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On Sunday an off-duty sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man who burst into a Walmart during a gunfight with police in Commerce, Texas (60 miles northeast of Dallas).

What could be better for rabid gun-hating lefties than a shooting anywhere?

This is a Public Service Announcement.

A PSA, according to Wikipedia, is "an advertisement broadcast on radio or television for the public interest."

The "public interest" is whatever the government says it is.

This particular PSA is embedded in an article on a webpage for your personal interest.

Your "personal interest" is whatever you say it is.

The type of PSA we're most familiar with is typically created by incestuous public/private bedfellows consisting of a private ad agency that produces the ad pro bono (a Latin phrase that means, in this case, "in exchange for political favors") and is funded by a public government agency using tax dollars taken from citizens under threat of fine or imprisonment.

Ballot Proposition #4: Public Acknowledgement of God - The use of the word "God", prayers, and the Ten Commandments should be allowed at public gatherings and public educational institutions, as well as be permitted on government buildings and property. YES OR NO – Texas Legislative Update

Even though it only appears on the Texas Republican Party Primary ballot, non-binding Prop 4 is causing a stir all across the state, including the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

Emails zapping back and forth through the webways amongst Libertarian and Libertarianish Meetup members in the Metroplex have been outdoing each other in pummeling Glenn Beck for dismissing Debra Median, the Ron Paulian Libertarian-tilting Republican candidate for Texas Governor, as a "911 Truther."

Medina appeared on Beck's radio show via local Dallas outlet 570 KLIF Talk Radio. When Beck asked her about the 911 Truth movement Medina replied that she wasn't taking a position on it, to which Beck responded through his chuckles, "People in America might think that might be a Yes."

Through poetic usage, a whited sepulchre is any person with similar duplicitous morals. In libertarian usage it refers to government.

Allen Patterson, a 48-year-old Ft. Worth resident who works as a shipping manager for a local manufacturing company, is a metaphorical tomb raider, breaking through the pretty exteriors of whited sepulchres to expose the rot within.

We've all grimly observed how a family member steps up to become the official spokesperson when there's a death in a celebrated family.

We saw it when SuperMegaRockStar Michael Jackson died.

We saw it when left liberal mediahead Brian Williams gravely chronicled the impending death of the SuperMegaRockStar Godfather of his political family, Ted Kennedy, from brain cancer, on his NBC nightly Newscasts.

The holiday season is full of fun, family, festivities and, sadly, political correctness. Not only do we question which wine is correct for the occasion but we continue our angst over who we are and where we belong in the grand political-social-cultural scheme of things With all this in mind, the following wine reviews are presented as a public service for those needing guidance through the vineyards of life.
(Caution: all wines on this list should be tasted with a palate thoroughly cleansed and a tongue firmly thrust into cheek.)