Democrats All Ready to Filibuster Gorsuch

 There are four reasons why the Democrats should go ahead and filibuster Judge Neil Gorsuch.  Right now they have enough votes to filibuster the nomination because they just did a head count and three more democrats are undecided.  First of all it’s a stolen nomination right out from under Obama’s nose.  Justice Scelia died in late February of 2016 and there was plenty of time to approve the new nominee.  But Mitch Mc Connell wanted someone who is at least as far right as Scelia and Gorsuch fills the bill.  Trump is under a multi pronged investigation and shouldn’t be nominating anybody till the issues are resolved.  Because this is a lifetime appointment.  Also Gorsuch lied to the Senate at his confirmation hearings.  I heard that.  He says he believed in “settled law” but was against Roe verses Wade.  Either he lies or he refuses to answer a question at all.  But he puts on this nice façade of “well you know what a nice guy I am, who follows the law”.  Then there is the matter of seventeen million dollars.  That’s how much the tea party is spending on him to put him in office.  They want a justice securely in the back pocket of corporations and Gorsuch is the quintessential corporatist.  The vote is going to take place April 7^th, which is this Friday, before the Easter recess.  The Democrats almost want Mc Connell to change the filibuster rule.  Because they can henceforth say “It was the democrats and not we who blew up the filibuster rule”.  It’s something Harry Reid and the democrats had the option of doing a couple of years ago for supreme court justices and they deliberately opted not to take that step, perhaps knowing that a situation very much like this one might arrive in the future. 

 Gary and Shannon had a guest on their show before noon mentioning Bill O Riley paying off his female employees not to bring legal action for sexual harassment against anybody at FOX studios.  Otherwise there’d be even more complaints.  Susan Rice in the Obama administration illegally released names of people around Donald Trump who talked with the Russian government.  According to Gary they were “innocent third parties”.  Wendy Walsh was on Bill O Riley's show herself and he made sexual harrasment against her but she doesn't want a legal settlement, only to get the word out.  Five other women were sexually harassed and they were paid thirteen million to keep quiet.  

On Sixty Minutes they had this one lady cop who shot a Black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  She’s been charged with murder but the all white jury they are sure to pick will let her off Scott free.  This large Black man was on PCP and “acting funny” and got the officer’s attention.  The officer saw an abandoned car with the engine running down the road and she looked in the car but says she didn’t look for firearms.  I find this very hard to believe.  This is the first thing cops look for.  But the man began walking toward the abandoned car and had his hands up but when he got too close to the car, she shot and killed him.  She said his actions were “suspicious” because he kept looking back to see if she was still following him.  This is what is known as “targeting behavior”.  The theory goes he’s headed to his car to go turn around quickly and shoot the officer and he was just calculating how fast he could make his move.  Many officers lace their testimony with clichés but this testimony on Sixty Minutes was ALL clichés and absolutely no substance at all.  That’s what we’re up against.  After this I got my medication from Ida and it was a tuna sandwich.  Sixty Minutes had this eccentric architect on who caters to the richest of clientele.  NCIS wasn’t on so I turned it to “Elementary” on KTLA.  I didn’t sleep real well because I woke to itching but then went back to sleep.

This is Sunday April 2, 2017.  Let’s start with the important news.  Disneyland is extending the run of the Main Street Electrical Parade from June 18^th and now it’s been extended to August 20^th.   I don’t know who won any three games of the Freeway Series.  Rosie, of “Rosie and the Originals” died today.  They played the John Lennon version of “Angel Baby” on “Breakfast with the Beatles”, which wasn’t on the original “Rock and Roll” album apparently.  Rosie recorded her big hit in San Diego in a converted airport hanger at age fifteen.  I had no idea she was that young.  Only five years older than I am.   Today is officially “Peanut butter and jelly” day, which is what we are scheduled to have for dinner tonight.  Back in the summer of 1980 when Terry was even weirder than he is now, he suggested we call Joshua “peanut butter” and Laura “jelly”.   It dawned on me that I don’t have featured any representatives from the album “Emotional Rescue” and I don’t know why because we have two from the following album, “Tatoo You”.   There are a lot of good songs notably “She’s So Cold”, which reminds me of Laura in the summer of 1980.  Also “If I Was A Dancer” isn’t used.  In terms of the phrase “On a fine Arab Charger”, in my Prophecy book I refer to Arab horses as being the horses that will be used in the Battle of Armageddon.   They aren’t the purest bred, but they are the original breed with supposedly one less rib or something than all other horses.