OK just let me fulminate here for a few minutes and then you can chime in and give your rebuttal. I don’t expect any applause.

I have given the governor of Alaska many breaks in the last few weeks, observing that she has, indeed, been somewhat a victim of her personal naivety as well as gender hatred (after all, she is an attractive young woman). I also predicted long ago that we weren’t done with her yet. With training, a study of economics and history, and some excellent tutors, I think she well may (will probably) come back to give us her exasperating and demanding personality again and long before 2012. 

But the Thanksgiving turkey pardon in Alaska and the ensuing violent bloody turkey killing mayhem going on behind her in her most recent video outing is beyond the beyond. I have never called her “stupid” as many have, but I’m beginning to wonder. How could she stand there talking of the beauty of small-business entrepreneurship and “having fun” while turkeys are being decapitated on camera right behind her and there is even a trough to catch the blood. This was so gruesome that every time it played, sensitive TV editors had blanked most of it out in case children were watching.

I think Gov. Palin may, indeed, have been done in by Thanksgiving, of all things! I can’t wait for her explanation after she has seen herself in this video.

Rosie O’Donnell and Barbara Walters are having at each other again in the tabloid prints. Even though they haven’t been associated via “The View” for over a year, they are still making hay with a public feud. I guess this is good for their separate TV and showbiz venues. But, it’s tiresome. One of them should have the sense to shut up and not answer back.

With Christmas looming, I’d like to say a word to the wOws. “Happy Holidays" is a weasly expression, a pathetic attempt at political correctness that destroys the joy and meaning of “Merry Christmas” – two of the best words in the English language.

You wouldn’t adopt a stupid substitute for “Happy Hanukkah!” destroying its meaning, so why pick on Christmas? I just flinch at “Happy Holidays" and the Hallmark obsequiousness of it all.

We are Christians, Jews, Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Episcopalians, Mormons, Muslims, Buddhists, Scientologists, agnostics, atheists and the indifferent, but surely we all can salute “Merry Christmas” as a greeting, not “Happy” and not “Holidays.”

I can’t wait to hear from some of you. 

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