What Goes Around Comes Around For Voucher Advocates

A funny thing happened to conservative groups advocating school voucher money for private sectarian schools. Keep in mind these groups have not only been trying to get legislation passed to fund private schools with taxpayer dollars, but they’ve also been persuing constitutional amendments cementing the privatization of our educational system with unaccountable vouchers. Now pro-voucher groups are finding out past generations made similar arguments, and it’s now effecting their efforts to do away with public schools. Ouch!

Here’s what the Philadelphia newspaper The Bulletin is reporting:

Arizona’s teachers’ union challenged the state’s two school-voucher programs in the Arizona Supreme Court this week, citing a law educational-choice supporters say was explicitly written to curb Catholic education. A lower court ruled against the programs in May on the basis that public money mustn’t go toward private or “sectarian” education under state law. But voucher advocates argue the provision forbidding such expenditures (Article IX, Section 10 of the Arizona Constitution), emerged from nationwide efforts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to preserve public schools’ Protestant character in response to heavy Catholic immigration.

Oops! It appears the unintended consequences of protecting one religious group from another, and writing it into the constitution, has come back to haunt sectarian schools of today from getting public funding. That doesn’t mean they won’t ignore the irony. Take for instance the beautifully marketed, conservatively titled “Institute for Justice,” who is making the case the language in the Arizona Constitution reflects religious bias. See if you can spot any such biased reference:

Article IX, Section 10 reads, “No tax shall be laid or appropriation of public money made in aid of any church, or private or sectarian school, or any public service corporation.” The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty contends the law is a “Blaine Amendment” born of religious bias … “sectarian” simply means “Catholic.” The federal amendment failed but about 35 states adopted their own versions.

I know, I failed to spot a religious preference in the Article’s language too. The teachers union’s director of public relations, John Hartsell, summed it up honestly and precisely this way in the article:

He said the constitutional provision against state aid to religious schools does not distinguish between faiths either in letter or in spirit. Hartsell however said vouchers frustrate state residents’ ability to ensure that their tax money is well
spent.

“We believe that private school vouchers essentially are
accountability waivers for public dollars.”

Amen.

Republicans Gamble with Economic Meltdown to Bust Unions. They Want U.S. To Be Like Japan.

This is good stuff from Keith Olberman. His guest is Daniel Gross, Newsweeks Senior Editor, who brings up some interesting issues regarding the auto industry's inability to get Senate Republicans to help out. Can you say union busting? His story will be in the Monday edition of the magazine. But you can get the scoop here and now.

Cavuto Does Hit Piece with Trib's John Kass on Obama's Ties to Chicago. Slow News Day?

Now that the right wing nuts failed to prove Barack Obama wasn't a citizen, what's next on their agenda of problem solving the issues America faces today? Are you ready? Is Obama a Chicago crook like a number of mayors and governors before him?

Do these people know the country is falling apart around them, we've been in a recession since December 2007 and people are losing their jobs and homes in huge numbers?

Fox News' Neil Cavuto talks with thug columnist John Kass from the Chicago Tribune about Obama's ties the "Chicago ways." Kass recreates a time right out of the Untouchables TV series, of crime, crooked cops and politicians. He begins by painting an unrealistic portrait of the publics perception of Chicago, saying the media created a fairy tale that Chicago was "Camelot," and they wanted Obama in to punish Bush. Really, I'm serious. Watch the video.



Kass went on to say the media made it seem like Obama was found as an infant by old Mrs. Daly, floating in a basket in the Chicago River.

The point made by Cavuto and Kass was simple, and completely irrelevant. Obama should acknowledge he is connected to Chicago's political culture, whatever that means. And it's time the national media starts acknowledging that.

Besides the fact that such information is common knowledge, could Fox News have interviewed a more ridiculous partisan thug from the financially troubled Chicago Tribune?

Putting a Fork in the Obama Citizenship Sideshow and Justice Thomas's Credibility

This is my final entry on the sidetrack story of Barack Obama's citizenship controversy, manufactured by disgruntled Republican losers, trying to delegitimize the entire Obama presidency. Keith Olberman and Ariana Huffington nail the coffin shut.

Alan Colmes Tribute Song on The Daily Show

A lot has been said about Alan Colmes, not much of it good from the liberal side of the isle, for not being tough enough. I've always disagreed with the criticisms by simply pointing out that Colmes style is politely adversarial, at least on Hannity & Colmes. His radio show is something else entirely. He's smart, quick with the facts and super human for not losing it completely, after so many insane Hannity Republican callers spewing their racist language and empty hate filled rhetoric at the host. It really is fun to listen to.

He's leaving Hannity & Colmes at the end of the month, and The Daily Show invited Hall and Oates to sing their tribute song to this radio and TV icon, who's been on the liberal front line taking on the conservative assault machine.

Risking Economy and Family Security for Workers, Republicans Take Final Shot at Wiping out Unions. Disaster Capitalism a Winner Again.

I have had enough!

You know what’s wrong with the American auto manufacturers? Worker wages and benefits. That’s right, those greedy middle class families riding around in their cars, watching their plasma tv’s, taking calls on expensive cell phones and frivolously spending money on high speed internet access. They’re living like kings.

AP:

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said the measure (bridge loan) "isn't nearly tough enough." The Kentucky Republican called for a different bill - one that would force U.S. automakers to slash wages and benefits to bring them in line with Japanese carmakers Nissan, Toyota and Honda - in return for any federal aid.

That’s the American way, huh? Republicans don’t want to be like Europe, but instead, embrace the Asian model of labor compensation. But wait, their countries provide health care for all. Well, we can’t go that far can we? Since when should blue collar Middle American workers have decent wages and benefits like our public servants in Washington?

I don’t know about you, but I have had it. Can we pull their benefits and salaries in a cost cutting move to bailout the economy? For instance, they’re not paying into the publics Social Security system while enjoying a government provided health care plan, two safety nets they don’t want the very people they serve to have. What the hell is wrong with this picture?

But many Republicans remained staunchly opposed to it (the bridge loan) ... They're also bitterly opposed to tougher environmental rules carmakers would have to meet as part of the House-passed version of the rescue package…

Republicans are opposed to the very environmental rules that are needed to make the American auto industry competitive with Honda, Toyota and Nissan in clean high mileage technology. Brilliant.

Haven’t the Republicans done enough to our economy already?

I have had enough!

Watch the hypocrites undercut the unions, hand out special tax favors to foreign companies and ignore public sentiment reflected in polls. They still think they know what’s best.

Barry & the Stump Prank Call to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Stephen Colbert takes a deserved shot at morning radio pranks calls with this bit involving the "Barry and the Stump" (Barack "Barry" Obama and Rahm "the Stump" Emanuel) radio show, and a prank call to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

Free Speech Takes Off For Christmas-Gretchen Carlson of Fox and Friends

Fox and Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson, appearing with Bill O'Reilly, apparently doesn't grasp the concept of the Constitution's First Amendments right to free speech and the practice of religion. In her mind, our founding document should take a day off for Christmas.



This is classic Fox News:

Gretchen Carlson: "I'm all for people to have their rights and free speech, just don't choose December 25th to do it."

I'm sorry, but every time I see this I have to laugh. It's so unintentionally sad/funny. Bill O'Reilly tries to upstage her with:

"...they're going to try and revoke the federal holiday."

It's close, but this time Gretchen takes the cake.

Despite Conservative Denials, Bush Was Ultimate Example of Republican Ideology Realized, With No Apologies

I have never seen, or will probably ever see again, or more disastrous presidency in my lifetime.

Lawlessness, fear mongering, propagandist and war like, these are all qualities no one in their right mind would brag about. Yet these are the same qualities the current reformers of the Republican brand are embracing. Their idea of change and rebirth as a party hinges on coming up with a different way of marketing themselves, getting their message out, and convincing people a few bad apples were to blame.

Although they would deny it, the Republican Congress encouraged their president every step of the way, with absolutely no oversight. It wasn’t until the Democratic Congress took over that Bush felt obligated to do something different in Iraq.

And this brings me to the topic of the Bush Doctrine, a frightening policy of prevention, attacking possible future threats. Republicans praised Bush for taking the fight to our perceived enemies, using the insanity of such a policy to turn Democrats into enemies of the state, supporters of our terrorist attackers. Now in the minority, many Republicans have not learned from these rejected extremist positions, especially their ultimate party leader, George W. Bush. You’ve heard it before…

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.-Albert Einstein.

Despite the loss of so many innocent lives and U.S. credibility, the Bush Doctrine lives on, at least in the mind of George W. Bush. As reported in the N.Y. Times:

President Bush defended his doctrine of military intervention to shut down potential national security threats before they mature … Bush delivered the remarks during a speech at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he first enunciated the “Bush doctrine” of preventive attack in 2002.

“In the years ahead, our nation must continue developing the capabilities to take the fight to our enemies across the world,” Bush said.

“We must stay on the offensive.”

Because it’s worked out so well, so far huh?

Republicans Conspiracy Theory About the Obama/Blagojevich “Secrets,” While Never Asking Bush to Reveal “Secrets” of Criminal & Unethical Activity

The story is sensational:
An FBI affidavit said Gov. Rod Blagojevich was intercepted on wiretaps conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife.-CBC News

So how soon could the Republicans manufacture a conspiracy around “knowing somebody” that’s political? Immediately. As reported by the CBC out of Canada:

Earlier Wednesday, Republicans had begun to question why Obama had not commented on his connections to Blagojevich.Robert Duncan, chairman of the Republican National Committee, had called Obama's comments on the matter "insufficient at best.""Given the president-elect’s history of supporting and advising Gov. Blagojevich, he has a responsibility to speak out and fully address the issue.”

Of course, this contrasts greatly with the RNC’s lack of calling for the Bush White house to come clean on everything they refuse to address. Those were real scandels, this is one fabricated by the RNC. The article continues...

The RNC also released a quote from Obama in 2006 in which the then Illinois senator said he would be "happy" to work on Blagojevich's re-election campaign if asked. His comment came at a time that U.S. prosecutors were investigating Blagojevich's hiring practices. Obama said he was concerned about the reports but said he would not speculate to what degree the governor was involved. Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the new GOP House whip said, "The serious nature of the crimes listed by federal prosecutors raises questions about the interaction with Gov. Blagojevich, president-elect Obama and other high-ranking officials who will be working for the future president."

So much for reaching across the isle.

Obama's transition team have acknowledged that Obama endorsed his fellow Democrat for the governorship in the past, but have stressed the two did not have a close relationship.

Of course, those discussions never materialized in the wiretap records against Blagojevich, a fact Republicans refuse to give any importance to.

On Nov. 23, Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod said Obama had discussed the issue of the Senate seat with Blagojevich. But on Tuesday, Axelrod said he They did not then or at any time discuss the subject."

“Some say” that the Republican snakes will bite anything that moves and inject their poisonous fictions. Again, that's what "some say."

A Look at the Auto Industry Bridge Loan by Colbert, Olberman, Fox News and Republicans

It should be obvious to anyone watching; the Republicans want to see the auto industry go bankrupt to break the unions and go back on benefit packages earned and promised to laborers. It's an ugly side of the GOP many Americans are taking note of.

What is even more amazing is to watch these free market hypocrites criticizing car makers for not making the kind of environmental and mileage changes they should have, to keep up and compete with Toyota and Honda, while never mentioning their opposition to such policy changes by the government to force the auto industry to plan for the future. Which leads me to the featured video.

1. The GOP rips into bailout as bridge (loan) to nowhere, while Stephen Colbert sums up the banking industry with a well timed jab comparing it to a body part.

2. Then we see a Fox News pundit promise our lives won't be any different if the car companies belly up.

3. Keith Olberman updates us to the fact the already hypocritical GOP wants the industry to go back to the policies that got them in trouble to begin with by excising environmental changes and dropping lawsuits challenging emission standards. NO REALLY, I'M NOT KIDDING.

4. Colbert wraps it up with a little Christmas cheer.

The Bush History-a Non-Revisionist Look Back

This compilation featuring the Bush years, and the eight year nightmare allowed by the Republican Congress, is a Keith Olberman gift for all of us this Christmas..I mean holiday season.

Globalization Done Wrong-How Free Marketeers Are Robbing American Workers

The title says it all for me. In a recent Economic Policy Institute email, I was alerted to this new book on our sinking economy.

Check out Josh Bivens book, Everybody Wins Except for Most of Us. I haven’t read it yet myself, but the following summary is incredibly easy to understand and eye opening:

On one side are voters anxious about globalization and its impact on their ability to make a good living. On the other are economists, policy makers, and pundits who maintain that trade is good for the economy and that the only problem it raises is that its large benefits are too broadly diffused throughout the population for any single voter to notice ... resting their effort heavily on the suggestion that “all economists believe” globalization is good for American workers.

The problem for this approach is that those worried about … their living standards have a better grasp of the underlying economics. Open the international trade textbook and one will find two key predictions about this global integration: it can indeed harm the majority of American workers, and it actually does have a natural constituency—the most economically privileged Americans. Not for nothing is economics called the dismal science.

The impact of the rise of trade in services, a sector once thought to be largely insulated from global competition, is starting to come into focus. Offshoring of service work potentially gives globalization a much larger lever with which to affect domestic labor market outcomes.

Take a look at this: This book finds that the annual losses to a full-time median-wage earner in 2006 total approximately $1,400. For a typical household with two earners, the loss is more than $2,500. These losses are as high or higher than other economic costs commonly presented as much more damaging to American families, such as the cost of health care, spikes in gasoline and fuel oil prices, the cost of a child’s four-year college education, or the funds needed to remedy a possible shortfall in the future of Social Security.

(Everybody Wins Except for Most of Us is) a good summary of the textbook predictions of what happens to most workers living in a rich country when its economy integrates with a much poorer global economy. But if you raise the point that trade redistributes income and creates some winners but many losers, a point predicted by standard economic theory and proven in empirical studies—you’re made to feel somewhat unseemly, that you and those people you’re concerned about should have stayed in school longer or have studied something different or just been smarter.

THIS TOO: In other words, when trade makes software engineers richer, that’s economics. When it makes Americans without a four-year college degree (the large majority of workers) poorer, that’s their own failure to adapt to the New Economy. And when trade agreements prohibit a country from copying the technology it buys, that’s good business. But if agreements required that each country protect the most basic rights afforded to its workers, that would be protectionism.

The trade story is not win-win but rather good news-bad news: good news for national incomes, bad news for many if not most individuals and families, because their income is redistributed away from them and up the income ladder.

The only criterion by which economists can make firm, value-free judgments about economic policies and trends is what is called the Pareto principle. Pareto optimality results only when an economic change makes one person better off without harming anybody else.

Another appropriate reform of globalization as currently practiced concerns the utterly non-trade-related clutter (generally originating in demands from the corporate sector). Commitments to enforce U.S.-style intellectual property laws, the restructuring of financial sector regulations, and detailed protections of investor rights against expropriation (defined liberally at times to include any government policy that hurts profits) constitute the lion’s share of these agreements. They also rightfully point out the irony: if you want free trade, why do you need all these agreements and protections?

The years following World War II saw an embrace of Keynesian macroeconomics. The enduring lesson of this age was that allowing business cycles to run their course was wasteful, not palliative, and that responsible governments should use policy tools to fight downturns. In the first three decades of the postwar era, macroeconomic policy alone was able to smooth out much of the risk and volatility faced by American households.

To deal with a harm as large and widespread as globalization has wrought (and has the potential to inflict in coming decades), we need to think more broadly about public policy that re-links aggregate and individual prosperity, a policy that uses all the levers available to a government genuinely concerned about economic security for its citizens: social insurance, public investment, fairer economic rules, and redistribution when other tools fail to provide egalitarian outcomes.. The growing gaps in income levels are not just the result of the rich getting richer faster, which they have; it’s also the result of the middle and the bottom falling.

Clean Coal Myth ad

Have you seen this ad at least a thousand times? I have, and I couldn't be happier.

Conservative Crazy Bill Cunningham Worries Poor People Have Too Much. They Should Be So Lucky!

In conversations with my good friend and typical conservative, "nameless," he often angrily tells me how great the poor have it, with their food stamps and stuff. It's part of the pattern conservatives have of keeping track of what everyone else has, and judging whether they deserved these small benefits in life or not.

For example, Media Matters documented this give and take of radio talk host Bill Cunningham and one of his Republican listeners. The Media Matters transcript follows:



Radio host Bill Cunningham resumed his attacks on the poor during the December 4 broadcast of his Cincinnati-based show. After declaring that "[w]e're about the only country in the world with fat poor people," Cunningham stated that:

"the poor community, so to speak ... have cell phones, they have pagers, they have telephones, they have cars, they have HDTV, and they have those things because they spend no money on food, because it's all given to them for nothing." He added: "Why would a grocery store open in the poor community when everyone gets fed free and they eat too much?"

Contrary to Cunningham's suggestion that "poor people" are "fat" simply because "they eat too much," studies have shown a correlation between low-cost foods -- which tend to be less healthy -- and obesity. For instance, a study published in the January 2004 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that "[m]any health disparities in the United States are linked to inequalities in education and income." The report further stated:

First, the highest rates of obesity occur among population groups with the highest poverty rates and the least education

Day 2: Barack Obama Still a Citizen! Presidency Just Handed to Him Without Fight

MSNBC reports: The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.

Democurmudgeon reports:

In an alternate universe, Barack Hussien Obama was sentenced to life in prison for perpetrating a massive hoax on the gullable American voters.

Here are the "facts" that prove the next four years will be a mistake, no matter what happens.



Don't you feel foolish now?

*This Modern World got it right with the above right comic.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad World Net Daily

Please don’t make me go to worldnetdaily.com again. I wanted to get their side of the Supreme Courts decision not to remove Barack Obama from the presidency for allegedly not being a natural born citizen. What I found was eye off the ball topics of distraction. These are the important issues for Republican nitpickers? Read on (slightly shortened for sanities sake):

Commentary by Joseph Farah at worldnetdaily.com:

I have trouble remembering what a red state denotes and what a blue state means. I suggest to you it is the fact that I am old enough to remember when Democratic states were labeled red and Republican states were labeled blue. I would also suggest that former system made more sense and was deliberately changed by media partisans who didn't like to suggest Democrats should be associated with the color red. The current use of Republican red and Democrat blue began only eight years ago. It has been attributed to the late Tim Russert, a respected television interviewer. He first used this color scheme in 2000, according to the Washington Post, and it took. I'm not surprised it did, given the political complexion of the national press corps. I strongly suspect this not-so-subtle change eight years ago was deliberate on the part of Russert and those who so eagerly picked up on it.

In fact, Wikipedia acknowledges the newly adopted U.S. hue standard stands in stark contrast "to the system of political colors in most other long-established democracies. (It all started) In 1976 …There were deviations at some other networks, which suggests to me that activists masquerading as journalists were early on attempting to relieve their friends at the Democratic Party of the burden of identification with the color red – no matter how accurate it might be and no matter the historical precedent for it.

Why am I bringing all this up now that the election is over? Because there was no point even trying to open the topic for discussion during the heat of the election campaign. There was such unanimity of purpose behind the color conspiracy. But I propose to you it's time we – real Americans, the rest of us – stopped being manipulated like this. I would like to announce today that my news organization, WND, will no longer use the currently accepted "red state-blue state" paradigm. We won't use the reverse, either, because it is certain only to cause confusion among our readers.

But I further propose that you start lobbying other news organizations to reconsider their use of the currently accepted "red state-blue state" labeling system based on the historical precedents you have learned about in this column and because it was launched and inspired by a former Democratic Party activist cum newsman and was adopted enthusiastically because it was so welcomed by the press' overwhelming party of choice.

Maybe you just think I'm being silly. Maybe you think I'm being partisan myself. Maybe you think this isn't an important issue. Let me straighten you out. First of all, I am not being partisan. I am registered to neither party … Words mean things. Symbols mean things.

I know there may be more pressing issues on your plate today. But, you have to admit, my proposal makes sense. Are you with me?

No, I hope we’re not with him. Pressing issues are first, not partisan tinkering from someone so easily confused. To me, it looks like someone doesn’t like the color red, along with its well accepted symbolism denoting anger and aggression. That’s surely not the Republican Party, is it?

Supreme Court Fails to Strike Down Illegal Obama Presidency

The Republican zanies are not going to let this go, even after Justice Thomas failed get their conspiracy theory endorsed by the Supreme Court. But it is time to impeach Thomas for his unbending and radical ideology.

MSNBC:
The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.
The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election. Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth — his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject — he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen," one of the requirements the Constitution lists for eligibility to be president.

The Obama Nation Has Begun...Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

At grassfire.org, the right wing has decided to spin their victimization wheels by striking fear into the hearts of conservatives everywhere with the threat of...Barack Obama!

Check out the table of contents of their "enlightening" brochure to the right, it's enough to scare the daylights out of any fascist authoritarian.

On their web site, you're treated to this:

Obama's nation has begun. Join the (Patriotic, Resilient, Conservative) Resistance

The “transformational” figure who will “change the world” is now in charge, and he’s on a mission. Emboldened by an overwhelming electoral victory and a near-supermajority in Congress, President-electObama and his allies are preparing to implement his liberal, “post-American” agenda. Simply put, what President-elect Obama and the Pelosi-Reid Congress have in store has the potential to rapidly move America to the socialist Left.

All this before he's taken office. How will they survive four more years.

Shopping for the right wing zealot in the family? World net daily awaits your “in God we trust” dollars.

I ran across the shopping page of worldnetdaily.com the other day, and thought you might enjoy the paranoid rights victimization list of products. Let’s start with:

The War on Christmas: HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF the people YOU LOVED - EVEN GAVE YOUR LIFE FOR - CELEBRATED YOUR BIRTHDAY BUT WERE AFRAID TO MENTION YOUR NAME?

That's exactly what is happening! We are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, but political correctness has deemed it "incorrect" to state so. The enemies of Christmas have succeeded in making Christians feel as if we are bad and intolerant to wish someone a Merry Christmas. This is political correctness run amok. We have reached an all time low point in our nation's history when human sensibilities are elevated above offending Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It is long past the time for Christians to stand firm in our faith.

"Operation: Just Say... 'Merry Christmas'" is a campaign designed to encourage Christians nationwide and around the world to PROUDLY proclaim The Christ Child as the center of the Christmas Season once again.

On another issue of victimization:

The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom-by David Kupelian

Americans have come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents' generation – from easy divorce and unrestricted abortion-on-demand to extreme body piercing and teaching homosexuality to grade-schoolers … they have fallen victim to some of the most stunningly brilliant and compelling marketing campaigns in modern history.

"The Marketing of Evil" reveals how much of what Americans once almost universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift-wrapped and sold to them as though it had great value. Highly skilled marketers, playing on our deeply felt national values of fairness, generosity and tolerance, have persuaded us to embrace as enlightened and noble that which all previous generations since America’s founding regarded as grossly self-destructive – in a word, evil. Giant corporations voraciously competing for America's $150 billion teen market routinely infiltrate young people's social groups to find out how better to lead children into ever more debauched forms of "authentic self-expression."

Likewise, most of us mistakenly believe the "abortion rights" and "gay rights" movements were spontaneous, grassroots uprisings of neglected or persecuted minorities wanting to breathe free. The "gay rights" movement – which transformed America's former view of homosexuals as self-destructive human beings into their current status as victims and cultural heroes – faithfully followed an in-depth, phased plan laid out by professional Harvard-trained marketers.

Still not convinced? Maybe this endorsement from someone with vast amounts of credibility will flip you over:

David Kupelian skillfully exposes the secular left's rotten apple peddlers in devastating detail. From pitching promiscuity as 'freedom' to promoting abortion as 'choice,' the marketers of evil are always selling you something destructive – with catastrophic results. Now watch the cockroaches run for cover." – MICHELLE MALKIN, Fox News Channel

Enjoy your Christmas.