In the first session of the new congress, Democrats have already begun proceedings against Trump, and Republican Mitt Romney has attacked the president in an op-ed piece. Washington is a swamp comprised of the majority of both parties, hence the astronomical deficit and debt. Trump stands virtually alone against them.
Betsy McCaughey devotes her op-ed piece in today's NY Post to President Trump's efforts to reform the federal work force. The pay and benefits are way too generous, and it's nearly impossible to fire incompetents or the lazy. Only .05% ever get the ax, one-fifth of the percentage of firings in the private sector.
The colonoscopy is history. I was worried that the clinic would refuse me because I didn't have an escort. The woman at the desk asked about it, and I told a sort of lie, saying I'd make a call when everything was done, which I would have if I were prevented from leaving. No one said a word as I walked out. As for the procedure, it went smoothly. One five-millimeter polyp was removed. A nurse, not the doctor, gave me the happy recap, which seems to indicate I have a clean bill of health. If I don't hear from them soon, it means there's nothing to worry about. They want me to return in five years. As of now, I'm thinking no way. The prep is just too ridiculous and annoying. And what was playing on the sound system in the operating rooms? Not the muzak once heard at the dentist that was supposed to relax patients, but The Beatles, cuts from Sgt. Pepper and other tracks.
I probably shouldn't have, but I opened the floating book shop today for about two hours. The first was rough, as the expected gas pains, rather than diminish, worsened. I was sweating despite the cold, even though I was standing out of the wind with my back to the rear of the bus stop. Fortunately, two customers made the stay worthwhile. My thanks to the gentleman who bought Alice Sebold's wildly successful The Lovely Bones and an illustrated version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island geared to young adults; and to the elderly Latina, who purchased Gideon's Corpse by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, and Weird Chicago, non-fiction about strange happenings in the Windy City, Al Capone on the cover.
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