Yessir, good ole’ Donny has that tar baby right where he wants it!

Trump started a war with no true justification and no real goal in mind. Nothing beyond distracting voters from all of his other problems and scandals, plus the ability to thrust out his chest and brag about how “no one has ever done anything so great before”. His usual claim to fame.

And now every time he hits the Iranian tar baby, he just gets stuck deeper and harder and has no idea how to get loose.

And as I am wont to do, I sat with her splitting my attention between reading and watching. To be honest, I have little interest in most of the awards, the sophomoric comedy of Conan O’Brien, or the vast majority of the acceptance speeches. However, I was watching when they remembered those who had passed away in the last year - with special attention given to Rob and Michelle Reiner, Diane Keaton, and Robert Redford.

And a few days ago I finished reading The Station’s Late Nite Princess, and started in on Frills, both of which are among my favorites.

In Frills, there is a scene where the main character’s home is toilet papered, the cars covered in shaving cream, and the house egged, by a group of high school students for the 28th time inside of a year. What made this stand out was the news story I saw this evening about a high school teacher in Georgia who was killed Friday night by a group of five teens while they toilet papered his home.

Notwithstanding Trump’s repeated lies about not getting the US involved in another endless war in the Middle East, he has now attacked Iran for a second time in conjunction with his buddy Netanyahu. This is obviously all about regime change, with the added advantage that it distracts voters from his domestic failures - not to mention the fact that his administration continues to bury multiple documents related to him and Epstein.

Named Haolong Dongi.

Haolong (lit. 'spiny dragon') is an extinct genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian age) Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China. The genus contains a single species, Haolong dongi, known from a nearly complete, articulated skeleton with preserved integumentary structures.

The generic name, Haolong, comes from Mandarin Chinese and translates to "spiny dragon," in reference to its integumentary structures. The specific name, dongi, honors Dong Zhiming, a prominent Chinese paleontologist.

To watch the Men’s Ice Hockey Gold Medal game if the US team makes it that far, as well as the closing ceremonies. Vance has already attended the opening ceremony and various venues; he was booed at the opening ceremony as well as while watching luge. Plus, apparently Kash Patel decided to attend a few ice hockey games as well. Patel, whose use of a government jet has frequently come under scrutiny, flew on a Justice Department plane Thursday to Italy with plans to attend the Olympic hockey medal rounds, according to public data and sources familiar with the matter.

The Democratic members of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform have released the findings of a report examining last month's fatal shootings in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers. In their statement, the report claims that "President Trump, [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem, and [the U.S. Department of Homeland Security] have lied over and over again and are now trying to cover up the truth. The Trump Administration needs to be held accountable."

And I was disgusted by an article based on a podcast recently given by Ryan Helfenbien, the Vice President of Communications & Public Engagement at Liberty University and the Founding Executive Director of the Standing for Freedom Center. Mr. Helfenbien professes to be a “Christian”, but this is his take on the murder of Renee Good by ICE and CBP agents in Minneapolis:

Politics invading this space, but I felt this needed to be publicized.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/off-duty-twin-cities-...

But it shouldn’t surprise me. Queensbury, NY is a community some 30 miles north of where I live. It is a community which is fairly agrarian, but also has a fair amount of old paper mills. It has become somewhat more cosmopolitan over the past decade as people move north from New York’s Capital/Saratoga Region where I live, but it is still a pretty red part of New York State.

Big Brother strikes again.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-webpage-january-6-a...

Trump’s administration officially rewrites history.

After cleaning up the kitchen from dinner this evening, I sat down to read while my spouse watched the end of the Philadelphia/Buffalo football game. My oldest son and his wife were at the game; my son is a Philly fan while his wife is a Buffalo fan, so both of them were excited to be at the game - especially in light of the fact that it was the last regular season game at the Buffalo stadium as they move into their new stadium before the start of the next season. Buffalo is a five hour drive from our home, so they are spending the night and coming home tomorrow.

The last I heard from her she was working on a new book in her Cheerleader series, but it has been quite a while since she published anything. I am more than a little concerned about her. Too many authors have simply disappeared over the past few years.

Too many simply slip away, never to be heard from again. Too much talent is lost to the world when it happens, and those of us left behind can only wonder why, only wonder what happened.

I have been re-reading a group of my favorite stories recently, including Clara’s works on Fictionmania.

Last night, when I finished part five of “Kiss Me Bianca”, closed it, and went to open part six, I suddenly received an error message, which read as follows:

429 Too Many Requests
If you're a human being, try again tomorrow
If you're a bot, go to Hell and stay there!

I am still not able to access anything beyond the entry page at Fictionmania. Anyone else having this issue?

Any suggestions on how to deal with this? Or why I am getting it?