DON'T FORGET ABOUT JOYCE Rep. Joyce Beatty was the only Kennedy Center board member who tried to stop Trump's rebranding of the arts center. She then challenged the move in court, and won her case. She is the reason Trump's name came down! Thank you Joyce !!!

Hello and welcome to Day 1 of the UFC Freedom 250 Fan Fest: a thing that is happening on the White House Lawn The bread is beer, the beer costs $12. Romans got theirs for free. The circus, as you can see, is everywhere

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A ewe died lambing in the night, which happens, and left a single lamb, which also happens, and the lamb was given to Eduardo, which does not usually happen, and is the reason there is an alpaca in this story at all. The orphan was the problem every shepherd dreads, a day-old lamb with no mother, too small to defend, the exact thing a fox prices up at dusk. The farmer could have brought it indoors to bottle-rear, and might yet, but he tried something first, because Eduardo was in the field and Eduardo is what he is. Alpacas guard. It is why the farmer keeps one in with the sheep, the watchfulness bred into a creature that spent thousands of years as a sentinel on Andean hillsides, the instinct to put itself between a threat and the herd and to face down a fox until the fox does the arithmetic and leaves. What the farmer was not sure of was whether that instinct would extend to a lamb that was not even a fellow alpaca, an orphan of another species set down in the grass. It extended. Eduardo went over, did the long careful camelid inspection, the humming and the close looking, and then simply stayed. Where the lamb went, the alpaca went, at a distance of a few feet, all day, a tall watchful shadow over a small wobbling one. At dusk, when a lamb alone would have been a fox's evening, the lamb was not alone. It was lying tucked against the legs of an animal that does not run from foxes and never has. The lamb is alive a week on, which a lamb in that position frequently is not. It thinks, as far as anyone can tell, that it is a small strange alpaca, and follows Eduardo about, and Eduardo permits this with the air of a creature who has acquired a responsibility he did not ask for and intends to discharge properly anyway. The farmer watches them, the alpaca and the lamb that is not his, and reflects that he keeps Eduardo for the fibre and the guarding and the comedy, and got, thrown in for nothing, a creature who will mother an orphan of the wrong species through the dangerous first week because something in him simply cannot watch a small thing be undefended. That was not in the brochure. The best things on a farm rarely are.