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Some snow falling today surprised me into remembering how close Christmas is.\u00a0 Of course, I dasn\u2019t say such a thing aloud in Camera Girl\u2019s presence or she would toss an oven mitt or a ladle at me for my oblivious attitude as she soldiers on in her pre-Christmas baking and cooking marathon.\u00a0 She is calculating cooking and storage times down to the nanosecond as enormous quantities of baked goods, meat, pasta, cheese and vegetables are processed in the run up to the big event.\u00a0 My party line is that I am available to help in any capacity she sees fit.\u00a0 This merely elicits rueful head-shaking and eye-rolling.\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s my story.\u00a0 And anyway, I serve many useful functions.\u00a0 I am the snow removal department and I also serve as chauffeur if the roads seem too tricky for her.\u00a0 And I have a thousand and one other jobs.\u00a0 For instance, I\u2019m in charge of the yearly Christmas card design and procurement.\u00a0 Well, of course.\u00a0 I\u2019m a photographer.\u00a0 But such things are easily forgotten by someone who can point to a table groaning under the weight of a feast.\u00a0 Well, we also serve who wait and eat.\u00a0 But who\u2019s keeping score anyway?<\/p>\n

I have all of next week off and I\u2019m looking forward to the get togethers.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve been keeping an eye on the situation in Washington.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost unbelievable how feckless and dishonest the Biden administration intends to be right up to the final day of their reign of terror.\u00a0 Biden\u2019s pardoning of hideously evil people would be shameful if Biden and his cronies had any shame.\u00a0 I have to assume that there was a price list posted somewhere for the scum of the earth to figure out whether they could afford to be freed by Hunter and Jill and whoever else wrote out the pardons for Joe to scribble his signature on.\u00a0 And the Republicans don\u2019t disappoint with their nitwitted attempts to pass legislation in the House of Representatives.\u00a0 Only the dishonesty and corruption of the Democrats allows the GOP to seem better by comparison.\u00a0 But it really is a sad sideshow to behold.<\/p>\n

The clowns and the cretins, the monsters and the madmen; the whole cast of this insane drama that is playing out on the deck of a sailing ship headed straight for an iceberg.\u00a0 And at this point Donald Trump is the captain and he and his crew are locked in a cutlass fight with the usual pirates and so no one is steering the ship.\u00a0 Well, it should give us a reason to pop popcorn in 2025.<\/p>\n

But this is all beside the point.\u00a0 We have Christmas to celebrate and the relief from knowing that somehow, we dodged the bullet of a Kamala Harris presidency.\u00a0 And, sure, so many things will go wrong in 2025.\u00a0 Trump will waffle, Democrats will lie and cheat, bureaucrats will obfuscate and interfere and Republicans will prove themselves inept and obtuse.\u00a0 In other words, standard operating procedure.\u00a0 But things will be better than they\u2019ve been the last four years.\u00a0 God willing, the wars will start to die down.\u00a0 Energy prices will come back to Earth and that will tend to drive down the prices of everything else.\u00a0 And the biggest bonus, we may never see any of the Bidens for the rest of our lives.\u00a0 That alone is worth a hallelujah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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