Well…this is just going to be a short one on the crash in the stock market over the past two days…or should I say bloodbath in the stock market? In just the past two days, the Dow is off almost 1,000 points with all of the other major indexes following suit…almost 6% loss in two days and my question is: how’s the IRA or 401K looking today, trump voters? Had enough winning yet?” It appears that the people who know are bailing out of the trump economy since they know that the huge tax cuts for the rich are not sustainable and killing 40,000 Americans a year by deregulation isn’t either…if you ask any credible economist…no, not Arthur Laffer, no one in the WH knows anything about how the economy works or even asked what their bull in a china shop tariffs would do…because they just don’t care…trump just wanted to look tough on trade and didn’t and doesn’t care who it hurts. The really scary thing is that if this is the full blown crisis that has been predicted, who the hell is going to fix it? Nothing but clowns in the WH so this one is going to hurt the people who voted for trump..and I am laughing about it..other than the collateral damage it is going to do to the sane people, it couldn’t happen to a dumber group…impeach…
October 11th
Well…up too damn early again today so that puts me out of synch with the normal Thursday schedule where I don’t come here until after I do the grocery run…but, not today…have an hour before I can head out so I thought I’d get this done first…back to the iffy sleep that I have had for years and that just shouldn’t be with doing 46 miles on the bike yesterday…oh, well…won’t bitch any more about that…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done other than cook some fish and look for houses with no luck…again….but, I will keep it up again today…and clean some…it looks like it’s going to be an iffy couple of days with the weather and I am not ready for that yet…so, I may have a few days off the bike and I could use one or two to repair the damage to my legs from yesterday…just have a dull ache that I may have to take something for but it’s less pain than I expected…not much to do today…I am going to clean after the bike ride but that is about it…the wind is already blowing over 20 so it may be a little brutal on the bike but at least it’s out of the West which will help on the first leg out…more later….
Bye, bye, Nikki…
Well…another day, another one of the “best people” in the idiot trump’s administration resigns…just the other day, Nikki Haley, the ambassador to the UN decided to call it quits for some reason that the pundit class is spending way too much time trying to figure out…it’s actually quite simple…there are two things that spurred this decision in my opinion…one, there is now an ethics investigation into Haley for using donors private planes for government travel…as an aside, is there one damn person that trump has hired that isn’t under an ethics investigation? That’s an easy one…nope. Now number two…with the election coming in fast and the probability that the dems take at least the house, the grifter window is fast closing and Haley needs to grab some of that sweet, sweet wingnut welfare that failed members of trump’s “administration” are lapping up around her..before the investigations start that will fatally tarnish anyone who is still around after the election..and that dovetails nicely with the reporting that Haley is in debt of up to a million dollars and she really can’t pay that back on an ambassador’s salary…even with the government picking up her 47,000 dollar a month apartment rental in NYC. So, don’t believe a word when trump says that her reason for resigning is “private”…it’s clear as a bell to anyone who can think just a little bit…and it looks like I still can…yay! Impeach….
46 miles on the bike today…
Well…have been working on a topic for this afternoon but nothing has seemed worth the effort…I think I’m experiencing news overload again and that is hampering my ability to make sense of anything today…so, I’ll put that on the back burner for now and go back to something that I do understand…with the weather being so nice today, and probably for the last time this year, I got out on the bike early…and with taking some ibuprofen before I left, I really had no pain through the first 20 miles and felt so good that I thought I’d turn around and run the route backwards to add another 20 to the total…and then I took a few side trips on trails that I normally don’t ride and that added up to a total of 46 miles for the day….by the end, my legs had started to hurt some and it took a lot of energy out of me so I am now just taking it easy to rest a little…and it just dawned on me that I can eat an extra 600 calories today with the added mileage…so, I think I’ll have an apple right now while I continue to think of a topic…and I might be back later for another one if I do…
October 10th
Well…running early again today and this getting up at 5:30 is getting really, really old….and I am feeling really old today with all of the low level soreness that I have had the past few days…going to take some ibuprofen before the bike today to try to get the kink out of my neck and get the soreness out of my legs…I did get a few things done yesterday and finally got the top on the car repaired just in time since it is going to rain all day today starting around noon or so and then the temp is going to crash into the 40’s for highs…looks like I’ll have to get my long riding pants out for this weekend and into next week…not looking forward to that….but, it is October so I guess I’ll get used to it…it looks like another day of leftovers today but I do have some fish and two pork chops that I found in the freezer marinating for later today or tomorrow…yeah, I know…pork chops are red meat and I shouldn’t be eating it but I am not going to throw food away…it may be a good day to clean some around here when it’s raining and it is bathroom time again so I’ll probably do that…oh, and I didn’t win the Mega last night but no one else did either…so it’s 548 million for Friday and there is still hope…more later…
The idiot trump is killing Ford…
Well…I really do hate to gloat when people are losing their jobs, okay…maybe it’s not gloating but just pointing out how badly the idiot trump sucks when trade is involved…every economist in the world has said that trump’s tariffs are just the most stupid thing he could have done, and that they would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in corporate profits…and now those projections are coming true with the announcement from Ford that the tariffs have already cost them over a billion dollars in profit just in the 6 months since the tariffs were imposed, and today Ford announced that they are going to cut 24,000 jobs that are also a direct result of the tariffs…so now, how’s that MAGA bullshit working out for you Ford workers that voted for trump? This is just the first round of damage that has been done by trump and his idiot minions and it won’t be the last….Ford is warning that, unless the tariffs are rescinded, more and more cuts are going to happen that could imperil the company’s viability going forward…and if Ford fails, that’s over 350,000 jobs gone…350,000 good jobs that pay enough to live on…but that has been the repubs plan all along…they can’t have regular working people making enough money to live on…that means taking money away from the 1% and that is just not acceptable…impeach…
October 9th
Well…running about on time today but I just can’t get too motivated …feel a little slow today and that means I’ll ease into it until the coffee starts to work…it was a nice, warm day yesterday and I had the top down out and back to pool…and I won that…and today looks like another nice one with it already almost 70 at 7am…so I can get out on the bike as soon as it gets light…and after I work out…I did get some of the rust taken care of on the car yesterday and today I need to make a repair on the top to get ready for winter…didn’t get much else done yesterday but I will do some work today cleaning and prepping some food for later in the week…have some fish that needs to be put in some marinade and found two pork chops in the freezer that need to be used so that will be lunch Thursday….I do need to get some oven cleaner to do a clean up inside of the stove since I did the outside the other day….more later….
All out war…
Well…let’s get this straight right out front…I hate republicans…or the modern iteration of the win at all cost republicans who see no problem with destroying this country just to hang on to power a little longer as the demographic wave builds and we get ready to take back at least the house in a month and, fingers crossed, the senate, too. While we wait for that time, it is time to declare all out war on the repubs and states controlled by them….and this means boycotts of any companies that do business in states who take a way a women’s right to choose after Kavanaugh and his cronies strike down Roe…and any state that restricts voting rights to try to keep dems from voting and, with the economic power that blue states wield, that means no more conferences, travel, or even buying goods from red states…that also means that when we learn that executives at Facebook throw huge parties to celebrate Kavanaugh being installed on the SC, that Facebook and it’s advertisers are also targeted for boycotts…or just stop damn using it…it rots your brain anyway and is just a huge waste of time not to mention they can’t be trusted…and I am tired of the calls for “dialog” with the right in this country…no damn more…I don’t want to hear a damn thing from any of them and I will never, ever listen to any of those idiots again…I mean, how stupid do you have to be to vote for trump? Or, how much of a racist? This is all out war that we need to wage on every damn front…get out to vote, support voting rights and make daily decisions that stop supporting any company or person on the right…that’s it…they wanted a war? We’ll give them one….charge…
October 8th
Well…up and moving early again today and I’m not sure why…I did wake up at 3:40 but was able to get back to sleep and have a couple of dreams that had foxes and crows in them and that was unusual…both for the subject and that I had them at all…had an okay day with getting out to hang with some friends for a while and even had the top down out to the park but not on the way back…a little too cold for that after standing out in 50 degree weather in shorts for a couple of hours…didn’t get anything else done yesterday…didn’t even come here for a 2nd one with working on the new media server with my son…it was hard work watching races and I am exhausted today….I did make a nice lunch with the instant pot yesterday and that will mean leftovers for the next few days so I won’t be cooking much…I do need to work on the surface rust on the car before pool today and do the normal stuff…it looks like I’ll be able to get on the bike as soon as it gets light this morning and there may even be fog to ride in…that would be cool…more later….
October 7th
Well…running really early this morning with getting up early to watch the F1 race but the new streaming site my son set up is not working so that was a waste…back to sleeping crappy again and I am exhausted this morning so this may be a short one…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but clean up a little but today I’m going to use the instant pot to make some chicken again and I want to make some more brown rice since the last batch came out pretty good….that will be for lunch and it only takes 15 minutes so I guess I won’t need to prep for quite a while yet…I did get a bike ride in yesterday but it was wet and the bike was a mess when I got back here…had to wash it to try to get the rear shifter working better with all of the grit that was in it…it looks like it is going to rain in a little while so maybe today will be that day off of rest I’ve been needing….more later….