The Jersey Shore

Well, POTUS visited the Jersey Shore and Wildwood will never be the same. They are still hauling trash and debris away. While it lasted the local mixologists got creative and served up "subpoena-colada, MAGA Margarita and Impeachment punch." Am so glad he didn't land a few miles south in Cape May which was the favorite resort of past Presidents Pierce, Buchanan, Grant and Harrison. Oh, and folklore has it that Henry Clay used to frolic on the beach there.
P.S. Doubtful Grant went there for the waters although they named a street after him.
tjs

Caneel Bay

Caneel Bay resort on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands is still reeling from back to back hurricanes last season and the owners have not done any repairs as they have a dispute with the U.S. Parks department. This was known as a Rockefeller resort in its heyday and it is a pity to see it languish in disrepair. Some years ago I and some sailing friends dropped anchor off their beach and took a dinghy ashore. We relaxed on their veranda as the drink of the day was frozen peach daiquiris. After considerable consumption we managed to navigate back to ship feeling "peachy". But that was in the long ago. One hopes Caneel Bay may once again return to receiving visitors.
tjs

Are there any news?

And in other news-
-President Macron of France fired his ambassador to the North & South Poles. It appears he may keep the job on ice for now.

-Sec. of State, Mike Pompeo, in an interview with PBS, presented the interviewer with a blank map of Europe challenging her to find Ukraine. At least he didn't blindfold her. It is alleged that he dropped the F bomb during this interplay which would be frowned upon in Kansas.

Meanwhile, back to the "I" series.
tjs

Lunar New Year

The Chinese are saying goodbye to the year of the Pig but before doing so, a theme park in the southwest has hogtied a pig and dropped him on a bungee cord and listened to his screeching suspended in the air. He must have been relieved to then move to a slaughter house. Now enter the year of the rat - let's see if they can bungee the rodent a year from now. It will be like belling the cat. I am familiar with the Board of Trade telling me pork bellies are low but never that pigs were suspended in air.
tjs

Potpourri

Impeachment - "I did nothing in particular and I did it very well" - Chief Justice Rehnquist who presided over Bill Clinton's impeachment.

Iran - "We just want Iran to behave like a normal nation. Just be like Norway. - Sec. State Pompeo.

Overworked phrase of the week, month and year: "And at the end of the day............" a six little word preamble preceding a statement, presumably to give the speaker time to organize their thoughts. When Allen Dulles was running the C.I.A. and was asked a difficult question, he took fifteen seconds to light his pipe before answering. So, at the end of the day, the sun goes down!
tjs

Out of Season

Not many visitors venture down to the Jersey Shore in late January - the surf is rough, the days are short and many attractions have closed and fled to sunny Florida. But that grand master, Donald J. Trump, has scheduled a rally on January 28th in Wildwood - by - the -sea. Suddenly, motel rates have increased and shutters are being removed. Has he checked with Chris Christi or the weatherman? With his obsession with crowd size he will have to do some multiplication and ban all the aerial photographers. Had he chosen a different site - Margate-by-the-Sea - thirty miles north, he could have used Lucy the Elephant for a GOP backdrop. Lucy has been on the Margate beach since 1881 waiting for her chance at notoriety. Anyway, those MAGA hats had better come with earmuffs and don't treat those chattering teeth as applause. Meanwhile, Cozy Morley's statue in Anglesea will be rolling his eyes.
tjs