Hillary Testifies Before Congress

Today is October 22nd and the long awaited day when Hillary testifies before congress.  I think she may have made a mistake in wanting to testify in public.  Here's why.  Rep Pompino right now is grilling Hillary Clinton trying to make FOX headline news.  And they will succeed.  Shawn Hannity has no end of things to say about Hillary's guilt.  Some of this apparent rationalization Hillary appears to do may be hard to justify to the public.  Apparently no one was fired because of Bengazi.  The republicans say things rhetorically that appear to make sense.   The matter of why so many committees was justified in the opening statement saying "We haven't heard from tons of witnesses".  The democrats respond that there are other witnesses like the head of the CIA who haven't been called on at all.  Thom Hartman is having portions of the hearings.  I turned to the hearings on C-Span live a little after eight, and got a little drowsy listening to the first hour lying down.  The four killed were Ambassador Chris Stevens, Shawn Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Dority.   The Republican leader’s speech made a whole lot more sense than the raging of Elijah Cummings.  The democrats better make more than noise if they are going to show that this committee is unnecessary.  Hillary is speaking right now.  From my vantage point right now the democrats are the ones trying to make this political.  The Republicans only say they want ALL aspect of Bengazi gone into and that no person or piece of evidence is more important than any other person or evidence, just because it's Hillary.

Joe Biden withdrew from the race for President before he even got in.  This is what I predicted he would do months ago.  Months ago I mocked and chided these people like Shawn Hannity just waiting for Hillary's poll numbers to go down, because they won't and they aren't.  Shawn Hannity must have had a cow yesterday when it dawned on him that Hillary would stay on top in the polls and be the nominee.  There would be no coveted "Democratic Civil war" like Norman Goldman talks about with the Republicans.  Biden attacked Hillary or anyone who departs from Obama's legacy, as if he had one.  I wonder if Joe considers the Trans Pacific Partnership part of Obama's "legacy"?  Joe was instrumental in passing that bankruptsy bill ten years ago that makes it harder for ordenary people to declare bankruptsy but for billionaires it's just as easy as before and Donald Trump can go bankrupt four times, but if you're thousands of dollars in debt with a student loan you can't "discharge the debt" by bankruptsy.   Then we have Jim Webb getting out of the race the day before on Tuesday.  I was a little surprised by this because I think Webb has important contributions to make to the party and the discourse even if I don't agree with everything he says.  It shows that democrats can disagree agreeably.  But now if Webb goes and runs as an independent he's in a position to cause trouble syphoning off mainly "reluctant" Hillary voters to him and it might be enough to tip the balance to Marco Rubio or whoever gets the Republican nomination

Weather wise today and yesterday have about been perfect days.  Today is about as close to perfect as you could get.  The rumor is now that Lishia will be returning to live in this place and if she does she'll have the same frictions with Glenda.  My blogging pace has slowed to a crawl.  I write less often and my blog entries are shorter.  Physically I'm in good health.  I still think I might have cateracts that will need surgery and I've been meaning to see an eye doctor for an exam a couple of years now and put it off.   I still insist it would be easier to stop smoking of my psychotropic medications were tweaked a little with a little Zyban or Chantex.   I need to get back into philosophy and metaphysics.  I think the population at large needs to extend their mental capacities.   As you know I believe there are seven cardinal virtues and seven cardinal vices.  One of these involves sharing- - and I believe knowledge should be shared.  As Dr Levy said yesterday if you are a better person and more compassionate and uplifting to others, you make this a better world.

This paragraph is typed Wednesday October 21, 2015, which they say is the Orion meteor shower.  We had lentil soup for lunch.  We had a cheeseburger minus any catsup, and crude potato salad with an orange for dessert.  I went to the liquor store for cigarettes and got them and Glenda called out behind me as I was about to the door.  She and Andrew had ten white cigarettes for me.  That’s about as “paid off” as this debt is going to get.  They had already announced Dr Levy was in the back room.  We did a check in.  We talked about comparative religion at Joe’s request.  In my mind I was composing a letter to write to Dr Levy.  I won’t write him till tomorrow, if then.  Connie and Teresa and also Cathy were in the class.  Dr Levy said he’d probably only be able to make it to class every other week from now on.  It seems a long time since two weeks ago, when the cats were still very much alive.  I thought Dr Levy’s lecture overly stressed the unity between all religions and was kind of a warm, feely, fuzzy kind of presentation.  We had chocolate chip cookies and I had a total of four.  One of them was from Joe.  I watched Days of our Lives.  Aden was planning out in his vivid imagination just how he was going to carry off the murdering of Hope Brady.  It was kind of confusing.  Patch was in the very “safe house” Bo was headed towards, after talking to this Mexican lady.  I began putting away the clothes just before two.  Everything was there.  I missed snack break in the afternoon and sat in the front room a while.   I dozed off during Shawn Hannity and suddenly it’s three o clock and I’m dragging myself out for a cigarette and dragging myself back to the room and turned on Norman Goldman at about 3:12.