P S This is not Tim Kaine. The following photo is from Saturday morning's rally in Miami, Florida, where they appear together for the first time since his VP selection.
Hillary Clinton tweeted
out a message picking Tim Kaine as her vice presidential choice. Some photos of Kaine are unflattering and
make him look like kind of a mental patient with a giddy smile, disheveled hair
and doing a fist pump. He’s like an
applicant for the cast of “One flew over the coo-coo’s nest”. Hillary picked him because “They have good
chemistry together” and “Tim Kaine has never lost an election”. He’s on the armed services committee of the
Senate and he served as governor of Virginia during the time of the Virginia
Tech shooting. But like I say he’s
hopelessly pro big banks and Wall Street and pro internationalist trade deals. In short he’s the worst pick Hillary could
have made. Because now all the
Republicans have to do is to run those ads of Trump’s speech the other night
talking about cracking down on Wall Street and internationalist trade
deals. Even if it isn’t true it will
make a good ad. But he does speak
Spanish and Hillary wanted that. And it’s
just possible that the heavily Sanders leaning delegation of the convention
(that approved the platform) will revolt against her selection.
President Obama had Elizabeth Warren with him
for the usual Saturday morning address.
That was a good idea in light of the poor selection of Tim Kaine. Bill asked if he was Black, perhaps confusing
him with Herman Kaine. Elizabeth Warren
buttressed the President in supporting the Dodd Frank bill, which wasn’t
mentioned by name but only by what it accomplished, or is hoping to
accomplish. The jury is still out on
that. We had corn flakes for breakfast
followed by a fried egg, toast and butter.
Rico gave me two cups of regular coffee.
Patty was going on and on for all to hear about the media and police and
Judy said “Maybe when she gets her food she’ll shut up a little”. A lot of people in the dining room had
silverware shortages.
That shooting that occurred
in Munich yesterday happened like this.
A lone gunman who did not have associates was an eighteen year old
German Iranian, and therefore might have Islamic terrorist ties. He shot up the Olympia shopping center near a
Mc Donald’s and the shootings were captured on video. Eight people are dead and then the shooter is
believed to have committed suicide. The
media feeds us nothing but violence.
Patty Hayes went on a rant at the table this morning about how the media
is ‘weakening our police force” by showing all these videos like the one with
the black school teacher. I don’t blame “the
media” as part of any grand conspiracy.
They’re just in it for the money and the ratings. But I will say that even I have to admit that
perhaps we all are getting our perceptions warped by the media. Someone referred to Trump’s acceptance speech
as like the series “Gotham”. It’s rather
dark and in that series you have the son of a millionaire with some kind of a
savior complex who wants to cleanse society of all evil. But as Hillary said in her campaign speech
yesterday in Tampa, Florida- - if we are going to win against all manner of
evil, it will be by a collective effort of all of us.
Thom Hartman was
running a poll (as some unspecified time on tape delay) asking callers in
whether Trump’s performance last week and the convention in general raised or
lowered Trump in the polls. I think it’s
obvious that this convention will lower Trump’s rating in the polls. That’s the first thing that crossed my mind
Monday evening. This whole convention
was an awkward disaster. It turns out
there are eight dead in a shooting rampage in Munich, Google news informs
me. Because of this Clinton will delay
her announcement that she has chosen a Vice President. It’s beginning to strike me that there are
going to be fewer and fewer “normal” days from now on as the media becomes
hypersensitive to all of these police shootings and such. “Rampages” from anywhere in the world will be
reported as though their directly impact our lives. We need to pray for victims, of course. But it seems to me it would be easy at this
point to let negative news run our lives so that we have to plan our lives
around it, rather than what is most expedient to our own cause. If it’s Tim Kaine, no one may care
anyhow.
Yesterday there was
another police shooting, which is the strangest of them all. There was an adult with autism playing with a
toy truck. There was a Black caretaker
with him and the caretaker was afraid the autistic guy would “do something
stupid” around the cops. As it turns out
the Black caretaker was on the ground with his hands up saying “Don’t shoot”
and the police officer fired anyhow and wounded the caretaker, shooting him in
the leg. When asked why the top fired he
said “I don’t know”. Later it was said
that since the man with autism had a toy truck the officer thought it was a gun
and he was actually was firing at patient and not the caretaker. But Thom Hartman says PTSD could cause a
person to be trigger happy out of anxiety and raised the question, and only a
question, whether over-stressed combat veterans from Iraq should be immediately
hired on as law enforcement. But I
wouldn’t want to unduly taint PTSD people and they probably screen for that in
psychological tests anyhow, or at least
maybe they do.
This is after lunch and the computer is still
on. Nora was just in here and Bill is
sleeping and the shades are drawn. Paul
knocked on the door a few lines before the completion of the last
paragraph. He told me a lot about Judy’s
perils in the hospital. She had glucose
in her saline solution. At other times
they wanted her to get rid of her insulin pump.
She was given a valium tranquelizer for her nausea, which exists in the
brain and not in the stomach. All
expenses so far are paid for with insurance.
But long term care will be different and Paul wasn’t sure whether a long
term policy would be worth it. Paul says
Judy’s care could take months. Paul
hasn’t gone back to work yet and won’t till Monday August first. Paul dropped off a bunch of big oranges from
his tree. They will be good for healing
my lip wound cause by gashing a cold sore while I was shaving. At least that’s the theory. Paul wants me to see a doctor immediately and
not wait a few days for the scab to heal and you can actually see what the
thing looks like. I gave back the autism
book to Paul who will give it back to Mom or loan it out to someone else.
Demas
and Dario are still vying for Nicole’s affections. Kate was told by Marlena she always picks the
wrong men to partner with because deep down she believes she doesn’t deserve
any better. Teresa blew an opportunity
to help track down Tate’s kidnapper because she wanted to blurt out something
at exactly the wrong time from her therapy session with Marlena. Glenda came in here to use the phone but the
number didn’t work. She was calling
about Joe who was admitted to the hospital because he had a bad infection in
his arm. So many people have medical
problems.
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