Warriors haven’t beaten up on a team in recent memory. Tonight they beat NY Knicks  by 27, and it wasn’t that close. A message to Kevin Durant just in case he’s thinking about “trying to make it there” to prove he can “make it anywhere…?”

Give Trump some credit for distraction. While we were focused on his train wreck in Washington,  Wizards outscored the 76ers by 9 in the 4th quarter and still lost by 17.

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Actually, Trump has something in common with the hapless Washington Wizards.  For the forseeable future, they’re both going to be Wall-less.

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So after Dabo Swinney’s description of where they were last night will Santa Clara change their name to “wherever-the-heck California?”

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On a brighter note for 49ers fans last night at Levi’s Stadium, with Trevor Lawrence they may have gotten a glimpse of the QB they can draft in 2021 if they keep s*cking.

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So no smugglers will ever bring drugs in by boats or planes ever again if we put up steel slats. Got it.

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Nothing Donald Trump hates more than being upstaged. So please, next time he demands airtime for a “National emergency” can some celebrity have a friend drive them slowly on LA freeways in a white Bronco?

So Wednesday morning Rush Limbaugh, arrested for abusing oxycodone and hydrocodone, will commend Donald Trump, who abuses Adderall, for Trump’s speech condemning illegal drugs in this country.

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This SHOULD have been the #Pelosi #Schumer rebuttal. From Dec. 11, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

Serious note.  Few things get me as genuinely livid as the fact that in this country if you are a police officer killed by an American citizen, or a woman killed by a husband or boyfriend, or a child killed by a family member, you will get crickets from Trump. But ah, if your killer is undocumented, then you are a posthumous saint.

Trevor Lawrence said he hopes to win “at least 3” more championships at Clemson. If he were a basketball player he’d be packing up his dorm room tomorrow.

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Your reminder that Clemson senior QB Kelly Bryant transferred to Missouri this year after he said starting job was unfairly taken away from him & given to Trevor Lawrence.

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Hard to believe but this Clemson team needed a 4th quarter comeback led by 3rd string QB Chase Brice earlier this year to beat Syracuse.

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Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa sure looked like an NFL quarterback tonight. Unfortunately the QB he looked like was Mark Sanchez.

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Carl Grove, 90, was stripped of his gold medal in cycling he won at Masters Track National Championships after testing positive for a PED.
He blamed the result on “bad meat.” Really, wouldn’t it have been more believable to claim a tainted supplement? Like Ensure?

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Nonpolitical rant of the day: If you have about 10 items in a “10 items or less Express Line” AND you have two return items for credit requiring manager approval, AND you want to complain because you spent 25 cents for a bag last time and the handle broke… just maybe you shouldn’t be in the Express Line.

If it was a REAL national emergency , why didn’t Donald Trump have his press conference preempt the National Football Championship?

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That moment when the Bachelor is ready to start up another season tonight and you realize it’s much more reality-based than the show coming out of the Oval Office.

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About this national emergency Trump wants to declare to build the wall: he had over 700 days with GOP in control of House and Senate when he could have passed almost anything he wanted….

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So POTUS who refers to media as “enemy of the people” just got all major networks to give him free time for an immigration speech, when those same networks turned down Obama’s request for same thing in 2014.
But yeah, Democrats need to be more civil.

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Just guessing Tuesday night that Trump will
1. Declare a national emergency giving him power and unlimited money to build his wall.
2. Declare he will sign a bill to open government and take credit for it.
3. Declare victory
4. Declare he has earned a vacation.
And then, like with the caravan and his middle-class tax cut and most everything else and drug prices, he will do nothing except search for the next shiny distracting object.” 

Any Bears fan blaming Cody Parkey for the loss today has to ask themselves – if you couldn’t contain Nick Foles and Eagles when it mattered how the hell did you expect to stop Jared Goff and the Rams?

What went wrong for Ravens?  Waiting for media to ask Ray Lewis to take a stab at it.

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Seriously, anyone but me really tired of seeing Ray Lewis being honored and over at football games. Heck, NFL pretends OJ Simpson doesn’t exist. 

#JacinthBaker #RichardLollar

Thinking all Sean Payton and Drew Brees have to do to keep Saints from getting too complacent against Eagles is show a replay of New Orleans last play against the Vikings from 2018.

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Poor Sebastian Janikowski, injured in first half of Saturday’s wild card game.. Suppose it’s not much consolation for him and Seahawks that his medical bills should be covered by Medicare.

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At least 49ers and Raiders fans didn’t have to deal with playoff drama. #smallmercies

Trying to remember the last time a male Presidential candidate was referred to as “unlikable.”

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Fox News top story about funeral for California police officer Ronil Singh “who was gunned down after stopping an illegal immigrant.”
47 officers were killed in line of duty in 2018. Wonder why Singh is the biggest headline?

(And somehow Fox didn’t mention that Singh himself, while legal, came here as an unskilled immigrant from Fiji, and trained at various jobs  for 8 years to become an officer.)

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Trump today on furloughed government workers, 16 days into the Trump Shutdown ‘I can relate and I’m sure that the people who are on the receiving end will make adjustments, they always do.”
He can relate? What, because he hasn’t been able to golf in Florida?

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From today’s Trump fundraising email “Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer shut down YOUR government by choosing illegal immigrants over hard-working American patriots like YOU. NO MORE!
The only reason Democrats shut down the government is because they know they can’t win in 2020. They don’t care about your safety, they only care about Presidential Harassment!”

Again , Dec. 11, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

QB Joe Flacco, now the backup to Lamar Jackson for tomorrow’s Ravens wildcard game against Chargers. “It’s definitely not the most fun position in the world.”
As opposed to a tee-time to get Joe home in time to watch his team watch Steelers play instead?

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DeMar DeRozan, on his first triple-double to help the Spurs trounce the Raptors, who traded him for Kawhi Leonard despite his desire to stay in Toronto – “It wasn’t emotional at all for me. … It was just a fun game for me.”
Good thing for San Antonio that DeRozan is a better player than he is a liar.

So about halfway through the NBA regular season, and basically every in the Western Conference still has a realistic shot at the playoffs.

Well, except for the Phoenix Suns, aka “Chopped liver.”

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Georgia QB Justin Fields is leaving the school, reportedly for Ohio State. Fields will apply to NCAA for a hardship waiver so he can be eligible to play in 2019: The hardship, he lost his starting job to another student-athlete. What a system.

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Can we declare a national emergency to deal with a President who thinks he can declare a national emergency over a stupid wall?
Asking for a country.

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When I woke up and read someone called Donald   Trump a “motherf*cker” my first thought was “Now which member of his Cabinet?”

Trump now threatening to keep government closed for “months or even years.”
So over 800,000 workers will continue to go without a paycheck because of his tantrum. Rep Rashida  Tlaib, who called him a “Motherf*cker”  may have been too kind

Trump said of Rhasida Tlaib’s “motherf*cker” comment “she dishonored herself and dishonored her family using language like that in front of her son and whoever else was there.”
Right, the correct way to honor your son is to sleep with both a porn star and a Playboy bunny while he’s an infant….

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Trump also today “I want Apple to make their iPhones and all of the great things that they make in the United States.”
Wonder if MAGAers would cheer quite so loud if they realized this would mean needing a mortgage for a phone.

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RIP Herb Kelleher, 87, founder of Southwest Airlines. No cause of death given. Maybe he just wanted to get away?

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So is GOP problem with the video of Alexandria Oscasio Cortez’s dancing as a young woman that she wasn’t also chanting “I like beer?”

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Your reminder that Nancy Pelosi is the daughter of a Baltimore mayor, and the mother of five. So a perfect match for Trump – she has experience with mob bosses AND children.

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It  4:07 p.m. ET Sarah Sanders announced a press briefing starting at 4:10 p.m.  It started late with a brief Trump appearance but the real subject was probably “Waaaaa. Nancy’s getting too much attention.”

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Bernie Sanders told CNN he didn’t realize women in his 2016 presidential campaign were being harassed because “‘I was a little bit busy running around the country.”
Trying to imagine if a woman made that excuse.

So an American citizen is supposedly arrested in Moscow and Trump State department responds by issuing a travel warning for… China?

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As Trump rants today about the Pope having walls, guess if he ever traveled beyond his own properties, he’d know that anyone can enter Vatican City, and you don’t even need a passport.

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Nancy Pelosi said she’d give Trump $1 for his wall. Considering Mexico is paying for it shouldn’t that be enough?

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So maybe Trump would give in on the funding bill if instead of offering him $1 for his wall Nancy Pelosi just offered to fund some great shutdown commemorative coins?

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Dianne Feinstein says she is supporting Joe Biden for President. Well, of course… she’s always thought Joe was such a nice young man.

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Today’s reminder that Nancy Pelosi is badass -: “As President Reagan said in his last speech as President: ‘If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.'”

Tickets for the College Football National Championship  Game Monday are down as low as $151 on Stubhub.
If this keeps up there’ll be so many empty seats fans will think they’re at a 49ers game.

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And hey, who’d a thunk people might not want to show up for an Alabama-Clemson matchup.  Why, those teams haven’t played each other in about 370 days.

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Not sure if an eight-team playoff would have produced more interesting games.  But it might have produced more ticket buyers.

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NY Giants GM Dave Gettleman on 2019. “My commitment is to make this team the best team it can be. If that happens to have Eli playing quarterback, it does.”
Translation. maybe if Eli wants to play at the Meadowlands he should talk to the Jets?

(a friend of mine suggested, Rutgers?)

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RIP Daryl Dragon, 76, the Captain of “Captain and Tennille.” With luck he’ll go to heaven where no one has to hear “Muskrat Love” ever again.

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How many children growing up in Fox News households are going to get “F”s on future history tests that ask about the collapse of the Soviet Union?

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Donald Trump telling Mitt Romney to be a “team player” is like Bernie Sanders telling a Democratic senator to be a ‘team player’

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Now Trump is claiming that even though Mattis handed him a resignation latter, he “essentially fired” his defense secretary.
In other words “He didn’t break up with me I broke up with him. Nobody breaks up with me.”

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Fox News ridiculed Elizabeth Warren for drinking beer on camera in a Instagram New Year’s Eve video at her house. So they think instead of running for President, Warren should be nominated to the Supreme Court?

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Happy New Year’s. And to all my friends on both sides of the aisle -may your troubles last as long as Donald Trump’s promises.

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Tickets for the National Championship game next Monday night are now going for as low as $200, less than half of face value.   So wait, fans don’t even want to come to the 49ers Levi’s Stadium to watch teams that don’t suck?

Urban Meyer’s wife Shelley “I would be ecstatic if he didn’t [coach again] “I’m done. I want him to be done. He’s too intense.”
Over-under on how many months he’s around the house before she begs him to go back to work?

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On New Year’s Eve, Stanford won the Sun Bowl and Oregon won the RedBox Bowl. Two Pac 12 wins on the same day? Hope this isn’t a sign of the apocalypse.

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Melania Trump posted a smiling selfie from Mar-A-Lago New Year’s Eve.  Well, of course she was happy, she was in Florida while Donald stayed in Washington, D.C.

I’m so old I remember when Christmas and New Year’s holidays meant seeing cheerful pictures of the First Family smiling and enjoying time with their children.

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Just wondering, how much of our taxpayer dollars are going to shuttling Melania back and forth to Florida, AND paying for double Secret-Service while she, Ivanka and Jared vacation and Donald stays in DC?

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Now that she’s running, the attacks on Warren, who wouldn’t be my first choice, have begun. But somehow I’ve missed all the stories questioning Bernie’s likability.

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Trump afternoon tweet – “For FAR TOO LONG Senate Democrats have been Obstructing more than 350 Nominations…”
Wonder what Justice Merrick Garland thinks…

So if Mitt Romney REALLY wants to make a statement to Trump, perhaps he can actually vote against any budget with money for a wall?

Your daily reminder from December 11, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

Can’t imagine how Stanford got the #NerdNation nickname

From Twitter tonight, @CaptAndrewLuck

Maybe it’s just me but thinking while jokes about school shooting survivors may distract people from remembering your sexual misconduct, those jokes won’t much for your overall image.  #LouisCK

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So if Mexico is supposed to be paying for the wall, why hasn’t Trump shut down the Mexican government?

Today’s Trump fundraising email “While Nancy Pelosi sits at her luxurious resort in Hawaii, I’m at the Oval Office working for YOU.”
Uh, wasn’t it the Senate who refused to go along with Donald’s ransom demands? And Mitch is in Kentucky.

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A new report found half of US adults have an immediate family member who has been in jail or prison. Well, soon maybe we won’t be able to say Trump family can’t relate to average Americans.

So apparently when you spot Alabama 28 points they have a pretty good chance of winning a football game.

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Your reminder that of four teams in CFB Playoff only one of them was from a state that elected a Democratic senator in 2018.

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To be fair, these CFB Playoff routs ARE the committee’s fault. In choosing between top college-level teams this year they didn’t even consider the Oakland Raiders.

OPM- Office of Personnel Management message to federal employees started –  “Feds, here are sample letters you may use as a guide when working with your creditors during this furlough. If you need legal advice please consult with your personal attorney.”

Uh, federal employees are not allowed to access their government emails during a shutdown. So how are they going to see this? For that matter if you can’t pay bills how can you pay an attorney?

Can someone remind Donald Trump that Congress HAD deal to prevent shutdown, until he threw a tantrum & got departing House members to pass ridiculous new bill on way out.

No doubt Nancy Pelosi would never think of just passing the original bill on Jan 3?.

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I’m so old I remember “I’ll tell you what, I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck, So, I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

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Headline from NY Daily News “Reports that “Robert Mueller has obtained ‘nude selfie’ from Russian company targeted in his investigation: court filing.”

And if anyone needed a potential image to use as an appetite suppressant for their New Year’s diet?

Stanford vs. Pittsburgh in El Paso, Dec 31….. where at least Cardinal will no longer carry the weight of an entire conference on their shoulders…. because.

Washington State and thus the Pac 12 actually won a bowl game. Just when conference was finally about to get regular offers to play SEC teams.

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Watching MusicCityBowl with Auburn and Purdue and knowing Boilermakers were  the team that beat Ohio State…. well, it does not strengthen Buckeyes’ contention that they should be in CFB playoff

Teddy Bridgewater starting for New Orleans at QB on Sunday. One argument for Drew Brees as  NFL MVP might be having done such a good job he AND many other starters can rest week 17.

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Tigers are a 12.5 point favorite on Saturday, but apparently most betting money for CFB Playoff game between Clemson and Notre Dame is coming in on the Fighting Irish.

Will winning bettors be required to donate some of their profits to Notre Dame. #TouchdownJesus

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Question of the week, what are more meaningless in December?  Most college football bowl games, or most NBA “regular season games?”

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Today’s fundraising email to me said President Trump “was SHOCKED to see that your name was missing from the list of Official Build The Wall Members.”

Well, if Trump really were shocked we’d have even more ammunition for 25th amendment.

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Just wondering, could we get Donald Trump put federal money towards eradicating dangerous diseases if we told him the viruses came into the country illegally?

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Trump now says he will stay in DC and miss his New Year’s Eve bash at Mar-A-Lago.    But okay, let’s be logical here — all the VERY expensive tickets have been sold that guarantee access to the President.

So choice here is, go down to see the few people he actually likes in January or February when shutdown is over, or stay home, avoid the rich donors he tolerates,  plus the germs he fears, and blame it on the Democrats….

San Antonio Spurs last night beat NBA’s Western Conference current best Denver Nuggets. While the Golden State Warriors lose back to back home games against Los Angeles Lakers and Portland Trail Blazers.

So is NBA about to change their motto to “Any given Sunday, or Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday, or Friday, or Saturday?”

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Wisconsin 35- Miami 3. Almost as low a score for Hurricanes in New York as the Yankees averaged in ALDS.

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41 bowl games this season…. for how many of this young men will it be the most overhyped and meaningless game of their lives… until they get drafted by a team like the Jets.

Can we get bipartisan agreement on the fact that when it’s a 45 minute line to order a grilled cheese and someone sees a friend in line and says ‘”hey can I order with you too” that should be a felony?

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As Trump uses sad shooting death of policeman to push his wall, guess no one told him officer Ronil Singh came here from Fiji as an unskilled young immigrant who wanted to be a police officer.

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While Trump lies about a fake 10% pay raise for military, members of US Coast guard will be working without pay starting tomorrow due to his Shutdown. #Details

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A cell signal reportedly put former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen outside Prague around the time of the alleged Russian collusion meeting.

“Fake cellphone signal” tweets in 3.2.1….

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But okay, should we really be surprised same Trump administration that doesn’t seem to believe in records of what they write and say in public also didn’t understand the concept of locating cell phones?

144 USA police officers killed in line of duty in 2018 and Trump decides to tweet about the one who apparently was shot by someone in the country illegally.

Think I raised my son right, this was his Christmas present to me.

Tom Brady “I know I’ve talked about it for a long time. I have that goal to not only play next year, but beyond that.”
Possible translation, “Giselle isn’t ready for me to just sit around the house.”

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Whats a bigger shock, that the Lakers beat the Warriors 127-101 on Christmas? Or that they were only up 71-57 when Lebron James got hurt in the third quarter.

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A foot doctor’s daughters now say their late father diagnosed President Donald Trump with bone spurs to help him avoid the Vietnam War draft as a “favor” to his father Fred Trump.
So can we start calling him #CadetFakeBoneSpurs?

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I’m so old I remember staying up late Christmas Eve in hopes of hearing Santa.
Instead of in dread of what POTUS might tweet.

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Apparently 7-year-old who Donald Trump said it was”marginal” for someone her age to still believe.in Santa said she’d never heard word “marginal” before.
Again, education causes Democrats.

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Apparently the three ghosts who visited White House last night didn’t make much impression on Donald Trump.

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Merry Christmas is not a mean sentiment   But “Happy Holidays” is boring and kind of a cop-out.  So heck  “Merry Whatever you Celebrate.”

Christmas Eve might have left Raiders fans wondering if they will ever see a professional home football game in Oakland again..

Fans in New Jersey might be forgiving for wondering the same thing with the Giants and Jets.

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Clemson will not have star Dexter Lawrence for CFB playoffs after the DT tested positive for a banned substance. Maybe Lawrence was just trying to prove he is NFL ready?

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Meanwhile, Alabama coach Nick Saban suspended three players for the CFB semifinal game against Oklahoma Saturday for “violations of team rules.” The players included two reserves and one starting offensive lineman who’d been dealing with turf toe and might not have played anyway.

But I’m sure Saban would have suspended the players anyway if they were stars…. #sarcasm.

Donald Trump -“I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back.”
Oh, Democrats are coming back. But just guessing Trump should be careful what he wishes for. Especially starting Jan 3.

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So confused, Trump whining about being “all alone” today. But he still has Fox News and the one he loves best. Unless staffers took down all the White House mirrors.

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Trump to a seven-year old calling in on NORAD’s Santa line “Are you still a believer in Santa Claus? ‘Cuz at seven it’s marginal, right?”
Many Americans to their children “Are you still a believer in US democracy? ‘Cuz at 242 it’s now marginal, right?”

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A group called Kremlin Annex is outside the White House playing music loudly. Please can someone get them the music tonight to Linda Ronstadt’s “Poor poor pitiful me.”

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Trump now so upset about Fed chair Jerome Powell, maybe Donald should just fire the idiot who hired him.

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In the Trump version of Christmas, Jesus Mary and Joseph are detained at a border wall and Herod is celebrated for keeping Judea great.

Thinking a lot of folks might be forgiven for wondering why Nick Files isn’t Eagles starting QB?

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6-8 Broncos vs 3-11 Raiders on Monday Night Football this week. So many NFL fans are getting their Christmas turkey earlier.

Wizards and Suns combined for 295 in Triple OT NBA game. Curiously enough 295 is approximate over-under if  Chiefs and Saints end up in the Super Bowl.

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So did the Washington Redskins decide to show solidarity with government workers Saturday by shutting themselves down in the 4th quarter?

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tweeted that he had called leaders of US largest banks to confirm they had liquidity to keep offering credit. Thereby trying to reassure Americans who weren’t worried until he tweeted?

Here’s a compromise for Donald Trump – whatever we decide to spend on his wall or slats or whatever, Democrats get an equal amount to put into whatever social problem they want that he’s cut.

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So wait, this morning we aren’t talking about “artistic steel slats” and are back talking about “a good old-fashioned wall.” This is SO confusing.

If we had a President he would be at least sending “thoughts and prayers” to Indonesia.

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Same POTUS who said he’d run unarmed into a school to face an armed killer was afraid to fire his Secretary of Defense in person or even by phone.

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Just thinking, anyone who REALLY cared about safety in this country might make sure TSA agents got paid during a shutdown.

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So if Mexico is paying for the wall will they cover paychecks of furloughed government workers too?

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Trump is staying at the White House over Christmas.  Is it really because of the government shutdown. Or is it just possible Donald doesn’t want to face his rich friends after tanking the stock market?

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Wonder if since he’s stuck in DC, if Trump will issue an executive order demanding McDonald’s stay open on Christmas.

Four more made-for-TV college football bowls Saturday. And can anyone who isn’t a gambler or alum of a school involved say they’re seriously planning to watch any of them?

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One of Saturday’s bowls is the “Dollar General Bowl.”  Is that the price they hope fans will pay to attend?

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With Cincinnati trading for Yasiel Puig, Reds may not contend in 2019, but at least dugout may have thermo-nuclear capability.

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Troy Tulowitzki is being paid $38 million by the Toronto Blue Jays not to play. If SF Giants just sign him to play along with Pablo Sandoval ($18 million due from Red Sox) would they set a record for players being paid by other teams.

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Must admit, it takes a certain kind of stable genius to shutdown the government over a wall that he promised us Mexico was going to pay for.

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Reports that Trump has attacked Matt Whitaker because POTUS feels prosecutors that the acting AG oversees have filed charges that make him look bad. Truly amazing that buses run in DC with all the people Donald has thrown under them.

Melania Trump has gone down with her son to Mar-a-Lago while Donald stays in Washington. So seems like SOMEONE at least got what she wanted for Christmas.

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Lost in the craziness of  Friday morning’s tweet storm from Donald Trump “I know tech better than anyone…”
Says the stable genius who can’t even use spellcheck on his phone.

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TSA workers will remain on job, but they will not be paid, except presumably retroactively. And you think airport experience was bad enough before Government Shutdown.

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Trump says he is prepared for a “very long shutdown.” Did someone forget to tell him new Democrat-controlled House starts on January 3?

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Quote of the day “Rather than talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems? Make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit, and they, while they’re working and earning here, they’d pay taxes here. And when they want to go back, they can go back. They can cross. Open borders both ways”
From that noted liberal Ronald Reagan.

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On a brighter note, today is literally the darkest day of the year in the US. So we’re all uphill from now!

Yes, Thursday December 20, was the “Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl.

(and if you knew without Google who was playing in it…. well, you just MIGHT have too much time on your hands.)

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On those days when you feel overwhelmed and unworthy at work, remember Nathan Peterman, signed by the Raiders, has a job as an NFL Quarterback.

Ohio State coach Urban Meyer, after he retires, again for health reason, will co-teach a course at the school on character  and leadership.

Some statements don’t even need a punchline.

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Saints coach Sean Payton “The 46-man roster on game day is soon to be, I think, will be soon dated. I think that’s gotta change
If we’re interested in health and safety — and it sounds like we are; at least that’s something we talk about a lot — that number should be higher. And that’ll affect the overall roster size. And that might cost a little bit more money, but that’s the price.”

Uh “cost a little bit more money.” Wonder if NFL will suspend Payton again for that.

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Can’t stop thinking about all those voters who thought there wouldn’t be any difference between Donald and Hillary…

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Though in related news,  Donald Trump has announced his next book will teach executives healthy management techniques.

GoFundMe campaign for the wall up to over $9 million Wonder how many MAGAers who have donated would balk at, for example, paying $1 more for coffee or a burger to give restaurant workers a living wage

Even Fox News is making James Mattis’s departure a headline. But in their “Five things you need to know about Mattis” – #2 is “Obama appointed him to commander of U.S. Central Command.”

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That moment when the last adult in the room decides the spoiled toddler is too much to handle….

So if you REALLY wanted to lead a war on Christmas, wouldn’t a first step be furloughing employees right before the holiday?

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Wasn’t that long ago I bemoaned not being able to get on a flight for several hours without landing & thinking “WTF did Trump do now?”
Now we can’t even go for lunch or a coffee break.

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Yesterday Trump tweeted “We have defeated ISIS in Syria.”
Today’s tweet – “Russia, Iran, Syria & many others are not happy about the U.S. leaving, despite what the Fake News says, because now they will have to fight ISIS and others, who they hate, without us.”
So we defeated them but they are back already? This is SO confusing…

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Let’s hope no one tells Donald Trump that Santa Claus is a foreigner without a visa giving gift to people regardless of their immigration status.

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I do think today the Democratic Virtual Advent Calendar just exploded.

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Seriously does anyone other than the players involved care who gets selected for the Pro Bowl?

New Orleans Saints need one more victory to clinch home field advantage throughout the playoffs.  And the Panthers, who they play for the final game of the season,  have just shut down Cam Newton.

Though my son points out that Carolina’s best passer on Monday night was actually Christian McCaffrey.

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Whew, Ohio, was trending tonight. But it’s not a mass shooting or disaster, but just for a football bowl game. Okay, be honest folks, who knew Ohio University HAD a football team?

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Maybe one way to get more interest in these meaningless bowl games is that winners get guaranteed games scheduled with Power 5 conferences?

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Cuban Baseball Federation has reached an agreement with MLB to allow to allow Cuban players to sign major league contracts without defecting.
Nobody tell Donald Trump.

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So if we want to practice on a wall, maybe America could start by building one at the Florida border over Christmas? Or at least around Mar-A-Lago?

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Marco Rubio, one of 12 Senators to vote against #FirstStepAct – If I’m uncomfortable in the end I’m going to air on the side of public safety and vote against it.” Right, unless the bill favors NRA or gun lobby.

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Have often thought having troops in the Mideast is a mistake. But to suddenly pull them out of Syria on a day when Flynn plea and Trump Foundation being dissolved are making headline, well, T.S. Eliot had it right: “The last temptation is the greatest treason. To do the right thing for the wrong reason.

Trump Wednesday night tweeting about “The Ingraham Angle.” Can someone please shout at him to turn off the TV and “Do your job”?

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I’m so old I remember waking up during the holiday season without thinking “What tantrum is POTUS throwing this morning?

So if Mexico is somehow “indirectly paying for the wall” can I tell IRS I am indirectly paying my taxes?

New Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen “Internally, we would argue that we’re the favorites in the division right now.” Wait, I thought New York hadn’t yet legalized marijuana.

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Redskins safety Montae Nicholson arrested early this am after he and a woman companion allegedly attacked another couple, Sounds like claiming Reuben Foster already has inspired his new teammates.

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 Damn, RIP Penny Marshall, not only Laverne but the director of “Big” and “League of Their Own.” No doubt she’s on her way to heaven saying “Are you crying? Are you crying?! There’s no crying! There’s no crying in baseball!

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Trump is directing DOD to establish Space Command, aka Space Force. Does he think he can get Michael Jordan in charge?

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Amazing, Tucker Carlson’s claim immigrants make the U.S. “poorer and dirtier.”
Wonder how many of the people who clean his home and hotel rooms he frequents are American born?

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Wait, all of a sudden White House says they will accept $1.6 billion for wall instead of $6 billion. But why should it matter if Mexico is paying for it?

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United Airlines is telling Premier members they now have free access to “Preferred Seats” – standard legroom but in “first few rows behind Economy Plus.”
Translation, most fliers will be now paying more not to sit in the VERY back of the bus.

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Steve Mnuchin, asked about Trump’s “middle-class tax cut.”- “I’m not going to comment on whether it is a real thing or not a real thing,”
Translation – Trump made it up.

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Today’s Trump fundraising email:
“..Your name is *NOT* yet on the Official First Family Christmas Card. President Trump and the First Lady have been working so hard to bring Christmas cheer to the White House……Because it’s not just their home. It’s your home too.
That’s why the official Christmas card we give them on Christmas Eve won’t be complete without your name.”
Uh, they won’t even be in White House on Christmas Eve, they’ll be at Mar-A-Lago.

The First Step Act is a good first step in criminal justice reform. But with such overwhelming support, have to wonder, why did Mitch McConnell refuse to bring it to the Senate floor until now?
Almost as if Trump asked him to wait to provide distraction on a very very bad day

And yes, we all expected the New Orleans Saints to be on the cusp of clinching home field advantage throughout the playoffs because of their stellar…. defense??

And also  didn’t everyone have the San Antonio Spurs going 5-1 on their homestand by beating the now 20-12 Philadelphia 76ers and losing to the now 7-24 Chicago Bulls?

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Your post Saints-Panthers game reminder, that while Cam Newton is a very good QB, it took a lot to be expelled from the University of Florida under Urban Meyer.

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Must admit I liked the Woody Allen  movie “Manhattan”  MUCH more before I knew it was autobiographical.

Got an online ad for “official” Trump merchandise on sale for Christmas, IF you use the code ‘NOEL.” Wait, Noel is a French word. I thought we’re making America great again

Just thinking, if we have a Government Shutdown presume Secret Service still needs to guard Donald Trump. But to save manpower and money shouldn’t it only be indoors, meaning he shouldn’t venture outside to say, a golf course?

Utah just lowered DUI blood-alcohol content limit to 0.05, strictest in US. So any guy who wants to party this holiday season should be sure to be driven home by his most sober wife.

New report says that after the election, Russian disinformation teams targeted Robert Mueller. Now we might be talking the REAL witch hunt.

Your reminder that most people working illegally in this country flew in on visitor’s visas. You know, like at first Melanija Slavs, now FLOTUS.

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If you are more outraged about Sarah Sanders not being able to finish her cheese plate than a 7-year old girl dying after being detained by the Border Patrol, you just might need to rearrange your priorities.

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So if we DO have government shutdown Dec. 21 would that mean Air Force One is grounded from flying to Florida? Asking for a country.