Right on.

And Kwanza is a farce.

Screw you, buddy!

You're getting coal under your Kwanzaa Tree!

to be fair, Christmas is a little bit of a combination of biblical record and secular festivals.

I'm not knocking it, I like Christmas, and I understand what it means to me

Morgan's words were common sense to many but we all know what part is going to get cherry picked and quoted by the MSM, as if it summarized his premise...

"It seems to me that all of our racial problems would be ended in a day if more grandfatherly black men gave Batmobiles to white guys."

Granted, Batmobile-related highway deaths would probably shoot way up there, but isn't that a price we're all willing to pay to end racism?

I like Christmas

Well who wouldn't like Christmas is the get to have a Crap Tree!

Are you enjoying this year's edition?

I think whites and blacks just keep talking past each other on this issue.

Black people say: "Slavery, 200 years of oppression, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment."

White people say: "Where's my Batmobile?"

See, we're just not honestly addressing each other's concerns.

Absolutely right.

Morgan Freeman was a narrator in Ken Burns' The Civil War (he spoke for Frederick Douglass), and that films shows how unambiguously that the history of blacks in this country -- as terrible and hurtful as it was early on -- is still American history.

Yeah, that crap tree rules. I'm trying to talk my wife into letting me have one.

Even if it's in the basement.

Sheesh!

I meant to say:

Well who wouldn't like Christmas if they get to have a Crap Tree!

I honestly think I could be persuaded to support slavery reparations as part of a package deal that involved me using rocket thrusters to leap over rivers and such.

Years back, when I saw Deep Impact with a friend, we both agreed that it sucked--c'mon, who cares if Tea Leoni and her dad are reconciled when the world is ending?--but my friend said she would have voted for President Freeman in a heartbeat. A few more comments like this, and I'm going to think she had a point.

I meant to say:

'Sall right Michael. It took me a couple of seconds, but I got your meaning.

Enlighten me on the 'crap tree' por favor.

Compos:

All you need to know about the 'crap tree' and its dearness to daveintexas is here.

Thanks geoff.

Very well done Dave. I enjoyed that read very much. I miss those big, fire starting bulbs as well. Still have a string or two. My grandparents had them with big blue reflecting stars behind each one.

Interesting short story: One year, after the tree was in the living room and decorated, my grandma looked at the picture window and wondered why the curtain was moving. Upon closer inspection, the warmth of being indoors had caused a spider's large egg sack to open and out came what my grandpa described as "the god damnedest swarm of the creepy little bastards you'll ever see!" Like our host, he didn't care for spiders either. They were all over the tree, carpet, and walls. I asked what they did to get rid of them. Grandma said one word. Electrolux!

Merry Christmas : )

Holy crap. That would have freaked me right the hell out.

I hate spiders. I was running some new wire in the basement last weekend, which means I had to get right up in the floor joists, where spiders like to hang out.

Sure enough, as I was holding the wire to the joist, getting ready to use the hammer, when a spider crawled near my hand. The ensuing scream made my wife think I'd electrocuted myself.

Little bastard ended up in the shop vac.

LOL Slu! I understand. For a long time, my grandpa and mom had instilled an irrational fear of spiders in me. Fortunately, my wife does not have this fear and pretty much called me a pussy. So now I'm not as bad about them. But unless it's a jumping spider or a gd long legs, I still get creeped out when one's crawling on me.

Spider encounters sounds like it could be a funny topic about which to post.

When Morgan Freeman makes water in Miss Daisy's house, a tree of racial harmony grows in Brooklyn.

I'm sick and tired of people discussing race relations in this country as if it's still only black and white. Latinos are now the country's largest minority group, and in the SF Bay area where I live there's many more browns and yellows than blacks, especially among the children. In my son's public school class of 25 there's about 3 white kids, 1 black kid, and the rest are about half Latino and half Asian.

But I sure agree with Morgan that it's time to STFU about it and just live as individual Americans.

But I sure agree with Morgan that it's time to STFU about it and just live as individual Americans.

Unless you're here illegally, refuse to learn to speak English, have a desire to blow yourself to Allah, force your religious beliefs upon others, or feel that you can do whatever you damned well please because of those beliefs.

First of all, ever since I read Charlotte's Web in 3rd grade I've actually liked spiders. Crickets are another matter (my irrational aversion, er, fear).

Secondly, Daveintexas, I LOVED your "Crap Tree" story. You sound so much like my dad it made my eyes misty. I'm a "white lights" gal myself, but colored lights were Daddy.

(and the "big" bulbs were on the bushes outside).

Back on topic, Morgan Freeman is terrific.

I can only hope that it's not too late to warn everyone about the terrible truth behind Morgan Freeman! (On pp. 2-3)

I think a general "shit we're afraid of" thread would be pretty funny.

To end and stop talking about racsim would be bad news for JESSIE JACKASSON and his RAINBOW/PUSH coalition