SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

SUCH CLASS – FROM FOX:    Vice President-elect Mike Pence was booed on Friday night as he attended the Broadway musical “Hamilton” in New York.  The cast had a message for Pence after the show as he was walking out saying, “We sir, we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir.”  Pence was booed  at various times during the performance, demonstrating once again the arrogance and immaturity of the "cultured" class.  He would have done better to stay home and read a good book.

VOTER FRAUD?  WHERE? – FROM REUTERS:   WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - North Carolina's gubernatorial race was undecided 10 days after the Nov. 8 vote and new allegations by the Republican incumbent's campaign about felons and dead people casting ballots could leave the outcome in limbo for weeks.  Republican Governor Pat McCrory, trailing Democratic challenger Roy Cooper by about 6,300 votes according to the state elections website Friday afternoon, has not conceded. Under state law, Friday was the deadline for counties to certify their results.  But challenges over the validity of hundreds of votes and reviews of provisional ballots were expected to delay the reports from many, if not all, of the state's 100 counties, elections officials said.  The uncertainty has been punctuated this week by a war of words, with McCrory's campaign accusing Cooper of being lax on voter fraud and Cooper's campaign calling the incumbent dishonest and desperate.  I don't personally know the facts, but I'm glad to see some attention to voter fraud.  I've always believed it's much greater than the media imagines.  Some have estimated that as many as three million illegal votes were cast in last week's election. 

A CHRISTMAS STORY – FROM ORLANDO.COM:   SANFORD, Fla. - A Santa Claus at Seminole Towne Center in Sanford has been removed from his duties after an Oviedo woman claimed that he told her child Hillary Clinton was on his naughty list.  The mother told Towne Center management the incident happened Tuesday night when she brought two of her children to see Santa.  She said when her 10-year-old daughter told him what she wanted for Christmas, he told her she was on his nice list.  She said he then asked her, "Do you know who is on my naughty list? Hillary Clinton." The girl said he then laughed.  The girl's mother called management, and a representative told News 6 that mall officials called the company that hired Santa....Spokesman Charlie Russell said his company apologized to the girl's family.  He also said the Santa in question was sent to counseling in human resources.  Counseling?  What kind of counseling does this require?  Will they counsel Santa to add diversity to his reindeer crew?  Will he be required to observe Rudolph's pain at Hillary's loss?  Amazing what modern medicine can do.

November 18,  2016