Back Slapping The Road

~ Guy Hall

After a three week hiatus I decided to go for a run this morning. It was beautiful outside. A slight breeze, blue skies, and a perfect temperature to make it a wonderful run. It’s not that I haven’t been exercising, it’s that I’ve not been running. I’ve biked a few times, and even taken quite a few walks and hikes. But today I ran.

The problem is my achilles tendons have been acting up. Walking and bicycling do not aggravate them as much as running. So, with that in mind, as soon as I finished stretching after my run, I grabbed the corn bag from the freezer and iced them pesky tendons. It worked. Now they don’t feel aggravated at all.

Now, if I could just ice the people in my life who aggravate me.

Step Right Up To The Show That Never Ends

~ Guy Hall

It really is all about how much money he can get while the getting is good.

(Slate) On Thursday, Mic confirmed that, no, there is no button to undo your recurring payment to the Trump campaign. You can’t delete the recurring payment. You can’t even delete your credit card information (you can update it, but it has to be with a different valid card number). So you just keep paying Trump’s campaign, we suppose, until the end of time.

Federal Election Commission spokesperson Christian Hilland told Mic that there’s nothing illegal about this per se, that is until a person’s automatic payments put her over the maximum contribution limit of $2,700.

Clinton’s campaign has a “remove card” option on its site for recurring payments, Mic reports. Trump’s campaign did not return multiple requests for comment to the site.

And this is from the second story down.

“This was in every way an attempt to convey empty wealth, which it turned out to be a lot emptier than Donald expected or than any of us saw coming,” Wayne Barrett, author of Trump: The Deals and the Downfall, told the Post. “Since then he’s become a wealthy man by selling the name that was based on failed projects. The real things that he built, where are they?”

Indeed, Trump has boasted regularly about his success in taking as much money as possible out of Atlantic City for his own personal benefit while leaving his actual projects in massive debt. “Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for me,” Trump told the Times. “The money I took out of there was incredible.”

The man is but a carnival huckster.

Pick Me! Pick Me!

~ Guy Hall

Actually, this is for Sean Paul Kelly who – no doubt – is waiting to get the nod as the Vice-Presidental pric……. errrr, I mean pick.

CthulhuPres

Early Morning World Music Post

~ Guy Hall

This is a most excellent video!

Tip o’ the hat: Anne Laurie over at Balloon Juice.

Got A Runner!

~ Guy Hall

Tip o’ the hat: Bloggg

My Morning Chuckle

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Thankfully I didn’t have any liquids in my mouth when I came across this.

DejaPoo

Interview Tomorrow

~ Guy Hall

I am interviewing for a release planner position at Stillwater Prison tomorrow. Hope the best for me, will you. I’d ask for luck, but we make our own, don’t we?

Tribalism 101

~ Guy Hall

(538) As I have argued elsewhere, we should be concerned about politics being treated this way. I can hate the Yankees, feel wronged that Tom Brady is benched for a few games, and make the absurd claim that I would be very upset if my sons married Yankees fans. In sports, irrational partisan feelings are permissible because the stakes are so low. Irrational partisan emotions clearly exist in politics, too, but in politics we should be ashamed of them.

It’s an interesting read.

Weather

~ Guy Hall

The rain moved into the area, and with it a headache. I’m going to bed.