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Trump doesn't know what comes next after taxes

Chance of a US stock market correction now at  70 percent: Vanguard Group

Trump will not campaign for Moore before election ...

Donald Trump proposes 'Fake News Trophy ...'

Trump White House ethics lawyer exits

Trump's new CFPB chief imposes hiring freeze at nation's top financial watchdog

Amazon warehouse of hell! Robots replace exhausted humans ...

Chinese fake trees driving U.S. Christmas tree growers out of business

Trump taunts 'Pocahontas' during Native American event

Nation's Small Business Saturday sales take a small dip

GREAT AGAIN: New home sales rise to 10-year high ...

Sarandon: 'We'd be at war' if Hillary won

Pie in the Sky

First lady Michelle Obama apparently likes things over the top.  So it was with pies on Thanksgiving.  This past Thursday there were nine pie types on the White House’s groaning larder-board … pumpkin (of course), pecan, sweet potato, peach, apple, coconut cream, chocolate cream, banana cream, and huckleberry.  (What, no lemon meringue?!) And for the rest of her turkey-day feast menu see … NY Times Story.

Last Christmas Michelle splashed 54 gaily-decorated Christmas trees around the White House … a place where the first family wouldn’t even be on the day that these trees memorialized … see: Oh Oh Tannenbaums.  Somehow, Michelle’s penchant for overdoing things with her fabulous fetes and glittery galas brings to mind that famous French first lady ... the one who favored cake.

Oh Oh Tannenbaums

After Ebenezer Scrooge’s ghostly visits on Christmas eve, he changed his miserly ways and was know thereafter to ”keep Christmas very well.”  Well Michelle Obama has not had any poltergeists banging around the White House (that I know of), yet she keeps Christmas exceeding well.  One would think that having two or three Christmas trees in the White House would be quite enough … particularly since the Obamas will be vacationing in Kailua/Kona, Hawaii for the three weeks surrounding Christmas and New Years (at a cost of four million taxpayer dollars … see. Washington Times Article).  But, in the typical over-the-top Michelle style, she has had erected there six times that many ... 18 Christmas trees.  Wow!  Oops, I lied.  It’s not even 18 trees.  Its even three times that many still.  It’s 54 Christmas trees gracing the White House! 

54!  Where the hell can you put that many tannenbaums in the White House?  One in the Oval Office, one in the Blue Room,. one in the Red Room,  one in the personal quarters … make it two,  one in the dining room,  one in the entry hall, one in the kitchen for the kitchen staff, and one under the portico.  Let’s see … that’s nine altogether … which are still 1/6^th of the number that are actually gracing this First Family’s residence during the time of our nation’s economic austerity and malaise … see: Investors.com and check out its picture of a few of the White House trees.   

But then one has to keep up appearances for the other 98% …