Posted 9:01 AM by Gene

And now to cut-and-paste some pictures from Yahoo! News, as I always do this day (down in thirty days; I must find a better site):



A Christmas tree in Sydney, Australia (it's winter down there?);



A Christmas tree in Newport Beach, California;



A Christmas tree in Osh, Kyrgyzstan (who's that fellow standing next to it?);



A Christmas tree in Taipei (well, an unreasonable facsimile);



Two Christmas trees in formation before the West Wing;



A Christmas tree in Manhattan;



A Christmas tree in Dubai (or as the caption notes, "Christian expatriates in the Gulf enjoy increasingly more freedom to worship and celebrate feasts, especially Christmas, except in Saudi Arabia, where non-Islamic practices still lead to jail and deportation");



A Christmas tree "in the center of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus");



A Christmas tree in Red Square (isn't that pretty?);



A decoration on a Christmas tree in Lugano, Switzerland;



A Christmas tree before the Brandenberg Gate;



A chocolate (?) Christmas tree in Bangkok'



A Christmas tree in Lisbon;



A Christmas tree before the Town Hall in Brussels;



Christmas trees (of sorts) in St. Petersburg;



And finally, some British soldiers decorating a Christmas tree in Baghdad;



And some "Iraqi Christian children" decorating a tree in "a Roman Catholic church in central Baghdad."

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

(More to come, if I feel like it.)