Well…Kos over a daily Kos has a series that he does about trump voters who, by their voting for him, have ended up hurting themselves…and he started today with the story of a Mississippi county who voted 82% for the idiot and has a poverty rate that is twice that of the average across the US…and whose residents also double the national average of being on Medicaid and using food banks to be able to stay alive…okay, you know where this is going…the repubs in congress are going to end Medicaid as they have financial assistance for the food banks there…so now many of these voters are going to have to figure out how to get medical care and food…but what about inflation and the price of eggs? Yeah, I’ve used that before but the gross stupidity of these voters is just breathtaking…and they have saddled all of us with this orange lunatic just because of their hatred of everyone who isn’t white, straight, or religious…this is the payment for that hate…I really do hope they starve…cruel, I know but I don’t care…and I don’t want to hear one frickin trump voter whine about it…geez…
Monthly Archives: February 2025
February 15th
Well…only two weeks til we get to March and the first sniff of spring and it can’t come to soon for me…we have single digit highs coming for the first part of the week next week and I really have had enough of them…up at 4:16 this morning but was able to get back to sleep til almost 6 so I guess that’s okay…man, I would love to just sit here and have coffee all morning but that’s not going to happen…it’s 6:29 and I need to get on the bike by 7 or my whole day will be off…I did notice a funny thing in the tv show “Continuum” that I have been watching on the bike…the hotel the main character is staying in has the exact same heat registers that I have in this house…and they have just as much paint on them as I have here…weird…didn’t get anything done yesterday but cook the chicken for chicken burritos and today looks the same…have three more days of leftovers but I will have to do some meal planning for early next week and it looks like Masala and some chicken stir fry…have way too much chicken in the freezer and need to start emptying it…not much to do today…just need to get moving and that is harder than it looks…maybe getting on the bike will help? More later….
Cuts, cuts, cuts…
Well…gee, the repubs just passed huge cuts to Medicaid and food stamps to fund the tax cuts for the rich they are drooling over…and when you look at the demographics of the people who depend on these programs, many more of them live in red states than blue and almost all of them voted for the idiot trump…but hey, what about egg prices and inflation, two things that were at the top for people who voted for idiot boy…so now all of these people who depend on Medicaid are going to be on the hook for thousands of healthcare costs that were covered by the program…I wonder how many eggs that would be? You know, if a politician lied to me as much as trump has lied to these people, I would be a little pissed and probably wouldn’t vote for them a second time as these morons did…but, as I’ve said before, maga folks are pretty damn stupid and blinded by their racism so in their eyes losing their healthcare is a cheap price to pay to keep the hate going…geez…
What a mess…
Well…just finished the 2nd ride and needed one more cup of coffee so I thought I’d try my pour over with no filter in it and it was such a damn mess that I’ll never do that again…the coffee tastes the same with or without the filter and that was one of the things I wanted to check…experiments…so now we have another winter storm watch on for tonight and tomorrow with a possible 5-8 inches of snow…again…and that is going to continue til Monday night…oh, well…I did get to 1,000 miles for the year yesterday and that is the only goal I had for the year other than riding every day and keeping my almost 500 day streak going…okay, need to go down and get the 3rd ride in….oh, took my BP when I got up this morning and it was 117/72 and I can live with that…
February 14th
Well…after the busy day yesterday, I really do need to take some time off today and get some rest..but they just issued another winter weather advisory for 4-6 inches more snow and I am getting damn tired of it snowing all the time…but I think this is normal for living on the coast of Lake Michigan and the no snow years we’ve had out here is not normal…so I’ll suck it up and live with it…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but the rides and soup and I wanted to make stir fry today but I’m not sure about that…I do have chicken that needs to go in the freezer or make some chicken burritos…that sounds good so I think I’ll do that for lunch….didn’t eat enough yesterday but that is not news for me…need to get on the bike in 9 minutes to get going before 7 but maybe I can wait til 7:30 and have more coffee first…it’s only 16 degrees out here and it’s going to be really cold for the next week…have to figure out how to ignore the weather and just live but that’s harder than it looks…not much to do today…just the rides and a little cooking…did laundry yesterday that I forgot to include in the busyness so there is just cleaning today…or maybe just reading and taking it easy…yeah, that’s not going to happen…more later…
Things have to change…
Well…man, another busy, busy day and it seems like every day is like that…and I do really think things need to change so I can get a little rest some time…and I hurt my neck carrying a 50 pound bag of salt in Wed and the stretching I have been doing are not working right now…so I must have injured it and that sucks…oh, back to today…started out with getting a ride in and starting the ham soup in the instant pot while I did the 2nd ride…then put the veggies in the pot and started it again then down for ride 3…after that I finished the soup and had lunch and then out to do the snow…again…over the past day we’ve had 13-14 inches out here and it has finally stopped snowing…but it’s going to snow some every day until next Tuesday…at least they came out and plowed both the alley and the roads up here so I should be able to get out to my dentist appt Tuesday morning…after the snow, I cleaned up the kitchen and washed the dishes then did the weight work…made a bean burrito for dinner when I probably should have skipped it..I noticed that the wear plate on the bottom of the snow shovel has worn almost through but I think it will last the rest of the winter so I’ll have to buy a new one for next winter…but it’s time to read a while now…
They really are all dumb…
Well…another day, another group that donates most of their political contributions to repubs saying “I didn’t think the tariffs were going to hurt us”..says the head of the National Home Builders Association…god damn, these guys are just so damn dumb…and this idiot says what I’ve been saying since idiot boy blurted out that he was putting tariffs on Canadian raw material…that it was going to raise prices and cause many of the builders to stop building homes at all…and that surely will make the housing shortage even worse…and I just thought of another industry that is going to pass on the trump tax to you and me and that is the food canning/beverage industry…did you buy any canned goods this week? Next week the prices are going up since almost all of the steel and aluminum that goes into making cans here are made from imported material…so if you drink beer or eat canned veggies or fruits, prices will rise by at least 7-10%…and do you think the food manufacturers are going to pass up any excuse to raise prices even more and blame it on tariffs? That will all go from yours and my pockets into pure profit for the owners…more trump tax that you morons who voted for trump put on all of us…geez…
February 13th
Well…we didn’t get the foot of snow they were forecasting but we did get about 7 inches from the storm and that is enough…will have to go out and shovel this morning but I’m having trouble getting going and the coffee is not working yet…we still have a winter storm watch on until noon or so and the radar says it’s snowing but I’m not seeing it..have to figure out meals for today and the weekend and I have choices like ham soup, Masala, stir fry, and chicken tacos but they are all a lot of work and I really don’t want to work that hard right now…so I guess we’ll see…man, I’m beat…so the rides are going to wait until 7:30 or so…will get to 1,000 miles today and I’ve never done that in Feb before so I guess that’s something…but the idea of getting on the bike in the cold downstairs is not attractive and it’s going to take some effort that I don’t have in me right now…but I have a half hour so maybe that will change…not much to do today…just shoveling the snow and the rides along with cooking but I don’t want to start just yet…a new episode of “The Repair Shop” just came on and I need the quiet gentleness of that show to start my day…more later…
Are all repubs stupid?
Well…the whining begins and the stupidity continues from business people who wholly support the idiot trump and gave him millions of corporate dollars…the latest whine is from Jim Farley, the ceo of Ford complaining that their costs are rising fast due to the idiot’s tariffs…but you know how he wants to deal with it? Yeah, with layoffs since his second whine is that his labor costs are too high and I think he didn’t mention any layoffs earlier since the Biden administration would have protected the workers and he knows that idiot boy won’t…so hey, Ford workers…how is that vote for trump working out for you? As I’ve said before, all of the chaos that the idiot and his minions are causing is not good for business but these guys knew what was going to happen and supported idiot boy anyway…dems are always better for the economy and that’s the plain, objective truth…I guess ole Jim is at the find out part of the chaos…and he deserves it…geez…
February12th
Well… it appears that 5:06 is the new wake up time since it’s been 5 days in a row I’ve been up at that time and I’m not sure I like that very much….feel pretty crappy again today and I know I didn’t eat enough yesterday with only one meal and I wonder how long I can keep that up? Or should I keep that up? I know I can use to lose another 10-15 pounds but that takes away all of my energy…felt really lousy all day yesterday and I don’t want another one of those days today…DD has chicken breast on sale for 1.60 a pound and I wonder if I should go out there and get some before the snow starts? But that would mean I need to hit meijers for the stuff to make Masala…and I want to go to the library to get a couple more books and depot for some salt to melt the walks when it gets really cold this weekend…but the snow is coming in around 8am and I don’t want to be driving around in it…it’s only 13 degrees out there right now and that will mean ice on the roads so when do I just say enough? Not much to do today…venturing out is going to be the goal for the morning and then nothing for the rest of the day….more later…