Since Obama is away, there's not much to post, other than fools going on about the cost of Obama's vacation (fever pitch this year) -- he takes two a year, one in the summer, when his daughters are out of school, and one at Christmas in Hawaii -- FLOTUS's vacation wardrobe, and all of the foolery that is the GOP clown show and the Iowa caucuses. So here's this. Michelle Obama gives kids preview of the Christmas Tree in the Blue Room.