Well…sitting here waiting for the power to go out and thought I’d better get one of these done before it happens….haven’t had an ice storm since I moved in here so I’m not sure how fragile the power supply is yet but I guess I’ll find out later today and into tomorrow….I sure hope it only last a day or so…going to get my warm clothes ready just in case and make sure my backup batteries for the phone are charged….if it’s a long outage, I may have to buy a generator for the next one….oh, well….slept really crappy last night and I think it might be from having cocktails last night and I don’t think I’ll do that anymore…just is no fun so what’s the point? I did get out for a long bike ride yesterday but it will be the last one for the winter it appears…with all the rain, the trail will be flooded for weeks…I may be able to get out and ride the streets but I washed the bike to get it ready to put on the trainer and don’t want to get it dirty again…didn’t get much done yesterday but with no bike ride today, I really should get some work done today…but, I’m going to start the day with more coffee and some soccer first….more later…
10 years and 300 million dollars…
Well…just wanted to do a short on on news that just came out this morning…after 8 different Benghazi “investigations’ and the latest investigation of Hillary and the Clinton Foundation, guess what the repubs found for wasting 10 years and 300 million dollars of your and my money? Nothing, not a damn thing, no bribes of foreign governments, no obstruction of justice, no self dealing from their charitable foundation, no fines for any wrongdoing….and just last night the asshole in chief led the “lock her up” chant at one of his hate rallies…did you notice all of the things I listed that she didn’t do? Yeah…all things that the idiot trump has done to break the law over the past three years and no one has done a damn thing about it…he is a damn criminal and yet you and I keep paying for him to go out and stir up hate every damn day….do you think this exoneration of Hillary will get any media play at all? Nope….but it should be front page in inch high type on every damn paper that bought into the right wing propaganda smears and gave the election to idiot boy….who is going to step up and tell the truth? No one I guess…
This is sick…
Well….what a sick piece of shit trump is…and so are all of the repubs who support him….buried in an article in the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal today we now know why trump ordered the attack on Soleimani now…it was to help keep repubs onboard with acquitting him in the senate trial…in the same article it was reported that right wing hawk senators were were pressing him to attack Iran so of course the idiot trump is going to think about nothing but himself and do what they want…but, how damn sick is that? Murder someone just to keep repub senators from convicting and removing you from office? Over the past twenty years we have seen that repubs have absolutely no ethics or morals, but to press for murder in exchange for protection? This is a new low in this country where now murder is okay if it fits your political needs and there is only one party that would even consider this evil shit…and it sure as hell isn’t the dems….every damn one of them should be hauled to the Hague for war crimes….
January 10th
Well….that was a little weird night of sleep…got up for the first time at a little after 12 and then every couple of hours after that but I still feel okay this morning…that might have something to do with being good for 5 days in a row…or it might be that I have really been trying to eat enough, too….or the bug may finally be leaving…who knows? I do know that I have this strange energy this morning and I am going to ride that wave to get a bunch of stuff done…need to get out to get some food then I’m going to wash the car and the bike just in case it needs to go downstairs on the trainer…but, I’m going to try to get a ride in today before that…or what’s the point of washing it just to get it filthy again on the trail? I am feeling a little guilty about not getting much done lately but I have just not had any energy at all and just doing this every day has been wearing me out…I think I just need to get at it and not think about it…and I’ll try to do that today…but I do need to watch a little of the car auction this afternoon since they are selling the original “Bullitt” Mustang today and am a little curious about how much it is going to bring in it’s unrestored condition…not much to do today…well… that’s not true…I do have a lot to do and it is going to be a test of how well I’m really feeling…oh, my youngest sister turns 61 today and I look at that with a little bemusement…damn, we’re all getting old…more later…
Smorgasbord….
Well…just can’t get motivated to do a long one on a single topic so I think I’ll give you a smorgasbord on a few short ones instead…I just love it that Nancy has just told everyone that she’ll send over the articles of impeachment when she is damn good and ready…and then added soon…and that means not until she gets what she wants for the American people…a trial that is fair to them and gets to the truth…and, of course, trump’s drones in the senate went ballistic since they have already said that they will vote him innocent and don’t need no stinkin evidence to do it….just go a laugh when the NY state Bar Assn just asked the House to investigate bill Barr for his unethical behavior since he has been in office…which includes lying to congress and the American people…and conspiring with trump in extorting Ukraine for personal political gain…so we could have a AG who has been disbarred in the next couple of months…could only happen in a repub administration….did you see the news conference that the Adderal addled idiot gave yesterday? Cripes…he sure looked like someone who has been on a coke binge for a week and spoke like it too…like he didn’t know what to do with his tongue and the damn sniffing, sniffing, sniffing means he had just snorted something before he went out….I wonder who his dealer is? And who in the WH is crushing the Adderal up for him and getting it ready? Okay…that’s enough for now…I may come back for another one later if I feel like it but who knows?
January 9th
Well…running quite late today with not getting up til almost 6:30 and having to take a look at the news before I came here…slept okay last night and don’t feel bad this morning with being good again last night…still have that low grade soreness everywhere but that’s pretty normal now so I shouldn’t bitch about that….didn’t get on the bike yesterday with it being so damn cold and I think that may have helped my back a little since it doesn’t hurt much this morning….and it looks like a long wait to get out today but it needs to happen before the rain starts…it’s supposed to rain about an inch over the next few days so I will be dodging raindrops for the next few days…and that will keep the trail from draining so I guess I’ll just have to get used it being flooded until spring…I can ride on the street if it gets bad I guess….I did get out to shoot pool yesterday and that was fun and it was nice to get out of here for a while…I do have to try to find things to do that will get me out of here for a while at least once a week just to make sure I don’t get too comfortable with just hanging out here….I know it’s winter and I do normally hibernate quite a bit but not talking to anyone for a week is kind of isolating and I’m sure it’s not good for me….not much to do today…I do have an errand to run this morning and the bike ride but I really do need to get back to work around here, too….have shades to hang in the last room and it need to be repaired and painted so I can start using it…not sure what for but I know it’s not going to be storage….more later….
This is what Nancy should do…
Well…with Moscow Mich McConnell stating yesterday that he intends to hold the impeachment trial without getting the articles or any evidence from the House, and not calling any witnesses or asking for any documents, it is even more clear that he intends the trial to be just another part of the coverup of trump’s criminality…and the pundits out there are saying that ole Mitch has checkmated Nancy Pelosi and there is nothing she can do about it. All I have to say is wait just a damn minute…I have thought about this the past few days and that just isn’t true…MoscowMitch may be able to hold a sham trial in the senate but that doesn’t keep Nancy from re-opening the impeachment inquiry and subpoenaing Bolton, Mulvaney, and Pompeo and then just waiting to have their appearances ordered by the court…..and this will drag on until this fall just before the election and keep it in front of voters until then. As time goes on, the repubs keep inventing new restrictions on the impeachment, saying that the House only gets one chance and since they have finished the impeachment, that’s it…they can’t go back and do anything else…but that’s not true…Nancy runs the House and can do whatever she wants, especially in the face of Mitch’s conspiring with trump. The statement she should put out would go something like this: Since Mitch McConnell has made it clear that he will not hold a trial that supports the right of the American people to know what the president and his cronies have done, but to help coverup the president’s wrongdoing, he has left the House no choice but to re-open the impeachment inquiry to make sure the American people finally get the truth about trump’s extortion of a foreign government for personal political gain. Never in the history of this country has a Senate Majority leader ignored his oath to the Constitution and blocked the calling of witnesses or the requst of documents in an impeachment trial so we in the House will do our duty to our country and the American people by re-opening the impeachment in Donald Trump. Now, that is what she could do…the question is will she? She really should….
January 8th
Well…woke up coughing like crazy this morning and I really hope it’s this damn low level cold finally breaking…was so exhausted yesterday that all I wanted to do was veg on the couch and that is just not right….really tried to eat more to make sure that was not it so we’ll see today….feel okay this morning with being good again and I think I’ll continue that all week…it can’t be bad for me to rest the liver for a while and it’ll save me a hundred bucks a month so that’s a bonus….I did get out for a bike ride yesterday but I’m not going out today with the temp forecast to not get out of the 20’s and the light dusting of snow won’t melt til tomorrow…that will leave the ice covered and hidden and one thing I know is I don’t want another crash…feel old enough as it is and hurt enough without it…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today will be the same other than I have the grocery run to do this morning… and it is pool day! Can’t wait to get out of here for a while…might have almost a new record for driving the car of only 3 1/2 miles in the past week and that is not good for the car or for me…so I guess I’ll have to work tomorrow…need to do the wood floors again but that is going to be much more work with having furniture in here…but I do like the way they look shiny and moving everything will be worth it….more later….
trump stands alone…
Well…wow, I’ve never seen so much shoe leather smoking as I have over the past couple of days as countries across the world backed away from the idiot trump as fast as they can after he ordered the murder of Soleimani without consulting or even notifying any of our allies, what few of them are left. Even Bibi Netenyahu, who has never seen a murder he didn’t love, held his hands up and shouted that Israel had nothing do do with any of it…and even after trump’s cronies tried to pressure Europe and the UK after the fact to support their stupidity, no one would even hedge a little, basically leaving trump and his cronies to stand alone in the world…how’s that for making America great again? Over the past three years trump has taken our stature in the world from the top to the bottom with his stupidity, ignorance and bullying and I wonder how long it is going to take to repair that after he is in jail somewhere? The biggest fallout so far from this deranged infatuation with Iran is that it has left a power vacuum in the middle east that Russia and China were more than happy to exploit since they have adults that actually know something running their foreign policy…and I wonder what Putin is thinking? He invests a few million dollars installing the idiot and his cronies and has gotten everything he wanted and more…now, the world trusts frickin Russia and Putin more than they trust the US and we are the ones who are now the most dangerous country in the world according to new polling that is out in the past couple of weeks. So now, repubs…you have destroyed everything you used to stand for and are letting the moron continue to do it every day…how the hell do you live with yourselves?
January 7th
Well….that was a weird night of sleep…went to bed early last night but was up for the first time at 2:23 and then for good at 5:27 and with the tossing and turning I think that makes about a 5 hour night…or maybe a little more…but, I feel okay this morning with being good for a while now and I am going to keep that up for the foreseeable future….it will save me lots of money and I really don’t need the calories…I did get out for a bike ride yesterday but the damn thing started to skip in 7th on the rear cassette and the last time that happened it had started to come loose so I’ll need to take it apart and check it out before I go out this morning…but that doesn’t take long so no big deal…the trail was really flooded on the back side of the swamp yesterday and Sunday so having to backtrack added a couple of miles to the ride…and it looks like the water is going to take quite a while to recede even after the river goes down….it’s going to rain/snow the rest of the week so that won’t help any…oh, well….I did get a few things done yesterday and have a couple of errands to run this morning but really do need to work more around here…will probably skip the bike ride tomorrow with it snowing and being in the 20’s so that will give me time to get things done….it was nice to finally have a sunny day yesterday and I went around this place opening the shades to let it in…couldn’t believe how much the sunlight affected my mood but we’re back into the gloom that is going to last most of the winter so it’s time to hunker down and endure it….more later…