Problems, problems, so should we keep on going here?

The prior post just cut off in the middle of a sentence, then simply resisted correction.. Will things be any better this time around? Let's find out right now. I really hate to give up the blog, but if you can no longer find it here again, then that will actually have happened. Or is it time now to launch a brand new version 3? 

I won't attempt to again post the item about a baby being born in an Italian village, after 30 years without any babies being born there. That's what seems to have messed things up last time. If interested, you might look it up yourself. 

We had left off with International Health Service of Minnesota, an all-volunteer force that I have worked with as a volunteer interpreter many times. IHS been going to Honduras for 40 years now and is definitely worthy of your support. All contributions go into purchasing medications and equipment. Volunteers pay all their own travel expenses. I have very much enjoyed working with IHS medical services and also with their dental clinics. Medical brigades are actually fun but also a lot of work, requiring ingenuity because supplies are so limited 

IHS has a Honduras mission scheduled now for February.

I have gone to places I would never have seen without IHS. 

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Former President Harry Truman has died, so that's why flags have been flying at half staff.  When Truman ordered dropping atom bombs on civilian populations in Japan, he forever lost my support. He has died now at age 88. 

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Kennedy Center seeks $1m from musician who cancelled after Trump name added to venue

Fox, Trump teases marble armrests for Kennedy Center: ‘Unlike anything ever 

In a post shared to Truth Social on Friday, Dec. 26, the president, 79, featured Trump Trump has posted photos of several white pieces of marble, which he said were being considered for armrests for seating at the performing arts institution in Washington, D.C.

"Potential Marble armrests for the seating at The Trump Kennedy Center," Trump wrote alongside the photos. "Unlike anything ever done or seen before!

This is in addition to renaming it the Trump-Kennedy Center. 

Marble armrests actually don't sound very comfortable. How about just upholstered armrests? 

Trump is still out there trumping, but not quite as much as before. He doesn't look like he is enjoying himself anymore, even when he happens to be awake. Is he getting tired now of being president? Is he getting tired of life? 

Many of us are getting tired of having Trump as president. 

"Trump, 79, Wants to Know If You Think He Should Quit" https://www.thedailybeast.com//president-donald-trump-79-wants-to-know-if-you-think-he-should-quit-the-white-house/?via=ios

This question indicates that Trump himself is getting pretty tired of the job of being president and might actually prefer to quit. Then he can snooze to  his heart's content and play golf whenever he feels like it. What else does Trump enjoy? That's about it. 

If Mr. Trump should actually retire, then we'd have JD Vance, age 41, who could then run again at least once, maybe even twice. 

Instead, what about Kamala Harris or even Gavin Newsom? Don't we Democrats have better people? I'd really like to see a woman president at long last. Even Honduras has had a female president. So what about a Harris/Newsom ticket? (My son, looking over my shoulder here, is shaking his head.)

Rebel GOP Senators Fire Warning Shot at Weakened Trump.

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Some Republican senators joined their Democratic colleagues in a pointed release as his polls have plunged.

CNN’s Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump’s ‘Top 25 Lies of 2025’

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CNN, How a backroad discovery led to the arrest of Melodee Buzzard’s 

mother in the child’s ‘calculated’ killing

A California mother named Ashlee Buzzard has been accused of first-degree murder in the shooting death of her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee Buzzard. The mother, Ashlee Buzzard, pleaded not guilty to the charges during her arraignment on December 26, 2025.The daughter's remains were found by accident by a couple taking photos in rural Utah. 

The child had been shot in the head. 

It looks like this mother, after shooting and killing her daughter, then went to great lengths to 

cover up the crime and to disguise herself with wigs and makeup. She hid the remains in a very remote area of Utah, never expecting them to be found. 

Relatively few murders are committed by women, most often of an abusive male partner. A mother might also

kill a newborn baby that she never wanted or because of post-partum depression surging unexpectedly soon after a birth. (I've experienced post-partum 

depression myself, very scary.) Or a mother might kill a seriously

disabled child, but it would be very rare for her to kill an apparently healthy, normal 9-year-old after having raised her to that point. (The girl's father had died in an 

accident years ago.)

While California authorities have indicated that they won't seek the death penalty, the mother, Ashlee Buzzard, is apt to be shunned by other inmates during her lifetime in prison. (She might even prefer being held in solitary confinement.) Why did she do it? Does that even matter now? 

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                            This bust of Queen Nefertiti (1370-1330,BC) now resides  

                                in a Berlin museum. Egypt wants it back. 

"Starry Night" by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh, was painted in 1889. It's on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. 

That's all for now, folks. Please keep in touch, as it looks like we may be able to keep on going here after all.