Democrat Wins in Highly Contested Congressional Election

We Democrats finally have something to celebrate about today.  Conner Lamb, the democrat in that west Pennsylvania congressional election of yesterday to fill a vacant seat- - - won a special election beating the Republican who apparently hadn't been serving very long.  Trump campaigned heavily in that district because this race was important to his image.  It was a district that went for Trump by twenty points in the 2016 election.  The victory was a slim one but definite.  The margin was only 640 votes that’s awfully narrow.  The Republican hasn’t conceded defeat.   There is this Drew Miller fellow who is a Libertarian and he got a thousand votes, which is more than the margin of victory.  The danger would be if he could somehow ‘give his votes” to the Republican loser.  I don’t know if two democratic victories make a trend, but we can hope.     

This is Wednesday March 14, 2018, “Pi” day.  All the restaurants are selling pieces of pie for $3.14 or that much off a whole pie or something like that.  Stephen Hawking died in the early morning hours in England, so he died on “Pi” day.  I guess he was the greatest genious of our times.  So what was his greatest “lasting contribution” to science that would compete with the theory of relativity or others?  President Trump arrived in San Diego late yesterday morning and he went to the border to look at at least eight prototypes of “The Wall” that they still plan to build for nearly two thousand miles, mainly across desert.   Then the president went to Mirimar AFB in San Diego and delivered a speech around one.  Then he went by helicopter to Santa Monica and then by motorcade to Beverly Hills where he raises money from donors.  Then he spent the night in a hotel downtown. The latest copy of “The Week” came at lunch time today and it’s all about members of Trump’s cabinet bailing out.  President Trump has so many positions to fill now, mostly because people don’t want to be associated with him.

March 14^th is also student protest day.  At ten o clock all over the country all the students all over the country are going to walk out of their classes for seventeen minutes, to stand for the seventeen students that were killed.  It’s the one month anniversary of the Parkland high school shootings.  They have cops stationed all around campuses to make sure none of the students actually leave the campus or else they will be marked absent.  Meanwhile there’s this guy on the radio now on KFI and he denies there is a gun problem.  He says that long guns are responsible for hardly any deaths and more people are killed each month due to blows with a fist than with long guns.  I don’t believe that for a minute.  He also has a screwball view of why pedestrian deaths are on the rise, particularly here in LA County.  He says it’s because cars are so much quieter now that they sneak up on people.  Then he launches into this lecture about how there are no mass school shootings in the Los Angeles area.  “Look at all of the firearms in places like Compton, or Paccoima, or San Bernardino.  How come there are no mass shootings there?”  It’s a totally absurd line of reasoning.   I say “Just give it time”.   I don’t see why we have to just wait and sit around for the mass shooting to occur here so I can say “I told you so”. 

You know it could be that Abigail “needs” those other personalities at this time to help keep her stable and functional.  Otherwise she might commit suicide or something.  They are her emotional anchor.  Of course these personalities “protect her” from people like Kayla who want to research her disease and find out her awful secret, that she killed Andre.  Stephan fears the same thing and therefore wants to protect Abigail whereas his other Vivian just says to throw her in the looney bin and let her rot or let the doctors sort it all out.  Stephan rightly points out that she’d be confessing to the murder of Andre, and even being so closely tied in with the murder as Stephan and Vivian are would shine too bright a spotlight on the Di Mira household.  Of course I have announced before that John Lennon needed “Greenie” as I call him up until the fall of 1973 after doing “Mind Games” and then “Greenie” went bye-bye.  After this John became more psychological unstable and erratic and the insecurity showed up in his song lyrics.

In personal news things are in limbo.  I haven’t called Paul or Judy about the funeral, which still hasn’t happened.  Today started off overcast but now there are puffy clouds in the sky and it’s mostly sunny.  But two more storm fronts are predicted over the next two or three days and it’s doubtful we could have a graveside service because in Riverside they get storms after we do, and sometimes they’re stronger.  I still haven’t gotten a call from my dentist about approving that dental work.  It could be they’ve turned the funding down.  My tooth doesn’t bother me so maybe I should just forget it for now.