Well…did you ever wonder why, every 4 years, the repubs come up with the latest thing that is going to lead America to ruin? The latest is the proliferation of ‘bathroom bills” attacking trans people that miraculously started to appear in all of the repub controlled states in this election year, and were preceded by the “gay marriage” prohibitions that took place 4 years before that, and on and on. There is only one reason for these ginned up controversies and that is to rouse the base and make sure there is an issue that will get the ‘social conservatives” to the polls…and by social conservatives I mean the old white people who just hate that this country is changing in front of their eyes….that everyone is entitled to the same rights as everyone else and that they don’t get to deny rights to people they don’t like anymore. But, I think that, with the demographic changes that are happening, this will be the last election that the repubs will contend by using these cynical tactics. This is good news to those of us who are just so tired of the haters on the right who have turned their followers into a seething cauldron of hate that impacts all of us…the sooner they are gone, the better…geez…
May 24th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made some cash so that was cool…slept okay and was good last night so I feel okay today…I am getting really tired of the damn birds everywhere and trying to keep up with the crap they leave all over my car…washed the windshield twice yesterday just to be able to see…need to take some deep breaths and chill…okay, that’s better….have been sore and stiff the past few days and I hope it’s just that I am going harder on the bike as I finally get back into shape…and I should be in shape since I will go over 800 miles this week and that is second best to the end of May….not much to do today…need to change the oil in the car before the bike ride since the oil has started to lose it’s properties and when hot, my oil pressure is lower than I want it to be….more later….
Not sure what to write about…
Well…again, sitting here thinking bout what to write about without much luck…I just can’t do more Trump…he is such a ridiculous person that I can’t make stuff up that is stranger than what he says….I did read a small article that is making me think some about the election…how do you campaign against someone who just doesn’t care what he says? Who can be on both sides of an issue within the same interview or just doesn’t see lying as a problem…it’s not anything that anyone has had to deal with in an election before so how to do it? I did want to talk a little about Paul Ryan’s ideas to fix Puerto Rico’s financial crisis since they look so similar to what ole Snyder did to Michigan with his “Emergency Managers”….basically, Ryan wants there to be an appointed board that will take over and deal with the crisis with the emphasis being on slashing more and more out of the budget for the island that already has endured draconian cuts just to make sure that hedge fund managers will get their payday….I just don’t understand this crap…after all, austerity never works for anyone except for the rich…oh, that’s it…I get it, the rich need to get paid for any crisis…even ones that they cause….what a bunch of crap…geez…
May 23rd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but the string of not getting anything done has added another day…slept okay last night but no dreams to speak of…again….but I’m used to it now….I know that I have a bug now since I have been coughing and warm with a slight sore throat but I don’t feel that bad…still going to work out and get a bike ride in this morning and try to burn it out…that works sometimes and I hope it does this time….have been sore and creaky over the past few days and I wonder if it has something to do with the bug….and my back has been really stiff but no pain so that is something…not much to do today…going to make some cash this morning but then nothing much for the rest of the day….maybe some cleaning but I really don’t have the energy for that right now….need more coffee….more later…
Christian Taliban….
Well…reading today’s news, I came upon a story that made me think that the RW “Christians” in this country are really very little different from radicals in any other faith…they hate the same people…the gays…and will do anything they can to make sure the bible is used to punish people instead of the uplifting book of love that it is supposed to be. Now, you know I’m an atheist, but I have no problem with people of faith who use that faith to make the world a better place…but, in this country, christians more and more look like the Taliban….oh, the article…there is a “Christian” school in Wichita, Kansas called Trinity Academy that now has a policy in place that allows them to expel any student that has a LGBT family member or whose household promotes or is okay with LGBT rights…basing it on the school’s understanding of a “biblical lifestyle” and that the bible is infallible and the literal truth. Wow….transplant this article to Afghanistan and I could understand it, but in 2016 in the US? I sure hope that everyone just quits the school and lets the idiots that run it go broke instead of being paid to push their homophobic crap on these poor kids…geez…
May 22nd
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I didn’t get anything done for the umpteenth day….I think I’m going to start feeling guilty about that soon but I’m not sure when…slept okay last night and feel kind of slow this morning and I know part of it is that bug I thought I had a few days back…have been coughing like crazy all morning and I feel warm so I guess I’ve got a cold of some sort…don’t feel too bad so there will be a bike ride this morning…it was a pretty cool sports day yesterday and today is about half of that but there will be pole day at Indy and that will be cool….not too sore this morning but just stiff and I’m not sure what that is about…just old, I guess….not much to do today…need more coffee and then out on the bike but that is about it…more later….
Congrats Manchester United….
Well…you’ve heard me talk of my frustration with the season that Manchester United had this year…not knowing what team was going to show up on any given day. Today, the right one showed up and Man U won the FA Cup…the tournament that starts with all of the teams that play in Great Britain. It took them overtime, though, and playing through Smalling getting ejected and down to just 10 men…but the winner was just a gorgeous strike by Jesse Lingard that bailed the Red Devils out….and made my day….and now soccer is done until the fall and I’ll have to find new things to keep me amused on Saturday and Sunday mornings…congrats Man U!
May 21st
Well…it was an okay day and I won at pool so that is cool….slept okay last night but feel a little crappy today and I hope that will go away after the bike ride…still somewhat sore everywhere and I’m not sure if it is just age or what….haven’t take anything for it for the past two days but I am going to before the bike ride…my triceps have been hurting on the bike and that is really annoying….just want a good ride where I can think about something other than the pain….need to check the shifter on the bike again since the upshifts are a little slow…might just have to lube it again or the pins have worked out again….it has been working quite well lately and I want that to continue….not much to do today…lots of sports with Man U, Indycar, Nascar, and horse racing so I will have plenty of stuff to nap to…more later….
May 20th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done…slept okay last night but feel a little slow this morning with it being a cocktail night last night…I think I may have a bug, too, and that is compounding it somewhat….have been coughing quite a bit since last night and I feel a little warm today….not bad but just a little warm so we’ll see how that goes…not too sore today but I am going to take ibuprofen before I get on the bike since the cramps in my hands were quite bad yesterday….I am a little stiff all over today and I’m not sure what that is about…but, I am going to stop bitching about any of that…after all, I should be sore after a long, hard ride….not much to do today….pool, of course, but not much else…I should wash the car and might…the damn birds have covered the sidewalks here along with my car and I’m not sure what the deal is….more later….
A little trail weirdness…
Well…I know I haven’t done one of these in a long time but, in my defense, there really hasn’t been anything weird on the trail lately…and, I’m not sure if this is weird or not but just funny…when I was about half way through my ride today and stopped for a water stop, in my peripheral vision was a little yellow caterpillar hanging from a web off the side of my hat…didn’t think anything of it after I got started again since I thought it just blew off so I went about my ride and when I got to my next stop, here comes the caterpillar that was blowing back over my shoulder to just hang from the side of the hat again…this continued almost all the way through the last 6 miles and a felt a little bad when I got to the last stop and he wasn’t there anymore….just one of those strange things you can see if you just open your eyes and observe at times….