Friday March 5, 2021
The guy who put his feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk is mad as hell and maybe isn’t going to take it anymore. Seems all his white buds are out on bail and he’s stuck in jail. Oh no, so sad. He’s looking at possibly twenty more years. But for now he’s in jail til his next hearing in May.
And now it’s been reported that a person in the Trump administration has been arrested in connection with the Jan 6th insurrection. I wonder if Josh Hawley is feeling the heat? It seemed odd that he was asking FBI Director Wray how they were gathering information about cell phones and communications didn’t it? Maybe, some speculated he was worried if his cell phone had been found communicating with the protestors. I’ve already seen lists of Congressmen and women who oddly gave tours the day before the insurrection. I say oddly because they hadn’t been having tours of the Capitol and then all of a sudden here were these groups traipsing through the place.
Meanwhile, the Republican Senators are doing everything they can to stop the passage of the Democratic bills in the Senate. The latest stunt is to have the whole Covid Relief bill read aloud in the Senate Chamber. Why? Why do this? What are they, the Republican Senators, for? It seems they are not for the people. Maybe the rich? It’s hard to say. Greg Abbott’s opening up the state of Texas seems inexplicable except perhaps he is playing to that small group of hard core Trumper Republicans that vote in the Texas primary? At CPAC the three people who got the biggest applause were Trump, Noem, and DeSantis. Noem is the governor of South Dakota.
There was a bit of video I saw of a young woman who made an announcement at CPAC that said everyone should wear masks and practice social distancing. She got booed. I wish, I wish, she had then said, “You all are idiots.” Ah me, I can dream.
We seem to have alternate universes. One is based on truth and science and the others? I don’t know what they are based on or why they exist, but they do in some people’s minds.
There’s a new movie coming out directed by Aaron Sorkin about the Chicago Seven and Sasha Baron-Cohen is playing Abby Hoffman. Sorkin has been working on the script for over ten years at the behest of Steven Spielberg. Wow. I urge you to look up that which you don’t know about this, any of this.
In a weird thing I saw a list of albums that are coming up on fifty years old this year. Wow and double wow. Pearl, Tapestry, Sticky Fingers, Ram, Carpenters, Every Picture Tells a Story…
One more little story. My friend Corey was somewhere in the Bay Area 50-60 years ago. It was a party at some TV producer’s house. The guy had a new show or video to show. Everyone crowded in to watch it. Nothing kills a party quicker by the way. Corey wasn’t interested. He drifted out to a outside patio. A young woman was playing a guitar. They got to talking, and singing. He said they sang a lot of the old folk songs. I remember he said one group was The Weavers. Kind of before my time, but I know of them. The girl said she was playing in San Francisco and would he like to come? Yeah, maybe. We’ll see. Was his response. She had offered him a ticket or access or something and Corey being Corey was kind of noncommittal and he drifted back into the house. A person who had seen what had gone on said, “I saw you talking to Karen Carpenter…”
The rest is history.
Have a good day.
PS Waiting in line for my Moderna first shot.
Nice story about Coryman. I can just see his face when he was told it was Karen. Rachel Maddow had that little piece on last night where one of the Democratic Senators had a chart that he put on an easel. He showed point by point how the current bill favors constituents and not wealthy corporation. I thought it was brilliant. Unfortunately no one paid attention.
Needless to say I have no respect for the current members of the Republican Party.