A good friend of mine in California sent me his Nephew's top 10 list. His nephew is in Iraq while I'm grabbing a blanket to crawl under to watch "Its a Wonderful Life"
Top Ten reasons it is better to be in the Middle East for Christmas
10. “I couldn’t get you anything because the market was blown up…” is a perfectly legitimate reason to not have a gift. It is also easily verified.
9. There are myriad things flying through the sky that discerning parents can claim are “Santa on his way with gifts for the good little children”. –care must be taken to ignore the explosion that follows and just claim your child has an overactive imagination.
8. Due to the tendency of “radical” Islamists to kill people for imbibing alcohol, there are fewer family fights during the holidays, fueled by alcohol.
7. All over the city not a creature was stirring… there is a curfew dammit.
6. No need to hang Christmas lights. Why on earth would you want to illuminate YOUR house as a mortar target?
5. No tree decorating required. Do you know how hard it is for kids to hang ornaments on Palm trees?
4. No need to worry about accommodating the Jewish kids in school…
3. Women don’t have to worry about what to wear to the Christmas party… everyone else will be wearing an abaya as well…
2. You are actually ALLOWED to shoot people for doing things like door-to-door Caroling.
1. Live Nativity Scenes! There are neither Human rights, nor Animal rights…
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