President Trump Fires Sec of State Rex Tillerson

Rex Tillerson got fired today.  I heard this on the Stephanie Miller show before seven.  Tillerson received no notice at all.  Under-secretary Goldstein pointed this out and he got fired along with him.  A third guy named Mc Kinsee lost his security standing and got transferred to the 2020 campaign.  That sounds like a Beach Boy album.  Tillerson is the guy who called Trump a fucking moron.  I doubt Trump ever got over that.  They also disagree sharply on implementing foreign policy.  Trump wants to blow up the Iran nuclear treaty while Tillerson wants to uphold it.  Now this Pompeo guy from the CIA is moving into the Secretary of State slot.  He is a hard right conservative who believes in the CIA using torture.  He is a Koch brothers protogee.  In addition to all of this also during the first hour of Stephanie’s show the Republican Intelligence Committee of the House announced that they had concluded their work and that there was no Russian collusion.  It’s funny how they all like to use that word.

Norman Goldman talked about Stormy Daniels.  Donald Trump never signed that non disclosure contract.  Therefore the contract is inoperative because it was never put in force.  Both parties didn’t agree to it so there was no deal.  There was an offer but no acceptance.  If you offer your friend seven thousand dollars for his car and he doesn’t accept it, there is no contract.  But Goldman kept talking about arbitration.  But you can’t “arbitrate” where there IS a contract to begin with.  I doubt if one or both parties were incompetent or the contract stipulated the commission of illegal acts the contract would be enforceable.  Stormy Daniels wants to “tell all” but now the Trump administration says she is legally bound to keep quiet.

If four democratic US senators want to send a letter to try and improve relations with Russia, I’m for that.  The original headline states that four senators wrote a letter to the now former Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson calling for arms control.  In a sad commentary on the parlous state of the U.S. media, a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson from four United States Senators dated March 8 calling for opening arms control talks with the Kremlin ASAP is nowhere to be found in mainstream newspapers a day after its release on the Senate home page of one of the authors, Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.). Nothing in the New York Times.  Nothing in the Washington Post.  And so, it is left to alternative media to bring to the attention of its readership a major development in domestic politics, a significant change in what its own senior politicians are saying should be done about Russia that was brought to our attention by …..the Russian mainstream media including the agency RIA Novosti, RBK, Tass within hours of initial posting.  What we have is, first, a genuine man bites dog story.  Two of the senators who penned the letter, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), have in recent months been among the most vociferous promoters of the unproven allegations of Trump collusion with the Russians. Now they are putting aside for the moment their attacks on Trump and members of his entourage who dared shake hands or share a joke with a Russian ambassador. They are openly calling upon the Secretary of State to send U.S. personnel to negotiate with Putin’s minions over our survival on this planet.  Does Trump have anything against this?  

Rhapsody in Black featured March of 1959.  They played the original “Bad Boy” and a different version of “Big Boy Pete” (not the Olympics) and “Charlie Brown” and “You’re So Fine” (XERB) and “I’ve Had It” from the KRTH hit parade.  They played “The Cha Cha Cha” by Sam Cooke and an updated version of that “Wine, Wine, Wine” song.  They played the Hank Ballard version of “The Twist” and they played “The Happy Organ”.  There were a lot of obscure songs.  I had it on till four.  I never turned the TV on till after dinner.  We had two pieces of pepperoni pizza for dinner with a green salad.  We had a banana, and not banana pudding for dessert.  I went to the liquor store and got a small thing of instant coffee and vanilla Clippers.  Once again I declined getting rolls, but I still have a dollar left to spend.