When you hit middle age you really only have two choices: you can get fat and lazy until you roll over and die, or you can can get off your ass and do something, like maybe ride a bike.
Bluntness
I've also been told I have little tact, so if this offends you simply ride on.
For a change it seems as if the forecasters got their weather predictions right, the cyclonic storm the Weather Channel has most likely named has arrived. Snow and gusty winds up to 45 miles per hour has grayed the dawn. Outside the workout room / computer room the river birch in my yard is jigging this way and that, iced over with shiny rain before the bottom fell off the thermometer.
I'm supposed to go to work today. That's up in the air. Right now I can see the blue house across the street though the heavy snow at times smudges the clarity.
Of course, the dogs are still in bed. Why would they want to get up to go potty outside?
Biggie's heating pad arrived yesterday. Unlike a human heating pad, the temperature is regulated and does not go more than a few degrees above his body temperature. One of the things I'm not impressed with is the velour cover which I can see getting dirty in to time.
Milky Chance came out with a new song. I like it.
Also, I baked another olive oil cake. Chocolate, this time. Very rich and tasty.
And, not surprisingly, 81% of Americans now support the Ukraine. Many feel we should do more. that includes both Democrats and Republicans. Amazing how there is something that can cross the aisle. The 19% who disagree? They are the Putin apologists and the MAGA heads. I understand Trump refused to admit to his bro Sean Hannity that Putin was evil, or even bad. In a very defining moment, Trump and his America First have proven themselves what we've known them to be all along: Selfish. They're running into problems. Americans, in general, are not selfish. We have been raised to know right from wrong. Everybody but Conservatives whose favorite pronoun is 'my.' My money. My taxes. My guns. My religion. My rules. I do believe most Americans would rather be a shining beacon than only ask "what's in it for me?" and "what do I get out of it?" The Republican party used to stand for principles, now it stands for "me."
So, I saw this article this morning and thought I'd talk about it a little. America, we have a problem. You see we have something called the First Amendment and there are a number of people out there who don't like it. They believe we should have a National Religion, which would happen to be theirs. They call themselves Social Conservatives and they represent the ugly head of selfishness. You see for them, their most favorite pronouns are "I," followed by "my." For them "you" can be a really negative word because "you" is about someone else. These Social Conservatives have allowed their beliefs to evolve to a stage where "you" is not even secondary. Since they don't believe in evolution they would never understand this, but evolve they have. And they like the Constitution, but only as long as it lets them be as selfish as possible. They don't like it when "you" means everybody.
These Social Conservatives want to change rules and create regulations that benefit themselves, alone. They want to be able to say that "my beliefs say I can fire you from your job because my beliefs are more important than you as a human being." The truth is they don't care about human beings at all, unless those human beings share the same beliefs. These Social Conservatives want to be able to discriminate, not only against sexual orientation, but against race and nationality. They don't want to give immigrants the chance to possibly dilute, either socially or culturally, the purity of their own beliefs. You see, it's not just the jobs they claim immigrants will take, it's the very blood coursing through their veins which these Social Conservatives need to keep out.
They will never understand how wrong they are, to even consider such an action would be to challenge the very soul of "I."
