The morning after the Zoo's Christmas Party

Good party?

MERRY CHRISTMAS

            I am having Christmas with family, five blood relates, son, grandsons, great grandsons, plus four more related by marriage. I'd love to have all my children, grandchildren, and great-grand-children, but geography makes it hard for all to be together.

            I hope everyone has a lovely family Christmas whether it's twenty or only two. Sometimes you spend it with friends, I call that a family for the day, veterans like me understand, we've celebrated a Christmas or two in another country, far from home.  

            Traditions, if your family doesn't have any, get one, they're nice. More than the gifts, I can't wait until the Christmas night poker game.

            I have sort of a memory of my grandfather playing in the poker game. Can't remember my grandmother playing, but I know they both liked to play cards. Mostly it was my parents and aunts and uncles, while we cousins played.

            As the cousins grew up, we joined the poker game, while our children ran around the room playing.

            Our kids grew up and joined the game, while their kids played. Next those kids, the grandkids grew up, and that's where I'll spend Christmas three of five generations playing poker, with great grandchildren running around playing.

            I hope everyone is spending Christmas with family and continuing your traditions. If you can't, maybe next year. Just don't spend it alone, join friends, if you don't have friends, go someplace like a soup kitchen to serve Christmas dinner, or an assisted living home. Either place you'll feel the love.

            Merry Christmas to everyone on my face book, my friends of fifty years and longer. My family, including my dearest cousins and their generations of children.  New friends who have joined because they are writers like me, or friends of friends. An extra Merry Christmas to all the paternal cousins on my face book who I've never met. Some of you are double cousins.

Merry Christmas to all. Have a good one.

The dog could win. You're all heard or read where I've claimed to be a 'yeller dog Democrate', It was a joke, but now if my dog was blond instead of black, I might consider supporting him in a run for office. Trump opens his mouth one more time, I do have a yellow cat. 

Trump is going to lower taxes on the rich. That's what Republicans do lower taxes on the rich. It has never worked. It gives the rich bigger bank balances. It's been tried by other presidents and history records it has never worked. The result is the rich get richer.

Regan tried the trickle-down policy, believing it would help people. Others like Trump do it to line their own pockets and those of their friends.

Less taxes for the rich, means the rich will have more money in the bank.

            Thirteen million will be out of heath care. I'm retired military, I don't pay for health care, but I do pay taxes, it takes a couple years, but tax payers will get the bill. This tax cut is doomed before it's voted in.  

Requiring people to pay for not taking the health care, was put in Obama care because national health care will only work if everyone participates. However, it was premature. We need a health care plan that works, that people want, before a penalty is in acted.  Back on my pulpit, we need the best health care plan congress can come up with, then they need to tweak it every year until they get it right.  

            Trump has been the White House for nearly a year and hasn't said or done anything helpful to the American people. His words and tweets make it obvious he thinks he is King. We are here for him.

            He is the President, he is here for us.

            Republicans in office are dropping with every election. It makes this Democrat happy, especially since that bigot in Alabama isn't going to congress.   

                                                                              IT'S HERE, IT'S REALLY HERE

Poison Mushrooms, the 2nd book in the Karen Gallagher cozy mystery series. Old friends from Umbrella on the Floor, and lots of new ones. 

Karen and Rick still banter. Karen's smart mouth, works every where except with her big sister Sharon, who is a homemaker right out of the 50's.

Where Umbrella is a find em, and shoot em, Poison Mushroom is more of a think mystery, a real who-don-it . All the clues are there, follow them and figure it out, or enjoy the read and be surprised. 

Amazon, Kindle and numerous other sites. Enjoy the read

Dump Trump

Now is the time to Dump Trump. He is cutting income tax on the rich from 39% to 35%. He is also raising the middle-class rate from 10% to 12%.

America is deep in debt, so he wants to burden the middle-class with paying Dump more of it.

This trickledown effect, meaning more money in the accounts of the rich, means they will create more jobs for the rest of us.

Every Republican President has tried this and it has failed every time. Why would Trump do it again, and expect a different result.

Maybe I should change his name from Dump Trump to Dumb Trump. Either way the American people are going to pay the price. If not with our pocketbooks, then in a war, Trump chides North Korea into starting.  We need an adult President. 

Dump Trump

Prince Harry in the news again, doing good things for injured veterans. He served in the British Military. I'm sure the Brits made sure their beloved Prince was watched over, but it is obvious that Harry personally was and is ready to serve.

And we have Trump, who said McCain was a POW, he liked the ones who got away. Dumb Donald, WWII wasn't a TV show, where the actor is a POW in one scene, then retreats to his dressing room or somewhere comfortable.

McCain suffered in a POW camp and survived. To me, McCain is a hero who when above and beyond for his country. Everyone knows I'm a Democrat, but I would cross any aisle, room, or anyplace else, for a chance to say thank you to this man for what he has done for his country.   

During the debates Trump explained what he did for his country. He built a big business (with 3 million start-up funds from his daddy) but he built this business, when things got rough (he filed bankruptcy, over and over). Are we supposed to honor Trump for that? Maybe he should tell us how many paper-cuts he suffered over the years.