Major Seran Gas Attack in Syria

There has been another severe Seran gas attack in Syria and they showed photos of it on the ABC network news.  They were hosing down kids trying to get the poison off of them.  A week ago Assad first used chlorine gas on his own people but now he’s upped the ante.  Now the ball is squarely in Trump’s court and he’s where Obama was in 2013.  Will Trump now draw his own red line in the sand saying Syria has crossed it and will now pay the penalty?  Just a week or so ago officials of the Trump administration were trying to come up with a way to keep Assad in power in Syria.  Trump did issue a statement saying what a barbaric and cruel act the Seran gas attack was, but he stopped short of saying what the repercussions will be.  This is a test moment for Trump.  But all Trump could do was to somehow blame Obama for the attack saying that if Obama had properly dealt with the problem in 2013 we wouldn’t be facing the problem now.  Clearly we have to remove Assad from power- by war if necessary.  We need to probe where Syria got the gas and whether Russia had anything to do with it.  Meanwhile former UN ambassador Susan Rice of the Obama administration is in trouble again, as we said in our last posting.  She is naming names of people from the Trump administration caught in our surveillance of Russian phone calls.  They call it “unmasking”.   If Rice is guilty of anything then they should take proper measures against her but personally I don’t see any problem.  After all it takes two to tango and clearly those Russian officials were talking to somebody from our side.

Yesterday April 4^th was “equal pay day” for women.  It’s the amount of time a woman had to work into the year of 2017 to equal a man’s pay earned in 2016.  I didn’t know that.  There were protests.  Apparently John Kennedy signed the “equal pay” bill for women in 1963 and here it is fifty years later and they still don’t have equal pay.  So if the equal rights amendment to the constitution has been passed, would women have equal pay now?

There is fresh information on the American Healthcare Act.  Now they are trying harder to please the Freedom Caucus by taking out the pre condition portion of the AHA.  This will save insurance companies a lot of money and incidentally will lower premiums for health people and raise them for the truly sick.  Also they want to take away just maintenance care and a host of services Obama Care provided.  Obama Care as we know it will soon be officially dead.  With Trump’s luck the bill just might pass the house now.  It’s a case of trying a little to please the hard right and assuring the hard right that they call the shots.  We know how Trump said he wanted to reach out to the democrats but now we know that Trump was just flapping his lips.   After this of course there is “tax reform”, which will also please the hard right.

It doesn’t look as though evil has an expiration date.  You can’t think in terms of “waiting it out” or “running out the clock” or waiting for some pre set moment to arrive to bail us all out.  This seems to be a losing proposition as far as the tea party right is concerned.  Betting money on it would lose you money every time.  But does good have an expiration date?   As you know I listed Obama’s last press conference as having an edited running time of 43:21 like some kind of a count-down.  They were counting Obama down squeezing him out before his time is up.  Now we don’t know where President Obama is except I thought he was snorkeling in Hawaii or something like that.  He deserves a fine vacation.  He has his whole life in front of him and could do virtually anything.  He could be a lobbyist, which I heard was likely for him to do since that’s where “they all end up” anyhow.  He could go back into private legal practice.  Or he could be a community organizer.  We’ve never had a president who retired from office so young.  As you know the “final listing” of Obama’s speech is listed in Skeletons from the Closet on December 26^th under the post heading of “The makings of a despot”.   A good name for this brief collection of tracks should be “Count-down for Obama”.  Many people feel we are headed toward from great crisis point in the world.  From the way people have talked they view a nuclear war as somehow not only thinkable but winnable.  As I’ve said before I don’t relish spending the twilight years of my life under the thump of Donald Trump and the Koch Brothers.   We’ve spent the whole century so far under ultra right rule. 

In Washington’s blog they were talking about how the United States didn’t want an official peace treaty after the Korean War but it was in our interest to keep the hostilities going.  The United States is portrayed in this posting as somehow wanting to foment a nuclear war and how North and South Korea have signed a “no first use of nukes” pledge but the United States has not agreed to this.  Rush Limbaugh is putting forth the argument that before the Trump campaign the democrats were friendly to Russian interests.  This isn’t true because Obama has continually made statements against Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and in Syria.  I would call our recent stance antagonistic toward Putin and Russia.  Certainly Washington’s blog has portrayed Obama as very much anti Russian. 

Suggested (two tracks) changes to the RADIO READY Album of June 2007.   The new tracks are Stones and AC- DC and AC - DC is deliberately not in order just so you'll ask questions about it.  

Green Eyed Lady (Sugarloaf)

Going Out to the Country (Canned Heat)

Honey, What Do You Do For Money (AC - DC)

Heart Shaped Box (Nirvana)

High, High, High (Mc Cartney and Wings)

Hold Me (Fleetwood Mac)

Holy, Holy (David Bowie)

House on Puneil Corners (Jefferson Airplane)

disc three

I Can’t Wait for the Nights with You (Scorpions)

If I Was A Dancer (Rolling Stones)

I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob Dylan)

It’s Too Late (B L T)

Journey to the Center of the Mind (Amboy Dukes)