Long-time Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro Dies

Fidel Castro is dead.  He died last night at age ninety and was semi alert till the end occasionally appearing in public.  The Cuban population in Miami is celebrating.  Castro was born in 1926 and was raised with Western culture and education, as so many of these world dictators such as Assad Ho Chi Min seem to be.   He was the last “true believer” in classic communism.  He “kept the faith” when everybody else in the world has long since given it up.  Trump issued a brief tweet “Castro is Dead!”.   It seems as of now that Trump will reverse Obama’s openings to Cuba he’s done in the past few years.  New voters are now aware that Castro brought us to the brink of Nuclear War in 1962.   Mario Hernandez around here appeared to not know Castro had died.  He is one of those old time patriotic Cubans saying "Viva, America" and all that stuff.  

There is all this bragging about how in Europe you can be on a fast train going 250 mph just as smooth as can be and have a long stemmed glass of port wine on your table and it won’t even jiggle.  We hear how advanced airports are in other parts of the world.   US airports seem to be in disarray.  Now there is talk on Hardball about how Trump could issue bonds at low interest rates and pay for the thing no sweat.  There are jokes about “fly over country” now being “come-over country” where all of the Trump states of the prairie are bypassed.  They are saying in the old days when you traveled by train across the land it was better for both commerce and culture.  Now Trump is saying that he could do a perfect job of executing his duties as Presidents and also run his business perfectly with no conflict of interest under the law.  I never knew the law was that permissive but I’ve heard from multiple sources that this is indeed the case.

Hillary Clinton’s popular lead has grown from 1.5 million to 1.7 million and now has passed the two million voter mark.  Jill Stein has raised several million dollars to fund the voter recount in Wisconsin at least, which I now hear is underway.   Michigan is still not “certified” and Trump’s official electoral vote count is stuck at 290.   I have not heard any direct remarks from Hillary herself of any of her democratic team saying that there needs to be a voter recount in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.  It’s only stated that people from Michigan State U have stated that there is a “strong statistical probability based on vote tally analyses, that there has been tinkering with the electronic ballots.  At least if we do a recount we can all relax that Trump won fair and square.  

Yesterday it was Moe Kelly.   He’s the only host who was live today.  He talked about Hillary supporters at noon and at one he turned his sights on all of the areas where Donald Trump has backed down (reversed) his political promises.  While Moe was running down a list of these position reversals of Trump I was going "nya- nya" to the radio in sheer glee that the right wing had been stymied.  These reversals include Hillary prosecution, whyich has been spoken about extensively by Trump with cheer leading of "Lock her up!" by the crouds at the Republican convention and behind.  Trump often elaborated on how when he was president he'd appoint a special prosecutor to get HIllary.  Global Warming is another area where Trump seems to have backed off of his former position of "It's all a UN conspiracy" or socialist conspiracy like people like Hannity and Judy say.  Now Trump says that it's possible that Global Warming is indeed man-made.  Then we have the returning of eleven million aliens to Mexico.   The figure was prunned down to three million and maybe less and it would be only those who have comitted crimes.  I get the feeling that The Will will not be built at all.  "Well, maybe just a fence", Trump says now.  There was a reversal on torture after talking with that general guy who told him in an extensive private conversation in a possible interview spot for Secretary of Defense - that water-boarding doesn't work and that a few cigarettes and a six pack of beer is more effective and don't discount the reality of "gaining the trust" of the prisoner.   And also a pull back on Obama Care is more than likely.   Trump wants to preserve being kicked off a policy either by a pre existing condition or else running up against a "lifetime limit" because your particular disease like cancer, is costing the insurance company just too much.   Also Trump wants children of parents through their mid twenties to remain on their parents' policies.  This is a particularly "socialistic ploy" according to those such as Ted Cruz who talk about "once they get a taste of the "sugar" they are addicted, and so the children will become "part of the system" at an early age.   There is also talk of some sort of datent with the New York Times" and Trump had flattering words for the NY Times as a newspaper.  

I turned on Mark Stein, who in many ways is the perfect EIB substitute.  (E I B stands for Ever Increasing Bullshit)  That guy is an idiot.  When he’s not being hopelessly sarcastic he’s out and out lying.  He kept talking about this foreign flutist who was to be hired on for a two hour recording session and had to fill out a hundred pages of paper work just to do that, whereas all he needed to do was to cross the Rio Grande and he would be guarenteed arrest free treatment for at least fifteen years while his case was being appealed.  This guy has diaria of the mouth and says literally anything whether it makes sense or not- - to feed the lust of his audience.  Stein spoke sarcastically of saying that liberals all want a recount, when it isn't true.  The day after the election nobody questioned the validity of the vote and only now are a few people talking about how a hundred thousand shifted votes in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan could have shifted the election, while four million votes in California and New York were just wasted   Stein is very skilled in giving fact free analises of anything he discusses.   He speaks in this polished London accent.  He's like George Martin on steroids!  He gives Britishers a bad name!  I think he fakes the accent.