Merry Christmas from George Bush:
The milestone in Iraq came on Christmas, nearly four years after the war began
In a span of a few hours, 2,973 people were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In a span of 45 months, the number of American troops killed in Iraq exceeded that grim toll as the [...]

“The duties of our day are different. But the values of our nation do not change. Let us reject the blinders of isolationism, just as we refuse the crown of empire. Let us not dominate others with our power — or betray them with our indifference. And let us have an American foreign policy that [...]

2004 – A tsunami generated by a 9.0 earthquake in the Indian Ocean killed 280,000 people.
1997 – Lesbian Regan Wolf of Lancaster, South Carolina, was knocked unconscious by three men who brutally beat her, strung her up from her front porch, and painted “Jesus weren’t born for you, faggot.” Despite giving police the identity [...]

In California, the nation’s leading dairy state, 1.7 million cows on 2,100 dairies produce 65 billion pounds of manure a year.
Which contributes more to the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, cars or cows?
According to a study released a month ago by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), it’s cows, hands down:
the livestock [...]

Super bad:
James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured “Godfather of Soul,” whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and disco as well, died early Monday, his agent said. He was 73 [born May 3, 1933].
Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia at Emory Crawford Long Hospital on Sunday and died around 1:45 a.m. [...]

Republicans lost because of George Bush’s war, but if they want to blame their poor showing on each other, far be it from me to stand in the line of fire.
After the losses come the long knives. GOP losers in the Senate are blame-gaming Sen. Elizabeth Dole for her failure of leadership as chair [...]

With the clock ticking down on his term in office, George W. Bush is only after one thing: saving his own sorry ass from the dustbin of history.
Operation Double Down: On the Friday before Christmas, when the news industry is essentially on hiatus, the Bush team announced that U.S. generals in Iraq have reversed course [...]

Hilarious. Andy Dick is funny again.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
— J.B. Priestley

There’s a Budweiser on the ground, out of frame, by his foot.
Source: WhiteHouse.org — Hat tip JR!