{"id":4637,"date":"2017-11-28T08:28:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T23:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2017-11-28T08:28:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T23:28:24","slug":"a-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/a-christmas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The older I get, the more sentimental I become about Christmas. Grandchildren do that to you, as well as sorting through memories of many prior seasons.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Check out the White House video of the Christmas decorations released on Melania’s twitter feed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Very professional production values, and I think very well done.<\/p>\n

No Mao Tse Tung tree ornaments, no social justice holiday messages, just the basic sights that grab the visual cortex and bypass cynicism for a pluck of the heartstrings.<\/p>\n

I have this feeling of steady and quiet progress, enforcing immigration laws, actually talking about chain migration and ending it, school choice quietly moving forward, state department slowly turning, tax cuts moving to pro growth, a sensible manufacturing and energy direction moving into place.<\/p>\n

I am still worried about it getting derailed, but the more the media can be distracted by tweets, feuds, sexual scandal and radical nitwits expressing contempt for normals, the more optimistic I become.<\/p>\n

I operate from the \u00a0 suspicion that people want prosperity and normalcy unless they are unemployed and under twenty five. Bubble pundits are impervious to such beliefs.<\/p>\n

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