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If this is how 2016 is starting out, it looks like we are all in for a very long year.

We start with the latest Trump lie.

According to "the Donald," the terrorist group Isis "was a creation of Barak Obama and Hilary Clinton."

As anyone who has even a half a brain knows, it was, in fact, the unnecessary War of Choice that the Bush Administration waged against Saddam Hussein and Iraq which eventually led to the creation of ISIS.

Attention, for one day it will be too late.

A sense of value, the inalienable place of the individual in the scheme of things, with all that accrues to the individual - self-reliance, courage, conviction, self-respect, and respect for others.

A sense of humor. Laughter leavens life.

The meaning of discipline. If we falter at discipline, life will do it for us.

The will to work. Satisfying work is the lasting joy.

The talent for sharing, for it is not so much what we give as what we share.

The love of justice. Justice is the bulwark against violence and oppression, and the repository of human dignity.

The passion for truth, founded on precept and example. Truth is the beginning of every good thing.

The power of faith, engendered in mutual trust. Life without faith is a dismal dead-end street.

The beacon of hope, which lights all darkness.

So now they call him ‘unhinged’?

Historians in the future will ask why it took the ‘serious guys’ in the race for the Republican nomination for President in 2016 so long to call out Donald Trump for the foppish buffoon he has become during the campaign for their party’s nomination!

Most Democrats, Independents, and thinking Republicans long ago accepted that this strange, egomaniacal thug and bully was damaging the Republican brand to wide swaths of potential general election voters.

The sad truth is Donald Trump running as our nation’s Chief Executive has been akin to Bozo the Clown, makeup still on, attempting to portray Hamlet on stage at the Old Vic in London.

This past week former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL.) jumped all over Trumps ludicrous, mean spirited, and unconstitutional ‘ban all Muslims’ tirade, correctly labelling it, as noted above, as “unhinged’’.

It's still a couple of weeks until Thanksgiving, yet it never seems too early to honor the "turkeys" who seem to surround the rest of us each and every day.

Let's start with the embarrassment of the turkey reporter who dug up a 1997 Parade magazine article where the mother of Dr. Ben Carson allegedly confirmed the good doctor did indeed try to stab either a cousin, a friend or a stranger while still a teenager.

The bad news is that the story has come apart since then, and that Momma Carson now tragically suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

Using a story from 18 years ago to either confirm or negate Carson's current twisted tale seems, at best, turkey-worthy.

Moving on to the turkeys in the U.S. Congress who continue their seven-year battle to keep open the unbelievably expensive and antiquated Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, where 112 detainees from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to be housed.