In
1980 President Jimmy Carter put sanctions on wheat to Russia because they
invaded Afghanistan. The Republicans
were against both this and the boycotting of the Moscow Olympics. So in this current day and age we find
President Obama getting tough with Russia yesterday and it isn’t going over
very well in the Trump administration.
President Trump is just going to undo whatever sanctions President Obama
slapped on Russia yesterday. The
President also kicked out three dozen diplomats and other people. Now there is talk that Putin will take
reprisals on the Americans for what the President did yesterday. He can’t win for losing. The latest news is that Putin won’t deport US
diplomats from Russia. He is doing this
to cultivate good relations with President elect Trump. It’s as though Trump’s already
president. He makes these deals with
companies to keep jobs and is taking credit because the stock market is up ten
percent since his election. And as we
have said before- - every glimmer of hope gets crushed by reality. I don’t know about this three hour window the
democrats have to confirm Justice Meric Garland to the High Court. Thom Hartman says “If it were the Republicans
they wouldn’t think twice about doing it, but the democrats aren’t that
smart. It’s legal to do but the
democrats won’t do it”. The next “ray
of hope” will be that is Trump’s ascension to office will be marred by scads of
protests all over the country and that somehow “this time” the media will cover
it, when we know from experience they don’t cover protests except to give them
bad press. We are going to hear the
media saying nothing but nice things about President Trump when he is
inaugurated.
I’m
going to check Washington’s blog right now.
Here it goes. After coming under
attack, the alternative media successfully appropriated and
reassigned the now ubiquitous term “fake news” to a variety of disingenuous
mainstream media outlets. The corporate media is not too happy
about this, and it’s doing what it does best (aside from cheerleading for war);
it’s whining about it to its readers.
Nothing more perfectly highlights the mainstream media’s
instinctual response to complain than an article published on Christmas
Day in The New York Times,
which reinvents history by claiming alternative media is to blame for
turning “fake news” into an overly expansive and thus meaningless term. Once again the ones telling the truth are
the ones criticized. Don't dare accuse so called left wing news outlets of being the perveyors of "fake news". Don't call the concencus of seven intelligence agencies about Russia and the CIA as being "fake news". Don't accuse 97% of the world's scientists who believe Global Warming is a reality-- don't accuse them of fake news. And I still say that Trump's mental state is at least questionable. And others on the right used to agree with me. But Trump has cast a spell over them all now so that people that formerly said horrible things about him now march in lock step behind him.
“Trail
Mix” is another of our albums that have been hyped by the Federation these past
few days. This is unchanged on content
from the original of April 20th 2015. There are only about two overlaps. These are “One of Nature’s Children”
overlapping with that Marcus’s Picks album just released, and also “What’s
Going On” by Marvyn Gaye from “Soul Train” of whatever it’s called from May of
2006. In terms of “The Best of the
Middle” this one has been dropped everywhere except as a Romulan import, and
the title has been changed to “He Didn’t Notice that the Lights had Changed”. The album is selling well on Regelus V. Today is December 30, 2016 and we have
rain. Stephanie Miller was once again in
reruns, and so was in reruns the entire week.
Thom Hartman is just coming on.
The Republicans are now touting the “Replace” portion of “Repeal and
Replace” as “Universal Access”. It’s
like you have the right to buy a Mazeratti but don’t hang around the dealership
too long without being prepared to talk seriously about forking over a little mullah
and buying a car. The Republicans have a
two part adage of “Number one: Don’t get sick.”
And number two is. “And if you do get sick die quickly”. There is a persistent rumor that once Trump
becomes president the government is going to destroy the vast amount of work
they’d done in global warming research.
Now they are scrambling to preserve as much of that data as they
can. Of course they already have a
statute that the government can’t keep information on the physical and mental
damage done by the polifferation of firearms.
Their adage seems to be “See no evil, hear no evil, say no evil’ like
the three not-so-wise monkeys. Thom
Hartman speaks of danger signals the economy has been sending out as of late
that we are about to enter another recession.
Mortgage rates have already begun to climb significantly. We have rain this morning. We’ve had four inches before this latest storm
in the month of December and it’s the most sustained rain period we’d have
since 2010 – 2011 turn of the year. And
this comports with my memories. One good
thing is that this lame duck congress never got around to passing the Trans
Pacific Partnership. Good.
One idea definitely
presents itself. The first two pieces on
the Best of Mc Cartney 2 CD album of late June of 2014 has two songs that aren’t
from the solo record era. The obvious
solution is to put MUMBO and I CAN SEE THE WORLD TONIGHT by way of substitution
for the first two tracks. So far the
powers that be haven’t given thumbs up on it.
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