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• Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.

• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.

Tuesday Date-12/12/17

Explosion in New York yesterday; A surprising new pervert and groper.

Turns out he is something called a chain immigrant, ie folks related to those who have gained citizenship and can now import their relatives.

One of the biggest jobs the government has is protecting our borders.

And they fail miserably.

They let in whoever they want and if anyone doesn’t think any money changes hands for citizenship, I got a bridge to sell cheap.

Turns out the suicide bomber hurt only himself….ha, ha, ha.

But he did bring attention to yet another failure of our government.

I am not at all surprised about Larry King being a pervert and groper. He sure looks the part and so it was reported yesterday.

But MARIO BITALI??? The Iron Chef? Co-host of one of my favorite show-”The Chew”.

Bitali is ugly and wears the ugliest clothes on the planet, including those bright orange rubber shoes with holes in the top.

He is no longer on the Chew. He is a certified, lunatic liberal and brags about spending time with Michelle and Barack Obama.

He apologized all over the place, admitted his wrong…..

….go to hell Mario Bitali. You too had it all, a nice successful career as a Chef, a gig on a popular show….

……and you blew it.

Can’t stand you, asshole.

Wednesday Date-12/13/17

Alabama election results

The Democrat won the race in Alabama, Doug Jones.

Roy Moore was done in by a massive write-in vote of over 23,000….easily passing the difference between the two main candidates.

So someone got out a write in effort and it worked. Well it’s perfectly legal I suppose.

The consolation is that Jones will not serve very long and up against another Republican with no baggage Jones will probably lose.

It is what it is.

Thursday Date-12/14/17

Those FBI messages

What the hell?

This Peter Strzock and his girlfriend are messaging each other perfectly horrible stuff about President Trump.

Is this how the premier police agency in America should behave? Have they no class?

One message says they needed some kind of assurance in case Trump gets elected.

What right does the freaking, boring, corrupt, nothing-burgers at the FBI to determine our elections?

Or have they turned into a version of the Nazi party.

For many years the FBI has been revered and respected for its crime-solving skills, its avoidance of politics.

Now….dear Lord that Mueller man appoints people who write those awful messages. That Mueller man is said to deserve respect and I say not one ounce does he get from me.

Never thought I’d see the day when the national police force decides what duly-elected president can stay and who they must remove.

Adolf Mueller! Seig Heil!!!!

Friday Date-12/15/17

Rumors about Paul Ryan. The real defeat in Alabama. Tax bill creeps along waiting for sick people.

It’s been a prevailing rumor that Paul Ryan was going to resign after this term but all has been denied.

More fake news one supposes.

Please note that what really defeated Roy Moore in Alabama was some 22,000 write in votes.

Jeff Sessions’ election garnered .12% write in votes in 2008. The Moore/Jones election gathered 1.7% of the vote.

Jones beat Moore by 21,000 votes. Had Moore gotten a majority of the 23,000 write in votes Moore would have won.

So a huge write-in campaign was undertaken, it would seem, and it may well have cost Moore the election.

Well it’s legal to work the public and I’m thinking the established Republicans embarked on a massive project and it evidently worked.

Thad Cochran and John McCain are, as of this writing, in the hospital.

Meanwhile Marco Rubio is making a scene and the tax bill awaits return of the sick senators.

This does look like a done deal folks. Looking like a Christmas present.

We can hope.

Saturday Date-12/16/17

Tax Bill quite generous.

As of this writing, the corporate tax is reduced to 21%.

The standard deduction write off for a couple is $24,000, $12,000 for a single person.

The top bracket is 31%.

The Alternative Minimum tax is eliminated….hooray!

There’s way more but folks, this is no rinky dink tax cut.

Now what they need to do is reduce all that spending they so love to do.

Allow me to add a couple of things before the shows begin running full bore.

OMAROSA!!!!

Heh.

Having been a fan of The Apprentice for many years, I know her evil self well. I don’t have any idea why The Donald adores her so although she has her good points.

But I can guarantee you she got her behind thrown out of the White House for demanding her way. It’s what she does.

The Donald keeps his distance. He likes Omarosa because she does the unexpected and Trump kind of likes this.

And now.....a good story of sorts.

First, I had a security system installed, four cameras on each side of house, alarms going off, motion detectors. Xfinity is my vendor and as a widow living alone with a crazy daughter wanting to kill me, for a kind of smallish investment it came to pass.

I’m learning. Only set the alarm off once so far.

Anyway, next door neighbor, a widow recently as well, called me up, frantic. “Pat, guess what I found when I came home from work today?”

I wondered what. I’d been home all day, didn’t see anything untoward.

“I found my hose open full blast, water pouring down the driveway,” she said. “Could you look and see if anything shows on your video?”

Indeed something did show up on my front of the house camera.

My tenants always put my trashcan away after pickup and I found that “motion activity” as it is called by Xfinity.

I could see the little boy pushing the trash can up my driveway, running back down to his mother, who was waiting by my mailbox. Meanwhile, another driveway down, the neighbor’s, mentioned above, had two other little kids standing on it and you could see them run up the driveway. Their mother called them, from the street in front of MY driveway and they came running down neighbor’s driveway to meet their mother.

Well it could only have been them as the timing was perfect. My neighbor was frustrated. She watched the tape with me and agrees that it was likely those children who turned on the hose faucet. Who knows why? Their father does my neighbor’s landscaping and they are only like four and three years old.

Anyway....cool, this safety thing. Every night I set it to “Night” which makes the alarm go off IMMEDIATELY, no two minute wait, should anyone so much as crack a door.

Got sensors on all door entries to house and front of house at window.