UPDATE: Transvestites, Mao And Obama Ornaments Decorate White House Christmas Tree

UPDATE: White House officials claim they didn't know these ornaments were on the WH Christmas trees.

I apologize for publishing these ugly pictures. I remember in years past watching the White House being decorated on the HGTV special. But no more. I don't watch this kind of travesty.

by Capitol Confidential

Why let a holiday season come between the White House and making some political statements? The White House pegged controversial designer Simon Doonan to oversee the Christmas decorations for the White House. Mr. Doonan, who is creative director of Barney’s New York has often caused a stir with his design choices. Like his naughty yuletide window display of Margaret Thatcher as a dowdy dominatrix and Dan Quayle as a ventriloquist’s dummy. For this year’s White House, he didn’t disappoint.

These photos of ornaments on the White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room were taken just days ago. Of course, Mao has his place in the White House.

And, of course, it wouldn’t be Christmas without an ornament of legendary transvestite Hedda Lettuce.

He/She even signed it:

And, so soon after collecting the Nobel Peace Prize, why wouldn’t the White House have an ornament super-imposing President Obama onto Mt. Rushmore:

All around, a very Barry Christmas!

Or should that be barfy? JC

http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/22/transvestites-mao-and-obama-decorate-white-house-christmas-tree/

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A Different Christmas Poem

Not sure who wrote this beautiful poem, but just wanted to share with you all.

JC

A Different Christmas Poem

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.

My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.

In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.

Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the
sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.

Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.

Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!



Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"

For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..

To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."



"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.

No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.

My Gramps died at ' Pearl on a day in December,"
Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."

My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ' Nam ',
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.

I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.

Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue... an American flag.

I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.

I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.

I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..

Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."

"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."

"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?

It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.

To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.

For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.

Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."

Anonymous


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Winter Wishes

'Twas the night before Christmas & out on the ranch

The pond was froze over & so was the branch.

The snow was piled up belly-deep to a mule.

The kids were all home on vacation from school,

And happier young folks you never did see-

Just all sprawled around a-watchin' TV.

Then suddenly, some time around 8 o'clock,

There came a surprise that gave them a shock!

The power went off, the TV went dead!

When Grandpa came in from out in the shed

With an armload of wood, the house was all dark.

"Just what I expected," they heard him remark.

"Them power line wires must be down from the snow.

Seems sorter like times on the ranch long ago."

"I'll hunt up some candles," said Mom. "With their light,

And the fireplace, I reckon we'll make out all right."

The teen-agers all seemed enveloped in gloom.

Then Grandpa came back from a trip to his room,

Uncased his old fiddle & started to play

That old Christmas song about bells on a sleigh.

Mom started to sing, & 1st thing they knew

Both Pop & the kids were all singing it, too.

They sang Christmas carols, they sang "Holy Night,"

Their eyes all a-shine in the ruddy firelight.

They played some charades Mom recalled from her youth,

And Pop read a passage from God's Book of Truth.

They stayed up till midnight-and, would you believe,

The youngsters agreed 'twas a fine Christmas Eve.

Grandpa rose early, some time before dawn;

And when the kids wakened, the power was on.

"The power company sure got the line repaired quick,"

Said Grandpa - & no one suspected his trick.

Last night, for the sake of some old-fashioned fun,

He had pulled the main switch - the old Son-of-a-Gun!

-anonymous

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Merry Christmas to All!!!

Just click on song title for a little nostalgic music

Fabulous 50's Christmas Songs

A Holly Jolly Christmas

Burl Ives

Away In A Manger

Loretta Lynn

Christmas Alphabet

The McGuire Sisters

Christmas Country Christmas

The Statler Brothers

Christmas In My Hometown

Sonny James

Christmas Song

Alvin & The Chipmunks

Christmas Times A Coming

Bill Monroe

And The Bluegrass Boys

Christmas Waltz

Frank Sinatra

Christmas Without You

Kenny Rogers

Dolly Parton

Frosty The Snowman

Gene Autry

Grandma Got Run Over

By A Reindeer

Elmo & Patsy

Hard Rock Candy Christmas

Dolly Parton

Hark The Herald Angels Sing

Nat King Cole

Have Yourself A Very

Merry Christmas

Rosemary Clooney

Home For The Holidays

Perry Como

Its Beginning To Look

A Lot Like Christmas

Bing Crosby &

The Andrew Sisters

I Saw Mommy Kissing

Santa Claus

Jimmy Boyd

Its a Most Wonderful

Time Of The Year

Johnny Mathis

Jingle Bell Rock

Bobby Helms

Jingle Bells

Roy Rogers

Jingle Bells

Perry Como

Jingle Bells

The Jingle Bell Piggie

Joy To The World

Nat King Cole

Leroy, the Redneck Reindeer

Joe Diffie

Let It Snow

Andy Williams

Lets Put Christ

Back Into Christmas

Tammy Wynette

Little Drummer Boy

Neil Diamond

O Christmas Tree

Nat King Cole

Please Come Home

The Platters

Pretty Paper

Roy Orbison

Rocking Around The

Christmas Tree

Brenda Lee

Rudolph The Red

Nose Reindeer

Gene Autry

Rudolph The Red

Nose Reindeer

Unknown Group

Santa Baby

Cynthia Basinet

Santa Claus Is

Coming To Town

Bing Crosby

Santa Claus Is

Watching You

Ray Stevens

Silver Bells

Bing Crosby/Peggy Lee

Silent Night

Dean Martin

Sleigh Ride

Johnny Mathis

The First Noel

Andy Williams

Up On The Housetop

Gene Autry

White Christmas

Bing Crosby

White Christmas

The Drifters (1954)

Winter Wonderland

Brenda Lee

Christmas

With Elvis

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