Trump May Go to War with Iran

This is Saturday May 25th and now for the most important item.   I finally learned what the "H" in Jesus H Christ stands for.  It's "Herald" as in "Herald by thy name" in the Lord's Prayer.  It got started in the middle of the 1800's and Mark Twin was somehow involved.  In other news they'll be skiing in Mammoth Mountain into the month of July.  They have a lot of snow.  I guess people in the South are having their first hundred degree heat wave of the year.  Meanwhile we had rain on Thursday and are expecting rain tonight and into tomorrow.  Yesterday I went on a nature walk at the El Dorado nature center in eastern Long Beach near the San Gabriel River.  It's kind of an organic trail that even disappears a couple of times and you don't know which way to go.  I may have a separate blog post for that visit in a day or two.  Meanwhile there is the Rolling Thunder review of motorcycle vets on parade in Washington DC.  They began the event in 1988 and this is their 31st and final year at it due to "expences".  Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi is slurring her words if we believe a doctored tape of her that is circulating.  According to Trump, Nancy is losing it and doesn't remember how calm the president was during their meeting the other day.  Now here is older stuff.

Yesterday Thom Hartman was arguing that we had already crossed the threshold to a totalitarian state and Trump was the new dictator.  He argued that we have gone the way of Hungary, Poland, and Turkey.  Democratic elections may be a thing of the past because we have a man in the White House that basically does not respect the constitution.  If the Supreme Court or congress orders him to do something he’ll either defy or go around them, like Trump did when he funneled money from the military to build the border wall.  Even if Trump is impeached he may decide not to leave office, and who is going to make him?  The executive branch has the police powers.  President Andrew Jackson twice defied a supreme court decision handed down by John Marshal.  One time it was to end the “Trail of Tears” of the Cherokee people, and the other was ending the National Bank of the United States, which threw us into one of the worst recessions we’ve had in this country.   Lincoln refused to respect the Dread Scott decision by Justice Tawney when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1982.  Southerners thus formed a legal basis for defying this president.  That was yesterday.  Today Hartman is arguing in favor of high terrifs.  My position is like that caller.  It’s been too long and we are addicted to cheap foreign goods and our economy relies on free trade.  You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.  When Reagan took office the toothpaste was still in the tube and our terriffs were in place.  You can’t un-ring a bell.  If I were the democratic nominee I would say to the President “you can do what you feel like doing on trade but I am of a different opinion and this election will put our ideas to a vote.  To at this point try and run out ahead of the Republicans and take the lead on the fair trade issue, would be suicidal and would facilitate a Trump victory.  Our one bargaining, wedge issue is that the economy will tank next year and it’s all Trump’s fault. 

Stephanie has been good at summarizing Trump’s tantrums.   The biggest news of the past 24 hours is that Trump met with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in the oval office.  He closed the drapes so you couldn’t see out into the rose garden or the podium and chairs and microphone that were already set up where Trump would next be headed to denounce the meeting.  Trump’s promises of cooperation in getting infra-structure weren’t worth a thing.  We already knew that.  Dorthey knew it at the time when that auspicious meeting a few weeks ago was held and we were all so optimistic about cooperation.   President Trump didn’t like Nancy accusing the president of a “cover-up”.  Trump said that all this talk by the Democrats of collu9sion with Russia over the past three years has “Done damage to the country”.  This is the most amazing case of blame shifting I’ve seen.  Meanwhile Stephanie says Trump has lost three major court decisions in the past few days.  But I wouldn’t get too optimistic about “the walls closing in” because we’ve heard that so many times before.  Trump still thinks he’ll win next year.   Of course the other big store is this declared war with Iran.   Yesterday afternoon during the three thirty news while there was thunder and lightning and a downpour around here,  we heard that ten thousand troops were being ordered to Iran on orders of the pentagon.  So we will have a full-fledged war next year during Trump’s reelection campaign.  The question is whether congress will go along with all of this escalation because they hold the purse strings.  That “American Talliban” guy will be released from an Indiana prison in a few days.  He has spent seventeen of his twenty year sentence behind bars and now various people are panicked that he’ll be free and presumably will continue to preach his pro Talliban propaganda. 

I had a dream I was in the Bosc bedroom at a quarter to three in the morning and I couldn’t sleep.  So I decided taking a shower would help.  It was a public shower and another guy was in there.  He soon left but then a nude high school girl came in.  And then another girl came in.  Obviously I was getting self conscious.  Then three females who knew me passed by the walk way and one of them said “Hi”.  But they couldn’t see me over the patrician.  I decided to leave.  I was apparently at some Michael Jackson museum or something and I was in kind of a shopping mall thing.  There was this boy and girl couple that both had Mohawk haircuts or something and someone joked they were brother and sister.  They were about ninth grade or something.  I ordered a Michael Jackson special of tuna and sliced red bell peppers.  The tuna was of higher quality but I remarked to someone that Jackson has strange favorites.   I don’t know what time of day this took place.  Maybe it was still the wee hours of the morning. 

Trump Isn't as Weak as we Think

Alllan Lichman is the featured guest on the Rick Unger show at three.  He outlines four whole categories of charges that could be leveled against the president.   People forget that there is a whole middle step between impeachment and the senate vote, and that is the actual trial of the President where more facts are brought out.  And they are brought out by House members.  The Senate does not set the agenda for the trial of the president.   President Trump is doomed anyhow because of two other things.  He’s doomed on the terriff issue.  President Trump actually wants to expand the scope of Chinese terrifs to electronics.  This will really cripple the economy even worse.  Then we have the whole abortion front.  The president is doomed on this issue already.  He will forever be tied to Alabama and Missouri and these other states that have voted to ban abortion at an early stage.  Donald Trump got where he is by going negative.  Biden says that being angry doesn’t sell.  Yet Trump’s whole approach to the electorate is to be mean and nasty and indignent.  This brings us to Joel Olsteen’s sermon last Sunday saying that being positive and upbeat always pays off.  Yet there are times even when flying an airplane that a pilot can go into a stall if he tries to lift up the nose of the plane too much too soon.  More important than the wing “attitude” is what kind of engines do you have on that plane.  If you don’t have the power you’ll go down.  And with a Christian if you pretend you have the power when you don’t, you’ll go down in flames.  You need to see the whole picture and one thing that pastors love to do is to have a small fragment of the truth which will not save you.  Allan Lichman has a good track record for predicting presidential elections.  He predicted a Trump win in 2016 in the face of all the polls.  Lichman says the polls are wrong, and they are wrong this time.  He says if the election were held today that Trump would win again.  I’ll defer to his track record.  An impeachment trial would affect many of the “Thirteen keys to winning the election”.  One will remember that Nixon won in a landslide victory in 1972 despite Watergate.  (Selah)  In Youngstown things still aren’t  that good economically but they are sticking with the president according to the polls.  Not only this but Joe Biden just said that “China is really not that much of a problem as far as competition is concerned.  That’s a bad case of foot in mouth disease.  Biden also attacked young people in the milenial generation when he called them lazy and didn’t have to work for the money they got but only want free stuff.  That may get him points with the older Generation X people but milenials by the droves have a reason not to vote for Biden.  And if they stay home and don’t vote for Joe Biden, he could well lose the election. 

I was going to type about the origens of Christianity.  But I'm not in the mood.  Instead I want to talk about rock songs we haven't included on a compilation.   Here are song songs that have occurred to me that we have thought about for some time.  This is a preliminary list.

Gee (How I Love that Girl)   The Crows
Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean (artist)
You Ain't Nothing but a Hound Dog (Bib Mama Thornton)
Drunk! (September 1953)
Hole in the Wall (ditto)
Lucille (Little Richard)
Susie Q (Dale Hawkins) (?)
Goody, Goody  (Frankie Lineman)
Smokey Paces (Corsairs) (?)
B-Baby B-Blue (artist?) 
Surf Beat (Dick Dale) 

Still in the Impeachment Doldrums

It's been a week since I’ve done a blog.  I’ve had gastro-intestinal problems and I have also suffered from shortness of breath in the mornings.  We are still in the impeachment doldrums.  Impeachment seems no closer now than it was two years ago when Muller was first appointed.  Even the Rude Pundit, who was on this morning, seemed surprisingly lacking in energy.  Then you have Rand Paul on “This Week” yesterday confusing the issue so it looks like the democrats are just as guilty of undo influence in the election as the Republicans.  This will make it easier for people making a last minute decision at the polls to pull the lever for Trump.  After all if the economy holds up and we manage to stay out of wars for another year,  Trump; will be looking good in the eyes of a lot of people on the fence.  In the news we have a world-wide shortage of helium so that the party balloon business could suffer.  Stephanie was playing a speeded up version of “Turn out the lights; the party’s over”.   How could the price of a common substance like helium suddenly go up ten fold?  Does it have anything to do with the disappearing ozone layer?  Too much freon?  On Sixty Minutes we learn how in one definite instance of collusion and it’s among the drug manufacturors.  About 2014 the price of many, many drugs went up between five and ten fold and perhaps more.  There are traceable phone calls made the day of these massive price increases and all of the manufacturors raised their prices when a day or two of each other and there is verbal confirmation of that.  This has to be the biggest price fixing scandal in the past hundred years.  Meanwhile we learn a week or so ago that President Trump lost a billion dollars between 1985 and 1994 and paid no income taxes.  Trump is the most complete fraud we have ever seen in either politics or business.  He writes books and brags on TV how great he is when he’s nothing but a reckless swindler. 

Whether Muller testifies before congress is still up in the air.  They have reverted to saying that Barr will decide whether Muller testifies and Barr hasn’t chimed in officially.  Chris Darden the OJ prosecutor, has been scared out of legally defending the guy that shot that rapper outside of his clothing establishment last month.  He says “It was part of a dispute”.   Darden has received death threats and this is uncalled for.  Darden is right.  Every black man deserves legal council even if he’s attained to the status of “Christ killer” or something for gunning down a guy they’ve made a virtual saint of here in LA with that exhaustive funeral coverage and all of the intersection renamings.   We can’t live by fear and intimidation and this is what Darden is bowing to by withdrawing.   Meanwhile there is a revival of the MERSA virus here in LA and someone said it’s spread in the police department.   Those republicans in the senate still want to hear more from Donald Trump Jr.  It might be softball friendly questioning, but he’ll have to take the fifth as soon as the democrats get up to ask questions.  Now there is some pesticide that they want to get rid of because it was invented by the Nazis before WW II.  There is no further word on whether they have banned tobacco sales in Beverly Hills.  There is talk of the extinction of multiple species because of clean-up from all those fires we had last year.   They said they put ethanol in all gasoline now except for that which is used for older cars.  I didn’t know that.  It’s been shown that producing ethanol by raising crops is actually an energy deficit. 

President Trump is doing everything he can to blow up the nuclear treaty with Iran and start a war there with some trumped up charge about Iranian aggression against “American interests”.  My guess is he’s just looking for any excuse.  He tried to start a war in Venesuela and when he failed there he’s going for Iran now.  Then there is the whole Chinese terriff question and everything webuy will be increased 25%, which will put a brake on the economy.  When we had terrifs fifty years ago things were fine.  But you can’t get off them and then restart them just like that.   Blame President Reagan for eliminating the terriffs in the first place.  Of course the stock markets are going down now.  In political news Joe Biden is at 36% making him by far the number one person to beat in the democratic primaries.  Sanders is now a weak second.  If this keeps up they can go back to just having seven or eight in the debate because even that number will be generous because there are only a very few candidates above two percent.  Meanwhile Camilla Harris is refocusing her campaign on “prosecuting Trump” because Harris is a former prosecutor and it’s her specialty.  People like Biden because he’s going after Trump personally and Democrats now seemed intent on focusing their efforts to getting rid of Trump.   I think this is a very good idea because if Trump stays in another term the statute of limitations will expire on a lot of crimes in July of 2022 and Trump will have gotten away with everything.  Trying Trump in the press for his offenses is safer than trying him in the US Republican senate.  

Three state bills I’m against are this school district tax to make up for the fact that the LA school district has to shell out a lot of extra money because of the recent teacher’s strike.  I am also against the bill to have no school start class before eight thirty in the morning.  A statewide bill is too broad here.  They need to handle this issue at the school district.  Also I am against this move to extend the time bars may serve liquor to four in the morning.  Clearly this will increase drunk driving and arrests and car crashes.  It’s a safeguard in society we need to keep in place. 

As to this gun bill school states are passing to arm teachers in the classroom I am undecided about this one.  It just might be a good idea to save lives in case of a mass school shooting, which occur at least once a week these days.  The likelihood of any student seeing violence in the classroom has gone up dramatically from my day.  The teachers should be trained and have a psychological background check.  The gun should not be used to “enforce discipline”. 

Princess Megan has a Baby Boy

This is Monday May 6, 2019.   Say hello to Baby Boy Sussex.  Princess Magen has had a seven pound healthy baby boy.  He is seventh in line to the throne.  Mal Evans is happy that the Brits finally have a bi-racial American in the royal line.  Everybody was expecting Magen would have a girl and they were debating whether she would be called Dianna or Grace.  Bill had the news on before six and they announced that Princess Magen had gone into labor.  There was talk that she was late and they might have to induce labor.  I don’t know what the royal rules are concerning that.  Anyhow it was maybe a half hour later that they announced that the baby had been born at five thirty in the morning.  I’m not sure if that’s our time or theirs.   In other news they had a running of the grunion last night.  I didn’t see much movement.  I thought you were supposed to chase the grunion to catch them with your bare hands.  It was a high tide of a new moon anyhow.  Today is the first day of the month of Ronadon.  If you’re in Sweden it might be touch fasting all day because the nights are so short up there.  In Federation news they are doing a re-launch of the album “Chaos and Creation” and they are getting rid of “mini-Queen”.  I’m not sure if it’s royally disrespectful or what.  We are adding a song.   Mal Evans favors the changes but he is not the one who was in charge of the content of this album.   The Dodgers lost to the Padres yesterday with a last minute grand slam home run.   Millie brought up an ethical question this morning.  This woman who couldn’t have kids was all set to adopt a Mexican “sweet little boy” but then she got pregnant on her own and canceled the adoption.   I’m not sure if it’s kosher to get a kid’s hopes up like that only to be dashed and go back to a foster home.  

Mental hijacking was the topic of last evening.  I was out and around before seven.  Of course on Sixty Minutes they had a thing on how wide-spread that ransom software was.  They actually sell the software so that the extortionist doesn’t even have to write the code to hijack someone’s computer files.  Of course they encrypt them so that they can’t be used and then they’ll sell you the decoder key for a million bucks or something.  If you’re lucky it will be less.  Someone from Leeds, Alabama negotiated the terms down to eight thousand claiming that they were a poor city and the crooks went along with it.  Why doesn’t our esteemed President make a statement or propose a bill on ransom software like this where if you are a hospital or a city government you lose all your files and records and are instantly plunged into chaos?   Then they had a piece on “frontal lobe dementia”.   I’m still not sure whether this disease actually exists or it’s just something new invented to give it a name.  If you do a brain scan on these people there vast streaks of the frontal lobe that are in blue and this is where cell death has occurred.  There are two forms of the disease.  There is word dementia where you can’t come up with the words to say.  I was always told this is called aphasia.  But the other form of the disease is where your behavior goes off the tracks.  You leave your two and three year old kids out in the front yard when it’s snowing out or something and there is danger of their getting run over on a busy street.  Meanwhile the dad sits there happily watching TV like Kevin or something, oblivious that anything is wrong.  If you visit these people in an institution they will tell you “nothing is wrong” even when they have literally lost their minds.  Of course a guy who compulsively goes out to the quickie mart to buy a six pack of beer and some donuts and neglects his children could be Homer Simpson, and he is kind of an American folk hero.  There is something in the brains of these frontal lobe people that is missing.  It’s like a moral governor that tells you “That would be a really bad idea”.   I went for my medication after this.  Then there was that Escamo lady thing where this woman does “throat singing”.   Either that or she’s gagging on something.  CBS has uprooted their entire schedule and “God Friended Me” hasn’t been on.  I had “Super Girl” and then “Charmed” on.  Of course Jack Deveroux lives in a glass house.  He has amnesia and doesn’t know it.  Moral amnesia is a dangerous thing in politicians.  I think President Trump has it.  You are utterly oblivious to your own moral failings.  So if you have a rape of a woman in your past you assume that if you can’t remember it, then nobody else will bring it up, either.  Meanwhile like Trump you are busily slinging mud at everybody and anybody else.  Trump has that whole Russian prostitute thing to worry about- - and stuff covered in the Steel report.  This information has never been disproven, and I think the material in this report need another airing.  Meanwhile I don’t think either Mc Gann or Muller will be testifying anytime soon.  I don’t see why Attorney General Barr should have such power as to deny people access to congress. 

Philosophic Royalists

Thom Hartman yesterday was talking about how democracies are in peril all around the world notably in Poland and Hungary and of course in Turkey and the Philipines it's getting worse.  This in itself should be a major debate topic in this campaign cycle.  That is the survival and success of democracy around the world and even here at home.  It's only too bad that our religion doesn't think more highly of democracy.  The idea of Greek rationalism is not popular in "mainstream Christianity".   It's deemed either not necessary or superfelus or at worst, in opposition to God and God's way for mankind.  Roosevelt spoke of economic royalists.  But we've always had "Royalists" in the realm of religion.   Here are some other remarks from yesterday and I will add another paragraph when I get around to it.  This is Wednesday May 1, 2019.   Att Gen Barr testified before a senate hearing today and for a while there was coverage on channel two.  A Republican tried to shift the blame to the Steel Report and how democrats allegedly “colluded” to get that information from the Russians since it was about Trump’s activity while visiting Moscow.  There was talk about the FBI “spying” on Trump for the Clintons.  Barr didn’t answer any questions asked by the democrats.  I only watched a little on KNXT and also on Thom Hartman where they had Aimy Clovichar asking questions.   She plugged two of her campaign bills.  There is a bi-partisan “clean elections” bill that supposedly even Lindsay Graham supported.  Dorthey said a couple nights ago that Deputy Att Gen Weinstein resigned two days ago giving his official two week notice.  I find no confirmation of this.   There are tornadoes galore in the news including Denton, Texas, which I didn’t know was a suburb of Dallas.  We never used to see tornadoes this constant or this wide-spread in areas where you didn’t normally see tornadoes.  There was another mass shooting and this one was in North Carolina but a heroic guy jumped him and got killed himself.   Barr was slated to testify tomorrow before the House committee but he canceled that just an hour or so.  I guess the grilling was getting a little rough and it would only promise to be rougher tomorrow.

Thom Hartman is trying to turn the Venesuelan situation into a racial issue.  The new upstart guy who ran against the military dictatorship in Venesuela is said to be a white guy and he wants to fill the country with mutinational corporatists, whereas the guy leading the country now is the true more racially compatible Latino guy whom the people really want.  He won the election and we didn't accept the outcome according to Hartman.  So the question is "to intervene or not to intervene".   I don't know.  According to Hartman Afghanistan was better off than it was in 2001 before we invaided.  This is contrary to everything I've seen and read on Afghanistan saying the US military has worked wonders in Afghanistan and how much safer that nation is now with more schools for women and such.  I'm confused and I guess I need more information.  I hope Hartman is not just a tool of the Russian propigandists.  Everything I've seen on my TV has me thinking this is one area where we should agree with Trump and maybe intervene to save democracy.  But Hartman says that if the people of Venesuela are suffering it's only because the US is sabotaging their economy.

 I know that in Christianity- - - Jesus was not in favor of intervention to save the nation of Israel.  Most historians regard that as a bad thing bringing about two thousand years of Jewish persecution.  We have St Peter saying that Jesus was the messiah  But his next question should have been "Will you now set up your kingdom of divine rule in Palestine?  That would be a No.  Instead Jesus talking about getting Peter to found his "Church".  Peter's next question should have been "Lord, what is a church?"  Gandhi talked about passive resistance and civil disobediance in India but Jesus and Paul only spoke of civil Obediance and "Going the extra mile" to further Rome's causes.  And Jesus went further and said "If Israel goes down it's all your fault really because you didn't believe in me", when one wonders what Jesus expected of them.  Gandhi didn't expect people to worship him as a god or whatever.   Certainly there are no arguments over whether Gandhi is the "firstborn of Creation" or else the second person of the Trinity and spend a thousand years arguing about this.  There is a book called "the five gospels" where the text of Jesus' words is in different colors.  If you see text in black you can be pretty sure it wasn't Jesus.  Was Jesus obsessed with his geniology?  Should we be?  What if some sayings contradict Walter Martin's theology, who should we believe?

In case you are wondering the updated version of "Radio Ready A to Z" was typed in early August of 2017 and it's in the Cosmic Tides blog.  Some of you must have been looking for that.  Sometimes we bury our updates and you never know where to find them.  

Above All Else Confusion Reigns

CHAOS AND CREATION

Have Mercy Mercy, Baby  (Clyde Mc Phatter & the Dominoes)  
When You Dance (late 1955 artist)

They Call Me Speedo  (Cadillac’s)

I Want You To Be My Girl (Frankie Lineman)

Charlie Brown (Coasters)

Stick Shift (The Duals) 
Beechwood 4-5789 (Marvolettes)

Watermellon Man (1963 artist)

Long, Tall Sally (Beatles)

Yester Me, Yester You, Yesterday (Stevie Wonder)

Psychedelic Shack (Temptations) 
I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night (KISS)

More, More, More, How Do You Like It (artist?)

Boys Don’t Cry (The Cure)

You Spin Me Right Round (Dead Or Alive)
88 Lines About 44 Women (Dead Milkmen)

Whip It (Devo)

The Song Remains the Same (Led Zeppelin)

Living In The Material World (George Harrison)

Front cover is of impeachment hearing with three defendant.  There are three seats up front facing the audience with Paul Manifort on the left and Trump in the center and Attorney General Barr on the right.   There are a lot of desks and senators and such but they are either half asleepl or else have some weird scientific experiment in front of them involving electric sparks or else some strange cloud thing.  Nancy Pelosi is standing up to the left side view and Mitch Mc Connell with exagurated facial features is to the right.  Over the center Judge Seat is a mysterious cloud with the seven Pliades stars in it.   There is no longer an unannounced surprise right after the Kiss song because we dropped it.  We present "Mini Queen" fresh from the Stephanie Miller show.  She also had "mini Kiss" but we're sparing you that.   It's the opera chorus portion of Bohemian Rhapsody which "Im just a poor boy from a poor family" and all of that stuff ending in "Beelzibub has a disciple put aside for me".   All that opera stuff is at 45 rpm for a 33 RPM record so it's going fast.   This album had one more track in yesterday's version, "Memphis Blues Again" but we dropped it because it made the record too long.  It was out of sequence anyhow,   This "mini Queen' thing gets some of Rhapsody on the record.  

This is May 3rd and Valerie Shoffner's birthday.  This may be significant.  We replaced the next to the next to the last song because it's found on "Passionate Playthings".   We wanted another song from 1973.   Our ratings are up- a little.  Let's keep them going that way.

Last night we had on NBC network news because KABC had a live program from New York.  They promoted that Avengers movie, which had grossed a record amount of 300 million or something in two days.  That Jewish rabbi had his right index finger blown off.  Today there was a terrorist napped threatening to attack the port of Long Beach and Santa Monica pier.  I got my mediation a little after six thirty.  I was hungry because there was no snacks.  Julie gave me a mini Kit Cat and when I ate that it was like a laxative because ten minutes later I had diaria.  I watched Sixty Minutes.  Conservatives have taken over because it was all about this Texas border crossing station that’s inland and how you can get free aid and food and then they give you a court date and you’re free to go and never be heard from again.  It’s an immigrant’s panacea.   Then it was Fentenol and how it’s safer to send it through the US Mail rather than to have a private company do it because they are subject to inspections.  Then it was war between Norway and Russia on the small border they have in common.  NATO considers it a real threat that Russian submarines and ships will invade Norway and are making preparations.   “God Friended Me” wasn’t on.  I turned it on “Supergirl” after a while. 

I had a dream that I was charging snacks at Carl’s due to a debit card or something and they said that I was running up quite a bill.  Then I walked home crossing Lincoln at Knott on the eastern side. The street was flooded and I thought “It must have rained here”.  By “Here” I’m not sure what I meant.  The water was up to my ankles about a food and I looked at the signals and was confused.  I think rain was coming down now.  Then a police car turned right right in front of me and the car actually pushed me as I stood on my feet.  A police officer got out.  I was afraid he was going to give me a ticket but instead he just gave me a long, rambling lecture and I’m not sure if I was in trouble or not.  I got up a little past five but didn’t shower.  I felt mentally confused.  I went out back and smoked. 

This is later and it’s five o clock right now.  Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi made a deal with President Trump that was broadcast in FOX news in a garden setting where they agreed to spend two billion on infrastructure including internet broad-band.  Now there is a new shooting at a North Carolina school.  I went out and borrowed a white cigarette from Bill.  I also smoked two butts.  Dorthey said Trump was lying about the deal. 

Now they want to get rid of frog dissections in biology class in California.  They may not be starting school anywhere in the state before eight thirty.  The average class start time now is 8:07.  That would be quite a change.  They talked about how school teachers in Poland are concerned about the same things as they are here and also the death of democracy in Poland and in Hungary.  Trump never met a dictator he didn’t like. 

This is Tuesday April 30, 2019.  They announced money draw about nine thirty today.  I of course didn’t go out.   This host on “Let’s Make a Deal” made an unusual statement today.  He asks this one contestant winner going to a trip to Brazil who she is going to take with her on the trip.  She says her boyfriend.  She’s eighteen and she’s entitled.  Then the host launches into a long speech about cutting up her passport into a million pieces and lying to his daughter about what happened to it and how if she were his daughter he’d never let her go on this trip.  Then it was “The Price is Right”.   I went out for ten o clock snacks and got two Oreos and a cup of tea.  I told people after nine that I was smoking my last cigarette.  Phyllis then remembered that she owed me two cigarettes and gave me two.  I haven’t seen the cat around at all today.  After lunch Rene gave me a white cigarette, and I still had one more in reserve.  They have been cordoning off the hallway with this plastic so you can’t get through.  They’ve been doing different sections scraping the stucco off the ceiling or something.  I assume they’re going to paint.  There were rumors they were redoing the floors but that doesn’t appear to be true.  For lunch we had a slab of seasoned chicken breast with cheesy potatoes and a vegetable.  I was the only one at my table that had the original menu.  For a while I thought I was going to eat by myself because the other three were late in coming.  I couldn’t get seconds on coffee from Patty but I did get seconds out back.  Then it was Gary and Shannon.  Rene came in to empty the trash  Bill has been in a lot of pain today.  On Days of our Lives- - - Zander and Ted are the ones responsible for kidnapping Holly,  Nicole’s little girl.  When Nicole found out she was pretty pissed at Clowie for not taking care of her.  Hope knows that Sierra and Ben have had sex and isn’t at all happy about it.  I went for two o clock snacks and once again got two Oreos and an iced tea.  Larry lent me a cigarette