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Here is a quick resume of all Trumps picks for office so far. See the list here.

HE might think he doesn't need Vance, and poosibly not if he has replaced Vance with Musk, although I saw an article where Mumk was virtually camped at Mar-a-Lago, Trump saying "I can't get rid of him." However, the constitution requires a VP to act as president in the event of the president being incapacitated.

People are now wondering if Musk has replaced Vance as VP. Musk is rarely separated from Trump. and Vance has been conspicuously absent.

Correct Marty. Let's try some catch phrases.

Saturday in Melbourne was hot (for us) and windy. It was our parish fete, and the wind kept trying to blow my broad brimmed hat off. Standing in the queue for the hamburger stall was hot. Yesterday started out with a downpour in the morning, but by 1:00 pm is was clear blue sky and 25 deg. Today is cooler at 16 deg, but nice and sunny. Hot, cool, hot, cool. Plays hell with the sinuses.

Vivek Ramaswamy Pledges To ‘Delete’ Entire Government Agencies Alongside Elon Musk Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has been named to lead President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed Department of Government Efficiency alongside tech billionaire Elon Musk, promised Sunday that many government agencies will soon be “deleted.” “Elon and I aren’t in this for the credit,” Ramaswamy said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “But I think we’re going to build the consensus to make the kind of deep cuts that haven’t been made for most of our history.” After host Maria Bartiromo questioned whether the two plan to “close down entire agencies,” Ramaswamy said “mass reductions” will be made. “We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright,” he said. “We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government.” Read more here

He claimed McDonalds wasn't food, it was poison.

Putin's tactics to break down Ukrainian people According to the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Andriy Sybiga, one of the main air strikes launched by Russia damaged the thermal power plants of Ukraine's largest private electricity company, DTEK. The private company claims that the equipment is seriously damaged. DTEK announced emergency power cuts on Sunday in the Kiev region and two regions in the east of the country, while national authorities earlier denounced a massive Russian attack on the country's power grid. “Emergency power cuts in Kiev, Kiev region, Donetsk region and Dnipropetrovsk region,” DTEK wrote on Telegram. According to DTEK, this is already the eighth large-scale attack on its energy facilities this year. It has already been targeted more than 190 times since the start of the large-scale Russian invasion in February 2022. Since the beginning of the war, Russia has been trying to “turn off” Ukraine's energy systems and plunge the country into darkness so that the population will break down. The harsh winter ahead poses a real challenge to President Zelensky's policy of defending his country.

Secret documents reveal Putin's blueprint to wipe Ukraine off the map Putin's plan to destroy Ukraine ©Provided by The Daily Digest Recently, documents were leaked that contain the peace proposal put forth by Vladimir Putin to Volodymyr Zelensky at the beginning of the Ukraine war. The shocking thing is, there was nothing peaceful about the proposal at all. View slideshow here

'Starting to fail': Trump said to have already 'planted seeds of his own political demise' Donald Trump hasn't even taken office yet, but he's already made a major misstep, according to a former Republican writer. Trump, who is going to be entering his second term as a "lame duck" President, has been under fire for his nominations to important posts, including former lawmaker Matt Gaetz, who would be Attorney General. Those nominations could be his undoing, according to New York Timescolumnist David French, an ex-writer for the conservative National Review. Read more here

'Will blow up in Trump's face': Experts blast reported 'autocrat move' on military leaders Political and legal experts spoke out Saturday after it was reported that Donald Trump's transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officials to see if they could be court-martialed. NBC News dropped the exclusive report over the weekend, saying the Trump team is "considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan." Online, some also lashed out at the news. Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, for instance, noted that it was Trump himself who "signed the timeline agreement for Afghanistan withdrawal." Read more here

That's what happens when you try to type in the dark.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/586533410566160

Facebook has hundreds of short video clips - 2 or 3 guys sitting on a dock, drinling coffee, and telling Gad jokes. https://www.facebook.com/coachsaysjokes

I went to the hospital after a peekaboo accident. They put me in the ICU.

Correct.

Trump taps oil executive Chris Wright as Energy secretary President-elect Donald Trump named oil industry CEO Chris Wright to lead the Energy Department, installing a vocal critic of government efforts to fight climate change as the head of the agency at the forefront of the Biden administration’s clean energy push. Wright, if confirmed by the Senate, is likely to be one of the loudest voices in the administration against measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels that are raising the planet’s temperature and causing an upsurge in extreme weather. He’d be charged with fulfilling Trump’s campaign promise to claw back billions of dollars in funding supporting the Biden administration’s climate and energy agenda — and restarting the department’s issuance of natural gas export permits that had been paused by President Joe Biden early this year. Read more here

I went back and added that sentence without proofreading it, left out a bloody space. Since corrected.

Elon Musk hints 80-hour-a-week DOGE job for 'high-IQ revolutionaries' will be unpaid "Super high-IQ revolutionaries" who are willing to work 80+ hours a week are being urged to join Elon Musk's new cost-cutting department in Donald Trump's incoming US government. The X and Tesla owner will co-lead the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. And in a post on X, the official DOGE account put out a call to arms for people to sign up and help "dismantle government bureaucracy". The post said: "We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE. Read more here.

Where Elon Musk and Donald Trump's alliance could fall apart Donald Trump and Elon Musk could fall out over China if massive tariffs are levied on the nation, it has been claimed. The pair became strong allies during the election campaign and the billionaire was made co-chief of the 'Department of Government Efficiency'. The Tesla and SpaceX boss even shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars to bolster Trump's campaign. Read more here

Hyundai may have pre-empted BMW. Back to Basics: Hyundai Drops Touchscreens The car brand Hyundai acknowledges it may have gone too far with touchscreens, as many customers have expressed frustration over the shift from traditional buttons to digital controls. Touchscreens have simplified car interiors, but this development has also created issues, especially for drivers. Many find screens difficult to operate while driving, particularly when adjusting basic controls like air conditioning or radio volume. Read more here

Panicking Putin sees demonstrators storm Parliament Vladimir Putin is facing unrest as protesters stormed the Parliament in the Abkhazia region. Abkhazia, located in Georgia but recognized by Russia as an independent republic, has seen large-scale protests as lawmakers debated controversial new legislation. Read more here

You have pretty much the same as me, Spacey. A number of years ago, I had a fall and tore two tendons from the bone on my right arm. and partly tore a third tendon. The sports medicine specialist who examined me said those injuries do not heal, and surgery would result in 3 months in a sling with no guarantee of success. The description you were looking for is rotator cuff syndrome. You can look it up on Google. When the pain gets bad, I need a steroid injection guided by ultrasond. I can lift a half kilo dumbell 10 times slowly about 80% of the way to straight up, 20+ times quickly with my left. Getting dishes from the high shelves or putting them away can be quite painful. For hanging washing on the rotary clothes line requires that the line is just above my head. When my son or daughter use the line it is often left at full height and I have to wind it down 15 or 20 turns of the handle.