President Trump News and other Personal News

I’ve heard about China’s total surveillance state and how they are relentless in fingering people who commit even minor infractions or minor fo-pahs.  In Sinjan it’s particularly bad.  I had no idea this remote desert region next to Mongolia was so heavily urbanized.  But there are cameras and police and look-out towers everywhere and all manner of electronic equipment that scans your financial profile and personal information.   The video is eight minutes.   Today during lunch we heard about Trump’s announcement of his pulling out of the Iran nuclear arms treaty and reinstituting the strongest sanctions.  Russia is not happy about that and neither are our European allies.  But Israel and Saudi Arabia welcome the decision.   Giuliani has hinted that Trump has made more pay-outs to women besides Stormy Daniels.  There are hints now that Trump may even dump Giuliani.  Last week Trump replaced attorney Ty Cobb with Emmit Flood, who worked on the impeachment campaign defending Clinton.  He also defended Dick Chaney Scudder Libby in the Valerie Wilson case ten years ago.  Of course now Trump pardoned Scudder Libby.  

This Snyderman guy from New York was a “me too” feminist supporter who went after various male chovenists.  However he mistreated women in private and physically beat two women and threatened them repeatedly and tried to control every aspect of their lives like he owned them.  I don’t like men like that.  Unlike Judy I value deeds over political posturing.  Even if I agreed with Trump politically I wouldn’t give him a pass on the sex stuff.  Then we have the West Virginia primary where this guy who talks about “China people” and “The Negro race” and is “More pro Trump than Trump himself is” - - this guy came in third.  He’s responsible for a whole lot of mining deaths and went to jail for it.  I guess in some states you can’t vote if you’re a convicted felon, but you can run for office.  Finally in California there is a rumor that solar panels on new homes are mandated by the State after the year 2020.  I guess that's OK but even now you still have to stay in your home four to five years for the solar panels to began paying off economically. 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a trip to North Korea to pave the way for Trump's meeting with Kin Jung Un in a couple of weeks.  As a peace gesture North Korea returned three prisoners and they were in good physical condition, at least.  That's better than that other guy who ended up dying a few days after his release.  But I'm concerned about possible war with Iran.  Fortunately we have posted a blog on that subject you should go and read if you haven't yet.  

Alvin came to tell me about the dentist appointment at ten after eight.  We still don’t know what happened to the internet bill.  I got ready.  At a quarter to nine I went down and sat in a chair and waited for Alvin to be ready.  He told me the appointment was really for nine thirty but the people at the dentist’s office said it was nine but there would be a few minutes delay and that it was OK to go out and smoke.  Signing with my finger didn’t work too well so they said I could use a pressure pen.  Then I used the restroom.  I met the blond in the hall and she showed me to my chair.   They used a lot of Novocain on me this day- - - I’d say a record amount.  But first was the “deep cleaning” on the right side- and a lot of picking.  In fact when I felt later there seemed to be a hole in one of my teeth and a lady said “It’s just receding gums”.  It was nearly ten before the work on the two root canals began.  They had planned to do three I thought but mercifully it was only two close together in the upper front.  My upper lip was so numb.  They took a lot of X rays.  They were done about twelve after eleven and took more X rays.  Then I went out for another cigarettes, which is a strange experience with a numb lip.  It was about 25 minutes to noon when Alvin showed up.  Mark was in the front seat.  I hurried up to the room to look in the mirror.  Actually I had a strange preminission they were going to thoroughly clean the room again today and part of my checking was to confirm that they weren’t.  But Nora apparently lifted the covers to see if there were any bugs.  We had curried chicken for lunch and brownish rice and peas.  We had peaches for dessert.  I went back for black coffee.  Mark had tea.   Actually the Novocain didn’t completely wear off till two.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on including “Draining the swamp”. 

On “Days of our Lives” it seems that one of Abigail’s alters knows she isn’t long for this world so “Gabby” said good-bye to Stephan.  The real Gabriel is still in a state of high anxiety fearing she might get mugged in prison again.  Vivian pulled a gun on Kate.  I went out for the afternoon snack in the courtyard and had two Oreos and a lemonade from Rico.  

Nora was doing our side of the hall but she began by doing room 201 on the other side.  She opened the door and I left soon after nine.  But she never did the room.  Instead when I returned a little after nine thirty she had started to pull the covers off and that’s all.  I feared that she had found more bugs and went to report it.  I saw a dead black bug on the sheets.  But it turns out they were doing major room cleaning in rooms 202 and 204.   This took all morning and into the lunch hour.  I went for snacks in the courtyard from Rico and got a lemonade and two Oreos.  I didn’t even have a pillow.  I caught Gary and Shannon before and after lunch and caught “Draining the swamp”.   I was out of cigarettes and prior to money draw I’d only had two cigarettes all day- - one was from Ron and the other was from Andrew.  I said to remind me and he fingered me in the stairway for that cigarette.   I didn’t even look at the menus because I was distracted.  We had breaded cod for lunch and white rice.  I didn’t touch the cauliflour.  We had fruit cocktail for dessert.  I caught “Days of our Lives’ and now we know the details of what happened when Abigail confronted Andre.  She’d overheard that Andre had betrayed everybody and this made her mad and she confronted him on it and was outraged by his response.  But she was resigned to leaving and telling others when Andre wouldn’t let her leave.  He grabbed her arm hard and I think he had her in a stranglehold at one point.  She broke away and used the nearest available thing to defend herself.   Meanwhile there was still no action on the bed.

I went in the afternoon snack line and got a graham cracker and grape from Rico.  I then got in the money draw line which had been called at a quarter to two.  But the line didn’t seem to be moving at all.  John Powell let me go ahead of her and Linda.  I got out of line and took off this long sleeved shirt because it was hot.  I used the bathroom and I smoked whatever butts I could find and got back in line.  The line hadn’t moved much but John let me have my original place in line.  Finally the line began moving.  Gabby was around all day.  When the guy in front of Paul went in she plopped herself right in the doorway blocking Paul.  Jennifer came out and gave Paul his money in the wheelchair and had him sign.  When I got in I learned I only had fifteen dollars.  I took it all.  I asked about Alvin saying he had given my internet bill to Jennifer because she often pays those bills.  She admitted she often did.  Jennifer said she would page me if my internet bill showed up in her mail.  I spent a lot of time out back smoking after I had gone to the store for full flavor Clippers.  I paid Ron the six cigarettes I owed him.  When I finally returned to the room it was after three and the bed had been made up and the bathroom fan and light were on.  I had to “catch up” on smoking cigarettes.  Just now Glen came to the door and wants two packs of cigarettes and a can of fruit cocktail.  I’ll leave right now.   They didn’t have fruit cocktail but they had sliced pineapple and maybe I should have gotten that.  Ben was there.  This morning we had a 4.6 earthquake in the early morning centered at Cabazon.