Well…with the ruling today that states can’t regulate guns in any way, we can clearly see that this court is not following any law or the constitution when you compare that to the ruling that is coming on Roe saying that only the states can regulate abortion. In this ruling, Thomas created a brand new law that says the 14th amendment prohibits controlling guns when no court in since the 14th was adopted has said any such thing and the ruling is just more of the right wing wish list that was bought and paid for by the NRA…and these far-right rulings show that this is the most corrupt court in the history of the country who will do and say anything to further this wish list no matter how much precedent should limit this crap. So now, Joe Biden, the ball is in your court…you need to expand the court right now to keep these corrupt assholes from doing any more damage…cripes…
Goin’ to the beach…
Well…just wanted to warn everybody that I am heading to the beach to get a swim in so there won’t be a political one here until a bit later…I finally got to see the dredges putting sand on the beach this morning and it looks like they are going to extend the beach by a lot more than the 40 ft they started with and that is pretty cool but makes it a much farther walk to get in to swim…. and the noise is going to be a bit much but I can go all the way to the south end of the beach so it won’t be too bad….more later….
June 23rd
Well…that was a crappy day…had to make many calls to shut down the assholes that think I want to listen to their bullshit music in my house and that always depresses me…and I am pretty depressed today…I did sleep okay since the firestarters out here didn’t light the whole damn neighborhood on fire like they did Tuesday night so I didn’t have to eat smoke in my house….okay, that’s enough of that…I did realize why the A-10’s I saw yesterday looked so different…they had a pointed fairing over where the rotary cannon normally sits just under the nose of the plane….so no armament and that just raises more questions about what state they were in….heading for scrapping? Who knows? Didn’t get much done yesterday but didn’t need to and I don’t think I’m going to do much today….I’m just so tired from being depressed that I want to take the day off until the hearings come on this afternoon….did just see something strange in my yard….a mother cat had her kittens playing in my yard until an opossum started walking through where they were and the kittens climbed up my big tree and the momma attacked the opossum….all while baby squirrels sat on the power lines watching what was going on….and some animal dumped my water container over for the second night in a row and I wonder what it is….I really wish that was all I had to think about out here…but the noise is going to start again and I’m going to have to deal with it all day again….and that is bullshit…need to get a couple of e-mails out to the city government today to bitch about it…when do I get a day off from that? Not much to do today….at least my teeth don’t hurt much so I guess that’s something…just going to get on the bike here in a few minutes and I wonder why? Not enjoying it much lately and it has become more of a job than anything else and that is a function of the depression, too….so, do I just veg the day out and elevate my guilt response or do I drag my ass out off the couch and get on the bike? Yeah…you know the answer to that….on the bike and hope that it gets better…damn, I hate the people out here….at least I have tiny little beans on my bean plants….and in a few weeks I’ll have fresh beans to eat…more later….
A-10’s on the beach…
Well…after getting everything done today, I decided to hear out to the beach for a swim and some sun and the normal set up is to pour one beer into my Contego leak proof coffee cup and throw that in my cooler with my water bottle and some sunscreen and an ice pack…on the way out, I heard a loud pop and knew what that meant…the pressure had gotten too high in the cup and it had blown the top off it…luckily, I had zippered it shut so the beer shrapnel was contained inside and I had put a spare beer in so I had one to have at the beach for my swim…when I got my chair set up and comfortable, I heard a loud jet engine and couldn’t figure out how with the airport all the way on the other side of the city…so I looked to the south and saw two A-10 Warthogs coming up the shoreline over the lake at about 200 feet altitude…pretty cool but they were the nicest ones I’ve ever seen…not beat up at all and, since the last ones were made in the 80’s, that was just not right…they looked like they could have come off the line today so I wonder if they were rebuilt ones? Whatever they were, it was cool to see them flying in formation just off the beach…you never know what you’re going to see at the beach….
Someone needs to help these women…
Well…watching the January 6th hearings yesterday, the final two witnesses were a mother and daughter who were poll workers in Georgia and who were targeted by the idiot trump and his stupid minion rudy with lies that they were “crooks” and that they were part of the reason that idiot boy lost Georgia and accused them of faking votes and using plug in drives to give the state to biden….and this went so far as trump calling them out by name and publishing their addresses so his thugs could go after them….and they did, driving the mother out of her house for months and actually pushing their way into the grandmother’s house to threaten her….and it was all a lie…you know what the “plug in drive” was that the mother handed her daughter on the videotape of the vote counting they were helping with? A damn peppermint candy…the candy that rudy said was “suspicious” and was all the proof they needed to show that these women were criminals and needed to be arrested…and trump kept this crap up through months of his “rallies” lying and slandering these women day after day. Now the only thing I can say is someone needs to help these women….some law firm needs to take this case pro bono and sue trump’s and rudy’s ass for a couple of hundred million dollars…and again, these attacks are all on tapes so they need no testimony to prove the intent to harm these women when trump knew it was a lie and kept spouting this crap….and all of the white guys who attacked the grandmother’s house need to be found and arrested for assault for pushing their way into her house…unless people pay for this crap, they are going to keep doing it…and trump needs to be arrested for sending his minions after them to harm them…he has to pay…and now…
June 22nd
Well…running a little early today with having to work on the computer to get it to do a windows update and it finally just finished so I guess it worked okay…slept okay last night but it was a 2:14 and 4:40 night so that kinda sucked and I finally just gave up and got up at 5:36…I found my next neighborhood improvement project to get the burning of open campfires banned up here and the first e-mails to the city commission will go out today…last night some asshole was burning near me that filled my damn house with smoke and I had to close all the windows while it was 85 degrees and I am just not going to tolerate that…so, I’ll be working to get them to enforce the burning ordinance that says you can have a fire if the smoke doesn’t impact any other property…and it does so here we go….even with not sleeping a lot, I still feel pretty good this morning and will be getting out on the bike for the first ride here in a few minutes and that will get me out before 7 and back here to do the grocery run…I did have to water the lawn yesterday and will probably have to do it for the next week or so to try to salvage the lawn….I put so much work into seeding it and getting it to grow I guess I’ll have to bite the bullet and spend a hundred bucks to keep it alive….I finally remembered to wash the car yesterday to get all of the pollen and dust off it and it now looks okay….not much to do today….I may do a beach run this aft since I haven’t been out there this week and I really could use a swim…don’t have a lot else to do today other than the grocery run and I don’t mind that….but I’m still kind of stuck in getting the summer going and I do need to think about how to fix that….more later…
First dental work done…
Well…just got back from my first dental appointment in the string of many, many I’m going to need and it wasn’t too bad…hurt a bit but no worse than when I eat….so I’m going to wait a bit for the next one in July but I hope that I can get a cancellation and get in earlier….it looks like at least 4 more this year and then start it over next year…at least I think we are mitigating the damage and they won’t get worse so I guess that’s progress….I am looking forward to getting more done….yay!
Uvalde gets worse…
Well…how much worse can it get for the Uvalde police department? After the revelations that the big bad police armed with m-16’s and ballistic shields just stood around for an hour as the murderer continued to kill teachers and children…the latest is that they didn’t even go up to the door to see if it was locked….and it wasn’t locked and it’s their damn job to go in to that classroom to stop the carnage…what the hell else are the police good for…oh, they take really good “badass” pictures that they post all over the police website but they sure look like scared poseurs who can’t perform when the shit hits the fan…and now both the police and the governor of Texas have hired outside lawyers to try to coverup any other revelations about how useless the Uvalde police department was in this massacre and who is responsible. Just remember this…not one of the 14 officers who stood around in the hallway did one damn thing but point their guns down the hallway and cower behind their shields….what the hell good are any of them…especially when 40% of the Uvalde city budget goes to fund hte police department…sure doesn’t look like they got their money’s worth…geez…
June 21st
Well…happy summer solstice….at 5:14 this morning, the sun started it’s trip back to the south and we will have the most sunlight of any day this year….but it was a 4:21 morning this morning and I’m not sure if I can keep up only getting about 4 hours of sleep a night…I feel okay this morning but need to get moving and get on the bike before 7 so I can get two rides in before I have my dentist appointment at 10:30….and that starts the long journey of getting my teeth fixed so I can arrest any more damage and try to get rid of the pain…and that is going to cost 400 bucks out of pocket even with insurance but I planned on that so no big deal…they did start putting the dredged sand on the beach the other day and extended the beach by about 40 feet wide and 100 feet long and it looks like it’s the first of many applications but I’m not sure how long the extension will last with some big wave action….not that we are going to get any…no storms or even rain in the forecast out here for the next two weeks so I’ll be spending money on water today…going to hit verizon thurs to give them one last chance to give me a better deal before I switch to another carrier to save money and get a new phone….then all I’ll have left to do this week is find a doctor and get my checkup scheduled….and I think that will be tomorrow since I want to watch the hearings today at one….not much to do today…just the bike rides, dentist and hearings and I think that will be enough for the day…this dental work is going to hurt so I don’t know how I’m going to feel after it….more later….
Anyone else would be in jail….
Well…more and more people are starting to wonder loudly why the idiot trump hasn’t been arrested yet with all of the evidence that has been presented about his crimes before and after the 2020 election…I mean, really, he’s caught on tape trying to strong arm the Georgia SoS into “finding” 11,000 votes and he’s not been arrested for that three year felony? Or for his attempted murder of Mike Pence? Now, let’s do a little exercise….let’s replace the idiot trump with any other person, how long do you think it would take to arrest them for these obvious crimes? It’s done every day and it doesn’t take a year and a half of hand wringing to get a grand jury to indict them and for them to end up in jail with less evidence than exists against idiot boy…the big question I have for Merrick Garland and every other person who could charge trump but hasn’t…do you want to have a country or don’t you? If trump is not arrested, tried, and put in jail, the country will be gone…and that is not hyperbole, it’s truth…trump has to go to jail along with all of the rest of them…and because he hasn’t, it is just emboldening the rest of the GOP criminals to keep up trying to steal elections…and they just may succeed next time….geez…