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More evidence of Trump’s ability with “deals”:

MSNOW Jan. 23, 2026, 6:01 PM EST

By  Ja’han Jones

Despite receiving billions of American tax dollars last year in a controversial bailout backed by Donald Trump, Argentina’s president recommitted on Thursday to expanding his country’s trade with China at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Javier Milei’s comments arguably kicked sand in the face of American farmers who warned last year that Trump’s bailout of Argentina would undercut the U.S. economy because of the nation’s deep trade relationship with China. 

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Leader Of Trump’s Vaccine Panel Says Polio, Measles Shots Should Be Optional

Want to send your kids to that school . . .?

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If you remember the big bear (Ca.) eagle cam from last year . . . it is back with Jackie and Shadow and there is an egg in the nest!  Same nest, apparently undisturbed.  Just search for “big bear eagle cam” and you’ll find it.  And yes, they will take a little donation.  Update:  Now two eggs.  Further update:  Jackie left the nest for awhile and ravens got the eggs . . .

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Trump’s new “Board of Peace” has some new members!  Vladimir Putin for one!  Doesn’t that spell “peace” to you?

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Useless Fact:  The world’s oldest known leather shoe, complete with intact laces, dates to around 3500 BCE, during the Copper Age (between the Stone Age and Bronze Age). 

Okay, one more:  About a million Earths would fit inside our sun.

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Recall that Trump used to talk about gun control, but later learned how many of his supporters would not like that:

In  2019, after a gunman used an AR-15 rifle to kill 23 people and injure 22 others in an El Paso Walmart, Trump, according to The New York Times, asked,  “What are we going to do about assault rifles?” 

Trump eventually abandoned pursuit of red-flag laws and limits on assault-style rifles. – From MSNOW

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It’s not that anyone dislikes lefties, but:

For centuries, being left-handed in a primarily right-handed world wasn’t just inconvenient; it was also seen as suspicious or even dangerous. This bias goes way back: The word “sinister” comes from a Latin word of the same spelling meaning “on the left side.”

In medieval Europe, left-handedness was thought to have ties to witchcraft and, for some religious groups, demonic possession.

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Trump confronts aging concerns in New York magazine interview

He said he closed his eyes in a Cabinet meeting because it was “boring as hell.” Marco Rubio called it “a listening mechanism.” — MSNOW

Why didn’t those excuses work for me in school?

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Riddle:  What does December have that no other month does?

Answer below.

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So, Trump is not winning the battle to force the Fed to lower interest rates. Why is that so important to him?  Well, I read that he owes hundreds of millions of dollars to foreign banks (US banks will not loan to him anymore).  I don’t know the interest rates, but let’s say he borrowed at 4 % . . .  if he can get the rates lowered and pay that back at 2%, gee, who benefits?

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Not good Dept.: Search Warrant FBI Served at Elections Office Near Atlanta Seeks Records Tied To 2020 Elections

The search comes as the FBI under the leadership of Director Kash Patel has moved quickly to pursue the political grievances of President Donald Trump. — AP

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He doesn’t even hide it, again:  A framed picture of President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hangs in the White House, a photo taken by Bloomberg photographer Kent Nishimura in the Palm Room on Tuesday shows.  And something I missed in his first term:

According to HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. Dáte, Trump hung up a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the West Wing in his first term. When he vacated the residence, Trump found a new home for the photo: the bar at Trump Tower in New York.

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About 2020 voter fraud, again:  As has been pointed out ad nauseum, there’s almost no actual fraud. Brookings looked at the Heritage Foundation’s own database of “fraud,” finding that in seven swing states Heritage itself identified only 252 cases of fraud across 408,000,000 cast ballots. That’s like finding one bad penny in a pile of 1.6 million of them. Other analyses have shown in-person fraud of the kind that would be addressed by voter ID is even less common. Every claim about systemic fraud has crumbled into dust. – and don’t forget that many of the individual cases were Trump supporters trying to vote twice.

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Saw a new “back doc” yesterday.  Got shots in the lower back.  Will start PT in a week. We’ll see.  I need to “fix” this and walk better or give it up and get a wheelchair (a really fast one)!

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From Susan Glasser, New Yorker: “Does anyone remember now that, on January 7, 2021, he denounced the “violence, lawlessness, and mayhem” committed in his name, while accusing the rioters whom he would later pardon of having “defiled the seat of American democracy”? Trump, in damage-control mode, will do or say anything to get through a crisis—and his words at such a moment have about as much long-term value as a diploma from Trump University.”

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How is this possible, you ask:  Alaska Is Both the Westernmost and Easternmost Part of The United States

It’s that International dateline, you see.  A small part of Alaska is on the other side of it.

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I think that a lot of Trump’s supporters are just too damn stubborn, or don’t want to be embarrassed, to admit that he has fooled them all these years (read grifter, con man, liar, crook, fraud, cheater, now murderer, etc.).

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You Know You’re Old Dept.:  When you go to doctor’s visits more often than you go to the movies.

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Request from a dad:  How about a drive-thru toy store where you buy a wrapped present on your way to a kid’s bday party. I don’t care what’s inside.

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Now journalists are being arrested?  What’s next, some kind of re-education camp for them?

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Answer:  The letter “D”.

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And yes, this is still going on:  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hospitals in Gaza said Israeli strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians including several children on Saturday, one of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire, a day after Israel accused Hamas of new truce violations.

The strikes hit locations throughout Gaza, including an apartment building in Gaza City and a tent camp in Khan Younis, said officials at hospitals that received the bodies.

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Readers, like you, I have my sad days.  This is one.  I just can’t get it out of my head that:

We . . . are . . .  killing . . . protestors.

We . . .are . . . arresting . . . journalists

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God help us, Saul.

Take care,

Kevin