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I’m Stumped

I want to write something.  I’m sitting here trying to force some ideas.  I could post a picture of the cat, that’d work.  I could talk guitars.  I mean, is the June 3rd gig the day that I will play a Fender Strat on stage for the first time?  Starting to feel that way.  Am I going to figure out how to record the gig into Garageband with each instrument/voice on a track of it’s own?  I want to do it, but I also don’t want to interfere with anyone’s vibe.  I’m conflicted.

I could write something about politics and how the fascists are taking over the US government.  I could, but fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

I could talk superheroes.  Will I be able to talk anyone into going to see Guardians of the Galaxy this weekend?  Will they book a 5th season of Agents of Shield?  Will I be able to get caught up on The Flash and Supergirl before the next episodes air next week?

Like I said, I got nothing to write about tonight.

My Legislative Representatives React to Trump Firing Comey

https://twitter.com/nikiinthehouse/status/862102673079902208

My representative in the House of Representatives and both of my Senators spoke out on the shit show that Trump pulled last night.

I need to throw in one additional Massachusetts Representative as well.

I include Representative Kennedy for two reasons.  One, the man has an uncanny knack for putting my political thoughts into words.  Two, if Senator Warren should pass on running for the Democratic nomination for President in 2020, then I hope Representative Kennedy runs in her place.

Question

Question:

Is The Leftovers the best show in television history?

Answer:

Probably.  Yeah.

This is the last season and there are only four episodes left, but it is so good.  It’s ridiculously good.  It’s unbelievably good.  The main theme of each of the three seasons is grief and dealing with grief.  The first season is dark.  Ridiculously dark.  Unbelievably dark.  It’s so heavy it just sort of crushes your will to live.  It’s good, don’t get me wrong, it’s just a tough ride to get through.  The second season, and the first half of the third season, are just so good.  So disgustingly good.  Every single episode leaves you in an altered state of mind thinking, what the hell was that!?  It’s good.

Unlike Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, I have never watched an episode more than once.  I think when the series ends in four weeks I will binge watch the whole thing.  Assuming I can power through the massive depression the first season causes.

Good show.

Donald Trump is a Fascist – May 9, 2017 Edition

Who does this fascist piece of garbage think he’s fooling?

Trump is under investigation by the FBI for possibly colluding with the Russians to rig the 2016 presidential election.  So what did the mental midget do?  He fired the director of the FBI.

Granted, Comey is a piece of shit too.  He testified the other day that opening an investigation into Clinton’s emails just days before the election (effectively handing the Presidency to the fascist) made him nauseous.  Then today we find out that most of his testimony was false and the emails that were such a national disaster weren’t even classified until after they were shared.  Comey is an asshole who deserved to be fired…

But he didn’t deserve to be fired by the President of the United States during an investigation into possibly treason committed by the President of the United States.  And for Trump to say it was due to how he handled the email investigation that LITERALLY GAVE HIM THE ELECTION is just insulting to the intelligence of every American past, present and future.

Sally Yates – American Hero

 

Yes, I know Olberman is super liberal and I am just feeding my bias.  Go complain to those puppets at Fox if you don’t like it.

Anyway, most of the talk I am hearing tonight is focusing on how Yates obliterated Ted Cruz (Constitutionally speaking of course) but as far as I am concerned that’s a negative point here because it doesn’t concern the Russia question.  Cruz got schooled like a 1st grader trying to take a 12th grade class, yes.  It was beautiful, yes.  But it was also a distraction from the actual topic.  Who knew what, and when did they know it about Russia’s attempt to influence the 2016 Presidential election.  Any tangent that puts off Trump’s impeachment represents an increase in the chance that Trump and his fascist collaborators might destroy every single thing we stand for as a nation.

Where Do You Get Your Concert News?

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This is literally the second time I have learned of an upcoming Richard Thompson show from a flyer in a glass case at the supermarket.

I didn’t go to the first show I heard about. Maybe I can get Jen to go to this one with me. Probably not. Who knows.

Richard Thompson at Nock Auditorium in Newburyport, MA on June 9th. Flyer, as seen at the Market Basket in Salem, NH.

Home Owner Moments

The date was August 9, 2010.  My beloved wife and I were house hunting.  Given that I am a total Masshole, we were looking at houses in towns that bordered New Hampshire, as the kids’ dad lived in Salem and we wanted the drive time between houses to be manageable.

We were looking at a house in Methuen that was out of the way and kind of in the woods, which is odd for a city like Methuen.  It had a nice little back yard that I was kind of taken with, and a little patio area that reminded me a little bit of the house I grew up in.  They had nice looking patio furniture, and a fire pit, and a gas grill.  I was really taken with the scene.

I took this picture with my phone during that first viewing.
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Long story short, we moved in a couple months later.  Every year when the weather starts getting nice I announce to the family, This is the Year We Buy Patio Furniture… and every year we don’t do it.

Or do we?  I am not going to give out any spoilers or anything, but this might be the year.  No promises, of course… but this might be the year.

Cross your fingers and hope it happens.  Hopefully we’ll be having cookouts on the patio. I’ll let you all know when I get more information.

Representative Brian Mast (R-FL) is an Idiot – May 7, 2017 Edition

https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/860240955311624194

This one isn’t as bad as yesterday’s fascist collaborator moron in Congress video, but it’s got me just as pissed off.  Give it a view, it’s a quickie.

Congressman, how do you know that this bill isn’t going to destroy the lives of millions of people seeing as there was no analysis done on it by any economic or medical groups at all and there is zero evidence to show that anything it says will even come close to doing anything it’s supposed to?

“I know.”

I know things too, you fucking piece of dog shit.  I know you just raped millions of constituents in order to line the pockets of the super rich.  Hey congressman from Florida, how many of your voters are on medicaid?  You know medicaid, that thing you just gutted?  Who bought you, congressman?  Who bought your vote?  Which fascists do you answer to now?

Enjoy your stay in the US House of Representatives.  It will come to an abrupt end in just under two years.

Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) is an Unimaginable Schmuck – May 6, 2017 Edition

Watch this.  Beware though, you are about to see a demonstration of utter stupidity that cannot be fathomed.  Watch it anyway.

 

During a town hall meeting one of his constituents happened to mention that people will die without health insurance.  He responded by saying that no one dies from not having access to healthcare.

This friggin’ schmuck actually said that.  You alt-right fascist apologists can’t call this one fake news because it’s right there on video.  I heard it with my own ears.  This guy said the single dumbest thing I have ever heard a politician utter.  No one dies from not having access to healthcare.

Tell me, Congressman Labrador, you insulting piece of shit, what would happen to my step son if he didn’t have access to healthcare?  He’s a type one diabetic and needs insulin to live.  What would happen to him?

Tell me, Congressman Labrador, you mental midget, what would have happened to my mother if, when she developed a brain tumor, she had not had access to the healthcare that saved her life?  Tell me, you fucking tool.  Tell me what would have happened to her.

Voters in Idaho.  Come the mid-term election, you know what to do.  Kick this despicable schmuck out of office.  Send his moron ass packing.  We’re counting on you.

Distractions

Oh good, the FX network is running a Captain America movie marathon tonight.

That should distract me from the fact that 217 of our elected officials care more about giving tax breaks to billionaires than they do about the lives of their constituents.

Sure, shit loads of money for a handful of assholes is much more important than the lives and health of 20 some odd million American citizens.

November 2018.  We need to stand together and vote every single one of those pieces of shit out of office.  Every last one of them.  No exceptions.  They are not worthy of their positions.  They are dirt.  They are filth.  They are shit.