Posted on 12/18/2003 6:07:08 PM PST by BigWaveBetty
Hope everyone has a SUPER GREAT Christmas and New Year!
Happy Hanukkah to all the Jewish Freepers!
This will my last day to post on FR until 2004 as I am going to be off from work from 12/24/03 until 01/02/04.
YIPPIE!
Tomorrow I’m gonna see “The Return of the King” and then I’m going over to my parents’ house for Christmas Eve dinner and to open presents (a family tradition ever since I was a kid)
I need to make some wishes for all my Friends on FreeRepublic for this Christmas and for the coming year.
I wish everyone the happiest of Christmases and may God bless you all!
I wish 2004 will be a year a triumph and prosperity for each and every one of you. May this election year be a successful one for President Bush and for all good people running for office.
May all good Americans be celebrating victory on Nov. 2 this year?.
May the terrorists be made small while true patriots become tall!
May God continue to bless President and Mrs. Bush; the Troops; All our elected officials; and all that post and lurk on Free Republic; and may God continue to bless America!
Well, this just ruins my plans:
THE swells who ski in Sun Valley start wrangling about now for an invite to the hottest New Year's Eve party in Idaho - the annual blast thrown by ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz and her hubby, Sen. John Kerry. But this year, Frederic Fekkai, Donna Karan, William O'Shaughnessy and Jann Wenner will have to ring in 2004 somewhere else. The party is cancelled. "The rigors of the campaign trail," a Kerry spokeswoman explained. The presidential candidate is scheduled to be in Iowa as 2003 ends. A book signing scheduled for today at the Chapter One store in Ketchum also was scratched. (PageSix)
Speaking of the Dem dwarves:
At the recent Kennedy Center awards, Sharpton's box was two away from Bush's. At intermission, he went to pay his respects. When he walked through the curtains of the presidential box the two Secret Service guys visibly stiffened. Sharpton gave them: "Easy boys, you'll be working for me soon." The president roared. The president then told Al's supporter James Brown: "This may surprise you - but I'd like to see your man win the nomination." Grinned James Brown: "I bet you would." (Cindy Adams)
What is so fascinating, however, is that this need for enemies -- for a domestic equivalent of people playing footsy with Bush on Iraq -- overrode mature judgment. Dean's words make sense only as an attack. Noting the Clinton phrase from the 1996 State of the Union address ("The era of big government is over"), Dean promised a "new era" -- "not one where we join Republicans and aim simply to limit the damage they inflict on working families."
Dean's rhetoric imagines a domestic party enemy that doesn't and didn't exist. In his damage control frenzy, moreover, he made it clear he wouldn't dare even try to make such an argument explicitly. Oddly, what he did do, in a formulation based a new social contract, is reveal huge gaps in his thinking and one difference with his opponents on taxes that he can only deal with (like Saddam Hussein) through the use of a straw man. ... complete Oliphant op-ed
He's checking the list!
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All my shopping is done, wrapped and delivered or under the tree. Finished most of the baking over the weekend. Just last minute cooking left on the agenda. It's wonderfully peaceful here. I hope your house is the same.
Enjoy the dem sufferings:
As the first Presidential primaries draw near, some of our Democratic candidates are becoming excessively harsh in their criticism of other Democratic candidates.
This harsh criticism is becoming a source of division within the Democratic Party. If it is not curtailed, it could threaten our Unity as we head into the 2004 election.
If you share our concern, we encourage you to sign the Democrats.com Unity Pledge here:
http://democrats.com/unity
Sincerely,
Bob Fertik, Co-founder
Democrats.com Unity Pledge
As Democrats, we share one overriding goal for 2004: replacing George W. Bush with a legitimately-elected Democratic President who will undo the massive damage created at home and abroad by Bush.
We welcome the vigorous competition of ideas in our Democratic primaries. But we insist that this competition be conducted with civility, respect, and even love for fellow Democrats.
We reject all divisive efforts, whether by individual candidates or their supporters.
And when the primaries end, all Democrats must unite behind our Presidential nominee.
As a loyal Democrat, I pledge my full support for the Democratic nominee for President - whoever wins the primaries.
In addition, I pledge to do everything in my power to defeat George W. Bush and elect a Democratic President.
Finally, I call upon all Democratic candidates - as well as their supporters and Democratic Party officials - to join me in taking this pledge.
To sign this pledge, visit:
http://democrats.com/unity
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Don't these people know they're democrats? Like dems would ever keep a promise. ppffttt!
We're having a whirling dervish Christmas. Daughter, SIL and granddaughter are down, they're trying to visit everyone while they're here.
We saw them yesterday, Laney is so big and her mom and dad look great. We'll see them again Christmas day and again on Saturday. whew!
I'm almost done with everything save a few packages to wrap. But Mr. B and I have a party to go to tonight and it's starts early so not too much goofing off for me today.
Party before all else, the nation be damned. The Dems are just so principled!
Another sign of the times:
WE HEAR . . . THAT the owners of 230 Park Ave. claim they were advised by their security consultants to remove the Christmas cross that had shone from the tower's windows since World War II because, "That cross is a bull's eye to terrorists" (pagesix)
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