The days dwindle down

 So....did you "enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!"?  I don't know what he meant by that barely veiled threat, either.  It was the end of a long night that began with lying to a child about how nice and clean coal is and obviously involved a lot of pharmaceuticals.  Maybe nothing, maybe concentration camps we haven't heard about yet.  Does this look well to you?

In addition, he seems to have shunt holes in both hands.  Maybe from dementedly shaking every hand within reach, as the Leavitt would say, forgetting that they work there.  Maybe they hook up two bottles at a time and periodically reverse them, as with Catch-22's patient in white.  Who even cares?  Do the world a favor and die with the year, you malodorous pile of hamburger discharge.

Where was I?  Well, Dear Leader put in a busy weekend, conveying Moscow's demands to a tired-looking President Zelenskyy and wasting his time.  Today he meets Prime Minister Netanyahu to go over plans for the West Bank resort and casino which will rise as soon as those stubborn residents have been Settled.  Work, work, work.  Get out your globes and follow the Peace President as he peaces all over the planet.

Venezuela:  More than a hundred people have been wiped out by our intrepid warfighters with no warning and no capacity to fight back.  It's all right as long as you call them drug traffickers.  Trump also brags of destroying a "big facility," which could be a drug lab or a high school or possibly an Amazon distribution center, who cares?

Iran:  President Pezeshkian seems to think his country is in "a full-scale war" with the US, Israel and Europe" because "they don't want our country to remain stable."  The June attack by Israel and the US killed 1,100 Iranians, which sounds full-scale to me.  

Nigeria:  On Thursday the US bombed the town of Jabo, allegedly to stop "Christian genocide."  Reporters on the ground were unable to find any residents who had heard of this, but they were upset at damage to their only hospital.  

Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria -- what do they have in common?  Nice clean OIL, currently unavailable to American oil companies!  It's practically the same as genocide.  

Greenland:  No military action yet but watch this space.  Minerals!

Sixty Minutes devoted last night's show to some anodyne reporting on how liquor is made and Bari Weiss had no problem with it because it didn't mention the wave of bankruptcies in the distilling industry, attributed to Americans cutting back on drinking and to "declining exports hampered by trade issues and tariffs."  It's not just whiskey -- the Washington Post reports that 717 companies filed for bankruptcy between January and November, a 14 percent increase since Biden left office.  Add the 70,000 manufacturing job losses and more than Democrats won't be saying "Merry Christmas" in the foreseeable future.  

Remember Sticky Fingers Loeffler?  Short-time senator best known for insider trading before she found it simpler to marry the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange?  Now she runs the Small Business Administration, in which capacity she gushed to Fox News, "I don't think small business owners have ever been so excited to pay their taxes thanks to President Trump!"  Oh, Kelly, excited is not the word.

Are we the most litigious people on earth?  Right on schedule Ric Grenell announced his intention to sue Chuck Redd for a million dollars for cancelling the Christmas eve Jazz Jam at the former Kennedy Center, calling it "classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution."  (What is it with these choads and random capitalizations?)  The concert was free, asshole -- did nobody tell you?  Ken Johnson of Altadena has a real problem; he's suing the California Department of Fish and Wildlife because they have given up trying to force a 500-pound black bear to vacate the crawl space under his house.  He (?) appears to like it there.

Anyway, the former KC doesn't need jazz -- apparently it needs "Potential Marble armrests for the seating at the Trump Kennedy Center.  Unlike anything ever seen or done before!"  There might be a reason for that.  This slob knows as much about acoustics as he does about every other aspect of building.  Not to mention comfort.  But marble is almost as classy as gold.

Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald is one of our most dogged and respected reporters, and she has a question:  Why was the Bondi Department tracking her movements around the country as she interviewed victims of Jeffrey Epstein?  It's puzzling.  Speaking of which: