DECEMBER 22 IS THE 7OTH ANNIVERSARY OF
“DECK US ALL WITH BOSTON CHARLIE” FROM POGO.
DECEMBER 25 IS CHRISTMAS.🎄
DECEMBER 25 MARKS THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF ♫SILENT NIGHT♫.
DECEMBER 26 IS BOXING📦 DAY AND THE START OF KWANZAA.
AMONGST EVENTS AROUND THE W🌏RLD THIS PAST WEEK…
*The World Health Organization is concerned about a new outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
*Abortions are now legal in Ireland.
*Salome Zurabishvili is the new President of Georgia.
*Ranil Wickremesinghe is the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
*Catriona Gray is the new Miss Universe.
*Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin has decided to retire from competition.
*Despite the colder temperatures since November, it is NOW officially winter!
THE TERRORIST REPORT…
*The Free Choice E-zine does not support terrorism, no matter what the “cause” or alleged “justification”. Thus we will only be posting news items in this section whenever terrorists are brought to justice.
😢PASSING PARADE…
*Actor/playwright John Ford Noonan (The Year Boston Won the Pennant, Adventures in Babysitting) has taken his last bow on life’s stage.
*Actress/director Penny Marshall (The Odd Couple, Laverne & Shirley, Big, A League of Their Own) has taken her last bow on life’s stage.
*Actor/stuntman Steve Daskewisz (Friday the 13 Part 2, Nighthawks, Wolfen) has taken his last bow on life’s stage.
*TV producer Bill Sellars (Doctor Who, All Creatures Great and Small) is no longer with us.
*Writer/director/actor Peter Masterson (The Trip to Bountiful, 1973 version of The Exorcist) has passed away.
*Audrey Geisel, wife of the good Doctor Seuss, is no longer with us.
*Actor Donald Moffat (1982 version of The Thing, The Right Stuff) has taken his last bow on life’s stage.
*Actress Ethel Ayler (Eve’s Bayou, The Cosby Show) has taken her last bow on life’s stage.
WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA…
POLITICALLY…
*Defense Secretary James Mattis has announced his impending resignation. Yet he will not be leaving quietly. But what happens next??? (There are 3/THREE separate links in this item.)
*Not all of President Trump’s new asylum rules are viable, according to a Federal Judge.
*President Trump’s opinions about some current events.
*Are Trump’s Tweets accurate???
*New info on Russia’s possible interference with the 2016 Presidential election.
*Was everything on the up and up during the inauguration???
*Trump wants to establish the United States Space Command.
*There will be no more Donald J. Trump Foundation.
THE BUDGET BATTLE…
*Trump still wants his border wall.
*One Republican doesn’t think it’s that bad, despite all the people it might affect! (There are 2/TWO separate links in this item.)
*Congress officially adjourned before coming to any budget agreement, thus creating at least a partial shutdown as of midnight December 22.
*How can you discuss the situation when you don't invite anyone to the meeting???
*Yet the Trump Administration is ill prepared for said shutdown while one noted Democrat fact checks him on the matter. (There are 2/TWO separate links in this item.)
*Congress will return from Christmas break December 27 in hopes of resolving the matter.
*But the initial consequences of the shutdown are...
MEANWHILE…
*Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander has decided not to run for re-election in 2020.
*The future of women in the GOP???
*Do the Republicans have problems in Pennsylvania???
*While the budget is still an issue, the Senate has managed to overhaul the criminal justice system. The President has since signed it into law. (There are 2/TWO separate links in this item.)
*The opinions of one outgoing Republican.
ELSEWHERE…
*New problems for African Americans???
*Stan Lee’s last cameo.
*Sorry folks. No more bump stocks.
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