To All My Democrat Friends:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of thewinter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.   

To My Republican Friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Everyone has been hearing about our national debt. I took econ in high school and college and my high school teacher talked about it almost daily. In this article, it says that we are going in debt at a rate of about $1,000,000 a minute! Stop for a second, and think about that. RIGHT NOW the numbers are skyrocketing. This is becoming asuch a huge issue, that mainly young people like me are concerned about. We are the ones who are going to have to deal with this. When I went to Salt Lake city to see Ron Paul, I didn’t know much about him. But when I sat down on the floor and listened to him, I knew what he was saying was true. He talked about how we are spending way to much time and money overseas, on things we have no need to be involved in. We could be saving approximately 1 TRILLION dollars a year if we bring everyone home. He has a plan and he is sticking to it.

The national debt — the total accumulation of annual budget deficits — is up from $5.7 trillion when President Bush took office in January 2001 and it will top $10 trillion sometime right before or right after he leaves in January 2009.That’s $10,000,000,000,000.00, or one digit more than an odometer-style “national debt clock” near New York’s Times Square can handle. When the privately owned automated clock was activated in 1989, the national debt was $2.7 trillion.

I hope this makes you sit and think about how big of a hole we are in. And day by day, minute by minute, we dig it deeper and deeper. What will you do about it?

1. WILL THE REAL DUMMY PLEASE STAND UP? AT&T fired President JohnWalter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. Hereceived a $26 million severance package. Perhaps it’s not Walter who’s lacking intelligence.
2. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS: Police in Oakland, CA spenttwo hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himselfinside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officersdiscovered that the man was standing beside them in the police line,shouting, “Please come out and give yourself up.”
3. WHAT WAS PLAN B??? An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun,kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two differentautomated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper proceeded to withdrawmoney from his own bank accounts.
4. THE GETAWAY! A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Stop and askedfor all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently, the take was toosmall, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himselffor three hours until police showed up and grabbed him.
5. DID I SAY THAT??? Police in Los Angeles had good luck with arobbery suspect who just couldn’t control himself during a lineup.When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words:”Give me all your money or I’ll shoot”, the man shouted, “that’s not what I said!”.
6. ARE WE COMMUNICATING??? A man spoke frantically into the phone: “Mywife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart”. “Is this her first child?” the doctor asked. “No!” the man shouted, “This is her husband!”
7. NOT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED! In Modesto, CA, Steven RichardKing was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate a gun. Unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in his pocket.(hellooooooo)!
8. THE GRAND FINALE!!! Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert, an hour east of Bakersfield, CA, some folks, new to boating, were having a problem. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t get their brand new 22 foot boat, going. It was very sluggish in almost every maneuver, no matter how much power they applied. After about an hour of trying to make it go, they putted into a nearby marina, thinking someone there may be able to tell them what was wrong. A thorough topside check revealed everything in perfect working condition The engine ran fine, the out-drive went up and down, and the propeller was the correct size and pitch. So, one of the marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath. He came up choking on water,he was laughing so hard.NOW REMEMBER…THIS IS TRUE. Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer!