Re: Holiday Tree (sic transit gloria mundi)

The last original tree on the White House grounds was taken down because the squirrels were annoying the Bush Administration ('methinks he protesteth...aw shucks, conjure 'em'). I wrote they perhaps should have tried cutting the offending tree square instead of down, as are all the trees at the Albany Capital complex in New York, put up by former Governor and then Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller. I think it was to cut down on squirrel 'limb' networks, once said to stretch from NYC to Chicago, when Europeans first arrived. So all the trees are now 'foreign'. Tannenbaum started in New York City among German immigrants in Brooklyn it's written spreading from there to the rest of the US as "Christmas Tree". Hope it don't come with a dictator. Maybe one Christmas, Yale alumnus Senator Hillary Clinton will join that circle of former students who have been given an "honorary degree" by "Sanity Clause". Ho ho ho! (Right after I posted this here and MSN I had a "blue screen" tcpip.sys crash, first crash since I got Verizon DSL. It's a new revised file w/ Windows XP SP2 to stop P2P "Friendly" file transfers, and to slow down specific "worms" from propagating.) Interesting site: FRANK'S FESTIVUS: THE FIRST NAME IN FESTIVUS "tm" presents News and Comment on the upcoming Festivus season, as well as the only festivus pole on the market that meets Frank's original exacting standards for the Festivus Season. The Festivus Pole