I could just look at her pic and tell she would write like she did in this piece!(shudder)
Posted on 12/20/2006 9:11:41 AM PST by Chi-townChief
I already know I won't be getting the gift I covet most this Christmas: The sight of my mother rushing in the door, big smile on her face, bags of presents in her hands, ready to envelope her grandkids in her arms. Like everyone who suffered a deep loss this year, I feel it most acutely during this festive season.
But Christmas will go on, however altered it will be. There will be presents -- several are already there, under the tree in the family room--and I'm sure they all will be wonderful and much appreciated.
But there are a few other gifts that, like the presence of my mother, couldn't be wrapped and placed under a tree, that might bring me out of my Christmas funk:
Professional athletes who understand they are role models for children and act like it. Yes, this refers to clueless Chicago Bear Tank Johnson, with his guns and his dangerous lifestyle, but it also refers to center Olin Kreutz and his unsportsmanlike knee-drop on Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Dewayne White during Sunday's game. My beloved Chicago Bears may be on their way to the Super Bowl -- a real gift in itself -- but is it too much to hope that the team also could set an example for kids and the rest of the NFL?
A Democratic presidential nominee we can get excited about. This gift is likely to arrive sometime in January when Illinois' own Sen. Barack Obama announces he has heard the call and will enter the Democratic primary for 2008. This will be a gift to everyone but Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. While I would love to see a woman as president, she, sadly, carries too much baggage into this race and will turn out to be a divider rather than a uniter. After eight years of George Bush, the country has had enough of that.
An end to our Iraqi entanglements. We got an early present from the Iraq Study Group when it laid out a plan for getting the hell out of there. We ought to begin using it. Yes, the country is a mess. Yes, much of it is our fault. But it grows clearer every day that our presence there is doing little to help and a lot to hurt. Perhaps the lesson to be learned here is that not every country is chomping to install American-style democracy.
A state income tax increase. While this isn't a present any of us would welcome under the tree this year or any other, we have got to do something to fix the sorry state of our state budget. As the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club pointed out two weeks ago, we're $106 billion in the red. If we don't start paying down that debt, our children will never forgive us. Or their children either.
More time for whatever we hold most dear. This gift would come in a different package for each of us. For example, I covet more time with my family. My son, meanwhile, covets more time with his Xbox 360.
And, last on my wish list: that all of you have a wonderful time enjoying family and friends during this holiday season.
mailto:cindyrichards153@hotmail.com
What an ASS CLOWN
Why doesn't she just write a CHECK!!!!??? What an idiot
Makes you wonder why the atheistic leftists take the day off for CHRISTmas and another one off to celebrate the New Year of OUR LORD (2007).
She wishes for tax increase and Bigears Obama to run for President.
Hmmm . . .
You know why - leftists want OTHER people's taxes increased, not their own.
OOOH! COMPARING HILLARY TO BUSH! What a put down !.......from a Dem kool-aid drinker, that is.....
Idiots, all of them. Dumb asses like her don't understand the way to get out of the "sorry state of our state budget" is not to tax your way out, but to grow your way out.
Taxing just puts everything on a downward spiral.
The Twelve Days of Clinton
On the first day of Clinton, the liberal gave to me:
The highest taxes in our hist'ry.
On the second day of Clinton, the liberal gave to me:
Too much government
and the highest taxes in our hist'ry.
On the third day of Clinton, the liberal gave to me:
Three thousand lies.
Too much government
and the highest taxes in our hist'ry.
On the fourth day of Clinton, the liberal gave to me:
Four years of fraud.
Three thousand lies.
Too much government
and the highest taxes in our hist'ry.
On the fifth day of Clinton, the liberal gave to me:
Five pounds of weed.
Four years of fraud.
Three thousand lies.
Too much government
and the highest taxes in our hist'ry.
On the sixth day of Clinton, the liberal gave to me:
Six times the crime.
Five pounds of weed.
Four years of fraud.
Three thousand lies.
Too much government
and the highest taxes in our hist'ry.
On the seventh day of Clinton, the liberal gave to me:
Seven feminazis.
Six times the crime.
Five pounds of weed.
Four years of fraud.
Three thousand lies.
Too much government
and the highest taxes in our hist'ry.
On the eighth day of Clinton, the liberal gave to me:
Eight gay sailors.
Seven feminazis.
Six times the crime.
Five pounds of weed.
Four years of fraud.
Three thousand lies.
Too much government
and the highest taxes in our hist'ry.
On the ninth day of Clinton, the liberal gave to me:
Nine different condoms.
Eight gay sailors.
Seven feminazis.
Six times the crime.
Five pounds of weed.
Four years of fraud.
Three thousand lies.
Too much government
and the highest taxes in our hist'ry.
On the tenth day of Clinton, the liberal gave to me:
Ten broken commandments.
Nine different condoms.
Eight gay sailors.
Seven feminazis.
Six times the crime.
Five pounds of weed.
Four years of fraud.
Three thousand lies.
Too much government
and the highest taxes in our hist'ry.
On the eleventh day of Clinton, the liberal gave to me:
Eleven pregnant teens.
Ten broken commandments.
Nine different condoms.
Eight gay sailors.
Seven feminazis.
Six times the crime.
Five pounds of weed.
Four years of fraud.
Three thousand lies.
Too much government
and the highest taxes in our hist'ry.
On the twelfth day of Clinton, the liberal gave to me:
Twelve Illiterate Students
Eleven pregnant teens.
Ten broken commandments.
Nine different condoms.
Eight gay sailors.
Seven feminazis.
Six times the crime.
Five pounds of weed.
Four years of fraud.
Three thousand lies.
Too much government
and the highest taxes in our hist'ry.
Everything is an chance to be phoney with these people.
("Will everybody think I'm chic/cool/annonted if I say this?")
You know, you really shouldn't mention his BIG EARS because I heard he is very sensitive about his BIG EARS and gets upset when someone points out his BIG EARS. Maureen Dowd, who does not have BIG EARS, talked about them in an article and he told her he doesn't like for people to talk about his BIG EARS. So, please, don't mention that he has BIG EARS (even though it is clear that he does have BIG EARS) because you might hurt his feelings. And, if you think he won't hear you, well, he will, because he hears everything because he has 'you know what'.
P.S. 'you know what' means BIG EARS, in case you didn't guess, but I didn't want to say it because of his BIG EAR sensitivity.
No, they will just change the standards. If you can name Brittany's children, know the stats for you favorite player on the New York Knicks, and put a condom on a cucumber, you are ready for college! (or a lifetime in welfare feeling good about yourself).
I could just look at her pic and tell she would write like she did in this piece!(shudder)
She'll have a blue Fitzmas.
I guess curbing spending never occurred to her.
get her one of these:
I'm buying some of these.
http://www.cafepress.com/titillatingtees.92974038
"I already know I won't be getting the gift I covet most this Christmas: The sight of my mother rushing in the door, big smile on her face, bags of presents in her hands, ready to envelope her grandkids in her arms."
Isn't this like getting 3 wishes and wishing for 10 more wishes?
Having her mother back should be enough, but it isn't. GIMME GIMME GIMME.
"Professional athletes who understand they are role models for children and act like it."
How about actors who understand they are among the most prominent Americans in the global media and realize that their "Bush == Hitler" statements are taken as fact and justification by terrorists, not the hyperbole of partisan millionaires doped up on drugs.
or professional politicians who think they are role models for porn stars and embezzlers(and act like it)
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