This according to Emerson College, 12/6 – 12/8; 850 RV; 3.3 MoE
 | OHIO |
| Husted | 49 |
| Brown | 46 |
Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 41.0 / 56.0 | -15.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 45.1 / 53.1 | -8.0 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +21 | 207 | 228 |
Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 41.0 / 56.0 | -15.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 45.1 / 53.1 | -8.0 |
| GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +21 | 207 | 228 |
This according to Emerson College, 12/6 – 12/8; 850 RV; 3.3 MoE
| OHIO |
| Husted | 49 |
| Brown | 46 |
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
115 responses to “GOP with Edge in OH Senate Race”
First.
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I know there is nothing but doom and gloom at RRH and to a lesser extent here, but in reality, Trump’s job approval has been getting better of late, and the 2026 generic ballot polling has significantly improved.
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DW – The Cult expects that Trump’s amazing popularity will lead to Republicans winning all 435 House seats and every Senate race.
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And at the other extreme, RRH Elections, they believe that every person alive hates and loathes Trump, and the options they are considering include open revolt that everyone would welcome, or every Republican voting Dem to slit their own throats because that is how much they hate Trump. Everyone hates Trump so much they will gladly kill themselves and destroy the nation so we don’t have to endure another second of Trump’s rule.
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Walt is right about the earthquakes. Something is brewing. Its not just the unusual number of clusters around the Pacific rim. It’s also the increase at all the seams of the deep ocean plates. Like the Drake Passage between Antarctica and South America. The East Pacific Rise, where it joins with the southern ocean. Same kind of seam in the southern Indian ocean. Kamchatka, Japan, Canada near Alaska. All of these are unusual and point to something big forthcoming.
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TSU**12/9 – 12/11
1600 LV
Crocket 51
Talarico 43
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Walt was here before there were continents. He knows his geology.
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Report on what CNN has on the front burner today. (listening while out in the car running errands)
–FIRST, OAC bloviating about the Rs not addressing the exceeding high and growing costs of ObamaCare. “Speaker Johnson shut the government down for over a month instead of having Congress work on fixing ObamaCare”…”people are going to DIE”…”I do not understand why we cannot just extend the subsidized premiums”
[No, the Dems shut down the government for over a month. Oh Lord…the “people are going to die” canard….Why not extend the current subsidized premiums:IT IS COSTING TAXPAYERS BILLIONS of money and the U.S> does not have the revenue to do that.]
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SECOND, the release of 95,000 of Epstein file things that includes (get this) 19 photos released by the Dems including THREE photos of either Epstein with Trump or Trump in a photo posing with fully clad women–and to their credit they also admit these photos and all the others the Dems released show no inappropriate sexual actions of Trump or anyone else anyone.
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Nate gets it…..
https://x.com/i/status/1999273454751609235
Chicon
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Also on CNN was the story about the illegal aliens MD Dad of the year ABrego Garcia being set free from custody. In an interview, he voted to fight against the injustices done to him by this administration and said he is a free man.
GET OUT OF JAIL FREE!
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a 6.7 aftershock in Japan and a 5.2 in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula
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Nah, Nate doesn’t get it.
Here is what the Dems will easily pass if the filibuster is eliminated.
Amnesty and citizenship/voting rights for ALL illegals
Federalize elections: No voter ID, mandatory registration, VBM, election holiday, unsupervised ballot boxes, no restrictions on ballot harvesting, etc. A one party state.
Nationalization of the health care industry, possibly banking.
Higher income taxes, capital gains, estate taxes, and wealth taxes
Packing of SCOTUS, judicial expansion with more lower courts filled with liberals
Huge increase in anti-business regulations. green new deal, fossil fuel bans, etc.
End of right to work laws, forced unionization.
Huge expansion of entitlements.
It would be a completely different country.
Eliminating the filibuster would be absolute political suicide.
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Anybody advocating for the end of the filibuster is not thinking long term.
Trump thinks short term, no filibuster means I can enact my agenda, so what happens in 2 or 4 or 6 years is not concerning to him.
Hopefully Thune knows better and will never do this.
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Shoot the messenger?
Tim Walz says it’s a “pretty hard reach” to expect the Somali community to not engage in the massive theft of tax dollars, criticizes
@POTUS
for calling them out: “Each community’s got this… Donald Trump brought this to the attention… very dangerous.”
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What? I have to admit Trump was right…Walz IS a retard. With that logic we should be loving toward child rapists because after all, its a pretty hard reach to expect pedophiles to not rape children.
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BOOM
Reuters/Ipsos
Democrats 40, Republicans 39
That is two months in a row they found only a 1 point spread. And historically, they have little good news for the GOP in their polling
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ME-2 poll shows Republican up one, 44-43, but the sample size was only 145, so its essentially worthless. I added it to the polling page for 2026 if you wanna see details.
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Glowbull warming must be causing the earthquakes.
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The picture of Trump with the women is from a public event, a beauty pageant, and the picture was actually in a newspaper at the time.
The Dems blocked the faces of the women to make it look like they were underaged, but actually they are pageant participants.
Since Trump ran the Miss Universe pageant for years, there must be thousands of pictures of him with contestants.
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Not So fast: Egypt, Iran Furious Over ‘Pride Match’ Draw in World Cup”
Evidently Seattle wants to call a match between Iran and Egypt “pride match” because it is during pride week.
Egypt and Iran are not having it.
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Have the Gays for Gaza rendered their opinion yet?
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Jason, while making some good points on the merits (must be the milk thistle), misses that the issue is getting low propensity Trump supporters to the polls on election day.
I previously listed some of the things they want from Congress. They’re not getting it – not even close, really. Good luck asking for their vote for a Congressman who is uninterested in what the voter wants.
Chicon
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Chi – I saw your list. Impeaching judges for refusing to rubber-stamp Trump’s agenda? Will they support impeaching judges for refusing to approve the next Democrat President’s agenda?
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. Good luck asking for their vote for a Congressman who is uninterested in what the voter wants.”
I am sure the Dems will give them “what they want”.
You can lead morons to water, you can’t make them drink.
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Chicon thinks the low propensity Trump voters are morons too stupid to realize they will get ZERO of their “wants” if the Dems get into power.
You know, he may be right.
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Maybe Chicon can tell us which of the following the Dems WON’T enact if they have the power to do so.
“Here is what the Dems will easily pass if the filibuster is eliminated.
Amnesty and citizenship/voting rights for ALL illegals
Codifying unrestricted abortion on demand paid for by taxpayers
Federalize elections: No voter ID, mandatory registration, VBM, election holiday, unsupervised ballot boxes, no restrictions on ballot harvesting, etc. A one party state.
Nationalization of the health care industry, possibly banking.
Higher income taxes, capital gains, estate taxes, and wealth taxes
Packing of SCOTUS, judicial expansion with more lower courts filled with liberals
Huge increase in anti-business regulations. green new deal, fossil fuel bans, etc.
End of right to work laws, forced unionization.
Huge expansion of entitlements.”
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But according to Chicon, what “low propensity Trump voters” want is a rehashing of the 2020 election and impeachment of judges who issue rulings they disagree with.
If they don’t get that, then they will be ok with handing power back to the Dems.
Makes perfect sense…
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Pass the popcorn…
The Egypt federation led by Hany Ado Rida, said of the pride celebration it “completely rejects such activities, which directly contradict the cultural, religious and social values in the region, especially in Arab and Islamic societies.”
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looks like the gop are doing better post shutdown.
I think people are seeing prices down and income uo
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Hope springs eternal
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/appeals-court-overturns-obama-judges-order-blocking-trumps/
This is the case where the foreign born Marxist judge thought she was Comgress and president
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@EricLDaugh
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Appeals Court Tosses Ridiculous Ruling That Kept Money Flowing to Planned Parenthood”
Chicon hardest hit….
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I had a hearty breakfast of fried scrapple, slab bacon, country ham, mushroom (gotta have those veggies) omelet, biscuits slathered with Amish, and extra dark roast coffee.
Now prepared to deal with fake conservatives, Putinistas, Cultists, trolls and wokesters.
Bring it on!
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Oh, I forgot, and a milk thistle!
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Some good news!
“Today, we are proud to share that Staff Sgt. Wolfe has made extraordinary progress,” Mai said. “He is now breathing on his own and can stand with assistance-important milestones that reflect his strength and determination. Based on these improvements, he is now ready to transition from acute care to inpatient rehabilitation as the next step in his recovery journey.”
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Thank you for the good news. GFY
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I imagine he will have permanent brain damage, but if he can stand at this point it means he is not paralyzed and will continue to improve with therapy. It is most likely the best you can hope for when you take a bullet to the head.
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No need to thank me.
I have dedicated my life over the last 20 years to elevating discourse and quality of content here at HHR, it’s what I do.
Altruism lives!
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The Commissioner of our league told me that the price of new basketballs doubled because of tariffs. I am proud of President Trump for doing his part to protect and encourage American basketball manufacturing.
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biscuits slathered with Amish”
Hmnmm…. make that Amish butter.
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Today is the 25th Anniversary of Al Gore conceding the 2000 Presidential Election. If there is life after death, Wes is cursing now.
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I am proud of President Trump for doing his part to protect and encourage American basketball manufacturing.”
Yes, we want basketballs made in America!
Of course, they will cost three times as much as the imported basketballs, but screw the kids in the hood that play with them, the wealthy people who have their own basketball courts at home can afford them and the NBA just put out a statement that the $50 increase in ticket prices will cover it, no problem.
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If there is life after death, Wes is cursing now”
I hear he is waiting for Ralph Nader to die so he can berate him in Heaven.
I also hear he has petitioned God to revoke his vote for GWB, twice.
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I miss the never ending fights with wes, some that spanned years or even a decade or more…
There. were others….
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Yep, you can’t hate the MSM enough…
That “vile, disturbing” image they released? In its unredacted form, the outlet reports, the photo shows Trump standing at Mar-a-Lago with “adult women models.” Five Hawaiian Tropic models to be exact. The suntan lotion brand.
Making it even more thoroughly inconsequential, the Telegraph managed to get in touch with one of the models and discovered she had nothing but nice things to say about the President, who she described as a complete “gentleman” who went out of his way to make sure everyone in attendance had a good time.
“I was 22 years old and remember him being very nice. He was very gentlemanly, that’s the word to describe him,” she told the publication.
The Telegraph reports that the image appears to be from 1998. And wouldn’t you know it, Trump had participated as a VIP guest at the 1998 Miss Hawaiian Tropic International Pageant. Democrats may recall a time when beauty pageants were a big thing in Trump’s circle. Back when they still knew what a woman was.
One of the reporters on that story further pointed out on X that the model “could not recall neither Ghislaine Maxwell or Epstein (being) at the event.”
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Dick Van Dyke made it 100 years old. Walt says Zzzzzzzzzz.
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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-880220
exhibit A on why western civilization won’t be improved by Iranian culture
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Go ARMY!
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Marxists awarding Marxists…
Jon Stewart & Rachel Maddow will be among the honorees on Friday as USC Annenberg presents its Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in Political Journalism. In addition, honorees will include Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes, Peter Alexander of NBC News”
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I bet my wife’s Xmas bonus on Army.
But only to beat the spread, GFYs.
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3 Americans killed in Syria, 2 service members.
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Go Navy. They were nicer about rejecting me as a diabetic.
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I am sure the grifter, th ccp and the freepassers can chip in here;
shepmjs
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Sad: Biden Has Raised Little For a Presidential Library “Former President Biden has raised only a small fraction of the money needed to construct a presidential library, leaving uncertainty about when a library might be built and its viability as a stand-alone project,”
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Navy wins 17-16. God bless our military.
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Biden could always setup a card table in the vendor tent at the Delaware State Fair and run his library that way. Might not be able to afford that either, due to the inflation he caused.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15381563/brown-university-shooting-suspect.html
The carnage continues. Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
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Go Navy. They were nicer about rejecting me as a diabetic.”
Army lost, but didn’t cover.
I doubled my wife’s Xmas bonus.
GFYs.
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Jason’s wife has a Christmas bonus? Either she works outside the farm or Jason has a bookie who bets butter.
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How much Christmas is too much Christmas?
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In addition to going to church every Sunday and Bible Study every Wednesday (except no BS held on Christmas Eve or New Years Eve)
So far we have or will attend during the Christmas season:
–a Christmas-y like dinner invite from friends for 10 people
–a Christmas dinner gathering here for the wife and one daughter of my late brother
–a Christmas cantata at our church
–another Christmas cantata at another church
–Christmas eve service
–and of course, opening of Christmas presents and cooking brunch here at our house (I have purchases practically nothing for my wife so far)
–a walk through through a live nativity scene performance
–hosting a Supper Club Christmas dinner here at our house (not on Christmas day)
–Christmas eve dinner at the house of some good friends
–at Christmas-y time gathering at another friend’-s house
-a Christmas-y performance at a dinner theater.
(So far this year [thank God], I have not heard the wife says that when wants to go on the tour of local churches to see their Christmas decorations)
Plus all the decorating inside and out
Plus the sending our of over 80 Christmas cards (always my job)
Plus typing up the Christmas letter, running them off, and including in about 25 of the Christmas card mailings
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I say, this is way too much.
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This pretty much(with one or two exceptions) has become our Christmas time schedule every year.
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It takes about 15 minutes each day to turn on and off all the inside candles and lights and outside lights EVERY NIGHT during December.
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Walt invented fire and electricity he complains about turning out the lights. You reap what you sow.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15382321/Bondi-shooting-terror-attack.html
The carnage continues. Again.
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I wonder if Brown and Sydney shootings are related. Times seem to match.
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Or not. Sydney apparently targeted a Hanukkah celebration.
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One hero jumped shooter and took gun from him in Australia.
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the media and their allies in higher ed kept pushing and fomenting antisemitism, and they got what they wanted, a dozen dead Jews.
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Either she works outside the farm”
She does.
I would have to cut my hours here by half if she didn’t and nobody wants that.
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Besides, a llama and a vegetable garden doesn’t a farm make.
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It takes about 15 minutes each day to turn on and off all the inside candles and lights and outside lights EVERY NIGHT during December.”
Walt forgets about staying up all night to feed the fires in the cave to keep the prowling sabertooths out.
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“Jasmine Crockett calls for Pam Bondi’s resignation after the Australia shooting”
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Bitter is up at 4 AM but doesn’t help clear all the snow here with his $5000 snow blower or feed the llama.
What an A-hole.
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Definition of a precision strike. Even the Hamas guy riding on top of the van right next to the blown up car survived.
https://x.com/IDF/status/1999876225867579734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1999876225867579734%7Ctwgr%5E6b7252f5da500ea75b007be21dab68329d934ce1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fbobhoge%2F2025%2F12%2F13%2Fretribution-idf-takes-out-top-hamas-weapons-chief-who-helped-plan-oct-7-savagery-n2197105
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The auto pens can “run” dementeds library.
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brown shooter allegedly shouted something
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11 minute video of Australia terror attack. Terrorists on pedestrian bridge are killed around the 6 minute mark, seems to take forever but only 5 minutes before they are engaged. Of course, with disarmed populace nobody could do anything even though lots of civilians around.
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2000174640522793198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2000174640522793198%7Ctwgr%5E66176eb3864c6d3bdf12ce1823ee7508ca0f9f5e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Frusty-weiss%2F2025%2F12%2F14%2F12-dead-in-sydney-terror-attack-as-gunmen-target-jewish-families-at-bondi-beach-hanukkah-gathering-n2197107
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Unarmed bystander with steel balls disarms terrorist…
https://x.com/0xfmilan/status/2000177261178495220
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Bystander yells “fu–king die, c–t” at terrorist about a minute before he does die, same bystander yells “f–k yeah”
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15382973/Hero-disarmed-one-Bondi-Beach-attackers-grabbing-gun-father-two-fruit-shop-owner.html
Australian hero is a Muslim. Good man.
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CHRISTMAS-y activities at WALT’s house…(continued):
FORGOT to mention that my wife bakes cooking MANY days prior to Christmas. eleventy million kinds of cookies and many of each. Some we decorate with piped icing around the edges. Yes, I am a piper. And a bagger. And a cleaner upper.
THEN we freeze them. It takes up several shelves in the freezer plus many containers full on the card table in the garage.
THEN, we (MOSTLY ME) drives all over the county delivering 28 plates of Christmas cookies to friends.
PLUS, every time we drive her cart I(me as driver) I have to listen to Christmas music all the time, because wife likes Christmas music. All during the month of December.
Plus, she has some local Church service/sermon on while we are getting ready to go to OUR church service.
“I Need A Little (Less) Christmas… right this very moment…”
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What a disaster Ky is with Biden’s Beotch, Messie, and rube.
EricLDaugh
Q: Do you support GOP redistricting? RAND PAUL: It’s gonna lead to more civil tension or violence. If 35% of Texas is solid Democrat and they have 0 representation…how does that make Democrats feel? They feel they aren’t represented. https://x.com/i/status/2000228289122652234/video/1 “Both parties do it…if CA has no GOP or 1 GOP representative, people will think the electoral process isn’t working…we need to think about that before we do all this.”
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NOW the wife has invited the three girls over from the neighbor’s family to use glue to put eyes, noses, mouths and antlers on cups of pudding of make a herd of reindeer.
They are late…we have to leave soon to go to our next cantata….
Oh yes I need a (little) less Christmas, right this very moment…”
NOW–she tells me I am suppose to assist the girls…
Cripes almighty….
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May be due to prices down, incomes up.
@Rasmussen_Poll
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Economic confidence increased to 108.9 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, more than 10 points higher than November. More At Rasmussen Reports: https://tinyurl.com/4c4vx9ds
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Dw, Bl, I have a comment in moderation. It’s a Rasmussen consumer economic index survey.
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Tina – I’m locked out. Can you summarize without link?
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can’t find it.
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That video displays the worse securing of crime scene I have ever seen.
Long after the terrorists are dead and the police on the bridge civilians are still running up to the terrorists, presumably to kick them, while the police looks completely lost.
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Rand Paul is an idiot be he is right on this, extreme gerrymandering that gives the minority party with 40% of the vote 10% of the seats is wrong.
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Joe Biden at Eagles game.
Looks like he is trying to figure out what inning it is
https://x.com/johnnymaga/status/2000279727446069284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2000279727446069284%7Ctwgr%5Ec060cdbe4da642b829736470b0dc72a5beb7ce59%7Ctwcon%5Es1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fjustmindy%2F2025%2F12%2F14%2Fjoe-biden-eagles-game-funny-n2422839
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https://nypost.com/2025/12/14/us-news/person-of-interest-idd-in-brown-university-shooting-that-killed-two-injured-9/
Army vet and supporter of DC statehood is identified as shooter at Brown.
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Massachusetts…we get 0% of the seats
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I kind of understand MA because it doesn’t really have big R areas, so you can get all the seats without huge gerrymanders. Kamala won every county in MA Although Bristol Co was very close, you could conceivably carve out an R district there.
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And in states like OK and Arkansas, Dems get 0% of the seats. If you are mad about Mass., are you mad about those 2? I don’t think so. It sucks the Dems are better at gerrymandering.
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Well OK and AR have few seats and the Dems don’t have any strong areas, its not so gerrymanded either. Or KY. That is why I don’t complain about MA, its not massively gerrymanded, it is just almost uniformly Dem.
But if they succeed in making CA like 51-4 or whaterver or VA 9-1 to Dems there is something very wrong with that.
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Philip Rivers throws a NFL TD pass for the first time in over 5 years.
I guess there is hope for that a-hole Kaepernick.
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not Mad Bitter, just wish we would do the same
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big data poll has generic ballot D+3
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they also have trump approval 47% and disapproval at 49.9%.
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Coming back from our SECOND Christmas cantata of the day tonight (one at our church this morning, and the one tonight at another church), wife informs me that one day next week we are going to a country/bluegrass performance at yet another church in the next county over to the east.
When does it stop?
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2nd Advent
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You knew it was coming…
Chris Murphy goes after Trump for Brown University shooting: “Donald Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.”
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When does it stop?
Never, Walt. You are immortal. I expect it can be tedious.
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Wife is trying to find a date in December for me to take her car to Hagerstown,MD for servicing (regular service after so many miles). I suggest day X, she says “no that is the day that I invited my beach girls and their husbands to come to our house for a gathering and food.
I did not have THAT Christmas-y season event on my calendar of events.
WHEN DOES IT STOP?
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15383905/Man-woman-dead-mansion-Rob-Reiner.html
RIP, Mr. and Mrs. Rob Reiner.
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Reiner was a truly loathsome person, not going to pretend otherwise because he is dead.
Seems like he might have. been killed by his own son, nobody deserves that.
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Wife is trying to find a date in December for me”
I guess she isn’t such a bad sort after all…
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How about this…
https://x.com/BigApplePhoenix/status/2000403271308222769
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The same people now outraged that some on the right are “celebrating” Reiner’s death are the same people who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death.
Both are wrong.
I did think this comment was funny.
“Reiner had terrible TDS. But it wasn’t his fault, he watched network news”
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invited my beach girls”
Walt is complaining about having beach girls over?
Some guy just don’t appreciate their luck…
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2 Women and a Service Dog Killed in Penn. Machete Attack: ‘Callers Reported Screams, Visible Blood,’ Police Say”
No, not Bad Philadelphia.
Scranton.
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Reiner was great in All in the family, He also was a great Director.
This news is very sad.
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Reiner played himself on All in the Family, a diehard liberal.
He wasn’t acting.
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new thread
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