It's Just "More of the Usual"

Things are a mess in national politics.  Muller is not one bit closer to handing down any indictments and once again I’m thinking he’s never going to do it.  It’s been so long.  The top three people are under a cloud of scandal.  The Lt Gov guy has that sexual scandal and the other two are worried about black face.  They can’t get rid of all three or else then they would have a republican as governor of Virginia.  Now the current attorney general, Widicker is on the stand testifying before a congressional committee and it isn’t going well at all.  He said he would only testify if it were voluntary, which means he gets to refuse to answer any questions he doesn’t want to so it’s near useless even having him there.  All he can say is, “This process is too political”.   Obama never said his detractors were too “political” when they spent months investigating that IRS agent and then Hillary for the E mails and Bengazi.  But all we hear now is if they investigate Trump or try to impeach him they are “being too political”.   People like Millie still say even at this late date that Obama is the worse president we ever had- - and of course point to the deficit.  Naturally we don’t know what Trump’s deficit will be after eight years.  Obama ran a deficit because he had to to keep the economy afloat.  Trump is deliberately having a tax cut for the rich to cause a deficit.  This is a deficit of choice and there is a major difference.  Trump still feels secure with his base and we have given him little reason to feel uneasy.  All our committees are pretty much impotent to do anything these days and Trump knows it.  He’s counting on his base to re-elect him.  Obviously he’s counting on another light turn-out as well as continued election fraud by purging people from the roles.  I doubt he can count on the National Inquiror again to run stories about Hillary again.  Hillary is politically dead and none of the new crop of democratic candidates has the political baggage that Hillary did.   Trump claimed the economy is the best in the world and that the US is a net energy exporter.  This is news.  If this is the case why does the price of a barrel of oil continue so high?  Obviously Trump lies with every breath just like FOX news tells lies with every utterance and their fans accept it as though they were listening to a Bible recitation in church. 

Norman Goldman is going off the air in two weeks.  He won't be around to see the downfall of President Trump.  A lot of us will die of old age waiting for the end of the Republican reign of terror that they've had since 2001.  All of the conservative hosts hang around forever such as Larry Elder, Shawn Hannity, Rush Limbaugh.  Dennis Prager,  James Dobson et all.   Compare this to liberals who are fleeting.  We have Randy Rhodes and Norman Goldman, and Ed Schultz, Johnny Wendell, Mike Meloy and whoever.  Nicole Sandler was an RR fill-in.  On the left they're here today and gone tomorrow.  Financial considerations dictated that Goldman leave the air waves.  

Last night on Jeopardy they talked about various mathematical constants.  The one we’re most familiar with is Napier’s constant.  Isn’t he the guy who invented the slide rule?  Anyhow it’s the Base E number of 2.718 or whatever.   There is a more complex way of writing the formula to calculate than the one I use in a BASIC program.  It is x + x and then plus x over one half and then one sixth and then 1/24th and then plus 1/120 or whatever and it’s the N! function carried out on the calculator going up by one to infinity each time adding a tiny sliver.   There is also the famous “hatch back” equation where x dips down to blow zero to negative infinity and flattens out to the right.  I have a formula I’ve never quite reduced down to where if exponent and base number are reasonably close in ratio like two or less, the Base number is close to Base E but as the ratio between number and exponent increases the base line gets lower and lower. 

It dawned on me that when I talked about hyperspace I said that there was no Time in hyperspace.  This needn’t be so.  This is because there are still gravitons or higgs bozons in this space made up of massless “matter’ alias bozons.  Of course this isn’t affected by gravity, but then again when you’re floating free in space you aren’t affected by gravity either but there is still Time.  In fact time actually travels a little quicker in pure weightlessness. 

I actually fell asleep before the State of the Union address.  Maybe they need to scale back my medication.  I got the iron pill from Jan around ten to five.  The first thing I remember was President Trump introducing a rocket guy to applause and he said they were United States rockets.  Then there was a whole series of bragidocious statements that went on for another fifteen minutes or so.  He bragged about the llow unemployment rate and the job additions and more Blacks and women are employed than ever before and wages have risen.  There was a whole delegation of women and white and they applauded and Trump said we have more women in congress than ever before.  It almost looked like the women were honoring Trump.   Much of the applause was punctuated with chants of “U S A”.   It was very spirited cheering.  Then the president launched into a fifteen minute rant about the border and the need for security.  He also said that the cities of San Diego and El Paso used to be the most dangerous cities to live in and now these two cities are among the safest cities and the border crossings are all but eliminated.  He would move from topic to topic very quickly with no transition, almost in mid sentence.  He went and talked about the economy and terriffs and how industrial espionage involving China has all but been eliminated.  Of course he failed to say that the trade deficit itself is now worse than ever before.  He talked about the tax cut for rich people.  He said the automotive and other manufacturing segments were “back”.  (Improved)  He then began talking about cracking down on drug industry prices and the opioid epidemic of deaths.  Nobody could disagree with these things.  He never talked about guns and weapons polliferation and he never talked about the government shut-down either in the past or future tense.  It’s as though the problem didn’t exist.  He talked about childhood cancer and AIDS research.  Finally he made his way to foreign affairs and talked about the Ronald Reagan nuclear treaty that the president blew up last week because Russia had been consistently violating it.  He talked about negotiating with Afghanistan to end the longest war in United States history and said “We have finally militarily gotten to the place where we can negotiate”.   He then launched into a tyrade against Iran.  He then talked about anti-Semetism and the synagogue that was attacked last fall and personal stories.  Of course all through the address he introduced various guests but I never saw that eleven year old boy that was bullied for having the name of Trump.  He then talked about stuff from World War II and the liberation of German death camps.  He closed with some generalizations about America and his hopes for the future.  Whoever the script writer was, they used all of the right words.  The speech lasted at least an hour and twenty minutes- - maybe longer.  At 7:30 I went out for a smoke and talked to Dorthey.  Trump talked about Venezuela and how he feared that the democrats wanted to advance a socialist agenda for America.  “We will never be a socialist nation” to thunderous applause.  The President also warned that none of this legislative agenda will be dealt with as long as the House cares to investigate the president.  Trump warns “You can’t have war and investigation”.   Was he saying that if they investigate him in any way when he’s declaring war on congress?   Nancy went in and I left Dorthey to go get my medication from Jan.  I mentioned the speech to Jan.  “I’ll listen to it later on tape”.   Then I hurried and caught most of the democratic response.  Her speech was only about ten minutes.  I didn’t get in on the beginning of it.  She shared a lot of personal material about herself.  She spoke quickly as if under some sort of time constraint.  The commentators didn’t have much time to get in their own remarks because they apparently had to beat an eight o clock deadline.   NCIS wasn’t on so I switched to “The Flash” and whatever program was on at nine on KTLA.