Paul called about twenty
after ten this morning. I told him about
the Dentist and trying to get approval and he tooth extraction looming and Dr
Levy and also the closet saga and the toilet paper dispenser saga. Paul offered for me to go get a haircut with
him this afternoon and perhaps this morning, which I turned down for lack of
time. I went out for a cigarette and
then came back to shave. Lunch wasn’t
too late. We had two enchiladas and
white rice and green beans. But we
didn’t have either Picante sauce or guacamole.
Paul showed up just after eleven thirty and we had birthday cake for
dessert. The housekeeper showed up just
before eleven. I returned and took a
dump in the bathroom and when I came out, she was gone. Paul had gotten into a lengthly conversation
with Patty about Patty’s church background growing up. Everyone said how much alike we looked. Paul shook hands with Tanya and Larry. I went with Paul down to Chapman and the
barber shop. This was a big place with
three barbers doing business and more waiting.
Then the Vietnamese lady showed up and we used the far left chair. Originally she said that she was trying to
cut my hair too long and the waviness of the hair prevented her from getting
the look she wanted so I said “cut it shorter”.
It turned out pretty good. Then
it was Paul’s turn and I went out to the parking lot toward the street to
smoke. You don’t find many smokers these
days. They were working on the
asphalt. Paul had texted Tim about
taking the records on Saturday. Tim
called on the way home. (down Gilbert)
Tim is still in South Carolina and won’t be back here till late Sunday
night. We won’t b e able to transfer the
records on Saturday. Paul isn’t sure he
can do it a week later because he works till three that day. He dropped me off and I turned on Gary and
Shannon. I went for snacks at two and
got amberosia with nothing to drink. I
also made instant coffee. Paul and I
talked about the impeachment hearings. I
didn’t know Paul had so many pre-set news stations that got preempted with the
hearings. Other than that, the
conversation did not get political.
The
future is shaping up. Today is Wednesday
January 29, 2020 and they went back to their schedule of preempting the soap
opera but then going to Kelly Clarkson at two on KNBC. Today was question asking day for Justice
Roberts starting just after twn our time.
They gave themselves sixteen hours for these questions sessions. That means today and tomorrow. On Friday that means they will have the long
awaited vote to exclude witnesses, which the democrats will go along with
because they don’t want witnesses either.
They want to wrap up the impeachment thing so they can get back to last
minute campaigning in Iowa because the Iowa caucus is Monday. It’s getting closer all the time. I think Trump’s state of the union address is
Tuesday evening. For the super bowl
Trump is running a one minute ad that will be seen by millions. Two issues came up today that I find
alarming. It seems beyond dispute now
that President Obama didn’t give “lethal aid” to Ukraine even though congress
had approved it. I need to talk to
President Obama about that. That fact
along kind of completely takes the wind out of their sails as far as “denying
Ukraine needed military security”. It
doesn’t make the Republicans so bad. The
other charge is related to that one.
There seems to be strong evidence that Ukraine didn’t even find out aid
had been interrupt till August 28th of last year when a political
magazine ran an article that started an E mail fire storm. Most of the questions were just repeating
stuff we already knew. Toward the end of
the session I saw, Camille Harris and others asked a question for Justice
Roberts that asked if the Trump administration barred publication of the new
manuscript of John Boulton on the grounds the manuscript contains classified
information. It seems that the book
isn’t Kosher for publication and that it indeed does contain classified
material that needs to be redacted, possibly drastically.
Senator Ross of Kansas, who was a good
Republican in 1868 had at the last minute changed his mind and voted not to
impeach President Andrew Johnson- - was bribed with a hundred thousand dollars,
which was a lot more money back then than it is now. Back then you could buy a nice house with
just a few thousand dollars. I am slow
to believe everything I’ve Supposedly known for fifty years is a lie and a
concealment. I’m reserving
judgement. However it’s a more
“satisfying” theory for the democrats right now that say that abuse of power IS
grounds for impeachment. Of course on a recent posting we let slip that maybe in New Testament times that Governor Pilate was bribed by Joseph of Arithmea, a rich man, to get the body of Jesus or whoever was crucified that day before he was actually dead. The trouble with this is that it's not just the resurrection we worship. In fact the resurrection is almost incidental to basic theology. The important thing is that Jesus went to heaven and sits on the right hand of God the Father and he was given "all power".. This is code speak for the Church alias the Pope was given "all power" over this present world. It's almost less important whether Jesus actually survived crucifixion but rather that he announced his death ahead of time "according to scripture" and that his ministry is the final Word of God, which precludes any other prophets for the ensuing two thousand years. All revelation of God stopped two thousand years ago and all power is in Rome, where Jesus personally said it would reside by saying that Peter was the Rock and also legend that says St Peter went to Rome and became the first Pope.
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