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. 

Are President Trump's Days Numbered?

5150 -released February 3rd. 2018

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)

99 Red Balloons (artist?)

Hey, Negrita (Rolling Stones)

New Year's Day (U2)

President Trump’s State of the Union Message 39:00 edited

The front photo is just of the President delivering the speech with Pence and Ryan seen behind him.  The editing on this speech was going to be the same as it would have been Wednesday but we've added songs.  This originally meant that nearly thirty minutes of the speech are edited out but so much of that is applause. Now it's more.  Three of the four original songs listed are the same as we would have had Wednesday.  Now we have eight songs.  And a shorter speech edit.  The back commentary is of this memo that the Republican house wants released presumably today.  But they want it released because it could just be that the President only has nineteen days to go before he leaves office and all hell is going to break through in a few days.  Where we get the number nineteen is February 21^st is the day Malcolm X was shot and they are going to try and get this album out today.  It’s the Federation including the old Reigelian federation.   The inside open out photo alludes to that school shooting of yesterday.  We show a caucasion twelve year old girl firing a machine gun at her classmates and students are falling left and right.  I’m not sure whether the term “Negrita” is insulting or not.  It’s from “Black and Blue”.   

The weather department is saying to be on watch for “That Stormy thing” according to Stephanie.  I’m sure Trump has had his fair share of affairs with hookers over the years.  But more condemning is Trump's alledged affair with UN Secretary Niki Haley aboard Air Force One, that's still going on.  That guy Scarimuchi was just on KTLA news.  He’s a scarey fellow.  He claims to have started off as a non political union guy.  He says he agrees with Sanders about being in touch with the working man.  Having said that he fell under Trump’s spell and he’s still under it although Scarimuchi only worked for the administration eleven days.  He says Trump was just joking about saying that he has a bigger nuclear button than Kim Jung Un.  He was also only joking when he said that he was a really stable genious.  He rattled off this list of “accomplishments” of the Trump administration including the lowest unemployment and how even today the government says we are adding two hundred thousand jobs.  Back in the old days the Republicans used to say that if the economy didn’t regularly add three hundred thousand jobs than it wasn’t a real recovery.  He spoke of how well Blacks and other minorities are doing economically.  He claims Trump brought North and South Korea to the table and that’s why their athletes are marching under the same Olympic flag next month.  Scarimuchi says he has no plans to run for any office because politics has a corrupting influence.  He quoted George Orwell from “Animal Farm” in saying that Pigs protested the farmer and rose up to power but once the Pigs obtained power they rose up on two legs and became just as corrupt as the autocrat farmer they protested.   He spoke of Trump as being a really well intended president who really wants to drain the swamp.  Here is a Jeopardy question I missed in the past week involving the sixties.   “This object had prohibitions against altering, but until 1965 there were no laws against burning it”.  I thought it was the American Flag.  It turned out they were referring to one’s draft card.  In a Jeopardy question last night all three players missed all five questions about football.  This only shows gaping gaps can show up in one’s knowledge even after they have studied extensively.  He lit into Steve Flynn in criticizing his recent work of “fiction”.   Scarimuchi is a scarey fellow because he appears to be the sort of “clean cut young man” people want in politics but he’s really a brainwashed zombie.

Hung over driving can be as impairing as drunk driving they announced today.  Medical marijuana is still a better deal than "recreational" marijuana.  You only have to be eighteen and not 21 to smoke it and you pay less in sales taxes.  They say you can't even be on your own balcany or porch to smoke it.  And I guess you can't smoke it while watering your lawn either.  And I've heard you can't smoke it in a hotel room and you can't smoke it in a restaurant.  And I'm not certain laws about giving marijuana to a friend if you see him on the street or something.

I would now like to talk about the Federation’s “operation gemstone” of The Twelve Dimensions we listed in a blog around 2012.   In no other compilation do we mention twelve dimensions.  I'd like to explain this.  I’m going to try and not make this too complicated because I know most readers have a low tolerance for things that are “complicated”.  You can prove this by merely asking them to take a math story problem like we used to get in school- - into an algetriac equation.  They might be even able to do the problem in their head but they are still unable to write out an algebraic equation of the sort that you could use in a computer program.  Dimensions in common with all other compilations of dimensions are the first four pertaining to material objects *, and also the three standard special dimensions we all know about and exist with.  That brings the tally to seven.  The big area where we depart company is that generally we list two dimensions of Time- - - which involved Fifth dimensional travel and knowledge.  Parrellel Universes for you people who want to simplify it.  The problem is that the Federation thinks they’re God and are infallible in their predictive ability.  There is no room for error.  And none of this stuff about psychics actually “seeing things” that really are occurring in a parrellel universe.  With this loophole open you can predict almost anything and be accurate.  So instead of a second dimension of Time, the Federation opts to go for the God dimension or “The Twelfth Man” as we put it.  The “Gemstone” factor comes in because the twelve dots are physically arranged in the form of (shape of) a Gemstone.  At any rate this raises the number of dimensions to nine.  We used to speak of the three karmic dimensions but like I said, let’s not complicate things. Two more we nowadays talk about that raise the tally to twelve are “Dynamic” itself being a dimension or “Wave Amplitude” for lack of a better term, and also have the Dimension of “Spacial Arrangement” or “Feng Chue”.   This is the idea of - - psychic “strings” that when crossed or bisected release a causal “Force”.  We have done numerous listings of dimensions but we usually try to keep it at eleven because long ago someone said “This was the original number of dimensions”.   We ceased upon that number “eleven” for better or worse.   * These four aspects of material objects are gravity or mass,  Form or blueprint for constructing, Function, and Perception or awareness. 

On Days of our Lives it was the day of verbal keep-away.  John Black wouldn’t tell Paul about who the watermark says who really wrote that letter to Anna.   This is the person who "baited" Anna into going to Andre's office, probably to kill him.  It's believed somehow this water-mark will finger the guilty party, perhaps Vivian.  Carrie came from London to get Anna and Roman out of jail.  Will was about to tell Hope about John poisoning Steve but I imagine Hope will get a sudden phone call and the subject will be dropped.   Anna and Roman explained what Anna really did the night of the murder but the audience doesn’t have a clue.  If we, the audience knew, it would make things simpler for us.  It was the day of Andre’s funeral.  

President Trump Gives Eighty Minute Long Speech

Three giant companies have combined forces to form a new health care company.  It’s Warren Buffet and that Diamond guy from Chase Bank, and Amazon.  Since we know that competition drives down prices, prices for regular health insurance will come down so it’s a break for consumers.  But also on the NYSE all of the other health care provider stocks went down by an average of six percent.  Strangely Donald Trump in his message last evening spoke of bringing drug prices down for the average consumer.  This is strange in that they all worked so hard to insure that prices remained high because of that thing on Medicare part D passed under George Bush.   Also it’s strange that the president announced a war on Opiates because as we know from Sixty Minutes and other sources, congress worked so hard to cripple the food and drug administration in enforcing illicit drug laws.   The thing to do now is just wait and see what happens. 

Last night I smoked a cigarette at almost five thirty when the ABC network news came on.  I knew the news would be a preview of the State of the Union message.  I smoked another cigarette right at six.   They seemed to spend less time showing the supreme court justices file in and also the cabinet secretaries.  I don’t know who the “out” man is this year but the place didn’t get bombed so it’s a mute point now.  The speech began about ten after six to my recollection and lasted till 7:32 making it an 82 minute speech, which is almost a record, but they say Clinton spoke longer.  The early part of the speech was about half applause. In fact this speech has more applause per capita than just about any presidential speech.  Of course Trump talked about economic activity being at record levels and the stock market is at new highs.  He also said that Black and Latino unemployment is at low levels never before recorded since they’ve been keeping records.  Does that include the Viet Nam war?   Also the President said that unemployment claims are at low levels never before recorded.  Wages are on the rise.  But they’ve still got a long way to go to make up for the past thirty years.   There were endless statements about how strong America is today.  Of course Trump praised his tax cut plan with congress that they just passed.  There were endless personal references to people in the audience who stood up and the President talked about them to illustrate every point.  He talked about the dreamers and how he really wants the democrats to work with republicans.   There are three things the democrats hate about this bill, aka three of the four “pillars” of this immigration bill, one of then which is building the Wall at the border.  One thing the President has dropped in his reference is “Making Mexico pay for it”.   There were numerous references to personal heroics in the extreme weather we’ve had such asx fires, floods, and hurricanes.   One would get the impression that the President is doing everything he can to help Puerto Rico.  And then he moved on to foreign policy.  He wants congress to insure that the supply of criminals to Guandanamo Bay doesn’t dry up by talking about “enemy combatants” rather than just simple “criminal acts” when it comes to American citizens who commit acts of terrorism.  He rightly pointed out that ISIS is close to becoming a thing of the past because our troops have had success in wiping them out.  He wants to work to blow up the nuclear treaty with Iran.  He talked about "changing the rules of engagement" with troops in Afghanistan, and also spoke of "not telling the enemy our plans in advance".  Then he talked about North Korea and mention that college student who was tortured by the North Koreans and eventually he died shortly after his release.  There was another guy who apparently had his legs cut off by a passing train and had to use crutches till he could get prosthetics.  He concluded by talking about the statue of the goddess Columbia.  I went outside after the speech.  Nancy said it was the best speech President Trump has ever given.  She liked it.  This got me to thinking.  Perhaps I myself should be less quick to judge this speech because what if the American agrees with Nancy’s assessment?  

President Trump wants an unacceptable deal for approving DACA.  He wants to reduce the overall number of legal immigrants to this country by eliminating various provisions that allow relatives to come in too.   Usually Republicans love to talk about waiting in line legally and how the illegals shouldn’t move ahead of them.  But now Trump has made his priorities clear.  He wants more white people in the country and few dark skinned people.  Therefore he’s getting rid of the immigration lottery that is impartial.  Instead he wants a so called “merit based system”, which probably involved passing certain “white” credentials that blacks could never pass.  So basically if I were the democrats instead of shouting “you lie” I’d just raise my fist in the Black Power salute.  Or maybe what you could do is shout “you lie” in unicin to a clear falsehood of Donald Trump’s speech or go the Republicans one better and do it multiple times. 

 The Orion Federation is not going to put out any CD’s connected with the President’s speech.  They were going to do one called 5150 snf it was going to time out at 51:50 and have four rock songs on the CD.  But their stratigests thought that would be a bad idea and it “really wouldn’t prove anything”.    Sometimes it’s better to have a watch and wait stratigy not only for this, but for forming opinions in general.   

Trump is the Liar in Chief

Yesterday there was a rumor that President Trump agreed to testify under oath before Mueller.  But Norman Goldman doesn’t believe either that Trump said it or if Trump did say it he’s obviously lying.  Trump has sure been known to lie about everything these days.  I guess “He should put his money where his mouth is”.  I want to see fewer words and more actual deeds.  But this morning on Good Morning America they again brought up the topic floating around that President Trump tried to fire special prosecutor Mueller last June after being in office only a month.  But Trump’s attorneys stopped him.  These are the same attorneys that “May not let him testify”.   I don’t know where it’s actually his attorney or the Koch brothers we need to worry about.  If Trump wants to testify his decision as president should override his attorneys.  He’s making the promise to the public, after all.  Hiding behind other people just looks bad.  Maybe these are the same attorneys who won’t let him release his income taxes for the past twelve years, I don’t know.  But now there is a new wrinkle in the whole thing.  Because though he didn’t actually fire Muller the law reads that even if you attempt to obstruct justice then you’re guilty of it whether you were successful or now.  On Stephanie’s show this morning they said Melonia is going to divorce the president in the next few months. 

On Days of our Lives- - - Eli’s mother, Valerie Grant suspects that her son could be the father of that baby and not J J.  So Eli confronted her directly.  (No immediate answer)  Mother knows best.  It seems to me this was the perfect opening to come clean about who you pretty well know who the father of your baby is.  I not that racial but a black verses a white father could make a big difference.  Meanwhile you have Roman Brady overtly lying to the police about where Anna Di Mira was during the murder of Andre.  If there is one thing you know from soap operas is that liars never get away with it.  I would also note that in real life liars frequently get away with it.  

I showered at five and went out looking for cigarettes and John gave me the rest of his white cigarette.  Then I went and lay down on the bed with the light off till 6:03.  Ricardo hasn’t done the medication since Monday.  John was doing it again.  The line was almost as long as yesterday but it went somewhat faster and I got done just after six thirty.  I got cough medicine.  Then I watched KABC news and “Good Morning America” for a few minutes.  We had oatmeal again with dried bananas in it.  We had scrambled eggs with two pancakes.  I got Jerry’s pancakes making four all together.  Then I got seconds on the coffee.  I guess Rico has been making the coffee consistently so it has been consistently better.  Then it was Frangela on Stephanie Miller.

My blogger numbers are horrible in single digits.  I’d like to know what my reading audience wants.  Science?  There was a thing on the detailing of the striped on Jupiter.  There was also a thing on a new kind of cosmic ray generated from Black Holes and now scientists claim to understand the process better.  If black holes really disappear from the universe we shouldn’t be able to get any information at all from them.  I had Thom Hartman on.  I borrowed cigarette number thirteen from Ron.  Then Phyllis gave me three cigarettes.  If I save one and combine it with that quarter I can get coffee from Glen tonight.  I sat in the front room a while.  Then I went for snacks and got vanilla wafers and a lemonade from Rico in the courtyard.  Bill is watching “The Price is Right” now.  

Looking Forward to the Future

PASSIONATE PLAYTHINGS - released January 23, 2018.

The Cradle Will Rock (Van Halen)

We’re All Clones (Alice Cooper)

Baracuda (Heart)

Who Do You Love? (The Doors)  (Absolutely Live)

When You’re Hot, You’re Hot (Jerry Reed)

Black Dog (Led Zeppelin)

Sick Things (Alice Cooper)

Moonage Daydream (David Bowie)

I Touch Myself (artist?) (hit version)

The Ocean (Led Zeppelin)

Atomic Punk (Van Halen)

Kill the Rooster (Alice in Chains)

The Big Pay-back (James Brown)

This is Accademy Award morning and we’re releasing the best of rock over the past 48 years.  The front cover is like “The Week” magazine, only that Donald Trump is smaller in relation to the play pen.  The objects Trump is throwing around- - in the play pen include a couple of cell phones and some toy missiles, rocket launchers and bayonettes and such.  There are also medical examining devices from Beverly Crusher’s private collection from TNG.  Title listings are on the back including some nonsensical rambling commentary about the Year of the Rooster, which apparently we are still in.  It’s a leap Chinese year.  In fact people took to calling this album “Year of the Rooster Vol Two”.   How do you like “American macho” as a title.  Of course with “I Touch Myself”  I think of those Rush Limbaugh parody lyrics of “They’d arrest anybody else but when the Kennedies show up they use their wealth”.  Jerry my (lady) table mate complains of this guy who always comes into the dining room adjusting his dick in his pants and she’s told “They can’t do anything about it”.  There are three double entries in this compilation.  The open out page is commentary on all of the women's protests that just went on this past weekend and the issues that were raised at the protests including a new protest "Hear our votes" and the registration drive to get women voting, which hopefully will encourage a blue wave come this November.  

The government shut-down is apparently ended.  Mitch Mc Connell and Chuck Schummer made separate speeches saying they were happy with the deal and that they would get a DACA vote soon.  Someone on the radio said that Mitch Mc Connell was a liar and you couldn’t trust anything he said.  I don’t know.  If he lies we’ll be right back here in a few weeks so what would be the point?   Actually they only took a preliminary vote about ten in the senate that sealed the deal and they are going to take a final vote shortly after noon.  Remember that Chuck Schummer offered Trump a deal on the Wall as part of the reopening government and Trump turned him down cold.  Nobody has explained that one except that Trump is a major flake several times over.  After this it was “Days of our Lives” and now Anna Di Mira is the chief suspect.  Andre was conked on the head with the urn used to keep Tony’s ashes and she shows up with Roman at the Pub the next day without Tony’s ashes.  She was also about to confess something to Tony when the police came and took her off for questioning.

The New England Patriots won the game played in Foxborough.  The Patriots scored three points first.  Then the Jaguars scored a touchdown making it 7 to 3.  A little later on it was fourteen to ten in favor of Jacksonville.  I went for snacks and got two Oreos and juice from Rico in the courtyard.  At the beginning of the fourth quarter the score was twenty to ten, Jacksonville.  But then New England scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter.  New England benefitted from 47 yards of penalties in one drive and over ninety yards in total penalties.  The final score was 24 to 20.  It’s like Jacksonville’s scoring just stopped.  Jacksonville suffered from really poor field condition whereas Philadelphia had really good field position.  I saw the trophy presentation.  Mean-while in Philadelphia it was 47 degrees and no wind.  The Vikings scored first making it seven to nothing.  For dinner I had a baked potato.  But it was lacking in sufficient sour cream and there was no butter.  We haven’t had butter all day.  I asked for and got Jerry’s green salad and that helped.  We had strawberry yogurt for dessert.  There is a rich Canadian older couple that was murdered by hanging.  At first the police thought it was a murder suicide but now they are reopening the investigation acting on new information. 

The Philadelphia Eagles beat the Vikings 38 to 7 in a game that was a wipe out.  Needless to say I was flabbergasted at the results.  They stated that no dome team has ever played an open air tem in the NFL playoffs and won.  I had the first 25 minutes of Sixty Minutes on.  It was “The Beat of Sixty Minutes over fifty years”.  Then I had America’s Funniest Home Videos on.  At eight there was dial twirling.  I couldn’t find the SAG Award presentations anywhere and haven’t heard about them this morning.  Finally I had it on another Sixty Minutes episode on this crusty spy thrilled author named John Cornwell or something.  The medication line was of record length and I didn’t get my medication till after eight and even then there was a line.  Last night I traded a bakery roll for coffee from Glen in his room. 

Karen Handel Wins Georgia Sixth District

Republican Karen Handel won yesterday's special election in Georgia defeating her democratic opponent with a lot of last minute "dark money".  If you will remember the Democrat almost won the election outright in the primary winning 47 or 48% of the vote.  The Republicans made it a big thing out of their ability to prevent a Democratic majority.  But they forced a run-off and the Republican vote was splintered among a host of Republican candidates.  All of the Republican big money rallied behind Handel and she won the election 51 to 48% for the Democrat.  Early elections had the Democrat leading by over fifty percent.  But like so many other races "too close to call" like in the 12014 congressional elections, a little voter machine rigging took care of the problem as once again we see that predictable "red shift", which we have seen in elections that we have witnessed consistently since 2014 in Ohio particularly.  A voter profile analysis shows a lot more red dots than blue dots meaning of the shifting that took place between the run-off and the primary and most of the voters who switched, switched to the Republicans.  Republicans were strongest on Foulton County up north and the democrats were the strongest in the southeast.  This race was the most heavily funded congressional election of all time because it was seen as a "do or die" effort for both political parties.  The results don't bode well for democratic prospects in 2018.

The Senate has finally revealed the Republican Health Care plan they have been working on in absolute secrecy for months now.  A team of thirteen senators have been crafting this bill and from what we hear it's worse than anything in the House Bill.  Now Mc Connell is trying to ram the bill through in a week or so and hope to have the bill passed and signed into law not by August first when congress goes on recess.  No.  They want the thing a done deal and voted on by July Fourth.  This means there will be almost no open debate and no amendments will be offered or accepted.  Actually the text of the bill won't even be made public until tomorrow.  This rush to pass seems an abrupt change of pace for this Republican Congress who suddenly have decided they have stalled long enough.  In contrast with the Obama Care Health bill the bill had been offered early in 2009 and wasn't passed or signed into law till March of 2010.  There was an extended period of spirited debate with the Republicans having ample oppertunity to offer amendments. And of course you all know the Tea Party movement began in April of 2009 nearly a year before the bill was ratified and there was an extended period of debate in all of these town halls.   This bill will raise the ammount of premiums that Seniors pay by five hundred percent.  They are also bringing back lifetime caps and throwing you off for pre-existing conditions.  

This is Tuesday June 20, 2017 the longest day of the year.  This morning at ten I went out for lemonade-punch combo and a graham cracker.  Then I watched yesterday’s “Days of our Lives” on computer.  Earlier in the morning Vince and Augustine were in here while I was out looking at the outlets and unplugged the computer when it was on.  As far as I know the problem still hasn’t been fixed.  John and Marlena found the group stranded on that Greek island.  They had been saying there was no emergency because there was adequate food and water such as nuts and fruits.  Justin tried to call Angelica Deveroux about the selling of the Spectator.  For lunch we had beef stew on a plate that was mostly beef gravy and potato bits.  We had mashed potatoes with that and a banana for dessert.  Judy gave me half of her banana.  Then I watched the rest of “Days of our Lives”.  Then I had the Gary and Shannon show on.  I had bouts of tiredness.  I turned the computer off after one and just lay down till two then I thought Money Draw would be called.  I’ll tell you this.  It sure is hard to get cigarettes.  It’s a hot day.

I got an iced tea and a graham cracker for snacks.  I went back up briefly and then Jennifer announced Money Draw at 2:20.  I made my way down.  We were lined up in the sun most of the time but we didn’t need to be then someone redirected the line go the other way so we’d be in the shade.  Fortunately Wally didn’t take too long today.  Ron Flowers cut in line because he claims he was there earlier.  I only got eight dollars from Jennifer and not the twelve or thirteen I was expecting.  She reminded me of a five dollar withdrawal I had made and also charged me for a two dollar co-pay she hasn’t received yet.  I took a peanut butter cup and left and went to the store and bought a pack of Clippers.  I was out back a while.  Then I turned on the Norman Goldman program.  The program was very informative today.  I am behind in my blogging and need to get my act together.  It seems as if Flynn may be cutting a deal with the FBI.  Also the Senate version of the Health Care bill has been made known and they are saying if anything that it is worse than the Republican version, and they want it passed quickly.

We were supposed to have ham and pineapple pizza.  We didn’t.  It was two pieces of plain pizza but it was at least two pieces and not one.  We had a green salad with that which was short on dressing.  We had rainbow sherbet for dessert.  There were no seconds.  I went to the bakery hoping to get rolls.  I think they are remodeling a lot of stuff in that mall.  The door was open and I went in and was about to make a purchase when someone came in and told me the bakery was closed.  Mario greeted me and after smoking a cigarette I agreed to buy him a pack of Clippers for two dollars.  I bought another pack for myself too because I owe a lot of people.  I took the two cigarette commission out of the pack and gave Mario the pack. 

Last night I read the latest “The Week” magazine till eight to nine and then went to bed.  I slept pretty good.  I woke briefly at 3:15.  I got up at five after five though it was earlier than I need to and I should have slept longer.  I showered.  I had three cigarettes left.  I made myself a cup of Glenda’s awful coffee.  Then I went and got my medication at a quarter to six from Ricardo and Phyllis Green was there and wanted one of my two remaining cigarettes so naturally I gave it to her.  Then I smoked the remaining one.  For a while I had on Eye Witness news on computer but I switched to Stephanie Miller.  We had oatmeal for breakfast.  I asked for and got two glasses of orange juice.  Judy gave me about half of her oatmeal and all of her scrambled eggs.  We had toast and butter and jelly.  The coffee was good for both breakfast and lunch.  Then it was more Stephanie.  I’m still hoping to get coffee from Glen if he isn’t out.  

Another Police Shooting Acquittal in Minnisota

There has been another police acquittal in the news today.  In Miniapolis this Black guy who admits he had a gun and a permit in the car was gunned down by cops.  All of his relatives and friends were bemoaning and protesting his death.  I honestly don’t think these police officers believe they are in any real danger.  Instead of saying “he was going for his gun” or “I thought he was going for his gun”, why don’t they just wait till they actually see the gun in his hand?  But they are trained not to think that way.  They are conditioned not to respect human life.  It’s true that Black lives don’t seem to matter to these police officers.  I don’t see how they can consistently get juries that acquit these cops but you’ve seen it happening time and time again.

There was a story in the Washington Post yesterday morning or something saying now that President Trump is officially under investigation.  That ends that argument, not that it was an argument to begin with.  People like Judy and Shawn believe that everybody including the media and the Republican congress is out to get the President, and there’s no persuading them otherwise.  But as long as all this turmoil is going on, it will bring the machinery of this Republican congress to a halt.  Then before you know it it will be August recess. 

There was a shooting at a Republican congressmen practice session of baseball.  It was an anti Trump antagonist who posted a lot of left wing stuff.  He didn’t kill anybody but got killed himself.  He injured one congressmen, two Capitol police and two others.  It dominated the news this morning.  At least they aren’t calling it Islamic terrorism.  Still it’s going to generate a lot of heat on right wing radio.  I listened to Trump’s speech on the radio which lasted about five minutes.  Apparently I had it on Shawn Hannity and quickly turned the station.  Bernie Sanders regrets that it was a person who actually worked in his campaign last year.   As a post script the Democrats won the baseball game by a lopsided score.  The thing is I'd heard a rumor that the Democrats were going to win that game. 

Tomorrow is the 45th anniversary of the Watergate break-in and I guess they are doing comemorative broadcasts on the subject.  It's a good way to educate the younger people.   

We had shepherd’s pie for dinner.  Kathy gave me a small piece of banana nut bread.  She was slicing up pieces and giving them to the staff.  But for the remaining piece she didn’t eat it herself and Judy, Marcia and Jennifer all turned her down so finally I got it.  We had strawberry ice cream for dessert.  I had six cigarettes left and Bill asked to borrow one and at first I hesitated but finally agreed.  I’m hoping to get a blog off tonight but if I’m too mentally lazy it might not be till tomorrow morning.  Three outlets in this room still don’t work and I can’t easily move the big screen TV or the stereo.  And you know the extension cord won’t work because it only has two and not three outlets.   I guess I’ll tune in Eye Witness live streaming.