Riding and Malfeasance (with an update)

March 9 we rode, and on the way back there was serious concern about getting rained on.  I did not have the protective baggies for the cell phones, so I really did not want to get wet. This is one of the lakes at Christopher Columbus.  They dye it blue, which makes it very attractive.

As we left Christopher Columbus to return home, the wind picked up and gusted a little.  There was an ominous cloud.  He followed us for awhile, but eventually it ran out of steam. 

Today it was warm, and we drove to Christopher Columbus so we could ride further north.  We wanted to see how the sewer line project is going.  As you no doubt recall, I've been complaining about trail closures since we got back here in November.  Anyway, they have reopened the section north of the nice park we usually stop at.  The entrance to the nice park is blocked because they are still digging.  Now we have a longer ride in the direction of Twin Peaks, so called because there used to be two small mountains, but they ground up one to make concrete.  It's not an attractive bike path because both sides have been recently scraped and excavated, but it does provide more mileage.  Note the clouds, rain is coming on Thursday.

Here is an Acacia which is blooming.  My phone camera can't see the blossoms that well, but we could smell them, they're very sweet.

Poppies by the path.  I'm not sure if they're Mexican or Californian, but they are cheerful.  The photo is a little blurry because the wind was jostling them.

Lara Trump, married to Eric Trump, son of the orange menace, has been appointed to head the RNC, the Republican National Committee.  That organization collects money and organizes support for down ballot candidates as well as the presidential race.  That's what they used to do.  Under Lara, 60 members of staff have been laid off.  Operations are being moved to Florida to be closer to Mar a Lardo.  All money collected will go the the orange one's legal bills.  No money will go to down ballot candidates as well as no organizing efforts.  Jaime Harrison, chairman of the DNC, was giggling about the whole thing because it is so bad for the republican party candidates.

Representative Ken Buck, CO-4 (Colorado legislative district 4) is quitting as of March 22.  He has had enough of this congress.  Representative and total wing-nut Lauren Boebert, currently CO-3, had filed to run for CO-4 since Rep. Buck had decided not to run again.  Plus, Boebert was getting her butt kicked in fund raising in CO-3.  However, now there will have to be a special election for Buck's seat.  Boebert WILL HAVE TO RESIGN her current seat in CO-3 to run in the special election in CO-4.  That will leave CO-3 open, where Adam Frisch is polling and fund raising very well, and perhaps he will win that special election.  Speaker Johnson's slim majority is shrinking by the day.  Couldn't happen to a worse human being.

Update to post 3/13/2024:  Today Boebert said, “I will not further imperil the already very slim House Republican majority by resigning my current seat in Colorado’s 3rd District,” Boebert said on Rumble, adding that she will “continue on” with her campaign for the full term in Buck’s seat. “I’m not going to put my constituents in the 3rd District in a bind, leaving them also without representation by resigning.”  This is interesting, it puts her in the position of running against a CO-4 incumbent, albeit one recently installed.

Once again, the orange menace has defamed E.Jean Carroll.  He was stupid enough to do this while being televised on a station based in New York city, so yet another defamation suit can be filed in front of Judge Kaplan, who apparently has had enough of the orange dude defaming women he sexually assaulted.  

Orange Menace is facing a trial for Federal Elections laws violations.  This stems from his attempt to have Michael Cohen bribe porn star Stormy Daniels to not disclose the sexual encounter orange and Stormy had.  The bribe should have been logged as a campaign contribution, and it was not.  Hence the lawsuit.  Anyway....... orange wants the court case delayed while waiting for the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.  This is astonishing because he was not yet president when this crime took place.  I guess he should be asking for whole life immunity.  

There are other cases pending, but I do not have sufficient memory to recount them all.  Needless to say, the biggest deal is the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity. 

That's it!  That's all I have to say.