Verses from today's Washington Post. ** For the first time, most U.S. consumers will do the bulk of their holiday shopping online, data shows. ** Giuliani the Fixer. ** In bleak report, U.N. says drastic action is only way to avoid worst effects of climate change.

@abhabhattarai

Searching for a parking space;

escalator frantic race.

Santa's looking real unfit;

buy a sweater that don't fit.

Never can a clerk be found;

all of them have gone to ground.

Want it gift wrapped? Don't be rash!

It will cost a ton of cash.

Or stay home to surf the Net,

and all retail woes forget.

Christmas Eve finds me benign,

after going broke online.

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@PostRoz  @DevlinBarrett  @mattzap  @thamburger

The fixer has a noble brow;

to the truth he don't kowtow.

He schmoozes with the best of men,

and to the rest says 'where and when?'

He'll make your problems go away;

just cross his palm with golden pay.

In shadows he performs his tasks;

and never tells, and never asks.

Giuliani is the guy

who can peace of mind supply

to the crooked and the bent --

until to prison he is sent.

He thinks it will not happen soon,

but it is time for his blue moon . . . 

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@brady_dennis

The weatherman is not our friend;

he's forecasting the total end

of mankind due to climate change --

with flood and droughts and even mange.

The UN sez we can't escape

and better hang some mournful crepe.

But protesters are up in arms

and think their amateur alarms

will force a change in industry

and make our leaders all agree

to cut emissions to the bone

and restore our good ozone.

Let us hope that is the case

(still, I'm booked for outer space . . . )