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This is being posted January first 2019.  We have some bad news for you all.  Donald Trump is still in office.  Two years weren't enough to get him out.  The Federation is going to re-release "One Person Plus the Truth" compilation, which itself is a revision.  We're dropping "Misfire" because there were hopes someone would get trigger-happy out there and that didn't happen.  We are instituting a new, weather related track, which we haven't included before.   As you can see the following material is from last Thursday.  It's stuff you may find interesting but you might have to fish through it a little to find something you like. 

This is another revised and released compilation. This incarnation of the album is released February 11th 2017. The title and front cover photo is also changed. It's that photograph we have used in a blog post of Elizabeth Warren standing in the capitol. We also needed to substitute Blind Faith songs because the song we had had been previously included on "Deepest Rock" from May of 2006. Also we got rid of the old title song and replaced it with the version of "Gloria" from "Alive She Cried". That makes two overlap songs we got rid of on this album. I think probably this album will be just a tad longer in playing time now. The full expression is "One person plus the truth equals a majority". We thought the old album title was just a little too defeatist and after all, life goes on. "Gloria" by the Doors is a song that had been bumped back in December from an album. I know this is all hard to keep up with.

ONE PERSON PLUS THE TRUTH

It's A Long Way to the Top (AC DC)
Teenage Lobotomy (The Ramones)
Wang, Dang, Sweet Poontang (Ted Nugent)
Flashing Lights (Jimmy Page)
Had To Cry Today (Blind Faith)
Gloria (The Doors sound check)
Bitter Creek (Eagles)
Stormbringer (Deep Purple)
Xanado (Rush) 15 min approx
Rejoice (Jefferson Airplane) **
God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols)

This is Thursday December 27, 2018 and “The Price is Right” is on.  I left to see the eye doctor here in the back room just after “Let’s Make a Deal” started.  There was a line but the exam itself took forever and in the end he gave me drops that made all my vision fuzzy and he didn’t give me a prescription and he didn’t tell me if I had cateracts or not. 

This is after dinner and headers and footers just came on and I closed it.  We had Salisbury steak with mushrooms and gravy for lunch with wedge cut potatoes and green beans.  We had amberosia for dessert.  People lined up and got seconds on the main course.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on.  I think Nora was here in the morning because the paper plates had been moved and the toilet lid was closed and the bathroom light was on.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on.  On Days of our Lives it was “Do the right thing” day.  Gabriel confessed to Chad that she had done all of that other gaslighting and frame-up stuff besides the paternity tests.  Stephan kidnapped Gabriel but decided against revenge by slashing her face or cutting her hair or taking a blow torch to her flesh.  He let her go uninjured and she didn’t even have any mind control.  For Stephan this is quite a moral break-through.  Kate decided to come clean and tell Chad that she had been sabotaging his business for months.  And Gabriel did the right thing when she went straight to the police station for arrest after she had been freed.

I walked around back and through the courtyard and joined the resident’s council meeting with Joselyn presiding.  She let me have input even though I had arrived late.  The meeting lasted till two thirty.  I suggested that they fill the meat pies fuller and have more good desserts.  And I suggested that they toast the English muffins and not serve them to us raw.  I also complained about Nora leaving water around the toilet.  Cathy and Joselyn suggested that the toilet might actually leak.  I don’t think so but it’s worth looking into.  Joselyn said that we would be going to Pachonga for a day outing at steal prices.  Also we’re going to have an ice cream social New Year’s afternoon where they’ll serve root beer floats.  Also we may go bowling.  But later on Millie says that too many of us have back conditions that would preclude that.  I’m not having any lower back pain right now.  The eye drops finally wore off but it took long enough.  I turned on Steve Harvey and he had more game show competition.  He also had his bargain basement price slashes.  Then it was Eye Witness news and then ABC network news.  A mother and a thirteen year old son were found dead but the father still survives. 

We had chili flavored soup for dinner.  The main course was a Caesar salad with crutons, chicken pieces and Caesar dressing.  We had orange sherbet in a carton for dessert.  Patty was back and she got the eggnog.  I had a glass and a half and she had the rest.  I went out back where Millie was talking about bringing out taco flavored corn chips.  I left to get my iron pill from Jan.   The Dow Jones Industrial averages started the day down four hundred points but there was a late rally and the average actually ended the day in the plus column. 

Yesterday it was “The Price is Right” and then lunch.  We had real chow mein for lunch I mixed with the brown rice.  We had broccoli with that.  I don’t remember the dessert.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on.  Nora finally made it to our room just before eleven and she was finished by the time I was done with my post-lunch cigarette.  She hadn’t disturbed the items on the desk chair.  She changed the bed spread to another thick spread.  I had on Gary and Shannon and after this it was Days of our Lives.  This show was preempted because President Trump decided to “do the right thing” and visit our troops in a war zone for once.   The president spent just three hours in Iraq and his speech to the troops only lasted twenty minutes.  He made a point that the windows on the plane were blacked out.  After this the president made a “secret trip” to Germany to visit our troops there.  It could be that Trump didn’t want to go to Florida because he was “doing penance” or something “all alone in the White House”.  Perhaps he needed time to think and weigh his deeds and to find them wanting, and then decided to do something about it.  This is only speculation.  I watched “Days” and Stephan was vowing vengeance on somebody.