Sunday, August 02, 2015

Ten Candidates Prepare for Thursday's Debate

Donald Trump and all the other nine candidates are preparing for Thursday’s debates.  One person said “It’s like preparing for a NASCAR race where one of the drivers has been drinking heavily.  Many have said that Donald Trump has no hard policies, but Trump is promising to lay out his positions on a whole lot of specific issues soon.   Donald says “I am not a debater” because he’s so oriented to actually sixing problems, so he doesn’t listen to the polsters.  On Meet the Press they were saying that perhaps Donald will reverse roles and be the sane one and wait for the others to attack him first.  Trump is playing both sides of the cops issue saying “Yes there is a racial problem” but on the other hand saying Police are important to stem the (newly rising?) crime rate. There was time to hang out before Meet the Press.  They had Donald Trump on.  Donald Trump would rather run against Hillary because he thinks her campaign is imploding “If you have an honorable prosecutor”, and besides Joe Byden is a friend of Trump’s. OK.  Donald Trump is up to 24 percent in the polls and Trump points out that “With sixteen other candidates in the race, as they drop out one by one I’ll look even better”.   On “Face the Nation” Trump came out and admitted that just like all of us, he seeks to pay as little Federal Income Taxes as possible.  Trump then said something like “I’m a better judge of how to spend the money than our current government is anyhow”.  Mike Huckibee is standing by his “Obama is leading the Jews to the gas chambers” remark.  Huckibee states that as one of ten men he hopes he gets personally attacked, because if you are referenced by name you get a thirty second rebuttal.  Makes sense to me!  We’ll know a lot more Friday morning.

 Breakfast with the Beatles featured Todd Ruundgrin singing “Hold Me Tight” and I guessed it but they said they’d had that song before.  It took a lot of tries for people to guess it.  They played a version of “Norweegen Wood” with false starts and a bass drum that came in.  Those four live songs on Anthology disc 3 were part of a six song line-up.  The other two unheard songs were “I’m Really Down” and ‘Act Naturally”.  This is relevant to the Federation because the part of John Lennon in this concert was played by “Muah” according to them.  They are re-releasing “Tug of War” and “Pipes for Peace”.  They played in honor of that “Say, Say, Say”, which you rarely hear, with Michael Jackson and also “Girl, I like what you’re Doing” with Stevie Wonder but looking back on it, it actually sounds more like Prince to my ears.  We had lentil soup with very few lentils.  We had a cold cut sandwich and a decent pasta salad and grapes for dessert.  I had Leo Le Port on till nearly one thirty.  Two things stuck out.  Windows 10 is getting rid of Media Player entirely, which sounds insane.  It’s one of the things Windows is noted for.  So gone not are the CD disk rip and burn operations, but the screen savers that go along with it, and a copy of your media library and also all the radio station categories.  Some of that stuff can be found in I Tunes or elsewhere.  Did they get rid of “sound recorder” too?  No wonder they are offering free “upgrades” for the following year.  They want you off that stuff.  Then we have AT&T and this man in a wheel chair who’s being cut off of Lifeline by the phone company, which Leo says is illegal under California law.  No wonder they have been trying so hard to move me off.  I’m glad the calls have stopped lately.  It’s illegal for the phone company to “cut the copper” and put us all on digital fiber-optics.  The weather has been averaging just below normal in temperature.

Last night it was medication with Donnie in the med room.  I watched the Mc Laughlin group but don’t have any pressing remarks except Mort and Pat both said “With Hillary faltering it’s time for Joe Byden to get his campaign revved up.  I didn’t do a blog yesterday and may not do one today is something interesting doesn’t come along.  I was out of the room a lot during Wheel and Jeopardy.   I got instant coffee from Glen in his room for four cigarettes.  “Burn Notice” had a really stupid episode.  I don’t often rout for the villain but this time if I were in the enemy camp I would have told Michael Weston to go fuck himself.  Nobody offering a true business proposition would lay out such absurd turns and talk down to the client.  You don’t persuade me by insulting me.  In the morning I had the “Today” show on.  I got medication from Tom at six thirty and began to feel nauseous about ten to seven.  I sat in the front room a while.  I went to the bakery for a large dollar fifty cup of coffee.  I wanted to be able to drink it at my leisure and not feel rushed before breakfast.  I had this preminission last evening and early this morning that Augustine had taken the cat to the pound, because I didn’t see the cat before dinner or anytime after dinner or early this morning and I was worried.   We had oatmeal again and scrambled eggs and toast and butter and jelly.  We got black coffee with creamer.  Since I’ve been on more medication this year, I wonder if it’s any coincidence that references to the Federation or Dead People have been sharply reduced – from what it was a couple of years ago – is just a coincidence or chemically induced.  What if they gave all the church theologians in the early centuries (the two and three hundreds) a drug like Resperidol- - whether a lot of them in mass would get suddenly bored and just walk away from their theological ponthicating?

John Stewart is going off the air.  There seems to be an epidemic of people going off the air in the past few years.  First it’s Oprah and then it’s Jay Leno and David Letterman and Randy Rhodes and Ed Schultz.  Most or all of these people are of the liberal persuasion, and I’m starting to wonder what’s going on.   I actually saw the cat four times this morning.  I saw her just after eight when I sat on the far east wood slat bench.  I saw her later when Phyllis was petting it and it came over and let me pet it.  I saw the cat down the sidewalk by Wally on the third outing, and I saw the cat again on a fourth outing.  I’m still worried some sneak may capture her and take her to the pound.   Will the cat too be part of “people that aren’t around anymore”?

This is Sunday August 2, 2015 the 48th anniversary of the first time I threatened to comit suicide.  The mystery of the Orange County Fair is resolved.  Wally and Lisa went there the day before it officially opened on Thursday July 16th.  The Fair officially opened Friday the 17th and will remain open till Sunday August 16th which is the anniversary of Elvis’ death.  Wally was talking about various amusement park ride and how a friend threw his back out on Montezuma’s revenge at Knott’s.   The OC fair had this giant ski lift thing which is a chair on cable that rocks, and Wally doesn’t like high riding things that rock.  Glenda gave me a beer and potato burrito which wasn’t too spicy.  Glenda couldn’t eat it and Joe had a few bites.  Soon after I went for snacks in the courtyard and had two cups of “Texas tea”.  That name is catching on.

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