Yesterday afternoon I
tuned in FOX a little before three and they had a salute to the Hall of Fame
football players from Black colleges.
There were six who are no longer with us and there were another eighteen
who were introduced live. They sang
America the Beautiful and the Star Spangled Banner. I went for a cigarette and missed the George
Bush coin toss but I saw the replay of it later. Everybody knew the Patriots would win but how
they won was very unorthodox. I went to
dinner and missed a chunk of the first half.
We had beef chow mein with chunks of beer and stuff over these Chinese
style pasta noodles, which they have been using lately. I think my plate was less filled than other
people’s. At any rate I was still hungry
after eating the meal and we had canned peaches with whipped cream for
dessert. Atlanta got off to a 21 to
nothing head start. The score was 21 to
3 at half time with New England scoring a field goal. There was the usual protracted wait before
the half time show. Lady Ga-ga gave a
good performance, not that I was familiar with her music. There were a lot of visual and pyrotechnic
effects and there were no live vocals.
You could tell she was faking the keyboard playing because it was playing
while she did other things. I went for a cigarette. Joe is for the Atlanta Falcons as was I and
Jeff was routing for the Patriots. The
Falcons scored again in the third quarter making it 28 to 3 at one point
leading by 25. Then the Patriots scored
their first official touchdown and missed the extra point. They botched the on-side kick. But then things went crazy. The Falcons never scored again. After one more Patriots score the
commentators said “The Patriots have narrowed it to a two score game” trailing
by sixteen. It so happens that they
scored on the two points afterward- - both times. When the lead was eight points Atlanta
marched down the field and were nearly on the twenty yard line ready to kick a
field goal to put the game out of reach with time running out. But they were sacked over ten years and a
holding call gave them another ten point loss and they were on the 45 yard
line. To make a long story short the
Patriots died it up with less than two minutes to go. The score was now 28 to 28. I went for a smoke knowing the Patriots had
won the OT coin toss. When I returned
they were on the two yard line and scored and the winning score was 34 to 28. I wasn’t in any mood to stick around for the
trophy presentation. This was the first
time there was a come-back from more than ten points in a Superbowl game and
also the first Overtime in a Superbowl game.
Then
I had it on Sixty Minutes and it was the “Hamilton” play musical. I didn’t know that the reason why Hamilton
never became President was because of a sexual scandal. After this it was the Pope’s personal choir
which sings in the Sistine Chapel. It’s
a men and boys choir with no women. They
have to learn not to sing too loud or “overbearing” but to have that angelic,
heavenly sound. They talked at length
about the rigorous training the boys undergo in their section of the
choir. After that it was NCIS. Bill bought some cookies and gave me seven of
them, which I was happy to have because I was so hungry.
Donald Trump made the
statement that Vladimir Putin isn’t so bad.
Yes, he’s a killer but the United States isn’t innocent when it comes to
killing. That’s almost treasonous to the
Republican point of view because it’s admitting we kill innocent people in our
wars. Others were outraged by Trump’s
statement. People also took offense to
Trump’s use of the term “so called judge” to question the judicial credentials
of the judge who ruled against him on the travel ban thing. President Trump's latest accusation is that "the media" as some unified entity or something - - is suppressing stories about ISIS terrorist attacks around the world, out of some seeming goal of brainwashing us or something. Trump is losing his mind! Jeff said that Hillary was a bisexual and
has a female lover, but he’s still vote for her over Donald Trump. One lady called on Thom Hartman’s show says
an expert told her we are on the verge of “complete social breakdown” within
four years. If the blue states fight to
get out of the Union they will do OK because New York and California are the
producer states and the red states are the freeloader states. But apparently those from the red states say
“Oh yeah? While we’ve got the guns on
our side”. Mike Meloy said in 2012 that
if Romney got elected that year we’d get social revolution immediately, but if
Obama got elected than that would be a slower process. Who’s to say we’ll be in just a couple of months
the way things are going.
The Ninth Circuit Court
upheld that Seattle judge’s injunction against the Trump administration as far
as that travel ban is concerned. The old
policies under Obama are thus reinstituted and people who have been waiting to
fly here from Syria and Iraq are not free to have their visas reactivated,
until the window “closes”, which could happen.
It seems increasingly certain that this “travel window” is going to stay
open and it’s unlikely that any people will be deported once they’re here. That would be too much trouble.
Virtually all
Democratic senators are expected to vote against President Trump’s picks to
lead the departments of Education, Justice, Health and Human Services, Labor
and Treasury and his top budget nominee — a historic rebuke of a first-term
president’s Cabinet selections. But
clearly though people in so many areas profess resistance Trump’s policies, and
they can protest till the cows come home, nothing is going to show for it in
actually progress in stopping Trump from implementing his grand scheme. If Trump wants to make people like me happy he can start by getting rid of Priebus and Bannon. Extremists having the ear of our President is not a good thing. Perhaps the most cabinet post is not on this
list and that is the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. If he has been confirmed we’re all in hot
water right now. The Senate is scheduled
to continue confirming Trump’s Cabinet nominees this week, with a vote
scheduled for Tuesday to approve Betsy DeVos, nominated to run the Education
Department. Senators are poised to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to serve
as the next attorney general by the end of the week. Clearly the choice of Sessions for Attorney
General is going to signal a sharp turn away from filing civil rights or
minority rights cases. But those votes
are expected to happen with little or no Democratic support. Only Sen. Joe
Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has announced plans to support Sessions. As of Monday, no
Democrat has announced support for DeVos, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), nominated to
lead Health and Human Services, or Steven T. Mnuchin, nominated as treasury
secretary. We know the Treasury guy is a crook.
They all are scheduled for up-or-down votes in the coming days. Near-unanimous opposition to a first-term
president’s Cabinet picks is rare and hasn’t happened in recent history. These
are not ordinary times. But it comes
amid a growing furor among progressive groups calling on Democratic lawmakers
to oppose all of Trump’s nominees and policies. A
CNN poll released on Sunday showed that just 59 percent of
Democrats approve of their party’s leaders, a sign that die-hard partisans want
lawmakers to serve as a more aggressive check on Trump. On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Charles E.
Schumer (D-N.Y.) predicted that “If not total unanimity, we’re going to have
near Democratic unity in opposing the remaining nominees for President Trump’s
Cabinet. But the view from where I sit is that each and every one of these
battle will be futile. And that’s
something we’ll have to live with for many years.
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