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.