Well….as the idiot boy tries to tar Joe with the idea that he is soft on the Chinese and has something, something going on with them and he should be locked up for it, it was revealed the other day that the idiot has a secret bank account with a Chinese bank that mysterious funds move into and out of all the time. This was not disclosed on any of his financial forms he had to file every year and the timing of the deposits and trump’s withdrawals are suspiciously near favorable policy decisions that trump has made that effect the Chinese government and businesses. So, we have trump lying and trying to create some kind of scandal against Joe when it is clear that it appears idiot boy is taking bribes from some Chinese entity…one of these was to the tune of 15 million dollars and yet no one in the media is talking much about it even though this lit bit of information was the financial records that the NYT has and that revealed that trump pays no income taxes at all….but, he pays them to China to the tune of almost 200K last year. So let’s weigh this out…Joe Biden something, something…lock him up…and the idiot trump is getting bribed to sell American foreign and business policy…which of these is the most serious and crimey? Yeah, you and I know which one but you can bet the media will both sides this…..cripes…
A productive morning…
Well…yeah, no political ones as yet but I’ve had a lot to do and have most of it done so that feels good…just sitting here now waiting for the pressure to release from the instant pot so I can get to the rest of the process of making the sauce…I did find my blender and got that cleaned and ready to smooth out the sauce and then it needs to go into my two biggest pots to thicken on low….oh, I just remembered I have a big pot that I can use or I can just put it back in the instant pot to thicken it….I did get to shutting down half of the downstairs project this morning and took the equipment down…it will only be about 56 days until I can shut the rest of it down for good and start cleaning up after it and I am looking forward to that…I think I torched my lungs again this morning working downstairs since I am coughing again right now….damn…I will get to a political one this afternoon once I find a topic but I need to get on finishing the sauce right now….more later….
24 seconds of decency…
Well…okay, this is going to be a short one about a video I saw yesterday of Joe Biden talking to and comforting the survivors of the Parkland shooting in Florida in 2018…after talking to Debbi Hixon whose husband died in the shooting while saving many of his students, Joe starts to walk away and you can hear Hixon’s son calling out to Joe and then you see him run into the picture as Joe turns around and Joe give him a big hug…then Joe thanks him for giving him the hug and asks if the boy is okay…when he shakes his head no, Joe kisses him on the head and reassures him that it will be okay…it will all be okay….now, I’ll admit that this small bit of decency, caring, and comfort affected me greatly after 4 years of the asshole in the WH…please go out and find it…it will warm your heart to see…
October 22nd
Well…made it all the way to coffee start this morning! But, I still feel pretty darn crappy and the cough is just as bad as it was yesterday and that makes it over a week that I have been suffering with it…it may be a little better since I was able to stop taking the medicine for it and still slept some…and I got out for a bike ride that was okay and didn’t have any shortness of breath so I guess that’s progress, too…damn, I just want this to be over and to feel well again…I do have some work to do downstairs today so it will probably get worse later….crap…but the work needs to be done so I’ll have to suck it up and live with it…and I am going to try to make some pasta sauce in the instant pot to use up the ripe tomatoes I have sitting on the kitchen table…I did get out to strip the gardens of what peppers and tomatoes that were left and I am hoping that some of them will turn red…I already froze the jalapenos and I have enough of those that I don’t think I’ll plant them for next year’s garden and I have some half sized green peppers that will go into the sauce today…have to drag the blender out to puree it after it cooks…this is going to be the first time I’ve made sauce since I was in my first house and we had spaghetti parties and I am just winging it without any recipe but how hard can it be? I’m going to make chili tomorrow or Saturday and use the rest of the tomatoes for the diced ones I need for it…not much to do today….just cooking and the downstairs work…and probably no ride since it’s supposed to rain all day….more later…
trump really is a baby…
Well…not sure if this topic is going to be enough for a whole post but I am going to give it a try and see where it goes…if you haven’t heard yet, the baby in chief walked out of an interview with Leslie Stahl for 60 Minutes the other day because she was being mean to him and asking him questions like a real journalist is supposed to….and then the petulant little child went to his safety blanket of twitter to attack her and try to shift the blame to her and justify his being a baby…I’m just shaking my head at this one…not because it is surprising behavior for idiot boy…but as the idiot tries to shore up his support with seniors who are abandoning him in droves, he attacks a show whose viewers skew to the over 60 crowd and they are still going to show the interview that will lay bare that trump is not fit for any office….and I think will collapse the support that he still has among this demographic because they still remember how a president is supposed to act and trump just can’t do it. So, I really hope trump’s handlers keep putting him in situations where he can’t cope…and the debate tomorrow night is another one of them….keep it up morons…
October 21st
Well…hey, slept 11 minutes later this morning than last night…but, I’m coughing like crazy again this morning and my chest muscles hurt again so I must have coughed all night too….I am damn tired of this and can’t wait until the source of the coughing is gone….feel so worn out today that I could go back to bed and stay there…cripes, it’s even hard to do this since my brain isn’t working too well after days and days of this….I did get out for a ride yesterday and it wasn’t awful…was able to breathe through the entire 12 miles so I thought I was making progress but I guess I wasn’t with how I feel right now….damn, I just want one day where I don’t have to bitch about feeling so lousy…I may be able to get out in shorts this morning with temps already in the 50’s but I need to do the grocery run first…I have a bunch of tomatoes that I need to use so I think I’m going to make slow cooker pasta sauce in the next couple of days…it looks like an easy one with just throwing the ingredients in the cooker and letting it cook on low for 8 hours or so…will probably have to run it through my blender to smooth it out after it’s done…I even have a green pepper on the plants that I can add to it…it’s small but I think it will be enough….not much to do today…have to do the grocery run and clean some but that will be about it…just don’t feel up to doing much more with this damn headache I’ve had for a few days now…more later…
Hold them all accountable…
Well….with the bad, bad decision of Obama and his administration to “move forward” and not prosecute the torturers and bribers and liars of the Bush administration, we find this country in exactly the same place right now and we cannot let that happen again since the Obama decision led us to the lawlessness that the idiot trump fosters every damn day. We need to hold them all accountable for every damn crime from every damn one of them…and the only way to do that is to empanel a commission whose sole job will be to start with the crimes in plain sight that idiot boy has committed but it can’t stop there…every damn instance of corruption, every violation of the Hatch act, everything…every damn thing and no slaps on the hand but prosecution to the fullest extent of the law…and that includes all of the self dealing and other bullshit…and then we need to get rid of the stupid memo that says that presidents can’t be indicted for crimes committed at any time while they hold the office. Good citizens follow the law because it is necessary for a functioning society but the rich and powerful think the law doesn’t apply to them…that needs to end now…no one is above the law….
October 20th
Well…this just frickin sucks…felt pretty good yesterday afternoon and wasn’t coughing at all but that all changed last night and I woke up at 5:19 this morning coughing like crazy and feel like crap right now…and that’s why I’m running late today…laid back down on the couch and slept a little while since I just couldn’t do anything else….and I’m so damn exhausted that I don’t think I’ll get out on the bike today…yesterday’s ride was so damn hard with not being able to breathe that I’m not sure if I want to chance it today…hmmmm…I wonder if the work I did downstairs yesterday caused this relapse? I was in full haz mat suit while I was doing it and I do have a little more to do today but I think I may put that off with how I feel today….didn’t get much else done yesterday but the ride and laundry so I don’t have much to do so I may just take the day off….I do have some bills to pay but that won’t take long and I can get that done this morning after I have coffee and read the news a bit…I have been cutting out calories to compensate for only riding once a day and I wonder if that has something to do with how exhausted I am? It feels that way so maybe I’ll try to ramp that up and see if that helps…more later…
Just noticed something…
Well…being a registered voter with a correct address, I get loads and loads of mailers from candidates in this election season…one thing I’ve just noticed in the blood red area of Kent country that I live in…for now…is that very few of the repub candidates even mention their party on any of the materials I’ve been getting…I mean, in this area? I wonder if it because they just assume that everyone here is repub and they don’t have to mention it, or is it that the idiot trump has made being a repub and a supporter of his so toxic they don’t want anyone to know? What could be bad about supporting a rotting ball of hate and lies? Luckily, they have to have their political affiliation on the ballot so there is no hiding there…and with the court ruling that put straight ticket voting back in play, they have to eat their party of trump and their wholehearted support for idiot boy…don’t think there will be much ticket splitting this year…
Starting to have hope…
Well…you know my interest in politics was crushed when the idiots of the country elected the idiot in chief back in 2016 but gradually, I have edged back into it over the past few years as you can tell from the almost daily posts on that topic….it has been kind of easy to find a topic since the idiot trump and his cronies have trashed the country so much over the past 4 years…so much so that I’ve had very little hope that things would get better since the repubs think it’s their job to make life harder for everyone who is not a millionaire…but, with 2 weeks to go until the election, I have started to have a little glimmer of hope that this nightmare we have been living in is coming to an end. but that doesn’t mean I feel good about the election…far from it…I am going to be uneasy until the election is called…probably by the second week of November….one thing I see as being different this time from 2016 is that Biden’s lead is much larger than Hillary’s was at this same point…and in many of the swing states, Joe is up over 50% in the polling and that means that if it holds and the polling is not wildly incorrect, idiot boy can get all of the remaining undecided votes (who the hell can be undecided after 4 years of the nightmare of trump?) and still can’t get to the 50+1% that you need to win. So, to win, trump will have to run the table just like he did last time and I don’t think that is going to happen…after all Hillary had the baggage of 30 years of the right attacking her and that drove her likeability to the point that was underwater…and that is not the case with Joe. So, I’m going to hold my breath for a couple of weeks and try to not think about it too much…