It is a real big thing here. It is the one time a year where political and social comments are displayed in peoples yards.

Fake Graveyards with the administration's key people on the head stones is standard fare but it gets wierder. Like a 10 ft Schwartzenegger Franeknstein holding a 3 ft george W on his lap with a sign Masters of Disasters with Katrina flood victims and army tanks at their feet.

My neighbor has hung a cardboard black man in Halloween in effigy on the telephone pole with a noose in front of their home. The telephone pole is on city easement property so I bet a controversey could be raised. There is no sign indicating the hanging is intended for anything except Halloween entertainment.

The people who did this of course display their Bush Christmas cards at the entrance to their house and speak in in proud language that Rumsfeld and Cheney are great Americans. I have also heard them use all the code word regarding their embracing the core values of racism.

Of course the vast majority of yard decorations are pumpkins or merely a display of human dismemberment or a scary spider or animal.

This year I have bush stuck in a tolet with the presidential seal on the lid that says Don't pull out till the mission is done. His eyes light and move by motion dectectors.

And then I park an extra car into a tree with Frankenstien at the wheel with a don't drink a drive message.