Well
one good thing about the media is that it at least IS talking about politics to
get people thinking. It’s portrayed as
two horse races and two horses, Trump and Bernie Sanders. At least Sanders got press from Stephanie for
speaking at Liberty College. I watched
some of that and heard some of the prayers and invocations. Sanders actually knew a few verses of
scripture by number, which is something I’m weak on. My view when I begin quoting the Bible is
“trust me; it’s in there”. Of course if
I were speaking to that crowd I throw in a little red meat about women standing
up for principle and not bowing to government in doing something they feel
violates their faith. In my blogs I have
taken no position on this “to sign off on gay marriage or not” because I
believe this is a gray area where I can’t come down with a hard decision I can
live with. I am certainly anti abortion
and belive “all lives matter” including the lives of the unborn. And I would stick in something hoping that
Jerry Brown does NOT sign off on this “Jack the dripper legislation” of
assisted suicide here in California. I
would also say something about not trying to pull off a whole new Creation in
DNA manipulation. I don’t believe in
treading on God’s territory without long and hard prayer on the matter. I don’t want to be found guilty of “meddling
with the primal forces of nature”.
Having said this I am in basic agreement with Bernie Sanders’
speech. Sanders is still my choice for
President. But pundits say he is the
domain of white, liberal, and probably male supporters. Sanders is said to be soft on the gun issue,
and this doesn’t bother me. I’m not worried. Sanders is said to be mushy on the
immigration issue also, and mushiness best describes my own position here. Then we have of course Donald Trump, whose
hair isn’t quite as luxuriant as it was eight years ago. I think at some point Trump is going to stop
talking like a camera junkey game show television host. The one issue where I”ve had to rethink my
issue just a little is the idea of lowering corporate taxes to induce
businesses to bring money back to this country.
If Trump will concede that the whole system of paying CEO’s is wrong and
misguided and they think too much about themselves and screw the company- - but
are looking for that golden parachute when things go bad- then maybe I can bend
a little and support a lowering of the corporate income tax rate to say twenty
percent like Romney wanted. But we need
to close all those loopholes, and we need strong tax laws to not reward
companies that relocate overseas. But if
Trump will bend on these issues- - and also claim that the safety net such as Social
Security and Medicare need more revenue and he knows how to get it- - I’m all
ears as to how.
Today
is September 15, 2015 and we all woke up to rain this morning. So El Nino may be giving us a wet winter just
like we’ve all hoped for. At least there
won’t be any fires in Southern California for a while, and pray for the people
up north. Maybe there would be more
questions on global warming at the debate at the Reagan Library if the place
were encircled by wild fires. (no that
remark is not original with me) Yesterday
they were pretty despondent in the media about this drought crisis ever being
over. There is the least snow on the
Sierra Nevada (only a few patches) than there have been in 500 years by tree
ring growth records. The media is talking
about Hillary’s campaign collapsing but nobody talks about Jebber’s campaign
collapsing at seven percent oir whatever to Hillary’s near fifty percent. It used to be “breaking news” meant that a
half dozen Soviet ICBM’s were header our way.
Now it means that Donald Trump is about to deliver another speech, as
though Trump were already the President.
Sean
Hannity stated that eleven of the twelve apostles were married, so Jesus picked
married men to run his church. Only in
the eleventh century did the church get around to requiring celibacy for
priests. Sean believes it’s because the
church feared generous to wives. More
likely it’s because the church wanted to inheret all acquired money from the
marriage. Clearly there are fewer good
men to pick from if you’re restricted to single men, which in the eyes of most
people would be a liability and not an asset.
Sean says that Pope Francis is a hypocrite for saying that money is the
god of the rich when money is obviously the focus of the Catholic Church. Sean does not believe in taking in refugees
to this country even if it’s only women and children. This shows how hard hearted Sean is. Rocky shared a little joke this
afternoon. There is a penny and a nickel
at the top of the hill and the penny rolled down and the nickel stayed
put. The question is why. The answer is “because the nickel had more
cents”. We have more utterances from
Sean Hannity’s show today. Sean is
against Billy Crystal saying that he is so completely against Donald Trump that
if he wins then Crystal would strongly suggest a third party candidate to run
against Trump. Sean thought that was
nuts, and to be frank, it is nuts. The “Club
for Growth” is putting out expensive ads against Donald Trump using the same
lines of persuasion that Trump isn’t really a conservative but is a closet
democrat. Sean is pretty unshakable in
his faith in Donald Trump.
This
morning I turned off the computer at a quarter to ten since Nora was running a
little late. I tidied up the room and
Nora still wasn’t here as of ten o clock but I left, but missed snack break
because I was out back. I spent some
time in the front room a while after ten thirty. I have a white blanket now. That creamy orange soup is “carrot soup” and
it had kind of a gritty quality today.
We had a “dinner” style lunch with a mediocre beef and pasta casserole and
mixed vegetables. We had a banana for
dessert. I listened to Sean Hannity both
over the noon hour and later. Stephano
survived his heart attack and is conscious now.
Aden visited Stephano and says he wants his money for making Hope fall
in love with him. Patch still doesn’t
accept the impending marriage. Ben and
Abigail are at an awkward moment where she caught him “spying” on her with an
electronic device, but she’s guilty as sin- - so it’s an impasse. Jennifer was back and began calling names for
Money Draw at one thirty. There was only
the one person in the office (Nancy Warwick) when I went in. I asked for and got ten dollars from
Jennifer. Gabby was kind of blocking my
path lying down- - and Jennifer shewed her out of the way. There was no candy. I went to the liquor store for a pack of John
Blacks. Larry Barton paid me two and
Bill paid me three, and I paid Phyllis and Richard. I was going to get in line to see the doctor
but the line was so very long I listened to Shawn Hannity instead and returned
just before three. Even then the line
was substantial. David Shaner and Luan were just ahead of
me. It was flu shot day and I opted to get
a flu shot, since I had so much bronchitis last year. How come they make those shots so painful
now? My blood pressure was 110 over
80. But my temperature was elevated at
99.8 and I can’t figure that one out except maybe their equipment is off since
I’m usually in the 97’s or even the 96’s.
Next month I’ll be getting a pneumonia shot that supposedly lasts for
five years. I didn’t even think to ask
about an anti smoking drug.
[Monday] It’s
just after two thirty and the guy is mopping the floors. I’m in a state of indecision. I should probably call the dentist. Also I should down the contents of the camera
not yet downloaded. In terms of the
Labor Party they say Tony Blair or Gordon Brown were far removed from this
current Jeremy Corbin. Corbin sees the
thing so clearly as far as war leading to the refugee problem and we cause the
wars. We seem to delight in them at
every opportunity, or else we made an opportunity. In terms of the soap opera today Clyde Weston
was threatening Jennifer at the Horton house in his own special way. It’s like looking death in the face. You see – J J just told Jennifer what the
score was as far as Clyde after first turning on the radio to a blues station
so they couldn’t be overheard by a bugging device. Meanwhile J J is persuaded maybe it is best
to go to the cops and tell them what he knows, which is extensive. Raphael gave Chad a police escort home and
seemed genuinely concerned for his safety, thinking perhaps the real killer is
still out there and Chad might be a target.
I was late to the courtyard but
made it over to Lynne’s class in the front room again, and Rico limited me to
one glass of red punch. I haven’t
blogged since Friday and don’t have any particular ideas what to write
now. With all the news most of it is
just political reverberation and nothing really new that I can comment on or
add fresh light to anything. We’ll see.
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