I have to chuckle to think what kind of New Year conservatives will have

Certainly not happy. Abramoff, Fitzgerald, delay, more bush lies, cheney, the death toll in irag increases (actually that will make bush's base happy,) spying revelations, scanlon, voting scandals discovered; the squashing of the fascist alito in the senate. Yes, it will be quite a new year for conservatives.

Hope you and Mrs BH have a great holiday! We're sipping Crown Royal and getting ready for my brother and his wife to come up tomorrow.

A very quiet Christmas for us in Picayune. The neighbors want us to come out and play but I'm an old homebody. Got the Margaritaville "Christmas" Palm Tree up with Flamingo acoutrement and mardi gras lights intermingled with traditional Christmas colors. We'd be the classiest trailor in the park if we were in a trailor.

I drove through the French Quarter last tuesday for the first time in five months. Whew! Its still pretty sad. There is a bizarre aura about the place.

I'm working on your Christmas present for next year - a Dem Senator.

This one....



or, this one....



and, damn, I'd just love to have this one....



Too bad Grisham moved to Virginia.


Any other suggestions?

and god knows who would get his seat down here; some trash from the parking LOTT. I recently finished Grisham's latest book, The Broker. Not his best effort. But he's one helluva fine ambassador. If he lived in the state he wouldn't have to tend to those duties. Give me Moore anyday. Lott should make an announcement within the month. He's probably trying to get the pickering spawn to run for his seat.

for tax relief and didn't get it because they weren't rich enough are going to be going belly up this year. It is going to be a dismal year for nearly everyone out there. As retail stores dry up, so will even more jobs. This is likely the year we'll see the tipping point in unemployment, the retail jobs adding to the construction jobs adding to the remaining automotive assembly jobs and combining to kill what's left of the consumer economy.

Then again, enough of it may hang on grimly until the next bad Xmas season. I doubt it, but it's going to keep getting worse with this clueless bunch in power.

It is going to be interesting to see how they manage to blame the mean old liberals for what's coming.

Actually as I have read the news for the past week or so about how alito wants to overturn rove v wade and how he really doesn't care whether the government spies or not, I can not imagine any Senator voting for this guy. Am I naive? Maybe? Does his record set him up for a fight? Absolutely. Is bush weak enough to challenge his current supreme court nominee? You betcha! Is bill frist, the "leader" of the senate, a morally bankrupt cretin who can't joust with Harry Reid? Without a doubt. Even whining conservatives on hate radio say Reid runs the Senate. Call me a wishful hog!