Merry ... well, it depends on your political party!

To All My Democrat Friends:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year , but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great.. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

To My Republican Friends:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Medical Miracles?

A Japanese doctor says, "Medicine in my country is so
advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put
in another, and have him out looking for work in six
weeks."

A German doctor says, "That is nothing. We can take a
lung out of one person, put it in another, and have
him out looking for work in four weeks."

A British doctor says, "In my country medicine is so
advanced that we can take half a heart out of one
person, put it in another, and have them both out
looking for work in 2 weeks."

The American doctor, not to be outdone, interjected,
"You guys are way behind. We are about to take a
woman with no brains, put her in the White House, and
then half the country will be out looking for work."