For those who celebrate, 'tis that time of year again -- time to break out the Christmas stuff! Yeah, it also means the ubiquitous political ads of the fall are now replaced by endless holiday pleas of buy-buy-buy, but if you can tune out the annoying commercials (or at least hit the mute button), you can enjoy putting up that tree.
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President and Mrs. Bush stand with other Really Important People behind the bulletproof glass at the beginning of the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony.
This pic was from the line waiting to get in from waaaaay across the Ellipse.
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That kid standing on the throne is Kaitlyn Maher, 4, a past winner of NBC's America's Got Talent. She's performing with country singer Rissi Palmer.
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Santa entertains the crowd at the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.
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This is Secretary of the Interior Dirk J. Kempthorne introducing President Bush. He actually said that Bush was the biggest supporter of the National Park Service ever, or something along those lines. Really. A guy who wants to open up land immediately adjacent to national parks in Utah and Arizona for oil exploration? Uh, yeah.
I actually laughed out loud -- and so did the person next to me.
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