What Should Trump Do Now?

Trump’s bombing of that Syrian air base has come under increasing scrutiny.  On the one hand there are those who are calling it “pin prick” missile strikes even though there were 58 hits on the target.  The Syrians were able to get the air strip up and running in a few hours.  They apparently didn’t crater the runways, as one thought they would.  They lost twenty planes but now we are told the Russians will just supply them new planes, to replace the twenty obsolete ones that were destroyed.  Stephanie is saying that both Putin and Assad were warned ahead of the time of the bombing raid.  That would really be strange.  You don’t let the drug dealers know you’re about to make a surprise bust.  Some said we shouldn’t have done anything at all on the risk of starting World War III.  A lot of people including his son in law were saying Trump should have responded with more force.  That’s what Hillary and Israel wanted him to do.   Trump seemed to take the air strike seriously.  I suppose he prayed about it.  My position on prayer is that you should not pray FOR some specific thing to occur, but on the other hand each person has hos own conscience and a form of moral compass.  It’s what I call the Marcion wall.  There is the God of nature and forces in this world, and then there is the god of karma and morality.  A President Hillary would have done more to attack Syria.  Some have said Trump deliberately disguised the air strike as severe knowing all along it would be inconsequential and would blow over.  Putin has put out some morally hypocritical remarks.  Washington’s blog is similarly “out to lunch” in this area.  Now we have that ISIS bombing of an Egyptian church service during Palm’s Sunday.  Of course ISIS has no sense in the slightest of reverence for other religious practices or any common decency.  As such I agree with the people who say that we need to first turn our sights on ISIS forced and if possible working with the Russians, and after ISIS is eliminated on the world scene (a tall order) then we’ll deal with Assad.  I think also we need to investigate the actual source of the chemical weapons that were used.   President Obama may want to rethink the portion of his memuire where he says “We handled the crisis of 2013 better than if we’d taken action because Putin got the Syrians to destroy their weapons.”  Obama was thus made a fool out of.   We need to explore the allegation, however slight, that it was actually ISIS that had the chemical weapons.  The question remains why we haven’t ourselves located the cache of chemical weapons and use our planes to destroy that.  Now Syria is bombing the same city again only without chemical weapons and is that suddenly OK?

THE FINAL BRICKS IN THE WALL  rel April 9th 2017

I’m Busted (Ray Charles)
Got My Mind Made Up To Love You (Marvyn Gaye)
The Israelite (Desmond Decker & the Aces)
Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' (1969 artist)
Hot Buttered Popcorn (1969 artist)
Sock It To Me (Isley Brothers)
You Just Don't Care (Santana)
Skin Tight (Ohio Players) 7:54
Get It On In the Morning (Bill Chase)

I Like Marijuana (David Peale & the Lower East Side)

Queen Bitch (David Bowie)

Pictures of Home (Deep Purple)

All The Young Girls Love Alice (Elton John)
Thick as a Brick (Warner Brothers Sampler Edit)  JT

This album has undergone a renovation from its October of 2008 roots.  First of all we are X'ing out out opus magnum of Pink Floyd because the length police are on our case and 'Skin Tight' throws the playing time up into the stratusphere.  So we added a track 3 and a track 13.  Some say "The Ohio Players" should have been selected for our card deck thing instead of "Earth, Wind and Fire".  We may make a substitution if there are enough votes.  "Alice" was slated to be on the original October 2008 album but got bumped along with Deep Purple because of length considerations.  John Lennon referred to David Peale in his song "New York City" and I remembered him from the hippy mists of the past.  David Peale died last Thursday and I just heard about it today.  This Federation and Sirius A album was released today Sunday April 9^th.    A lot of stuff seems to happen on Sundays.  As for Jethro Tull this is not the original 1972 radio edit, and it isn’t the KLSX edit, which is brief.  It’s one of these “Loss Leaders” as they referred to them, and it gives you a pretty good sample of the song.  There was talk of renaming this album AM And FM, but David Peale himself preferred the original title.  In case you’re mystified “Pictures of Home” is track three on “Machine Head” from 1972.  David Peale is now living on Sirius A and in full contact with them.  

Rhapsody in Black had a female singer guest and an odd assortment of songs.  There were a few classic moldy oldies such as “I’m In Love Again” by Fats Domino”, “Why do Fools Fall in Love” and “Speedo” by the Cadillacs.   She came up with some off the wall songs such as “Tell Me Something Good” from 1974.  That song is such a misfit it’s a misfit even among the disco songs of the era.  “Got My Mind Made Up To Love You” is a Marvyn Gaye song that slipped through the cracks of my picks- - almost.  It’s on a one CD sampler disc from October of 2008 featuring “Thick as a Brick” taking up most of the album.  Other tracks from that album are “Hot Buttered Popcorn” and “Shining Star”.   I heard three selections from the singer’s own album (ie Bill Gardener's program) and the first two reminded me of “Heart” the group from late 1976, particularly the guitar playing.  There was a Ray Charles song from a 1963 album called “Twisting with Ray Charles” and there was also a man and woman duet they played from 1960.  "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" sounds a little like Paul Revere and the Raiders.  

This is Monday April 10, 2017.  Yesterday was Jess Ryder’s birthday in 1065, the fictional Stephen King character according to the Federation.  Seven year old Peter was his son who was supposedly the child’s voice on “Enter Sandman” by Metallica.  That’s the son of Jess Ryder and Frances Goldsmith.   Yesterday is the anniversary of “Ticket To Ride” being released, which is the first “A” side by “Greenie” the rocker John Lennon voice.  “You Can’t Do That” was the first “B” side to be released a year earlier.  Yesterday they finally got around to mopping the floors in the halls.  There were sticky places all down the hallway to the top of the stairs and you’d walk on these places and have to clean off your shoes because they were sticky.  Last night I got coffee from Glen’s room for three cigarettes.  Then I went out to the store for a pack of John Blacks.  I went to the bakery intending to buy a dollar four-pack of cinnamon rolls but they weren’t open.  So I returned to the liquor store to buy a 75 cent can of Coke.  “Eye on LA” featured odd architectural wonders of Los Angeles and I watched most of that.  Sixty Minutes had brainwashing by Google and Facebook and other internet entities to create an “anxiety” to keep checking your phone and give you a little gambler’s pay-off or dopamine influx to the brain.  The segment alledges that your brain is being programmed as well as your computer.  To me this seems to be playing the helpless victim and just put down the phone and forget it.  It goes so far that kids give other friends their passwords to check their phones during vacation with their parents to keep their “streaks” going.  The middle segment was on an immigrant who founded a Greek yogurt company in the last decade and now has become very rich in a big hurry.  After this there was a segment on a Japanese baseball player who both hits and pitches.  I went down for medication with Ida.  Then it was NCIS Los Angeles.  I went to bed shortly after nine but feared being waked up by itching.  This is just what happened.  I was itching all over my legs about 11:30.  I got dressed and went out and smoked two cigarettes and talked to Bill who was out there.  He said he had seventy nine cents to contribute to buying a bottle of rubbing alcohol.  He says to talk to Sarah this morning to make an appointment with Dr Nichols because they won’t let you have skin cream if you don’t personally see a doctor.  The promised skin cream from Mary Jane never materialized.  I managed to get back to sleep after drinking water.