This is the time for each and every one reading this to reflect in what you have and give true thanks to that very special person in your life that lives for you. Some know her as Mom, some as Gram I know her as Cathy. After 28 years I have come to know her as my true solid rock she is very special in all ways, and she has only my best interests in mind. I would appreciate it if each of you reading this will take a few minutes on Christmas day to let her know that you truly appreciate her and tell her in your own way that you also truly appreciate her love for you. Please don't let on that I sent this, just make sure that you relay your thanks.
The following was written by Maureen Dowd
Election Therapy From My Basket of Deplorables
The
election was a complete repudiation of Barack Obama: his fantasy world
of political correctness, the politicization of the Justice Department
and the I.R.S., an out-of-control E.P.A., his neutering of the military,
his nonsupport of the police and his fixation on things like
transgender bathrooms. Since he became president, his party has lost 63
House seats, 10 Senate seats and 14 governorships.
The
country had signaled strongly in the last two midterms that they were
not happy. The Dems' answer was to give them more of the same from a
person they did not like or trust.
Preaching
— and pandering — with a message of inclusion, the Democrats have
instead become a party where incivility and bad manners are taken for
granted, rudeness is routine, religion is mocked and there is absolutely
no respect for a differing opinion. This did not go down well in the
Midwest, where Trump flipped three blue states and 44 electoral votes.
The
rudeness reached its' peak when Vice President-elect Mike Pence was
booed by attendees of "Hamilton" and then pompously lectured by the
cast. This may play well with the New York theater crowd but is
considered boorish and unacceptable by those of us taught to respect the
office of the president and vice president, if not the occupants.
Here
is a short primer for the young protesters. If your preferred candidate
loses, there is no need for mass hysteria, canceled midterms, safe
spaces, crying rooms or group primal screams. You might understand this
better if you had not received participation trophies, undeserved grades
to protect your feelings or even if you had a proper understanding of
civics. The Democrats are now crying that Hillary had more popular
votes. That can be her participation trophy.
If
any of my sons had told me they were too distraught over a national
election to take an exam, I would have brought them home the next day,
fearful of the instruction they were receiving. Not one of the top 50
colleges mandate one semester of Western Civilization. Maybe they should
rethink that.
Mr.
Trump received over 62 million votes, not all of them cast by
homophobes, Islamaphobes, racists, sexists, misogynists or any other
"ists." I would caution Trump deniers that all of the crying and whining
is not good preparation for the coming storm. The liberal media, both
print and electronic, has lost all credibility. I am reasonably sure
that none of the mainstream print media had stories prepared for a Trump
victory. I watched the networks and cable stations in their midnight meltdown
— embodied by Rachel Maddow explaining to viewers that they were not
having a "terrible, terrible dream" and that they had not died and "gone
to hell."
The
media's criticism of Trump's high-level picks as "not diverse enough"
or "too white and male" — a day before he named two women and offered a
cabinet position to an African-American — magnified this fact.
Here
is a final word to my Democratic friends. The election is over. There
will not be a do-over. So let me bid farewell to Al Sharpton, Ben Rhodes
and the Clintons. Note to Cher, Barbra, Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham:
Your plane is waiting. And to Jon Stewart, who talked about moving to
another planet: Your spaceship is waiting. To Bruce Springsteen, Jay Z,
Beyoncé and Katy Perry, thanks for the free concerts. And finally, to
all the foreign countries that contributed to the Clinton Foundation,
there will not be a payoff or a rebate.
As
Eddie Murphy so eloquently stated in the movie "48 Hrs.": "There's a
new sheriff in town." And he is going to be here for 1,461 days.
Merry Christmas
