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From various sources, mostly in my own words: The $1.4 trillion budget paperwork runs 2000 pages, manifesting the maddening excess of government. Next year’s deficit will hit one trillion, despite rapidly rising federal revenues. Uncle Sam already owes more than $23 trillion. These facts show that the swamp is rolling along, business as usual, despite the presence of Donald Trump. Since he threatens to upset the gravy train, Dems will try to remove him from office rather than risk the long shot of him succeeding at cleaning house. A Gallup poll released this morning shows the tide has turned concerning impeachment, 51–45% opposing. Surveys from Quinnipiac University, Gallup, PBS/NPR/Marist, and USA Today/Suffolk University all point to a majority of independents opposed to impeaching and removing the president from office. Polls from Fox News and CNN indicate those folks are evenly divided. Here’s a link to an updated list of the President’s accomplishments, posted yesterday on the WOR Radio page of talk show host Mark Simone, a personal friend and backer of Trump:
https://710wor.iheart.com/featured/mark-simone/content/2019-12-15-the-new-updated-list-of-the-trump-administration-accomplishments/

From foxnews.com, edited by yours truly: An interesting, exciting dispute is underway in the alternative vehicle field. Nikola Motor Company is giving Tesla a run for its money by using hydrogen to fuel its semis. The CEO believes it’s superior because it weighs less, and the lighter the truck, the more freight it can haul. Another advantage is that one can be fueled in 15 minutes. Genius-blowhard Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls them “fool cells.” That’s a clever play on words, but Anheuser-Busch, for one, disagrees. It has ordered 800 trucks. Nikola has stopped taking orders, as it’s sold out for five-plus years. Capitalism is all about bringing out the best through competition. I love it.

Also from FN, in my own words: Financial expert Chris Hogan suggests the most desired Christmas gift in 2019 is cash or payment toward a loan, since “people are up to their eyeballs in debt.” That gives fiscal alarmists even more than the deficit and debt to worry about. It scares me too, although I’m debt free.

Have you seen this man?

After completion of the portrait, the knucklehead robbed the California street artist who did it of $500 — and left the painting behind!

The choice to stay at my usual nook turned out to be the right one, despite the brisk wind blowing along Avenue Z, which was at first negated by brilliant sunshine. The two women I expected to donate books showed, so even when the weather made an abrupt turn for the worse everything was okay. I sat in my car as it got windier and cloudier. My thanks to Lynn and to the local home attendant who gave me 15 works of popular fiction between them; and to the Quiet Man, who bought two music CDs, one burned recently, the other at least a decade old; and to the couple who purchased a bunch of books for their grandkids as I was closing shop. It was another day when I went home feeling as if I gotten away with something.

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