It Takes A Major Terrorist Attack To Really Make's Trump's Day!

Donald Trump brags because “Every time there is a major shooting disasters, my poll numbers go up”.  He exploits the fear with demogogary.  44% of the Republicans now believe President Obama is  Muslim.  You see Donald Trump’s political base right there.  We are less than two months from the Iowa caucus and the hard numbers begin rolling in.  Michael Steel is on now.  Right now in the polls Ted Cruz has moved to 17% in second place. Actually a poll they just flashed on the screen showed Cruz at 23% right behind Trump. Trump has fallen to 25% now.  Jeb Bush is a weak fifth at 6% or something near Christie.  Carson is 18% and Rubio is 13% right now in the latest data.  The Koch Brothers are against the export-import bank and FOX has made it a political issue to fire up their voters with an issue nobody even knew of or cared about six months ago.   The export-import bank is a system of loans for foreigners who want to buy American products.  The Koch’s don’t qualify for that and therefore don’t benefit and since “It’s all about them” they don’t want anybody to succeed.  British Petroleum is British so somehow they get help.  They don’t want to encourage buyers of American products or employ more Americans.  Barbra Boxer is a solid Hillary Clinton backer.  She isn’t worried about Goldman Sach’s backing of Hillary.  Rick Santorum wants guns in free clinics - - and is OK with guns in bars because he says “Not everybody who walks into a bar goes there to get drunk”.   Ted Cruz was asked about contraceptives and I remember Ted Cruz said “The last time I checked we don’t have a rubber shortage in America”.    Cruz is surging in the polls now.

 Thom Hartman has been talking about asset forfeitures to law enforcement.  It’s a growing phenomenon over the past twenty years.  I just watched most of the December 2^nd “Ring of Fire”.  Hillary Clinton is owned by Goldman Sachs, as is Obama and are most of the people that get appointed to the Federal Reserve.  Then there was more stuff on how Donald Trump is a creation of FOX news.  Before that I watched a thing on global warming, and another thing on police planting evidence - - either guns or drugs - - on Black people in New Orleans.  So it’s a gloomy world out there.  Now Hartman is talking about how Seid Baruch’s wife from Pakistan radicalized him.  “Don’t get a mail order bride or you might get an ISIS person”.   John Fugelsang was saying that the object of a person’s addiction will become his greatest affliction.  So people need to think of that before and not after they get addicted to anything.  We wouldn’t sell Iraq chlorine to disinfect their contaminated water from the Euphrates, so President Clinton is responsible for a dissentary outbreak in the ‘nineties.

I watched the Mc Laughlin group and the absurd line of the day was John Mc Laughlin’s asking the group “Why does President Obama put off his own failure by politicizing this terrorist event by making it a question about firearms regulation”.   I cannot conceive of a stupider question to ask.  The President wants people on the No Fly List to not be able to purchase firearms, but the Republicans in congress are just as insistent they should be able to.  Then there was a debate on Russia verses Turkey and Pat believes firmly that the jet downing incident is entirely Russia’s fault and I am inclined to agree.  The Russian bomber was only in Turkish air space for seventeen seconds!  

[newly added paragraph]  John Lennon did “My Life - - Take It” which is kind of an early adaptation of “Starting Over” and actually a better tune- - don’t on acoustic guitar.   They are doing the American version of Rubber Soul, which apparently came out today fifty years ago.   Doesn’t that make you feel old!  Brian Ferry did “You Won’t See Me” which was my 2^nd choice.  Someone guessed “David Berne” of the Talking Heads.  I thought maybe it was Ozzy Osborne.  They’re playing the Rubber Soul album the way God intended it, the American version and in mono.  You trivia buffs they played “It’s only love” at the very beginning of my Sophomore year at Savanna, but I never heard “I’ve Just Seen a Face” till the album came out.  I went out and Joe had KLOS on and then I went for two glasses of lemonade from Rico and then came back here.  OK this is a bit later and now they’re making up and playing the Yesterday and Today selections.  OK this is later and my vote for the second quiz was Crissy Hind, and of course I was wrong because it was Bette Middler.  We heard 1965 Christmas record out-takes and we learned that they interrupted “Think For Yourself” in order to record it.  We’re just a fountain of knowledge today.

 They claim that Graham Nash left the Hollies on this date in 1968.  I doubt it was that late because their last two hits were in the summer of 1967 and Maraquesh Express - - was out by March of 1969.  Neil Young had joined the group by the time of Woodstock that August.  And by October 1969 when “Suite Judy Blue Eyes” became a hit Paul got the record used from a friend, so the album had already been out for a while.  On this date Beggars Banquet, the Stones’ “White Album” came out.  Melinda Lee will not be on today at ten because they’re having a new car show from nine to eleven.  The show was always kind of a waste anyhow- drowning in commercials - and trying to cram “nothing” into half the time may be difficult.  I decided to skip the President’s address.  However the Republican lady’s 8:06 address I heard.  She wants to restrict Visas from friendly country.  But yesterday the Republicans in congress voted not to restrict gun sales to those on the “No Fly List”, which right there proves the Republicans aren’t a bit serious about trying to stop terrorist attacks here.  

 I didn’t go for the snack  break because I wanted to hear Rhapsody in Black from the beginning at two.  I was actually expecting they’d be in December of 1955 but maybe it was a lucky guess. They kicked it off with “They Call Me Speedo” by the Cadillac’s, and then there was Eddie, My Love, and “Tooty Fruity” of course, “When You Dance”, and “Jingle – jangle” by the Penguins, a Christmas song.  I also heard “The Great Pretender”, “Smokey Joe’s Café” and “Night Owl”.  All of these are on the KRTH hit parade of the ‘seventies.  Of the songs I hadn’t heard before there were some surprises.  There was an obscure Platters song.  One of the many versions of “I Hear You Knocking- but you can’t come in”,  “White Port & Lemon Juice” the old Mothers of Invention song, “Witchcraft” that Elvis did, “Seventh Son” that Johnny Rivers did,  and there were several Bo Didley style songs.  The first of these was the best in my opinion.   There was a bit of a fading (pink noise) problem, I usually don’t have with that station.

I went to the Christmas Party at four and sat down across from Luan but the crowd was still restless and they hadn’t brought the group to order so I slipped out and had another cigarette.  When I returned five minutes later Patty let me see the schedule of events for the evening.  Eating appeared to be early on the schedule.  But first they wanted us to see the annual video, which this year wasn’t quite as ponderous as last year- - it was just under thirty minutes starting at twenty to five.  They began serving dinner during the video.  We got big glasses of red punch and the main plate was scraps of turkey, a piece of ham, a dinner roll,  interesting mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and a fancy salad.  This salad had Romaine lettuce and raisons and grapes and walnuts and other things to make it interesting.  They moved me from across Luan because people were schedule to arrive so I sat between Wally and Lisa at the head of the table, and was lucky enough to get Lisa’s salad.  But before this Mike sang some songs on guitar- - and Wally remarked on how loud but tinny the sound was - - the guitar had its own system – and the vocal singing came from a different place in the room than the guitar.  The video was of poor quality for quite a number of reasons.  They didn’t dim the room that much, the pictures themselves were “dark” like you forgot to turn on the lights.  The image was fuzzy and I don’t think it was my eyes- - and though shots had people- - they weren’t close up enough to get a good look at the faces.  The only high quality aspect of the thing was the booming background music- - and there were the usual guimicky visual effects- - which were negated by poor overall picture quality.  We got a giant macademia cookie for dessert.  We didn’t get the usual pies but we did get a cup of coffee.  I left as the resident choir was being assembled to sing carols.  I had forgotten about the Polynesia dancers and singers to perform later and I largely missed that.  All the while I was laboring under the illusion that Stanford and USC would be on television.