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.
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