It’s the last weekend of the year. It’s gonna be a cold one in the Valley of the Sun, with freeze warnings up through beyond the New Year. I hope everyone enjoyed the pic of my bougainvillea on my Christmas Colors post the other day, because they’re surely going to get whacked in the coming days – especially if, as predicted, our lows drop into the high twenties on Tuesday and Wednesday.

But things are already looking up as a new year approaches – yesterday I actually had to adjust my landscaping lights to come on later for the first time. Sunrise is still getting a tad later – they won’t start getting earlier for another week, but the later sunsets are making up for that, and more.

It’s pretty clear President Trump is getting ready to drop the bomb on recalcitrant Democrats resisting the funding for the border wall – my guess is he’ll announce the closing of our southern border starting New Year’s Day. As Powerline blog’s John Hinderaker writes, this is an issue the President can’t lose on. It not only makes sense both practically and politically, but only the most fervent anti-Trump, open borders advocate would know it’s the right thing to do. Especially given recent headlines. The Democrats are going to get killed on this politically (even “San Fran Nan” Pelosi and Chuckles Schumer know it), but they are being held captive by the radical leftist “resisters” of their party.

OK, here’s a good joke, courtesy of a recent Ace of Spades post:

Seal pup waddles into the bar.
Barkeep: Wadda’have?
Seal pup: Canadian Club, on ice.

…and from the same post:

You’re locked in a cage with a lawyer, a snarling tiger, and a coiled boa constrictor. Fortunately, you have a gun with two bullets. What do you do? Answer: Shoot the lawyer. Twice.

Yuck yuck!

As a fan of Nikki Haley, I think President Trump would be doing the country – not to mention the GOP – in considering replacing Mike Pence with Haley as his running mate come 2020. It would not only expand Trump’s base, but it would a dynamic to the ticket – not to mention the race – that Pence simply can’t come close to adding. Were it any other, ahem, politician, it would never happen, but Trump is not your ordinary politician, and nothing he does would surprise me.

I sure hope good taxpayer money wasn’t spent on this study. I mean, isn’t that, like, obvious?

If I can find the time I’m thinking of actually going out to see this movie on a big screen. It’s a phenomenon few saw coming.

Time for the NFL to reap the whirlwind it has created. When the emphasis becomes fairness, equal opportunity, and social justice instead of on winning being the “the only thing” (as ol’ Vince Lombardi used to say), you’re just an exercise in political correctness, not a sport.

Progressives are crazy. Not to mention dangerous as well, because inside every progressive is a fascist totalitarian waiting to crawl out.

Not everyone would agree, but I’ve always believed that prostitution (male and female) should be completely legal, regulated, and taxed as any other service or commodity. Why? Because while golf is hard, life is harder and oh so short. Therefore, whatever connections you need to help make it more tolerable and fulfilling, it should be OK to pursue it. There are many forms of love, and as equal forms of connections – emotional, physical, spiritual – and if a little legal nookie on the side is what would help keep your boat afloat, why not?