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)