First, two comments about our president, Donald Trump.   Remember how I've been telling you that Trump failed in his 6January2021 coup attempt mostly because he had no real control of the Department of Defense? Well, he is acting more swiftly than I thought, for  yesterday he fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General C.Q. Brown , who has been in the military for over 40 years, whose term in this position was supposed to end in September of 2027.   Trump gave no explanation on why. Trump also replaced Admiral Lisa Franchetti, head of the U.S. Navy, as well as the Air Force Chief of Staff and the judge advocates general for the Army, Navy and Air Force.  They ensure enforcement of military justice. Representative Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat, said the firings were "un-American, unpatriotic, and dangerous for our troops and our national security. This is the definition of politicizing our military," he said. President Trump now ha...

 Saw two movies on Amazon Prime last night.  the first was the 2015  Love and Mercy,  the troubled life of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson.  Rotten Tomatoes ratings of 89/85.  It was a good film with their songs.  The one gripe I would have is that both Paul Dano and John Cusack play Brian, and they don't look at all like each other, or Brian Wilson.  I won't say much more except to indicate that  I saw the Beach Grandads perform at the Hawaii Theater last year, one of my highlights of 2024 .   But this was not one of the best films I've ever seen.  Maybe around #1500 of the 4000 or so movies I've watched in my life.  Sounds like a lot, and the number could well have been 3000, but I've seen a lot of them over the past 84+ years. So anyway, after watching  Love and Mercy , the time was past 10PM, when I normally go to bed.  However, just before turning off Prime, I noticed several films on the screen, and one was th...