President Trump Losing his War with the NFL

President Trump is losing the “football wars”.  The opening shot came last Friday at a rally in Alabama (of all places).   President Trump suggested that a team owner or coach call anybody who wouldn’t stand for the National Anthem as a son of a bitch.  Trump made other inflamitory statements over the weekend.  He got a lot of blow back for it on Sunday.  They held an NFL game in London and the Jagwires and the Ravens were playing and a lot of players took a knee, and not to end the game.  Then all over people were taking a knee or sitting with their fists in the air or else standing with their arms locked around another as an action of solidarity.  Trump then said “Well you know racecar drivers wouldn’t tolerate any driver now showing proper respect to the flag”.  Of course racecar driving is primarily a sport of the southern states.  I used to think of it as something they did in the winter when it was too cold to do much in northern states.  

The end of the world has been put on hold.  Actually what these Christians said was that last Friday or Saturday would open up a Judgement Period where God would have a special microscope on the United States.  So we should be on our best behavior.  They also say that the following solar eclipse with this one form a giant cross or X accross the United States, which is a little unusual.  If this planetary formation last Saturday was so unusual maybe these prognosticators shouldn't give up on it entirely.   I don't understand it fully but apparently various planets form a Crown over the virgin's head, which is great if we were into Mary worship or something.

Of course the Republicans still haven't voted on that Health Care repeal bill yet and all of the votes aren't nailed down on our side for sure.   I'm assuming that congressmen read their mail and that vox populi will pervail and the bill will fail.  However the other side has a lot of resources and it's not that big of a matter to those people to bribe whom they need to and threaten others with political blackmail and arm twisting and old fashioned horse trading, and the republicans may yet pull this one out of the fire.  Marginally interesting stuff highlighted in green.  

Dr Nichols is the skin doctor everyone around here sees and I've seen him on and off since August of 2016.  But apparently we all won't be seeing him much longer.  Dr Nichols will be retiring at the end of the year and a stranger has bought out his practice.  Linda said that Dr Nichols wasn’t happy about his future prospects, and I speculated whether Dr Nichols might be having some kind of financial problems.  Maybe it’s too generous with his time.  

Windows takes a uniform amount of time to load now even if it’s longer.  It also takes longer for the Start rectangle to appear.  This is Monday September 25, 2017 with three and a half days to go before I get paid.   Jennifer just announced the start of Money draw on a Monday.  More people will have cigarettes to borrow from.  I got lemonade and a graham cracker from Rico.  Days of our Lives was uneventful except one thing.  Justin had Abigail swear out a knowingly false statement about what Abigail knew before she was married.  Clearly the statement is provably false because the reason why Abigail married Dario was because he told her that he HAD to marry an American or else his immigration status would be withdrawn and he’d be deported and turned over to the Mexican mafia.  Now Zander is making threatening phone calls to Victor.  I made myself instant coffee and I have only one spoon of coffee left in the jar for tonight. 

We had sliced chicken breasts for lunch with broccoli.  We had scalloped potatoes with that and I should have gotten more potatoes when they were offered.  We had peaches with whipped  cream on them for desert and I had seconds on that.  They were serving coffee in the big styrophoam cups partially filled.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on.  Rachael came in here with someone and they were talking about our beds and I thought they said mine needed to be replaced because Nora found beg bugs.  I’m not sure but I’ve needed a new mattress for a long time anyhow. 

Last night I was drowsy during the ABC network news at five thirty.  There was some news after that and then I remembered the game.   The Washington Redskins defeated the Oakland Raiders but I don’t remember the score but it was lopsided.  I had Sixty Minutes on but I didn’t see Oprah.  They had a thing on the hurricanes and an interview with John Mc Cain talking about his cancer of the brain and his feelings about President Trump.  Trump isn’t reaching out to him at all to reconcile or anything.  Later on it was some drama on KTLA but drowsiness got the better of me.  I don’t remember if I had any instant coffee.  The KTLA news came on at nine.  I went to bed.  I woke before five needing a cigarette.  I showered and went out there.  I don’t remember what I found in the way of cigarettes.  Later on John gave me butts.  I made myself instant coffee and lay back down with the light off.  At six medication announcements came and I turned on the computer and listened to Stephanie Miller.   I was lucky enough to catch the Rude Pundit today.  I went down at the bottom of the hour to get medication from April.   May-be it’s my timing or April is getting faster but I’m less aware now of really long waits.

Breakfast was a little slow to get going.  It dawned on me that I needed to include “Pandora’s Box” by Procol Herum in that latest compilation.  I considered making more drastic changes but decided against that.  We had Raison Bran for breakfast.  This was followed by scrambled eggs and two biscuits and gravy.  I had Stephanie on and a little of Thom Hartman.  Bill informed me that Glenda was in the building.  I went down to see her.  She has a healthy tanned glow about her.  She said she lives in the part of Corona that gets really hot.  I saw her two different times.  One time I mentioned the fading blotches on my skin.  Glenda was there to pick up some certificate of discharge or something.  She’d been going here and there all morning doing chores.  Andrew showed no interest in seeing her.  Eventually I went out for snacks and got a lemonade and a graham cracker.  Bill had “The Price is Right” on.  They had news on that show last week when all three contestants rolled a hundred on the wheel and they had to do roll offs and someone rolled a hundred and they had to pay out eighty thousand dollars all together.  It was unprecedented.  As predicted, the weather got a lot warmer today.