The View from Here

This Sunday morning on Meet the Press they announced that if Trump didn't shut down the government he could kiss his chances of reelection good-bye.  They believe the president is still so indebted to his political base on the far right that he dares not cross them.  So if Rush Limbaugh gets on the radio on Thursday and says the president is selling out on the border wall issue then Trump has to reverse his position on whether to compromise.  Dick Derbin and other democrats want to use the funds for the border to interdict drug money and drugs flowing both ways accross the border, which makes sense to me.  But those on the right believe somehow in that steel spike wall.  Now here are a whole bunch of other news items from earlier in the week.  .  They interrupted that show for ABC coverage that James Mattis has resigned as secretary of defense.  He’s staying on till February.  He was the “last adult in the room” and now Trump has all psycho-phants in his administration.  The military is all shocked at the President’s actions of the past few days.  Then at three it was Eye Witness news.    Many have likened this Mattis thing to a key bolder in a rock formation and if you move that lode stone of support then the whole structure topples.

.  The government was shut down last night at nine our time.  I might as well go ahead and say that yesterday at the 3:30 ABC network news that the move to get a congressional deal on The Wall failed.  President Trump blamed the democrats after telling people, bragging almost, that if the government shut down, he would proudly take credit for it.  Of course they need sixty percent to vote out a bill in the senate and they don’t have it now, and they won’t have it even with the new senate.  Trump wanted Mc Connell to use the nuclear option involving a rule change but Mc Connell wouldn’t do it.  Patty still thinks there is hope that sometime today the house and senate can come to an agreement and reopen the government.  Of course the mail and all of our checks will still go through, along with Christmas packages.  The stock market went down four hundred points yesterday.  This is the worst week since 2008 and they claim it’s been the worst December since 1931 or before FBI was elected.  Usually you get a little Christmas cheer in the stock markets this time of year.  Now Trump not only wants all 2000 troops out of Syria within thirty days, but now the President wants the number of fourteen thousand troops in Afghanistan cut in half. People in the military are against that one, too.   I don’t know what President Trump’s poll numbers are now but the last report I had they were dropping sharply back down into the thirties.   Mattis  wrote Trump a long letter when he resigned the other day outlining his many objections to Trump’s policies.   Trump likes doing stuff just to generate distracting headlines. 

The Dateline show on at two on KCOP was interesting in that it showed that a jury can convict a husband of murder seemingly on no direct evidence connecting him to the crime.  The wife who was middle-aged was discovered out in the tulies in the dead of night totally nude with some date rape drug in her system.  The cops interviewed the husband who reported that his wife was in the process of a mental break-down and would often wander out in the woods for hours or days (?) and not be in contact with anyone.  The husband also produced audio tapes of the wife flying into angry rages at the husband, and at one point stripped before her father in law and sexually propositioned him with her bare breasts showing and the father backed up the story.  Other evidence was produced that she and the husband otherwise had a good relationship and went on happy vacations together.   However there were four things in my mind that may have prompted the jury to render a guilty verdict on this case in just three hours and get the husband a life sentence for the crime.  Number one is that it was the husband’s DNA in the seaman of the dead body.  She wasn’t “date raped”.   The next thing were the 21 surveilance cameras all around the house that the police noticed as if the husband were a “controlling personality” and wouldn’t let the wife do anything but was very possessive.  Despite all of the computer records,  the portion from midnight to dawn has been professional erased by two “clean up” programs.  That is a professional “clean up” program was run twice, so the authorities could not retrieve the data.  Finally the reason for conviction is that there IS no other “reasonable alternative” to what happened that night.  With no other suspect, the husband obviously did it. 

This is Saturday December 22, 2018 and I didn’t type yesterday.  I woke up at a quarter to five and was going to try and get more shut-eye but I had restless bowels which proved to be phantom.  I showered and went out to look at the full moon which was still up.  But the image was distorted and fuzzy and at first I thought it was my eyes but it was because it was in a hole in the leaves.  Actually I’ve had all of that doctor stuff lately but for 2019 I need to do two things.  I need to go to the DMV and get my ID updated because since December 31^st 2007 I haven’tbeen me.  I haven’t had a valid ID since I was 57.  I need to finally switch my party affiliation to Democratic.  It’s about time.  Then I can get their litriture.  I also need to go to Paul’s eye doctor where I can get a good exam and they can at last confirm whether I have cateracts or not.  I was thinking about how “God is really the Pliades” in the heavens.  The seven sisters who are at enmity with Orion.  Interestingly the only two constellations I’m aware of mentioned in the Bible are the Pliades and Orion, referred to in the book of Job where God is lecturing Job on his great power just before he restores his Fortunes.  And as I’ve said in previous blogposts,  it pays to see which professions are disparaged in the Bible.  One of them is that of hunter, like Orion, the Hunter.  Nimrod and Esau were both “hunters before the LORD” and it is not a flattering term.  Of course then there is this bit with the Pliades and “strings” as in pulling strings and cutting strings.  Samson cut his hair and lost his power because he was a Nazarite.  The term “El” used as God in the OT elsewhere is referred to as the god of Storms.  The Pliades are associated with rain both because of the Elijah story and the fact (this is interesting) that nowhere in the Gospels does it ever refer to it being a rainy day.  There is talk of that Storm at sea, but it only refers to the wind and the waves but not rain.  Elsewhere it says “It thundered” in John where people were saying “God spoke to Jesus” his last week.  “Rain” is associated with receiving the Blessing of God.   Of course Jesus was a “pescatarian” meaning he ate fish but not other meat, just like the Nazarite vow people.  Nowhere in the gospels does it refer to either the preparation or the eating of the Passover lamb.  This might mean something.  At some point Millie came out and borrowed two cigarettes from me.  Now the fog was rolling in.  I’m not sure if I was out more than once.  I came in and it was before six and I happened to linger a moment on KFI when I turned on the radio.  They were talking about UFO sightings on that whacko program.  There was a triangular formation of three ships with shuttle craft traveling between the ships and witnesses say this went on for a half hour.  Then there was talk about the “red heffer” as a sign in Jerusalem that the Third Temple would soon be built.  They still close with that same Gaelic theme they’ve always used that sounds sort of like a post 1976 Ian Anderson composition.