ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL

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ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

The first lady today announced the theme for the 2005 holiday season at
the White House.

It is this:

All things bright and beautiful.

"This year's holiday decorations bring nature's beauty to the White House."

White phosphorous.

Bombs bursting in air.

2,100 American dead.

"Simple, yet elegant, decorations highlight creations from the natural
world."

Exploding oil pipelines.

Suicide bombers.

Death and destruction.

"Fresh greens, fruit and flowers awaken the sense of smell, taste and
sight."

Children screaming.

Limbs severed.

Blood and guts.

Coffins.

No cameras.

"The color schemes of tangerine, lime green and hot pink boldly accent
the traditional touches of the holiday decorations."

Bright red.

Gore.

"The official White House Christmas tree occupies most of the Blue Room."

Black and blue.

Civil war.

"The 18 1/2 foot Fraser fir was grown by Earl and Betsy Deal and their
children, Meg and Buddy, of Laurel Springs, North Carolina."

Cpl. John R. Stalvey, 22, of Conroe, Texas, died October 3 from an
improvised explosive device.

Spc. Jeremiah W. Robinson, 20, of Mesa, Arizona, died in Baghdad, Iraq,
on October 6, of injuries sustained there on Oct. 5, when an improvised
explosive device detonated.

Spc. Joshua J. Kynoch, 23, of Santa Rosa, Calif., died in Bayji, Iraq,
on Oct. 1, when an improvised explosive device detonated.

... and their children?

(snip)

http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2005/000223.html

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1. Well, let's get into the spirit

If the First Addict Lady has decided that "All Things Bright and Beautiful" is a theme for this White House, she is seriously deluded. (But we knew that.) The Monty Python version of the song is far more fitting for the * family:


"All Things Dull And Ugly"
from Monty Python's Contractual Obligations Album

"All things dull and ug-ly,
All creatures, short and squat,
All things rude and na-sty,
The Lord God made the lot.

Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their prudish venom,
He made their horrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.

Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid,
Who made the spiky urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!

All things scant and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.

Amen."

http://www.iidb.org/vbb/archive/index.php/t-87144.html

Now of course I must interpret it for you! (Hey, we internet posters got a right to be as insulting to people's intelligence as are CNN, Faux, and MSNBC, right?)

First stanza: Think Karl Rove.
Second stanza: Think Michelle Malkin/Ann Coulter/Sean Hannity
Third stanza: Rummy/Cheney, of course!
Fourth stanza: Little wingnut websites such as freerepublic.
Fifth stanza: The neocon pox.

[IndyOp]

2. The sparkling sun on a pool of blood,

The sheen of oil on the street, all that remains after the family was summarily dispatched with head-shots when they did not stop for the soldiers,

The twinkling of moonlight on the open-air gullies filled with human urine and feces,

The spark emanating from the RAGE of the innocents who can no longer separate the American citizens from the horrors experienced daily at the hands of the US military and mercenaries paid by US corporations.

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4. A-frikkin-men.

We return to the days of Nazi Germany, courtesy of our own house Nazis, the Prescott Bush dynasty.

Broken glass looks so lovely among the lights of the tree!

[ClayZ]

3. Harpy Hellidays

:kick:

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5. "God kill you, every one!"--Christian Right Tiny Tim

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. No explanation on why they broke tradition!

Seriously! Why did they break the tradition of commissioning artists to create ornaments???

example from 2002:
http://www.selu.edu/NewsEvents/PublicInfoOffice/ornaments.html
PROFESSOR, ALUMNUS CREATE ORNAMENTS FOR WHITE HOUSE TREE
<snip>
The two were chosen along with colleagues from all 50 states to participate in the White House's tradition of commissioning hand-made, one-of-a-kind ornaments for the executive mansion's Christmas tree, an 18-foot Noble fir that graces the Blue Room. The tree's American birds theme is a nod to First Lady Laura Bush's love of bird-watching and complements the White House's 2002 Christmas decorating scheme of "all creatures, great and small."
<snip>

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7. Prob'ly because they couldn't find enough artists

who were willing to be in the same room with them?

Anyone who loves beauty would get really bad vibes from being around these people.

We need an alternative tree!

It would be the answer to the White House Christmas Holiday Christmas Whatever-They're-Calling-It Tree.

Its ornaments could be the severed limbs of young Americans who had been blown up in Iraq.

[ClayZ]

8. Remember the Poet who would not come to her TEA PARTY

No artist worth his salt would, DECK her HALLS!

If I did a tree for her it would have little green toy soldiers all over it. Each painted with red drips of blood!

This is a cherry tree. It would go nowhere near Laura!

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9. Hey that's a great idea about the soldier-tree!

And... whoa, is that tree in the photo real? (Bet Laura would have to hurriedly pop another Xanax on seeing THAT.)

In addition to the blood marks on the soldiers, be sure to hack off a few of their little plastic limbs, too!

[BeFree]

10. This Just In:

Very sad news...
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There will be no Nativity Scene in Washington, DC this year!

The Supreme Court has ruled that there can not be a nativity scene in
Washington, DC this Christmas season.

This isn't for any religious reason, they simply have not been able to
find three wise men and a virgin in the nation's capitol.

There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.