One Wasted Week

Most of this blog post was done about five or six days ago.  It's been a wasted week.  The only news has been that Trump isn't going to bomb Iran for the drone downing.  Now we have the news that the president isn't doing to do mass deportations this weekend.  We are in the summer doldrums.  There is no more ice hockey or basketball.  It's too early for the All Stars or the Tour de France.  We have to wait another six weeks or so for pre season football.  All of the TV programs are in rerun, except of course for those programs that have gone completely off the air.. 

In the evening it was Sixty Minutes.  They now have a procedure on Sixty Minutes they can do to eliminate symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.  You anesthatize the ganglia in the neck and it shuts down that portion of the brain that controls anxiety and fight of flight sindrone.  It’s a major break-through but only a few hospitals do the procedure which takes only five to fifteen minutes and the effect on the patient is immediate.  They say it’s better than either marijuana or alcohol.  Still the people they interviewed didn’t look entirely relaxed.  Then they had a thing on drug addiction in West Virginia, which is eight times the national average.   I went down and got my medication.  Then it was a rerun on the Game of Thrones.  We now know how violent that show is and how women are routinely depicted in degrading ways, but the actresses who play those women don’t seem to mind it.  The whole thing with George Stephenopolis was a one hour long campaign commercial for President Trump.  It was skillfully edited to put Trump in the best light.  He called Biden low IQ but wasn’t questioned about why he calls him this.  He says outrageous stuff and it’s just accepted as fact.  After a whole Stephenopolis got tired of even disputing anything President Trump said.  They had Trump walking the column of the White House and occasionally he’d say something presidential.  But overall I’d give the report an F because it was so lacking in substance.   Two questions seem to have been edited out.  The one was “Are you saying that is you’re the President what you do is not against the law?” the way Nixon did.  No answer.  Then the question of “You are the president and have a great deal of power yet you seem to get in endless petty conflicts with people and you are continually pushing at them and being combative”.   At nine I went out and Bill had changed it to channel two and we watched whatever that was.  After a while I lowered the volume and went to bed.  

.  Yesterday I was thinking of doing a paragraph on “25 Years of a Dystopian Future”.  That’s what it is these past 25 years since June of 1994.  This is the year the Republicans changed history by for the first time in forty years elected a republican house.  People in the milenial generation have never known anything but an almost continuing Republican tyranny over the legislative process where no positive things ever get passed.  Just in case they are wondering, “this is not normal”.   There was a Jeopardy question the other night where the answer was “Dept of Homeland Security”, a department we never used to have.  Jesus said “all these things are like the first pains of childbirth”.  I wonder if the “baby” is the anti-christ and that the antichrist is President Trump and only now are we ready for the climactic birth pangs where President Trump announces a full blown fascist state.   Back in June of 1994 Rock and Roll as we know it was not yet dead, but getting close.  Before Jerry Garcia died they regularly had the Dead Head hour.  Jerry Garcia died in the summer of 1995 and Rock at that point was very close to meeting its mortality.  In terms of the 25 year count-down to where we are today the first acts of the republican congress were the defense of marriage act, which I thought at the time was unconstitutional and I don't think the supreme court ever ruled on it.  It was put in place so you could continue to descriminate on your income tax forms between married people and gay couples.  Then there was the communacations act of 1996 where the whole TV industry as we know it was "liberated" from any government regulations as to serving the public as a prerequisite to having your license extended for another four years.  This was a continuation of the Reagan ruling of 1987 only worse.  Finally there was "the end of welfare as we know it" and I guess we have survived with this one OK.  Then later on in the decade was all of that stocks and securities de-regulation that set up the whole economic crash of 2008.  Do you get the picture?  So even in the nineties we had danger signals that only continued and got worse. 

The rock compilation of ours "Further Below the Radar Screen" came out in its present form December of 2016 and I think it's in the Ten Commandments blog, and I checked it so all you have to do is click that and go to December of 2016.  I may copy it here so you can look at it and get You Tube references from it, if I'm not too lazy.  Basically I don't think we will be doing any new rock compilations at this point.  I just need to induce you people one way or another to look at the old ones dating back to the spring of 2006.