Trump's Administration Takes Dubious Shape

HONKY TONK NO 9

When You’re Strange

Seven Days (CD Bootleg)

Rout 66

Motorpsycho Nitemare

Live With Me

I Looked At You

Hot Stuff

Honkey Tomk Woman

Hello, I Love You

Give Me Shelter
Dance Little Sister

Catfish

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

Abandoned Love

This is after lunch here and as you can see the Powers that Be have come up with another album, which would be the Ninth CD.   I refer to the Dylan, Doors, and Stones 8 CD compilation we referred to in the last post.  The front photo features a honkeytonk with drinks on the table and wooden tables and chairs, with a goat’s head mounted on the wall and notably there are no songs from “Goat’s Head Soup” on this compilation.  And they deliberately made it fourteen songs (not 13) because 14 is more of a Satanic number if you're into Tarot cards than thirteen.  ("Little Sister" almost got left out)  We have continued the Z to A tradition continuing on from the other 8 CD’s.   The song listings are on the inside flap of the CD so you buy it sight unseen.   On the back of dark print on a white background is a newspaper format with old style Western letters of “The Evening Herald News” and then news articles about Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments.  Included in the front cover photo are Mal Evans in his old body avatar and Steward Sutcliffe in the “new and improved” avatar - - with Buck Dharma’s face that he’s been using all these years.  Of course the photo is in color.   [An official release date has not yet been set for this Federation album but it's generally believed to be Friday] We tried mostly to stick to our same criteria for picking songs- - except for HTW of course.  On the Stones selections there are two songs after 1972.  As I look over the song roster there is a bias tword the early part of the alphabet.   There was discussion about moving the “One Taco Short” album to an all music selections format.  That was voted down.   OK you have it. 

Incidents of bullying and racial bigotry in the schools as low as the fourth grade are skyrocketing.  Swastikas are showing up everywhere and kids are referring to grabbing little girls by the pussy.  They say Mike Pence has all his anti gay people in the administration.  They are still hatching plans to overturn so called "Marriage quality".   Flag burning vaulted back into the news yesterday when Trump said people who burn the flag should be either stripped of their US citizenship or else spend a year in jail.  Both have been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1990.  Today even Mitch Mc Connell said the flag burning issue was 'settled law'.   Perhaps people on our side should do a You Tube video of "Fire" by Hendrix with flag burning going on all over the place.  Either that or use it as bumper videos for a Free Speech program.  There are rumors in Indiana if your period is more than two weeks late you have to have a funeral for the menstral discharge.  So much for accepting settled law.  In the future I"ll have to do a whole profile on this entire upcoming Administration.   This will by far be the wealthiest administration in US history because just one member of it is ten times wealthier than the entire Bush W administration.  So much for having people in touch with the common people.  

Trump has a Goldman Sachs guy as secretary of the Treasury, which flatly contradicts what he said he’d do in the campaign.  Instead of draining the swamp he’s re-stocking it with fresh crocodiles.  He has far right appointments as Secretary of Commercy and Ben Carson missed out on Health and Human services.  Trump’s administration will be taking on a strongly pro energy development meaning pro pollution.   OPEC may be playing into Trump’s hands by jacking up oil prices so that domestic producers will get more for their product when it comes on line without flooding the market.  It will make additional exploration profitable. 

President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday morning that he will leave his “great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country” in the White House.  But his cryptic announcement, delivered in an early-morning Twitter flurry, is already stoking doubt among ethics experts, who fear the Manhattan mogul may be unwilling to follow past precedent to assure Americans that he won’t mingle business with governing as president.  “I will be holding a major news conference in New York City with my children on December 15 to discuss the fact that I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote.  In subsequent tweets, however, Trump signaled that his concerns are more political than substantive, writing: “While I am not mandated to do this under the law, I feel it is visually important, as president, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses.”  “Hence, legal documents are being crafted which take me completely out of business operations. The presidency is a far more important task!” he continued.  Trump promised throughout the presidential campaign to hand over control of his business empire to his adult children if he were to win the White House, but that has done little to assuage widespread concern that he could use his Oval Office perch to benefit his personal bottom line — or that decisions he makes as president could come at the expense of the national interest.  Norm Eisen, the former top White House ethics lawyer for President Barack Obama, said Trump’s Wednesday announcement raises more questions for him about the stakes of the new arrangement and continues to leave open the   “Although it is, of course, important that he have no involvement in Trump business operations, in order to avoid conflicts, he must also exit the ownership of his businesses through using a blind trust or equivalent. Otherwise, he will have a personal financial interest in his businesses that will sometimes conflict with the public interest, and constantly raise questions,” Eisen said in an email.   Candidates have historically pledged to place their assets into a blind trust should they win the presidency, but Trump’s plan to hand control to his children would fall short of that threshold. He did not clarify in Wednesday morning's announcement what, if any, other steps he would take to ensure that no conflicts of interest would occur.