Have a Trippy Christmas

THERE IS A WAR ON TERROR. THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS. THERE IS A TOOTH FAIRY.

(credit Norman Rockwell)
commentary at HuffPo
Not believe in the war on terror! You might as well not believe in fairies. And what about Santa Claus? You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus.

So it is with the war on terror. It is hard to see, it is hard to pinpoint, but it is all around us at all times, hiding on planes and in toothpaste tubes, but your little friends say these dangers are not real. Your little friends really annoy me, they are little in spirit and mind and body. For the most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Depending on who you live next to, perhaps you have. Oh the times, oh the mores. We are going to hell in a hand basket, and it is foolish in all regards to be seated in a flammable basket while descending toward a furious pit of fire.

No war on terror! Thank God it lives and lives forever. It will truly go on forever, or at least until a few minutes before the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse come charging down Pennsylvania Avenue with Chuck Norris and Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham all seated like spectres on their steeds, preparing the way for Jesus Christ to descend from heaven minutes later and finally make clear who is right is this world and who most damnably is wrong, they're wrong, they're wrong.

John Cory | So This Is Christmas?
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"... here under the tree, dazzling and glossy in sateen bows and velvet ribbons are the gifts of this president: Sparkle-laden paper wrapped around a box of Fear. The plastic paranoia sealed package contains all the
colors of Fear from brown to yellow to pink and purple. A small booklet of instructions is included on how to apply Fear to every situation and person not 'one of us,' and how to brush on racism, homophobia and bigotry with the mascara of mendacity. A flag-covered box of brightly painted brittle toy soldiers and game board, plus interchangeable body parts for when they get broken from too much rough play. Each toy soldier is hand-painted, unnumbered and anatomically neutered to withstand everything but real war. Families not included."
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NORAD TRACKS SANTA

(Thanks Bert)

ILONA MITRECEY v TINY TIM

(Ilona Mitrecey was born in 1993 in France and is a pop singer. Tiny Tim aka Herbert Buckingham Khaury was born in 1932 and died in 1996 and was a singer, ukulele player and musical archivist. Found by Slugbug after listening to 26 versions of White Christmas - gets trippy at about 3:40 so be patient)

DAILY KOS is dead today but the most hoppin' diary is "What Does An Aetheist do for Christmas"
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[Slugbug]

This is from Joe Brad Cooley, on the ever-troubling topic of "religion"

http://truthbeknown.com/videos.html click on videos Easter:
Christian or Pagan? Sun of God? Reason for the Season?
This really causes one to reconsider what one believes and why they
believe it. Looks like the Roman put this religion together
and simply engaged in wholesale borrowing from earlier religions
earlier traditions. They are so similiar one can't ignore it.
Nothing new "under the sun"
Joe Brad Cooley

[Slugbug]

More for the collection

Listen to my heroine Acharya S tell it like it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELoN3OSY6hA
(thx joe)

[Michael]

Pah, du Schneekönigin hast nur nicht gleernt, den WAHREN GEIST VON WEIHNACHTEN (TM) zu umarmen.