Lou Dobbs for President? You’ve got to be kidding!
Now we’ve heard it all: Lou Dobbs wants to challenge Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, as a third-party candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2012, according to The Wall Street Journal. (He also may run for president, naturally.) Dobbs told reporters that he is "ruling nothing out."
Yes, the world is Dobbs's oyster. But first, he'll have to convince New Jersey Latinos that he's not actually a frothing-at-the-mouth racist, despite his years of incendiary commentary against illegal immigration. If this son of a bitch even gets close, there is no doubt that America is in trouble. Certainly both Republicans and Democrats alike will have enough materials going back many years where Dobbs has expressed nothing but contempt and hatred for Hispanics. We won’t even go into his black stances.
Getting into the Christmas spirit
Coming from Cuba, I have never been much to decorate for Christmas and find it very difficult to get
into the Christmas spirit living in South Florida. Well, if the temperature outside is eighty degrees and you have the air conditioning going in the house, you look outside and there is no snow it makes it that much more difficult. In Cuba we celebrate Wisemen's day on January 6th, and Christmas eve we have the traditional roast pork dinner with the black beans and rice. That day is for families to get together.
I don’t have a fireplace, but then again, very few people in South Florida do; there is no reason to have one. So there is no place to hang the stockings. But this year, I thought it would be different, I went out to this place called the “Christmas Palace” and I unloaded a grand just in decorations.
The tree is 10’ high, so high that it goes all the way to the living room ceiling. All the shit I bought was very expensive and beautiful. I had stuff ranging from fine cut crystal ornaments to the finest porcelain decorations. I didn’t want a crèche manger thing because I think that is too denominational and a lot of my friends are either agnostic or Jewish so I tried to keep it as secular as possible. There are no religious overtones to my decorations whatsoever, all of it is bells, and trinkets that are generic. I placed it in the living room next to the dining room and it looks terrific.
Since I am not particularly fond of religion, the tree should reflect that. For me the season is dedicated to be with friends and family, to exchange gifts because it is a propitious time to show those that matter to you how much you appreciate them and then it is a time for socializing and partaking in some Bachanalian indulgences
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