no matter how much bluster and lies ole trump and his minions put out, there is some there, there, when it comes to the investigations of his collusion with the Russians. We found out the other day that the FBI alone has three investigations going on into how trump helped the Russians throw the election to him….and as an indicator of how much is already known, when the FBI briefed the senate intelligence committee on what they know, the senators were described as being “stone faced and white” when leaving the briefing. As a result of that briefing, the intelligence committee has issued orders that all of the organizations investigating trumps treason save every piece of paper and every file that has anything to do with the investigation….and that sounds like the intelligence committee is getting ready to do their own investigation. So, the drip, drip, drip of this treasonous scandal is turning into a torrent…better get your water wings trumpie…you’re going to need them quite soon….
A new contest…
Well…just finished up my second 15 miles of the day and I am thinking I’ll be pretty sore tomorrow…but, that’s not what this one is about….after doing all the work on the bike yesterday and feeling how good it rides now, a thought popped into my head….I never replace cars until I have used them up so why am I thinking about replacing the bike when it still has life in it? So, I think a new contest is in order…I think I’ll do the car thing with the bike and just see how long I can still ride the thing until it dies. Only have about 750 miles left to get to 30K and then I think I’ll update about every thousand miles…will give me something to do….