I'm allowed to say Christmas, because that's what my family celebrates, right? And because Hanukkah and Ramadan are over and Kwanzaa doesn't start until the 26th. I'm not really sure about the other winter solstice holidays out there. I'm sure there all very nice. Okay.
Onto the airing of the grievances!
It's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go. Vice dick is burning a CIA scandal file yule log in his "ceremonial" office. The president is saying "happy holidays" to a pesky press that thinks the president is some how supposed to know what his executive branch is doing. The elfin failure-in-chief did get a present from the recently "gone shopping" Congress with both their capitulation on $70,000,000,000.00 more to a war that has long since lost any actual definition for victory and adding to the Federal Deficit that lil' bush's economic policies created from the surplus we were stuck with from President Clinton's. To be fair, those of us who have been yelling for someone in Congress to show some balls, aside from the usual marginalized suspects (wexler, conyers, byrd, etc.) got a gift this week. Senator and Presidential candidate Christopher Dodd threatened to filibuster a CIA wiretapping bill that gave immunity to telecommunications companies (like Verizon and AT&T) that may have given the Private information of American Citizens to the US Government for its Illegal domestic Spying program. Senator Dodd left his campaign in Iowa and stood up on the floor of the United States Senate and said No to "holiday" push over Senate Majority leader harry reid. Truly a Christmas miracle!
The "holiday season" in New Orleans has the police decking the halls with stun guns and pepper spray as residents protested the demolition of the city's four largest housing "projects" to build nice new "mixed" income housing. I wonder what's going to happen when the Federal Government evicts the rest of the Katrina refugees they've housed in trailer parks out. And speaking of miserable failures by this president's administration, Iraqis are once again saying they'll be better off without Our friends. Why do they want Iraq to fail? Is it because of the torture chambers? Is it because the contractors representing Us are brutally attacking female employees, like they're Saudi women? Maybe it's the bombs they now feel from their neighbor Turkey? Or maybe they just hate Our Freedom? But New Orleans and Iraq aren't the only reasons the jack ass-in-chief should get coal in his stocking. Afghanistan is getting worse. Some say it may be worse, long term, than Iraq. And let's not even get into the latest "bush era" scandal with the destruction of videotapes of the CIA "interrogating" prisoners. I hope for the president's sake he is one day tried in New Jersey, where the government has had the good "moral" sense to abolish the death penalty.
Well Happy Holidays!
And one more thing. Today is Frank Zappa's Birthday. Back in 1993, the world lost this true American voice of dissent, composer, and guitar hero . One can only imagine what that man would be singing about today.
Peace on Earth
Goodwill towards men (and women).
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