Circling in

Well, I get to go back to work tomorrow.  As you might expect, I'm not too excited.  I get to work 6 days before my next day off, and that one day happens to be Thanksgiving.  As you know from previous gripes, I prefer consecutive days off.  And, of course, I have split days off on the following week as well.
I went to see "Midway" last evening.  I found the film very entertaining.  There were a lot of old men in the theater, none of whom were wearing red MAGA hats.  The film gets a lot of things right, from Pearl Harbor to the snippet with director John Ford filming the battle of Midway.  What they got wrong?  Very little mention of the carnage being wrought on American soldiers and sailors throughout the region.  There's a reason it was called Hell in the Pacific.  Because the focus was only on one sea battle, the scope is minimized.  The filmmakers didn't need to make an epic, but they failed to let the audience know the Japanese were handing our asses to us on bloody, little plates.  However, I will tell you that without a doubt the biggest shock of the evening was seeing Dennis Quaid.  That man is not aging well at all!
And I finally put on my new Bigfoot socks yesterday and went for a ride.

This was my longest ride so far:  19.15 miles.  It took me an hour and 9 minutes and is rated a Category 3.  I've also started a new challenge:  But 14,400 kilo joules of energy in the next 17 days.  As of this morning I have 16% completed.  This is one of those things I need to do to move on to the next level.
Oh, and did everyone get a chance to see Devin Nune's eye roll yesterday?  Holy Shit!  That's what he's saying with his eyes.  It was almost as funny as the Idiot Jerk's sharpie notes, the ones scribbled on a piece of pad that say "I want nothing."  For those too young to remember, Nixon said something similar.  His phrase du jour was "I am not a crook."  Yesterday was not a good day for the moral degenerate in the White House.  One thing I heard about but haven't seen a clip of was Ken Starr on Fox News.  Ken said a lot of things, mostly trying to bolster all those breaking Republican hearts.  He also said something to the effect that he wondered if the Republican Senate was going to send a contingent to the White House and recommend a resignation.  I hope they don't.  I want to see this scumbag dragged through the mud a bit longer.  Oh, and that low rumble you hear is the sound of Republican wagons being drawn into a circle.

Infamy

Brace for impact.

Brace for impact.

That's right, DT gets inaugurated this afternoon.  The world is going to change.  People will be watching their TV's and their monitors... to see how much disruption takes place.  Republicans are jumping up and down and shouting out their hosannas, totally missing the fact that DT is not a Republican.  He has said he's going to build a wall between the US and Mexico... no wall, a fence maybe, and more border patrols...  But then he's made many, many promises over the years that he's either altered or just broken... and then there's this.  All of DT's threats of an import tariff may amount to nothing more than hot air, but then then that's what you expect from a gas bag.
Repealing the ACA is turning into a joke.  Most Republicans hate it because they believe it creates a burdensome tax, and also because the GOP refers to it as Obamacare... and they hate Obama.  However, the Governors of the 31 states which have enacted the ACA, well, kind of like it and realize how bad it would be if the law were to be repealed.  This is funny because a major part of the Republican hate mantra has been "kill it, kill it, kill it."  Looks like they may have screwed the American people really bad, but then they've been doing that for a long, long time.

In the past, if a business venture went south on DT he would write it off and claim the loss on his personal income tax.  Being President is not running a business but neither he, nor his Trumplodite supporters understand that, there are just too many variables.  This means he will shut things down that aren't working in his favor.  Americans will be hurt.  The Republican Party will be hurt.  This 70 year old man is going to do some serious damage.  He will initiate trade wars and prices will go up, and people will bitch and complain.

Be prepared.  This will be a day of infamy.