VIENNA — Hopes for
a final agreement in the Iran nuclear talks were put on ice Monday, as Iranian
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said no deal was imminent and the White
House said the talks are expected to continue into Tuesday. Secretary of State John F. Kerry met late
Monday night with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Federica
Mogherini, the foreign policy chief of the European Union, and there were no
indications that a long night of negotiations would end soon. That raised the
possibility that talks would continue well past a soft deadline of midnight,
and that an agreement might be reached in the middle of the night. Although diplomats had been optimistic Monday
morning that a final agreement would be reached before the midnight expiration
of an interim deal, those hopes were dashed shortly before nightfall. There seems to be a major list of unresolved
issues. But this hasn’t stopped Shawn
Hannity from claiming that “A deal with Iran has already been made”.
Perhaps law enforcement
officers can practice their own discretion to a degree. For instance an alarmed woman caller was
worried about school busses going past crowds of anti abortion protestors
holding up giant signs of aborted fetuses and even sticking pamphlets in
through the bus windows for the children to read. Were I in charge of this intersection I would
not interfere with what these protestors are trying to do. My reasoning is that “Life trumps disruption”
and that in defense of human life – certain liberties should be allowed.
Shawn Hannity has
announced that he’s going to have Scott Walker on his program and give him the
royal treatment that he gives most of the Republican candidates, including a
whole hour on his TV show. They released
a video of a campaign commercial. I’d
give it a C + even if it is filled with a lot of dubious accomplishments. It’s like a Star Wars movie preview. You scower the thing loomking for “clues”. These Republicans speak of “the tax payers”
as the focus of their attention rather than people associated with various
interests like those who wish to be shielded from legal predators, union
members, environmentalists, or government workers. And so it’s “the taxpayer” which supposedly
this vast silent majority of main stream American that seems not to care one
bit about oppressive governmental leaders like Walker, much as the average
German didn’t understand any of Adolph Hitler’s “targeted groups”, people to be
“gone after” – to mean them personally.
Unfortunately they didn’t continue to feel that way.
That Pluto fly-by was
today and Pluto is fifty miles bigger in diameter than we thought. (The error is small) But it’s icier and less rocky than we
thought. It passed by at 31,000 mph,
which is somewhat faster than I thought inter-planetary ships traveled. I thought once they passed the escape
velocity of 26,000 they continually slowed down after that. The only time they might get temporarily sped
up is of they go past Jupiter and the slingshot effect.
Hillary Clinton is at
least looking more robust than she did a couple of years ago when she left
Secretary of State. Hillary spoke on Wall
Street and her desire to crack down on the rich Wall Street bankers. But she seemed reluctant to field specific
policy questions. One guy was escorted
out of the room after asking her “What are you going to do about Glass Stiegel?”
Greece has apparently
agreed to stay with the Euro and with the EU.
I didn’t know it was that close.
The thing is that the nations of the EU say “It would make the Euro look
bad if one of our nations exited the union”.
The question is why that is - - unless somehow Greece is going what
several other nations secretly want to do and now they’ve got the courage. They say the provisions are the harshest
since those imposed on Germany or something after WW I. But according to Norman Goldman Wall Street got
rich off the thing- - and did accounting tricks without making the Greek
government any stronger. And you must
remember that the Greek people expressed their opinion just eight days ago that
THIS is the thing they DON’T want.
FOX news has told
Donald Trump that they are going to keep him out of the first Debate coming up
in three weeks, unless Trump officially files his paper work to make things
right with the Federal Elections commission.
Norman Goldman said that “I always had the feeling that Trump was only
in it for the publicity and isn’t really running but will pull out and offer
some excuse”. But now he’s in too deep
and has nothing to lose because he’s lost a lot of business dealings in the
past few weeks. My only remark would be
that there are such things as legally binding contracts that have to be
fulfilled “whether they feel like it or not”.
Rush Limbaugh has defended Trump to the extent that he says the
Republicans will split the party is they don’t knock it off against The
Donald. However Lindsey Graham has
referred to Donald Trump as “a giant wrecking ball”. Shawn Hannity is not on friendly terms with
Lindsey Graham - - too liberal.