Silly Thinking

Merry X-Mas

Hello "S.T." readers and welcome to The Thursday " SPECIAL HOLIDAY EDITION OF THURSDAY OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD" Thursday "Special Holiday" Edition.

I'm Jim Farris.

Some Holiday things.


The Christmas season began with a mob scene at a Wal-Mart store when a woman was hospitalized after bieng crushed in a group of shoppers trying to buy a DVD player for $29.95 the day after Thanksgiving.
Wal-Mart was concerned and called the woman's sister at the hospital saying they put a player aside and she could come back and buy it for the sale price. Boy that puts the "X" in Xmas I thought.

Ten days later it turned out the woman was a scam artist who has tried to fake injury's in the past and sue the same Wal-Mart store.
Happy Holiday's thought I.



George Bush went to Iraq and posed for pictures with a phony turkey provided by Haliburton and ate a meal that most soldiers couldn't eat. Because the Prez was there, and video needed to be shot, the dinner was served around 4:30 AM. Your ordered up before dawn and told to report to a mess hall that you didn't know exisisted and there's "Santa Bush" carving up a plexiglass turkey you have to eat for breakfast.Me thought "there's the true meaning of the holiday."



The economy is doing better. That's what the news keeps saying. Everyone was buying more stuff and that prooves that the White House policies on domestic issues are sound. Spending was up and everyone had a job.

But now as we approach Christmas spending is down. The bump was just that. Now people don't have jobs. Stores are below sales goals. But...


America found Sadaam Hussien in a hole. HOOORRRAAAYYY! It's a Happy Christmas time! Don't worry about those bad numbers because the news ain't talking about that. MSNBC built a mock up of Sadaam's hole and had an anchor crawl around inside of it.
IT'S A PROUD AMERICAN CHRISTMAS! WE FOUND SADAAM IN A HOLE! HOORRAAYY!!!


But now that's old news. And those nay sayers in the press are back to Haliburton and now Dick Cheney is hopping mad. He's out of his hole saying it's ridiculous to be critical of Haliburton. We should have the facts before we say they did anything wrong.

That woman at Wal-Mart didn't want a DVD player at all. It was a scam.

When I'm alone at home and I turn on my Christmas lights and tinny Christmas music you know what?

It works. I feel nice. Somehow I feel like it's Christmas just for a little while. It's lights and a few cards and some crummy decorations I stole from my last job. I'm alone and it's nice.
May you have a wonderful Christmas.