Definitely a Bad Week for President Trump

. Up to now the National Enquirer has been Trump's chief ally shielding him from the spreading of negative stories with its "catch and kill" philosophy.  This guy named Pecker (of all things) from the National Enquiror has flipped on Trump.  He had turned against his old friend and associate.   Pecker has been given immunity by the Justice Dept so he won’t be charged with anything and is free to talk with Muller and others with no fear of legal ramifications or giving up his fifth amendment rights.   This is a bad week for Trump because also another guy named “Boot” has come out with anti Trump statements.  Of course Mc Dugal and Stormy Daniels were both women that Trump was sexually involved with.  Now Pecker has volunteered to open up a whole vault of articles that have been “Caught and killed” the way the National Enquiror deals with Trump’s enemies, because they are so close.  Trump’s response to all of this is “such flipping of witnesses ought to be against the law”.  He thinks like a mafia Don and also has said that Manifort wasn’t a “Rat” the way that John Dean was.   Of course “You dirty rat!” was a tag line of James Cagney.   If Trump has another week like this one he might be out of office sooner than anybody thinks.  However Laurance and I both agree that impeachment will occur before Trump ever resigns.  Trump is impervious to all construct criticism.  Whatever happens next week- - the President will find an even farther out rationalization for it.

John Mc Cain may have less than a week to live according to the latest news stories.  The family says that Mc Cain has requested that all treatment for his agressive brain cancer be stopped and due to his age of 81 they now say he may not make it to his 82nd birthday just next week. 

Molly Tibit was killed while jogging on July 18^th in Iowa by an illegal alien.  They tracked him down with surveillance and then they nabbed him and he confessed to killing the twenty year old.  The other big murder is the father who killed his wife and three and four year old daughters.  He strangled all three of them in Colorado.  The father later came up with the story that he saw his wife strangling one daughter and the other lay already dead so in a rage he strangled her.  He dumped all three bodies in an oil drum.  This is such a fiendish, cold-blooded murder kind of like the Andrea Yates case.  He should get the death penalty.

Trump’s attorney Koehn, called “the fixer” pled guilty to a bunch of crimes to make a deal with the prosecution to avoid worse sentences.  He turned against his undying and often professed loyalty to President Trump and now Trump is calling him names.  He plans to talk to special prosecutor, Muller.  Meanwhile Bob Manifort was found guilty by a jury mid day yesterday on eight out of eighteen charges.  There were five tax evasion charges and one bank fraud charge and two bank loan charges.  The prosecution counts it as a victory and he could easily get thirty years for his crimes and also likely spend the rest of his life in jail. They had a news flash during “Days of our Lives”.  This case was a major test run for Muller.   

On “Days of our Lives” you saw Will remember his entire life and how much he loved and was loved by all his friends and relatives.  Christine Di Mira came back from the dead disguised as Susan.  She had a gun trained on Marlena and Samantha had a gun trained on her.  All she has to do is pull the trigger, but then she won’t find out if E J is really alive as Christine claims.  It’s like not even after all these decades can John and Marlena be free of jinxes.

President Trump Is Almost a Dictator Now

President Trump wasn’t to be a dictator and yesterday took another giant step toward becoming one.  He took away ex CIA director John Brennon’s security clearance away so he can’t view classified information any more.  Brennon was CIA director during the capture of Bin Laden in May of 2011.   James Clapper and Jim Comey are part of a long list read off at the WH press conference including Susan Rice and others from the Obama administration.  None of these people had broken the law or in any way abused their trust.  The WH press secretary said that Clapper and Comey and Brennon have been making “eratic statements” that threaten national security”.  This is a classic case of projection.  It’s just a power play for Trump.  As John Brennon said in a recent TV talk show Trump’s goal is to styfle free speech and stir up divisiveness in America.  Trump thrives on things like racial conduct.   Omerosa or however you spell her name- - is still in the news but not even the main-stream media trusts her.  I haven’theard how well her book is selling.   The Manifort trial is going to the jury today, this morning.   They quoted liberally from the prosecution and defense summation statements this morning.  The defense put all of the blame on Gates.  Of course Manifort and the defense restedwithout putting on a single witness and Manifort himself didn’t testify.  The jury should be reminded (as in Travon Martin) that attorney’s arguments are not testimony.  Selah. 

.  This is Thursday August 16, 2018 and I didn’t type yesterday.  Aritha Franklin died this morning or maybe last night.  I think she was 76.  The family had previously stated that she was “gravely ill” and asked for our prayers, but they wanted their privacy.  She died of pancreatic cancer, and you know how serious that is. Aritha Franklin was from Detroit and a life long resident, apparently, and the daughter of a gospel preacher.  She was the Queen of Soul.  There are either five or maybe six songs included from her on my “all time hits of Rock”.  “Respect” in the spring of 1967 was the first time where “Sock it to me” was sung in repetitive fashion.  I learned the news while eating breakfast in the dining room.  She changed her appearance a lot over the years.

In a belated story there was an altercation at a store parking lot involving parking in a handicapped place.  The white guy complained to the Black guy about and the Black guy knocked him down and the white guy responded by shooting him dead.  Originally this was seen as Florida’s “stand your ground” law.  But then they looked into this white guy’s history and they decided to charge him with manslaughter and Black groups were happy about it.  This case isn’t as black and white as Trayvon Martin was, so maybe they’re evolving for the better.  I think the public has had enough of these white on black shootings.  

Alvin told me at a quarter after eight that we had to leave at eight thirty for the dentist.  I had to shuffle stuff around getting ready for the room cleaning.  Fortunately I had already brushed my teeth.  I got there at a quarter to nine and had a cigarette.  Then a guy from the inside opened the door for me even though they don’t open till nine.  I wasn’t called in till five after nine.  The assistant did a lot of the work adjusting the four crowns and drilling and stuff.  There was a lot of jabbing of the teeth and gums and my mouth was sore the rest of the day.  Then Dr Bui came in and she did more endless taking out and putting in of the four new crowns.  She did the final cementation and I counted the four crowns as she put them in.  I was done at eight after ten.  She showed me a mirror to look at them and they looked good.  Dr Bui said that they were “weakened” and the teeth could crack.  This alarmed me.  I also noticed that I now had an over-bite I never had before.  Dr Bui denied that this was the case but it’s my mouth.  I had the receptionist lady make the phone call to this place.  Three different attractive young women came in during the next hour.  One of them had a little baby.   After ten thirty I had her call again because Alvin hadn’t arrived.  They said it would be “ten or fifteen more minutes”.  I went out for a second cigarette.  I didn’t get picked up till twenty after eleven.  Alvin was taking Andrew to the doctor on Romnya street in north Amaheim.  Now Alvin would drop me off and go check on Andrew.  Fortunately they had saved my lunch.  It was now eleven thirty.  We had a good lunch.  We had roast beef on a long bun with beef dip, we had a baked potato with butter and sour cream, and we had corn with amberosia for dessert.  Patty was still there.  I got a cup of coffee from someone across the tablewho had left.   I checked on the room and the cleaning cart was next door.  They were doing double duty working both sides of the hall at once.  I had a minute or so to go to the bathroom and lay down for a moment.  Then Nora came and I had to leave.  I saw her inspecting the bed covers for bugs but I guess I passed the test.  Except when I returned at a quarter to one the place smelled of bug spray.  I don’t know if Rene was brought in to look at the bugs, if there were any.  Nora had put a heavier spread on the bed. Then I watched “Days of our Lives”.   The air conditioning has been working well.