Happy New Year, CoSo! 🎈🎉

The kids and grandkids went home and left behind a gawdawful cold. DH and I are sick. We 'celebrated' last night by taking nyquil and going to bed at 8pm. The champagne will have to wait.

Hoping for good health in 2019. 💜

Five and a half years of nothing available but satellite Internet. 5 1/2 years. We finally have DSL installed. It works! Ancient tech? Sure. But it sure beats satellite.

*** happy dance ***

Good article. He is OWNED.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/purchase-donald-trump-new-report-details-russian-money-poured-save-trumps-businesses/

The TP, formerly known as GOP, embraces a government shutdown, blindly following the Traitor over a cliff. Not all in the #TraitorParty are willing to vote for THE WALL, but enough support the Traitor that the unpassable budget bill is pending, and doomed.

#GovernmentShutDown

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2018/12/21/hurtling-toward-a-shutdown-368206

Mattis:

“I believe we must be resolute and unambiguous in our approach to those countries whose strategic interests are increasingly in tension with ours. It is clear that China and Russia, for example, want to shape a world consistent with their authoritarian model - gaining veto authority over other nations' economic, diplomatic, and security decisions - to promote their own interests at the expense of their neighbors, America and our allies.”

Subtext?

#TraitorTrump
#DonTheCON

U.S. allies in Asia-Pacific region rattled after Mattis quits

The abrupt resignation of U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sparked concern among Asia-Pacific allies who credit the retired general with building trust and tempering isolationist impulses, regional officials and analysts said on Friday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-mattis-asia/u-s-allies-in-asia-pacific-region-rattled-after-mattis-quits-idUSKCN1OK0KI

Good morning, CoSo!

Today is Yule, the winter solstice.

May your day be blessed and may your life be filled with light.

#CaffeineClub
#YuletideJoy
#HappyHolidays

Petition calls on Disney to drop 'Hakuna Matata' trademark

Cultural appropriation at its most absurd, Disney trademarked a common phrase.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/19/africa/africans-petition-disney-over-hakuna-matata-trademark-intl/index.html

BuzzFeed News Has Won A Lawsuit Over Its Decision To Publish The Trump Dossier

The judge found BuzzFeed was protected by a "fair report privilege" because the article involved an official proceeding.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/buzzfeed-dossier-lawsuit-dismissed-judge

Endangered species from bees to giraffes are imperiled by the 45* Regime

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/19/endangered-species-imperiled-trump-administration-report/2366219002/