Author: coastcontact

I am a somewhat cranky but mostly optimistic 65 plus who refuses to give up on this maddening world. The purpose of this BLOG is to express my feelings, thoughts.

 “I love you more than need you”

The phrase “i love you more than need you” appears to be a twist on the lyrics from the song “Wichita Lineman” by Jimmy Webb, famously performed by Glen Campbell, which contains the line, “And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time”. The original lyric suggests that love and need are intertwined, with a profound dependence being the strongest emotion.

I was reminded of this song today after my wife, Barbara, has been retained in the hospital over what will be a second night. It all started when she cut a finger and we went to the emergency room for a bandage. The doctor found her oxygen level was low and the decided to keep her for the night that has led to a second night.

Being lonely I miss her more than I could imagine.

Hold your family members close.

Donald Trump Humiliates Himself

BREAKING: Donald Trump humiliates himself in an Oval Office meeting with the President of Finland by ranting about his “perfect score” on a pathetic cognitive exam — and this time he dragged Barack Obama into his rotted brain rambling.

Dementia Don has struck again on the world stage…

“But I also did a cognitive exam, which is always very risky, because if I didn’t do well, you’d be the first to be blurring it,” said Trump, slurring the word “blurring” which didn’t even make sense in this context.

Alexander Stubb, the President of the Republic of Finland, was sitting right beside him and looked visibly uncomfortable throughout.

“And I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he’s almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. I got the highest score,” Trump continued, sounding like an eight-year-old bragging about a gold star on his report card. “And, uh… That made me feel good.”

“When they asked, would I like to do one, I said, ‘yeah.’ I said, did Obama do it? No. Did Bush do it? No. Did Biden do it? I definitely did… He… Biden wouldn’t have gotten the first three questions right,” Trump went on, stumbling over his words. “No, Biden didn’t do it.”

“Biden should have done it. I’m actually a person that believes that if you’re president, you should do a cognitive exam,” he went on. “But last time I took a cognitive exam and it was a perfect score.”

“The doctors announced it uh… And by the way, not the easiest test. The first few questions are pretty easy,” said Trump. “Once you get into the middle, it gets a little trickier. And there aren’t a lot of people in this room that would get every single question right. I can guarantee you.”

“You’re putting me in a difficult spot now,” Stubb interjected into the bizarre rant. “Next question.”

Trump then dropped the issue. As has been repeatedly explained by experts, there is nothing impressive about passing the cognitive exam in question despite Trump’s strange fixation on it. It involves remembering simple words and identifying animal shapes. Unless an individual is in a state of profound cognitive decline, it should pose them no trouble.

According to neurologist Dr. Ziad Nasreddine, the man who designed the Montreal Cognitive Assessment that Trump bragged about acing back in 2020, it’s supposed to “be easy for someone who has no cognitive impairment.” He has stated that is is “not an IQ test or the level of how a person is extremely skilled or not.”

Ironically, by going on and on about this cognitive test Trump succeeded only in further fueling the speculation that he is in fact in cognitive decline. A person with a strong, working mind doesn’t go on long, incoherent tangents about how mentally fit they are.

‘A nation of Constitutional law’

Karin Immergut, a federal judge appointed by Trump, said this last weekend that the administration’s justification for deploying California National Guard troops in Portland was “simply untethered to the facts.”

“This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs,” Immergut wrote, chiding the Trump administration for attempting to circumvent a prior order from her against a federal deployment to the city.

“This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition,” she added: “This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.”

The Insurrection Act gives the president sweeping emergency power to deploy military forces within the United States if the president deems it is needed to quell civil unrest. The last time this occurred was in 1992, when California Gov. Pete Wilson asked President George H.W. Bush to send federal troops to help stop the Los Angeles riots that occurred after police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King.

On Monday, in an interview with CNN, Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, suggested that the administration would continue working to sidestep Immergut’s orders.

Donald Trump seems to believe he has absolute power.

A Meaningless Peace Treaty

British Premier Neville Chamberlain, who left Munich by air after his peace saving effort in conjunction with the French, German and Italian heads of state, saw Hitler, Sept. 30, 1938 and the two signed what amounted to a symbolic “no war” pact. When he landed at Heston Aerodrome in London this evening he waved the document aloft and read it to the cheering crowd gathered. (AP Photo)

In 1938, addressing the public after co-signing the Munich Agreement, which allowed Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proclaimed, “I believe it is peace for our time.”

Eleven months later Germany invaded of Poland on 1 September 1939. Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. Thus started WW2.