Well…wanted to get a comment out early on the supreme court smackdown delivered to idiot boy yesterday evening when they ruled that the suit from the moron in Texas, Paxton, had no merit and they were not going to overturn the election on lies and stupidity. Even Alito, who dissented from the ruling on procedural grounds, added that he would rule that the suit would not succeed even if they took the case up…and even trump’s toadies, who he counted on to appoint him president for life, joined the majority in rejecting the case. You know what came next? Of course the Texas repubs were crying in their beer and threatened to take like minded states and form their own country that would “follow the constitution”…which is the biggest piece of irony I’ve seen in quite a while….this should end all this nonsense but with trump and his cronies, who knows? What I do know is that they are still fundraising as if the decision never happened and are still running ads that say the election was “stolen” from them and this is all that fox news viewers will see since they will never report the truth….we all knew this would be the ruling but were still holding our breaths until it came…now, just go away, trump…we’ve had enough of your crap…geez…
December 12th
Well….that was weird…slept all the way through til 6:35….and it’s raining outside! It’s raining outside! Does it sound like I’m happy it’s raining? Yep, that makes it so much easier to take the day off the bike that I need and it opens up the day to be a relaxing “choose your own adventure” day…and I finally got the leak under the sink in the bathroom fixed yesterday so I don’t really have anything to do today other than cleaning…and I got started on that yesterday so I don’t even have a lot of that to do today….I did have a pretty good day yesterday even though I didn’t feel too hot most of the day after doing some work cleaning up downstairs….but, I feel better this morning and can breathe again so I hope there is improvement coming…but, I am coughing like crazy again and that is still damn annoying….coffee, coffee, coffee….I sure hope it starts to work soon…not much to do today…F1 qualifying is on in a few for the last race of the year and then Man U plays in the Manchester Derby against City later this morning so I think I’m going to veg it out and just take it easy…I have two big bags of veggie egg rolls in the freezer downstairs that I think I’m going to try today and with the leftover ham, I don’t have to cook at all today, either….lazy day…more later….
Superspreader in Michigan…
Well…just a shorty on the after effects of ole rudy’s sham appearance at the Michigan legislature last week…gee, I guess not wearing masks and jamming into small rooms is not the smartest thing to do during a pandemic…it was just reported yesterday that dozens of the legislators who were at that “hearing” have tested positive for covid…and they have probably spread it all over the state…and guess what follows next? Deaths…so now rudy is going to be responsible for even more deaths…hey trumpites, how will you feel when it is one of your relatives or close friends that dies from the lies and bullshit that rump and rudy are pushing? It’s all for show since the SC or the Michigan SC is not going to overturn the election…how will you feel when they die just for a grift that is filling trump’s pockets with your money? How stupid do you have to be to go along with this charade that was exposed a week after the election to just be a scam so idiot boy can walk away with the cash he needs to pay off his debts? Pretty damn stupid, I think…geez…
December 11th
Well…I don’t know what changed but I’ve never been able to go back to sleep after waking up early…but, I have been able to for weeks now and it is starting to concern me a little….I wonder if there is some hidden health problem that is allowing me to do it? Or, maybe I had one for 30 years and now it’s gone? Who knows? All I do know is that it’s making me late getting here in the morning and I’m not sure I like that…I did sleep okay but no dreams to speak of and the pain from working on the bathroom is subsiding some so that is a good thing…I did finally get my hair clippers figured out yesterday and gave myself a short, short haircut that looks pretty good on what hair I have left…and I paid for them twice over with not paying to get my hair cut since March….it only took about 5 minutes this time so I can keep it short anytime I want…yeah, I know, I’m probably the only person in the world who gets geeked out about cutting his own hair…didn’t get much done yesterday but laundry and the bike ride but I need to get started cleaning the downstairs today and probably will…unless I decide to take the day off and just veg it out…it can go either way the with the coffee not working yet…more later….
Not a bad day…so far…
Well…aside from getting such a late start today, it has been a pretty good day today…had a long text convo with my daughter and it was good to get caught up with her…and I found out she made me some socks and a stocking hat that are on their way to me and I can’t wait to see them…she has taken to knitting and making her own yarn so that is pretty cool…and she has been promised a promotion next year with a large pay raise…it is so cool to see your kids so successful…and I made a huge ham for lunch that I got for 8 bucks that came out great and I even made some tasty smooth gravy for the mashed potatoes…and I got a hard bike ride in with no lung problems again so that made me smile…I am a little conflicted about a house that came up in my e-mail today down in a little town called Nashville…only 80K and it has everything I want…basement, big two stall garage on a quiet street with a good sized yard…but, it’s 50 miles away from GR and doesn’t have high speed broadband, just dsl…would have to get satellite internet and that costs about 80 bucks a month…but, it doesn’t really need any work so that would be cool…will have to think about that one….the 250 bucks a month payment would be cool….oh, and it was built in 1900 so that is a little too old…I think….I only have three weeks to find a house and the stress is starting to get to me…but, I’m done for the day…going to go back and look at that house again…it may be a placeholder house that I can just buy while I look for another one…hmmm….
Why do repubs hate democracy so much?
Well….Joe Biden won the election…why the hell is that so hard for repubs to say and accept? There are even parts of the repub controlled government who have prohibited their people from even saying president elect Joe Biden and have retaliated against people for saying it…my question is: Why do repubs hate democracy so much? Why are they still trying to overturn the election that has been called the “Safest and most well run election” by even repub Secretaries of State across the country? We all know why…they just want power to be able to keep hurting people and stealing as much as they can for the 1%…and to keep putting brown people in cages who legally apply for asylum…they get their jollies from hurting people and they love that feeling so they are desperate to be able to keep doing it…and this lawsuit filed by the criminal AG of Texas Paxton (who is doing this to make sure he gets a pardon before trump is gone) and joined by 16 other repub controlled states? They want the results of other people’s elections nullified by the SC…not any state that idiot boy won mind you, but 4 swing states that he lost…since when does one state have the power to void an entire other state’s votes? To put it bluntly, they don’t….but these people are so damn dumb they think they can go to the SC with lies and bullshit and they will get their way….even though every other court has called bullshit on every suit….that’s not how it works in this country…the votes were counted and certified and Joe Biden is going to be sworn in January 20th….but this election aftermath has laid bare the fact that the repubs don’t care about our democracy at all…and the sooner they can be voted out the better….geez…
December 10th
Well…I think I’ve discovered why I got up so early for so long…when I wake up at 4 or 5 and I do get back to sleep, it makes me late to come here…this one should have been out an hour and half ago but I went back to sleep when I woke up around 5…but, I did have weird dreams after getting back to sleep so I’m a little torn about that…man, I hurt like crazy after working on the bathroom faucet twice in a day yesterday….you know how cats like sitting in boxes that are too small for them? That’s how I felt pretzeling my body into the tiny little space under the vanity to get to the pipes and hold downs….and here’s the weird thing…after I re-installed the old faucet, it doesn’t leak now…and that was the only reason I was replacing it…probably should have let it leak for a few days to see if it would stop…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but that contributed to the pain I felt late in the day…but, my lungs were okay after a few days when they weren’t so that was a good thing…I did get started on the cleanup downstairs yesterday but that was about it for work…and I don’t feel like doing much with how I feel right now…everything still hurts but my elbows and back are the worst and I think need some ibuprofen right now so I can get on the bike in a few minutes…going to make a big ham today since it was cheap ad I haven’t had one in quite a while….more later….
What’s the end game?
Well…with trump and his idiot cronies up to 1-53 in suits trying to overturn the election results, and every repub SOS across the country saying the election was clean and the counts accurate, what the heck is the endgame of trump and 80% of repubs still saying that Joe didn’t win the election? With 296 EV’s for Joe certified by yesterday, there is nothing that anyone can do about it, they can’t bribe legislators to appoint electors for trump, no lawsuit is going to disenfranchise anyone and throw out their votes, and the SC has said loud and clear they are not getting involved in any more suits…so what is it? Is it just fleecing the rubes? Is it that simple…that the repubs know idiot boy lost but they just want to keep their rabid base placated and squeeze every last penny out of them before they move on? It would be on point for them to do that…after all, they don’t give a rat’s ass about governing or making life better for Americans other than the rich….what a bunch of chickenshit assholes…geez…
Well…that sucked…
Well…it is a pain in the butt to work on old houses…as you know, I was going to replace the leaking faucet in the bathroom today…even went out and bought one this morning but it wouldn’t work with the sink so I put the old leaker back in to think about what I can do…the new one has the feed lines that come out in the center of the faucet where my sink only has a small hole that the control for the pop up goes through and there is no way it is going to fit…so now I guess I need to just cross my fingers and hope the leak doesn’t get worse until I can find a faucet that has the feed lines on the outside and that doesn’t cost a hundred bucks…what a pain in the ass….
December 9th
Well…running almost on time this morning with getting up for good around 6 or so…but I feel like a car with a dead battery…the starter is grinding slow but not enough to start it….hmmm…that would make the coffee a battery charger or a set of jumper cables…yeah, that metaphor is a little tortured but it is still how I feel…I did wake up around 4 or so for the first time so that makes it a 400 which lots of companies made including Pontiac….had some really weird dreams that I can’t even understand so I’m not going to bore you with them…I did get some work done yesterday that I hope to finish this morning but I know it’s not going to be that easy…going to have to figure out how to adapt the new style flexible water feed lines to the soldered in compression fittings on the valves…it would be way too easy that they would just fit….what a pain….I am going to get out on the bike today no matter what since it is going to be above 40 and that will make for a nice ride after the numbing cold it’s been for the past week….and I do need to do the grocery run here in a bit but right now all I want to do is have more coffee….more later…