Uhura!

I would much rather have ridiculous Xmas tree cases flooding our courthouses than unfettered legislation bearing precedents on our judicial system.

We are faced with the same problem as other nations that desire a secular govt institution but cannot separate our historical religous ties to the baby jesus. France takes the opposite stance of the US and stamps out all forms of religous expression (they tend to take it easy on the baby jesus) as opposed to the US “bring ’em all in” as long as they dont get public funding.

Maybe Im looking at this the wrong way, but I think we would be far better removing god from politics and see all of us embrace faith in our own way, individually or collectively. Getting back to the holiday venue – thats what makes Thanksgiving a truly unique and special American holiday – even the immigrant workers I engage take it seriously (hispanic, irish, polish).

We really need to look at our holidays for what they are. Im weary of the Memorial Day event at Home Depot and the Washington’s Birthday Mattress Sale at Sleepy’s. We are allowing ourselves to become a box of 24/7 economic cogs.

Many of the injustices are oriented towards the school districts. The schools do so much to conform to the needs of the students (yeah right – its the damn parents) – my daughter’s class cant “celebrate” anything because there is a jehovah in her classroom.

I say, what the hell – take it out of the schools and let the parents take some precious time out and celebrate with their kids. Oops, need to retract the word “hell” dont want the ACLU knocking on my door.

Habari gani? (hint: swahili)