EXCELLENT! Breathtaking, actually.

I’d love to know how the recipient reacted.

K&R!

I just might.

I like this one - butbthere are several other good ones, too.

Awwwwwww... beautiful!

That’s such a magnificent portrait.

Of such a magnificent woman.

Emulated by another magnificent (young) woman!

But those here at home who most need to get that message

won’t.

I was just gonna say that. How much more of our tax money is he wasting?

Isn’t it also true that troops can’t do any law enforcement on US turf (‘cause that’s the role of the local or state police)? They’re just gonna stand around and try to look menacing?

Consequences. If there aren't any, or aren't too many, then there is no lesson learned.

For the offender OR any of those watching who may be considering taking matters into their own hands - who MIGHT be motivated to think twice about what they’re tempted to do.

We call him Steve PLEEEEASE-Switch-to-Decaf Kornacki.

I’m grateful I have congenitally low blood pressure. Because he can drive me absolutely freakin’ nuts.

Solution? Only one I can think of is the same one I urge upon my husband - who’s a rabid channel-flipper as soon as the commercial breaks come on, and then gets caught up in something else instead of what we were watching:

THAT’S when you get up and take a bathroom break! OR...

Go to the kitchen and make a snack. Heat up your tea. Make another cup of coffee. Check the dog’s water bowl and refill as necessary. Go out and get the mail. Find the cat toy. Feed the fish in the fish tank. Check the hummingbird feeder. Pluck a few stray eyebrow hairs. Check the book you were reading to make sure the bookmark’s in the right place. Water the house plants. Work the crossword puzzle a little more. Check the laundry to see if it’s done yet. Add a row or two to the scarf you’re knitting. Change that lightbulb that’s burned out. Check your bank balance. Dust a few picture frames. Step outside and enjoy the garden/view/fruit tree/kid’s art on the refrigerator door (OR post the newest artwork on the refrigerator door). Check to see if the glue’s dry on that broken item you fixed a little bit earlier. That kind of thing.

That's for sure. You don't need to know the place to know him.

One possible exception to your statement. I doubt he’d buy a bagel. He’d expect it to be given to him for free.

Look at that donald face.

My husband and I were discussing various kinds of movies - especially all the big ones that feature mayhem. Explosions, fire, gunfights, knifings, houses on fire, blood, dismemberment, car crashes, infernos, beatings, buildings on fire, more explosions, and other assorted gratuitous violence. I find that stuff increasingly tiresome. He still likes some of it.

I conceded it’s popular. Gets those butts in the seats in the theatres. When I was still working the producer on the TV news always led with fire and mayhem if there was any. And he declared “people wanna see ORANGE!”

And I suddenly wondered if that was not only true, but might partially explain the trump appeal.

“Orange!” I said. “His face is orange! His hair is yellow. He looks like fire!” Which then made me wonder if he’s come to us from Hell.