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These stories are local to me, but I have to wonder how much of this stort of stuff goes on across the country. While the Fundies are worried about big business taking the Christ out of Christmas (nevermind that they co-opted a combination of pagan holidays to begin with - imagine the converts screaming "Hey - you're taking Yule-father out of Yule!"), the common drug dealer is taking advantage of the holiday.

Police Find Pot Wrapped As Christmas Presents

LAWRENCE, Ind. -- Authorities in Lawrence unwrapped an elaborate drug trafficking scheme Thursday. Police intercepted 75 pounds of marijuana they said was being transported from Texas to a hotel in Lawrence.

The drugs were found wrapped in coffee grounds to cover the smell and disguised as Christmas presents.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/5623208/detail.html

And then there's this gem...

Three Charged After Child Tests Positive For Meth

LEBANON, Ind. -- Three people were charged Thursday following an investigation into a methamphetamine lab. Police said they found an active meth lab in a home in the 600 block of East South Street Tuesday. Officials said the lab was hidden behind some Christmas presents in the basement of the home.

A 4-year-old child inside the home tested positive for methamphetamine. That child and two others, ages 2 and 6, were taken from the home and later released to a family member.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/5613561/detail.html

Nice. Happy holidays.

Saddam please just shut the fuck up. Because no one cares if you were roughed up by your captors. I don't at least.

While America continues to attack its own citizens at every opportunity, those who were once known for flagrant human rights violations, now seem to be more tolerant than "the land of the free".

S. Africa's Top Court Blesses Gay Marriage

You know what I hate - ENDLESS BITCHING! "Someone cut me off ... Commercials are annoying ... You got your chocolate in MY peanut butter" -- BOO FUCKING HOO! Shut the fuck up and deal with it!

It's amazing that the people who bitch and complain the most usually have the least right to say anything. Do you know who should be bitching up a storm (if he weren't dead)? Jonny Kennedy. No, not your martyr of a President, but a guy from England who managed to live 36 years with a condition that CAUSED HIS SKIN TO FALL OFF!

Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa - otherwise known as EB - is a rare genetic condition that causes ones skin to be so damn sensitive, that it bruises at the slightest touch. Blisters form, pop, peel away, skin grows anew, bruises, blisters form, poep etc etc etc - ALL OVER THE FRIKIN BODY! Eventually so much scar tissue forms that you're pretty well fucked from ever being able to do a damn thing besides sit there. Even wearing clothes was incredibly painful.

So Jonny had a right to bitch. He had the right to say - GOD DAMN THIS SUCKS! But he had enough good humor to produce a show about his last few months alive in order to get some awareness going about the condition. He threw his own funeral just before he died!

Who else has the right to say shit about the crap life deals you? NOT YOU! Samantha Allen perhaps. She was eight fucking years old when she was hit by a car. The accident (at least you hope it was an accident) left her paralyzed in a wheel chair. EIGHT FUCKING YEARS OLD. Who has the mental fortitude to deal with much beyond missing the fucking Charlie Brown Christmas Special at eight years old, much less being a paraplegic? Not me, I can tell you that much.

So the next time you think about opening your craw about how there's another fucking Starbucks on the corner, or that people on the internet are dicks, or how your favorite television show sucks ass now that they added the cute side-kick, just shut it. 'Coz it doesn't matter.