Hold Your Nose- And Your Breath

November fifth was Guy Fawks day and the perfect day for the Breeders Cup at Santa Anita.  Bill chose to watch that rather than football.  NBC just had an hour’s coverage but that did the job.  I had the definite feeling that California Chrome would NOT win this race despite the fact it was considered a foregone conclusion that he would.  He’s won other breeder’s cups and had inverted betting odds of four to five.  But a horse named Arrowgate won.  California Chrome led the entire race, usually comfortably.  But Arrowgate made its move toward the end of the race and in the final twenty yards poured on the power and won.   There is a disturbing connection to Donald Trump pulling ahead and beating Hillary in the past week or so after being behind literally for the entire duration of this political race.  Newt Gingrich this morning on Meet the Press says he’s not optimistic about the losing side just “grinning and bearing it” or taking it in stride or whatever.  This is too much a polarized nation and whoever wins there will be four years of strife.  Chris Matthews, Tom Brokov and others joined Chuck Todd today.  They had the state by state analysis and Clinton still has the electoral edge over Trump, thank God- at least as of Today.  It looks like the Senate will be a fifty fifty tie with seats 51 and 52 too close to call.  We can hope.  The thing is, unlike the entire rest of the campaign, Trump has gone two weeks without making any major mistakes.  I had Breakfast with the Beatles on but it was one of their duller shows.  It was supposed to be different versions of Beatle songs but a lot of the versions were indistinguishable from the versions released.

A total of 83 percent of likely voters believe that Clinton did something wrong – 51 percent saying she did something illegal and 32 percent saying she something unethical but not illegal.  Just 14 percent said she’s done nothing wrong.   By comparison, 79 percent think Donald Trump did something wrong, though not nearly as many think he did something illegal. Just 26 percent think he’s done something illegal, while 53 percent think he’s dome something unethical but not illegal. Just 17 percent think he’s done nothing wrong.  17% and 14% thinking that Trump and Clinton, respectively, did nothing wrong is not a meaningful difference.  The real difference is that twice as many voters think Clinton broke the law as thing that Trump did.  . 

(Typed yesterday)  The Presidential race is so close it’s kind of a lost cause to believe the Democrats will even win the Senate this year, let alone the House.  Some people may be tempted to vote for Trump just to get a congress the President can work with.  But remember that the next several Supreme Court justices hang in the balance, which will affect our life for generations.  We can’t afford to take chances with that even by staying home and not voting as an act of protest.  We must vote for Hillary even if we’re not happy with her in so many ways.  The following blog no doubt echoes the opinions of many Americans and things Trump himself has been saying about how we’d have a “Constitutional crisis” if we voted Hillary in because Trump says (and ABC disputes) that the word from the FBI has gone out that Hillary will definitely be indicted.  I strongly disagree with that contention.   So is this election “rigged” by either side or not?  The answer is plain.  If Trump wins on Tuesday and I'm doing a post mortum on the Democrats' demise- - we have Debby Wasserman Schultz to blame for one, for sabotaging Bernie Sander's campaign denying the voters a clear look at the issues that divide the left from the right.  This is a big f---ing thing!  Secondly to blame of course is William Comey himself, director of the FBI.  But perhaps winner of the grand prize is the American Broadcast Media, with their giving Donald Trump free media coverage all year.  They say that Hillary has had to outspend Trump.  When you are going up against the media, what can you do? 

Rhapsody in Black featured non rock and roll jazz type music.  There was a Ray Charles song.  There was Lou Rawls singing skat in one portion of a song, and other non rock songs.  Cosmically they are classified as Torino non A.  That’s what those who aren’t Torino A’s are properly referred to as lacking the Reigelian immunity A factor.  That’s for the benefit of you new readers.  For dinner we had turkey and cauliflour.  We were supposed to have had stuffing and I hoped they’d serve stuffing late, like they did one time before, but they didn’t.  We had grapes for dessert.  The Breeders Cup is on now and California Chrome is slated to win because that horse is on a winning streak.  I still have a few of Terry’s muffins left but I’m not going to eat them anytime soon because of the high bran content. 

We had veal parmazon for lunch with flavored noodles and fall squash cut up.  We had tapioca pudding for dessert.  Chris Marquardt was talking about lens apiture when he should have made it clear depth of focus depends on focal length rather than apiture because a shorter focal length brings you closer to infinity and the closer to infinity you are the greater your depth of focus.  Leo Le Port was talking a lot about an uninterrupted power source and saw-toothed sine waves.  He also talked about how picky I Phones can be when it comes to texting.  Bill seems to never have been in worse pain.