Terrorism Against the Left

This will be the lead blog post in "Escape from Egypt" for a while.  We're moving on to the next blog to cover the last ten or so days of the election campaign.   Of course this mad bomber first struck Monday evening when George Soros, a liberal Jew apparently,  got a pipe bomb sent to him  Then there was an explosion (pardon the pun) of mailings on Wednesday.  President Obama was targeted and Sec of State Hillery got a bomb as well as many other Democrats including Maxine Waters and James Clapper of the CIA and also Brennon of the CIA.  On Thursday it was Cory Brooker and Vice President Joe Byden and some Democrat from Berlengane.   Twelve bombs were sent in all and they were targeted to ten different recipients.  President Trump says it's a bad thing and we should get to the bottom of it.  However Trump is continuing to attack the media for talking about this bombing story rather than politics, which President Trump wants highlighted since he's been in campaign mode his entire administration and particularly this congressional campaign season.

This is a foggy Saturday morning after breakfast on October 27, 2018.  Nobody has seen the kitty either today or the previous two days and there are again rumors Augustine did something with it.  Yesterday morning I originally heard from Dorthey after nine that they had caught that mad bomber or whoever.  He was a 56 year old man from Florida with a criminal carrier.  The FBI spoke that these bombs were not hoaxes but potentially could go off with the right friction or heat.  However they could tell the bombs were poorly made.  They said they could tell whether the bomber was left or right handed by the twisting of the wires.  The guy eft fingerprints on the tape and also his DNA was found on the device and compared with DNA they already had on the guy.  Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke and said he would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and said he’ll get 58 years.   I needed to use the restroom at ten and the bathroom in our unit was locked up.  So I asked Nora for the key and she said to lock up afterwards.  Then I turned on the computer and radio.  KPFK didn’t have Thom Hartman but did what they do best and that’s money raising for the station.  On WCPT they had some substitute talking about the Trilatteral Comission but they played Thom Hartman’s music.  I continued to feel rather feverish and ill.  I needed to take a leak again just before lunch.  I noticed that the women’s restroom was cracked open and the light was on.  I used that facility. 

We had a fairly tasteless filet of chicken breast for lunch and a green salad for lunch but I wasn’t very hungry regardless.   Patty complained about Dianne Feinstein and said people like her should be term-limited out.  ButI mentioned that if they did that the lobbyists would run congress.  Then Patty began attacking George Soros and complained that he was funding this caravan migration from Mexico.  I said I had never heard that.  But she missed my point that Soros isn’t a lobbyist and it’s the lobbyists that right and make all of the laws congress passes now.  I told Bill, who had just returned from his appointment, that our bathroom was locked up.  But then when I returned I saw Nora in the hall in Cathy’s room and our door was locked and I came in and the bathroom door was wide open and the fan was on.  Previously I had heard that we might have to do without bathroom facilities till Tuesday when Augustine works on the problem downstairs.  It was more of the mad bomber on Gary and Shannon.  They had another news conference.  Then it was the four football picks at 12:20 and then “Draining the swamp” at the usual time.   On “Days of our Lives” the line now is that Abigail isn’t legally married to Chat but to Stephan and Stephan is protecting her from her family that wants to involuntarily have her committed “indefinitely” to an institution.  I guess in these hearings the patient doesn’t get to speak in her own defense, or at least that’s what they implied.  If you’re sane in the here and now that’s less important than if there is a lot of rumor and imuendo about you from others. 

We all know about the eighteen inning Dodgers game last night that lasted seven and a half hours till after twelve thirty in the morning.  The Dodgers won 3 to 2.   The other news is the stock market which is below 25,000 now and headed down.  Amazon says they won't be hiring as many people for the holiday season this year because the economy is slowing down.   In late news there is an active shooter situation now at Pittsburgh at a Jewish Synagogue.  

Trump Land and other News

President Trump is blowing up the nuclear proliferation treaty that President Reagan signed with Michael Gorbichev in 1987.  Trump claims that Russia has violated it.  This seems to be an about face for President Trump.  Trump has congratulated the President of Mexico for at least trying to turn back the tide of five thousand refugees from Honduras.  They are 1500 miles away from the Texas border right now.  Mexico has offered asylum to some of the refugees but they aren’t accepting it because they fear it’s a trap.  I with Trump wouldn’t blame the democrats for all of the stuff he doesn’t like in America.  In other news a dance floor collapsed in South Carolina when celebrants of the Climson Tigers win over NC State were all gathered together and dancing in unicin.  Proposition 7 is the proposition that eliminates Daylight Saving Time in California and takes us back to how things were in 1949, the year before I was born.  This proposition hasn’t had commercials.  Proposition 9 was kicked off the ballot.  This is the crazy measure that divided California into thirds.   Now the Arabs are saying that there was a body double who pretended to “be seen leaving” the embassy three weeks ago.  But the plan went wrong because nobody saw him.  Meanwhile the Saudis are still sticking with the fist fight theory as to how that Washington reporter “accidentally” met his death. 

There is a saying that getting “into it” with President Trump (and some might say the same thing of Michelle) is like wrestling with a pig.  Both of you will get really muddy, but the only thing is- the pig likes it.  Trump has encouraged physical violence against people frequently.  He called Stormy Daniels “horse face”.  And of course he renigged on the Elizabeth Warren DNA thing.  He says “I won’t believe it till I perform the DNA tests myself”.  In other news there is some new narrow tunnel that runs from Hawthorne to “Pico and Supulvida” just like the song.  It “transports cars 150 miles per hour due to some automated thing.  (?)  They said something about it being open for use in early December of this year.  I saw the futuristic lighting thing.  Meanwhile starting the summer of 2019 they are going to begin construction under Beverly Hills High to extend the purple line subway from Korea Town to the West Side.  The move has passed all of the environmental hearings.  But still the students are dead set against it with middle school students saying “I don’t want to spend all four years at BH High with all that shaking and stuff.”    Last night I don’t get the significance of the mystery Star that they were trying to find on “God Friended Me’ having something to do with the Golden Mean, which of course is 1.618.   Last night’s plot seemed a little  - - flighty. 

[one week ago] The Federation’s football record this weekend was an embarrassment.  I haven’t talked about the Federation lately.  They’ve lost a lot of prestige.  They went with Cleveland over the LA Chargers in Cleveland.  The Chargers embarrassed Cleveland.  Then it was the Raiders being beaten badly by the Seattle Sea Hawks.  The Federation had predicted a Raiders victory in London.  Finally we come to last night’s game on KNBC.  Kansas City had a 5 and 0 undefeated record.  New England had had losses.  All the same Kansas City was being beaten up on by New England and the score was 25 to 9 at one point.  I don’t know the final score.   The Federation also announced “We’re not going to help the Rams against Denver this day”.   If the Federation had “helped” them the Rams might well have lost.  As it is the Rams won.  This was the afternoon game on FOX at one.   The Rams scored a majority of their points in the first half of the game.  It was 20 to 3 and then 20 to 10.  The score kind of froze there till the end of the game after I had gone to dinner.  Then the Rams scored a field goal making it 23 to 20.  Somehow the Broncos had scored ten more points after I left.  In the TV game at dinner it was Dallas playing Jacksonville, I believe.  Baltimore had a game with Tennessee.  

The other news topic is my health.  Last weekend I still felt sick, feverish, with a spasmotic cough.  Maybe I have TB but it  could also be Hepatitus B or perhaps Epstein Barr virus.  I might have to go to the hospital to be disgnosed.  The vitamins I've been taking are like plecibos, as well as the antibiotic I've been taking for a few days now.   The big breakthrough hasn't occurret- - at least yet.  

The Week's Events

.  I was thinking of typing a thesis on moral even-handedness and moral consistency in the Church.  I don’t see how Pat Robertson can engage in this Saudi Arabia cover-up of that reporter.  What’s in it for him to tout the Trump line.  What was in it for Chuck Smith while he was still alive to tout the most extreme of anti-Obama rhetoric.  Why does Terry Hill back up Justice Kavanaugh?   These are all mysteries.  Something is driving today’s Christianity that isn’t theological in nature.  It’s like this cult of Trump-ism is devouring everything it comes in contact with.   This is Friday October 19th and the following is material from events earlier this week.  I hope to type more on current events today or tomorrow.   

I had Stephanie Miller on.  At ten to nine Bill called up and wanted me to go buy him a pack of Time cigarettes for eight dollars out of my bank account and send them along with whoever is going to pick him up.  People I’ve asked about it say not to do it if I don’t want to.  I checked the lunch and dinner menus and I guess the meals are passable.  I came in from out back and Sarah told me Terry was at the front desk.  He had a big long box filled with individually wrapped thick slices of pumpkin bread.  And it’s nice and fresh.  Millie says that Cathy took seven or eight slices.  I wondered why the box went down so fast.  People came around when Terry was passing them out to people.  Then we went up to my room.  Terry is a Justice Kavanaugh freak and called his hearing a “witch hunt”.  That’s right out of FOX news.  He talked of political candidates calling him up and Terry wants to know where they stand on the moral issues and one of the moral issues was “political correctness”.

Yesterday I don’t know if I went for morning snacks or not.  We had – - two big tacos with shells but no hot sauce for lunch and fruit cocktail for desert.  I had Gary and Shannon on.  I watched Days of our Lives.  At two I went out for snacks and got two Oreos and an iced tea from Rico.  Nora came just as I was leaving and I was out of the room till two thirty.  Then I got on the computer for something.  I looked at my E mail and then wrote Paul a badly written letter about my illnesses.  But then I watched Eye Witness news at three.  I dozed off during the three thirty news and woke with just enough time at ten to four to go out for a smoke.  I only got a single decker peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  That didn’t fill me up.  Sarah said I should have asked for a triple decker if I wanted two layers of filling.  We had applesauce for dessert inside a container, and not apple crisp. Then I went with two dollars and bought a pack of Vanilla clippers.  Now President Trump says it’s “rogue elements” inside Saudi Arabia that abducted and hacked to death that Washington Post reporter.   The evening was usual.  I was awake for watching the ABC network news.  Elizabeth Warren does have Cherokee DNA in her genes.  But President Trump is not going to pay the million dollars he promised    I got my iron pill from Jan just before dinner.  There was a line at seven thirty.  But Jan didn’t give me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  It was Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.  Then it was “The Resident” at eight.  I had the TV on after nine but don’t remember the program.  I had an interesting dream the night before last about being able to regress and change time and play a “what if” situation. 

It's twenty minutes to three on Wednesday October 17, 2018 and the fifth Brewers and Dodgers game is being played right now at Dodger stadium.  I don’t know if it’s on FOX.  The Brewers won Monday night’s game and the Dodgers won the match last night that went thirteen inning and they won two to one.  There were a lot of surprises yesterday and today.  Yesterday morning I think I got morning snacks.  I was sitting out back intending to type some more when Sarah met me in the hall and said that someone was waiting for me at the front desk.  It was Terry.  He had a long box with him like curtain rods or something which he hadn’t opened up yet.  He said it was for me and Bill.  It was individually wrapped thick pumpkin bread slices.  I see I’ve already reported on that so I guess I typed after he had left.  I didn’t want to talk about Justice Kavanaugh with him.  For lunch we had a turkey toasted open faced sandwich with white gravy which Millie didn’t like.  I don’t remember the dessert.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on.  I never went to the store for Bill as he had requested.  I was getting my usual attack of noon drowsiness.  I decided to shave but did not use after shave.  I watched Days of our Lives.  Nora was about to come in this room when I departed to do stuff.  I didn’t try for the snack line. 

In the lobby in the med line to see Dr Saran Bill was already there just after two and he had picked a number just ahead of me to see the doctor.  He said Kathy cut in line without a number.  I saw Dr Saran.  He had my blood test results from several months ago.  Everything looked good (as of them).  I immediately began telling Dr Saran about all my symptoms.  I told him of the fever in the head and reduced appetite and tightness in the stomach.  I told him I had been sick since September 21^st.  I told him about my morning backaches.  Dr Saran kept urging me to get a flu shot as he was giving out this time.  He said I’d get even sicker if I didn’t have one.  Finally he was talked into putting that off till next month.  He prescribed more cough syrup and anti-biotics.  My temperature was 97.9 and it would have been more believable if it had been 99.7.  My blood pressure was 124 over 64, which was back down to normal.   Then I got in the money draw line.  I never heard money draw announced.  The line wasn’t too long this time and one guy let me go in ahead of him.  I was behind John Kip.  I got in and took a piece of candy she had.  I had eleven dollars in my account, and I took all of that.  I went to get a pack of strawberry cigarettes.  Later on in the day I came back to get a 12 oz can of Coke.  I also bought a green lighter this day.  I gave Judy Dr Saran’s phone number because she wanted it.

I was watching the ABC nertwork news when Augustine finally came by to fix the sink and the toilet.  He put in a new sink trap and he plunged the toilet.  Both work fine now and Bill is satisfied.  I had four pieces of pumpkin bread this day and gave Bill the other three, which he ate.  We had ravioli for dinner with tomato sauce and a green salad.  I think we had fruit cocktail for dessert.  The evening was relatively normal I guess   Jan said I was late in getting my iron pill at five.  I spent a lot of time outside.  It was Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.  I went down for the medication line at seven thirty and there was a short line.  I didn’t then get cough medicine but I came back just after nine o clock and got cough syrup because I was agitated and coughing.  Bill wanted the window open complaining it was hot in the room.  I got cold in the room after three thirty in the morning.  Bill woke me up then making a lot of stirring around noises. 

      I got up and showered at ten before five.  I unwrapped the regular vitamins and have been taking them along with the C.   I had Bill Press and Stephanie Miller.  Bill was out of the room a lot.  I got medication just after five thirty and John gave me cough medicine.  I had eaten all of the pumpkin bread.  We had Rice Krispies for breakfast.  This was followed by a bagel and cream cheese and a sausage link and a hard boiled egg.  Larry had food on his plate and I ate some of that and taken some out to feed the cat with.  Dorthey was holding the cat at length once before breakfast and once afterwards.  I gave the cat the egg and the sausage.  Then I lay back down on the bed and relaxed a little.  Bill convinced me to turn on the KNXT news and I ended up dozing off a little.  “Let’s Make a Deal” came on at nine and “The Price is Right” was on at ten.  All the while Bill was sleeping.  I did not go out for morning snacks. 

Nora finally made it by at twenty to eleven after I had prepared the room.  I spent time out back with Millie and Dorthey.   We had sweet and sour pork and those oriental noodle things and broccoli.  I didn’t get seconds.  We had mandarin oranges for dessert.   I had the Gary and Shannon show on.  I was sitting out back when Dr Levy showed up in his marroon car.  He still has my records in his garage Days of our Lives was a revealing day.  Gabriel is going from bad to worse in terms of her personal ethics.  Ben and Sierra have a relation based on honesty and now Claire wants to undermine that with her cramming her own ideas down Ben’s throat.  In the afternoon I got two Oreos and an iced tea from Rico.   I came back up here to make a phone call to Judy asking her how her conversation with Dr Saran went today.  She couldn’t get through.  Now Bill has turned on Eye Witness news and wants me to exchange a cigarette lighter for him. 

D J I Drops 835 Points Yesterday

.  They spent the first fifteen minutes of the ABC network news doing Hurricane Michael.  Hurricane Michael is the third lowest barometric pressure of all time behind Camille and that hurricane that hit in 1935.  This puts it past Andrew and Katrina.  It hit in Panama City, Florida but the path of the hurricane is curving to the right swinging past Atlanta and then headed to North Carolina and points to the north and east.  They say it’s the first hurricane to hit so deep into Georgia. In late news today the hurricane has moved eastward back toward the Atlantic Ocean and now they are predicting a US exit via the Atlantic after it hits the middle Atlantic states.  

The markets were down over eight hundred points on the D J I.  This signals real trouble because if interest rates are really headed upward for the first time in ten years, it could signal not just a one day flook but the first day of the new bear market.  Time will tell.  If the numbers keep dropping and dropping a lot every day, day after day, it may weigh on the voter who reads their newspapers every day.  It could help the democrats.  But if I were a democrat running for congress I'd say, and would have said before yesterday, that the economy will crash or at least go down sometime before 2020 because the Federal Reserve has deemed it time to raise interest rates.  Inflation is now at 2.8% and even the government admits that much.  Social Security will be increasing by that ammount.  In reality we know inflation is and has been Much higher than that.

KFI interrupted Leo for the senate vote on Kavanaugh.  There were a lot of protestors and the sound system was strange with noises you couldn’t make out.  I thought there were a lot more “Aye” votes than there turned out to be.  The final vote was 50 to 48.  But Lisa Marcusky canceled her “no” vote so that someone else could register their eye vote who couldn’t make it because they were at a wedding.  I guess it was really 51 to 49 or just what everyone thought.  The early game ended a little after one and then it was Miami and Florida State.  Rhapsody in Black wasn’t on.  I went out for two Oreos and an iced tea from Rico.  

Even a two degree C rise in the temperature of planet earth will be an unacceptable figure with widespread damage to coastal cities.  People say that 2030 could be the danger point where it may already be too late to do anything about it.  If the polar ice caps melt, there's no getting them back.  They are the things that reflect the sun's heat.  I know I haven't been blogging much and this is all I have for you today.  

Our Utterly Corrupt Society

I tuned in Thom Hartman this morning at nine and he announced that the FBI had cleared Kavanaugh of any wrong doing.  But at the same time he announced there was a massive rise in the polls over the past two weeks of Kavanaugh’s popularity among Americans and that in key congressional races the Republicans are gaining.  Thom explains that this sudden rise in popularity in the Republicans  is due to mass advertising in other parts of the country.  It certainly hasn’t been around here.  This is all despite the fact that the FBI never questioned either Kavanaugh or Ford and basically they announced their investigation was over two days ago after only a day or two of questioning of witnesses.  Of course they wouldn’t question anybody that reported that Kavanaugh was a drunk or that he abused women, so I don’t know what the FBI’s game is.  Apparently the FBI overnight has gone from being an independent organization to being a rubber stamp for anything that President Trump wants them to say.  I bet when the FBI was investigating King back in the sixties they took a lot longer than two days.  Back then they were bent on coming up with evidence against King.  So it would seem that the full vote of the Senate will be tomorrow or Saturday and this whole thing will be wrapped up this week.   Of course this is despite evidence that Kavanaugh used the term “Alumnus” to describe women that he’s had sex with or that he rented out a place on the beach in Easter of 1983, which would be his senior year in High School.   He said that there would be a lot of drinking and puking and there was some concern that there would be enough beds to lay all the women.  Of course there are various other letters that Kavanaugh sent.  He would put four F’s for “find ‘em, feel ‘em, fuck ‘em and forget them” referring to his rape victims.  And of course he was in a fraternity at Yale with a bad reputation for abusing women.  And of course they would line the fraternity brothers up at the door to have them all have sex with the same woman.  I guess that was part of an initiation or something.  Who would guess that so called good Christians- - Catholics no less- - - would have such a record of moral debauchery.  I don’t know.  How do the Koch Brothers craft an ad on TV that would make such a person appealing as a Supreme Court justice?  People keep saying that the walls are closing in on President Trump, yet the evils of this administration keep going on and on and even at this date I can’t really say that there is light at the end of the tunnel.   

There are two other news items about Trump.  One is the NAFTA rewrite.  It seems that the new NAFTA treaty has some better provisions that help labor and get rid of unfair competetion and keep more US jobs here.  But also other provisions were thrown in to help the drug companies maintain prohibitively high prices by extending patents and also helping out the oil companies.  The other news are Trump's finances.  We all knew Trump was a crook and now we know for sure.  Gone at last is the myth that Trump got started with just a one million dollar loan from his father.  Now they say that by age eight Donald Trump was already a millionaire.  Also that in today's dollars Trump got over four hundred million from his father.  But they also said that the brothers got over a billion dollars from his father's estate when he died.  And of course there is massive tax fraud and we never got to see Donald Trump's tax returns.  In personal news my health has been poor the last two thirds of the month of September and I'm not really sure how it is now.  The flu has struck early around here and I'm surprised I haven't heard anything about it in the news yet.  

Sorry for the Eleven Day Hiatus

For lunch we had a breaded cod filet chunk and tartar sauce.  With it we had brown rice and Brussels sprouts.  We had light cake with fruit in it for dessert.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on.  According to California law you know if you commit a spur of the moment murder during a robbery it’s automatically first degree.  And you know the person who waits in the getaway car is just as guilty of the robbery as those who performed the act.  But the law takes it one step further saying the person, usually a woman, who is in the getaway car is just as guilty of the murder as if she’d done it even if the idea for the killing did not exist yet.  This seems to me to be inherently unfair but Gary and Shannon love it.  It doesn’t matter if the guy is a teenager in high school- - - he desserves many years in prison.  One legislator is trying to change this saying that women are unfairly discriminated against.  Gary and Shannon have that right wing streak in them saying no extremity of punishment is too great.

I watched Days of our Lives.  Today Trip and Sierra made love.  They better before Ben gets there because he was just let out of jail because it turns out the key evidence against him was planted after all.  Shawn took it to a lab and proved it.  Hatti Adams and John Black are now man and wife.  Christine is a maniac.  Samantha promised Stephan half of her estate if he would but tell her the secret as to where E J is now.  After this I went out for snacks from Rico and got a sugar free three pack of lemon cream cookies.

In yesterday’s morning game on CBS the Patriots beat Miami 31 to nothing or whatever it was.  They switched to Cincinatti and Atlanta after a while.  Then I switched to see Dallas beating the Detroit Lions.  Then as a bonus game they had Tennessee and the Eagles locked in overtime, but then FOX had to cut away from that game for some reason.  (There appeared to be none)  For lunch we had hearty chicken strips with some nice glaze sauce on them - - and brown rice that had a few dry cernals.  I don’t remember the dessert.  I didn’t attempt to tune in Leo on a Sunday.  I never had “Face the Nation” on.  I didn’t feel up to having the computer on any more.  I haven’t blogged since Thursday. 

In the afternoon game it was the Raiders and Cleveland.  No, I’m kidding.  It was the Chargers and the ‘49ers.  The ‘49ers jumped out to a fourteen to nothing lead but then the Chargers caught up.  Then the ‘49ers pulled ahead.  Then the Chargers came back.  At the end of the game all the Chargers had to do to win was run out the clock and didn’t even want to kick a field goal which would have increased their 29 to 27 lead from two to five.  They had the game on during dinner, and I watched it after dinner.  Of course I was talking out back a lot.  For dinner we had two cheese quesedas and a “Mexican salad” that I didn’t have any appetite for.  We had three sugar cookies for dessert.  Millie had talked about all of these phone calls she was going to make this Sunday but I don’t know the results of any of them.  She was going to call channel two.  I went out a little before dinner for instant coffee and another pack of cigarettes at the store and had two cups of instant coffee this evening.   Tim called between three and four.  If I had known he hadn’t talked to Paul I would have minced my words a little.  As it was I laid it on thick and heavy about my illness, which consists of a feverish head and tenseness and a touchy stomach, as well as a cough, which sometimes gets bad.  It was between six and seven that Bill and me and Millie and Gene and Dorthey were all talking about illnesses and how sick everybody was, but especially Bill.  Millie and Dorthey urged Bill to have himself admitted to the hospital tonight without delay.  At first Bill wasn’t sure about it but he resolved to do it.  They said “If you don’t do it, we’ll all be sitting around a week from now having the same conversation”.  I applied this to myself because I didn’t feel that great and as I told them all, “I’m looking forward to getting my medication”.   Bill went right in and changed his clothes but was too tired to shower.  He said he would wait out front.  I only delayed another minute or so and went to get my medication about twenty-five after seven.  I was surprised to see Bill there with the ambulance people.  They didn’t seem very sociable with me.  They didn’t want to hear what I had to say.  I urged Bill to be strident but clear with the hospital nurses and doctors about exactly what his symptoms were.  I don’t think the parameics were understanding just what his problem was.  I was getting my medication from Jan.  I got cough medicine, which I’ve had straight for a week and a half- - or so. 

Sixty Minutes had that Brett Cavana thing with that Flake senator fellow, and a democrat he has been friends with.  Flake needed to “flake off” the republican majority and he did.  But now the scuttlebutt is that the FBI background  check is deliberately restrictive.  For one thing they won’t interview anybody who remembered Cavana as a bulligerant drunk who abused women.  They aren’t going to interview that third complainer who described him like that, as well as many others.  The second segment was on this one drug pusher doctor who lived in Florida where they have really permissive laws when it comes to narcotics.  People come from all over America to get their drugs in Florida.  There are more drug outlets there than there are Mac Donald’s.   The third segment was on Paul Mc Cartney and I was disappointed with that.  They talked only about his years with the Beatles and nothing in the last 48 years of copious album production.  I was thinking Paul would be talking about and plugging his latest album, “Egypt Station”.  After this was the show “God Friended Me”, which I watched.  It lasted an hour.  Then it was NCIS Los Angeles, and I went to bed before that program was over.  I wasn’t feeling that great and I was waiting for the medication to kick in and then I could get some sleep. 

I got up at five o clock but didn’t shower because I was too tired.  I turned on the computer about twenty after five and watched “Bill Press” and “Stephanie Miller” and had the Rude Pundit on.   I guess Bill spent the night OK.  Encephelitus causes swelling of the brain they inform us.  I didn’t go out to the store before breakfast.  We had Cheerios followed by scrambled eggs and bacon and tater tots and toast, butter and jelly.  I had more of Stephanie Miller on.  The cat was hungry and restless responding to the rustle of the plastic of Nancy.   I was drowsy in the morning.  I didn’t go for morning snacks. 

I went to the liquor store just before three and bought a $2.50 big bottle of Pepsi using my debit card.  Then I watched Norman Goldman till a few minutes to four.  We had a turkey sandwich for dinner with tomatoes and lettuce.  We had peaches for dessert.  Then we had a piece of Millie’s blueberry pie she got from her sister.  She saved some of it.  Laurance was on his way in the hall.  I just turned on the news.        

Could President Trump Skate on all Charges?

The tea leaves still look good for President Trump.  The economy is going full speed ahead with a rosy Christmas season projected and production and sales numbers up all around.  This economic recovery is about to set a record for length of a recovery.  It's been ten years and you'd be hard pressed to find a ten year period in US history where there were more than ten years between economic slow-downs but we have one now.  President Trump appears vindicated.  There isn't even a hint of a coming slow-down.  If we don't show signs of a slow-down by 2020 then President Trump could stand a good chance of being reelected, knowing the kind of stunts they pull to rig the vote nation wide in so many ways, all of which you know about.  Now Christine Ford had agreed to testify.  So basically it all hinges on how convincing she can be before a hostile Senate comittee.  The FBI had vetted - - done a background check on Brett Kavanaugh or however you spell it- - multiple times and every time he has turned up clean as a whistle.  This doesn't bode well for the democrats being able to make something of these sexual charges all brought about by one person with apparently no corroberation.   Kavanaugh can always say stuff like "This is a horrible burden on my wife and kids having to have them exposed to all this stuff".   And even if Kavanaugh is guilty as charged- - the Republicans just might care.  They didn't care about electing Trump.  The testimony could be on Monday and a few days later there could be a Senate vote to confirm the Justice.  Mc Connell always he wanted Kavanaugh confirmed before the Supreme Court opens its new season the first Monday in October.  

This is Wednesday September 19, 2018, “talk like a Pirate” day.  I have to take all the magazines off the chair to use the computer.  I shaved about two thirty and trimmed my mustache.  It took twelve minutes.  Nora didn’t change the linens today or do a major cleaning.  I didn’t think she was going to be here at all.  She showed up just after three as I was coming in.  Eye Witness news had just begun.  Bill didn’t mind her cleaning the bathroom and mopping the floor today.  Yesterday the LA city council banned the manufacture and sale of new fur products.  But the ban won’t take place for two years.  After EWN it was the ABC network news live edition.  We had good vegetarian pizza for dinner.  Two pieces, and also a green salad with Italian dressing.  There was an avalanche of people lining up for seconds on pizza but Sarah said they had only a few pieces left so I gave it up.

By this time in Nixon's presidency he was out of office after just over two years of the Watergate investigation.  By this timetable, Trump should have been booted out of office one way or the other a month and a half ago.   Remember when Trump got elected there were these persistent rumors that Trump had no intention of assuming the office of president.  How things have changed today!  Today we are worried about him being a dictator.  This time around there is no end in sight to the Muller investigation- - and people's attention spans are not infinite  There comes a point where the viewers loose interest out of sheer boredom.  The news is that Christine Ford does NOT want to testify before congress on Monday.  She wants experts in sexual harassment to question her to get a more sympathetic interaction.  The thing is Cavana denies being at the party and that other friend denies being at the party.  And there is an additional person named in the deposition by Ford and he too denies even being at this party.  This doesn’t look too good for her credibility.  President Trump has said that if she testifies on Monday that he will consider pulling the nomination of Cavana.  Meanwhile Tim sent me an E mail saying he wants to try yet again to go for that drive to Lake Elsinore on Monday.  I have no idea how I’ll feel then. 

Nobody likes to be convicted of a crime or to see someone convicted of a crime when there is something inherently false about the prosecution.  I’ve had this feeling there is something inherently false about Christianity because they tell us a “story” about how we are all corporately guilty of the crusixion of Jesus as though we had personally driven in the nails ourselves, or somehow tacitly approved of it—or would not speak up in protest over the injustice.  And of course the penalty for this sin of aquiecence is - - Death.  We too are fighting a death sentence for a crime for which we feel are not guilty.  This case last night involved a criminologist who said - - testified - - that the condemned man could not psychologically have committed this hanous, well organized act and strongly alluded that the real killed had a completely different psychological profile.  The Judge cited “Bull” with contempt of court for somehow “allowing this testimony to come out” and was fined money.  Then Mr. Bull wanted to put on a witness that said that her statement about “running away” was in error and that the killer “limped away” after having undergone some sort of an injury.  This is material evidence as to guilt or innocence and the judge blew a gasket at the very notion that such a witness would be allowed to testify.  The defendant was let off anyhow when the real killer was tracked down by the FBI.

.  We had chicken parmazon with a lot of marinera sauce and bowtie pasta and spinach leaves.  I didn’t have seconds though they were offered.  We had a container of chocolate ice cream for dessert.  I had on the Gary and Shannon show and caught “Draining the Swamp”.  I watched “Days of our Lives”.  Gabriel drugged Abigail’s water bottle just as she was preparing to go on that picnic with Chad.  Of course these stunts are always found out and Chad will only end up resenting Gabriel.  The cleaning cart didn’t show up in the hall till after ten.  I wasn’t sure there would be any cleaning at all on this side.  Bill thought Nora had passed us by.  Now they are talking about banning cell phones at schools.  Good idea.   I went down for 4:00 medication interrupting my typing.  Jan was there.  Linda expressed concern about my losing any more weight.  Of course I’ve been sick the past week or more.

Lost In Confusion

Way back when I was in Sunday school they always told us that you shouldn’t “sell out” your ethical or political beliefs for personal gain.  Suppose someone came and told you that you could have that good job with a lot of priveleges and prerogatives over other people that you may have always yearned for secretly, but in order to gain this status you’d have to become a political far right conservative, kind of like Donald Trump became.  Would you do it?  Maybe it depends on how desperate you are.  Joel Olsteen was saying that sometimes God reaches down and plucks people out from the bottom, the dregs of society and elevates them to an honored position of status.  He says “You don’t even necessarily have to be out looking for opportunities; sometimes opportunity will come looking for you”.  If only that were the case.  Sometimes though even God wants to know what whatever job you have now, that you are doing your work responsibly.  David was a shepherd when God found him.  But I imagine he was a good shepherd who took good care to produce healthy sheep for the rancher or whoever owned the sheep.  Joel Olsteen talked about a guy who was a football player in college but no Pro team would draft him.  He figured he “just wasn’t that good” so as to go pro.   But then some coach wanted to meet with him and before he knew it he became a star player on a pro team.  Thom Hartman a couple of times has stated that he was offered business or other opportunities- - - but the price of doing so was to sell out his political or humanitarian beliefs.  I guess the shoe could be on the other foot.  Some left wing political organization could find me and say “We want you to be our spokesman but you have to give up your stance opposing abortion and gay marriage”.  Would I do it?  My philosophy has always been that it was a sin to “throw away a good thing” just because you feel like being an asshole.  I’ve known people like that.  Some people don’t care if they don’t rise to their best potential.  I told you once that Rev Westfall said to me in a session “I’ve figured out why you are consistently a failure in life, but you aren’t ready to hear it yet”.  That answer has always haunted me.  Maybe I should go to other therapists and one of them per chance might “discover the same secret about me” and that person would tell me “the answer”.  (Selah) 

Here we are in flagstone, for those who care about Word backgrounds.  I was just checking songs to make sure I had “Panic in Detroit” and I do.  Chris Marquardt was on the Leo Laporte show and Leo was telling Chris about being at a village in Germany that had these four hundred year old recipe sausages.  The only problem is that there were porta-potties in the background.   I hope the Photo Shop treatment works.   One of my sayings from early 1981 that I put in letters- - from a Lennon song is- “I tell them there’s no problem- - only Selucids”.  Readers of my prophecy book know what I mean.  Ron Pugh was babbling and happened to quote the Bible saying “Judge not that you not be judged”.  Wouldn’t that be funny if God flagged events from thirty years ago and threw them back in your face and your defense is “Oh come on God, you know that’s water under the bridge”.   Yesterday in the medication line or something Kathy was going on in praise of the Rev Chuck Smith.  My first impulse was to set her straight and tell her everything that was wrong with Chuck Smith’s theology.  But I thought better of it.  Sometimes the prudent thing to do is to keep silent.  Of course I think I even listened to Chuck Smith on the radio over the noon hour home from Church when I visited Mom and Dad at their house.  But my memory is a little hazy.  Like they say “A hazy mind covers a multitude of sins”.   Late yesterday all of this stuff was going through my mind about various things roommates at the Bosc house had said and done from that dark period of July 1985 through early 1988.  But it was stud I didn’t WANT to be thinking about so I pushed it out of my mind.

Last night the medication line ran till nearly eight.  Each person was taking several minutes to get their medication.  Kate was asking all kinds of questions and then she was one of these “pill counters” once she got them.  Steve or someone had farted a really smelly fart in line.  Sometimes I’m amazed at the patience people show in line but Bernice is really slow.  Like I say she’s slower than April was and how glad we were to get rid of her.  I had three of the cinnamon rolls last night and one this morning.  I watched the CBS network news.  This is the third time the Golden State Warriors have been on the evening ABC game in the past month or so.  This week they were playing and beating the San Antonio Spurs, gaining momentum as they went.  I don’t remember what show I had on next but it was on CBS.

I didn’t sleep that well and developed bowel restlessness.  So I was up at three thirty and again at five.  Then I showered.  I always have these anxieties in my mind like paying for my haircut, which I still haven’t gotten.  I don’t know if my check went through and I don’t want the newly instated ten dollar per day penalty.  I lay down on the bed a while to think.  Then at a quarter to six I turned on the TV.  I had forgotten Joel Olsteen was on even though I had just seen him on the previous week.  He was talking about how King David had been passed over in life and didn’t feel qualified to be King.  Sometimes God will reach down and pluck someone up reserved for greatness.  At six I went down not knowing who I’d get in medication or how bad the line was.  It was Ricardo and there was no line.  I asked him if I was really out of diaria medication because Bernice had told me that I was.  (days ago)  Ricardo said “Who told you that?” and produced a diaria pill for me.  Then I had KNXT news on.  They have raised the Disneyland and Disney World admission prices to $117.00 now.  They are predicting rain tomorrow.  They’ve been accurate go get your umbrellas ready.  At six thirty there was this lady ski jumper who learned to ski when she was two.  She began ski jumping when she was seven inspired by watching the athletes at Olympics 2002 in Salt Lake City.  She became a good ski jumper but they didn’t allow men in the sport because of some archaic belief that ski jumping would interfere with women’s reproductive health.  But then in 2011 the Olympic committee changed their mind and allowed female ski jumping.  But then she injured her knee.  By the time of the Russian Olympics in 2014 she was still not completely healed and scored only 21 in place.  But she stuck at it practicing only to injure the same knee again.  Now she’s ski jumping in these 2018 Olympics.  Then they had Paul Mc Closky, who ran against Shirley Temple Black in 1967 for some post and beat her.  Mc Closky was a Korean War hero but in 1967 was an anti war liberal and contended with Richard Nixon for the Presidency in the 1972 Convention. 

I brought the box of corn flakes from the room that Bill had down to eat as soon as the juice and milk arrived.  Then when the oatmeal came, I had a bowl of that, too.  We had eggs and French toast.  Steve got Jerry’s French toast and also some of her eggs because he got a smaller portion than we got.  I had seconds on the coffee.   I watched “This Week” which had the usual stuff on it.  At nine it was “Love” songs on Breakfast with the Beatles.  There were a lot of unusual songs they played this week.  The “Who is that singer?” answer was Peggy Lee singing a rare Mc Cartney song.  They also had Ringo singing a rare George Harrison song.  They played at least two songs from “Walls and Bridges”.  I decided not to go out for snacks.  I went down to look at the menus and decided not to change either one.  We had chicken strips for lunch with ranch dressing dip.  We also had tater tots and optional catsup.  There were also carrots.  I went back for seconds and got another chicken strip and more tater tots.  We had a banana for dessert.  Then I turned on Leo and you know the rest.  Leo says that your place of employment by law can’t spy on you if it’s a line-line phone call.  But if you’re doing texting the courts have time and time again ruled against the wayward employee and can spy on you and can fire you for any reason at all.  Leo says “If she hates this company policy she should get another job”. 

Congress Goes on a Spending Spree

The Government deadline at midnight or 9 PM our time but Congress still hadn’t voted out a spending bill.  Rand Paul was doing a last minute filibuster saying he can’t support this bill.  I wouldn’t support it either.  It contains too much spending on all sides and we can’t afford it.  It contains more for everybody including the military and the veterans and also CHIP programs and all of the domestic stuff the democrats want.  But the topic of DACA is left for another day, as is discussion on whether to fund the Wall.  So all of that argument and moralizing proved to be a big bunch of nothing.  The motto is “When in doubt, spend like there’s no tomorrow”.  I wouldn’t have voted for this bill.  As it happened the government was shut down but for only a couple of hours when they could get a bill voted out and the president signs it.  It contains spending for two years, which is encouraging.  We won’t have to worry about it.  They had predicted years ago that the government deficit would continue to go down till about 2018 and then it would begin rising again.  What did they know back then that now we all know?   Why couldn’t the government deficit continue to go down just like it did with Clinton when it went to zero and on into the surplus category?  It wouldn’t kill us to have a surplus once in a while. 

The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday marked its second-worst point decline in history as the stock market continued to convulse lower, pushing the blue-chip gauge and the S&P 500 into correction territory. The Dow DJIA, -4.15%shed 1,032 points, or 4.2%, to 23,860. The flurry of selling late in the session took the blue chip benchmark into correction territory, defined as 10% drop from its recent peak on Jan. 26. Shares of Dow component Boeing Co. BA, +1.01% led losses. The S&P 500 index SPX, -3.75% closed off 3.8% at 2,581, also pushing the broad-market index into a 10% decline from its recent peak in January. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -3.90% finished the brutal session down 274 points, or 3.9%, at 6,777. Worries about inflation weighed on the market's psyche as bond yields bounced around.   This paragraph will no doubt end up in a posting.  Needless to day if you own any common stocks you should sell them now if you haven't already done so.  It makes no difference whether prices go up or down from here.  This week long drop is too big of a danger signal to ignore.  It shows a basic instability in the markets. 

Yesterday Deputy Chief of Staff, Rob Porter resigned over this spousal abuse scandal he's been involved in.  Both of his ex wives have accused Porter of physically abusing them.  To complicate things further Porter is now dating a member of Trump's staff.  President Trump said today that he wished Porter well.  John Kelly the chief of staff knew about all of this misconduct months ago but raised no objections.  Now there are hints that Kelly might resign, too.  Kelly stepped in and restored order out of the chaos the Trump administration was in the first few weeks by severely limiting access to the President, which is what a chief of staff does. Of course all of Trump's supporters have "limited access" to the real facts if all they listen to is FOX news, and that includes the President himself.  

On “Days of our Lives”, John Black is turning into a killing machine.  He is busy poisoning Steve.  When Will says he knows he is poisoning Steve, John takes him to the cemetery and pulls out a gun and shoots him.  Then Paul, his son shows up and John says “You shouldn’t be here” almost as if he intended to kill him too.  Why is John even paying attention to people who say they want personal friends killed?  Then I went out and had vanilla wafers and red punch from Rico in the courtyard.

Most of the rock song compilations we did in the early year or so of blogging- - - are said to be the brainchild of the late Brian Jones.  As you know there was an explosion of these starting in September of 2004, or over thirteen years ago.  The only compilations that Brian Jones wasn't involved in between September of 2004 and July of 2007 (Analog Ghost Chatter) are the ones from late 2006 and in January of 2007.  These compilations (during this period) have since been reorganized in a major way.  The generation which listens to "Classic Rock" is getting older and older and are in their fifties and sixties and even seventies now.  This isn't the up and coming demographic.  Even the milenials are "maturing" and the oldest of these is now 36 years of age.  The first milenials turned eighteen when they graduated from high school in 2000.  They certainly aren't "kids" any more but a sizable and influential block of voters in this year's election.  

More Evidence Trump has Dictatorial Tendencies

It seems that on certain matters of economics the mainstream media has been taking their cue from FOX news.  For instance they’ve been explaining the actions of the stock market.  They said that there are fears of inflation sparked by all things of rising wages.  This is now seen as a bad thing even though it was only a 2.7% rise.  We know of course the inflation figures are bogus so that 2.7% is nothing.  But keep in mind that worker efficiency is through the roof and overall corporate efficiency and production are through the roof.  Profits have never been higher and are almost embarrassingly high.  Of course dividends are up encouraging loyal investors.  So it’s silly to speak of a 2.7% wage hike as at all threatening to stock prices.  I would say however that when it comes to inflation for seniors, the media made another mistake.  They said that old people don’t use oil or energy.  Old people certainly drive so buy gasoline, if less than a long-distance commuter to work every day.  In these cold winters back east they certainly use heating oil and natural gas.  And we know that oil price per barrel has gone from the low forties to the low sixties in the past few years.  Hence gasoline prices are higher.  What old people use less of are things like machine tools and lawnmowers and high end computers.  We explained all of this a month or so back.  Go back and find that exposee and read it. 

The congressional budget deal is still in doubt.  The Senate under the guidance of Chuck Schummer and Mitch Mc Connell has hammered out an agreement that satisfies nobody.  The key thing is that it separates DACA from the rest of the budget.  It seems they want to throw more money at the Pentagon and the democrats get concessions for their favorite programs, too.  But nobody is talking about the deficit busting nature of these expenditures.  But the matter of Dreamers has been a can kicked down the road.  Nancy Pelosi has made an hours long speech in the House chamber protesting this deal in the senate.  The Republicans under Paul Ryan also seem disinclined to go for any deal.  So it’s not a done deal yet as far as I can see and we could well have a government shut-down.  President Trump has sure been acting strangely.  He says he WANTS a government shut-down.  This would make his day.  Where is that Presidential leadership we so need today?  We don’t have it.  Trump seems to want chaos or maybe he’s just against all government and is at heart an anarchist.  Trump wants a military parade.  But some have argued that it would be less a parade to honor the military but rather a parade by the military specifically to honor their leader, the President.  The last big series of military parades we had were the celebrations for winning Gulf War I back in the spring of 1991.  I’ve heard the military themselves does not want to throw a parade now because it would cost too much transporting all that equipment to the big cities.  Trump has the heart of a dictator.  I know Gene Scott really exploded when certain people in his congregation refused to stand and applaud for certain honored guests.  Scott was insenced.  Now President Trump has said that the democrats were guilty of treason for not applauding.  As far as we know this is the land of free speech, and this certainly means the right NOT to speak.  Only a despotic leader would insist on mandentory cheers and applause.  But why does Trump want to model himself after Putin and Kim Jung Un or the leader of China and other totalitarian states?  Once again Trump’s emotionally unbalanced nature comes to the fore.  I would hope that Mueller comes through with some indictments and quickly before we really do have a constitutional crisis on our hands. 

The following three paragraphs were typed Monday.   Maybe when Trump is removed from office by one means or another my ratings will go up.  As of now even major news events don't seem to help.   

In other news Wheel of Fortune has learned that anticipation isn’t always reality.  This week they are having a “salute to Boston”.  We know where that came from.  Meanwhile with Cracker Barrel restaurants we learn that those other three a few decades back that were in southern California and one in Anaheim, were actually unlicensed knock-offs and didn’t have permission to use the name.  Of course real Cracker Barrels have wooden rocking chairs out front.  Their famous meal is the country fried chicken and other “comfort foods” where you are guaranteed to leave the restaurant full.  They are opening the first Cracker Barrel on the west coast in Victorville.   People drive over an hour just to eat there. 

The stock markets were down four percent today.  The NASDAC index was down 3.8% and the Standard and Poors 500 wer down 4.2%.  But the Dow Jones Industrials beat them all and was down 4.6%.   There was in excess of a six hundred point drop on Friday and now you combine this with a 1,100 point drop today.  The index was once down over fifteen hundred but then rebounded in the last few minutes.  When I first heard there was a problem the index was already down eight hundred points.  Maybe this isn’t the start of the next bit crash but I’ll tell you it’s a warning we should all heed.  But if you sell now you’ll only wipe out the gains of the past month and keep all the other big gains of the past eight years or so.  Wouldn’t you want to sell all stocks now and rest easy and stick your money in gold or something, which just might be slated to rise?  Oil is up to $63/00 a barrel, which explains why gasoline prices are up.  The price of oil has been rising steadily since it was in the low forties.  People like Shawn Hannity should be happy.  I think it’s a good time for investors across the board to realign their priorities.  That way you can rest easy at night and each view of the morning newspaper doesn’t bring dread. 

 There was a shooting incident with a deputy and a teenager, and they say the teenager was unarmed.  But others said “someone in the crowd took his weapon”.  I don’t know who is right.  Eye Witness news spent time covering the police interview.  There was another train wreck a few days ago.  We’ve had more of those lately.  They had four people on the news who collectively have lost over 700 pounds.  With that much surgical weight loss you have all that skin which can break out in rashes or chafe when you work out.  So now they have a surgical procedure for thousands of dollars where they remove up to twenty pounds of just skin.

Eagles Beat Patriots in Amazing Superbowl

Something I doubted I’d ever be able to say was that the Eagles beat the Patriots in the Superbowl.   The Patriots have won five superbowls and I personally thought it was more.  It seems like they win in every superbowl they play in.   The kick-off was just after three thirty and as usual there was a sea of commercials before then.  I turned on the TV before three.  Each team began by scoring a field goal.  But the Eagles jumped out to a ten or so point lead that varied but they were always ahead.  The score was 22 to 12 at the half.  The halftime show was horrible, perhaps the worst ever.  Justin Timberlake has no charisma and no creative ability.  One feature that dominated the scoring was that the Eagles missed an extra point going for two.  So if they were ahead it would be by six points and not seven.  This finally came back to bite them toward the end of the game when the Patriots scored and led by one point making it 30 to 29 or something.  There were two controversial calls involving Eagle touchdowns.  That is – controversial of you’re a Patriots fan.  The media commentators were at war with the referees, who got both calls right.  One involved whether the Eagle had two feet in the field while stepping out of the end zone.  The other revolved on whether the scoring Eagle was “a runner” and was bobbling the ball when he scored.  It looked like the Patriots would win because after the Eagles scored their final touchdown they only led by five points because they tried another two point conversion that failed.  The were 0 for 2.  All the Patriots had to do was to score again with over two minutes to do it.  But the Eagles got a turnover scrambling for the call and they went and scored a field goal making the score 41 to 33 I think.  When the Patriots got the ball they had less than a minute to score eight points and they were unable to do it.  They simply ran out of time and a Hail Mary pass failed.  Of course the crowd has a pro Philadelphia bias.

There is going to be another Federation album release tomorrow with six new songs making fourteen.  My smoking was heavier than usual.  I had a cigarette right before dinner.  We had a “roast beef gulash” self-described in marinera sauce.  They had the pasta off to the side but I mixed them together.  We had broccoli and vanilla yogurt for dessert.  I would have gone for rolls but I knew the bakery was closed on Sundays.  The game ran till after seven then I went for medication.  Sixty Minutes had a thing on tips being included with your meal “because too many people have imbibed too much to do the math to figure the tip, and not only the waitresses but the cook and the dishwasher and everybody else gets a part of that tip.

REVENGE OF THE GREEN STATES

Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet (hit version)
Ball of Confusion (Temptations)
Raspberry Beret (Prince)
It's All Gone Sour (J C Superstar) (Maurie Head)
Running Gun Blues (David Bowie)
We Got the Beat (the Go Go's)
99 Red Balloons (artist?)
The Pusher-man (Curtess Mayfield)
I Got A Woman (Honeydrippers)
Hey, Negrita (Rolling Stones)
Even Better Than the Real Thing (U2)
Supertzar (Black Sabbath)
The Nile Song (Pink Floyd)
Rawhide (Dead Kennedy's)

The title letters are in bright green.  The front photo is of that Eagle touchdown where it was questionable whether he had both feet in bounds and not out of the end zone.  It was the first of two controversial scoring calls.  The commentary on the back cover after the title listings has been re-worked.  There is nothing about a nineteen day limit to get rid of Trump.  In fact we have de-Trumpified this album.  Much more the commentary was on the specific facts of this congressional memo about the FBI and the FISA court ruling.  People want the facts.  The photo on the open out portion of the CD is identical.  February 6^th is the scheduled release date and is also Ronald Reagan’s birthday.   The U2 track has been changed as you see.  Also tracks two and three from the previous "5150" album have been dropped.  So Maurie Head is the second track on that album.  That also was kind of long the way it was and besides this way there are fewer overlaps.  

[Saturday evening] After this it was “Blind Spot”, which was a good program.   I don’t like it when someone has an “edge” that’s not related to the facts.  If someone says they can predict how a juror will vote merely because of how he’s dressed or a psychological profile such that “they have his whole personality figured out” in advance, I get suspicious.  It’s like Neil Savedra claiming that God knows the future, but he’s not going to tell us but merely turn to some fellow angel and say “You that guy right there is really stupid” snickering at him behind his back, but unwilling to lift a finger to help him out.  I believe that either athletic contests or a chess match or a jury trial should be based strictly on “the field of play” and the facts and circumstances involved in “the game” itself without going out of the box.  But in this case this Bull guy redeemed himself later in the episode by digging into the facts and arriving at the truth despite setbacks.  I went to bed soon after nine.  I slept quite well.  I woke about ten after four because I was cold but didn’t look to see that the window was wide open and I had on that thin bedspread from Nora.  So I got up and showered to get warm.  Then I smoked a cigarette and made myself instant coffee.  Ricardo was in charge of the medication in the morning and I didn’t ask for any extras.  I was just musing on all this stuff how God has us at a perpetual disadvantage because “Not knowing the truth is a major disadvantage” in life.  But I tuned in Joel Olsteen and he talked about how God can do do-overs and allow for human mistakes and “recalculate’ the route.  According to Neil Savedra, God doesn’t do “do-overs”.  If you don’t get it the first time you come across a situation, you’re screwed. 

 I watched Days of our Lives at one.  Hatti broke out of prison yet again and showed up at Andre’s funeral being quite disruptive.  Then she was questioned by the police.  She was the one who wrote that letter to Anna from Statesville Prison.  Will decided not to tell Hope about his suspicions about John trying to slowly poison Steve.  Paul at the very same time decided not to confront John about this issue also.  Both were unsuccessful.  At two I went for snacks and got vanilla wafers and lemonade from Rico in the courtyard. 

Rhapsody in Black featured the top 25 hits of 1954 with generous extras.  There were also several two-sided hits.   There was a surprising number of songs, like the majority they played, that I had never heard of.  Some like “Lovey Dovy” and “I’ll Be True To You” and “A Sunday Kind of Love” I’ve heard before.  Of course my recollection of “Lovey Dovey” is from another arrangement in the fall of 1960.  They played some big hits such as “Shake, Rattle and Roll” and “Sha-boom” and “Honey Love” and three Hank Ballard songs.  They played “Sexy Ways”, “Anna had a Baby” and “Work With Me, Annie”.  They played “Hearts of Stone” but it was by the Jewels and not by the Charms.  There were a lot of straight blues songs including “I Just Want To Make Love To You” made famous by the Rolling Stones, of course.