Welcome! Here are the topics for today’s column:

• Complete & Total Ceasefire
• Gianforte and the Budget
• Unfit to Serve?
• NBA Finals
• One More Thing

COMPLETE & TOTAL CEASEFIRE:

Monday afternoon, President Donald J. Trump posted the following message on Truth Social:

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE (in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!), for 12 hours, at which point the War will be considered, ENDED! Officially, Iran will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 24th Hour, an Official END to THE 12 DAY WAR will be saluted by the World. During each CEASEFIRE, the other side will remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL. On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, “THE 12 DAY WAR.” This is a War that could have gone on for years, and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn’t, and never will! God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and GOD BLESS THE WORLD! 

We’ll see if the war ends as the President contends. I hope it does. One of these days, we will find out if the nuclear facilities were destroyed and if the uranium was removed before the strikes. 

In other words, don’t spike the ball just yet. 

GIANFORTE AND THE BUDGET:

Montana’s Republican Governor, Greg Gianforte, finalized the largest portion of Montana’s biennial budget by signing House Bill 2, but he removed tens of millions of dollars, citing concerns over spending. (Source) 

The Daily Montanan reports that the line-item vetoes cut nearly $31 million from the more than $16.6 billion budget.

As I mentioned yesterday, Gianforte also removed a line item that funded House Bill 551, providing $600,000 for school lunch funding to eliminate copayments for reduced-price school meals. 

Gianforte is a cold-hearted snake for his veto of the funding for school lunches.

UNFIT TO SERVE?

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is 91 years old. He is the chair of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee will be investigating whether former President Joe Biden, age 82, was fit to serve as President. 

The title of the hearing is “Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution.” (Source)

By the way, Grassley is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, which places him third in line in the presidential order of succession. (Source) 

As I said many times, Biden was too old to be President, and Trump (79) is too old to be President. 

NBA FINALS:

I guess the winter sports season is officially over now that the NBA season has ended. Now it’s time to watch the WNBA! 

In case you missed it, the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Indiana Pacers four games to three in the best-of-seven NBA finals Monday night. It was a fun series to watch, and neither team had won an NBA championship.

Congrats to the Thunder.

ONE MORE THING:

The fact that someone looked straight at a purple onion and named it a red onion really bothers me. (Pinterest) 

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