The truest expression of America is not the exclusion of all ideas for “safety’s” sake, it’s the inclusion of all ideas.
The holiday displays that previously have competed for attention on the state’s Capitol campus are now coexisting peacefully.
via No holiday arguments for displays at Capitol | Seattle Times Newspaper.
Every year at this time you can find the dominant religion in America losing its tiny, closed mind over Christmas.
Having been mixed with paganism and European tradition for a thousand years, suddenly the holiday is deemed to be under attack by the dominant religion’s imaginary evil nemesis.
In these times, faced with ignorant yahoos defending pagan conifers and scenes of their deity’s birth in the same breath, I like to turn to that bastion of wholesome American west cowboyness, Gene Autry, The Singing Cowboy.
Gene put out what is one of the most beloved Christmas albums of all time back in the 1950′s and he’s always been associated with making Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer famous.
You just can’t get any more “right” than old Gene.
With his words, I’d like to remind the overwrought Right that their holiday has been like this for a long, long time.
So let’s do as Gene Autry would have us do in another of his holiday hits and, “Let’s give thanks to the Lord above ’cause Santa Claus comes tonight.”
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Well, that’s it, Mr. Depp. You’ve angered the telepathic minions of the Invisible Sky Daddy. They officially hate you now but don’t worry, it’s Holy Hate™
Lee Douglas of The Christian Coalition adds, “I’m sure he thinks he’s being very funny but he’s simply a disgrace. One day, Johnny Depp and his cronies will face the judgment of our Lord and they will burn in hell for this filth.”
via Christians take aim at Depp for Christmas song | Celebrities | Entertainment | Toronto Sun.
The holidays are approaching and yet, business is business. You want to be sure that your customers believe you to be just as festive as your competition so you have to decorate. People expect it. Good decorations are also attention-getters during these busy, busy days.
But what to do when your normal eyegrabbers are, well, unconventional?
Can it really be as easy as slapping some holiday cheer on them?
Apparently, it can be! Because nothing says “Happy Holidays” like a mannequin sporting a huge pair of holiday testicles about its neck.
NPCV* Mark 16:15-16
15) And he said unto them, Go ye into all the stores, and buy new possessions for every creature.
16) He that buyeth on his credit card shall be saved; but he that buyeth not shall be damned.
It started on Thanksgiving, when Los Angeles authorities say 20 people at a local Walmart store suffered minor injuries when a woman used pepper spray to gain a “competitive” shopping advantage shortly after the store opened.
via Earlier deals, longer hours woo Friday shoppers – Yahoo! News.
*NPCV: New Panzo Capitalist Version
So I’m left to wonder: did Eros tell him to grab some titty?
Republican Herman Cain credits God with telling him that he needed to run for president.
via Cain: God said he needed to run for president – seattlepi.com.
These people weren’t – and aren’t – afraid of violent reprisals from gays, they’re afraid others will see their ugly souls exposed.
“When voters sign petitions,” he said, “they are trying to change state law. We believe that changing state law should be open to public view.”
via Local News | Ruling brings release of Ref. 71 signers’ names | Seattle Times Newspaper.
Back to the Dark Ages with you, Swedish. What’s next? Doctors denied employment based on their belief in a sun-centered universe?
Swedish Medical Center, one of the region’s largest hospital systems, will stop performing elective abortions if a proposed alliance with a massive Catholic-run health-care organization is approved.
via Swedish to drop elective abortions if deal approved | KOMO News.
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. – Aesop
Straight quote with no comment = can’t say it better:
I really think the conservative tendency to create alternate realities for themselves is getting beyond even their control.
