THE WORST KANSAS CITY X-MAS EVER!!!

I did all my X-mas shopping in one day, about an hour really . . . I started around 4p.m. and was headed home before five. The only thing I purchased was a pack of gum, a case of Dr. Pepper and a few microwave burritos but I'm calling that X-mas!!! Everyone knows better than to bother me in my mom's basement and sometimes I can smell cookies and hear laughter when I press my face against the door . . . Which is about as close as I ever want to come to holiday cheer.

Anyhoo . . . While I was making my purchases I noticed that the stores were pretty much empty. A trip to the mall over the weekend alerted me to pretty much the same thing. The people I did see buying stuff were old white ladies paying with credit cards and they had horribly worried looks on their faces.

The bad economy pretty much destroyed X-mas . . . Next year, those of us who don't get hit by a bus will have the privilege of blaming Obama for all of our problems.

However, in Kansas City there are a variety of reasons in addition to a global economic collapse that helped to create a crappy X-mas:

I don't notice any fewer steel plates on the street. But then again, mainstream media (like TKC) hate doing follow-up reporting.

I'm not sure where we are with the murder rate . . . But it's horrible and it only gets worse whenever this town bothers to keep proper statistics.

David Cook

The Sprint Center and the P&L District didn't create a Downtown Renaissance for X-mas, instead they only brought even more racial division, business closings and crime.

More than anyone else the Mayor and his wife have ruined Kansas City's X-mas spirit and I think a lot of that is due to revelations regarding Gloria's infamous "smudge stick" . . . Which obviously represents the values and culture of Kansas City, right?

On the bright side, going by Wal-mart I noticed that tortillas are on sale and in a great variety. The Mexicans weren't buying gifts, mostly food and there were a lot of them with their offspring. . . Also, Missouri government may hate Spanish but Wal-mart is bi-lingual now . . . Which is probably more important.

I'm not going to say Merry X-mas yet because there are quite a few people who won't live out tonight to see the holiday . . . So, in the meantime just enjoy a photo gallery of Kandyce Proia.