Donald Trump Is A Wash-out

Congress has voted out an operating Federal budget today for a period of one week.  The vote was 384 to 33 or something like that in favor.  The Republicans decided they didn’t want to make a battle on this one after their agreement not to.  We already told you they weren't going to make the border wall with Mexico an issue.  By my calculations 98 days or 7 x 14 would be Friday up to noon and before noon on Saturday would be the 99th day.  The end of the 100th day would be Sunday morning at nine, our time.  Well, at least we won't have a government shut-down this time around.  

Trump is even too embarrassed to go to his own White House Press Corps roast this evening.  Instead he'll be out on the campaign trail after signing more executive orders earlier in the day.  Trump knows he's a failure and it's not a laughing matter.  Trump loves to dish it out to others but he can't take it.  His skin is paper thin.  He has to react to even slight criticism with bluster and outrage.   Trump's most important executive order this week was opening up the west and east coasts for more oil drilling.  The state of California says they have a three mile limit of state government control.  We'll see.  But Trump this week also retroactively canceled a number of National Monuments, even new ones here in California people had come to rely on.  He's really in thick with the polluting corporations. 

This is Saturday April 29, 2017 and the one hundredth day of the Trump administration.  They have been reviewing every time Trump used the phrase “one hundred days” and also the number of times Trump said a certain job would be “easy” simply by making a few phone calls and spending ten minutes resolving a major issue or whatever.  Now Trump is saying that his old job was easier.  He said just the opposite during the campaign.   They’ve been talking a lot about North Korea and how Trump almost pities the NK leader because he was only 27 when the death of his father forced him to assume leadership at such a young age.  If we do have WW III then Seoul South Korea will get the brunt of any nuclear bombs, unless we nuke North Korea first.  And of course the budget was passed yesterday.  I had Chris Matthews on during the morning at various times and of course Matthews played all these clips of Trump.  

There is of course another weekend and another protest on Washington.  This one directly involves climate change protest.  Now I’m getting Washington Post articles all month.  Last week I ran out my quote of Washington Post stories mid month and did without.  Anyhow it may not matter if the media covers it or not because the public has become numbed to these constant protests and just considers it part of the liberal background static they have to endure in the news now.   We need some triggering decisive event that convinces people that we have to think about global warming.  The best we can hope for is that little by little people’s minds are being changed.  

Last night Bill asked me to call Paul about getting three bottles of rubbing alcohol from the 99 cent store and Bill would repay him back here.  But Paul was in the shower and then he had to eat dinner and Wheel of Fortune was already on.  But I called this morning just before eight thirty and Judy and I did a little detective work to find out what the name of the medicine I was prescribed for my skin.  It turns out Bill and I do have the same medicine two word compound.  I went down to see Sarah because Judy wanted the name of the compound.  Sarah wrote it down for me.  Sarah also said that the tube had come in last night and that a caretaker would be coming in later to apply the lotion.  I’m still waiting for that and right now I’m itching.  The Vaseline works for a while but in the end only seems to clog up your pores so that you itch worse.  Judy looked up this particular compound on line and it seems doctors prescribe this cortazone base compound when they don’t know what skin condition you have, and recommended that I see a dermatologist.  Bill has seen a dermatologist regularly and he’s getting the same compound which Judy says is ineffective for killing off any real infective bacteria.  

Some of these compilations we've done so many of over the past six months- - you could leave it as buyer's choice which package they want to select.  For instance if you're a Bernie Sanders fan you may may want the compilation with Sanders and his 25:25 speech.  And for you Temptations fans for that 1969 - 1972 album,  I think maybe the version with that opens with the Temptations is probably a better compilation anyhow.  In the absence of knowledge of any other compilations, it may well be the one you want to pick.  

New Deal Very Possible with Trump Health Care

A couple days ago the air waves were abuzz about how a deal was worked out with Trump Health Care and that a bill would be voted out of the house before the week was out.  I haven’t heard anything about it today but I assume it’s still going to happen.  This deal gives the states the right to “opt out” of various provisions.  Two of them are thqat they don’t have to cover routine health matters or women’s issues if it’s a man getting the insurance.  The other is they can have life time caps on coverage and also if you have a pre existing condition they have the right to drop you or not cover you.  These provisions needless to say will be a gigantic step backward.  But now people on the far right or the “Freedom lobby” who were formerly entrenched against any bill are now all for the provisions of this bill.  It may be enough to get it passed.  Then Trump will truly have something to brag about as a landmark accomplishment for the first 100 days.  It will also spell the end of Obama Care as we have known it and a whole lot of people are going to be sorely disappointed.  Trump promised there were certain provisions he wouldn’t touch in his plan, but like so many promices this one is now out the window. 

The Pentagon’s top watchdog has launched an investigation into money that former national security adviser and retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn received from foreign groups and whether he failed to obtain proper approval to do so, lawmakers and defense officials said Thursday.  The Pentagon has in the past advised retiring officers that because they can be recalled to military service, they are subject to the Constitution’s rarely enforced emoluments clause, which prohibits top officials from receiving payments or favors from foreign governments.   On Thursday, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, released an Oct. 8, 2014, letter in which a Defense Department lawyer warned Flynn upon his retirement from military service that he was forbidden from receiving payments from foreign sources without receiving permission from the U.S. government first.  Flynn received $45,000 to appear in 2015 with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a gala dinner for RT, a Kremlin-controlled media organization. He also worked as a foreign agent representing Turkish interests for a Netherlands-based company, Inovo BV, which paid his company $530,000 in the fall.  Flynn was fired as national security adviser in February after revelations that he misled Vice President Pence about the nature of his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States. The pugnacious retired officer, who last year led “lock her up” chants about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, filed paperwork as a foreign agent for Turkish interests about three weeks later, on March 7.

I have personally written many of these things in my own words before but here’s a more professional rendering.  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is all about the bark -- bold, aggressive promises.  Whether it's unfair Chinese trade practices, the North American Free Trade Agreement he's dubbed a "disaster" or Iran's destabilizing actions, Trump has kept up much of his bold campaign rhetoric.  But when it comes to follow through, at least in his first 100 days in office Trump has come up short on the bite, sometimes abruptly flipping his position when confronted with an opportunity to make good on his pledges.  After months of railing against NAFTA, some of Trump's top aides signaled Wednesday he might withdraw from the deal altogether in the coming days.  By Wednesday night, Trump had talked to the fretful leaders of Canada and Mexico and stood down on the possibility, deciding against pulling the US from the trade deal altogether.   "I received calls from the President of Mexico and the Prime Minister of Canada asking to renegotiate NAFTA rather than terminate," Trump tweeted Thursday morning. "I agreed subject to the fact that if we do not reach a fair deal for all, we will then terminate    As Elvis said in “Conversation”, “A little less bark; a little more bite” 

ONE TACO SHORT OF A COMBO PLATE (third incarnation) rel April 27th 2017

The Red and the Black (Tyranies and Mutations)
Behind the Locked Door (All Things Must Pass)
Scared (Walls and Bridges) John Lennon
Poor Little Girl (The Best of Dark Horse 1976 – 1989)
Cooking In the Kitchen of Love (“Ringo” album out-take)
Michael Moore Movie Excerpt (edited) less than 5 min This interview was aired on a - - -  - - - - - recent issue of the -“Democracy Now” program.
Love You Till Tuesday (David Bowie)
Ain’t It So Like Candy (Elvis Costello and Paul Mc Cartney)
FX (Black Sabbath) demonic rappings

Wild Life Finale (Wings)  unannounced on orig album
She’s A Woman (six minute demo jam recording)  Nov 1964

Use Your Imagination (Guess Who) *
Evil Hearted You (Yardbirds)
Cut Me Hair Once A Year (TV live show Austrialian guy) **
I’ll Be Back (early June 1964 recording three-four time portion)
No Reply (early June 1964 recording with Jimmy Nichol on drums)
What You’re Doing (fall 1964 demo recording)
Sunshine Girl (The Parade)
Blue Christmas (The Fab Four) (done to “Revolution I”)

Same album cover as back in November (first incarnation)

All The News That's Fit to Print

Apparently there was a lower court decision today involving another one of Trump’s executive orders.  Trump has issues more executive orders than any president since FDR in WW II.  New York and California and other blue states were worried about declaring “sanctuary cities” or sanctuary states where law enforcement would not carry out Federal laws on immigration.  Today this Court ruling declared that states are not servants to the Federal Government bu rather are “co equal” and they as such have every right not to go along with a federal law.  To me this violates court precedent but apparently now it’s OK to flaut executive orders and say that “We have the right not to be conscripted by the federal government”.  But haven’t Presidents “federalized” the Nation Guard in various civil rights cases? 

It seems that “Taj” is a type of honey wine that will get you really drunk if you let it.  I’ve heard honey wine referenced in “The Ten Commandments” by one of the Egyptian women in the movie.  It seems that Taj is a drink you can get at an Ethopian restaurant.  And you can only get this exotic foreign food in highly urbanized settings.  Norman Goldman made a string plug for the advantages of urban living, and he himself has lived his whole life in an urban setting.  I know Thom Hartman speaks often of an Ethopian restaurant and I’m wondering whether there are a lot of Ethopian restaurants in Washington DC.   They apparently use lot of bread and eat with their hands.

There was a double execution in Arkansas last night.  It was one Black and one White, if you’re curious.  There was talk of executing seven prisoners in eleven days a while back but there were temporary court restraints because of the drugs used. 

President Trump apparently has backed down on insisting for Congressional funding to build the wall with Mexico.  It seems neither side wisely wants to close down government or get into a big argument over this issue.  So the Republicans agreed to get funding for drones and other RADAR equipment for enforcement measures and that Trump says he’ll seek funding for the wall itself this coming September.  

That “space” thing that I keep getting pop-ups of, has this thing on Einstein, which might be called “Another Side of Einstein”.  It shows Einstein as a younger man who was married but also a womanizer.  He made statements like everything in the Universe is connected to everything else, and now all he has to do is prove it.  I guess the movie is called “Genius” or something. 

The 25^th anniversary of the LA Riots is April 29^th, which is another harrowing event that occurs this Saturday along with the government shut-down.  Eye Witness news photographers were on the scene in a helicopter and they had guns stowed away for use in an emergency.  And they kept remarking how menacing the gathering crowds looked, and they knew there was trouble.  Of course there were no police around because they knew when they were outnumbered, and had more or less of a “let it burn” policy.   Even today in these protest situations the police slink into the background when anything approaching a fist fighting contest appears to be occurring.  

Trump's income tax reform knocks out a leading tax deduction people routinely take and that is to deduct their state and local taxes from what they pay Uncle Sam.  This is a major rip-off in Trump's plan of the little guy.  And Trump’s advisers are looking to ax some tax breaks that are very popular in certain states, including the deduction Americans take for the state and local taxes they pay separately each year. Eliminating this deduction could save more than $1 trillion over 10 years but inflame lawmakers and governors in states that have high income tax rates.  The central feature of the White House’s plan would be a big reduction in tax rates for virtually all Americans and businesses.  It would eliminate the seven existing income tax brackets and replace them with three brackets, containing new rates of 10 percent, 25 percent and 35 percent, based on someone’s income. White House officials haven’t specified which income levels would hit the higher tax brackets, as they see that as part of ongoing discussions with Capitol Hill.  It would also roughly double the standard deduction that Americans can use to reduce their taxable income. The deduction for married couples would move from $12,600 to $24,000. This would incentivize people not to itemize their tax returns and instead use the standard deduction, simplifying the process and potentially saving taxpayers thousands of dollars each year.  It would allow for "repatriating" tax dollars from foreign located US corporations moving back to ten percent.  Congress wants to lower the tax rate on corporations to twenty percent.  The world average is 23 percent.  

Trump's First One Hundred Days

April 29^th is the deadline for both the first one hundred days and also the time when government funding runs out and they’ll have to shut down the government.  Maybe congress wouldn’t be so pressed for time if they didn’t take so much time off.  Trump says he won’t fund a government funding bill unless it has a provision for the wall with Mexico.  The democrats have vowed to fight him on this, which to me is a mistake.  If you’re philosophically opposed to shutting down the government then you shouldn’t do it even if you’re the party in control of it.  I’m sure we’ll see other stories on all of this.   Trump promises us we'll have the border wall paid for by Mexico but we are only making "a temporary down payment" funded bu US tax payers.  Trump is still talking about the massive tax cut bill that's the biggest tax cut (for the rich) since Ronald Reagan.  Trump sounds optimistic about having his health care bill passed only the bill is pretty well dead in the water.  We still haven't heard anything about a massive infrastructure bill.  Normally the White House press corps roast is around the first weekend in May and it might even be this weekend.  I've heard there are lots of new protests scheduled by democrats.  Meanwhile I think Trump is meeting with the US Senate tomorrow about what to do about North Korea.  I will still be monitoring the news to see if there are any developments in any of these areas.  

Stocks rose around the world in response to the favorable French election.  Marie Le Penn came in a weak second place yesterday to Emanuel - - the centrist, so called.  The Republicans and the media had this one pegged all wrong talking about how Le Penn was practically the next French president.  The run-off election is May seventh. 

  Sixty Minutes had a conservative judge who was on the liberal Ninth Circuit court of appeals, which Trump wants to divide in half.  Wouldn’t that make two liberal circuits?  Or does Trump have designs on packing the court with all new appointees himself?  Actually that was the middle segment.  The first segment was all about Michael Bloomberg who is 75 years old and is the eighth richest man in the world or whatever.  He was mayor of New York for three terms.  Now he says he wants to engage in philanthropy because nobody could spend that much money.   I went down for medication from Ida a little after seven thirty when she announced it.  I got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

This is Monday April 24, 2017, Armenian genocide day.  “The Price is Right” is on.   I just tried to get in contact with Sarah about getting one of these jars of skin cream Bill has, that can last a whole month.  He let me use a little in the pre dawn hours.  Glen just lent me a cigarette, a grape which he got sold on because of the ones I gave him for coffee a few days ago.  I’ve been trying to scratch the very center of my back I can’t reach.  I was unable to get Sarah’s attention.  This is the same font I was working in earlier today when I changed “I Can’t Get Next to You” to “Games People Play” by Joe South on that Blast from the Past compilation.  The overlap police were on our tail.  Actually people in the Federation were reluctant to make the substitution.  The album had been out for a whole month as it was.  So we changed the lead-off track on "CODA" to "Games People Play" by Joe South.  The one disadvantage to this track is that it's a little too "mainstream pop" and not as rock and roll as the rest of the album.  

Protests In Favor of Science Tomorrow

Tomorrow, April 22^nd will be the big march for Science that we’ve heard so much about.  Science needs to be stuck up for.  There was this one bogus Black evangelist I heard on a tape who was saying that Martin Luther’s reformation paved the way for experimental science and brought about the renasance.  This isn’t true because the renasance as we know it began the previous century.  Gutenburg’s printing press was the previous century and some of those innovations such as gun powder were brought about by Marco Polo’s journey to China which had things like gun powder and printing font.  These Christians like to see themselves as open to nature and experimentation and point to evolution where experimental research at first glance would seem to indicate divine creation.  But let’s look at the empirical method.  This is trial and error and the whole synthisis – antithesis and all of that stuff Hagel talked about.  I said back around February 7^th in the blog “Karmic Suicide” that empiricism is a good method and it’s better than pure subjectivism, which believes hat the human mind invents reality.  It’s certain better than “taught knowledge” if we’re talking about such learning coming from religious revelation of our leaders and being “instructed” in the Truth.  However it’s my belief that true objectivism does not throw God out of the equation entirely.  I will restate that objective truth is truth or a fact about something stands independent of our awareness or knowledge of it.  Our learning about factual truth is only being made AWARE of something that already EXISTS.  This is what I believe “natural laws” are.  They weren’t invented but merely discovered by the great thinkers of centuries ago.  I said then that empiricism is valuable so long as it serves the Truth but when it doesn’t “give you all the facts” or leads to speculation, then empiricism falls into error.  But empiricism is still a far better method of knowledge than the other methods we have discussed.  But there are Truths out there we are purely unaware of.  It’s also a scientific axiom that man is ;imperfect and that he is learning all the time.  And more exploration and experimentation will further mankind’s more complete knowledge of the Truth.  It is my belief that “God” however you believe in him, is completely neutral on whether mankind acquires this missing knowledge or not, and shouldn’t enter into our consideration.  Science has brought us a long way.  We wouldn’t know the polar ice caps are melting were it not for research.  It’s good that we research our ecological balance and keep tabs on it to know how we are faring.  They sai that the earth’s core temperature has risen from 57 to 59 degrees.  This doesn’t sound particular earth shaking.  There are an awful lot of areas of the world in the tropics where the temperature may scarcely reach 57 degrees.  You know how water absorbs heat whereas ice reflects it and keeps the earth cooler, as is the natural order of events.  Explorers have dreamed of some “northwest passage” but we aren’t going to reach it at the price of a global catastrophy.  In summation then I think it’s a good thing that we are having these  major demonstrations tomorrow on Earth Day 2017 and let’s just hope President Trump is watching.  He could learn a lot because he is the most anti ecological president we may have ever had. 

Washington (CNN) US authorities have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, US officials familiar with the matter tell CNN.  The Justice Department investigation of Assange and WikiLeaks dates to at least 2010, when the site first gained wide attention for posting thousands of files stolen by the former US Army intelligence analyst now known as Chelsea Manning.  Prosecutors have struggled with whether the First Amendment precluded the prosecution of Assange, but now believe they have found a way to move forward.  During President Barack Obama's administration, Attorney General Eric Holder and officials at the Justice Department determined it would be difficult to bring charges against Assange because WikiLeaks wasn't alone in publishing documents stolen by Manning. Several newspapers, including The New York Times, did as well. The investigation continued, but any possible charges were put on hold, according to US officials involved in the process then.  The US view of WikiLeaks and Assange began to change after investigators found what they believe was proof that WikiLeaks played an active role in helping Edward Snowden, a former NSA analyst, disclose a massive cache of classified documents.  Assange remains holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, seeking to avoid an arrest warrant on rape charges in Sweden. In recent months, US officials had focused on the possibility that a new government in Ecuador would expel Assange and he could be arrested. But the left-leaning presidential candidate who won the recent election in the South American nation has promised to continue to harbor Assange.  So basically, Assange may never be brought to justice in the US. 

There was a police shooting incident in Paris they preempted normally TV scheduling for though there was little information.  I guy shot three police officers and one of them died and two of them were wounded.  The assailant in term was shot dead.  People are saying this may be part of a grand terrorist attack of some kind.  There is an election between a liberal and a conservative in a few days and I wonder if this incident will sway the voting public to vote in favor of security.  They say French police normally don’t carry guns but in this case they were armed and French citizens were taking pictures of that.  Trump was in the middle of a White House press conference with the leader of Italy and there was a lot of translation stuff going on.  He was asked about Syria and Turkey and also this latest attack in Paris. 

This is Thursday April 20, 2017 and supposedly marijuana day.  Norman Goldman is just coming on.  Paul has lent me a total of five cigarettes today and Ron has lent me his first, and yet I was craving a cigarette just now.  They call pot 4-20.  It has something to do with meeting at 4:20 in the afternoon and Norm will talk Canibus any time.  Norman has used it as medicine when nothing else would help his back.  Norm recommends it for PTSD also.  OK.  It’s also “Protest in favor of Science” day but I haven’t heard of any pro science or pro ecology demonstrations.  Maybe they’re saving that for Saturday.

One of the things Marx got right was the alienation of the producer/ worker from the output of his/her labor. The alienation is not just a loss of ownership; it’s also a loss of agency and a psychological alienation from the entire mode of production.  The workers’ alienation from the output of their labor doesn’t vanish just because the state owns the means of production; rather, the “capitalist” elite is replaced by a political elite and a state-clerisy managerial class.  “Socialism” is simply another flavor of state-cartel capitalism; Orwell would be proud of all the simulacrum self-serving “socialists” who have managed to enrich themselves at the expense of those actually producing goods and services.  Calling state-cartel finance-capitalism “socialism” doesn’t make it socialist.Orwellian double-speak doesn’t change the neofeudal nature of debt-based state-cartel finance-capitalism.  Let’s boil it down to its essence: if the producers don’t directly own/control the output of their labor, it’s capitalism, not socialism. State ownership/ control is nothing but the state-cartel coin turned over.  The only truly socialist system would be comprised of worker-owned collectives and co-ops, and privately owned and operated small enterprises.  In a truly socialist system, global corporations would pay such high entry fees and taxes that they could not compete on price against local worker-owned collectives/ co-ops.  In a truly socialist system, state functionaries would be banned from accepting bribes, campaign contributions, seats on philantro-capitalist foundations, corporations, etc., and barred from taking jobs in corporations after leaving state employment.  In state-cartel economies, “socialist” or otherwise, the system optimizes corporate profits, influence and agency. In a truly socialist system, worker-owned collectives/ co-ops and small business are optimized and corporations are de-optimized.

SPECIAL MARIJUANA DAY EDITION of a two month old compilation without any spoken word in it.  The three songs that were added are "Alice's Restaurant", which is kind of assiciated with marijuana even though there's nothing about grass in the song.  Then "Dave".  And then we have "South of Heaven", which continues the apocraliptic theme of the cover and content.  Go back to "Record" in the address bar then hit "older posts" and enter the title in Google find and you should locate it.  This version was released yesterday in the Federation.  

KEYS TO THE KINGDOM - released April 20th. 2017

Prelude / Tyrant (Judas Priest)
Writing on the Wall (Ted Nugent) **
Victims of the Fury (Robin Trower)
When Friends Fall Out (Guess Who)
Electric Funeral Pyre (Black Sabbath)
The Four Horsemen (Metallica)
Night Rider (Electric Light Orchestra)
Sketches of China (Jefferson Airplane) *
All This and More (Procol Herum)
One of These Days (Ten Years After)
Revolution No 9 (The Beatles)

Dave (Chich and Chong)

South of Heaven (Slayer)

Alice's Restaurant (whole song) (Arlo Guthrie)

Trump Sends an "Armada" to North Korea

This morning Stephanie Miller announced that Trump had sent an “armada” of ships to North Korea but the ship or ships went the wrong way and ended up in Austrailia.  I haven’t heard this story on any other news broadcast.  But I guess the Trump administration wants to prepare for WW III in North Korea.  Vice President Mike Pence announced almost as a parody of President Clinton that “The era of strategic patience is over”.  We know the North Korean guy let loose on America a couple of days ago.  So both sides say they are gung ho for War and each side has a trigger finger on the nuclear button.  Yet nobody seems to be worried. 

Astronomers keep discovering heavenly bodies capable of supporting life.  They even discovered a moon of Saturn with liquid water underneath the surface of ice.  The latest earth candidate is a “super earth” with more gravity orbiting a red star in the constellation of Cetus.  It’s 1.4 times the diameter of earth and is denser with more metal in its atmosphere.  Of course with each new discovery Christians shudder.  Even though it isn’t found in any Bible verse, these Christians hold it as an article of faith that no life of any sort exists outside Planet Earth.

Bill O Riley has been fired from FOX due to his sexual escapades.  A lot of people seem to have left FOX lately like Megan Kelly.  They say that Shawn Hannity is the only personality in their evening line-up who is the same as seven month ago.  It could be that Fox’s days as the premier conservative right wing news outlet are coming to an end.  Rush Limbaugh says not only is almost all of the media against “us” and telling the democratic party what to do and what demonstrations to put on, but also Rush Limbaugh now isn’t even sure FOX can be trusted.  

They had that Georgia house primary and the democrat got 48%, which is a figure at the upper end of their polling.  There were eleven Republican candidates splitting the remainder of the vote.  The run-off will be in June.  But the woman who is the surviving Republican candidate isn’t a very good candidate, you know.  But it’s easier to win than that because there were four other democratic candidates and two independents running in the race, too.  So as Norm says he has to get that two percent plus one vote but he has the other losing democratic candidates to draw from to get those votes, and suddenly that makes winning the race look easy, regardless of what Newt Gingrich says. 

 I went for a smoke and got a snack of a cup of lemonade and a graham cracker.  Then I got in the line to see Dr Saran.  He is working out of the old med room where there isn’t as much room.  There were a few people ahead of me in line.  I right off told him about the itching.  My blood pressure was 124 over 80, which is good.   I showed Dr Saran the bug bites on my arms and my stomach.  He wondered why my palms were so red but someone else said something about a Judy remark.  Dr Saran said the bumps and itching were not scabies.  He didn’t refer me to skin doctor but prescribed me some skin cream right off and I was glad of that.  I have to apply it twice a day and it will take a month to cure this itching.  He said alcohol was bad for the skin.  I’m supposed to use the skin cream twice a day for a month.  He never gave a name to this disease.