Politics, politics, politics, politics, politics...

Watch This.

Then read this.

Which leads to this...

The only way I can relate this to Christmas...

Is to say that Harry Reid is a scrooge.

Harry Reid likened opposition to a government takeover of the American health-care system to support of slavery in the mid-nineteenth century, saying that reactionary opposition to “change” always exists. Unfortunately, Reid used the right analogy but in the wrong application. The problem with ObamaCare is that it will eventually enslave a free people to the elite few in its capital, who will have the power to invade every aspect of their lives with the fulcrum of health-care costs as the excuse. Also, as two-time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez points out in his excellent entry today, the costs of this system alone will force Americans into that kind of relationship with Washington:

Our founders wrote the Constitution to limit the power of Congress to avoid precisely this kind of outcome. When elected officials tell their serfs...er...subjects...er...constituents that Congress has the power to write any kind of laws they want, it exemplifies the founders’ most basic fear of centralized, federal governments. They knew that serfdom could come through the ballot box, and they’re about to be proven prescient.

Wow...

I have been remiss in my blogging. And at Christmas too.

What's up with me?

I don't know. I wait all year for this and when it finally gets here I'm in a funk.

"Snap out of it, stupid."

I haven't watched It's a Wonderful Life yet. Maybe that's the problem. I think I will go watch it and see what happens.

Talk to you soon.

SNOW!?!...

It's snowing! WOOHOO!! Now that's Christmas/winter/wonderland/stuff I like.

I brought some CARN for popping.

Tree is up...

lights on the house are up. They actually went up last Tuesday but who's counting. we are on our way.

As if I needed another reason to think Obama is a communist: his speech tonight is preempting "A Charlie Brown Christmas".

That's right folks, he felt it more important for us to see him on TV one more time rather than the hilarious antics of Snoopy, the beguiling puckishness of Lucy, the quiet diginity of Linus and even the disappointment of Shermy, "Every Christmas it's the same. I always end up playing a shephard."

I will leave you with a clip from the marvelous show to get the taste of Obama out of your mouths.

The music you heard when you entered the page is from Charlie Brown of course.

To keep from getting discouraged...

I am going to make this an interactive Christmas. I wrote 24 blogs in the month of October and I received 2 comments. Both from my brother Steve.

Come on people let me know you're out there.

What was the best/most memorable Christmas present you ever received?

I'll start, a Yogi the bear stuffed animal. He was about 3.5 feet tall and was awesome. I had opened up all my presents and went to the restroom and when I came out he was standing outside the door. To this day, I don't know how Santa got him to walk to the door but there he was.

And away we go...

It is truly the most wonderful time of they year.

There is something magical about this time of year. Don't get me wrong, all parts of the year are special in their own way but there's something about Christmas time. You stay up later, you visit more often, you laugh more, you long for nostalgia and tradition. (well in most cases anyway) The sky is more blue. The air is cleaner. The work day is shorter.

All in preparation for the coming of Christ. I realize that is not the main theme in most if not all things Christmas. But I do like to believe that while that is not front and center, it is the reason subconsciously for all that we do in this most wonderful time of the year.

Happy Thanksgiving!

If you have ever read this blog before I think you can guess for what I am thankful.

I thank God I live in America. I thank God for my extraordinary Mom and Dad. I thank God for my wonderful brothers and sister and their families. I thank God for an abundance of friends.

I thank God for my children and my wife. They are the reason He put me on this earth.

God Bless you all today and everyday.

Here's a question for you...

why hasn't the secular left latched onto Thanksgiving and made it a more important holiday?

You can give thanks to any deity; Buddha, Allah, Gaia what have you. That's the beauty of turkey day: no ties. With Christmas, you're pretty much pigeon-holed; what with the name of the Savior in the holiday and all. You'd have to start making up holidays and start resurrecting older ones that really don't mean anything just to fit in. Fit in or stick it to the man, whichever you prefer.

In the overall scheme of things, Thanksgiving is the red-headed step child of major holidays. I mean right after Halloween, and actually before in some cases, Christmas decorations adorn the stores. Not much room for Thanksgiving in that scenario. If the left would promote Thanksgiving as much as they demote Christmas, they could have a pretty good holiday on their hands.

Perhaps then they'd leave Christ in Christmas or at least the Kwan in Kwanzaa.

Geez...

for not liking that song I sure kept it on there long enough. Bye bye gay boy. For those of you that have a problem with that last sentence as being un-PC, I give you this (fast forward to the 1:50 mark)

What is up with the media?

I know they are a bunch of bias looney-tunes but they aren't even trying to hide their subjectivity anymore. Case in point, what do you think of the Climategate scandal? Fox is the only station covering this story. But they had no problems covering this one.