Friday, November 23, 2018

Every Day With Trump Is A Disaster

We haven’t heard much about Michael Moore’s new movie 11 – 9 even though it’s been out for over a month.  On Wednesday there were a number of blatent things I heard President Trump say during the ABC news.  The biggest was siting with a lady in politics in Mississippi who kept joking about lynching and she thought it would get her votes with her base.  President Trump gave her his full support.  Then we have Trump attacking Justice Roberts over this ninth circuit court ruling invalidating the president’s edicts on not letting refugees in from other countries.  Trump says they have to come in legally or it doesn’t count.   Trump has made another recent statement reasserting that the troops the president sent down to the border have the right to shoot refugees from Central America.  Now he says that if Tijuana continues to be troubled by this caravan from Central America that the president will shut down the entire border from Texas to California.  It used to be that when you were drawing up articles of impeachment like against Bush you had to reach for some technicalities to flesh our your already long list of articles of impeachment.  Now all you have to do is review the evening news to come up with about five of them on the spot.    So far I haven’t heard Nancy Pelosi say that she’s going to push for articles of impeachment.  Back in 2007 she balked at filing charges of impeachment against President Bush and I belie that was a strategic mistake.   I’m not blogging very often now but when I do there is a whole bunch of fresh news, and usually I just scratch the surface. 

.  Last night Dorthey kept saying that the Trump bubble is bound to burst sometime and she gives him another year in office.  The trouble is that people have been saying that ever since November of 2016.  Some were even saying Trump would resign before he even took office.  This wishing Trump would be out of power is becoming an endless pipe dream, a mirage that never comes to pass.  Stephanie was saying the same thing on her show today.  Muller isn’t handing out any indictments to be thankful for this year.  We have things to be thankful for.  President Trump didn’t get us into any wars.  We didn’t experience the fires they’ve had in other places.  And I was delivered from my financial burden last August.  But I will say that Thanksgiving is a challenge this year.  This year there isn’t even a hope of a family gathering.  It seems like a long time since last year.  It’s been a long year and a lot has changed.  But at least I’ve been fairly healthy since a week ago Friday. 

.   I was lying down when I had the odd premonition there was a duplicate song on “The Psychedelic Album”.   I turned on the computer and there was one but it wasn’t the one I expected.  “Mystic Eyes” by Them is not only on the “Psychedelic Album” but of course also “A Lover’s Question”.  I am now told that this was a “translation”  (or transmission) error.  That song on “Question” should have been “Drive My Car” by the Beatles, which was included for technical reasons I won’t go into.   I thought that “someone must be pulling my strings for me to notice that”.  I turned on the TV knowing it was after six so I missed Joel Olsteen.  There was this stem cell program on KCOP which regenetates tissue that keeps people in pain.  People are delivered from decades of pain from this procedure that grows new cartelege or bone or whatever it is that you need.  At a quarter after six I turned the station and Joel Olsteen was on and of all things he was talking about “A god who pulls strings”.   Not only the good stuff but also the bad stuff has to pass God’s desk.  God is protecting you from all of the stuff Satan really wants to do to you but he can’t because God won’t let him.  I am also told that “The New Normal” album from July also suffers from a transmission error because two songs got left off of the album, which is why it’s so short. 

Fourth paragraph is scheduled later.  Well actually I was going to do Seven Prophecies in the OT of Jesus Christ.  But I'm going to shorten that up considerably.   I happened on hearing Dr Phil this morning saying "Never connect two sentences with the word BUT".  Either the first is true and the second is not, or it's the other way around.  Dr Phil has a definite aversion to the word BUT.  So we have the statement of "God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life BUT he wants to test our faith and therefore he keeps us in the dark as to what he is doing.  You see the Bible says "God works out all things [in our lives] for good".   In the book of Daniel it predicts that a messiah will come at the end of a specific period of years and that among other things "He will make an end to sin".  Therefore from that point on there should be no more sin.  But we know this is not the case.  There is still just as much sin in the world as ever.  But by faith we have to believe that something happened that we can find no evidence of.  The logical thing for Jesus to do after he rose was to announce his rising publicly and going "In Your Face" to his many detractors, who didn't believe such a thing was possible.  But if OUR belief- - is all that separates us from still being in the dark, then it looks as though many of us will still be in the dark.  Think about that one.  

Friday, November 16, 2018

The Reins of Power

It's about time we did another posting after a week.  President Trump has his own game plan for strengthening his grip on the reins of power.  He never campaigned for House members.  He had his eye on the senate because the senate is all he needs to get the judges he needs confirmed.  Mitch Mc Connell refused to confirm empty Judicial posts month after month in the Obama administration.  This way there was a whole slew of them to confirm with a new President Trump.  Now he has all those and he has Kavanaugh and Gorsich in the Supreme Court.  And he's hoping to have more confirmed if Justice Ginsburgh's health takes another turn for the worse.  He knows if he has judges on his side they won't oppose Trump in any of his many power plays to further rob American citizens of their civil liberties or other rights.  Now there is talk of new indictments coming down today from Meuler because it's a Friday and we know the really big news events occur on late Friday because people go out of town and don't read newspapers that much.  Everybody was expecting indictments to come down this week before Witicker or whoever shuts the whole investigation process down.  Of course nobody is talking about the illegal caravan from Mexico coming toward the US border because he only did that in the campaign to cater to his republican base.  It turns out the Republicans won senate seats in Nevada and Arizona so that maybe the gain in US Senators isn't as bad as we all feared.  Of course in two years the economy will probably be in a lot worse shape than it is right now so it will be virtually impossible to get reelected President in 2020.  Therefore it's important to Trump to establish his dictatorial powers right now.  People are now shouting "Heil Trump" at his campaign rallies openly comparing Trump to Hitler- - in a favorable way.

We've had all of these pre-emptions of TV shows the past eight days on TV stations with the Thousand Oaks shooting and the fires that have ravaged California largely due to climate change and of course that funeral for an officer yesterday that lasted in excess of two hours.

I have been in better health the past week.  I've felt almost normal.  My last really sick say was one week ago today when I had a raging fever I couldn't shake during the day.  I finally broke the fever drinking a big, cold bottle of Coke.  I also CUT the ammount of extra vitamins I was taking.  My body functioned better on junk food to re-establish resistance to disease viruses.  All of these lab reports may come to nothing if I'm better on my own after all these weeks. 

Now here is something from a few days ago.
Nora shewed up before two and shewed me out of the room.  I know she spent time cleaning the bathroom and she mopped the floor.  I smoked a cigarette and then smoked another one.  I needed to get back in to shave and I finally did that after two.  I got a number to see the doctor.  Someone was serving Oreos for a snack.  When I returned to the doctor line the second time Kathy at no 17 had already gone in.  I got in front of number twenty with two people (?) in front of me.  Dr Saran didn’t really ask how I was feeling.  The whole visit was a big disappointment.  He didn’t have either the blood test results or either of the chest X ray results, though I told him I had seen the image on the screen.   Dr Saran mentioned the colonscopy and seemed unaware that one had already been scheduled even though I told him the date.  I don’t remember either my temperature or my blood pressure.  He didn’t prescribe anything for me.  But like I say I never really got to discuss how I was feeling.  Then I went and got in the now tiny line to see Jennifer for Money Draw.  Only Mario was behind me.  Jennifer had a surprise for me.  She presented me with a bill for $23.58.   It was a strange statement.  The original bill was for $140.00 or something.  Apparently Jennifer had received other bills and these hadn’t been presented to me.  I got twenty dollars once I agreed to pay this bill on my own.  I wanted to see Mary Jane but Mary Jane wasn’t having people in after Michelle departed the office.  So I called the Pharmacy number on the bill and she said I could ignore the invoice if I wanted to and they’d just send me another one next month.  I haven’t called Paul about the problem.

Friday, November 09, 2018

"The Peoples' House" Goes Democratic

Let’s talk about the elections.  Stephanie Miller and John Fugelsang this morning were happy about the election results.  The democrats won two of the three major battles.  The democrats, Nancy Pelosi reminds us, won seven governorships.  These were Nevada, New Mexico, Kansas, Wisconsin. Illinois, Michigan and Maine.  In Kansas they were suffering badly from fiscal mismanagement such that even their own legislature was at odds with him.  In Wisconsin Scott Walker went down to defeat after eight years.  The democrats won thirty seats in the House of Representatives, “The peoples’ house”.  I think the tally now is 224 democrats to 199 Republicans, though I think the democrats have picked up more seats.   Nancy Pelosi has no real competition for Speaker of the House.  The democrats now will head all of the investigation comittees and Trump is afraid of that.  In that hour and a half press conference President Trump said that “You have a choice to investigate me or work with me but you can’t do both.” Trump placed all of his eggs in the US Senate basket where he campaigned heavily on the “Caravans from Mexico” scare tactic.  He was successful.   Ted Cruz was reelected to US Senate in Texas and it looks like Lex Luther alias Rick Scott will go to the Senate from Florida.  However the vote is so close they’re going to have a recount.  Abrams, the Black lady from Georgia isn’t conceding defeat but is relying on a runoff election next month.  In California Gavin Nusin was elected governor and Kunalocus defeated Ed Hernandez, whom I voted for.  Marshal Tuck was in a close race but I think he won for school superindendant.   The 48th district is Dana Rorebacher and I think he has lost but it’s close.  In the propositions these ended up as expected with the exception of the Daylight Savings Time one I voted against.  It passed, which passes it back to the state legislature for action.  Propositions six, eight and ten failed and I voted against all three.  A whole lot of women and minorities got elected to congress. 

I’ve been thinking about gun control.  This 28 year old marine who shot up all of those people in the bar used a 45 calatre semi-automatic Glock, which is legal.  But the magazine he used for all of the extra bullets was illegal.  Even if something is illegal a determined gunman can choose to break whatever laws get passed and get a hold of what he needs. People aren’t even talking about gun control this time except for that grieving mother.  The other thing in the news is in the fires in Venture and also in Los Angeles county.  Apparently these fires have gotten much worse overnight fired by these Santa Ana winds and Bill has coverage of that right now on KNXT where we tuned in expecting to see “Let’s Make a Deal”.  I just don’t want to miss another day of “Days of our Lives”.  We’ve had too many crisis days. 

Tuesday, November 06, 2018

What About that Blue Wave?

Well, it's six o clock in the morning on election day and with the time change it's starting to get light now, so I guess I'd better do a little pep talk for the election.  The last entry in this particular blog was in late February.  Let's hope that the "Wheels" are turning our way come election night.  Joel Olsteen last Sunday was preaching about "This time next year" or upping the timetable even "this time tomorrow" all those enemies whom you see vexing you now, you will never see again".   It would be nice to have all your problems go away in a day or even in one week.   Last Sunday morning on 'Meet the Press", Chuck Todd was trying to "talk up" the democrats.  There are a lot of really close races this year particularly for governor.  TOO many close races for comfort and once you take off the three or four percent "red shift" from the democratic tally, you could have a God damned republican landslide on election day as all of these "tight races" break Republican.  You have the US Senate race in Texas with Ted Cruz fighting for his job in a "new and purple" Texas, according to Sixty Mionutes, which is more urban and intelllectual and minority dominated.  In the Florida races for Governor where you have a Black guy running for democrat - - and then you have US Senate where ol' Lex Luther is witching from governor to senate- - Rick Scott.   Scott Walker is fighting for his job up in Wisconsin and then you have Senator Claire Mc Hascle (?) going down for the third time in Missouri.  She's appealing to the moderates by saying "I'm not one of those whacko democrats".   That's fighting from behind.  It looks like Governor Snyder will be going down in Michigan and that's a good thing.  You have the Abrams Black lady in Georgia running for governor.  Some people are saying the average gain for the opposite party is 35 seats and the democrats only need 23 or 24 to take control.  My motto is "don't count your chickens before they're hatched".   In California my Republican brother is voting for Feinstein because "She'll die in office anyhow".   I was planning on voting for Feinstein because of her seniority, which means influence and privelege. 

I've had health problems the past two months.  I saw the doctor one week ago today and he scheduled a bunch of tests for me, most of which I've had in the past week.  It could be anything at this point.  This virus has affecrted my alertness and mental functioning, which is why I haven't written in these blogs very much, though I've had a lot of ideas I haven't put down.  Stephanie Miller is on right now.  She's talking about sane day voter registration.  Just remember that Trump is a want to be dictator and he admits to being a "Nationalist" like Hitler or somebody.  He has Hitler's speeches for bedtime reading they report.  And many of his campaign tools are right out of the Third Reich handbook.  Ask Thom Hartman about it.  This appeal to "state of crisis" and fanning racist tendencies is something Hitler was fond of using.  Maybe I'll do another entry later today.