But first, about doings in the world today. The ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is in trouble .  The Hamas indicated there would be no hostage trade this week, blaming Israel for not honoring their commitments.  No doubt President Donald Trump threatening to occupy the site forever influenced this development. More tariffs coming from Trump. The courts are stifling Trump edicts.  But he defies their orders, with plans to appeal eventually to the Supreme Court.   Do we have a Constitutional crisis?   Even  NBC thinks so . Trump further stated that  he is serious about Canada becoming our 51st state . The Donald told the Treasury to  stop making pennies , for each one almost costs 4 cents to make.  The nickel might be next, for that is costing nearly 15 cents each. Have you been affected by this  shortage of eggs ? The Philadelphia Eagles wiped out the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 59, with Trump prevailing over  Taylor Swift. Ken...

  Before getting into the topic of the day, latest tidbits from those Trump follies: How are Patel, Gabbard and Kennedy doing on confirmation?  Here is a  video summary .  My prognostications?   Read my posting of yesterday . Those  tariffs on goods coming into the U.S. from Canada (25%), Mexico (25%) and China (10%)  went into effect today, with retaliation expected from those countries and subsequent further penalties by Trump if they do.  A trade war could be sparked.   Which countries are next? The  Gaza Strip ceasefire  stumbles along.  This truce will eventually result in the release of 33 hostages for nearly 2000 Palestine prisoners. Two  judges halted the federal funding freeze attempt , but international funding money in foreign aid is proceeding.  The biggest benefactor is the United Nations.  Moneys will eventually be released to reliable and credible partners. As pushback increases on migran...

For some reason, this posting was not published on January 19.  Made an adjustment, so perhaps this will occur today. Well, that  Gaza Strip ceasefire deal began  at 8:30AM local time, and three hours later the Hamas delivered the first three hostages. They were in captivity for 471 days. By now Israel should have released 90 Palestinian prisoners. TikTok went dark Saturday night.   However this afternoon, TikTok announced that it would begin restoring service to U.S. users.  They thanked President-elect Trump for his save.   There are three with more than a hundred million followers . #1 is Khabane  Lame (right), an influencer from Italy and Senegal.  He has 162.4 million following him. Khaby Lame is incredibly popular on TikTok because he creates silent, comedic reaction videos that mock overly complicated "life hacks" by showing simple, obvious solutions with exaggerated facial expressions, making his content universally relatable and...