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December 16, 2005

Barbara is taking a well-deserved break ... to return January 2, 2006.

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I would like to take this opportunity to say; Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas, Habari gani, for Kwanzaa, Happy New Year, Happy Fitzmas, Happy Holidays, and Peace on Earth, Good Will to one and all!

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Strange isn’t it how those yelling the loudest about Christmas vs. Holidays seem to have forgotten the age old true meaning of “Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men” message that comes with the season!  If they aren’t thumping their chests over an unnecessary war, they’re beating their gums about what to call a most joyful time of the year!  Funny isn’t it how those chickenhawks who wouldn’t join the military to defend their country pick the safety and security of a battle over words here at home!

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When I originally heard George Bush make this comment, my jaw dropped---I would venture a guess after hearing him utter these words, that the moron’s diplomatic skills rate a zero, zip, nada, in the toilet nothing, added to the nothing he gets for his intelligence quotient! “And yet, 60 years ago, my dad fought against the Japanese -- many of your relatives did, as well. They were the sworn enemy of the United States. I find it amazing -- I don't know if you find it amazing -- I find it amazing that I sit down with this guy [this guy = Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi], strategizing about how to make the world a more peaceful place when my dad and others fought him.”

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All this talk of Patriot Acts and surveillance, catching terrorists before they strike, and NSA monitoring of telephone conversations and emails within the United States is ironic when you consider the moron in chief was handed a PDB on August 6th 2001 that said “Bin Laden determined to strike within the United States” and Bush, Rice, and the rest of this bumbling bunch ignored it!  There it was, spelled out in black and white on a Presidential Daily Briefing for God’s sake---and it was ignored!  Incompetence?  Inexperience? Irresponsibility? Or could it have been an intentional act because they were looking for a motive to implement a preconceived plan to preemptively go to war and begin their march on world domination?  We all know about the Wolfowitz/Libby/Cheney strategies for world dominance way back when, but were undermining civil rights and civil liberties right here in America also a part of that plan?  Was the “Patriot Act” and domestic spying a part of that plan that we haven’t been privy to because then Americans would know what this group of maniacal would be dictators was all about!? Have Bush and the gang accomplished the impossible, have they really managed to bring down “freedom and democracy” and establish a dictatorship here in America?

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Interview with Brian Williams, NBC News, Dec. 12, 2005 “WILLIAMS: A lot of people have seen in this series of speeches you're giving on Iraq, a movement in your position. They call it an acknowledgement that perhaps the mission has not gone as it was originally planned…That the U.S. would be welcomed as liberators, that General Shinseki, when he said this would take hundreds of thousands of troops in his farewell speech, might have been right. And third, that it wasn't a self-sustaining war in terms of the oil revenue. Do you concede those three points might not have gone as planned? DUBYA: Review them with me again. WILLIAMS: Number one -- that we'd be welcomed as liberators? DUBYA: I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome.” Dah, more than 2100 American soldiers dead, and now Bush reluctantly concedes that “it was not a peaceful welcome.” We are in more trouble than even I thought, with this irregular guy running things.  Since this is an administration fashioned after corporate entities, don’t ya think we the investors could get together and have him fired?

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George Bush isn’t a “regular guy”---a regular guy cares about his family, his friends, his job, and his country.  A regular guy wouldn’t be so quick to leave the hunt for the terrorists who struck his country on native soil to start a war with a guy who had nothing to do with that attack!  A regular guy would be more interested in avenging the deaths of 3,000 American citizens than seeking revenge for a failed attempt on his father’s life, a regular guy would not order up torture and abuse for prisoners of war, a regular guy would have some remorse over little children dying in a preemptive unnecessary war, a regular guy wouldn’t condone the use of Depleted Uranium weaponry or chemical weaponry that melts the skin off the bones of innocent people, a regular guy would not have sent our soldiers to fight a war with inadequate equipment that is extremely necessary for battle, a regular guy would have really listened to the experienced Generals who knew what they were talking about and not some military opportunists eager for promotion and willing to brown nose an idiot! A regular guy would never think of the Constitution of the United States as “just a goddamned piece of paper” A regular guy has morals and decency, his word is his bond, he’ll forgo vacations to get the job done, he’s diligent and honest, he is not a liar and a cheat, he’s not devious and manipulating, he doesn’t analyze his image or consider his political standing over doing the right thing!  George Bush is not now, nor has he ever been a “regular guy”!

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I would like to thank Richard Pryor for the chuckles and laughs he gave me at a time in my life when laughter was needed the most.  His ability to see the humor in everything, including that which a lot of us could not have born and come out of with any sanity whatsoever, was the greatest gift he could give to us all, and for that I say thank you from the bottom of my heart.  My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends. I will replay the tapes of his performances and remember the man who made me laugh.

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