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.