Jeff Sessions Recruses himself for Investigation

Today Attorney General officially recused himself in light of the coming investigation of his two visits with the Soviet ambassador last fall.  He had two of his aids with them.  Jeff Sessions was the first sitting US Senator to endorse Donald Trump when nobody else would touch him.  So they go way back.  There is news that President Obama learned of all the evidence linking the Trump campaign with Russia and sought to copy and hide as much evidence as they could so the Trump administration wouldn't come in and destroy it.  Attorney General Sessions lied to the Senate at his confirmation hearing when Al Franken asked him about it.  He said neither him nor anyone from the campaign has had contact with anybody from Russia.  Clinton got impeached for lying about a blow job.  This should be at least as serious if we’re going to be objective.  At Session’s news conference today just after one, Sessions denied talking with the Russian ambassador about anything in the campaign.  I find that really hard to believe.  Of course democrats such as Nancy Pelosi want him to resign.  Of course the other news about congress is that today congress voted not to even look at, examine Trump’s tax returns even in committee.  As Hartman said they must be so certain that they’ll find something incrimidating that they won’t be able to keep quiet that they didn’t want to take the chance.  After it went to committee it would go to the full house and then it would be almost certain someone would leak all of the sordid details to the press.  There’s no telling what kind of embarrassing things we may learn.  We may learn about business contacts with Russia we knew nothing about.  We will learn how much Trump either did make or didn’t make.  Maybe he declared bankruptsy again.  And we may learn how little Trump has given to charities, which is the big rumor.  The media is not Trump’s friend these days.  There is another item in the news today which involves the rights of protestors.  States want to make it legal to run protestors down who block the street indemnifying the drivers of the vehicles.  There will be a whole bunch of rules protestors have to abide by and the new laws will make it a whole lot easier for them to get arrested.  Of course in general now you could say that democrats must target these state governments.  State governments want to ucerp the right of local councilmen and mayors and such by overriding their ability to make certain laws.  We need the protestors out in mass come hell or high water out there and in the halls of congress and state legislatures.  But more than this we need rich democrats to let loose of their purse strings and donate big bucks to campaigns that will get these bozo legislators and governors out of office.  This is the missing ingredient from 2010.  And they should probably do things I haven’t thought of.  I’m not above being as sneaky and under-handed as possible at this point- - as long as it’s legal, or you can make fall guys out of people who do break the law.

Here's a little something for the egg heads in the population because "inquiring minds want to know" about the uses and applications of hyperbolic trig functions.  Hyperbolic functions occur in the solutions of many linear differential equations, for example the equation defining acatenary, of some cubic equations, in calculations of angles and distances in hyperbolic geometry and of Laplace's equation in Cartesian coordinates. Laplace's equations are important in many areas of physics, includingelectromagnetic theory, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and special relativity.  In complex analysis, the hyperbolic functions arise as the imaginary parts of sine and cosine. When considered defined by a complex variable, the hyperbolic functions are rational functions of exponentials, and are hence holomorphic.  Hyperbolic functions were introduced in the 1760s independently by Vincenzo Riccati and Johann Heinrich Lambert.^[9]Riccati used Sc. and Cc. ([co]sinus circulare) to refer to circular functions and Sh. and Ch. ([co]sinus hyperbolico) to refer to hyperbolic functions. Lambert adopted the names but altered the abbreviations to what they are today.^[10] The abbreviations sh and ch are still used in some other languages, like French and Russian.

 Now it’s ten after two and I just got a snack from Rico of a grape drink and a pack of graham crackers.  Nicole kidnapped her own daughter when she should have let a professional like Damos do it.  He’d have given her more chloroform to keep her knocked out longer so she wouldn’t call the cops.  Now they have an Amber alert out for her and the hotel clerk is already suspicious of her because she was wearing sun glasses at night.  Also Nicole was spotted on security footage at Clowie’s apartment.  There was of course the Jeff Sessions news conference.  Jeff Sessions was featured on the Gary and Shannon show concerning today’s revelations.  We had beef soup for lunch.  This was followed by a chef’s salad with only crutons on it and short on dressing and made with dark lettuce.  We had peaches for dessert.  Victoria Jones called in at her usual time on the Thom Hartman program.

This is Thursday March 2, 2017 and it’s clear and sunny with a Santa Ana wind promising a warmer middle of the day.  Yesterday was Ash Wednesday and one of these days I’ll attend the Catholic service.  I wasn’t here.  I had a dream this morning about three o clock where there was this foreign (?) soap opera featuring the “leading men” as unattractive sixty and seventy year old men out to get younger women.  It was a soap opera from the point of view of the man and not the women.  The other part was when there was this 75 year old Jamaican man who claimed John Lennon’s spirit occupied his body and he was channeling Lennon before a bunch of enthralled reporters.  I was thinking to myself “That isn’t Lennon.  I can’t believe anyone is buying this”.  Then I went to the bathroom and these spooks- - faces kept popping up from dark corners in the bathroom before the light was on.  Then I fell out of bed and landed on the oranges and knocked the laundry basket over.  Later on in the morning I noticed that the lamp table had been pulled out a little and when I looked behind the lamp plug had been pulled out a little- - and it looked like the lamp was flickering.  I got up at twenty to six.  Paul asked me how I slept.  It was starting to get light but we won’t have these light mornings much longer with Daylight Savings Time just around the corner.  I turned on the computer.   There are two songs “missing” from the “Missing Links” compilation (1970 – 1974)  and one of the alien people told me that these two songs had been added to “Missing Links” already- - “Do You Know what I Mean?” by Lee Michaels and “Saturday in the Park” by Chicago.  Also “Mercedes Benz” by Janis Joplin was officially listed as a track and not as an “unannounced track”.  The individual sides (disks) on this compilation were shorter than our average compilation.  The medication line with April was long and I waited for it to die down after six thirty.  Bill had the TV on but I eventually turned that off and turned on Stephanie.  I am missing a dime from my change.  I found 12¢ on the floor.  I went to the liquor store about ten after for a dollar coffee.  By now the dining room was open.  We had corn flakes.  Augustine dumped a whole bag of Mc Donald’s sugars and creamers on the table and I took six sugars and used two creamers for the weak coffee, which eventually came after we were done with breakfast.  Augustine delivered our omelet and toast, butter and jelly.  Judy gave me most of her omelet too. 

I have decided not to make any changes in the “Radio Ready” album.  “Soft Hearted Hanna” may be on my own Best of compilation however it’s a B side and harder to buy in the real world than “What do you do for Money? By AC DC.   I had Thom Hartman on.  I kind of dozed off a little.  Paul called at twenty to ten.

President Trump Delivers Best Speech So Far

The thing that stands out a little about the Trumpster’s speech is that it was shorter than I had figured for a first time State of the Union.  I never heard them announce who the designated survivor was in case a bomb goes off.   Just before five thirty I got coffee from Glenda’s room.  She’s still letting me have it for free and Kathy and Chris were in there.  Trump started off the speech by denouncing prejudice and bigotry and hate in all its forms as un American.  That was a needed statement to set the tone and put the liberals at ease.  One commentator said it was less a speech of “red meat” but more ice cream and cake” because of all the unpaid for goodies.  There were no details except we know he’s going to slash the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15% and also reduce taxes for the middle class.  He also said he was going to undertake the most massive infrastructure build up in America since President Eisenhower in the fifties.  There was not word one about hos this is going to balloon the deficit.  He’s also sticking to his claim that he intends to fulfill each and every one of his campaign promises one by one.  He listed off a roster of all the accomplishments he’s had so far in terms of the significant number of corporations that have announced they will be hiring in America and not going off shore.  I like his slogan of “Buy American and Hire American”.  Let’s hope we can stick to that.  I didn’t however hear anything about employee sanctions if these rules are violated.  He talked about his border crack-down and how the bad guys in all these crime and drug cartels are being deported or going to jail.  He talked about that Navy seal who died in that raid and he got minutes and minutes of applause.  I think it had to be some kind of record.  There were things that were absent from the speech.  Most presidents talk about individual foreign countries such as Libya or Somolia or Russia or Ukraine or what have you?  There was absolutely nothing about Russia in the whole speech.  There was nothing about a special prosecutor to investigate his campaign activities.  He did talk about paid maternity leave and day care, which threw me for a loop.  He talked of repealing and replacing Obama Care but didn’t get into the specific details of it.  I’ve heard the details are very similar to what Paul Ryan wants.  He wants government vouchers and being able to buy insurance across state lines.  He wants to eliminate the mandentory insurance requirement.  He pledge not to throw people who are already sick off the roles.  There were a lot of good applause lines about putting America first.  He also said with all the money we spent in Iraq over the past decade or longer we could have rebuilt the infrastructure twice over.  He talked about negotiating drug prices down.  This is something which sorely has been needed, if he can do it.  He plans to start a new agency for victims of crimes committed by illegal alien crime called VOICE, which is an acronym.  He didn’t mention student debt.  He didn’t mention how he was going to do any of this domestic stuff with a ten percent across the board cut to make way for the rise in the military and increased Mexican border agents.  He talked a little about God.  I wouldn’t rate the speech a home run but it was at least a respectable single.  If you are looking for a letter grade I’d give him no more than a C plus.  He didn’t talk about Wall Street crime.  He did talk a little about trade and the trade deficit but once again he kept everything vague.  After this I went down for medication from Aida and there was no line.  I returned and there was a lot of ABC commentary.  They pretty much are committed to filling up the hour till eight PM, which is eleven in the East and the end of network programming.  Then I watched the X files on KCOP. 

Disk two

Hell Bound Train (George Thorogood)

Midnight Cruiser (Steely Dan)

Am I Going Insane? (Black Sabbath)

Our House (Madness)

Keep Me In Your Mind (Scorpions)

Passion Play (Jethro Tull) (radio edit)

Pretty Penny (Stone Temple Pilots)

The Trumpster Delivers 39:01

OK just when you thought you had it down, there’s a change in plans.  A treasure trove of seven more songs just came to light taken from an album called “A brief interlude- Snowflakes in Hell”.  (from early December of 2006 in Marcus in Exile)  Of course if they were live links that might mean something to you It contains some Christmas songs and we took them out.  Actually I think there has been too much dinking around with album contents but what are you going to do?  We had to shorten Donald Trump’s speech from “exactly an hour” according to an ABC news commentator to- - something that would fit on an album.  We edited out all four of those illegal alien victim of crimes guest.  (We had to make room for some applause) We picked 39:01 because Germany invaded Poland on September 1^st 1939.   We plan in future releases to release a jewel box with two CD’s in it and the proposed “throwing tomatoes in Parliament” photo will be the lead photo in the open out booklet.  Quotes from the speech will be the back page of the booklet.  Inside the booklet will be the title listings for BOTH CD’s in case you are wondering plus other commentary about the Trumpster that I will be doing in this mornings blog post once I get to it.  It’s 6:50 AM now.   They are predicting a long awaited warming trend in the weather. 

Today has been a day of constant surprise.   I didn’t think Nora was doing our side of the hall to change the linens but then all of a sudden she was getting a late start.  Sarah told me around ten o clock that I had a dental appointment right after lunch.  That would leave little time to brush my teeth.  I missed both the morning and and the afternoon snack periods.  The afternoon period must have been right at two and over instantaneously.   I thought I would settle down and relax a little watching “The Price is Right” with Bill.  But then Terry knocks on the door.  He talked about all the crops he is planting in his garden including corn and three colors of peppers.  He bought manure months before he started and worked it into the soil.  He’s just finishing up one novel and starting another- - about a princess.  But then Nora showed up to change the linens and we couldn’t use the big room because people were watching TV in there.  We could have gone just outside but I wanted to go out back where you could smoke.  Terry said that Wald Disney died of lung cancer.  I didn’t knows that.  He mentioned three excoursions Paul and me and him could go on.  One was to that authentic Civil War barrics in Wilmington.  The other was some canyon that’s a finger of Silverado that Terry says has an unusual of paranormal activity.  Also Terry wants to visit Warner Brother’s studios.  And Paul just now called while Bill is talking to some therapist or something.   We had a bowl of chili, cheese and onions that was only half filled.   I waited for the coffee which finally came but I couldn’t wait for the oranges.  I hurried to brush my teeth.  Then I noticed Nora had taken a towel from the room and there was blood on the sink earlier.  I asked Nora about the towel and she said I’d have to wait till tomorrow.  Trying to get someone to get me a towel was a classic case of buck passing after two.  Finally I saw Mary Jane and she called Nora in who said that there was blood on the towel that she got rid of.  I expressed surprise.  Then I went with Melanie and she gave me two towels but they are a smaller size.  As I was typing this Paul called about pants shopping he said how skinny he was.   I tentatively said I would call him tomorrow morning.

Otherwise I did get to the dentist by noon.  First it was the polishing and after a wait Dr Bui came in and checked all my gum pockets and the numbers were significantly improved from any previous visit.  Dr Bui said “Your teeth look more stable”.  Then the other dental hygienist came in and did the ultra sound cleaning and the picking, which only took fifteen minutes from 12:45 to one o clock.  I was also given a fluoride treatment and the usual toothbrush and things.  Then I had the receptionist call here and after a forty minute wait I had her call again.  Marvyn came while I was smoking a cigarette.  I told you I missed snack period.  I called Mom and that didn’t go particularly well.  She got paranoid and said, “Why are you telling me all this.  Do I have to pay for it?”  I assured her she didn’t have to pay anything, it was covered.  Then our conversation was interrupted by a fire drill.  She just kept on talking when I informed her and I had to be a little abrupt.   Right now it’s the bottom of the 3:00 hour with Norman Goldman.