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Let's dissect this 'un, shall we, class? (I just love doing this.)

It's that time of year again, when I send out the latest updates for the year.

You do strike me as the type who sends out mass-printed form letters for the holidays. Ever hear of handwriting on cards? (You'd have the time to do so if you'd write "Happy Holidays" instead of a diatribe.)

And what a year indeed! First, I must get in my "told you so!" Yep, Bush is flushing 10 years of prosperity down the toilet faster than you can say Hail Mary!

(Hey, Rash, ask Cuz to explain trickle-down economics to you. Betcha he cain't.)

Fortunately the devastation has not yet hit us too hard in Colorado. Matthew is in kindergarten, Sean in second grade.

Hope your second-grader learns about run-on sentences in that there public school. (I shall kindly overlook all the omitted hyphens and your obvious difficulty with apostrophes.)

Marsha is working at home with an Internet based order entry job. My work is going well, the economy has not yet hit us. We went to Montana to see Aunt Lisa this summer. We put a TV and VCR in the Caravan and it actually went fairly well. So travel is now becoming more possible.

A Caravan? That gas-guzzler? For shame. And since I've been on the earth (32 years now), travel has always been "possible." Just not always pleasant.

Lucy has chewed up everything and is now bigger than Matthew. She is a Golden Retriever and we hope to breed her next year.

Good idea . . . breed your untrainable dog and have lots of untrainable puppies.

We want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and that next year will bring better times for us all. OK, so I lost a lot of investment money this year, but Mr. Bush got us a 600.00 rebate check! I would have rather seen it go to a prescription drug benefit for the elderly.

Then give it to an old person!

Yes, the Grinch stole our prosperity and gave it to the rich.

So giving you back your money is giving to the rich?

I would bet my salvation that Jesus does not approve of the Republican economic policy, especially right around the holidays.

Now you're sliding into abject stupidity. Check out the scene in the temple where he routed the money-lenders. He was definitely a lower-my-taxes Dude.

Of course, there is the convenient excuse of September 11th. As we return to the memories of the 80's, let us consider the 241 unarmed marines who died in Lebanon. The cargo planes full of weapons sent to Iran in exchange for hostages, to Bin Laden to fight the Soviets and to Saddam to fight Iran. I believe Dubya is doing a good job of cleaning up the mess his Dad left, but the economy was tanking long before 9-11.

It was indeed - namely, last year when your boy Billy was still in office.

Don't insult this country by having a draft dodger use terrorism created from his dad's mistakes to give money to the rich.

Draft dodger? Don't make me chuckle, you chucklehead. Try that one on Bill Clinton for size. (For the record, Dubya is a fighter pilot. Bill is banned from cockpits by stewardess-union decree.)

It turns out the anthrax was domestic with the culprit (like Oklahoma City) having Right wing Politics. The FBI reached that conclusion as only Liberals have been targeted.

No, not exactly. American Media isn't a bastion of mushy-headed one-worlders.

Surely Mr. Ashcroft will solve the case. Let's hope the wair on terrorism will focus on the American Taliban next, our own right wing.

Wair? Whait is it gooid foir?

I have a holiday recipe for fundamentalist soufflé - mix a heavy dose of fundamentalism with government, with easy access to guns. Mix in some religion based education with low tax rates and school vouchers. Skin away all investment in infrastructure, diverting all resources to the military. Strip away social programs with a clever, then beat the women until they are tender. Remove all intellectuals and then sprinkle with school prayer. Bake for 10 years and then simmer until buildings start blowing up. Any intolerant religion works nicely.

"Clever" is an adjective, not a noun. (Sheesh. Your second-grader coulda gotten that right.) As for removal of intellectuals, I see your cutesy recipe and raise you my Mensa membership, you mental midget.