Trump and the Birther Movement

Last Friday I didn't know what to make of Trump's repudiation of the birther movement, which he all but started in 2011 back when he led in the Presidential polls in June of 2011.  He was the first of a long list of candidates to lead in this mad house followed by Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, and you know all the others- - Hermon Cane, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santaurum ect.  The problem is as President Donald Trump may state certain "Truths" with absolute certainty like he did with the notion that Barock Hussein Obama was born in Kenya.  He may even offer money to anyone who can disprove his word.  But he'll welsh on this promise just like he's welshed in so many others.  This is no way to run a country and Trump will be widely disrespected if he tries to run the country the way he's run his businesses.  He can't just do a ten second denial and think that's the end of the problem.  It's like a woman who wants sex but ten seconds before the man ejaculates she decides she really doesn't want it.  It's a little late by then.  You act strident and pound your fist on the table and insist you're right, and you can't just sheepishly back away in the closing seconds of the football game.  Then he does the stunt of blaming the whole birther movement on Hillary.  OK there may be a grain of truth, but Hillary didn't talk about the issue for five long years and almost make it the whole centerpiece of the campaign.  From a Black perspective it's like Mitch Mc Conell trying to make an asterisk of the whole Obama presidency giving him "No Quarter" not even agreeing to bills they'l like to see passed anyhow but they won't do it because they have this scorched earth policy when it comes to Congressional action.  As to Bernie Sanders, he says "Now is not the time for a protest vote".  Hillary is losing a lot of young people to Gary Johnson (who is also the name of an ex step uncle of mine)  No doubt they like Gary's policy on personal privacy and freedom from government intrusion with wire tapping and serveilance and the like.  They also like his reluctance to get into foreign wars, and they like his marijuana policy.  

We all need a toke in the morning

And one at the end of the day

And as many as possible squeezed in-between

To keep life’s troubles at bay

We all just need something to lean on

To insure that our world doesn’t fall

It’s my belief that for instant relief

A toke is the best cure of all

And now for the "loco news" - - - .  This is Monday morning September 19, 2016 and the overcast is just starting to lift.  The Vikings held out against Green Bay last night in a game played in Minisota.  Then Green Bay will be at home for four straight games.  I had the evening game on briefly aware of Bill’s sudden distaste for football.  I had the end of that game on after eight thirty. Medication wasn’t a problem with Tom and mercifully it wasn’t tuna but cheese.  I caught the last few minutes of the Gary Johnson interview on Sixty Minutes.  Then it was the military and President Obama and all the various nuclear procedures they employ.  The President is the sole person who determines whether bombs are dropped and his decision is final.  There were a lot of details I hadn’t heard before.  Then it was the movie industry in China, which works hand in glove with their sencering government to decide which scenes to even film.  But Hollywood does the same thing now.  They tailor their scripts to the future Chinese market to determine which scenes are included or omitted.  It would seem given this reality that Hollywood would accept a lot fewer real protest movies in the future.  Then it was the tail end of “Bob’s Burgers” then “The Simpson’s” in an episode I haven’t seen before about Lisa touring with an aging lady singer.  Four of a kind beats a full house, but how about a straight flush, or even more to the point, a Royal flush?  Would a royal flush beat four Aces?  I should know.  It never dawns on certain people who are natural losers that the smartest thing they can do is to not bet.  Or how about “Just say you did, but you really didn’t”?

I got up before five thirty, which was too early.  There were no cigarettes to be had.  But twice Ron gave me white butts.  The medication line was slow to get started with Ida.  Finally just before breakfast Paul gave me a whole cigarette, which is the only one I’ve had so far today.  Twice before breakfast I asked John Kip for coffee since he made a big thing out of offering it and both times he put me off.  Maybe he’ll let me have some now, maybe not.  We had Cheerios for breakfast followed by an English muffin with butter and jelly and scrambled eggs.  I got a second cup of coffee from Rene.  There was a train of people going to the kitchen for it.   For all the talk about Glenda owing me for letting her use the phone, it hasn’t manifested itself in cigarettes.  I haven’t gotten any cigarettes from Glenda in a long time.  Bill wants me to not lock the door just because he lost his key months ago and hasn’t gotten around to replacing it.  I still don’t know if Augustine is coming by with supplies today.  Certain things seem to never get done.  These blinds still need to be worked on and that hasn’t happened. 

For a postscript John did give me over half of a white non-filter cigarette and then invited me to have coffee from his room.  This time he cut the amount to one tea spoon and filled my large cup just over half full.  The heating appliance he has is technically illegal.  

Distrust of Trump, Clinton, and the Media

Trump hasn't donated to his own charity since 2008 and mostly before that.  As some point about 2003 Trump got tired of using his own money for the foundation.  Apparently there three documented infractions beyond question.  One was to commission a life sized portrate of himself.  Another was to buy a rare football helmet with a lot of famous signitures on it.  The third was a campaign donation to a State's Attorney General to ward off a prosecution.  I'm sure there are a lot more.  All sorts of things have been alleged.  The buzz about Trump is that he's stingy and doesn't do any charatable giving.  

One story that really ticked me off and made me want to never vote for Trump even if the rest of his record was clean as a whistle.  It involved the son of Fred Trump, Trump's own brother who was deceased.  But his children had financial troubles and needed the money.  One of their sons was deathly ill of some disease and needed medical procedures to keep him alive.  The widdow of Fred Trump Junior sued in court and when Donald Trump heard about this he arranged that Fred Trump's widdow's medical insurance be cut off so that the kid was in danger of dying.  Personally I hate this kind of intre-family vengeance.  It's really low and under-handed and goes to speak about his character in general.  It makes it harder to forget about all the other employees and clients and whatever that Trump hasn't dealt with fairly in the past.

The following goes to the American public's growing and disheartening distrust of the main stream media, which is better known now as the lame-stream media, though Rush likes to call them the "drive-by media".  The analogy escapes me.  Someone needs to explain it.  At the end of the day, I have concluded that my focus on Hillary as of late (vs. Trump) has as much to with my disgust for the mainstream media as anything else. To see these organs, which have destroyed this country by keeping the people uninformed for decades, now rally around a sickly, corrupt, oligarch coddling politician as the empire enters the collapse stage is simply too much to stomach…  The only positive thing to happen during this election season is the death of mainstream media. With their insufferable propaganda fully exposed, there is no coming back.

Then today, we learned the following from Gallup:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ trust and confidence in the mass media “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly” has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32% saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. This is down eight percentage points from last year.  The article then goes on to present a chart illustrating this pervasive drop.

People don't trust either the media or the Clinton campaign when it comes to Hillary's health.  Apparently there was a period in August for two weeks when Hillary did not campaign.  Of course Hillary went for months not feeling "up to" having a press conference.  The Clinton campaign only admitted she had pnumonia perhaps to stave off worse allegations that Hillary might be something more dangerous medically such as an ongoing stroke or something.  It could be nothing.  Trump is no better.  Everyone agrees his doctor's report was a joke written in five minutes while he was waiting for a cab or something.  Nobody believes that Trump has a blood pressure reading of 110 over 65.  That would be low.  Even when I was in the hospital before I came here (deprived of coffee and cigarettes and alcohol) my blood pressure was not that low.  Others have charged today that Trump is taking Adderol in alarming amounts and that this drug "burns out your brain" and inferfears with mental and judgemental processes.  It's not as if the American people are hyper paranoid or anything.  It's just as John Lennon said "Just give us the Truth".  The Truth will set you free.  The Bible says that.  

I'm Back (I'm Not Dead)

There is another in a series of persistent rumors that the United States has made an agreement with Russia to not stir things up in Syria but to resolve the whole Syrian situation peacefully.  Donald Trump has this pipe dream of Russia helping the United States fight ISIS.  The trouble is Russia may not do what the United States wants just to be deliberately contrary.  Russia may not care all that much about ISIS in Syria because they can use that as a political issue in Syria as an excuse for Assad's repressive and brutal measures in Syria.  It's just a thought.  Yes I am back for the first time in about six week.  Today is 9 - 11 and I have been back in my old room for days after my roommate was quarentined in his room at least hypothetically for scabies.  I wasn't a bit happy with my new roommate.  In Washington's blog they've been talking about deliberate concealing and destruction of vital evidence the 9 - 11 comission could have used in their investigation.  Read about this yourselves.  I pasted over two files for my own use. 

Congress was off for the past month and a half but they’re going home next week according to Norman Goldman.  Congress did something which could be historic today.  The house on a “voice vote” passed the bill that US citizens, victims of the 9 – 11 attacks, can sue Saudi Arabia or any other nation whom they deem as guilty.  The senate already passed the same bill.  Now the bill goes to the President and President Obama pledges to veto the bill least any repercussions occur with Saudi Arabia.  They say congress has the bi-partisan ability to override this presidential veto, which has never up to now occurred with the Obama administration. 

Last night they showed the singing of the National Anthem at the premier football game of the season.  Some are wondering if this will become a trend to see which team members are not standing when it is performed.   The Seattle Sea Hawks are rumored to be planning some group protest for Sunday’s game.  But it is the fifteenth anniversary of 9 – 11 and any sort of protest would be unseemly.  The majority of commemorations are being held today. 

North Korea has been celebrating 9 – 11 by testing nuclear bombs or launching missiles or something which annoys us but doesn’t bother China.  Meanwhile at Wells Fargo some lower level bank employees got in trouble by generating phoney accounts and garnering extra fees for themselves, which were not in the client’s interest.  The government doesn’t care about the big wigs who actually made this decision.  It’s still Norman Goldman’s belief that the tea party started over anger about the Wall Street bail out.  I disagree.  The tea party was an “astro turf” movement that was put together to launch a new far right Republican party movement.  But if President Obama weren’t working on the Health Care bill the wind would have been knocked right of their sails.  The President has no concept of the idea he could ever make a mistake.

I listened to Rush Limbaugh.  Rush believes that things don’t have to be labeled as “classified” for it to be general knowledge as to which sort of things are classified even without being specifically labeled.  Rush claims that Hillary was “trading in national secrets”.  This is a slant on a serious charge I’ve never heard before.  There were allegations for a long time in the early half of August that Donald Trump would quit the campaign and they'd nominate Paul Ryan to fill the void and be the party standard.  A week ago there was talk about how Donald Trump is guilty of currying favors with his foundation just like Hillary was accused of doing.  Somehow all these allegations are never fully investigated such as to be able to resolve them.   

There is an incident with the Dakota Indians in preserving ancient tribal lands and the President is remarking about it now on Democracy now.  There is a conflict about the pipeline and there was a confrontation with authorities at Standing Rock reservation.  Cops were there with aggressive dogs and one of the demonstrators was bitten.   There is a problem with all of the bombs we dropped in Laos during the Viet Nam war.  It was a tremendous amount of them and many of these cluster bombs remained unexploded.  President Obama is there addressing the situation today.  An eight year old lost his left on a bomb while gathering bamboo shoots.   The main feature of this news hour contained a woman speaking against the Trans Pacific Partnership.  President Obama is digging in his heels in Laos and refusing to back down.