The only New Year's Resolution I've kept is one I made on 12/31/2001. I will not buy, use, consume, or do anything else with anything made by the French. Fuck the French.

For all of you who do not share my sentiment, here's the proper way to pour a nice French wine.

There will be a nice sparkling wine served in The Brier Patch tonight, but by God it won’t be French.

This is just not right.

I'm just saying!!!

Hat tip to Jack.

For Our 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 the winter 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 2006, 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. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.


For Our Republican Friends:

Here's wishing all of You a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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This is the 2005 Capital CHRISTMAS Tree seconds after House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill, lighted it, Thursday, December 8. He made it a point that it WAS NOT a "Holiday" or "Peoples" tree. The crowd went wild.

The music was by the United States Marine Band (The President's Own) and The Congressional Chorus sang the Carols.

It is an 83-foot-tall Engelman spruce plucked from the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico. It is decorated with 10,000 lights and 6,000 hand made ornaments from the children of New Mexico.

Went to The National World War II Memorial today.

Each of the 4,000 gold stars represents 100 American deaths incurred in the war.

Something to think about.

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Blog Meet under the covers.

Come on...take a wild guess.

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I'm going where it's snowing.

My beautiful wife has a gig in D.C., and all I have to do (while she's engaged) is tour museums for a week. I love that shit.

I have a couple of friends and their wives meeting me, so we'll do some history by day and have a nice dinner every night.

Could be worse.

I'm old enough to know better and too young to resist.

That is a fact.