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<span style="font-weight: bold">To All My Democrat Friends:</span>
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, 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 of your choice, 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 recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, 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 onlyAmerica in the Western Hemisphere.
This wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, or sexual preference of the wished.
<span style="font-weight: bold">To My Republican Friends:</span>
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
