I have been wanting to post an appropriate holiday greeting on this blog that won't offend anyone, but it's made difficult by the fact that fellow-blogger Mary is an agnostic, if not a downright atheist, and Ruth is a Wiccan. Then Hallelujah! (oops!)I ran across this posting on David Burge's "Iowahawk" website, excerpted below:

HOLLY JOLLY SOLSTICE!

Washington, DC - In an effort to help American elementary schools adhere to federal guidelines regarding religious content in school activities, the American Civil Liberties Union today unveiled a new holiday musical program for the nation’s 120,000 public elementary schools. The program, entitled “Holly Jolly Solstice,” will be performed in all federally-funded public schools starting in 2005.

Unveiled yesterday at ACLU headquarters, the program features bouncy, major-chord melodies with strong kid appeal and a libretto that “is 100% certified religion-free.

For instance, every kid’s favorite holiday character is celebrated in the bouncy number, ‘Here Comes Mother Earth’:

Watch out loggers and resource hoggers,
Here comes Mother Earth!
Watch out polluters, with your Microsoft computers!
Here comes Mother Earth!

(Mother Earth speaks)
Global warming and acid rain,
Capitalism is to blame!

Hey meat eaters and overbreeders -
Here comes Mother Earth!
Behind the wheel of your automobile!
Here comes Mother Earth!

(Mother Earth speaks)
E-coli and cow methane,
Capitalism is to blame!

Other future hits include "A Value Neutral Solstice" ("Don't hurt my fragile self-esteem") and the joyous "Safe Sex Solstice" ("it’s so warm when we linger--‘round the pentagram--with a dental dam--and some latex on my dinger").

I would include more. However, the constraints of space, etc. etc. . . .


ENOUGH OF THIS PC HORSESHIT!

I'm just gonna wish everybody a plain ol' Red State MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!