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 1st 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.
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