Protesters Disrupt Shoppers in Chicago

It's hard in this era of endlessly recycled news to come up with anything really new but I'll give it the old college try.  Washington's Blog has an excellent history of ISIS and I recommend you people read that.  It's extensive but best of all it's free.  It's like the material was originally part of a book or something.  I find Washington's blog's views on the whole ISIS question intriguing.  Washington's blog blames Turkey entirely for the downing of that Russian bomber jet in the process of making a run over ISIS.  We also had reinforced that there ARE no such things as "Moderate Rebels" that John Mc Cain talked so much about so glowingly two years ago.  Shawn Hannity makes the repeated mistake (accidentally - on purpose) of referring to that "red line in the sand" that President Obama drew in late summer 2013 as somehow being related to ISIS.  It was the Republicans themselves who refused to back the president up in any action he wanted to take against Assad of Syria.  The red line pertained to President Assad and not ISIS at all, who was not even known by name yet.  All John Mc Cain told us that there were "moderate rebels" who somehow we should support.  He had himself photographed with some Rebels that later turned out to be members of ISIS.

That stand-in guy who really is from Chicago was on instead of Norman Goldman but at least he was live.  There were disruptive protestors in Chicago keeping patrons from shopping on Black Friday, and for that matter, all weekend.  They would form a human chain in front of the stores blocking people from coming in but some stores let customers in a back enterence to get around that problem.  I don’t understand all this stuff about unplugging PA equipment when various ministers began to speak.  All the host could say is “The young people don’t put up with that sort of nonsense”.  One caller had a good point.  These are radically different times from the 1960’s and ‘70’s when political protests actually worked and needed legislation got passed.  Today they don’t care.  The media won’t cover it.  And all that’s likely to happen from these store protestors is that the businesses will hire on extra police protection so that shopping proceeds unencumbered.  The host wasn’t buying that argument.  I seem to have heartburn today or something in my throat.  It’s a burning sensation that’s lingering.  My smoking luck improved a bit when Richard gave me a long short and then Glenda also gave me a long short of the same brand of menthol cigarette.  I was the last to go in.  We had meatloaf tonight in a more generous portion.  We had cut up potato chunks and mixed vegetables.  We had yogurt for dessert.  Then Dora came by with seconds on meatloaf.  No cigarettes afterward.

I had Bill Carol on over the noon hour.  He kept alluding to some new kind of contact lenses that work just as good as surgery.  There was this one Hollywood celebrity who has a reputation of “hating cops”.   In terms of Days of our Lives, Abigail has been gone for weeks now and neither Jennifer nor Jack Junior has expressed one word of concern about her, only Chad.  Belle and Claire are too close in age to be mother and daughter.  They look more like sisters.  They’ve located the town that Abigail has been taken to and know about the midwife who has been seen.  Now Benjamin wants to take wife and son far away but at least has enough sense not to leave in the middle of a snowstorm at night.

Paul and Judy were already here at 10:25 or sooner when she called.  I went down and we headed to Moms.  There was virtually no talk about politics this entire trip.  They said Mom would be waiting out front.  Well we did park the car and walked in the building and Paul pointed out all the extensive remodeling they’d done.  They have a whole new sitting room with a blazing fireplace and everything.  Mom was worried by kissing her I was giving her my cold.  I said I’d been feeling “under the weather” and out of sorts and my appetite is down.  There was smoke billowing from the direction of Marie Calendar pies but the smoke was abaiting.  We got there about five after eleven.  [name] and Wendy were already there.  Wendy sure looked skinny and extra tall.  I learned very little about what’s going on in her life.  I was assigned to hold Mom’s hand as we entered and exited.  We were escorted to a table in the back and they had to put two square tables together.  I decided on the Ortega chicken sandwich with avocado and a bit chili pepper.  Mom got a bacon and turkey sandwich that kept falling apart, and she kept saying she didn’t like the soup because the broth was too thin and too spicy.  We had the sweet corn bread and I had at least two pieces.  I didn’t know the bread was complementary.  I had two and a half cups of coffee and [name]’s coffee count was just a hair under that.   I was surprised how quickly we departed there.  It was only five or so minutes after twelve.  We decided to go to Mom’s because Wendy hadn’t seen her place.  Wendy thought it was roomier when actually it’s smaller than her other one.  We talked a lot about family memories including   We talked a lot about Grandpa and Grandma, and that electric cart Grandpa used to transport the eggs in.  The Flinn Springs turn-off is hard to miss because Flinn Springs is kind of just a dot of a town on the map anyhow, as Mom states.   Mom had her memory lapse problems and recited all of her woes to Wendy, who calmly refuted them.  I weighed myself and it was just below 160 but the scale was dancing around because I was shakey.  They lent me one of the two books on Autism.  Judy wasn’t feeling well so about ten to two we left, a move I had mixed feelings about.  But I wanted to give Judy back her Star Wars novel because I’ve been promising it to her for months because I admitted I never got through it.

Last night I had a nightmare that I was in a house with roommates- - Christian, I guess.  And they were spouting scripture at me and I was spouting scripture right back at then by way of counter argument.  I had this big chest thing with a wooden lid where I kept all these VHS video tapes of videos of Heavy Metal Bands such as ACDC, Motley Crue, and Metallica.  And this one roommate lifts up the lid and uses this huge vacuum thing hose with some rotor rooter equipment he’d brought in and there were these horrible grinding noises- - - and a bunch of water and debris was flushed into the sewer system.  I lifted up the lid all the way and all of the VHS tapes were gone and I was screaming at the guy how he was going to get sued by me and I’d see him in court.  Even when I woke from this nightmare the thing still seemed real to me like it had actually happened.  In the dream I wanted to report him to somebody but suddenly I couldn’t remember his name even though I knew it well.  I began asking others questions about his character.  When I woke up it was twelve thirty or something and I went back to sleep and next thing I knew it was 5:43 by the digital clock and about time to get up.  But there were no cigarettes to be had.  I got my medication from Tom and turned on the TV and watched whatever - - .