The Liberty U Doodah

It's the first day of the work week and I, unlike many of you out there, have to go to work.
I ran through my first Yoga lesson yesterday.  I did order myself a set of Yoga blocks, due to arrive on Thursday.  I have lots of points on Amazon so they were free.  The lesson itself wasn't too difficult.  I practices a long time ago, though I'm older now and not quite as flexible.
I saw the residents of Lynchburg, VA are pissed off.  Remember when Jerry Falwell, Jr, a tongue in ass supporter of the Idiot Jerk in the White House decided to bring back students because Covid - 19 is "just media hype," and the Idiot Jerk said "it's not that bad."  Well, evidently a number of those kids are sick, 4 of whom have been hospitalized.  Oh... shit!  Now Jerry is saying returning students need to self-quarantine for 14 days.  Jerry Jr is starting to look a lot like an asswipe, isn't he?
Oh, and if you haven't heard, Social Distancing has been extended to the end of April.  I don't think that's quite going to work.  A number of countries in the EU are using that date to end their quarantine and 'stay at home' orders.  Those countries are also about 2 weeks ahead of us in this timeline.  I don't expect us to be getting back to work until the middle of May.  I had figured, if we had acted aggressively at first the duration was going to be about 7 weeks.  Thanks to the Idiot Jerk we were not aggressive.  Son of a bitch!
Right now I'm waiting for the store to kick into Stage 2 - limiting the number of people in the store.  This, supposedly, is going to cut back on browsers.
Finally, here's another song who's lyrics made it into "The Body in the Well."  This sucker's even older than I am.

The Putin Upstage

Wednesday!  And another day off.  Sadly, the forecast is for drizzly weather for most of the day, with temps only in the mid 40's (F).  Not a good day for lawn work.  Yesterday was sunny and mild.  My peonies are zoom zooming all over the place.  Of course, this is to be expected because it is "spring."  Both my peach and nectarine trees are filled with burgeoning blossoms.  Here's a pic of the peach tree looking towards the front yard.

And, for those who are really worried about Covid - 19, don't worry.  Evidently everything is going to go back to normal by April 7.  This is what the Idiot Jerk in the White House says.  He says this is to help the economy.  At least, that's what he's saying publicly.  Personally, I think it has more to do with his resorts... you know, the ones that are closed down?  I don't doubt he is more concerned about losing money than he is the safety of the American People.  He has no problem putting people in danger just to make a buck.
Of course, one of the most preposterous things this dimwit has done is set a timeline for when this is going to end.  For those of you who are really devout, rest assured, you'll be able to go to church on Easter Sunday.  Didn't anybody think to tell this duffer that the worst thing you can do in a pandemic is set and end date?  Just a few hours after he carved that date in stone an urgent warning was made to all those people leaving New York:  self-quarantine for 14 days.  Son of a bitch!  Still, he has to satisfy his base.  The Cracker Jack Christians desperately need to be sitting in a pew on their most holiest of days.
Raise your hands if you think Liberty University is going to turn into a Covid - 19 hot spot.  Those young people are just coming back from spring break, and they're still under the belief they're almost immune, and so they didn't self-quarantine, and....  Oh... Shit.
Legislation has been passed to help those most destitute during this crisis:  the corporations.  Oh, sure, the small guys are going to get some help, but mostly it's the big guys who are getting bailouts. As someone who work in retail home improvement, it's the little guys, the Mom and Pop contractors that are going to be hurting more.  Conservatives have never really cared for them.  Nope.  Their fascination with greed has always drawn them to the flame of corporations.  The same thing happened when they did the bailout for farmers because of the Idiot Jerk's trade wars.  Most of the buckos went to the corporate farms rather than the Mom and Pop farms.  It's a size thing, you know?  For Republicans, bigger has always been better.
I'm sure everybody saw where Putin, donning a hazmat suit and venturing into a hospital, upstaged the Idiot Jerk in the White House.  The Russians also admitted that Covid - 19 is far worse in Russia then they had led the world to believe.  Like many other European countries, they are on the verge of going into a complete lock down which will most likely last past Easter.  Our Idiot Jerk is not going to do anything as risky as that... the hazmat suit, you know?  He might dress Melanoma up in some frilly, designer suit and maybe have her stand outside a hospital, followed by a 2 month isolation period in that building he owns in New York (aka Ground Zero).
Finally, I'm considering yoga if we end up having a 3 or 4 weeks shut down.  You know, something to include in my cycling adventure.  Yesterday I had a nice ride in Gascony.  The other day I took a ride through Burgundy and got behind a grape (harvester, or picker, or what ever it's called).  Damn those things are big.

Liberty U Fail

So, today starts my weekend... wonderful.  In case you didn't know, we're supposed to have an eclipse of the Sun today, not total where I live, just about 75%, and weather wise we're supposed to have thunderstorms this afternoon.  This means we might have a thunder and lightning eclipse.  Yippee.
This evening the Idiot Jerk in the White House is going to spit turds at America.  Rumor has it that he's going to announce that he's sending more troops to Afghanistan... which means he's listening to the same clowns 'W' listened to, you know?  The one's who said the war in Iraq would be over in a couple of weeks?  Of course, these kids are only going to be going there for a brief bit, to help train the Afghanistan army... wait a minute, haven't we heard that before?  Isn't that what the Republicans said about Vietnam?  Dumb Shits.
And, of course, that stain of a human, Jerry Fallwell Jr took a dump in his pants this past week as the attempted to support the Idiot Jerk in the White House.  His stands, however, don't seem to be sitting well with the current student body, and a number of graduates, who seem to have realized that the Idiot Jerk has no values, Christian or other wise.   However, Jerry Jr is going to stick to his guns.  I didn't get a chance, but I wonder just how diverse Liberty U really is, I mean, are there any Latino students, and Black students, or is everyone there a white Evangelical?  I'm sure they have a few tokens floating around, but my money says there aren't that many.  Junior's statements, however, do tend to reinforce the belief by many White Evangelical Christians aren't really that different than the Alt-Right.
Those Baleaf shorts I got turn out to be really great... there's just one hitch, you're supposed to let them drip dry and I threw them in the dryer on delicate... and they've gotten a bit tighter, which means you can see things a lot clearer now.  Lesson learned.

Of course, as I've told people time and time again, there's nothing wrong with tooting you own horn.

Evangelical and Clueless

Okay, so it's another crappy day here in Central PA... that's right, drizzly, rainy, foggy out with the chance of a thunderstorm this AM.  On the bright side, I'm going to work today - yeah, I know, that's not too bright.
I was talking to my friend Betsy last evening, she's going to have cataract surgery on Thursday, not that she's truly concerned... well, sort of, she's much more worried about the Idiot in the White House.  She truly believes he's capable of doing some terrible evil against humanity.  She's worried that the military will end up interceding and, as she put it, "I don't want to have a coup in the United States."    I personally think things will not go that far.  He's stupid, but not that stupid... at least I hope not.
He spoke at Liberty U. yesterday and castigated Washington and those Evangelicals lapped it up.  They are such hypocrites.  His downfall will be their downfall.  They don't understand that historically, when things go bad for him, he files for bankruptcy.  This has always been his policy when it comes to decision making and he will do that with the presidency.  And those crazy social conservatives will be left holding an empty bag.  It was his Karma to win, and will be their's to lose.
I was going to go to the gym this AM and... ugh, I can not wait for this dreariness to end.  We had the same thing in May for the last 2 years, maybe 3 years running.  April, when we're supposed to have all of the showers, was warm and balmy.  It's like the 2 months decided to switch - no doubt the result of climate change.

To give you an idea of how clueless Social Conservatives are, Friday morning, when I had breakfast with my brother, who's a part-time Methodist minister and a social conservative, I told him that whether he wants to believe it or not, he's part of a minority.  There was no connection, no comprehension with what I was saying.  They don't understand, nor will they ever.