This is Saturday March 27, 2021 and I had the Rachael Maddow show on this morning. In Missouri the state legislature is refusing to enact a health care plan that the people of Missouri voted for several months ago. This is the new trend in these toxic state legislatures now. The danger is still out there even with Joe Biden as president. In Michigan President Trump tried to get the state legislature to decertify the election victory won by Biden several weeks earlier. They have the idea they can do that. Trump believed that he had the power by jaw-boning state legislatures into decertifying the electoral vote count. In Georgia yesterday the state legislature passed and the governor signed a piece of legislation that made massive changes to the Georgia election laws to insure that the victory of the democrats that year would never be repeated again. There is the usual practice of throwing thousands of black people off the election rolls done by many states. In Georgia it’s illegal to even give a Black voter in line a drink of water while he’s waiting hours to vote. Of course white people only take minutes to vote whereas black people routinely have to wait in line hours to vote. They are eliminating “souls to the polls” on the Sunday before an election. It’s believed that absentee ballots are now being cast primarily by democrats. This has something to do with the fact that democrats are more afraid of the Corona virus than are the Republicans, who now want only to vote on election day itself. There are some twenty-two states where these changes are in grave danger of happening. We need to find a way to get all of these dangerous republican legislators out of office in two years so they won’t menace our electoral system. But they won’t be able to do it if Republican legislatures have changed all of the laws. We are reminded by Sixty Minutes that racism is still alive and well in the unlikeliest of places, like in the military, desegrated since 1949 and in the Air Force. You can’t look a white officer in the eye if you’re Black even if you yourself are a high ranking officer, and you have to watch your body language or not be too assirtive in your voice when addressing a fellow officer. In one case you may be ignored altogether even if you’re a general. It’s a wonder given all this how General Collin Powel got to get such a high command.
I don't know how strong or pervasive the "hate lobby" really is in this country. In terms of the popular vote or one man one vote, a question I thought had been decided decades ago, the democrats would win all over the place. Someone said the Democrats are actually represented by 43 million moreAmericans than are the Republican half of the senate. If we got DC statehood this would help out a little. Rush Limbaugh is dead but his legacy of hate lives on. The goal seems to be not any appeal to basic fairness or logic but rather just to come up with ways to keep the black and the poor and the young down- - - "in their place" one might say. Things could turn around because Biden doesn't have the array of enemies that Obama did during his first term in office, which is the only time he accomplished anything in congress. Hopefully the economy will be doing better in two years and the corona virus will have all but disappeared. People will see their futures as brighter with a Joe Biden presidency. Obama on the other hand was saddles with that horrible recession that began in late 2007 and the smartest thing he could have chosen to do was decided 2008 was not his year to run. I would like to see more of Biden's foreign policy unfold, and preferably Russian influence will fade into the background.
Right now it’s a quarter
to ten. Time has been whizzing by this
morning. Yesterday I had Thom Hartman on
till lunch time. We had that roast pork
with gravy. Not a regular pork chop but
another cut of meat, with gravy on it.
It’s that combination I don’t like with sweet potatoes and broccoli. I was offered more honeydew for dessert. But they give you an unripe melon and I’m not
going to take seconds on that. After
this it was the Gary and Shannon show. I
continue to have trouble with this space bar.
I watched Days of our Lives at one.
I made myself coffee because I had been tired all day. But all this black coffee did was upset my
stomach. I went for two o clock
bingo. They were late in getting
started. It was a battle to get them to
close the window. People wanted to set
up outside but it was too cold and
windy. I played a game and a half. I didn’t win anything. I left during the second game because I had
active bowels. I had had active bowels
all day but still haven’t taken anything for it. The second game wrapped up pretty
quickly. By the time I came back down to
go to the store minutes later the second game was wrapped up. I bought an eight-pack of chocolate donuts
and a big cinnamon roll and a single pack of strawberry Clippers. I ate the donuts that helped to ease my
touchy stomach. I managed to get a
little shut-eye but the rest didn’t bring healing.
I roused at four thirty
and it was time for dinner. I wasn’t
hungry but went down and ate a full meal anyhow. We had one peperoni pizza and one plain
pizza. We had a Waldorf salad and sort
of an apple pie with crispy things on it for dessert. When I left there I was stuffed and felt spacey
in the head. I felt dog tired the rest
of the evening but this too was an illusion because my bowels were still
churning. I thought of getting an
Ammonium AD at eight but decided against it.
Coffee had dubious results. It
didn’t make me feel more awake but only tended to make me feel sicker. It was the local news and the NBC network
news. Then it was Access Hollywood and
Two and a Half Men. I think the
medication came almost seven thirty. I
had on “Who’s line is it anyway? My fear
was that I would not get right to sleep, but
I did.
I told you I talked to
Glen about going on that two week psyche evaluation. I don’t want to do that till Joe and Paul and
Chris have returned and I get to talk to them a while. Shannon finally made it out of her room. It seems she was sick for three days. I miss the usual people. I even miss Larry Barton and he’s been gone
a long time. Joe has been gone four
weeks as of yesterday. One of the things
I would ask Sarah if I thought about going would be how many of our usual
clothes can we take with us? Also the
all important questions of do we get cigarettes and coffee. And will I continue to get my Ativan or will
that be discontinued as part of an experiment?
Glen said I would get my own private nurse once I left there. I would be reevaluated and might not even
return here. The bottom line on all of
it of course is money. Someone’s getting
rich off of this whole problem. But
would it help me? Everybody knows I
could use a psyche reevaluation. The
question is will it really be only two weeks, or longer?
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