You will be able to knock me over with a feather if there's any f*ckin' live Countdowns next week or the week between Christmas & New Year's (barring any huge news, of course), so tonight is my 2008 "swan song" for a diary series that has come to mean pretty much everything to me in the area of keeping my sanity (such as it is) in tact. So, let's party like we're AIG execs at a fancy spa retreat! Well, maybe not QUITE like that, but y'all get my point! ;D
I know there are a variety of beliefs & traditions represented here, but I just couldn't resist this tree:
Cookies anyone?
And some egg nog...
Feel free to "spike" your own with your favorite "good for what ails ya'"!
And, to REALLY get us in the mood, here is my favorite scene from what is probably in my top 5 of favorite holiday movies EVER!
And, to all the mean hateful bad little boys & girls out there (you know who you are!), Santa left you this:
Let's Countdown!
#5 "Tainted Guv" AKA "Blago Unplugged" AKA "The Neverending Recount" - Hey, let’s give Gov. Rod some credit; he managed to get through his "press conference" today without one bleeping "F" bomb in front of polite company! I bet that took effort. How long is it going to be before IL gets its full cadre of Senators? Hell, MN may have both theirs before IL does. Aw, Gov. Rod’s a poet, and I didn’t know it! [insert retching noise here] The citizens of IL will wrestle their governorship from Gov. Blago’s cold dead hands! Keith, the "fella from NJ" was Jim McGreevey – just tryin’ to help! ;D And, his speech was way more betterer. Can’t IL hold a special election to fill the seat at the same time they’re trying to impeach the honorable Governor? Al Franken’s ahead! Stewart Smalley may be heading to the Senate! He’s good enough, he’s smart enough, and, dog – gone - it, MN likes him! Unless he’s going to wear that big ‘ol satellite set – up on his head, though, he may as well stay in "the Land of a Thousand Lakes!" ;D
#4 "Emergency Break" AKA "Jump Start" AKA "TARPed Out" - What struck me the most in GWB’s speech today was him admitting that in any other times, he’d let the auto industry fail in "normal" market conditions due to bad management & bad business practices. How willing were he & other creeps in DC to let the big Wall Street boils on the butt of humanity who caused much of this economic turd hole we find ourselves in fail?! Probably not so much... Henry Paulson wants the other half of the $700 billion released ASAP. Southern GOP Senators are having a hissy fit that TARP money is being used to help the auto industry. WWWwwwwwAAAAaaaaHHHHhhhhh! Shallow comment, but Mr. Paulson just creeps me out every time I see him!
** The Black Hawks are playing hockey at Wrigley Field??!! WRONG!!!!!!!! Those South Koreans could teach our Congress a thing or two, couldn’t they! Lou Dobbs called the PM of Canada UnAmerican – idiot. Gil Steward ain’t getting’ a lump of coal from Santa; that’s for damn sure! **
#3 "W. Mark Felt 1913 – 2008" - Nixon knew Felt was leaking information?! $hit... John Dean again! How good was Mark Felt at keeping his secret identity a secret if John Dean couldn’t figure out he was Deep Throat? Damn! Pat Buchanan as Deep Throat?! SAY WHAT?! HA!!! Well Hell, how do you clean up spit up Diet Coke off a lap top...
BUSHED! "Gay – Gate" We won’t sign on to decriminalize homosexuality. "Environment – Gate" The head of the EPA says that new coal plants can’t be evaluated for its impact on global warming. Talk about your foxes guarding the chicken coop! "Gonzo – Gate" Freddo fibbed to Congress about GWB’s "16 words." "...oral clearances..."? OK, must refrain from off – color innuendos; it’s awfully close to Christmas, and Santa may still be figuring out if I’ve been good or not.
WPITW – Sean Hannity & Gretchen Carlson need some quiet time in a padded room – not together, though, for the love of all that’s holy! The FL Dept. of Revenue is going after an honest guy over $1.50. Great American Insurance Company in TX isn’t going to help people who died in a fire because they are saying the "pollution" from the smoke killed them – not the fire. COAL LUMPS TO ALL!!!!!!
#1 "With Pals Like These..." AKA "The Thrilla in Wasilla" - Oh boy, it’s a good think Levi’s mom isn’t a turkey; there is videotaped evidence of what happens to Wasilla turkeys when the Governor’s around! Bristol’s poor kid doesn’t have a chance, does s(he). I mean, hell, having THAT WOMAN (the "respectable" Governor – not the one arrested) as your grandmother is enough. Oh Christian, you silly silly man, that "turkey thing" STILL isn’t old to me – AT ALL!