Are The Walls Really Closing In On Trump?

 “Meet the Press” was a little wordy with their announcements this week but I found their guests to be rather lacking in substance.  They all appeared to be stone-walling.   It would seem that Michael Flynn will be indicted very soon by Muller. Let me just say this.  My concern is that President Trump hasn’t really felt the walls moving in on him yet.  He’s going through his daily routine of travel to foreign countries like an extended vacation show package of “The Price is Right” and hasn’t really had to worry about investigators really going after him personally.  And as long as he personally doesn’t feel threatened he can continue to lie and all of his staff can continue to deny and lie just the way they have been doing.  I hope KNBC’s announcement just before eight that Michael Flynn is being indicted, and his son, too, but that won’t stop Shawn Hannity crying “fake news”.  From the point of a non political viewer one could look at it as just a pipe dream fantasy of the liberal media that the Republican party is in disarray and directionless.  I hope the tax cut doesn’t get passed.  But maybe Republicans fron New York and California will vote against their own voters’ interest in the name of party unity or something.  And as to the matter of Bernie Sanders being sabotaged, we on the left have to be carefully we don’t fall prey to Russian propaganda just like Shawn Hannity apparently has, that the democratic party as an organization is hopelessly riddled with corruption. 

 Today is Sunday November 5, 2017 and it’s Guy Fawks Day.  I don’t remember who Guy Fawks was but I knew once.  It’s the day John Lennon wants us to “Remember”.   Today is also national donut day.  The donut, it seems, was invented in 1847, which means during a lull in battle during the Civil War the troops could have gone to the local donut shop.  I wonder what Alice Horton’s deep fryer would sell for at auction.  They want us to know high tide is at 9:11, which means it was probably around 9:11 yesterday too.  Of course high tide around here comes when the moon is just a little above the horizon or just a little below the horizon.  Thusly low tide comes when the moon is a little past the meridian.  We learned from CSI Miami last night that elevators are braked by electro-magnets.  Now you know.  I wonder why cell phones don’t all go kablui when you enter an elevator.  It’s Kelly Clarkson’s fifteenth anniversary of being the first star to win on American Idol.  It wasn’t long afterwards she had her first number one single.  Some people say “Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”, but don’t tell that to a person who’s just had a heart attack.  For that matter, if that saying were true then all the smoking I’m refusing to quit doing is actually making me stronger.  The saying isn’t realistic.  But it sells.  We learned yesterday that Mary Wells was going to be teamed up with Marvyn Gaye for a duo, of which Marvyn Gaye is famous.  But then Mary Wells quit Mo-town all together.  The problem is if you take the word of dead people- - Mary Wells quit Mo-town because they had put her on the shelf and Mo-town ruined her recording carrier in favor of Dianna Ross.  By the way I didn’t near any songs by the Supremes yesterday afternoon.  Maybe I was just out of the room.  And then we have that country and western woman singer who protested the Glen Canyon dam back in the ‘fifties during the Eisenhour administration.  It ruined the natural beauty. 

The book of Eccliastes says “When you die, the soul goes back to God, who gave it”.  It also says “As a dog dies - so dies a man”.  To me this means that pets have the same status as human beings.  They too are creations of God and not from some (ungodly) “Animal Plane” as Chuck Smith maintains that they are.   The Mormons teach that existence comes in three “Acts”.  First there is your pre-life.  Then you are incarnated in your fleshly life here, where you lose your memory of what went before.  Then in act three after you die your former memory is restored to you”.   Ruth Montgomery also teaches this life as a “learning experience”.  I guess why I am asking myself these questions now is that for most people their certainty of an After Life increases as they get closer to death.  For me in the past twenty years or so I have become increasingly uncertain about what happens in the afterlife, so I need to know.  But what does the phrase “back to God” mean.  Some see God as the “collective unconscious”.  But in this case it is we who are “unconscious” or not conscious- - of what is going in the minds of either God or the dearly departed.  George Harrison is a spiritual man.  I wonder what he believes.  The thought hit me that we’d have all these good friends on “the other side” who would be cheering us on in our pursuits here on Planet Earth, and naturally we would not want to let them down.  (Selah)

The albums listed on the back of the latest compilation are “Honkey Tonk No 9” “One Taco Short of a Combo” (final version) “Trail Mix” (final version) “John Lennon Twin Spin”,  “The Year of the Rooster”, “One Person Plus The Truth”,  “Relics From a Different Age” (final version) “It’s A Lover’s Question” (final version), “Keys to the Kingdom”, “Coda”, and “The Final Bricks in the Wall”.  This makes eleven.  The upper left is the blank square patterned after the “Yesterday and Today” album saying “Enjoy these other Albums”.  It’s twelve squares in two rows of six.  It would be too many pictures (just too small for a CD) if we included the four from the past few months.  But just for your own curiosity these are “Eights and Aces”, “Never a Dull Moment”, “Predators”, and “Kicking the Bar Over”. 

 I caught Rhapsody in Black and they did fall of 1964, a year they do very little of.  The songs I recognize were “Duel Efficiency” (?) “Going Out Of My Head” by Little Anthony, “Needle in a Haystack”, “Opportunity Won” (?), “Dancing in the Streets”, “Out of Sight” by James Brown, “Bread and Butter” by the Newbeats, and ‘La – La – La – La – La” and I don’t know the group but it was popular in August of 1964.  (I recorded it)