Saturday, December 22, 2007

Celebrate now and fight next year

Pace on earth and goodwill toward all mankind

On Tuesday we will be celebrating Christmas. Our country is at war; our children are not getting the education that they need to help them be members of a world community. Not everyone has a nice warm home and healthcare. Our environment is getting warmer everyday. There has always been and will always be areas that we can work on in the political realm. We should not forget all of the good things about our country. We have the ability to speak our mind in public. We elect the people who run our country. Yes, it may not be a perfect system but it is better than what most of the world has to work with in terms of fairness and accountability. We need to be thankful for what we have achieved and we need to work on fixing the things that we feel need changing in the next year. We should love our friends and family no matter how hard they sometimes make it to get along with them. We should remember that we love them and that they love us. We should show respect for the rule of law even if we don't always agree with the Federal Supreme Court. We should spend the next year working to change laws that we don't agree with so that the court systems will be forced to see it our way on issues of torture and spying. We are not and probability never will be totally happy with the system we have but we have the ability to make changes to it over the following years. Now is a time to celebrate because next year we will be in for the fight of our life. We will take back our country! I am wishing everyone a happy and a blue Christmas.