The Strange Journey Through Trump World

It’s a strange world in Trump Land.  In what other world could you shame a guy for recrusing himself, which is what he or anybody is supposed to do.  Yet Jeff Sessions is the bad guy for obeying the law.  And trump says in essence “If I had known it wasn’t going to be a rigged crap game I never would have hired him”.    Trump has threatened repeatedly to fire the special prosecutor because he feels that he's only entitled to investigate things Trump wants him to investigate- like Hillary's faults and not his own.  If he fires Muller to me it will set up a constitutional crisis.  Trump is also saying that nobody in his administration has committed any indictable offenses but the only offenses were committed by William Coney for leaking material last year.  Nobody in the Trump administration will rule out Trump’s pardoning himself and they all line up to say that pardoning yourself is OK as President and that the power to pardon is absolute in the constitution.  This is not true.  It also says in the constitution that the President after his impeached and removed for office can be indicted just like any other criminal and barred from running for any high office in the land.  Trump lives in his own world.   Now you have Susan Sanders as White House Press secretary as of Friday and Andrew Scarimuchi (?) as the new commun-ication director.   I wish I could say these first six months of the Trump administration would be the worst we’ll see but the thing is they won’t be.  It will get worse.  What seems bizarre now will definitely seem a lot less bizarre in six months.

I had Breakfast with the Beatles on at nine.  They played Ringo’s new song of “What we need is more love” or something.  Jackie De Shannon revisited.  I went for snacks and got two pink lemonades and a graham cracker from Rico.   Before lunch they played “Live Abbey Road”.  They played live “Here Comes the Sun” by Harrison and live “You Never Give Me Your Money” by Paul, and live “Come Together” by John.  I went down for lunch, and I ended up needing not to get down so quickly.   We had teriyaki chicken for lunch, which I mixed with the rice.  I don’t know if there were seconds but I really should have stayed to find out.  We had yellow cake with whipped cream on it for dessert.  KLOS was having problems with their radio engineering at their hang-out in Seal Beach.  They concluded the show by playing “Beatle studio outtakes”.  

Rhapsody in Black had “Da Doo Run Run” by the Ronettes, they claim but I’ve always thought the song was by the Crystals.  They played “The Boy I’m Going to Marry” by Darlene Love and “Push – Over” by Etta James.  They played “Another Saturday Night” by Sam Cooke and “Just One Look” by Doris Troy.  They played "Ruby Baby" not the Dion song, and also "Foolish Little Girl", which came out in March.  They played “Monkey Time” by Major Lance.  ( ? ) Of course there all sorts of songs they didn’t play.  Bill just gave me two cigarettes.  It’s unlikely I’ll get free coffee from anybody this evening.  

This month of July has seemed like a really long one this year.  Glenda left on July first and that seems ages ago.  It seems like ages since we've celebrated the Fourth.  There is way too much month at the end of the money.  This month figures to be among the worse months in this regard.   Congress has been in session and perhaps I've been derelect in not following the more closely on C-Span.  But it doesn't look like they're going to pass any bills.  There were rumors that Mitch Mc Connell wanted to hold them over August recess so that they could finish their work.  That would be a first.   Today has about been the coolest or least hot day of the month, except for the first two days of July.  Who would have guessed?   Ask me ten days from now how I feel.  

Trump Loses Big Vote on Health Care Bill Yesterday

The big news yesterday was that suddenly the revised Health Care bill is dead.  They took a straw vote yesterday or something and realized they could never get the thing passed.  Donald Trump didn’t take the news at all well but blames the democrats.   Trump keeps saying “Obama Care” will fail of its own weight.  They were planning on waiting for John Mc Cain to recover from his blood clot surgery and wheel him into the Senate chamber if they had to.   Then they were going to ram the bill through the House with NO changes or amendments to the Senate bill but that the House members would voluntary disregard their own House bill and vote for the Senate bill as it was passed.  That’s how desperate they were to get this law enacted.  But now that won’t occur.  

OJ Simpson’s parole hearing is today and it looks like he will get out of prison in October after having been in prison since 2008 after that failed Las Vegas heist.  This is where OJ tried to steal back some of his own sports memorabilia.  But now the victim of the crime is saying that OJ should be released.  The original sentence was 33 years.  But now a female prison guard caught him masturbating, which violates some revised prison rule book, as comical as that sounds.  Otherwise he’s been a model prisoner. 

There is a five year old boy who was murdered by his father in April.  The last anyone saw of the boy alive he was leaving Disneyland with his father.  His father murdered the boy to get back at his wife due to a messy divorce.  That sounds horrible inhumane and cold blooded.  The family funeral for the boy was held yesterday.  Everyone was saying what a sweet and bright, intuitive and curious child he was.  

I became concerned how much money I’d get for money draw.  The money draw line wasn’t moving when I got in it.  Earlier I got an iced tea and a graham cracker from Rico.  The line to see Dr Saran wasn’t long but it moved slowly.  Roxanne took a lot of time.  I told Dr Saran I needed diaria medication and he agreed.  He says there was some anti fungal medication on the list that causes diaria.  I was perplexed as to what he was referring and I still don’t know.  I was offered a chance to have a colonoscopy and turned it down for the multiple time.   I signed something.   I should have read it.  The line for money draw was shorter now.  I’ve been pretty well supplied with cigarettes today.  I went out of my way to get a quarter selling Ron Flowers a cigarette so that I could pay Tao a quarter because he lent me a cigarette at noon.  I got in the office.  I was hoping for eight dollars but feared I might only get six or even less.  As it turns out after accounting that Jennifer said I could have eight.  It was eight ones and I was counting them and ran right into the screen door.  My glasses were filthy and I was a little distracted.  

Evidence For Impeachment Continues to Trickle In

Donald Trump Junior was approached by Russians about getting the goods on Hillary and apparently Donald Trump Jr. said “That sounds like a great idea”.  When I first heard about this deal I assumed the deal had not been accepted because clearly accepting a deal, even an offer like this would put a whole different slant on things.  It would be an arrestable offense.  Today Thom Hartman spoke of “weaponizing the data” by releasing it after it had already been gathered by the Russians.  If you can show a nexis of cause and effect here you’ve got a real case.  This of course is yesterday's news and someone needs to put all the loose pieces together into a cohesive evidence time-line.  If we're ever going to have impeachment happen we need more than a miandering stream of evidence, we need the equivelant of the dam bursting of evidence.  

The other news of yesterday was that this big ice sheet the size of Deleware or something broke off of Antarctica.    This was the third biggest break off if massive ice of all time.  They say such break offs are common but it seems we've been hearing about them with increasing regularity.  Also the temperature in the arctic is dozens of degrees above what normal is and they've been having a type of rain storm they commonly don't see that far north.  But they still aren't saying it's global warming.  

Let me revise and clarify my teaching on Cause and Effect.  There IS no realm after death where the metaphysical reality is flip flopped such that you can say "This is the world of Cause" or of our realm that "This is the real of Effects".  Logically it breaks down to three realities.  Inanimate objects live in a world of pure Effect.  Inanimate objects have no will of their own to control what happens to them.  The most glairing example of this is the computer, which is devoid of Logic in and of itself except in terms that we impart our own Logic to the computer.  Let me give you a couple of amusing examples.  If you write on the blackboard X = 10 minus Y  - - and then write Y equals 3, one might form the conclusion that X equals 7.  But in the realm of a computer X still equals ten because at the time this statement was given Y equaled 0.   In like manner some say that is A equals B and B equals C then logically A would equal C.  But not necessarily in computer land.  A may be changed to the value of B, but if B is also changed to the value of C then A no longer equals C.   In the land of the living or the land of the dead where human beings or whoever are involved there is this tension between Cause and Effect.  It can be said that the power exercise more Cause than the poor and powerless do, but the poor still have Some power to affect their destiny.  The only realm that can be spoken of as pure Cause is the Calvinistic realm of "God" himself.  If you are a hard determinist then God is in his own realm of pure Cause.  Things that other living beings to have absolutely no affect on who he is or the responses he has to things, if anything God ever does can be considered a "response" and not just pure sovreign Cause.  

Paul called on the phone during Days of our Lives and Paul could hear it.  I thought it was Tim at first because the voice was muffled.  Paul had some goodies to bring over for me and I said that after three would be better (just to be on the safe side) because it was money draw day and I had no idea how long the line might be.  As it turned out Jennifer was in a conference with Aden for quote a few minutes and only one other guy was in line waiting with me.  Gabby was in the room and darted outside.  Then the snack cart arrived and I got an iced tea and a graham cracker and then got back in line.  The other guy didn’t have money coming.  I went in and at first was unsure whether the check had even been registered.  But after confirming the two dollar co pay was not held against me but the haircut charge had been recorded.  I asked for and got fifteen dollars.  There was no candy.  I went out and got a twelve ounce can of Coke and a pack of Clippers.  I drank the Coke.  I paid Larry back one cigarette and paid Bill back the seven cigarettes he asked for.  Paul showed up a little before three.  He brought towels I didn’t accept but I accepted the two white tee shirts.  Paul said there was some air coming through the AC vent.  He also believed it was cooler in the room than it was outside.  There was a huge zip-lock baggie of walnuts and also some oatmeal date raison cookies.  I have to be careful not to overeat.  They came out good.  Paul was pleased to learn that neither Bill nor I had scabies anymore.  But before Paul arrived I had on Adam Schiff and he talked about this new scandal involving some offer of the Russians to dish out the goods on Hillary Clinton.  There is no news whether the deal was ever accepted.  Then I had Norman Goldman on for an hour.

Tonight we had chicken teriyaki for dinner and rice and I mixed the two together.  There were no seconds and Paul wasn’t forthcoming like he was the last time we had this meal.  We had two sugar cookies for dessert.  The news is on.  I have no plans to post a blog today.  John Kip asked for his money and I asked if it were OK to pay him a dollar and also get coffee tonight and he agreed.  Then I went to his room and got two spoons of coffee and paid him a dollar.  But now I’m thinking I would like something else to drink.  As for the Olympics the two cities of Paris and Los Angeles are both slated for either 2028 or 2024.  The Olympic committee wants to break with tradition and make a decision on the next eight years in September.    

This is Wednesday July 12, 2017 and they just announced refreshments right now.  I just had two oatmeal cookies.  I crossed the court at 2:05 and then came back to wait and waited till 2:25 and gave up.  The Orange County Fair is starting up this Friday.  I guess I’ll be changing the wallpaper soon.  I’ve been plagued by tiredness.  I have to reconsider the possibility that I might have something like Epstein Barr or something.  This morning I had Stephanie Miller on after eight.  Bill left to see Dr Kim at a quarter to nine.  I had Thom Hartman on.  I got snacks in the morning which consisted of two cups of real orange juice and a graham cracker.  Then it was my lying down.  We had a lunch meat sandwich for lunch that was supposed to be turkey.  We had potato chips with it and watermelon for dessert.   Bill returned just after lunch and I looked just as lethargic as I did before he left.  We have air conditioning now.  Augustine knocked on the door just after lunch to announce it and I said “I thought it was a little cooler in here” and sure enough cool air is coming out the vent.  I still haven’t put all the clothes away.  Nora came in and said something puzzling.  She said Bill having his towel on the bathroom floor was no good because “”when they clean they’ll object to it”.  So who is the “they”” that will be cleaning the place.  She did not say “inspect” or “check”.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on over the noon hour.  Days of our Lives wasn’t all that interesting today.  A theory was floated that perhaps Zander had Damos murdered from his prison cell in Greece or something. 

Opinions Divided on Success of G 21 Economic Summit

In the news Donald Trump met face to face with Vladimir Putin on Friday and allegedly grilled him about sabotaging the Presidential campaign of last year.  Putin flat out denied it and Trump immediately accepted that answer.  I find something to be phony bologna about the whole reporting of the incident.  It strikes me as fictional like Hillary’s accounting of the Monica Luinsky affair.  I just don’t think it happened anything like that.  But also Putin and Trump struck some deal, an accord, on Syria and getting Assad to town down the gassing and killing of his own people.  The strange thing is that Rachael Maddow claims that Putin manipulated the entire 2:16 meeting to his own whims.  I don’t see it that way.  From all the reporting of the encounter Trump comes out smelling like a rose.  In other news all the protests at the G 20 economic summit in Hamburg are continuing for a third night.  I’m not sure what the cause is except that it’s anarchists and environmental extremists.   I need more background.

HAMBURG — President Trump and other world leaders on Saturday emerged from two days of talks unable to resolve key differences on core issues such as climate change and globalization, slapping an exclamation point on a divisive summit that left other nations fearing for the future of global alliances in the Trump era.  The scale of disharmony was remarkable for the annual Group of 20 meeting of world economic powers, a venue better known for sleepy bromides about easy-to-agree-on issues. Even as negotiators made a good-faith effort to bargain toward consensus, European leaders said that a chasm has opened between the United States and the rest of the world.  “Our world has never been so divided,” French President Emmanuel Macron said as the talks broke up. “Centrifugal forces have never been so powerful. Our common goods have never been so threatened.”  The divisions were most bitter on climate change, where 19 leaders formed a unified front against Trump. But even in areas of nominal compromise, such as trade, top European leaders said they have little faith that an agreement forged today could hold tomorrow.

The following is a different news item.  HAMBURG, Germany — Wrapping up his second European tour, President Donald Trump and Asian allies searched for consensus Saturday on how to counter what the president called the “menace” of North Korea after its test-launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.  “Something has to be done about it,” Trump said as he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In a separate meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump said the two were tackling “the problem and menace of North Korea.”  The White House said after the meeting with Abe that the U.S. was “prepared to use the full range of capabilities” in defense of Japan. Trump and Abe committed, the White House said, “to redoubling their efforts to bring all nations together to show North Korea that there are consequences for its threatening and unlawful actions.”  The Trump administration has tried to pressure Beijing to rein in North Korea, a major trading partner, to halt Kim Jong Un’s development of nuclear weapons before they have the ability to threaten the U.S. homeland. Trump has voiced his frustration in recent days that China hasn’t done more, suggesting he may be moving on.  The buzz is that China is “japing out on us” as far as China is concerned.  

I had the Chris Matthews show on about a quarter after eight this morning.  The air conditioning these days works in the evening for a while in a weak stream.  But it’s enough to cool down the room briefly.  Then after breakfast you come in and the room has cooled down, but it doesn’t stay that way.  Needless to say Augustine has not worked on the air conditioner today.  Then I had the Rachael Maddow program on and both had hesitations with the sound with buffering or something.  She talked a lot about Russian dissidents one of which died from mistreatment in prison, to which Putin says, “People die in American prisons all the time”.  But they aren’t major political dissenters and the whole government isn’t conspiring to kill them.  Then another individual was poisoned, which goes on all the time.  Rachael believes that Putin clearly manipulated the conversation with Trump.  I would have typed this entry in the morning except that I was too sleepy.  They had voting for Resident of the Month from ten to twelve this morning.  I passed by in front of the med room and they had fancy punch in under-filled big cups and also a little popcorn all for voting.  I voted for John Kip as the man and Kathy, my table-mate for the woman.  After this I hung out back for a while.  Then from ten thirty to eleven I had Handel on the Law on.

 [Monday morning] I listened to Thom Hartman and deliberately missed the snack period.  I wasn’t hungry and I was too tired.  I turned the computer off at a quarter to eleven, went out and had a final smoke and then just lay down.  I went down to the front room where Bill was just before eleven fifteen.  Terry showed up at a quarter after and I flagged him down because he was looking in the dining room.  Bill sat in the back seat both ways.  The conversation was pretty rational and I asked him about his writing and he talked about a couple of his stories.  Bill tripped on a step to the Claim Jumer and Terry was strong enough to pull hjm to his feet.  I wouldn’t have been.   The place had a lot of empty chairs.  There was no waiting. We sat at a roomy booth.  Bill seemed at ease with Terry relating personal events from his life.  I ordered a large Coke and was given a whole second Coke, which I also drank entirely.  It gave me a caffeine sugar buzz.  Bill had the Widow Maker Hamburger and I had this chicken cob sandwich thing I wasn’t real pleased with.  For the first thing it was huge- - bigger than anything at Marie Calendar.  But then it has all of this concentrated blue cheese in it. I only ate one half of it and I was stuffed.  I ate all of the onion rings.  I asked for onion rings instead of fries.  Bill also had onion rings but he saved his.  We left paying largely with two $25.00 gift cards and we arrived back here just before one.  Days of our Lives was on and I watched it.  I don’t know what happened to Wimbelton unless they don’t have it anymore.  I deliberately skipped the two o clock snacks.  I had the Steve Hardy Show on and I watched that for the entire hour. 

I went to bed last night and I fell into the crack

I woke up this morning and I had an aching back

But Sit n Sleep has saved us from our old dust mite filled bed

That we’ve been sleeping on

Glory, glory Hallaluyah

Other stores will try to fool you

Glory, glory Hallalyah

Our sleepless nights are gone.

It Looks Like Time-Warner and AT&T are Merging

The lead story has to be this proposed merger  between A T & T and Time-Warner, which sounds completely insane because they are each other's chief rivals in this area.  Then there would be no competition at all.  But there is a little twist on the thing.  The Trump administration I guess is the one who proposed the merger but he's also saying there are strings on the merger.  It depends on how CNN treats President Trump in the news and I guess CNN will be a part of this merger.  I didn't know CNN was also owned by Time Warner but maybe they are.  Trump definitely wants to shut down competition in the news media.

The big news around here is this heat wave.  For the past week and a half weather forecasters have been understating the high of the day by about five degrees.   One day when they said it was only 77 in the news it definitely was in the eighties.   Monday was a warmer day than Sunday and every successive day this week has been warmer than the previous day.  Yesterday they said it was ninety and I say it was 95.  Humidity is up and will increase along with the temperature today to a predicted 98 in Anaheim as monsoonal action comes into play when the High pressure off to the east moves in closer and sucks in moist air from the Gulf of California.  Personally we haven't had air conditioning in here for two weeks except maybe briefly during the evenings.  Strangely it feels cool in here right now returning from breakfast.  So maybe something is working.  My appetite is down.  But after all it is summer time so expect heat.

As to Vladimir Putin, it's still an open question whether President Trump has met him face to face before.  Apparently several years ago Trump said he had met him and now he says he's never met him until today.  The President has given indications that he's not going to be confrontational about whether Putin has sabotaged the Presidential campaign of last year, except perhaps to say "Good job; well done".  There will be a lot more news on the whole Europe trip to announce after today.

Stocks today are down in response to a lack-luster unemployment report where fewer jobs were added last month than expected.  The president is at this economic summit in Germany and the event has been punctuated by widespread protests and police intervention.  Yesterday the President spoke with the leader in Poland and apparently Trump criticized US media to foreigners.  He also touted the values of conservatism which aren’t necessarily universal American values.  This is what the left wing media is claiming anyhow.  The only thing I heard personally is that he spoke a lot about ISIS terrorism.  Apparently Poland installed the “Law and Justice” party in 2015, two years ago.  If they were advancing Black civil rights ‘Law and Justice’ wouldn’t be a bad thing but somehow I get the feeling they mean something different by it.   Trump also repeated his claim that maybe Russia contributed the last year’s democratic campaign woes but he insists on saying that “Others were involved” without the slightest glimmer who these “others” are. 

Governor Christie made the news on Sunday when he and his family occupied a deserted beach with his family.  It so happens the Governor himself had closed all of the State beaches because there was no state budget.  But then Monday night the day was saved when Christie signed the new state budget into law so that people in NJ can start going to the beach again.  The optics were horrible on this one and Christie’s brash attitude only made things worse. 

North Korea launched off an ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile on the Fourth of July.  It sent seventeen hundred feet up into the air but only traveled five hundred miles laterally and landed in the Sea of Japan.  North Korea said they didn’t want to over-fly Japan.  That was nice of them.  Clearly is the missile had been aimed more horizontally it could have reached Alaska, so they have a missile now with almost the capacity to hit the American mainland.  The President can’t be very happy about this considering even minor things upset him.  

This is Thursday July 6, 2017.   Let’s start with mid morning.  Thom Hartman cane on at nine.  I made preparation to be picked up by Tim at nine thirty.  I was smoking out back at almost nine thirty and Tim was looking for me.  Bill and I and Carol left just after nine thirty.  Carol had to go for physical therapy and she was dropped off in Westminster after Tim dropped us off.  For technical reasons he had to sign us in.  The waiting room was moderately crowded with some arrivals before and some after us.  We made good time getting there.  I didn’t know AD wasn’t a religious magazine any more but stood for Architectural Digest.   Our appointment was for 10:15 and Bill was called in at twn twenty.  I was called in not long after that.  Dr Nichols didn’t give me the purple treatment on my butt today but he did shine the UV light on me and remarked about how improved things were on my butt.  Then his son came in to give me the usual shot.  I was done by a quarter to eleven and I don’t have to see Dr Nichols again.  He said I could call him with any new skin problems.  I went outside to smoke.  The AC was working good when we first got there but the office seemed to warm up the longer we were there.  I was still smoking my cigarette when Tim showed up.  He had to go inside to do some paper work.  We didn’t make as good of time on the return trip.  We went the usual way going and coming.  We arrived here at 11:15 but I went to use the restroom and see if anyone had gone through my things while I was gone.  (That’s a different story)  We had good pizza for lunch with cheese and pepperoni and we had two big slices.  We had a green salad with that and peaches for dessert.  I missed the first round of Augustine and the coffee but my first cup was everybody else’s second.  People seemed to clear out early and I actually felt rushed.  I had the Shannon and Neil Savedra show on.  Ncil is tricky when defending Donald Trump values.  He suggested that “All you socialists wouldn’t be a problem if you lived among yourselves in your own community, but don’t sponge off the rest of us.”   Somehow this is a remark I couldn’t picture Jesus Christ making.  But we haven’t read the gospel of Savedra.  He employs this trick of calling all left of center people “socialists”, which is the farthest thing from the truth.  He also said something about “It’s only the socialists who complain about the government”.  After this was Days of our Lives.  Today Dr Marlena Evans is doing hypno therapy on everybody.

It was a real sweat box in here and basically still is.  So I went and bought a two liter bottle of Coke for $2.25 and also a pack of cigarettes.  I had a little and then went down to the courtyard for a graham cracker and a lemonade.  Then I went and talked to Augustine, who was talking with Tess by her car.  The first thing Tess said when she saw me was to remark about how much weight I’d lost.  She asked me if I”d seen a doctor about it.  I then mentioned that the air conditioning hasn’t worked in this room for over two weeks.  Augustine said it was the first time I or anybody has told him about it.  He said he’d look right into it.  So far nothing has happened.  Then I returned here.  Then I called Mom.  I mentioned that my cough has been getting worse and that  I intended to talk to Dr Saran about it as well as my strange weight loss.  I mentioned Judy’s letter about how Mom is sleeping a lot more than she thinks she is at night.  Mom says she’s had stomach flu for the past week.  That’s a long time.  She and a bunch of the other residents have been quarantined.  Mom asked me about Tim’s trip and I told her everything I could remember from two conversations a week apart in early June.  I told her that Paul finds it hard to truly mentally unwind because Judy’s health is taking a toll on him, we well as work.  I covered a lot of stuff.  After this I went out to smoke and then had the Norman Goldman program on from three to four.  For dinner we had a good pork roast and we were even given butter for our mashed potatoes.  The green beans already had butter on them.  We had orange sherbet for dessert, or at least three of us did.  Marcia’s sherbet was mostly line.  Ricardo announced that he was supposed to have worked last night but the med trainee showed up and wanted to work and so he obliged her.  I have been dousing my head in cold water as a way of cooling off.  Eye Witness news is on now.  We are on page six and we’ll go to page seven.  

America Is Hopelessly Divided

It's been a week since I last did a posting.  Basically I'm just "checking in".  Normally there is a lot of substantive news on Donald Trump.  But all we have are these juvenile E mails of his directed at innocent people who don't deserve his scathing remarks.  People seem to want their leader because according to one Meet the Press analyst, the average media outlet is left of center and the average American is to the right of center so therefor things that attack the media are welcomed.  "The Week" magazine points out that the divide of really great and as I noted in a recent blog,  the American people are almost more irrationally divided then is congress.  Now Mitch Mc Connell is getting a little sense.  Maybe it's sheer desperation but he is against just eliminating Obama Care as the President wants to do.  Instead he wants to cut a deal with the democrats and work something out.  As I noted in that other blog, the American people are like trained seals in that they will repeat anything FOX news says, as if they were in some suggestable hypnotic trance.  

As you know (later paragraph) Glenda moved to Corona yesterday and moved in with her daughter and her two kids.  Bill wanted to call Glenda at ten but we had problems accomplishing that.  She gave Bill a 714 number and the phone would ring but then it would stop ringing and there were some re-verb sound effects and then silence.  This scenario played itself out several times.  Then Bonnie called me and her line was good.  Later on Glenda herself gog on the line but it was a toll call and she couldn’t talk for very long.  I talked to her briefly and handed it off to Bill.  Just after ten Joe and Jeff were over here but they didn’t get to talk to her.  I was tired and didn’t go out for refreshments.

Bill Handel says that if you are having your right hand scanned for identification purposes you can refuse to undergo the procedure if you say that it’s “taking the mark of the beast” even though such a religion notion has no link to the real world or even the book of Revelation.  Neither the rapture nor the Antichrist has come.  There was also the statement that if you are rear ended in a car crash the police don’t have to take your police report.  The police take police statements on anything and often hold these reports against people later.  The idea of their turning her down is absurd.  Also Bill claimed that if you are “Incorporated” this absolves you from all law suits.  This is the farthese thing from the truth.  Sure you can hide your funds and set up a secret personal bank account by another name and stash your real assets there and left the “Corporation” as a bankrupt empty shell.  But tobacco companies get sued every day as well as auto companies makine exploding air bags shooting out shraptnel and killing or injuring people.  I don’t know what Bill has been smoking but he seems out to lunch. 

(Saturday) Glenda is gone now.  She and Shiela took off in one car and Bonnie and Victor were securing the things in the blue truck and then they took off.  Bill has Glenda’s number and so does Joe.  After two years Glenda is really gone.  It remained overcast till after noon.  We never made it out to the Claim Jumper with Terry.  I went to the store for a jar of Nestcafe paying a five dollar bill for it rather than using my debit card as I had planned.  I had Leo on till basically two.  Nothing was on TV. 

Rhapsody in Black had July of 1965.   The big hits were few and far between and they stick out like a sore thumb.  There was “In the Midnight Hour”, “Papa’s God a Brand New Bag” “Baby, I’m Yours” by Barbra Lewis and “Sugar Pie Honey Bunch” by the Four Tops.  There were two lower level hits, “Agent Double O Soul” and “It’s Gona Take a Miracle”.   Everything else I’d never heard before or else it was so obscure it sounded like another song and I thought I’d heard it.   I went out and smoked at a quarter to four.  We had a bean burrito for dinner and an apple and carrot salad.  Then they came around with a second burrito.  We had cantaloupe for dessert.  Right now Eye Witness News is on.  

I had two cups of instant coffee in the evening.  One was around five thirty and the other was just after medication.  At six thirty they had a half hour Time-Life retrospective on “Laugh In”.  It was a forty episode retrospective on “Laugh In” for the six years it was on the air but they are charging you a hundred dollars for those forty episodes.  Then it was Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.  I got my medication from that trainee.  I was running really low on cigarettes but I felt suddenly tired and didn’t want to go out to the store and buy a pack.  At eight o clock there was dial twirling and then we settled on this court trial thing on CBS till nine o clock.  Then I went to bed.    I had a dream where I spent a lot of time at the library looking up Greek and Egyptian myths and came to the conclusion that these Egyptian myths were real and held the secrets to the universe but that Jesus was a myth and not to be trusted.  I would write to this evangelist that Paul listened to and the evangelist would get in contact with Paul and confront me on the letters I had written.