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.