A Desire For Fairness

I believe in letting everybody express their oppinion.  

The conditionality of the Soviet Union’s agreement to allow East Germany to be taken by West Germany and for the Cold War to end, was that NATO would not expand “one inch to the east.” This was the agreement that was approved by the Russian President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, a great man and a subsequent hero to democrats around the world. He agreed then to end the Soviet Union and abandon communism, end the Warsaw Pact communist military alliance (the Soviet Union’s equivalent of America’s NATO alliance), and thus end the entire Cold War; he agreed to all this, because he had been promised that NATO would expand not “one inch to the east,” or “one inch eastward,” depending upon how the promise was translated and understood — but it has the same meaning, no matter how it was translated. It meant that America would not try to place its nuclear missiles right across Russia’s borders, close enough to Moscow to perhaps launch a blitz nuclear attack that would eliminate Russia’s retaliatory missiles faster than Russia could launch its missiles against a NATO (U.S.) first-strike surprise attack. He trusted American President George Herbert Walker Bush, whose friend and Secretary of State James Baker made this promise to Gorbachev. With this promise (basically the promise not to expand NATOany closer to Russia than it already was), Gorbachev agreed to end the Soviet Union; end the communist Warsaw Pact mutual-defense alliance which was the communists’ equivalent and counterpart to NATO; and he believed that the remaining nation that he would then be leading, which was to be Russia, would ultimately be accepted as a Western democracy. He was even promised by the United States that “we were going to make them a member [of NATO], we were — observer first and then a member.” He thought that the Cold War was ending, and this is why he did all those things.

This was the deal, ending the 46-year Cold War.

Russia kept its part of the bargain. It ended the Berlin Wall, allowed East Germany to join with West Germany; ended the Warsaw Pact; and ended communism. Russia ended its entire Cold War against the U.S., not just the ideology but the Soviet Union and its alliances. But, in contravention of the promise that had been made to Gorbachev, the U.S. and its allies did not end their war against a now free and democratic Russia. Instead, over the years, the NATO alliance absorbed, one by one, the former member-nations of the Warsaw Pact — and yet refused to allow membership to Russia. NATO expanded eastward, right up to Russia’s borders, exactly the opposite of what it had promised.

Russia’s continued (and continuing) desire to join NATO has simply been spurned. In following decades, not only did NATO absorb virtually all of the former Warsaw Pact, but in the Middle East, the U.S. (sometimes joined by its European and/or its fundamentalist-Sunni Arab allies) also invaded (either directly as in Iraq 2003, or via bombing and Al Qaeda-led jihadist-proxy forces such as in Libya 2011, and in Syria 2011-), so as to overthrow the existing Russia-friendly leader, in first Iraq, then Libya, then Syria, and now increasingly threatening the Russia-allied Shia nation, Iran. 

Here, that history will be documented, with links to the sources, so that any reader who questions a given allegation can come directly to its source. What will be documented here will be that, whereas the Cold War ended on Russia’s side, it secretly continued (and continues) on America’s side. America’s war against Russia has recently even been intensifying, and Russia is now responding to it.

Trump Proceeds With Bombing Raid on Syria

Yesterday President Trump pardoned Scudder Libby and some say it’s a message sent to Michael Koehn that maybe if you cooperate with me, I’ll pardon you, too.  It drags Libby into the press again and it revives all that stuff about Dick Chaney and the Gulf War.   The big question is whether Trump is going to pardon everybody who is now under investigation.  It seems according to Comey, who’s book came out yesterday- - that Trump was obsessed with public relations and putting the right spin on things and to “investigate” the source of this story about the Russian prostitutes.   It’s hard to nagivate these muddy waters.

Trump last night at six o clock local time got time on the networks to announce that he was bombing Syrian chemical plants that produced all of those chemical weapons.  I don’t have any complaints about the basic content of the brief speech.  It seemed reasonable to me.   Now they are saying it isn’t just chlorine gas but saran too, and that’s a whole lot worse.  But “Mad Dog Mattis” says that it’s a “one and done” type of opporation and that this won’t just be the opening volley of the start of a World War.  We need to pray for our President.  Now they say that Michael Koehn made a secret trip to Prague in the summer of the 2016 campaign because this would be a link in the whole Russian collusion thing.

[earlier Friday] Mike Pompeo was testifying before the Senate in his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State and the democrats wanted to know how he felt about gay people.   They said he could get the job even with a negative vote out of the committee.   President Trump has delayed his missile decision beyond the 48 hours he said he would.  Now he is back-peddling. 

Paul Ryan yesterday said he would not run for his house seat this year. 24 Republicans in congress have decided not to run this year as opposed to only nine democrats.  Ryan says he gets along with Trump OK but I think we know otherwise.   Trump’s own Justice Department is at war with their commander and chief.  We hear about office “break ins” and we think people sneaking around trying to sabotage the government or something.  Obviously I wouldn’t want my stuff broken into in the dead of night or whatever.  I don’t think they found anything they can use or we would have heard about it.  Trump now wants to renegotiate the Trans Pacific Partnership, I hear.  Of course if Trump were smart I guess he’d consider Wall Street a “poll” that he can’t ignore as some sort of a negative referendum on his performance.  Now Trump is under fire for announcing ahead of time that he’s going to drop bombs on Syria.  It seems as if Trump can’t win for losing.  The media is on his tail and they’re not letting go.  I guess I kind of feel sorry for the guy at this point.  But the funny thing is the republicans control everything and still Trump is struggling.  But to put myself in Trump’s head right now he has to be thinking that maybe Muller is “stuck” like Wheel of Fortune people are “stuck” and you kind of sense it ahead of time.  The clues aren’t falling together.   So will Muller slip away quietly in the night?  

This computer is on its last legs.  One time I got an insert boot disk and press enter.  I tried again and the computer started up normally.  I waited by the laundry room at eight thirty for more bathroom supplies but nobody else was there including Augustine.  I went out and bought more cigarettes.  John Kip said he didn’t want the three loaners back.   My phone for a brief time didn’t have a dial tone this morning.  When I got a dial tone Paul’s number was busy.   Today is Saturday April 14, 2018 and tomorrow is the Long Beach Grand Prix.  Monday they hold the Boston marathon, which is a tax holiday so taxes are due Tuesday April 18^th.   I went out and looked at the lunch and dinner menus and won’t be changing either of them.  

FBI Raid on Attorney Kohen's

The FBI yesterday raided Trump’s attorney, Kohen's office looking for evidence of the Stormy Daniels payment and other stuff.  Kohen is one of the few friends Trump has left.  Trump never signed the disclosure agreement and still denies that he ever had sexual relations with Stormy.   President Trump says he’s going to do a bombing raid on Syria in the next day or two.  On Sunday the Syrians bombed a hospital again and launched chlorine gas on innocent children.   Zuckerman is going to testify before congress today and I guess I’ll watch it.  It should be on right now.  Today is April 10, 2018 and I don’t know if Dr Saran will show up.  Alvin hasn’t announced any dental appointments.   Nora told me she would be on vacation this week so maybe I can be less careful about my stuff.  Nobody has raided any of Bill’s drawers since he’s been gone this last time. 

 People want the E P A secretary Scott Pruitt fired for genuine corruption but Trump likes this particular guy.   The responsible guys get fired but Trump likes genuine conservative idiologs.  And apparently we are actually going to apply sanctions against Russia now.   I haven’t heard much out of Mueller lately.  I’m getting that funny feeling he wants to quietly end the investigation but we democrats will have a real let-down then. 

“Face the Nation” is talking about Syria and they are saying the civil war is basically over and the wrong side won.  “It’s all over but the dying”.   Trump wants to get out but he wants to drop a few final bombs first.  (This paragraph was typed Sunday) I went out to the bakery before three thirty and I thought they were closed.  Nobody was around and the gate thing was almost closed.  But as it turned out they were open and I got a four-pack of cinnamon rolls for a dollar for the first time in a while.

I watched “Days of our Lives” and Gabriel was ruled guilty as charged.  She’s mad at Justin for not letting her testify, and she has a point..  But now Marlena has discovered that Abigail’s personalities are lying to her.  She caught the phony “Abbey” in a lie as she slithered into the Di Mira household unannounced.  If I were Stephan I guess I’d threatened to have her arrested if she didn’t leave and he owed her no explanations.  Meanwhile Sonny had ended the homosexual relationship with that new guy because he found he was only after his job at Titan.  

President Trump Sends Troops To the Border

Frangela was (or is it “were”) arguing amongst themselves that maybe Trump has syphilis or something and is showing so many indications of insanity in his many tweets lately.  Never was there such a disruptive Easter weekend.  He goes off on the immigration issue while talking with little kids at the White House Easter egg hunt.  He’s been carrying on about how he’s against DACA legislation now and how the democrats blew their chance.  He talks about these caravans of people coming through Mexico all knocking at the door and demanding admittance.  The truth is that some 400 of these have been fingered by the Mexican audhorities already and sent back to their country or origen.  He’s also going on and on about Amazon and the stock price has been driven down and Amazon has lost a lot of money all because of the words of the President.  This action might even be illegal.  The FTC should look into it.  Then he talks about stationing the US Army at the border.  President Trump will sign a proclamation Wednesday sending National Guard troops to the southern border to ramp up security efforts, the administration announced, after days of warnings from the president about the dangers of illegal immigration.  The National Guard will be sent to assist Border Patrol agents until legislation is passed to close “loopholes” that the Trump administration says allow certain undocumented immigrants to stay in the country and the “catch-and-release” policy is ended, according to a person familiar with the expected White House proposal. Catch and release is a practice of releasing undocumented immigrants from custody while they await their hearings. The troops will be in a support role, doing tasks such as road development and intelligence gathering, according to the person familiar with the plan who would discuss the unreleased details only on the condition of anonymity.  It’ll all be leaked tomorrow. 

 Today is the fiftieth anniversary of Dr King’s assassination in Memphis.  Yes, we all would like to live a long life.  Longevity has its place.   Thom Hartman thinks James Earl Ray shot him because he was paid by Lester Maddox or other racists in Atlanta.  I think we all need to spend the day reflecting on the life of Dr King today.   Some say it was an FBI conspiracy to drop security right at that key moment.   Killing Martin Luther King and RFK really changed the course of history. 

Stephanie’s dog Max died so Stephanie was not at work.  Instead Frangela filled in.  They have never mentioned Fred in all of this drama about Max.  I think Fred was the prettier of the two dogs anyhow.Maybe Fred is already dead.  I don't think he was given away.   

Abigail continued to lie about Gabriel murdering Andre.  She did it as a “strategic move” she tells Stephan.  She did it to “protect” her other personalities, whom she seems to value over her friendship with the real Gabriel.  Lats get past this light ray.  I think Justin was wise to want to continue to cross examine Abigail when it appeared she was having some “personality lapse”.  If she is made to appear psychological unstable to the jury, all the better.  D A Trask wanted a recess.  However, Justin stabbed Gabriel in the back by not putting her immediately on the stand when he had the perfect opportunity to dispel these lies.  He claims that “The state has a weak case they haven’t proven”.   The state’s case is anything but weak.   We already have the real Gabriel trying to dispose of incrimidating evidence.  Now we have testimony of a confession.   There was also a lot of talk about the paternity of Lani’s baby.  Nora showed up at a quarter to two.  She had me work the plunger to clean out the sink drain.  I think I was successful.  A lot of sludge came up.  Nora left the plunger here.  Of course she left the sponge also in case I get the urge to clean the sink.  Physically I’m feeling somewhat better now.  After two days of illness it’s about time.  Gabby was out and around the courtyard for snack time.  People gave her treats.  I had two Oreos and a half graham cracker from Rico and a red punch.  Somebody said Gabby got a good bath.    Before Bill decides he wants to wake up and watch the 3:00 news I better turn on Norman Goldman.  

 Sixty Minutes had Barrenboin or whoever this Jewsish symphony conductor is that has all of these Iranians and Palestinians in the orchestra and even works with a youth orchestra.   He is 76 now.  The first episode was a thing on a new type of brain damage suffered by our veterans when they are hit by a high explosive bomb.  It sounds out energy rays that scar the brain.   One guy was perfectly normal in 2012 but had a psychotic break and eventually took his life in 2017.  It’s like his own mind was at war with him.  That’s what psychosis does to you.  Then I went for medication and Kate took forever to get her meds.  Then it was “Jesus Christ Superstar” and I enjoyed watching that live performance.  Jesus does make reference to the city of Jerusalem being “doomed”, so they slip in sideways a little prophecy.  There were minor lyric changes and additions to what’s on the record.  I didn’t watch it to the end however because they put increasingly frequent commercial breaks in it.

Rough Sledding

Most of the news has been on rerun the past few days.  The only new items is Donald Trump taking on Amazon saying they get a special deal with their mailing rates, which they don't, and that they don't pay their fair share of taxes.  Since when has any republican been worried about a business not paying enough taxes.  He's just mad because the Republicans back over ten years ago wanted the post office to go bankrupt and now the post office is making money off of Amazon.  There is also another cabinet official Trump is thinking of firing.  I have been feeling sick the past day and a half like I have the flu.  I first noticed it when I had no appetite for yesterday's lunch.  Then I got an unpleasant phone call from someone that really took my appetite away.   I watched two segments of The Ten Commandments.  I hope to watch Jesus Christ Superstar tonight.   San Antonio just defeated Houston 100 to 83 or something and they are doing the post game show.  I have no new news to report.  I did discover I'd made a significant mental mistake in one of my writings last week as I discuss in the following paragraph.  

Houston, we have a problem.  It pertains to this motor boat analogy we’ve been using to iilustrate the behavior of light waves traveling at high speed.  Boiled down to its simplest components, for objects in front of you the waves are compressed.  For objects behind you the waves are expanded.  But to put it in even clearer terms, the Doppler property of either light or sound is based on the fact that for two objects approaching each other, the sound is higher and the waves are shorter.  Once the object passes you and heads the other way, the waves or pitch get longer and lower.   I think it’s clear that the speed or movement in the “medium of propagation” doesn’t matter as far as the dopper effect is concerned.   Stated another way- it doesn’t matter which direction the wind is blowing- - - these properties of pitch alteration will be unaltered.  If the object is approaching you the pitch is higher and if the object is going away from you the pitch is lower.   And a clanging railroad crossing makes a constant dinging sound if you are stationary standing next to it.  If you’re on the moving train you get the alterations in pitch.  The situation would be the same for those listening to the noise of the train.