Is Trump Trying to Manage the Media?

Donald Trump is about as popular now with the average American as bacon wrapped span at a vegan restaurant.   Stephanie refers to him as BLOTUS for bully of the United States, and of course he’s known as the Trumpster and also “twittler”.    There is a rumor that Trump was going to put up a big picture of the crowds of last weekend on his wall, but the joke is this photo was taken on Saturday rather than Friday and you can tell by all the pink hats.  Trump has his press conference scheduled today (Friday) at ten o clock Pacific Time.  When I typed the foregoing I assumed it would be a regular press conference that goes on 45 ot 50 minutes where reporters are not screened out and are free to ask what they want till they are satisfied with his answer.  Boy, how wrong I was!

 I turned on KFI.  It was another strange news conference.  The thing was short.  It ended at 10:25 depending on when it started it was shorter than most presidential press conferences.  It was also highlighted by long-winded speeches and an unusual amount of friendly “set up” questions.  He had the British Prime Minister with him as sort of a “prop”.   She tried to make it sound like they were like two peas in a pod or something, but clearly they disagreed about an awful lot including abortion.  Both were asked questions about these disagreements and neither would go into them.  Trump also said that he still plans to have a good relationship with the President of Mexico, which is really hard to believe.  I guess I had the usual Gary and Shannon on after this.  They weren’t buying the act- - of this press conference.  Now Shawn Spicer is apparently going to turn over a new leaf and not tell continual lies at his press briefings.  We don't have any room for "Alt-facts".  Facts are facts, and that's what we base reality on.  (Selah)

Friday's news continued to be dominated by two things.  One was the cutting off of all Syrian refugee visas because as Shawn says, "If there is even a few percentage chance of a terrorist slipping in, why take that gamble?"  I guess it's being told one in ten mushrooms you bought at the store are poisonous or something.  The other big story is the border wall.  Twelve billion is a low-ball estimate.  People talk about all of the schools and hospitals you could build for that or tax subsedies for ordinary Americans.  In 1986 Reagan stripped out a lot of tax subsedies for ordinary Americans. 

President Trump called Russian President Vladi­mir Putin on Saturday in hopes of cultivating “a great relationship,” one in a series of telephone conversations with world leaders as he develops a personal rapport with the heads of several traditional U.S. allies.  Trump’s call with Putin, which began about noon Eastern time, comes as the president faces pressure to maintain sanctions against Moscow. He is reaching out to repair the U.S.-Russian relationship, which has been badly strained by the Ukrainian crisis, the war in Syria and the conclusion by U.S. intelligence agencies that Putin ordered systematic hacking of Democratic emails to tip the presidential election in Trump’s favor.  Trump spoke with Putin from behind his desk in the Oval Office, which was stacked high with papers and a glass of soda. The president was flanked by Vice President Pence, national security adviser Michael Flynn, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and press secretary Sean Spicer.  Trump began the day with a call to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss security and trade issues between the two countries and the mutual threat posed by North Korea. 

I just listened to on You Tube what I think were the first four songs on “The Ramones” first album, “Blitzkrig Bop”, “Beat on the Brat”, “Judy is a Punker” and “I Want to be your Boyfriend”.   In the news John Mc Cain thinks withdrawing from the Trans Pacific Partnership was and will be a great mistake.  Thom Hartman reported that six reporters were arrested for inciting to riot or something at the Inauguration last Friday.  They face felony charges of ten years in prison and a fine of $25,000 or something.  It's clear that Trump is attempting to take over the Media, like a totalitarian government manages the media and what people hear about their leaders.  How would you like to be living in North Korea?  Think about that one.

Last Sunday evening on "Eye on LA" they had foods original to Los Angeles,  First of all there is the corn dog - - on a stick.  I thought New York would have owned this one.  Then there is the tuna tar-tar, and the taquito, invented on Olvera Street, and then there was French dip roast beef sandwiches.  It comes from a guy named French.  Then there is the hot fudge sundae invented here in the early 1900's.  Then there are the drinks.  We have the Shirley Temple, the Moscow Mule, and the Zombie.  I always thought Zombies were just dump everything alcoholic in the bar you have in the drink, but this is a mis-impression.

I'd like to talk about Federation CD's for a minute.  In terms of the mechanics of the grooves they are compitable with earth CD's.  The only difference is that Federation CD's have a slightly smaller label so there is more room for the grooves.  These run 88 minutes.  However a few planets, mainly in the Old Reigelian Federation not under Orion control, they have standard earth sized labels so that a few Orion Federation CD's might not be fully compitable.  We are celebrating the year of the rooster, and roosters are energetic and industrious, and if you're a Rooster and in a relationship, this is a good year to get married.

YEAR OF THE ROOSTER (Revised and released January 28th 2017)

Would You Like to do a Number with Me?  (Cheap Trick)

Blitzkrig Bop  (The Ramones)

Children of the Grave (Black Sabbath) *

Knife Edge  (Emerson, Lake, & Palmer)

La Villa Strangiado (an exercise in self indulgence) (Rush) studio version
Dogs (Pink Floud) about 18 minutes
Two Heads (Jefferson Airplane)
Vira Gemini (Blue Oyster Cult)
Turtle Blues (Big Brother & the HC)
Rice Pudding (Jeff Beck)

Front cover is of a sunrise with a black cillauette of a carved wooden rooster on a post. Some suggest this could be a weather vain.  "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows".  The consencus here is to de-Trumpify this compilation.  People are already sick of hearing about Trump.  

*with the wierd guitar introduction