Never a Tranquil Moment

NEVER A DULL MOMENT

Pack It Up (Pretenders)

That’s All (Genesis)

I’m Not Angry (Elvis Costello)

My Old School (Steely Dan)

A Song for Jeffrey (Jethro Tull)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica)

Queen of the Hours (Electric Light Orchestra)

Blue Turk (Alice Cooper)

Pandora’s Box (Procol Herum)   

When the Lights Go Down in the City (Journey)  

Pleasure (West, Bruce and Lang)

Everything Gives You Cancer (Joe Jackson)

Jamrag / Scumbag  (Frank Zappa and Elephants Memory)

Real One and Two  (The Who) 

The cover is news events of the day including this Nazi stuff and the car ramming in Charolettsville.  There is stuff from Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and from the earthquake in Mexico City.  The title "Never a dull moment" is the only one that seemed to fit even though it's a Rod Stewart album.  Title listings are on the back of this CD and on the left hand side opening it up- - are valves and the "blood supply" to red and blue states and the caption is "Now we know how they became blue states".  (No blood supply)  This album was released in the Federation on September 21st.   John Lennon argued against a gradual fade of "Scumbag" because it fits in better with the title".   Mal Evens didn't want Lennon's first choice for a Lennon song.  We added a final track because I think we ended the album on an awkward note.  We also did a little PH adjustment because the acidity of the ocean was running a little high.  People are talking about the end of the world being soon and the words "The Lord Jesus Christ" are trending.  That's interesting.  

This is Thursday September 21, 2017 and the start of Rosh Hashana, which began at sundown last night.  It’s also the traditional day of the expected Rapture among Christians though we in the Federation make it on the third day of the crescent moon, which is coming up in a couple of days.  In the news basically it’s “Never a tranquil moment”.  We have the 7.1 earthquake that struck in Mexico City a couple of days ago.  It caused a lot of violent shaking and destruction of buildings, and scared a lot of the locals out of their whitts as they fled in terror.  Mexico City is built over sediment from an old lake bed making the ground extremely unstable and prone to amplify shaking.  Of course they also had that other earthquake a couple of weeks back.  They are saying that the earthquake in 1985 was an 8.0 earthquake.  As I remember that one it was an 8.5 with a major aftershock of 7.8.  But the powers that be inform that I’m wrong.   But of course we have all these hurricanes still.  We still have hurricane Jose from weeks ago threatening the east coast and causing winds and high surf everywhere north of Virginia up through New England.  Of course the water gets drastically cooler once you pass a certain point in Virginia where there seems to be a “wall” of temperature variance if you look at a map.  We haven’t heard much from Hurricane Lee.  Hurricane Maria is between a four and a five magnitude hurricane with winds around 155 mph and literally engulfed the island of Puerto Rico with its full force.  It’s the first time Puerto Rico has had a direct hit like this in a hundred years.  They’ve been lucky up till now.  Untold destruction has been reaped upon the island and as an American territory the Trump administration will be responsible for providing emergency disaster relief.  We need to pray for those people.  I’m sure Christians are working overtime in topics they bring up for prayer meetings these days.   I wonder about all of these vacations handed out in Wheel of Fortune.  Most of these are Caribean islands to the south of the main ones such as Cuba.  Most of the islands they send you to are closer to the South American coast.  Of course the Trump Administration still won’t talk about global warming.  I heard the other day that the Trump administration ordered the destruction of a weather satellite that was paid for and ready to be launched.  And the reason they gave was that “We don’t want to lend credence or evidence to anyone who is supporting global warming”.  That’s pretty bad. 

The big news of the day is this Graham – Cassidy health care bill that is threatening to get passed in the next nine days.  That’s a scarey thought.  We thought we were home free in late June when the other health care bill went down in flames.  We democrats patted each other on the back then for dodging a bullet.  Now it’s back, in a new and more dangerous form.  Lindsey Graham is the “Gram” portion of the bill.  That’s Mc Cain’s partner in so many things but not on this one.  I hope John Mc Cain sticks to his guns and insists on “proper parliamentary procedure”, which we won’t get because there’s not enough time.  But John Mc Cain is under a lot of pressure to defy his principles and change his mind.  The Cassidy portion of the bill is this guy in Louisiana, where people in that state are so broke they want health care.   As to the bill itself I’ve heard that it keeps most of the Obama taxes.  This will help the deficit, which should be at a record low when the report comes out next month.  The fiscal year ends September 30^th and usually in October they give a report of the previous deficit and the projected deficit for the following year.  As to the bill itself it replaces Medicare and Medicaid with these “block grants” to red states to use for things never envisioned by the proponents of the Affordable Care act.  So it’s a boondoggle for ted state governors.  As to the blue states they will be squeezed dry for reasons I don’t yet understand.  From what I’ve heard the Republicans wanted to make it so that blue states such as California and New York and Washington would be unable to establish their own self-running Single Payer health care system.  The taxes they’d have to raise would just be too high.  But the thing is that all of the same US Senators are against this bill that were against the previous June bill, but for some reason republican analysts are more optimistic about passage with at least fifty votes this time.  If it passes the Senate, this bill will sail through the House with no opposition because House Speaker Paul Ryan has already signaled the bill will sail through with his blessing.  And no doubt it will be signed by President Trump a few days later. 

There is a new brewing crisis in the Asian nation of Mirimar or whatever, which used to be Burma.  There is a minority race there that is Moslem, and all they want is to practice their faith in peace but they are being persecuted in a major way and there is a mass fleeing to cross the border of Bangle Desh.  Who would guess people would be rushing to get IN to that nation?  Of course Free Speech TV says one of the earliest mass internment of races occurred in Cuba in the late 1800’s just before the Spanish American war.  There were orders that rebels be rounded up and those still out in public would be shot on sight.  They appointed a special guy for this operation they called “The butcher”.  The US public was riled up by this news. 

Paul sent me that E mail a while back saying that in 1917 only ten percent of the households had either telephones- - or even bathtubs.  That would mean my own grandparents didn’t have bathtubs when they were teenagers.  I only wish they were still alive so that they could set us straight on these statistics.  The article says not only marijuana but Heroin was still legal.  I guess I dispute this information.  I thought they took the cocaine out of Coca Cola in 1910 or something because people believe now that Cocaine was dangerous.