Senator Bernie Sanders
won big in Idaho and Utah taking about 78% of the votes in those two states to
Hillary’s 21% in those states. If he
keeps it up he can catch Hillary because Hillary’s delegate lead actually
shrank down a little to a 303 delegate lead.
As of right now Hillary has 1223 delegates to Bernie’s 920
delegates. Washington State is coming up
this Saturday and most likely Bernie will win big there closing the gap. Bernie always says he wins with a high vote
turnout, and the turnout was strangely down in Arizona. Norman Goldman just now said it’s his hope
that Bernie is still relevant in early June when California votes and Bernie
will win big here, too, as well as in Oregon.
There were irregularities in the Arizona Primary. Donald Trump and Hillary both won big in
Arizona but it’s a closed primary and winner take all on the Republican side so
Trump scored big. People who were recent
registrants to the democratic party were given a provisional ballot and their
votes probably won’t count. Cruz won big
in Utah because of its high Mormon population.
Ted Cruz is the one who wants to police Mosques to insure that there is
no radicalization occurring among the membership. They tried that in New York under Giuliani
and it didn’t work, so I’m told.
Hannity says that both Cruz and Trump are strong candidates in their own
way. They are both scarey candidates in
their own way. Trump of course wants to
bring back widespread and systematic torture.
Michael Savage claims that torture led to the hunting down and death of
Bin Laden. He is wrong and all the
government agencies say he’s wrong.
Trump even wants to kill relatives of terrorists. And then we have Judy’s remarks about how the
mass deportation will work because some will be deported and Judy says “breaking
up families is no big deal. They can go
back too- - besides these ilegals go back and forth across the border all the
time. Anyhow this writer is pleased with
Bernie’s success in two states yesterday and let’s hope some kind of trend is
started.
Last night they had
hour long news on ABC dedicated to the Brussels bombings. They ended up repeating themselves a
lot. The first attack came at 9:12 in
the morning or something at the Airport.
Then an hour or so later was the attack in a subway tunnel. They showed scenes here where it was
completely dark and I thought it was night or something. I’ve heard from two independent sources that
Brussels has lax security and it’s too easy for the wrong kind of people to
move about freely in the city. It’s
noteworthy that such news tends to help Hillary Clinton. Of course Hillary Clinton is also helped by
closed primary states. If ISIS hadn’t
taken credit for these attacks one might suppose that it was either the Russians
going after NATO or something, or perhaps the Greeks going after the European
Union headquarters. ISIS loves the
publicity and loves and feeds off the fears instilled in westerners. People on the left maintain that for some
perverse reason ISIS wants the United States to really crack down on dissent
and institute measures the more draconian the better. Because no matter how repressive we are it
will feed into the recruitment videos just as mass torture would feed into the
recruitment videos. I had to wait a long
time in the medication line with Christian.
I didn’t attempt to get coffee from Glen’s room because I saw Glen earlier
by the elevator and he walked away in the middle of the conversation. But later I met with him on the back benches
and he offered me a white cigarette and some of his big glass of tea. I was looking for a little “lift” to the
evening.
I had Norman Goldman on
for the three o clock hour. Norman
states that it’s folly to wish that “Well if we really elect somebody really bad
we will all see how bad things get and therefore in the next
election we will vote sharply in the opposite direction. Norman as do I believes this theory needs to
have a stake driven through its heart and buried. Because what happens is that the political
fabric is so damaged at we never will get back to where we were but that so
many things will have “happened” it will be impossible to reverse them
all. It’s kind of like the children of
an evangelist preacher being “protected” from “sin” and therefore aren’t
allowed to dance or go to movies or to date until they’re eighteen. He knows that once they get a taste of the
good life the rest of us enjoy they will never want to go back. It’s the same principle with the Cuban
people. With just the prospect of “the
good life” in America they will want to learn all they can about America as
they reach out to this president. And
“going back” to the way things were will prove problematical. Of such are resolutions made. But on the negative side- - we in America
have certain traditions and morays. Once
these strings of civility are severed by a Donald Trump, there’s no telling
what might happen. Of course now Norman
claims to know Donald’s military advisors.
He describes Trump as an eclectic on Foreign P:olicy taking a little
from here and a little from there. Trump
is a non interventionist to the extreme that he wants to even pull out of
NATO. This would create a sense of chaos
in the military as well as the Republican Party hierarchy.
The lead headline in
Washington’s blog is “The Trans Pacific partnership is Unconstitutional”. This goes without saying. The only thing is what happens when someone
brings a case before our Supreme Court.
Some international finger of “justice” is likely to proclaim that even
bringing this case before a court trial in the USA is disallowed under this
treaty. Then we’ll have a real
international crisis on our hands. Of
course Richard Nixon invented the concept of the modern “trade treaty” even
though the majority of the articles of the agreement are not about trade at
all. Neither do they address the
question of currency manipulation by China and others. I guess Nixon is living by his own doctrine
of “Well if the President of the United States does it, it is not against the
law”. I don’t know. I haven’t heard about “Obama Trade” much
lately in congress or anywhere. Maybe
the Republicans don’t want it now because Trump has done a thumbs down. Maybe this is part of the reason why the
Republican leadership wants to dump Trump.
But will Trump even have the delegates?
Now Norman Goldman is saying that
these same Republican bigwigs are manipulating the “rules” to that Trump thinks
he has 1250 delegates but in reality will only have eight hundred and
something. It sounds pretty shifty and
underhanded to me. But I learn new
things every day.
Tuesday: Thom wants to go back
to America First in economics, economic nationalism. He’s arguing with an anti Trump tea party guy
who believes in total Free Trade where American workers compete with slave
labor in Malaysia. Washington’s blog
indicates that is Hillary Clinton fails to get indicted then we have no
criminal justice system left in this country.
Are there any Roman Brady’s in the justice department who say “I know
best” and chooses to block the prosecution of the obviously guilty for some
“higher purpose”, in this case the election of Hillary Clinton as Wall Street’s
tool in Washington. Thom just said “The
Chinese government is more repressive than the Cuban government”. If that’s true, what are the right wingers
complaining about? There was an attack
in Brussels last night by ISIS or somebody.
Ted Cruz is now calling for police patrols of Muslim neighborhoods to
make sure there are no outbreaks of radicalism.
Apparently Mayor Giuliani tried this right after 9 – 11 and it was
unfruitful.
President
Obama is in Cuba this Sunday and today and tomorrow. (They said 48 hours) He’s meeting with Raul Castro but he won’t be
meeting with Fidel. He took the wife and
daughters with him there, too. I am in
favor of the trip, which I’m sure would make me a bad Republican. It’s time to set aside old grudges from 55
years ago. Sunday was also Palm Sunday
and they featured some Papal activities. In terms of political beliefs, the Pope is much closer to me than he is the rest Protestant Christianity.
I
had Rhapsody in Black on and they spent most of the show doing a tribute to Sam
Cooke. They started with “Let the Good
Times Roll”, which they inform us is from March of 1964. The Rolling Stones performed this song. They started off with some gospel music from
Cook in 1956. I went out a while and the
next song I heard was “The Cha Cha Cha” followed by “She Was Only Sixteen” and
then Cook’s contract with King records ran out and they brought “Don’t Know
Much About Biology” from their vault.
Sam Cooke moved to RCA and they played “Chain Gang” and later “Cupid” but
some stuff from early 1961 wasn’t familiar.
They played “Twisting the Night Away” and the follow up single according
to Bill Gardener was a two sided single of “Bring It On Home” and “We’re Having
a Party”. There were three more songs I
didn’t recognize then they played “Another Saturday Night”, which I thought was
from 1962. They played a version of
“Frankie and Johnny” and then “Little Red Rooster” and then “Ain’t that Good
News”. They then played some civil
rights song about “The Change is going to Come”. They finished with “Shake” and one
other. Sam Cooke was shot by a jealous
boyfriend- - and I guess he was only thirty-three when he died. I think my cold symptoms are getting a
little more pronounced now. I have NBC
network news on right now. There is a
growing trend of teenagers not to get drivers licenses than they used to. There are the insurance costs and better bus
service and a growing trend toward physical fitness and walking, and also more
rely on their parents or friends.
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