You have not lived till you have pigged out on Italian Christmas cookies!

My wife began baking them about three weeks before Christmas.  Some refrigerated in order to be kept fresh.

They were so good! Initially, I would begin eating them three weeks out. A few each evening. It was like drinking. Start with one, then two, then three, etc. A bad system. I went to bed bloated each evening.

I came up with a plan. Save yourself for one evening. Enjoy them all in one evening. So, 2 or 3 nights before Christmas Eve, I would do it. Layed out a plate of all the Christmas cookies on the kitchen counter and went at it. Pigged out! Loved it! Enjoyed it!

Touched not one cookie before or one cookie after.

Some Key West.

The Turtle Hospital in Marathon serves turtles year round. Its work is heavier during the winter months. Especially when it is very cold in the Cape Cod area. Every year a number of nearly frozen turtles are flown to the Turtle Hospital to literally be saved. After so doing, are flown back north.

Twenty critcally endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles who had been “cold stunned” in New England waters were flown down and are now being warmed and made healthy at the Turtle Hospital.

Movies under the stars! The Monroe County Library and Tropic Cinema are periodically featuring a free outdoor movie. At the Key West Library site on Eaton Street. One half hour after sunset. Free. Suggested you bring your own chair. The Library does not have enough.

The program has been successfully run for three years. The next film is saturday December 21. The movie “Elf.”

The Key West High School played a hell of a basketball game this past week. They played Coral Shores. Defeated Coral Shores 59-21.

Key West was hot! Had a 16-0 run in the first quarter.

We have been warned for years. The water is creeping up on our shores. An example is what occurred to 12 buildings between Miami and Sunny Isles Beach. Involved were condos and luxury hotels. The buildings sank or settled 0.8 to 3.1 inches.

A permanent or temporary bill must be passed by saturday to avoid a Washington government shutdown. Happens every year. Our elected officials wait till the last minute for anything and everything that is important.

House Republicans and Democrats had agreed on a 1,500 page temporary bill which would keep the government open till March 14. A few days early. Great job! Till Trump and Musk got involved. Both claim the bill was loaded with fat. They have told the Republicans to not support it. Chaos the result! Who knows what will occur between now and saturday.

The deal between the parties had been brokered and worked hard at. There was an agreement till Trump and Musk stepped in. Trump threatens a primary for any Republican who votes for it.

The whole thing sucks! Happens all the time! Wait till the last minute! Even worse this year is Trump and Musk’s involvement. Trump is not even Presidnet yet. Musk is nothing and will be nothing even after Trump is sworn in. He has been given a new fancy title that has not a formal place in our government  and answers to no one except perhaps Trump.

Musk claims he is going to save the government money. He will. He will cut back on regulations in many military and other federal programs. Most of which his companies are heavily financially involved. Every penny he saves the government will result in a profit to him.

Musk is “married” to Trump at the moment. He spends much time residing at Mar-a-Lago. Is always with Trump. Pictured with him everywhere.

The question being asked in Washington is who is running the government. Trump or Musk? Even worse, Trump is being referred to in whispers as “Mr. Vice-President.”

Trump does not like not being #1. If the Mr. V-P takes hold, Musk could be out on his ass.

Gaetz is in the news again. He resigned his Congressional seat about a month ago in fear the Congressional Ethics Committee investigating him had found him guilty of misdeeds and was going to report them out.  The Committee had made its decision late in November at which time it decided not to release its report. Then the furor came. Why not? A secret vote early in December changed the Committee’s position. However, the Committee never told anyone it was going to release its report.

Yesterday, it did. The report will be released in the next few days. Gaetz’s only comment thus far: I ” partied, womanized, drank and smoked more than I should have.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a 35 year old Democratic Representative. Following the Democratic Party defeat in November, the cry went out that the Party needed a generational change. New young faces leading it in Washington. Ocasio-Cortez was one of them.

The Democrats have an Oversight Committee all their own. No Republicans on it. Self-run by the Democrats. A Chairman election was held this week. Ocasio-Cortez a candidate to lead the Committee. Seventy four year old Gerry Connolly her opponent. A man suffering from esophageal cancer. He defeated Ocasio-Clark 131-84.

Appears the Democrats have not seen the handwriting on the wall.

Enjoy your day!

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