Can the FBI just arrest Greg Abbot?

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60. For some of us, Christmas is another work day

You do understand police and fire departments across America are fully staffed today. The fire houses may even be running extra staff because Christmas Day is a day of stupidity. Kid gets a new sled and decides to jump it off the 15-foot retaining wall in City Park. Dad is gonna deep fry the Turkey, notices it’s fourteen below zero outside and sets up in the garage. Grandma reminisces about how they used real candles on the tree when she was a kid and her great grandchildren decide to surprise her this morning with real candles on the tree in the living room. I could go on but you get the idea.

Hospitals are staffed. Convenience stores are staffed. They sure as hell don’t allow the customers to run the projectors at the theaters that are staffed because half the families in America have the Grand Christmas Tradition of going to the movies this afternoon. Some of my best Christmas memories involve going to Field Station Berlin at 11:30 Christmas Eve and conducting normal operations. (Humorous story follows: you must know to make this work that our facility was sitting on top of the second-highest hill in East Germany and we ran air conditioning year round to keep the equipment cool, so it was freezing cold in that place in the winter. I was also a bit of a free spirit then. I mean, come on: who DOESN’T draw pictures of Santa’s sleigh in the sights of an antiaircraft gun? Well…I passed the security checkpoint and our colonel was standing there giving holiday greetings. Mine was “sergeant, you have to be good tonight or Santa will bring you coal in your stocking.” I told him, “sir, don’t let that get around. It’s so cold in here people might think that’s a good idea.”)