December 24

 Good morning and Happy Christmas Eve. I have decided to make this a lazy day--as little housework as possible and no news. We found that one of the channels we can access has a Harry Potter marathon so that is what is on the noise box. I managed to get a couple of hexagons crocheted and some research on my family tree. I have untangled a couple of questions I had and found several more. Pretty soon I will have to fix supper which will amount to putting a couple of things in the microwave. I will leave the real cooking for tomorrow.

Stray thought: it is interesting that Trump wants new battle ships in a new class named after himself. Problems abound. First, he promises that these will be the largest war ships on the seas and most expensive at several billion dollars each. But the plans unveiled show they wouldn't even be as big as. the WWII battleships. Second, the battleships were made obsolete by the introduction of the aircraft carrier during WWII. What a humongous waste of money to simply stroke a little man with a monstrous ego. CROOKS&LIARS has a bit on the proposal.

I was amused that the new chief editor at CBS, Bari Weiss, scrapped the 60 MINUTES story about the treatment of prisoners Trump's government sent to CECOT prison in El Salvador claiming that needed some tweaking because "critical voices" were absent. Those voices were administration appointees who didn't respond for requests for comment. What I found amusing is that the Canadian affiliate linked to CBS ran the piece as scheduled and it is now all over the internet. She tried to censor 60 MINUTES and failed. There is a lot I might not like about the internet but this isn't something I will complain about. I detest censorship on every level.

David Kaiser has a good appraisal of the past year and Trump generally. I have often thought Trump was more interested in PLAYING a President than BEING a president. He isn't a successful in that role than pretending to be a successful businessman.