Broken People

We have an outside temp of 50 (F) and, unfortunately, that's about all she wrote for our high temp today.  Rain will be moving through the region.  Showers and drizzles will still be hanging around tomorrow morning, and, if we're lucky, our high temp will be in the mid 40s (F).  From then on it seems that our daily highs will be somewhere in the low to mid 50s (F).  

Yesterday I just hung around the house.  A little cleaning was done, a load of laundry.  However, putting the dishes into the dishwasher was not the most exciting thing I accomplished.  That was ending another chapter in the next book, The Body in the Words.  This is another one that after 60 some pages I looked at what I'd written and threw a lot of it away.  There was way too much exposition.  Sometimes when I write, I have a bad habit of trying to detail every second.  This means that when Eli is in cousin Kitty's mint green kitchen, he spends a full page and a half looking for the coffee maker as he wonders just where in Bally Seamus there's a super market.  Too much, and now all gone.

Yesterday was Veteran's Day, and for those who don't know, I am a Navy Veteran who spent almost 20 months in a little war zone called Vietnam.  I have very good health benefits because of those months.  So, when I see Republicans do this in order to give billionaires a tax break I get pissed.

Of course Republicans cheated.  They gave the documentation to the Democrats and then a few moments later, before the Democrats could finish reviewing it, they held a voice vote.  Why do Republicans hate America so much?  Or is it that they love their billionaires even more?  

For those who missed it, Kegsbreath was yelled at yesterday by the guard and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.  Keggy and his entourage decided to turn a solemn moment into a photo op, and they were loudly scolded by the guard.  Their reaction was to ignore the guard and continue chattering among themselves as they walked away.  There is truly something broken in these people.  The incident made international headlines.  Ouch.  This is one of the many reasons the Republican party has become so hated in this country.

Oh, and Cindy Hyde-Smith conceded to Scott Colom... sort of.  She mentioned him in one brief sentence.  Like Hegseth, she too is broken.  She will remember her loss to the black she kept from being a judge for the rest of her life.  It will constantly be grating away in the back of her mind, and this is a good thing.

549 Seats

When I woke up this morning our outside temp was 37 (F).  Right now our outside temp is sitting at 50 (F).  The forecast is for a high in the mid to upper 60s (F), before the clouds roll in and cool things off.  There's rain in the forecast, too.  Tomorrow's high is supposed to be in the mid 40s (F).  We are 40 days until the onset of Winter.  According to some predictions, the Central PA region is supposed to get an average amount of snow, which means we may get nothing but a dusting or two.  We shall see.

Yesterday was a decent day.  I did chores, got a ride in on the bicycle, and bought a new pair of slippers.  The slippers were needed.  The pair I had were very old and at some point about a month ago, the plastic bottom of the right one had split down the middle.  Rather than going out and buying a new pair, I used some blue duct tape to keep it from falling apart. Of course, duct tape only last for so long, and this section of tape began acquiring Howie hair and started looking like it was growing a fur coat.  So, yesterday morning I threw my old slippers into the trash and bought a new pair.  Hopefully the new ones should last me four or five years.

MAGA cultists are still shrieking and moaning about the midterm elections.  They show vast swaths of America that are ruby red without understanding no one lives in much of those swaths; we're a very large country.  Kara Swisher says it best:

So, Petey Hegseth's impeachment hearing was yesterday.  They were actually supposed to vote today, on Veteran's Day to give the vote symbolism.  However, little Mikey Johnson chose to hold the vote yesterday afternoon at 5:30 PM when he knew that 11 Democrats and 7 Republicans were not in the building.  He cheated so the articles of impeachment would fail.  I was pissed, though in hind sight will admit that I should have expected some form of scumbagery.  Hegseth survived to lose on another day.  

And as someone said, all of those Republicans who voted to save Petey's ass have chosen to remain onboard the Titanic as it sinks.  They are staying out of spite and hatred.  They are terrible losers, and they always have been.  Rather than try and save themselves, they are choosing to drown in their own petty bile.  They simply cannot deal with the crushing numbers of the Blue Tsunami.  Their tiny little brains are cracking.  As of yesterday morning, 549 local, state, and national seats flipped from Republican to Democrat.  This is the worst defeat the Republican party has every experienced since it was founded in 1850.  And that number is still growing.