Different Seasons

It seems the ratings have become politicized from the debate.  Both CNN and MSNBC are trying to rig their polls so that Hillary wins even though straw polls consistently showed that Sanders won.  Chris Matthews thought Sanders won initially but was “out voted” on his own show, which seems really strange.  ON CNN pro Sanders postings are quickly removed from the site.  This is strange behavior and also completely pointless in the larger scheme of things.  But it's more obvious than that.  The Media as a whole does NOT want propigated any reporting about Citizen's United.  When the media reported the clip of Bernie saying "We're tired of Hillary's damn E mails" they leave out the other half of the statement about Bernie Sanders attacking the Media on Citizen's United.  The media seems downright desperate not to report the Truth.

President Obama will be keeping ten thousand troops in Afghanistan through the election year of 2016 and on into 2017 for the next President to deal with.  In fact I've heard it said the troops in Afghanistan won't be reduced from the current level of ten thousand till January of 2018.   So if we're talking about Putin's "weakness" in putting IN troops in Syria, then it only seems proper to refer to our keeping troops in Afghanistan another two whole years at least as some sort of desperation knowing we haven't won the war or achieved many if not any of our basic goals for fighting there in the first place.

It's been said by one radio evangelist, perhaps Chuck Swendoll, that "You reap in response to what you have sown, but you reap in a different Season from when the "seeds" of the sin or whatever were "planted" or comitted in the first place.  I've wondered when the "Season" around here in Southern California are going to change from summer to fall.  Here we are over three weeks into fall and the thermometer has been behaving as though it were still summer with temperatures in the eighties, if not nineties.  Now once again some are predicting cooler weather ahead, but we've heard that before and it hasn't happened.

Last night I watched almost all of the debate.  I heard all of the opening statements except for Chaffee, I believe, because I was out having a smoke.  They’d have a break and return to introduce the candidates and then after the break they had the coin toss.  No wait, that’s the Super Bowl.  Unity of message was the theme and candidates buttressed one another.  When Hillary or Bernie had a disagreement on gun control of capitalism gone out of control, rather than attack each other they would say “There isn’t that much difference between what we’re saying.  This pissed off the moderator no end.  Also the moderator would try and stir up trouble but people wouldn’t take the bait.  When Chaffee was goaded to attack Hillary on the E mails issue and Hillary was asked, “do you have anything to say by way of response?”  Hillary answered “No”.  You have to know your crowd, which was very progressive.  There was only one time when I thought that Hillary was in any trouble, and that was when O Mally and Sanders ganged up on her from both sides to attack her position on repealing Glass Steigel, the regulations on the stock market put in place by FDR as an insurance against big Banks speculating with investor's money.  Hillary refused to say she would repeal this late Clinton legislation.  Chaffey explained his vote to repeal Glass Steigel because "Well I was new to congress and my father just died and I just didn't know the facts about bills.  That's not even a D minus answer.  "The dog ate the legislation before I could read it".  I missed the talk of David Snowden and also legalizing marijuana.  I left when they began talking about free college education.  The other candidates talked about themselves ion the introductions but Senator Bernie Sanders went straight to the issues and didn’t talk about his background or family.   When the answers were too long winded to suit the moderator he would try and hush them up and move on to the next question.  I bagged a photo from the event.  Probably China cyber theft is the chief threat to our national security, but I think Saudi Arabia’s funding one terrorist group after another is high on my personal ranking, especially when it’s done with American money.

Today was the saga of the cats day.  Augustine gave them cat food and water- - and sought to clean out the cages.  But somewhere along the line- - the white kitten whom Phyllis calls “Checkers” escaped.  She didn’t go far.  She at worst was under the car but often was right next to the cage or jumping on the cage- - trying to get to the cat food.  Later on she was back in the cage and had eaten very little cat food.  Finally Glenda picked up the kitten and took it into the building to see Augustine.  Apparently it was in Jennifer’s office and there was talk Jennifer wanted to take it home as a pet.  But the cat bit and clawed Glenda apparently after Glenda kissed it on the nose.  The kitten hissed at her.  Toward the end of the day Augustine transferred this white kitten into the other cage with the mother and darker kitten.  (I’m unsure how the black and white got swapped out to begin with because previously it was the white kitten that was with the mother and the dark kitten was alone in her own cage.  After this Augustine picked up the cage and carried it off and we all said “Good-bye Patches”.  So the kittens are gone.

Sarah took me to the dentist and gave me a list of my medications to give to those people.  Glenda and Andrew were in the back seat, taking Andrew home or something.  I got there just before two but had to wait in the dentist’s chair before they got started.  I had the crown done but it was on tooth number 28 and not 29 as I had supposed.  But after spending a lot of time drilling with a bite thing in my mouth- - the dentist showed me where number 29 also needs to be a crown because of all the decay there.  Then there was a bunch of picking and then the dental impression.  Soon after that I asked to use the restroom.  It’s still easy to get lost in there.  Then it was a lot of fitting and taking the tooth in and out and drilling on the tooth and biting down.  As it turns out we finished up at ten to four but there was no waiting because that driver was already there.  But the receptionist called Judy to tell her about the additional crown.  The guy promised we’d be home by four and we just made it- - and I was in the dining room before any food had been passed out.  I didn’t like being numb.  We had BBQ chicken with corn and potatoes and lemon cake for dessert.  Paul gave me an additional lemon cake.  Now they are talking about death threats to LA police chief Charlie Beck, describing in detail how he’ll do it.