The Irrepressible Trump Continues On

This is Thursday October 13, 2016 and I just called Mom and she knows nothing about the dental billing.  Judy has never contacted her about it.  I said I’d call her when I have the bill in my hands and can break it down for her.  Mom has been keeping up with the three debates and listening to news commentary about them.  She’s also aware of all the sexual stalking stuff Trump has been accused of.  He goes into women’s dressing rooms at beauty pageants and some of the females are only fifteen years old and Trump piers in and oogles them.  I gets a “free look” because he owns the pageant and can do whatever he wants.  Now other preachers are saying that Trump has become a born again Christian in the last couple of years and is not the man he used to be.  But like Bill Clinton he’s pushing seventy years old and his sex drive probably isn’t what it used to be.  So his “moral reform” is more dictated by biology than moral conscience.  The general concencus of the polls is that Clinton beat Trump in the last debate 57% to 34% for Trump.  And this is the “debate where Trump did well’ according to Shawn Hannity.  So what did he do in the first debate?  Tim Cane was much more substantive than Mike Pence in the vice presidential debate.  We still have nearly four weeks to go.  There are still another three and a half weeks to go before we go off of Daylight Savings time.  Both events are late this year.  But this week early voting has already begun in a lot of states.  This is obviously significant because Hillary is way ahead in the polls now and therefore these votes are being “banked”.  They say that requests for Democratic ballots are up fifty percent over four years ago. 

Well so far the “master plan” to defeat the trio of master criminals on Days of our Lives has worked out about as well as Donald Trump making the decision to follow Shawn Hannity’s advice.  So far we have Lucas and Adrian busting in on Andre, Clyde and company and they defeated the Di Mira security system completely.  And Clyde shot Chad just to show that me meant business in demanding that son Thomas be handed over to him.  You have Demas turning to the dark side by promising to turn over Teresa in exchange for getting paid passage out of the country for Zander.  That’s kind of a lose-lose situation.  And you have Brady and Teresa playing fantasy wedding when after Teresa is killed it’s predicted that Brady will turn to drugs again rendering him unfit to rule the Kiriacus empire.  So far Orphius is lying low not divulging what plans he has for the people of Salem.  I went out and got one cup of iced tea and two orange slices in the courtyard.  Later I turned on Shawn Hannity.  At three it was Dick K substituting again for Norman Goldman.  It isn’t the first time I’ve had dental work done on Yom Kippur, which is where Norm is today.  So I guess he’s more Jewish than we thought.

Today the soap opera was preempted by Officer Owens’ funeral.  Have you ever wondered what Jesus’ funeral was like?  Because in Jewish society they said they tried to bury the body the same day.  So they most have invoked God in some way to speed Jesus off to a successful after-life and refered to him as a “servant of God”.   Have you ever wondered about those seventy disciples Jesus sent out to cast out demons in his name, referred to in the Gospels?  How could a movement of even that size be not noted in history with seventy evangelists running around out there.  And if there were two thousand saved at Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came down the first thing I thought of (well actually I just thought ot it today) would be these are two thousand “sheep” in need of a teacher, or some might say- - fleecing.  If there ever was a point where there was egalitarianism in the church I don’t know when that was because right from the git go there was the notion being “sold” to the public of this great object of belief.

Today is October 12, 2016 and last night it was ABC news and Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.  I took inventory of the laundry and made out a list on a fresh slip of paper.  The basket was returned before six thirty this morning.  Everything was there minus the list.  I decided not to try and get coffee from Glenda last night.  However I did get coffee from Glen again, this time for three cigarettes.  It wasn’t as strong as Monday night’s cup.  I watched NCIS and dozed off toward the end of the program.  The sun shines over the Washington monument just a little before sunset on March 25^th every year, and in the fall, too.  There was a different show of a similar nature at nine.  I didn’t sleep too badly.  I didn’t try to get coffee from Glenda in the morning and decided to wait until the store opened.  I threw out those Republican ads I got with my voting stuff.  So is proposition 61 initiated by an HMO organization or not?

I brushed my teeth before and after breakfast.  I got a dollar cup of coffee from the liquor store and took it into the dining room.  We had oatmeal followed by scrambled eggs and French toast.  I didn’t get any extras from Paul.  I was kind of planning on our leaving for the dentist really early.  But it turns out that Federico had already taken Stan for his dialysis.  I was around a little after nine and Sarah took me and Mary to see our respective doctors.  Her appointment wasn’t till ten fifteen.  Mine was at nine thirty.  I got there early and had a smoke.  The weather was overcast in the morning and through the middle part of the day, clearing by two o clock.

There was no idle time.  Again Dr Bui did not do the work.  His assistant was that blonde assistant who had worked in the other building.  Before he got started they took two more X rays because the dentist said the cavity was very large and might need a root canal.  But this was the last I heard about having to do a root canal.  It was very intensive with a lot of drilling and there was even filling going on, which puzzled me.  Then there was other picking and stuff and then the impressions were made and then drilling on the new crown getting it to fit right.  I was done at ten to eleven.  I had the receptionist call the office.  At first there was no answer.  Then Jennifer answered and said she would text the driver, which turned out to be Sarah.  Since I wasn’t picked up till nearly twenty after twelve or nearly an hour and a half wait I wondered what went wrong.  I had the receptionist call Judy but I didn’t talk to her myself.  Sarah has a lot of gall because she accused me of being impatient and suggested that next time I take a taxi cab.  How do you like that?  She was with Connie the whole time with her appointment.  I was a little bewildered.  Then we picked up Mary across the street (Brookhurst).  Then I had Sarah call Judy and cancel the pick-up of me, because Paul was already on his way.  Connie and I went straight into the dining room for our micro-waved lunch.  It was a hamburger and two things of potato salad and we had chocolate pudding for dessert.  There was also grape drink but no coffee.  Mary had her meal served to her in her room.  Maybe she has scabies or something.  By now it was getting close to ten to one and I had a chance to smoke a cigarette before soap opera time.  I bit my inner cheek because she frequently told me to bite down.  The whole area is swollen now.  

The World Wrestling Federation Debate

Last night’s debate was on ABC and I had the network news on first at 5:30.  I went out for a final cigarette at a quarter to six and did not have another till the debate was over at just after 7:35.  The debate was like a Saturday night skit and you didn’t even need to camp up the lines any.  In general Hillary was the more disciplined of the two endeavoring to answer the question that was asked.  This is something I would do even if I wanted to talk about something else because in doing so I’d be showing a sense of discipline.  When you just have some kind of a verbal meltdown, a veritable case of verbal diaria where anything comes out of your mouth- might be good for marriage counseling but not for a presidential debate.  The very first question about bringing America together was a question better meant for Hillary and a lot of the questions kind of favored Hillary the way they were worded and Hillary was happy to answer them.  Trump went off about Blacks in the ghettos and businesses moving out of the country and ISIS and what a failure Obama has been in all areas over the past eight years.  It was kind of a Christmas “wish list” and one suspects he took Shawn Hannity’s advice to just lay it all out on the table even if we weren’t talking about that topic.  ABC news wanted us to know the word was “pussy” and not “teats”, not that it makes a lot of difference.   Trump kind of used the phrase “locker room conversation” to imply that like high school boys- - maybe he was just bragging and mouthing off and he hadn’t done half the stuff he was bragging about.  The trouble is Hillary pretty well painted a picture- - a full portrait of Trump’s dealings with women and how he disrespects them in general and disparages all minorities, so it’s kind of part of a broader pattern of behavior.  I notice Hillary was careful how she worded things.  But I agree with Trump on one issue about not telegraphing to our enemies what we’re going to do or where we’ll attack next.  Because the people just leave there and attack elsewhere.  Trump contradicted his own Vice President when it came to taking a hard line with Putin.  Trump made it a point to say that Putin was a good guy and he disagreed with Pence.  In my letter to Tim I was going to talk about Putin and should be try to cut some deal with him.  I had in mind the point that in order to “get along” with Putin we’d have to morally compromise.  So when the bombs fall and Hospitals are hit and children are injured and die we could turn a blind eye to it and just say “well that’s what happens in war”.  And if Putin were to say to me “Look what you did in Iraq where a hundred thousand innocent civilians were killed”.  If I had no backbone I might be cowed by these remarks.  But the correct response is that two wrongs don’t make a right.  The same is true for sexual harassment.  While formerly Trump criticized people such as Paula Jones, Juanita Broadwick, and Cathleen Willy- - now Trump has seen the light and realized such sexual harassment and predatory behavior is wrong.  These women were in the audience.  My response is “better late than never” and after all we are all Christians.  You see the light and adjust your behavior accordingly.  I believe Trump when he says “Bill Clinton has said way worse to me about women on the golf course”.  The final question was about energy and I feel Hillary’s position on global warming and conservation was a little weak.  She had to compete with the Trump stuff about how our coal and natural gas and oil production is way down from what it could be.  Hillary rightly reminded us that when production goes up prices so down and so do energy profits.  Prices for coal may be dropping because the world now regards it as passé now.  But liberals were lamenting how the topic of Global Warming never got brought up. 

Donald Trump said he would sick the FBI on Clinton about her E mails regardless she wasn't in power any more.  Trump mentioned the 33 thousand E mails but he didn't particularly mention the fact that one of the E mails in the latest "dump" last Friday stated that Hillary Clinton in a Wall Street speech that she had a public persona and a private set of political beliefs.  Trump pointed this out and Hillary hid behind the figure of Abraham Lincoln, old Honest Abe, as portrayed in a Hollywood movie!  The dodge didn't work.  The other big thing that came to light in these E mails was a recounting that Hillary wants to end all trade barriers and have open borders and appears to say she never met an international trade deal she didn't like.  This would have been a bombshell with Bernie Sanders still in the campaign.  Trump said that Sanders betrayed his followers and made a deal with the devil.  The latest Stephanie caller analysis of Hillary is that she wasn't as "smooth and fluid" as she was in the first debate so points were deducted.

Rhapsody in Black was kind of a disappointment.  They said they were going to play the top one hundred songs by viewers.  The most recent song they played was the vocal version of “Grazing in the Grass”.  Then it was the original of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” from 1967.  There were two from 1966, “Tell It Like It Is” and “I’m Your Puppet”, and about two from 1965.  There was the original Temptations original of “Get Ready” and a Mo-town song I’d never heard before.  Finally we have, of songs recorded in the ‘sixties, “Soul Twist” by King Curtiss.  I remember “What’d I Say?” becoming popular this month fifty-five years ago in 1961 even though I know it came out before then.  We move to the older songs of note.  There was “Angel Baby” and “Shake, Rattle, and Roll” and “Lui, Lui” by Richard Barry.  They played both “Buick 59” and “Rocket 88” and their final song number 68 was “Bo Didley” by Bo Didley.  Most of the other songs were very obscure duds, however there were a few interesting hard core blues songs and one of them got John Densemore of the Doors to contribute money.  Oh yes, if I didn’t say, today was another pledge week.  I guess they played 33 songs in two hours.  They had as some special a unique James Brown DVD that’s worth something.

I had Norman Goldman on for the hour before dinner.  He was talking about the new Donald Trump sex tape in front of an open microphone.  Every other word had to be bleeped out it was so graphic.  I’m an adult; I can take the original.  There was also a letter signed by a lot of evangelical Christians many of them pastors of Black churches.  This letter says that Donald Trump is not a Christian and therefore unacceptable as a Presidential candidate.   OK I just saw the entire video unedited and with captions.  I guess it’s something what I expected.  This is a few minutes later.  Hurricane Matthew has gone from a magnitude four, to three to two.  Now it’s by Jacksonville and headed for Savannah.  It could curl around and re-trace its own path. 

Mike Pence is showing signs of wanting off the Trump ticket.  It seems he has to "clean up Trump's image" in the debate.  Others noticed this more than I did.  Actually the most vocal spokesman that Trump has is Shawn Hannity, who is a professional liar on so many topics.  If you see his lips moving he's lying.  Shawn likes trump because he's going to go hog wild on energy oroduction and continue to turn West Virginia into a moonscape with strip mining and all and build oil pipelines accross Indian reservations like this "Standing Rock" tribe protests going on a few weeks ago.  He wants "energy independence".  He wants to build that wall and keep every last Muslim out of this country.  The theory is that since some of the worst victims of Russian and Assad terrorism in Syria are ISIS people, and he uses the analogy of the m & m candies and if three percent of them were poisoned, then you wouldn't want to eat any of them.  Trump of course wants "worse than waterboarding" as far as torture is concerned and appears to want it as a first rather than a last resort and even wants to torture innocent relatives of terrorists.  Shawn has never criticized Trump for this.  The only minorities that haven't felt the full wrath of Trump's policies are the Blacks.  Trump appears to want to meet Black people half way on these police shooting cases.  Shawn Hannity is not that way.  You could almost say of Shawn that "He never met a police shooting he didn't like".  Trump is making a play for the Blacks calling them victims of Obama's policies and say of them "What do you have to lose at this point?"  Of course then there is Trump's tax returns and they will no doubt show that Trump hasn't paid his taxes in twenty years.  Aside from the actual law Trump took advantage of- - most of us can't take a billion dollar loss and still keep going.  Shawn Hannity praised him for this- - that he "didn't give up".  If you have another nine Billion in the wings of reserves- - the question is what taxes Trump paid on that Nine Billion, assuming he even has that much.  Of course now we have all of the sex stuff which is just another "smoking gun" and there is also some letter circulating of Black (and possible white, too) Christian evangelists saying Trump is unfit to be President.  

In the US Senate debate between Harris and Loretta Sanchez, clearly Harris was the more articulate of the two candidates airing on ABC the other night.  Harris accused Sanchez of taking money from "for profit" private colleges that only rip you off and Harris wants to crack down on these.  Both Harris and Sanchez want to crack down on Vladimir Putin.  Trump may be soft on Putin.  This is one area where he and Mike Pence appear to have a disagreement.  Clearly you would have to- - morally compromise- - to make a deal with Putin.  I was going to go into this more but this letter is long enough already.  Actually, it's a tough call.

Harris More Articulate than Loretta Sanchez

Tim Cain interrupted Mike Pence constantly last night and I felt like telling him to shut up and wait his turn.  Cain has one of those twerpy voices that grates on you after a while.  Mike Pence was more personable talking about his family, faith, and Indiana roots.  Both candidates were asked whether their Christian faith impacts their decisions.  I would have said mine didn’t because it’s my belief that my morals are dictated by my own conscience and not some like some pastor tells me from the pulpit- - and for the most part quoting the Bible is risky.  Sometimes it’s good but a lot of the time you can quote the Bible to prove anything you want.  I agree with Mike Pence on the abortion and gay marriage issues.  Pence was correct to bring up partial birth abortions, which the Democratic Party as an institution is all for.  In general though Tim Cain was the more substantive of the two candidates and mentally sharper.  Mike Pence was a little fuzzy in how he dealt with Donald Trump’s many faults.  He said that Trump was “smart” not to pay any taxes for eighteen years.  Will that argument fly?  These “smart” tax laws I guess were written expressly for Donald Trump by “smart” rich people.  I question the whole thing like how could ANYBODY lose a billion dollars and still live the life of a rich person?  The very rich live in a wholly different world from the rest of us.  Both candidates talked right over the moderator who would try in vain to move it on to another topic.  I think Mike Pence’s record as Indiana governor could have been delved into more deeply.  With the gay lobby as strong as it is the topic could have been milked a little more.  The word is that Trump picked him “bailing him out” from the likelihood he would not be re-elected as Governor.  I wasn’t happy at all with either candidate’s discussion of the economy or trade.  Moth candidates had vague outlines.  To me knowing the economy well and being able to explain it is a valuable selling point. 

I had Stephanie Miller on this morning and a lot of little new icons appeared on my task bar.  This morning I changed the wallpaper from “Watering Hole” to “Autumn”, the one with all the leaves.  Bill kept asking me how his hair looked and I was distracted with things like the “language bar” popping up.  I went to the store just after seven and the coffee had just started brewing.  It starts off pouring coffee in quickly then continually slows down.  I got my coffee and paid two dollars and got three quarters in change for a large coffee.  I took it into the dining room and drank it there.  We had sugar frosted flakes and later on we got a fried egg and a waffle.  Judy complained about the slowness of service but actually it was faster than usual.  

I got coffee from Glen in his room.  It was Taster’s Choice and a smaller amount than last time but I didn’t complain.  I was sleepy last night and didn’t type then.  It was ABC news and then I smoked a cigarette and then got in the medication line because it appeared to be fast moving with Tom.  He started early and I was done at five after seven.  I went to the store for cigarettes when it was almost completely dark.  Then I watched the US Senate debate between Camille Harris and Loretta Sanchez.  Harris won the debate because I agreed with her on more issues and she above all was much more articulate than Sanchez.  Sanchez reminded me a little of Kathryn Koolman like she was trying to cast a spell over the listeners.  Harris has a rather stiff presentation but I liked what she said.  The debate lasted an hour.  Then I watched Blind Spot.  Then it was Law and Order SVU at nine about being accused of rape because you lied to get sex.  I’ve been having a lot of dreams lately and I’ve been coughing at night and otherwise sleeping poorly.  The covers come off my bed.  I’m not making it well enough.

I woke early and restless this morning.  Bill has been bleeding a lot lately and one of his towels was covered in blood.  I got medication with April.  I had cough medicine because I’ve been coughing at night.  I went and got a dollar fifty cup of coffee at the bakery.  I need to shave.  The computer is working good.  I take that back.  Now the internet has conked out again. 

I’ve got the internet coming in now on this modem for the first time since just before seven o clock.  Maybe I better go on and do a posting before the thing changes its mind.  Twice I unplugged the main outlet of the surge protector and the second time worked.  Olivia was over today and seemed to be getting interested in the soap opera I was watching.  She gave me the majority of a bottle of brisk lemon iced tea that was good for two average sized glasses.  But she didn’t stay long.  We had that horrible unsweetened spice (?) cake for snacks along with two cups of lemonade.  This morning I had two cups of lemonade.  I had Gary and Shannon on over the noon hour.  Clyde was ruminating about how his father abused him as a kid and did Ben harbor the same thoughts about him as he harbored about his father.  Theo is packing a gun now because the Salem PD as usual aren’t getting the job done.  This should be interesting.

Still Looking for that "Smoking Gun" in Trump Campaign

Hillary needs to talk about "the issues" more such as global warming and fair trade and auditing the federal reserve.  I think "Black Lives Matter" is a winning issue and perhaps why so many Black people voted for her.  Stop all this National Enquirer stuff about personal attacks on Trump.  People need to look upward and outward a little more, to how the next President will actually govern.  And most of all people need to be reminded to vote for their Democratic Senator and House member.  Without this- government will be just more of the same.  Hillary needs to talk about a "Do nothing Congress" the way Harry Truman talked about it in the 1948 campaign, which was so successful.  Ronald Reagan ought to know.  He did commercials for the Democrats in 1948.  Why can't today's public be reminded that if anyone is at fault for the seemingly weak economy, it's Republican policies over the past six years.  But today's American voting public seems to have their head up their asses on the actual issues.  People are looking for the "smoking gun" that's going to do Donald Trump in.  Nothing that has occurred so far as done the trick.  No matter what outragious stunt Trump pulls people's ability to be shocked into action- - has never been reached.  It goes to show the morally depraved quality of the electorate now.  I had Gary and Shannon on.  They are a little bit dense when it comes to Donald Trump and his taxes.  Who can run up over 900 million dollars in losses- - on a casino no less- during 1995, one of the biggest boom years of all time?  How do you stretch those economic losses over the next eighteen years so that Trump paid no taxes over that period?  Gary and Shannon see nothing strange about that.  If you get wiped out with a flood or a hurricane you can’t deduct those losses.  Most people can’t do what Trump did even with business losses.  This looks to be the number one issue on the next debate which is October 9^th or John Lennon’s birthday.  Tomorrow, October 4^th is the Vice Presidential debate.  More and more I hear that Trump will not govern the way he campaigned and got votes and won in the spring.  That was by promising them he couldn’t be bought by Wall Street money and that he would fight all of these international trade agreements.  The concencus is that he won’t keep his word, any more than Obama kept his word on a lot of things he campaigned on in 2008.

On Days of our Lives we don’t know who the father of Clowie’s baby is but Clowie is either being mighty protective of him or mighty afraid of him or both.  She’d terminating her contractual obligation to record for Philip’s record company after extensive recording sessions and him getting her some good material to record.  She won’t say who the father is, only that we know she had sex with him within a few days of having sex with Demas.  She’s going to New York to live with her parents and be with Parker.  She told Nicole that they would keep in touch but if you believe that I have a bridge in New Jersey I want to sell you.  In terms of Aden, he came out and told Hope he’s got the goods on her and knows she’s the one who murdered Stephano in cold blood.  He expects her to just fall into his arms at this blackmailing of her.  Of course if she comes clean the Truth will not set her free but will send her, along with Roman Brady and Raphael Hernandez up the river for a long time for cover-up and conspiracy.

Donald Trump may finally have to answer some questions about his foundation’s activities.  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Monday that his office had sent a cease and desist letter to the Trump Foundation for operating without proper certification. The charity will no longer be allowed to raise money until it properly registers no later than October 15, the attorney general’s office told The Daily Beast.  New York law dictates that any charity that solicits more than $25,000 a year needs to have a special registration prior to doing so. The attorney general’s office also said that the Trump Foundation did not provide annual financial reports or audited financial statements.  Trump campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks said the investigation by Schneiderman, a Democrat, has "political motives," but that Trump would cooperate.  That means Trump, under penalty of perjury, will have to disclose more information about his charitable organization than he ever has before. 

In the news recently they ran a thing on how today’s teenagers don’t smoke, and they wouldn’t date a girl who smokes and none of their friends smoke.  This is so different from fifty years ago when cigarette commercials ran free reign on television.  But today we have all these new drugs as though we're all supposed to be doctors listening to all the lurid side effects of these new drugs.  Back in the old days people trusted and respected their doctors and you had role models like Ben Casey, who seemed to have all the answers.  You didn't have these feminine hygene products back then or advertizing prophilactic devices (Rubbers) or all this incontenance stuff- - and even things like toilet paper advertizing is getting strange.  Both Northern and Charmin have ads so off the wall they never would have been approved fifty years ago.  In the old days if you “couldn’t get it up” you kept it to yourself, besides your doctor would tell you that it was all psychological anyhow.  Views on war are very different today.  Nearly fifty years ago Martin Luther King gave a forty minute sermon coming out against the War in Viet Nam.  One of the strongest arguments he used was “People come to me and say if you are going to be non violent as far as getting Civil Rights is concerned, how can any of us condone the rampant violence of the Viet Nam war burning women and children’s villages and all?  Today we choose not to think about that stuff.  Back then computers were great big things that took up a whole big room in a company basement or whatever and only the trained elite knew how to program them.  Back then we appreciated the computational properties of a computer and we “respected” smart machines and smart people.  Today we don’t.  We used to believe technology would save us and that the problem is what to do with all our leisure time.  We screen out applicants for being a police officer if they have an IQ of over 120.  We don’t want people “over qualified” for the job, a term I doubt was in existence fifty years ago.  Back then everything was seen in terms of psychology.  All of these terms for mental illness were “in” and we saw psycho-analysis as the cure to a whole host of problems.  Today we just say to take a pill for it.  As little as a generation ago we saw all of those Wrigley chewing gum commercials.  That’s how people used to work out their problems back then.  Today they go on mass killing sprees.  In those days we measures musical evolution in terms of months.  If you were six months behind the time in your musical tastes, people knew about it.  Things were evolving that quickly.  Back then evolution was a good word.  Today it’s considered taboo to even talk about evolution and the view “people never change” has gotten more popular.  Our political discourse is a lot sicker today.  As little as ten years ago the very idea of a Republican running for President the way Trump is doing now would have been considered beyond the pale.  Thirty years ago talk radio was the restricted to little old ladies talking about last night’s three point zero earthquake.  Today everybody “tweets” and we don’t keep anything to ourselves but broadcast it to the world- - even if it’s completely mindless.  The idea of actually reading a book today seems strange because nobody does it.  

There Is No "Crash of 2016"

 I was listening to Obama talk about the economy.  For the first time in a decade or so incomes are measurably up.  It hasn’t affected us here yet.   At 8:06 I listened to the Republican response on the topic of dismantling Obama Care and coming up with their own better plan.   Even if we concede that the economy is betting better, which is no favor to the republicans because traditionally the party OUT of power wins if the economic figures look shakey, we still have the problem of Obama Care.  Everyone agrees it's just "bad medicine" to quote a proposition 61 commercial.  People pay more and everyone I've talked to over the past four years universally agree that the Affordable Care Act is a bad thing to jack up rates and make you switch doctors.  These "truths" aren't going away.  So maybe the President is smart to point to their being no "Crash of 2016" on the horizon.  We have 39 days to go or something.  It's in the power of the Federal Reserve to crash the markets at any time but they aren't going to do that five weeks before an election.   The trouble with all these doom and gloom people they point out all the things that COULD go wrong hypothetically but none of then NEED go wrong.  I don't see why we couldn't have a market like this indefinitely with investor gains out and out financed by the Federal Reserve's policies.  People like Thom Hartman agree that debt is no problem.  Not really.  After all "it's a place for people to safely save their money" in T bills and other government notes.  The one time we successfully paid off the National Debt was under Andrew Jackson and that destabelized the financial markets so much it threw us into a major recession and the Vice President, Van Buren, was labeled "Van Ruin" because of that.  Without grim economic statistics for the republicans to kick around, their changes for winning in November seem mighty slim at this point.  My only worry is that statistics show that Republicans will be ticket splitters this year voting Republican in "down ballot" races such as congressman and senator, while voting for Hillary and Cain in the top posts.  

A lot of KNX’s news was either about the El Cajon police shooting of s Black man who turned out not to have a gun but took a “shooting stance” or else it was this other Black man in Pasadena who was apparently tazed to death.   There is a delema as I see it because the police never wait any more for someone to point a gun at them before they shoot, and you don't even need to have a gun for them to shoot you dead.  Their aim is getting better because they are trained to feel comfortable firing their weapon at anything, moving or not.  They shoot to kill, going for body mass.  They know they won't be prosecuted much less convicted.  Hence they feel "comfortable" seemingly at times using a gun as a first resort rather than a last one.  But also it struck me that they have good enough vision to be accurate at killing their targets, but apparently have such bad vision they don't know whether it's a gun or a cell phone the person is holding.   And it's also true that the burden of proof is on the dead person to "prove" beyond a reasonable doubt that they weren't at fault at all, or "give the appearence" of being in the wrong.  And beyond that you are expected to go into the officer's own mind to wonder what he may be thinking or what "fearful state" he is in today.  They used to tell us in drivers ed to "drive defensibly".   Now they tell Blacks the perils of "driving while black" or "walking while black" and often they might as well tell us to "live defensively" but if you do that the preachers will get on our case who tell us we must be open and trusting and assuming the most honorable intentions of our neighbor.  (Selah)  There was a little bit about Trump and Hillary but the rest of it was traffic and weather and of course commercials. 

Gary Johnson was on Shawn Hannity’s and also talking with Chris Matthews now and he says that market forces will control the excess of carbon pollution and “the free market” has bankrupted the coal industry.  Shawn claims the Obama administration did that.   I will agree that “market forces” work even in areas of civil rights for either race of sexual identity.  But first there has to be that big stick of government threatening everybody just as in the case of labor unions “free markets” are affected by the presence of Labor Unions raising the wage scale.  Gary Johnson is now warning of the dangers of seeking “regime changes” in foreign governments.  I agree.   “A resume doesn’t impute to  you discernment”.   Recent history has shown that the world is so unstable now that the slightest jiggle will send the bricks cascading down to ruin. 

We had our resident’s council meeting.  There was a lot of lecturing by Josie and Patty and a lot of “dead air” just writing stuff down.  There seemed to be less time for people to actually bring up issues.  Almost no time was spent on food services because they read some mandate saying portion size is mandated and there will be no second glasses of orange juice.  I launched the topic of the lateness of mainly breakfast but they can get the plates on the table in a timely manner because they’ve done it before.  I said that our blinds needed examining by Augustine and Bill’s lamp needs a bulb.  Josie defended Nora against charges of theft, which occur all the time.  The meeting ended at three.  Norman Goldman was in a rerun of last Friday.   There are so many Black people either being shot by cops or else dying in custody I can’t keep track of all of them.   There is a fourteen year old who first killed his father and then shot up a grammar school and injured a teacher and students.   His mother defended him to the media.