Monday, July 13, 2020

Waiting for President Trump to make his Exit


So the question on this July 13, 2020 is will we see Trump kicked out of office in just under four months?  It will be something we’ve waited four long years for as all;of us get a little older and a little more infirm.  Some of us don’t have that many years left.  In our old  age we would again like to see a democratic President. Roger Stone sentence was commuted to time served.  Trump thinks it's macho to throw his executive power around and pardon people left and right, who don't desserve it.  It's a regular feature of his administration.  Someone said Trump’s approval rating  was down to 26 percent.  Nobody trusts him or believes anything  he says on the Corona virus.  Now Trump wants to see all of the schools open next month at a time when all of the health officials are saying that would be a bad idea.  Randy Rhodes thinks it’s a bad idea.  You have John Boulton’s book and I don’t know what happened to it.  I thought it was finally supposed to be released.  That’s what a court ruling said.  It was kind of a veiled threat though.  Now there is a court ruling that Trump has to turn over his financial records.  His Republican court made that ruling. There is a god afterall.  Then you have the book by Trump’s niece with a medical degree saying Trump; is psychologically unstable and has a messed up family and has a narcististic personality.  This is stuff we all knew but it’s nice to have it reinforced.  In particular Trump had an abnormal relation with his father, Fred.  We can’t  bring back the impeachment hearings but we can have a littlehope that impeachment will be on people’s minds when they vote in November.  I hope they get to vote.  I’m not sure of the ramifications of an all mail-in ballot.  Will Trum;p issue an executive order to stop voting by mail?  These are all questions on our mind.  In more local news this has been a hot July, above normal.  We get a heatwave for a week and then we get a one or two day respite where it’s normal and then it’s hot for another week.  All this heat makes you tired and sluggish and I’m not writing that much to begin with. 

Saturday, July 11, 2020

When Does All the Sports Arrive?


It’s July 11th and we’re supposed to have the return of all of the sports this month such as baseball, basketball, and hockey.   You’re starting to get a little horse racing.  But so many things like the Boston Marathon were postponed till September thinking that would be a really safe date and it isn’t.  No date is safe now.  I hope the new stuff isn’t on channel seven because that quite coming in fifteen days ago suddenly one evening.   But it seems we should be flooded with all of these sans audience sports TV events soon.  I guess it must all be at the end of the month.  Political activity should start up next month if not this month hopefully.  The Presidential campaign has been on hold since March.  School is on the agenda but only to say that “the experts” say we shouldn’t have it now because it’s too risky. There are too many nay sayers out there.  That’s about all anybody can think about now is the latest Corona virus news.  What states have exploding rates and which states such as Texas are re-imposing new restrictions to mess up our day.   The United States still by far leads the world in COVID 19 cases. 


In my personal life I think I'm addicted to Ativan.   I take it just to feel what used to pass for normal before and when I skip a day I'm a wreck.  Something is wrong with my nervous system.  In other news I attend Brother Bart's Bible study not because I'm so pious.  It's more of just an insurance policy against something horrible happening in my life.  But in doing this I am not really a Christian because it says we're supposed to LOVE God with all of our heart, soul and mind.  We're supposed to  rejoyce in the Lord always.  Not just bear with God or try to negotiate a treaty but actively embrace him and want the things that He wants.  We're supposed to love the things that he loves and hate the things that he hates.  And if the Christian population is all for Donald Trump for president then I'm supposed to embrace that, too.  Finally,  there is no news about when they are going to lift the quarantine around here.  It's been in place since March 16th and that's nearly four months, and there is a rumor it might be for another three, till at least October first.  I certainly hope not.  Glen said we'd get out when Disneyland opened.  That hasn't happened yet.