Norman Goldman was
musing about whether the 25th Amendment of the Constitution would
ever come into play with President Trump.
So many people say he’s a classic sociopath, which is maybe a “condition”
if not an actual psychiatric illness. He
is driven by the guiding principle of “When I want something I go out and take
it with total disregard to either the rights or the wants of his
neighbors. Of course this is what so
many of the very wealthy are like. The
say it would work is the 25th Amendment provides a body to be
legislated into existence by congress and this body could send a letter to the
leaders of the House and Senate saying that the President is incompetent to
exercise his duties of the office of President and must by law step down. Presumably this would be “until such time as
the President is again able to assume the duties of the office”. We’ve all heard of this deal struck where
Vice President Mike Pence would actually be running the day to day affairs of
the country anyhow. If this sounds like
some desperate ploy of us liberals perhaps it is. We’re desperate all right. We had thoughts of somehow influencing the
Electoral College and those plans fell flat on their face.
When one watches Donald Trump's convention speech one sees the fascist appeal of it continually speaking of public danger and how he will be our protector. He says "That's government's job to protect the public from all of these dark threats looming everywhere. Next is the promise of a fantastic future. Trump thinks he's already president the way he announces the saving of all these US jobs. But we neglect to see the downside of Trump's message at our peril. We all know what the Republican rich want is a cleptocracy. They want to steal from the poor and give to the rich. Ronald Reagan's "great tax reform bill" of 1986, the one they are most proud of, takes from the working class and gives to the rich. The substitute for Thom Hartman today was mentioning medicare. And we know the Republicans didn't really "choose" Donald Trump. They chose Paul Ryan and they did that in the fall of 2015. And they liked and chose Paul Ryan because Ryan wants to dismantle not just Obamacare but even more importantly Medicare. That's a pool of potential insurance money they can't wait to get their hands on. Many of these Republicans are so indebted and loyal to corporations they forget who they are working for and who voted them- - technically into office. Their tenure of government service is merely an apprenticeship to what they really want to do and that is to be lobbyists. They want to abolish Social Security because all that money could be better invested with stock brokers and Wall Street insiders and manipulators. Charles Linburgh in an interview once said the Federal Reserve wields more power than any set of human beings should ever be trusted with in our constitutional form of government. They have the power to make the economy crash at will and they could do it right now if they wanted to. The talk show host said that Social Security is 99% efficient in handling our FICA payments and 99% of that money comes back to the people who paid into it. (and often much more than that) No private insurance company is thatr efficient with their funds and the same goes for Wall Street banksters. They want to weaken medicare by stripping out the upcoming base of the young which will be coming up. If you get rid of future payers then even if the payments are preserved for those over 55 or whatever, then the system is doomed. Liberals want to do just the opposite. They want to expand medicare to move the age younger and younger so that we eventually have single payer, which is the most efficient system.
Now we hear that Debby Reynolds, mother of Carrie Fisher- - passed away today one day after her daughter passed away. When has such a mother-daughter double death occurred like this? But I don't agree that Carrie Fisher "needed to lose weight" to play the part of Princess Leah. I've seen photos of Princess Leah where she appears almost anerexic. Apparently the part of Princess Leah was a pioneer role for aspiring young females. Of course Captain Kathryn Janeway was a macho woman who was fully in control of the ship she captained on Deep Space 9.
When one watches Donald Trump's convention speech one sees the fascist appeal of it continually speaking of public danger and how he will be our protector. He says "That's government's job to protect the public from all of these dark threats looming everywhere. Next is the promise of a fantastic future. Trump thinks he's already president the way he announces the saving of all these US jobs. But we neglect to see the downside of Trump's message at our peril. We all know what the Republican rich want is a cleptocracy. They want to steal from the poor and give to the rich. Ronald Reagan's "great tax reform bill" of 1986, the one they are most proud of, takes from the working class and gives to the rich. The substitute for Thom Hartman today was mentioning medicare. And we know the Republicans didn't really "choose" Donald Trump. They chose Paul Ryan and they did that in the fall of 2015. And they liked and chose Paul Ryan because Ryan wants to dismantle not just Obamacare but even more importantly Medicare. That's a pool of potential insurance money they can't wait to get their hands on. Many of these Republicans are so indebted and loyal to corporations they forget who they are working for and who voted them- - technically into office. Their tenure of government service is merely an apprenticeship to what they really want to do and that is to be lobbyists. They want to abolish Social Security because all that money could be better invested with stock brokers and Wall Street insiders and manipulators. Charles Linburgh in an interview once said the Federal Reserve wields more power than any set of human beings should ever be trusted with in our constitutional form of government. They have the power to make the economy crash at will and they could do it right now if they wanted to. The talk show host said that Social Security is 99% efficient in handling our FICA payments and 99% of that money comes back to the people who paid into it. (and often much more than that) No private insurance company is thatr efficient with their funds and the same goes for Wall Street banksters. They want to weaken medicare by stripping out the upcoming base of the young which will be coming up. If you get rid of future payers then even if the payments are preserved for those over 55 or whatever, then the system is doomed. Liberals want to do just the opposite. They want to expand medicare to move the age younger and younger so that we eventually have single payer, which is the most efficient system.
Now we hear that Debby Reynolds, mother of Carrie Fisher- - passed away today one day after her daughter passed away. When has such a mother-daughter double death occurred like this? But I don't agree that Carrie Fisher "needed to lose weight" to play the part of Princess Leah. I've seen photos of Princess Leah where she appears almost anerexic. Apparently the part of Princess Leah was a pioneer role for aspiring young females. Of course Captain Kathryn Janeway was a macho woman who was fully in control of the ship she captained on Deep Space 9.
ONE TACO SHORT OF A COMBO PLATE revised & released December 29th 2016
The Red and the Black (Tyranies and Mutations)
Behind the Locked Door (All Things Must Pass)
Scared (Walls and Bridges) John Lennon
Poor Little Girl (The Best of Dark Horse 1976 – 1989)
Cooking In the Kitchen of Love (“Ringo” album out-take)
- - - - - Side 2 - - - - -
Michael Moore Movie Excerpt (edited) less than 5 min This interview was aired on a - - - - - - - - recent issue of the -“Democracy Now” program.
Love You Till Tuesday (David Bowie)
Protests All Over the World (audio excerpts) 2:22
Ain’t It So Like Candy (Elvis Costello and Paul Mc Cartney)
Fridays with John Fugelsang (telephone call on SM show) Nov 11th 2016 4:27
FX (Black Sabbath) demonic rappings
One Taco Short of a Combo (Trump’s Convention Speech excerpt) 10:10 edited
The front photo of the latest Sirius A album- - out in vinyl and CD- - is of a “Tacoria” taco place and there is one line (to the left) with the lead customer being handed a combo plate and there is a line to the right where the customer still hasn’t been served. Hillary is standing between these two lines eating a taco. The title “One Taco Short of a Combo” refers not to Donald Trump’s mental state but rather that Hillary was “Eating” Sander’s votes- - votes which Bernie Sanders would have gotten for President on Tuesday. On the bottom of the back of the album are the popular vote tallies from 2016 and 2012. It so happens that Romney got more votes than did Trump. Romney got sixty million votes and Trump got not quite sixty thousand votes being high in the 59’s. The rest of the back is kind of an off white background with the album contents listed in fairly big letters.
The preceding was transcribed from November. If anyone on this planet at least is going to listen to the “One Taco Short” album of ours from November we’re going to have to change the last track. And so we have settled on something and it happens to work out exactly right time-wise. This is a portion of Donald Trump’s convention speech. It’s the portion from 4:00 to 14:30. Here are the topics he covers. First there is an extended bit on “safety in the streets” and then Trump goes on to talk about Immigration. Then he speaks of the economy and minority unemployment. Then he covers the horrible treaty he says we made with Iran on nuclear diarmlement. Finally he speaks of the “red line in the sand” drew in Syria and Trumps “And we know that meant absolutely nothing”. It’s amazing how close the time is. We had twenty seconds of cheering by the partisan crowd to work with. To edit out.
In other items, Elizabeth doesn’t me wearing my red jacket into the dining room because she and Federico say it’s too dirty. Are they saying that I’m dirtier than anyone else here? It also happens to be my warmest jacket. My readership numbers in my blogs still aren’t what they ought to be. I have Norman Goldman on right now. Ron has really been generous with the cigarettes and just now I got one from Paul. I went for refreshments from Rico in the courtyard and had two cups of lemonade.
I guess I have a
resolution or two I want to make this year.
I would like to be more spontaneous and generous both materially but emotionally
than I have tended to be. It is also my
goal to quit smoking as of January first.
Of course if rumor has it right, the hike in tobacco taxes won’t take
place till April first. That would give
me three months but I don’t need that much time to stall in my resolve. The sooner I quit the better. I have only one day to go before I get paid
and people have been generous with their white cigarettes. This includes Ron, Glenda, and Bill. I appreciate that. But I would also like to be more organized. I really should clean out the dresser because
it’s too stuffed with clothes I don’t wear.
I’ll probably be getting more clothes to put in it. But I’d also like to provide a better
organized front to my blog readers. I
guess if I always spelled names correctly and spoke in perfect grammar maybe I
would gain a little more respectability, even if it’s self respectability. I also desperately need to organize topics
into an appropriate blog. This is a hell
of a lot easier said than done. The least
I could do is to provide links like Washington’s blog does to ease the learning
curve for my readers, if they happen not to be familiar with the background on
something. I’ll give an example. This spiral staircase thing. The conception was that they were twelve by
thirteen by five triangles and each succeeding one was about 22 degrees to the
right of the previous one and it would be 13/12th larger than the
previous one. I came up with those
numbers a long time ago. If people have
a problem with the words I use I realize they need certain terms defined better
and links would help here.
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