Garden Variety Stagnation

President Trump has said as of Friday night that he will not raise tariffs on goods from Mexico.  I know it wasn’t covered on the ABC news.  I’m surprised they could get a deal through with the president back only one day.  Mexico agreed to station six thousand troops at the Guatamala border to keep out migrants.  Also there was something about making applicants for asylum to wait it out in other countries.   The president is probably up in the polls after making a few well scripted speeches in France without falling all over himself.  In terms of impeachment the word still is that whenever Nancy Pelosi wants it we’ll get it.  But Nancy is trying to walk the fence being a bit more strident against Trump since the Muller Report.  Of course impeachment hurt Clinton because Gore in the 2000 campaign had to distance himself from this popular president out of a sense of morality and this helped to give the election to George Bush.  But also in this chicken and egg scenario, “No president should be criminally charged for deeds done as president”.  This is a meme that is circulating around.  This is why all the aids in Iran-Contra were pardoned by Bush.  So we’re stuck, and if we continue “stuck” in this mode, Trump may get reelected.  I don’t know if I mentioned it but in 2016 Trump took out an ad in the New York Times saying that the Central Park Five were guilty of those rapes even after they were cleared through DNA evidence.  That’s how Trump works.  He plays to his base thinking that it’s better to be strong and wrong rather than weak and right.  

This paragraph contains three silly stories.  As you know that Rapters player was shoved into the stands by a Warriors investor on Wednesday night.  Not only was he ejected from the game and the series, but he was barred from attending any NBA games for the entire next season, plus he was fined a half a million dollars.  The decision of the NBA is final and it was arrived at within hours and there is no Court he can appeal to.  If a player had shoved a visitor into the stands the visitor could not sure for a half a million and get it.  I guess it all comes down to the Neil Savedra principle.  It isn’t the offence but who you offend, and if you “offend” an NBA player it’s like offending God or something.  They want to bulldoze Columbine High School because there are too many looky-loos “slow driving” by because of the murders committed there twenty years ago.  If you’re wondering about where they’ll get the money for a new facility, they don’t have any funds in reserve.  They’ll have to raise taxes to pay for it.  As you know proposition EE here in LA failed, failing to win a two-thirds majority of the voters required to raise property taxes.  I tell the people of Columbine to just “deal with it”   Don’t give me this stuff about “unhealthy morbid fascination”.  It’s been twenty years already.  It’s not as if the murders happened yesterday.   Finally we have a woman who was murdered right in front of TV cameras.  Now the guy is claiming that he is innocent because he or his attorneys say that the cops gave him Heroin, “to make him easier to arrest”.   This is the silliest explanation for a cold blooded murder I’ve seen and I hope the guy is swiftly sentenced to a life term. 

This is Sunday June 9, 2019, the day ABC rearranges their evening program schedule.  This file said “read only” again when I first booted it.  I wonder what causes that.  Today is basically the first day of summer.  It’s physically hot.  Someone in New Brunswick said it was getting “a little hot” at 25 degrees C.  It’s hotter than that here.  Most likely it’s going to stay hot all the way through October at this point, though they did say there would be a cooling later in the week.  There was a fire near Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor and they had to close both of them down.   In the news they say there are two different types of sun screens.  I didn’t know that.  There are physical sun screens like zinc oxide and other minerals that sit on top of the skin and block it that way.  There are “chemical” sun screens that soak into the skin.  These are not as safe and work entirely differently with molecular action.  I just went to the store before two and got strawberry cigarettes and a 12 oz can of Coke.  Steve was in there.  There is that thirty inch slice of shade on the back bench.  Shade is at a premium this time of year.  

I woke tired.  It was four twenty and I got up at ten to five and I knew that half hour would not provide me enough sleep.  But then after I got up I was predictably hyper.  I didn’t shower but I did make instant coffee.  I haven’t seen the cat today.  I lay down and tried to get some rest.  I turned on Joel Olsteen in the last few minutes.  Joel says that as you progress to higher and higher levels of spiritual, you get bigger and bigger devils.  To an extent, I doubt this.  How do I battle the feeling like I could use a drink first thing in the morning?  We had corn flakes for breakfast.  Patty was not there for either breakfast or lunch.  We had two round waffles and syrup and butter.  They came around with more syrup.  One coffee was enough.  I watched “This Week” because channel four had tennis.  I listened to Breakfast with the Beatles.  Today they alternated songs of one with each Beatle.  I didn’t go for either morning or afternoon snacks.  For lunch we had chili on a plate with corn bread.  We had rice krispie things for dessert like Mom used to make.  When I returned they had on a guest who played John Lennon facing off with Brian Epstein in August of 1966 on the whole “The Beatles are bigger than God” comment.  Brian was uptight and John just told of all the pills he had access to that could remedy that.  John was only concerned because the rock magazines said that he was fat.  He didn’t share Brian’s many concerns. Then I had on Leo Le Port.  There was a caller with a twelve year old son.  And Leo recommended that he be given two cheap specialized machines rather than one big, expensive machine.  Get an X box and a Google Notebook and his bases will be covered.  I hope I can save this without giving the machine “read only” hysterics.  

We're substituting "Psychedelic Shack" by the Temptations instead of a song we kicked off "Chaos and Creation" from a month ago in "Marcus in Exile" because that song was found on "Analog Ghost Chatter".