Seasons Greetings

Pic of the day from the front...

As we approach the year's end and the beginning of 2005, just a reminder - if you please - from our men and women on fronts across the world; we may be grateful to them that we have the privelege to be home for the holidays.

And to wile away those long holiday afternoons in the snug of your parlor, a game "You are Tony Blair." Play it - find out what your polling stats are. From our friends at The Brains Trust.

O, no, Canada

From the Washington Post this Week's "Perspective" piece by Nora Jacobson may strike a familiar chord,

...I could certainly identify with the disappointed John Kerry supporters who started fantasizing about moving to Canada after Nov. 2"

Floridians often much maligned by our Canadian winter tourists or "Snow Birds" as we call them have noticed a sharp rise this year in their numbers - a third season high since 9/11. Maybe it's the waning US dollar or a sense that security is up to the task. Maybe we are simply the closest port in a storm called the 21st century.