Feliz Navidad ,Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Best of the season to my extended family here at DC

this has been a turbulent year for some people around here and my thoughts are with you and your families
 

Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2010, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country, nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee. Offer not valid where prohibited or forbidden by state or federal law. Greeting does not constitute an agreement between any two, or more parties, not does it guarantee happiness, sadness, melancholy reflecting on days gone by or any general change of your current mood. Not that there is anything wrong with your current mental condition, or should you change your current mental state of mind if you are happy or unhappy feeling the way you do.

With that said... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!