National Thank You Note Day
Boxing Day in the UK, Canada and Australia
National Candy Cane Day
National Whiner’s Day (Kvetch away, whiners – this is your day.)
Meme Du Jour

(This was an official release from the President.)
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1776 – George Washington scores his first major victory outside Trenton, NJ
1862 – The US Navy commissioned its first hospital ship, the Red Rover
1917 – Woodrow Wilson nationalized most of the U.S. railroads (8 months after we entered WWI)
1946 – Bugsy Siegel opens the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas
1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated, Jimmy Hendrix wrote Purple Haze
1972 – Former President Harry S. Truman passes away at the age of 88.
1973 – ‘The Exorcist’ opens in theaters
1982 – TIME Magazine named the Personal Computer as its “Person of the Year”
1991 – The Supreme Soviet formally dissolved the USSR
1996 – The body of 6-yr-old Jon Benet Ramsey is found in her family’s basement
2004 – Powerful tsunami devastates the Indian Ocean coastline, killing over 230,000 people
2006 – Former President Gerald R. Ford died at 93 (He was the country’s only unelected president.)

News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– TRUMP TALKING TO THE KIDS ON CHRISTMAS EVE WAS JUST ‘MONEY’
– ONE KID ASKED FOR A PINBALL MACHINE
– ANOTHER YOUNGSTER WANTS A KINDLE FROM SANTA
– ANNNND ONE CHILD WANTED SANTA TO KNOW — NO COAL IN MY STOCKING!
– NC GIRL WON’T LEAVE COOKIES FOR SANTA – IS THAT OK?
– PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT GOING TO ALLOW THE KILLING OF CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA
– LET’S TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THE SCOTUS DECISION ABOUT THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO
– CHRISTMAS POSTING FROM TRUMP — GA WITNESS ON ALLEGED ELECTION FRAUD
– SCOTT JENNINGS SUGGESTS NANCY PELOSI WOULD BE A GREAT INVESTMENT MANAGER AFTER LEAVING THE HOUSE
– JENNINGS: WE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO ALLOW PEOPLE INTO OUR COUNTRY
– SEN BILL HAGERTY SAYS HE WAS TRYING TO STOP COUNTING ILLEGALS IN THE CENSUS, DEMS BLOCKED IT
– NEVER FORGET HOW MANY TIMES THE LEFT CALLED TRUMP AND GOP ‘FASCISTS’ (NEEDS A BEEP)
– JASMINE CROCKETT IS TRIGGERED BY JD VANCE
– SEN ED MARKEY IS UPSET THAT TRUMP HAS PULLED THE PLUG ON OFF-SHORE WIND FARMS
– ARE DEMS PLOTTING ANOTHER GOV’T SHUTDOWN?
– JOE ROGAN — AUSSIE BAN ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR TEENS DOESN’T INCLUDE BLUE SKY (NEEDS A BLEEP)
– THE EU’s COMMISH SEES FREE SPEECH AS A VIRUS AND IT NEEDS A ‘VACCINE’
– CAN WE GET SOME COUNSELING FOR TIM WALZ’S DAUGHTER???
– FLASHBACK TO LAST SUMMER – KATHY GRIFFIN QUESTIONED LEGITIMACY OF TRUMP’S WIN
– JIMMY KIMMEL’S SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE UK ABOUT FASCISM AND TYRANNY IN AMERICA

More News From DC
– PRESIDENT TRUMP ORDERED STRIKES ON ISIS IN NIGERIA — HE WARNED THEM TO STOP KILLING CHRISTIANS
– WHAT’S UP WITH THIS CHRISTMAS EVE PIC POSTED BY JOE BIDEN?
– CAN ANYONE BE UPSET BY THE DROP IN MURDERS IN AMERICA?
– YOU WOULD THINK THE PRESIDENT CAN DECIDE WHO GETS SECURITY CLEARANCES, RIGHT? THINK AGAIN
– JUDGE BLOCKS A BAN ON DYES IN FOOD — REALLY? WHO’S AGAINST THIS?
– DOJ SAYS THERE MAY BE AS MANY AS A MILLION MORE EPSTEIN FILES
– ‘NEPO-POLITICIANS?’ WE’RE SEEING KIDS OF POLITICIANS RUNNING FOR OFFICE
– CHECK OUT THE REPUBLICANS LEAVING THE HOUSE IN ORDER TO SEEK THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION
– PEACE BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA? HOPEFUL SIGNS
– LITTLE ROCKET MAN SHOWS OFF NORTH KOREA’S MASSIVE NUCLEAR SUBMARINE
– A SOUTH PARK WRITER OWNS THE TRUMP KENNEDY CENTER WEB ADDRESSES

General News
– ONE WINNING POWERBALL TICKET WAS SOLD IN ARKANSAS
– IS THE MAYOR OF MINNEAPOLIS THREATENING ICE AGENTS???
– LT GOV OF MN PUTS ON A HIJAB AND DECLARES HER SUPPORT FOR THE SOMALI COMMUNITY
– ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE MASSIVE FRAUD IN ‘SOMMALISOTA’
– JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU COULDN’T DISLIKE NEIL deGRASSE TYSON ANY MORE THAN YOU DO
– THERE’S A RISE IN CHURCHES INCORPORATING PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS IN SERVICES
– ARE YOU TAKING TRAMADOL FOR PAIN? STUDY SHOWS YOU MAY WANT TO RE-THINK THAT PLAN
– HAVE AN EMBARRASSING NAME ON YOUR OLD GMAIL ACCOUNT? (LIKE STUNTBRAIN…) YOU CAN CHANGE IT
– BOX OFFICE: IT MAKES ME HAPPY TO SEE ‘DAVID’ DOING BETTER THAN ‘SPONGEBOB’
Other News Catching My Eye
– AMAZON PRIME UNDER FIRE FOR CUTTING 22 MINS OUT OF ‘IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE’
– SANTA BOSS? LOUISIANA BUSINESS MAN DELIVERS 6-FIGURE BONUSES TO EASH OF 540 WORKERS
– LAST NIGHT’S HALFTIME SHOW WITH SNOOP DOGG AND FRIENDS WAS PRETTY DAMN STRONG
– MARTHA STEWART’S INTRO WAS ALSO THE SHIZ
– THE GAMES I TRIED TO WATCH ON NETFLIX WERE NOT VERY EASY TO SEE — STREAM WAS GLITCHY AND LO-RES