Well….woke up feeling pretty crappy this morning and I’m not sure why…I sure hope it’s not allergies this soon in the year….I did get out on the bike in shorts yesterday and that’s the plan for today but I’ll have to wait until the aft since it is too cold right now….and I do want to see ManU play at 11…and the race that was rained out from last night…I did get the bike cleaned and re-shimmed yesterday…and I switched the brake pads from front to rear since I didn’t have much rear brake and that is the one I use the most….it is kind of cool to have the new computer running on the battery…sitting on the couch doing this one and that is pretty cool…don’t have a lot to do today other than the bike ride so I think it will be an easy one….I should clean some but I don’t think I will….can see that I won’t be too motivated today….more later….
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Ted Nugent for senate?
Well…just sitting here watching some soccer and this little tidbit came across my twitter feed….Ted Nugent is “seriously” considering challenging Debbie Stabenow for her senate seat in 2018…now let that sink in for a minute…the repub party has sunk so low that they will support a pants-shitting, draft dodging, racist, child molester to be elected to the senate…the supposed party of morals (yeah, I know…they haven’t had any morals for a long time) is thinking of nominating an ignorant ass to run for governor…well…there is precedent with trump so maybe it’s not too much of stretch for them…but the idiot Nugent hasn’t even lived in Michigan for more than 20 years…has never worked in politics and probably has no idea how government works…look how well that is working out with trump….look, I know Debbie Stabenow and worked with her when she was a state senator…and she has worked tirelessly for our state…to replace her with terrible Ted (and not terrible as his stage name) would be a travesty and the cost to our state in respect would be enormous….just stay in Texas, Ted…that’s where you belong….
February 18th
Well…sitting here waiting for the coffee to finish and thought I might as well do this one….had a pretty good day yesterday and had the top down on the car out and back to Ada for pool and that was a little fun…and it is already 50 degrees outside right now so I can get out on the bike any time and go in shorts…I had a moment of clarity yesterday and wonder how that will play out today…oh, and I won at pool….have had the Cars music running through my head for the past few days and last night I went out to youtube to see them live for the first time…pretty good band…the ones I saw had them playing in a club in London with only about 50 people in the audience….my back is better this morning but I need to take something right now so it will help on the bike….not going to do a lot today….just ride the bike and watch some soccer…after coffee, that it…more later…
I feel like I need to write more….
Well…I know I’m way ahead of the goal for the month but, with getting the new computer, I feel like I need to write more than I have…I think it’s my well developed sense of guilt rearing it’s ugly head again so maybe I need to get back to the new novel? I have a lot of it mapped out in my head but how do you get the motivation to re start? Maybe because I’m broke? Or that I still have something to say? Not sure right now but I probably should start thinking about it…I do have a new computer, after all….
Trump’s press conference?
Well….not sure if you watched the “press conference” that trump gave yesterday…I didn’t just because I refuse to listen to that idiot…but, the reviews are in and they range from the worst bad acid trip you’ve ever been on to that idiot is certifiably crazy. The shockwaves from it are resonating across the world…and the big question that keeps being asked is “how could America have elected this mentally ill person?” The answer to that is we didn’t…3,2 million more of us voted for Hillary but with the vote rigging that the repubs did, they stole the election and installed this idiot….and the idiots that work for him. I think the delusion runs all the way through the right since the comments from fox news and every other right wing rag is that trump hit it out of the park and put “the media” in it’s place….the right seems to be living in a shared delusion and they are sucking the rest of normals along with them…..
February 17th
Well…just can’t get started this morning and I wonder if I can even get through this one without coffee…nope…need to go get some….okay…I’m back….slept like normal last night so I won’t talk about that now…I did do a battery test on the new computer yesterday and it lasted over 7 hours in normal use….in constant use I would think it would be about 3 hours or so but that is much longer than any other one I’ve had so that is cool….didn’t get much done yesterday but cook and I won’t get anything done today…other than pool that is….I do need to get a bike ride in today but that won’t happen until later this morning…want to wait until it gets to 40 and that won’t happen until after 11….more later….
Flynn lied to the FBI…
Well…the new revelations today that Mike Flynn lied to the FBI and told them he had no contact with the Russians puts a new spin on this whole affair….the FBI knows he did with the NSA tapes of the conversation and there is no way that he can get around the felony for lying to them…unless…they are now questioning him and he is rolling over on ole trump and the rest of his minions….and now the guy who screamed “lock her up” at the repub convention is either going to go to jail or will bring down trump and his idiots….I just can’t wait to see how this one plays out….get the popcorn for this one….
Bye, Bye, Christie…
Well…just a shorty on a little bit of news that I just read on twitter….a judge looking at Christie’s bridgegate scandal has found that there is probable cause to charge the idiot for all kinds of things having to do with shutting down a bridge as political payback to a mayor who wouldn’t endorse him…all I have to say is bye, bye Christie….hope you rot in jail….
Thank you, Chuck Grassley
Well…with the trump white house and the house trying to sell the spin that the problem with trump and his collusion with the Russians to fix the election is not the actual fixing but people leaking the information that it was fixed…the senate has taken up the mantle of investigating this lawbreaking and we have Chuck Grassley to thank for it…he and Dianne Feinstein have sent a letter to the FBI and justice department telling them they want all of the information they have on the trump collusion with the Russians, the first step in a full investigation that the house has refused to do…trying to protect trumps’s lawbreaking and attacking the people who are letting the American people know just how corrupt trump and his cronies are….I hope this is just the first step in the process that will make this American nightmare go away…and maybe even put trump in jail…we can hope…
We’re all immigrants…
Well…with trump’s immoral crackdown and rounding up of immigrants since his Russian fueled election, I have a few thoughts on the day that many cities are seeing an “immigrant strike” where many places that depend on immigrant labor are closing for the day to emphasize how much immigrants contribute to this society. Unless you are Native American, you and your family are immigrants and came here for the very same reasons that current immigrants do…for opportunity and to make a better life for their families…many escaping the prospect of death in their home countries. When my family emigrated to the US in the late 1800’s, we were demonized for being Irish, and were relegated to slums and the worst jobs as were most immigrants at the time…but there was significant difference then…as soon as immigrants set foot on US soil, they were on the path to citizenship and a way to integrate themselves into the US society, something that immigrants in this society can’t do with the current “hate the immigrants” culture that has been fanned by trump and that was instrumental in his hate filled campaign. Over the course of this country, immigrants have been reviled and scapegoated over and over again…and their contributions ignored…I hope this day of resistance does something to end that….