Friday, August 09, 2019

Global Warming Is a Present Reality


This is Friday August 9, 2019 and the 45th anniversary of when President Nixon resigned.  Time flies when you’re not having fun.  Yesterday was August 8th and it was the fiftieth anniversary of the Abbey Road photograph with the Beatles and the street appeared in the news all day.  It was nearly a year ago when the lead posting in “Skeletons from the Closet” first appeared.  It was about the twentieth anniversary of whenever- - - when things were better in my life and I felt younger and had more energy and I wasn’t seeing doctors every other day.  Last night the score was 7 to 7 in the pre season football game between the LA Chargers and the Arizona Cardinals.  Then I got distracted and eventually went to bed.  I need to be more goal oriented and stick with something.  Congress is off for six weeks, as you know.  I think talk of impeachment will be dead when congress starts up again in September.  The voters will tell their congressmen “we just want to think about the election.  We’re tired of wallowing in the past”.  Of course with Trump, an outrage becomes “In the past” a day or two later, and all we want to do is just forget the previous four years never happened.  Of course Trump won’t let us forget because there is a new outrage.  Thom Hartman is still a little worried that Trump may not leave office when his first or second term is expired.  For a guy whom it was rumored didn’t want the job this means fighting awfully hard to hang on to it.   They were talking about when Adolph Hitler first came to power in Germany.  That was on January 30th of 1933.  Nothing changed immediately and the newspaper editorials weren’t concerned.  There were a million things that could happen that would keep Hitler’s tenure from being one of any length.  Of course with Trump and Hitler what we need to remember is that they are stealth candidates.  There is a lot more beneath the surface that we don’t see.  We could still have a dictatorship with Trump.  And if that happens people like my brother will still be saying “I think it’s a shame that the media in this country doesn’t respect our president”.  I’d like to know why Paul “respects” him.  What noble deed has Trump done to earn my brother’s admiration.  In the beginning nobody thought Trump had any future, but it’s as though somewhere along the line he cast a spell on them.  We hear that with Hitler that the legislature rebuffed Hitler’s “conditions” many times and each time they said, “Well, that’s the last we’ll hear from that guy”.  But each time Hitler came back.  It’s like he and God knew that he was destined for world power, or something.

I turned on Democracy Now at five thirty.  We have a Global Warming crisis for real, you know.  Some people believe it’s already too late to act, as the debate illustrated.  Google won’t refer you to left wing sources or groups.  We heard that last week.  But Google is not above smearing progressives if they are paid enough money from the right people, like reps from Monsanto.  As you know Roundup has the cancer thing, but also it’s a GMO and there legal as well as health ramifications to this.  GMO’s mess with your immune system and cause organ failure.  Neil Young put out a whole album about the activities of Monsanto, and they played a song off of it.  Maybe I’ll buy it.  Someone was saying maybe it’s OK if the democrats pick a “corporate” nominee.  I certainly hope not.  We don’t want another president like Bill Clinton, who signed a bill selling out the communications industry.  That’s too corporate for me.  But hey, “Anybody but Trump”.  Let’s hope we aren’t that desperate.  I hope Joe Biden isn’t owned by some corporation.  I haven’t heard that he was.  They say that the earth’s surface temperature is rising faster than anticipated and we are already a couple of degrees above where we should be.  We have to take decisive action on fossil fuels.  Some want us to limit our meat intake because this is inefficient use of the land.  A lot of the changes we’ll have to make are cultural changes, which take a long time to go into effect.  But we can’t have a president who believes it’s all “fake science”.  We cannot afford to have a president who doubts the existance of the problem.  It was 28 years ago when Al Gore put out “Earth in the Balance”.   Evidence has only accumulated by the ton in the past 28 years.  One can only wonder what would have happened if Al Gore had been elected president in 2000. 


The big news from Rick Unger is that Senator Mc Connell is going to allow some gun legislation to be taken up.  It might be a background check.  But more likely it’s instituting these “red flag” laws like apparently we have here in California.  That is- - if a loved one is deemed unfit or mentally unstable you have the ability to take his gun away from him.  The trouble is this won’t cut down on gun sales because the family already owns the gun.  The way Rick Unger put it, this is “emergency back pocket legislation”.   The Republicans knew there would come a day when there were too many gun mass shootings and the people would rise up and demand that congress do something, so that they can be re-elected again.  The problem is that Trump reversed the executive order given by Obama that mental patients on SSI like myself be put on a master list of people not allowed to buy guns.  This of course would stimulate gun sales, which is what the NRA wants.  Also Trump opened the door to gun sales to other countries.  Whether any of this will happen is still a mystery.  It may all be just a liberal’s pipe dream.  

I turned on the computer about twenty to six.  She talked about Trump and mental illness and how mental patients are more often victims of violence rather than the instigator of it.  Before this it was Kashmir.  The Federation spells it “Kashmeir” and they are pro Kashmir autonomy.  It’s the first time the Federation has come out of its shell since June.  My contacts with the Federation are almost non existant and they picked that issue to do it.  Then it was Stephanie.  There was a medication line so I didn’t get my medication till breakfast.  They contradicted the menu and we had sugar frosted flakes for a cereal.  After this it was a scrambled egg and cheese sandwich on an English muffin.  I had just the one cup of coffee.  We had tater tots and catsup. 

Ted La Raunt found out the hard way the great truth NEVER BE THERE WHEN NICOLE TAKES OFF HER MASK.   Here's a secret.  Sometimes when powerful people or even spiritual entities lie to you, they are protecting you from something more ghastly that will happen to you.  When they choose to reveal all of their secrets, the end is near.  (Selah)

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