Well…I’m sure you’ve read by now that Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family were turned away from a restaurant in Virginia late last week as a matter of conscience by the owner, and my first reaction to that was that it served her right for being the vicious, racist liar that she is, but on second thought those of us on the left are supposed to be better than that…I realize the damage that Sanders and trump and their cronies are doing to this country but if we keep this up, we are no better than they are….and by any objective measure we are…we care about people, we care about everyone in this country, not just the rich or people who voted for us…we care about women and their continued struggle for equality and to control their own bodies…we care about fairness and good schools and equality for all of the people in this country…we care about the rule of law and revere our constitution and the right to vote. All of us are immigrants or have them in our backgrounds and we on the left understand that it is our duty to help others when they need it and to keep families that need our help together….and that brings me to the golden rule…probably the one thing that informs my moral underpinnings..”do unto others as you would have them do to you” …kicking even bad people out of a restaurant for their political views and actions is not who we are and it certainly doesn’t meet the golden rule…we need to be better…
June 24th
Well…cripes, almost forgot to come here again and I think I’ll think about why it only happens on Sunday…slept okay last night but was up early again…I guess I’ll just get used to it and move on…feel okay today and only hurt in my thighs but it was weird to have cramps in my calves just sitting here yesterday….need to figure that one out…don’t think it’s from not eating enough but it might be since I’ve been down around 1200 calories the past couple of days….I do need to start cleaning out the freezer since there is way too much food in it…I think I’ll make stir fry chicken today since I have some in the fridge that needs to be used or frozen and there is no room to freeze it….I did use some yesterday to make a big salad and still have more for that…damn, have to stop buying food…but, 99 cent a pound pork chops? Need some of those…..and I need to marinade some fish that I am thawing…and I need to watch soccer…not sure when I’ll ride the bike today…need to get out in the next 20 mins to get done before the F1 race…too much to do….more later…
More jobs lost to trump’s tariffs…
Well…as every damn economist predicted, jobs are being lost because of trump’s idiotic tariffs….not bringing good paying jobs back to the US as the idiot claimed, but jobs in trump voting areas are going bye bye. The latest casualty is a company called Mid Continent…the second largest nail manufacturer in the US based in Poplar Bluff Missouri, who has had to raise their prices by 19% with the 25% tariff on the steel wire that they have to import since no one makes it here in the US anymore…and, with nails being a commodity product that is extremely price sensitive, a 19% increase just can’t be done if you expect to sell anything. I’ll bet many of the people who are losing their jobs at Mid Continent voted for the “great businessman” trump and believed his lies that he would protect American workers and jobs…how does that feel now, trump voters? More than half of the jobs in Poplar Bluff are at Mid Continent and when it closes around Labor Day, the waves will swamp many other companies that depend on the paychecks of these workers to keep their businesses afloat…I hate to see anyone lose their job but maybe these idiots will stop supporting the idiot in chief when they realize that he is a fraud who doesn’t give a damn about them….impeach…
June 23rd
Well….running kind of on time today and slept in all the way to 6:23….and I was going to get out on the bike before soccer starts at 8 but that is not going to happen….just poured the first cup of coffee and just can’t get moving….I did have a nice lunch with T yesterday and it is always good to see her…and it is good to see that her health problems are finally ending….but that was my only meal yesterday since I had a big olive burger and felt full all day….so I am curious to see how I feel on the bike…there is way too much sports on today with F1 qualifying and the Mexico match on a 10 so I’ll be doing some channel flipping today….not much to do today…I do need to cook…oh, not really…I have tacos already made and a leftover chicken breast so I’m good for today…more later….
Sometimes I make a mistake….
Well…as you can see, took down my last post since it came to light that someone had posted from a parody account that had been picked up by news organizations as real…so, sometimes I make a mistake but I’ll always come back to fix it if I discover the facts. But, I still stand by my idea that separating children from their parents is against international law and treaties that the US has signed and trump and his cronies have opened themselves up to prosecution in the international criminal court in the Hague…..so that’s still true….more later….
June 22nd
Well….running a little late today and just can’t get started…again…I hope it’s not from getting old….slept okay last night and didn’t get up until almost 7 so that is sleeping in to me…still have cramps in my calves this morning so I may have damaged them on the bike yesterday….haven’t taken any ibuprofen for over a week now and that will change today…and yesterday was my left calf and that never hurts…I wonder if pain is going to be normal as I get older….I did order a new pool cue case last night after Tom’s new carbon fiber cue popped into my head…the old one is 46 years old and I am tired of repairing it….and it only cost 23 bucks so I couldn’t pass it up…I did get some cleaning done yesterday but I’m not sure about today…going to have lunch with T and that may set me on a vegging path…more later….
Evil, evil bastards…
Well…don’t believe a damn word trump and the bastards who are kidnapping children say about this new EO that supposedly is going to keep families together…it was all for show since separating them was just a policy that could have been changed with a phone call…but, idiot boy just had to put on a show about how “nice” they are by keeping families together. What about the families that have already been terrorized by separation? Nothing is going to be done to get these kids back with their parents, according to DHS…they don’t even have any records of the names of the families or the kids..and that’s because these racist pricks don’t even think of these kids as people at all…just a way for their cronies to make money and for them to look “tough”…but this isn’t “tough” it is just the kind of sadistic crap that these people live for…bullies act the same way when they torture their victims…and these assholes are nothing more than playground bullies…getting their jollies out of hurting “brown” people…ever see any white kids in any of these trump child concentration camps? Nope, didn’t think so…impeach…
June 21st
Well…running a little late today with work being done on the road that leads into Meijers…what a pain…and I spent another 60 bucks on groceries and got nothing…they are rebuilding the inside of Meijers, too, and that is even more of a pain…and my damn phone has been acting up after the update over the weekend…need to run out to Verizon this morning to see if they can fix it…slept okay last night but was up at 4:54 again today so there will be a nap in my future…not sure why that has been happening so much lately but I am getting annoyed with it….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I will need to cook today and at least vacuum..but, right now I am going to have coffee and read the real paper newspaper…more later….
Part of it is about the money…
Well…with the continuing outrage (at least from us on the left) about the repubs stealing children from asylum seekers and sending them to secret concentration camps across this country…oh, remember they are “trump concentration camps”…if that is not bad enough, it has come out what these private prison companies are charging for “caring for” these children that they are putting in wire cages…800 dollars a day…yep, for each child they are abusing, you and I are paying these thugs and trump cronies 800 dollars a day. For that money, you could put each child up in a four star hotel and provide them with their own personal nanny and doctor….I think this money is part of the reason for this policy in the first part…along with trump’s racism and hatred of anyone who isn’t white, these private prison companies give millions of dollars to repubs so they will enact policies that will allow them to steal 800 dollars from you and me…we can’t afford to fix our roads or schools, but we can afford to pay private prison companies 800 dollars a day per child…these are the modern repbs folks and they need to go, now! Impeach…
June 20th
Well…woke up at 4 this morning and I am happy I was able to get back to sleep for an hour or so after that…but, after being up and down all night, I feel pretty slow this morning…and my brain isn’t working too well yet…and I forgot to set up the coffee maker last night so I had to do that this morning, too…man, I’m just off lately…I did hear from T yesterday and that made me smile a little…hadn’t heard from her since sat and that is a long time…didn’t get much done yesterday but pay bills but I will have to do more today…have to start thinking about meals for the rest of the week and get them planned…have a freezer full of food but nothing tastes good to me right now….and I know I under ate by a long margin yesterday and I am going to feel it today on the bike…my legs are quite sore from going hard the past week or so so there will be ibuprofen today….more later….