I posted this picture at my place the other day, but it’s too heartwarming not to share it more widely. It’s of the marquee sign of the Baptist church at the bottom of our hill. As you can see, they’re outraged that the forces of Secular Humanism have so completely prevailed in this country that "Christmas" has become a dirty word — indeed, it is now the "C-Word." There is another word that starts with "C" that used to be thought quite rude, but next to "Christmas," why, it is hardly offensive at all, so feel free to use it frequently and colorfully at all of your Holiday or Solstice gatherings. I sure will! We’ll probably substitute it for the "ring" part of "five golden rings" in "The Twelve Days of C-Word," right before we give all the kids sex toys to make them gay, and Korans to make them atheist Islamofascists. Then we’ll sacrifice a kitten representing the Baby Jesus by hanging it by the neck from the C-Word Tree until it is dead. Yep.
That’s a real sign, by the way. My brother-in-law is visiting for the holidays; he reads my blog, and he was convinced that I’d used one of those humorous sign generators that you can find on the Internet. Nope. It’s genuine — every bit as real the seething resentment that apparently drove someone to write and display it.
Which is not to say that I understand this resentment. A few years ago when this whole "War on Christmas!!!" crap got started, I remember thinking, "wow, this one is so completely stupid, even the really goofball bananas bugshit crazy wingnuts won’t buy it." But buy it they did. And do — never underestimate the wingnut hunger to glory forever in the exquisite delight of howling interminably at preposterous make-believe grievances. And they don’t even seem to mind, or even especially notice, when it all turns out to just be bizarre phony crap.
Oh well. Have a good holiday season, my friends, and if you have any wingnut relatives you’re going to get stuck with at your family parties, well, my advice it to get wasted on egg nog and teach their children some fun C-Word Carols that they can sing to their parents in the car on the way home. It’ll be fun and educational for them!
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hi Thers
Wingnuts!
hello?
Christmas Crap!
Wingnut (n.) A person who believes that frothing at the mouth is sexually attractive.
Evening all. Season’s Greetings!
I’d say “Merry Christmas” but I don’t like using dirty swear words.
Hey DrPuma. When did you turn Evil?
Evening Thers. What can I tell you, the fundies have been polishing that resentment for generations until they have it nice, shiny, and sharp today. Grew up the the snuggly little rat bastard piranhas in Oklahoma. They are going to feel persecuted and agreived until they achieve world domination and are able to persecute whomever they wish at will. Probably even then. I really don’t think they are ever really happy unless they are miserable.
Thers, go ahead and swear. we are pretty much all potty mouthed dirty forking hippies ’round here
Hi everyone!
Today I went shopping for supplies for Christmas Dinner. Tomorrow I am going shopping for Christmas presents. Monday I am going to wrap my Christmas presents. Tuesday I am going to celebrate Christmas, open Christmas presents and eat Christmas Dinner. So there, wingnuts! You and your silly war!
“Evil” is part of my legal name.
Happy Winter Thers.
Want a snack?
All I care about is that the days are now going to get longer and the sun isn’t going to just go away. Every year I worry about this. But I checked. It stayed around two seconds longer today. Tomorrow it will stay around for three or four seconds longer. Whew!
hey katymine!
OK. Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!
Hope nobody’s offended. Going to have to go put something in the swear jar now. By which I mean, I’m going to have a beer.
great snacks, tex (snagging the one with the blue hat
we got snowflakes too.
They let just anyone post at this place these days.
You aren’t one of them Butte Kneivels now are you?
It’s always interesting to see how parents try to make their kids pursue a specific career.
I can’t imagine how you stand those short winter days. I was in Fort McMurray one year in December and thought I would die – the sun came up over those hills by around 9:30 or so and was back down by three. I imagine it is rather worse where you are.
I pledge, from now until the last of the twelve days, to use the word “Christmas” as a substitute for every swear word I utter. And if the wingnuts don’t Christmasing like it, they can just go Christmas themselves sideways, God Christmas it!
Ooh, the kids would be all over that…
Crazy cat crapped Christmas crepes.
Just took Elmore to the airport…. he is doing his usual Christmas show. For years he has been televising the Christmas eve service at the Seattle Cathedral. He started it right after his divorce and now he does it as it has become a part of his own personal Christmas ritual. The staff at the cathedral treat the old crusty TeeVee guys very well and feed them exceptionally well.
You should get one of those old-fashioned solstice clocks.
I wonder who these anti-christmasites are? Is there anti-christmas insurgency? What would Christ do? What would Santa do? What would Rudolph do do? Who does a Christmasite turn to in times like these? I just have one thing to say,
Crappy New Year!
you are really christmas evil, edp – christmas christmas and i hope your christmas christmas is christmas white
Happy post-Winter Solstice
And if everyone else is grouchy as well.
They are much like the Blue Meanies, only they don’t dress nearly as nicely.
and
what *would* Rudolph do
he’d rather make furnature than go to midnight mass
Asa matter of fact, we’re getting the Christmas snowed out of us right now, and the next couple of days are expected to be Christmasing frigid, too. God Christmased weather Christmases have to go and predict this Christmas right, don’t they?
Fern,
Some days are harder than others, but there is nowhere more beautiful than where I live. At least, on this planet. Our kids, born here, now in college, almost live outside summer AND winter. But I’ve started getting SAD. I started noticing it about four years ago. I’ve put special lights in my studio, and that helps. When the sun is out, I try to get as much direct sunlight as possible.
Christmas, dammit!
Suz, I’m not sure if this will work – I’m following your instructions to the letter, but it looks different to me in preview…
Merry Clown Car!
I quit fighting Christmas long after I quit pretending to celebrate it. As soon as I quit fighting it, wonderful things started happening. This year I have not seen one Christmas light or heard one Christmas advertisement.
ntodd in the house!
Looks (and sounds) good to me LL. ;)
I’m with you, ES. I just let it slide by. The Christmas music on the other hand ….
I worked in a major department store a few years ago at Xmas time. At oreienation we were very specifically told that there was no store policy against saying Merry Christmas and that if we wanted to say Merry Christmas to a customer to go right ahead and do so. Nevertheless, the knuckleheads insisted that this store had a policy of forbidding its employees to say “Merry Christmas.” By the time the Gibsons et al had stopped passing off this bullshit, it was already accepted y the stooge-in-the-street and believed as gospel. So much of this – no, all of this “War on Christmas, is just pure horseshit.
LL, preview does not do links right but it does work correctly when submitted. your utube worked just christmas fine
mary mcc (coffee on keyboard) ya had to find a way to bring a christmas camel, eh? (laughing)
Ah yes. The Christmas music. Enough to inspire antisocial acts.
They’ve got a permanent case of the “mean reds”!
What are the wingnuts from K S F O doing? Well Melanie Morgan is on her way Iraq to deliver card and letters to our troops. But before she left, her co-host Brian Sussman had to insult the bravery of journalists in Iraq while she accuses the AP and others of terrorist ties.
I’ll bet that Morgan pretended she was a journalist in order to be embedded with the army. She is not. She is a radio personality who promotes violent rhetoric toward journalists. She was invited to Dick Cheney’s Christmas party last week. She said that it had nothing to do with her getting permission to go to Iraq. (Yeah, right)
After telling her listeners that the surge is working great her co-host had to insult real journalists. (especially disgusting considering that this was the worst year since 1994 for journalist deaths.)
Audio link 2 minutes. I have a longer clip if you want more context where she talks about how great things are in Iraq.
It disgusts me that Brian Sussman dishonors their memory and Morgan said that the Iraq stringers have terrorist ties. Not just one either, she implies that there are many stringers who have terrorists ties. Maybe the four dead AP staffers would like to talk about the risks that they took to provide her news. Maybe they could prove to her that they did not have terrorist ties. But of course they can’t, because they are dead. It would be nice if the AP reporters in Iraq could hear these allegations personally. Maybe the families of the dead would like to know how this highly-paid American radio personality sees the sacrifice of their journalist sons and husbands and what she thinks about the accuracy of their reporting and the reason there is no good news from Iraq.
Will the journalists in Iraq take Morgan under their wing to explain the real situation in Iraq? Of course the soldiers who have to protect her on her “mission” when “guns are hot” will do their best as they do with real journalists, but will there be any sweeping of villages so that she can see the positive story that the White House wants her to tell? Will they give her the tour of Iraq that they give VIPs who need to see the surge is great? You bet. Morgan, of course won’t believe the words of any Iraqi journalists because they have “alliances with terrorists” and can’t be trusted. So if she doesn’t see the truth and ignores the people who know the truth we know in advance the story she will bring back. Why bother going? For “street cred” for the movement conseratives. Her ability to willfully ignore the truth is an asset to them.
I have a sense she will be treated like a journalist by the Army instead of a White House propagandist. If any of the real journalists in Iraq speak to her and tell her what she doesn’t want to hear I believe (based on her past words and actions) that she will ignore them because of her ideology. I can provide them with exact quotes to prove that she denies reality. I have quotes where she besmirched the reputation of working journalists and the producers of the News Hour on PBS. If they have any interactions with her I believe they should know what she and her co-hosts have said about them and their dead colleagues.
Melanie Morgan and Brian Sussman work at KSFO in San Francisco, for ABC Radio which is owned by Citadel Broadcasting which is owned by Disney. Citadel was recently in the news as the company that rehired Don Imus. Morgan is supported by KSFO radio but also has her own 501 (c) 3, Move American Forward, which used the public airwaves to raise tax free money for this trip.
I wish I knew some working journalists in Iraq (especially from the AP) it would be great if they heard what she and Sussman think about them.
Hey Suzanne, I just stumbled on a song that’s really cool. A classic, too. Can I nominate it or is that over?
Same old story…LITERALLY!
Thanks DrD and Suz — just had to share one of my favorite Christmas tunes ;-)
Last year was our first Christmas. Going light on it this year since Cass & her brother will be north for the holiday itself.
“They’ve got a permanent case of the “mean reds”!”
Hey there! As the resident Soc*alist, don’t be blaming those turkeys on us!
bfl, nominations are over but folks are always welcome to link to utubes in the threads (commonly called putting a quarter in the jukebox in the late nite threads)
Have yourself a merry little clowncar,
Let your heart be light
From now on,
our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little clowncar,
Make the gas mileage gay,
From now on,
our troubles will be miles away.
Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more.
Through the years
We all will be together,
If the Fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
And have yourself A merry little clowncar now.
I always enjoy hearing it, actually. Noting makes me feel more festive and holiday than hearing “Silver Bells” come on a mall Muzak system right after Labor Day.
I’m guessing you have not seen Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
I hope Morgan gets a chance to buy some $5 rugs at the marketplace. And that they give her a nice flak jacket to wear while she does it.
If you’re looking for Christmas music here at the LAKE….
…the search is over: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqOfXumI18A
Hee hee ;-)
Good job, spocko. this is bullshit on so many levels and you called ‘em on it. Good for you. Anytime the news from anywjere is bad duringa Republicabn administration, they trot out the line that the reporters/journalists are all holed up in their hotels and going to the bar every night and partying. there is so much to refute this-just with respect to Iraq – but nothing as loudly and clearly as the dead journalist you mention.
Sussman really likes saying “quote, unquote” doesan’t he? Wish tere as a video so yopu could see if he does that thing with the fingers.
And Morgan, you know. Like. I mean.
I’m a solidly secular humanist who goes out during the Christmas Season and sings carols in the local hospitals and rest homes on Kauai. I do it because I understand how Christmas could have such deep meaning for folks, and I love the way peoples eyes light up when they hear these songs.
Not recently (as in the last couple of decades).
hehehehehe nicely done, mary mcc
I can’t sleep so I came by to say “Hi”
Not all Christmas music is gag inducing. There’s this, for instance: http://www.iamtrex.com/?p=97
I Am TRex » Blog Archive » I Would Teach My Feet to Fly
loved your music last night Suz, great thread of music
LouCostello, I love that song :-)
*waving to Ellie*
Here you go:
“The mean reds? You mean like the blues?” –Fred (Paul).
“No… the blues are because you’re getting fat or because it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of.” –Holly.
thanks ellie
madmommy, that was a great video
I must thank him
Back in the days I worked Acute Care as a RN I loved it when the carolers came when I had to work the holidays.
Here is a carol for us all: 12 days of Bushmas
By the way. I sent this note to the head of the Committee to Protect Journalists. I really want to get their comments to AP reporters in Iraq.
ellie, grab a few of the snacks tex left – there some hot chocolate on the counter by the coffee pot (with marshmellows)
When’s the songfest Grand Finale?
There is a war on Christmas.
Waged by Mammon.
When did Christmas become a festivl that was surrounded by such fstivities as “shopping to excess”, and “eating to excess”?
As celebrated, Christmas is revolting.
Ellie, the contest is over, just doing regular ole music late late nites now.
please let us know if you get a reply and what it is, spocko. i would love to hear that her non-profit is undergoing IRS audit (wishful thinking but it is a pleasant thought)
Ah. OK then.
Christmas has always had a reputation for excess — it’s why the Puritans banned it.
Mmmm hot chocolate, that should help me sleep.
I thought there was going to be one more night. Bother! I kept wanting the happening to keep happening.
Cheers!
Speaking of excess – I started in on the brownies with port-soaked dried cherries that I baked for Xmas eve. Possibly a mistake.
Some people say that had Santa followed Mitt Romney’s advice when Mittster walked back to the North Pole with Santa a frw years back, Mitt and Santa could have stopped the War on Christmas before it got started.
Hmm. It appears I have a low tolerance for heart-warming.
fern, my neighbor made her special christmas chocolate brownies – she used brandy soaked dried cherries. not able to eat just one i’m afraid.
The weather report is “how low can it go” Brrrr below freezing in Phoenix
Amazing what you can do with that magic underwear.
Ellie, here’s a happening for you ;-)
This shoe was found on the road to Bethlehem.
http://www.dahothouse.com/media/shoe.jpg
I’m sure that there will be people who say, “Well good for her since she is putting her money where her mouth is by going to Iraq to see the wonderful safe surge.” I like to remind them that when someone like her goes to Iraq resources have to be expended to protect her. Last time it was Blackwater resources this time it is Army resources. She is no journalist, she is a paid propagandist. I wouldn’t doubt that she has ABC Radio News press credentials.
Her sightseeing in the cause of supporting the message that “The Surge is working” and that “Iraq is stabilized” will be paid for one way or another. It might be stage managed for her or they will count on her ability to ignore reality.
I think that it would interesting for any of the real journalists there who run across her to hear about how Melanie Morgan talked about hanging the journalists who reported the SWIFT story (audio link). Lee Rodgers said that the AP journalists should all commit mass suicide. (audio link)
if only! the world would be a better place without that pesky war on Christmas.
Tasty alright. Next time I am going to use the dried sour cherries instead of the sweet ones. Because there will be a next time. Oh yes.
Keith Richards …Christmas
I bet Mitt remembers that very clearly, too.
I think he put on his magic longjohns as they tread their way north. What an epic story Mitch is telling the American people, eh?
Oh thank you so much. :)
I got my happening!
Love it!
We three kings of orient are
Riding a bike and a clowncar
One on a scooter, blowing his hooter
Smoking a great cigar-ar..
707! Spew alert!
Here’s some wingnut crap from way back…
Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12…..ref=slogin
…and they didn’t even have the budget the current crop of criminals have been pouring into it.
LL what would you like to hear, I’ll find it?
Hi Suzanne!
I did a lot of research in this area. I do believe she is abusing the rules, but after reading the IRS non-profit guidelines and the current cases where groups status was challenged I determined that they could twist their way out of getting busted.
That said, if anyone here is an expert in this area of non-profits and the rules regarding what they can and can say to keep their status, please contact me, I might be missing something.
Not to worry, seems the only times the IRS gets all audit-y is if you’re a liberal church or getting the earned income credit.
h/t Dr.Dick
Ellie, anything at all — your choice :-)
“C” in Canada means alcohol- filled treats … *g*
Evenin’ all !
new batch, fresh from the oven.
careful, those trees are still hot (ouch ouch)
Three Wise Men
http://www.dahothouse.com/media/3.gif
Yummy, and beautiful too. Thanks!
Quick, douse ‘em with Rum … *g*
707 mary mcc – but i thought the wise men used a camel?
How about this classic! we’ve enjoyed it before (where’s wangdang?)
Mick Walking the Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giOUTXGKTaY
I think that nyquil martini Millineryman made for me is starting to take effect.
How about a little bluegrass for Christmas?
Yummy cookies TexB. Dibs on the gingerbread!
That sounds very good.
Do you really want to go down that road?
TexBets, those are too cute to eat!
snowmen in aisle 13 as well.
I recognize Cheney & Bush, but who’s the skinny guy in the middle ? *g*
Has anyone had Rum Cake from the Islands ? It is a Christmas favorite.
A new skirmish in The War On Christmas.
Ellie, great tune — thank you!
madmommy, its saturday nite – i’m taking a walk on the wild side
TexBets, is this where they live?
hey busted
Nice! Thanks!
I also like that song done my Emmylou Harris
going to head off to bed…. see you guys tomorrow…
g’nite katymine
oooh, pretty mommybrain!
ooooh, would love to hear that version — Emmylou rawks, and she is a semi-local girl :-)
Nice find, Elliott!
night katymine. sleep well.
sweet dreams katymine
Angel appears to Mary
http://www.dahothouse.com/media/angel.jpg
Chocolate price fixing scandal in Canada! (and other news)
Oh, I did like this:
http://www.thecompassgroup.biz/merryxmas.swf
I like the way Christians support Torture during Christmas time. Check out how it’s done by the master: Rush Limbaugh.
Rush makes torture acceptable by first diminishing the horror of torture. It’s a “Frat party” or “underwear on the head” or “physical discomfort.” (his latest euphemism for the partial drowning torture method called waterboarding.) Note how he never talks of the people who were tortured to death in Abu Ghraib.
Note how he never talks about the people raped in Abu Ghraib (btw, those videos were never released to the public, but they exist, or at least they did until Dick Cheney’s fire last week).
If Rush can’t turn torture into a joke, he sets up the terrible things that terrorists did to us as justification for this 35 seconds of “physical discomfort.”
Listen to this short Rush clip in support of torture (audio link)
60 seconds wma format.
At the end of the clip note that Rush says Democrats “like to kill babies.”
Rush’s support of torture and his ability to get supposedly good Christians to go along with his world view is incredibly damaging to the minds of Americas who listen to him.
G’night all. Visions of sugar-plums, etc.
Bwaaa-hahaha!
sleep well thers. merry winter.
I feel like I’m taking a Walk on the Wild Side tonight, just being here!
I must say I am fascinated by Lou Reed, a most unusual person. Would like to know him.
G’night Thers — Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!
Goodnight Thers!
Rent the movie “Blue In The Face“. Fascinating.
That is teh awesome! Who is that, love the doo-wop!
The Choco- Mafia must be dismantled ! *g*
g’nite thers, and merry christmas christmas to you and your whole christmas family
Woodbridge and I think she did some gigs in the DC folk music clubs.
tex, i put that canadian chocolate fixing thing on the news ticker about 30 minutes or so ago… great minds thinking alike :)
Ron just told me they were going to come and take us away.
Please be nice to our front pagers.
I dunno – my brother sent to me and he didn’t know who that was either.
Yep, Woodbridge and I think even LA (Lower Alexandria, Huntington area).
Museum: Stolen Masterpieces Not Insured
from ABC News: Top Stories
The museum that lost a Picasso had little security — and no insurance.
Ok. I can’t find a good video. But I really don’t have the luxury of looking for one right now. I know there are videos of it. Some night I’ll dig into my pocket and get some change. Speaking of jukeboxes that just reminds me more that I’m not in NJ. they have all those diners with the litt;e individual jukeboxes at each booth. I miss that.
thanking you for the recommendation, will look for it!
Good.
Just checked the you-tube, it’s the Drifters, a classic doo-wop group if there ever was one!
Suzanne, didn’t you finish that once all challenges/recount requests were abandoned?
The Drifters are my fav. group, esp. when Ben E. King would sing with them.
I’m a sucker for the Messiah
Ok now, Morpheus is here to take me out.
Night Elliot. You and Morphee have fun.
here is one that BfL might appreciate…
nite elliott
be careful, ellie, morpheus usually doesn’t call the next day no matter what he promises
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate the day !
Peace & Love to all of you !
P.
g’night Ellie, blissful sleep to you.
Thank you Petro — peace and love back at you :-)
say hello to my cousin morph for me
Night Petro. Peace, love, light, and bliss back at you.
petrocelli, may all your christmas dreams come true
Good Night all. Merry Cword.
Indeed I did. Thanks.
Merry c-word and good night to you marymcc
Petro, I saw this great story on black cake and I have to get the recipes copied to my email before they disappear.
g’night MaryMcC, merry merry to you :-)
merry c-word, mary mcc and sleep well
Bed is calling me as well. The big kid has developed an annoying habit of waking before 5 am. This does not bode well for me, especially monday night!
g’night madmommy, and good luck with getting the big kid to sleep in a bit!
Night MM.
g’nite madmommy, i fear it does not bode well for you christmas morning. the big kid is gonna be up around 3am is my guess.
howdy!
completely OT – is ES around?
selise, he should be around since he is doing late late nite tonight
Hi selise!
ES was here a few minutes ago…
Few days ago, I went to the terlit and my wife had gotten a NY Post – just to makwe me more home sick — no, this IS my home, now — and the LTE’s were about a Malkin column -she writes? — about how Huckabee’s posaitions are close to the Democrats. Now that’s nuts. She’s nuts. the letters were nuts.
No but have some Huckabee fruitcake. It’s the wingnuttiest! And there’s some koolaid too…
Hah, just kidding. I got some bourbon balls here somewhere. I’ll pack some up for Harry Reid.
OMG. Chef Schwetty where are you?
Completely ES here.
thanks! i’ll hang out for a while… just saw him over at the wes clark thread, but i’m on my company manners there.
Anybody know if Late, Late Night gonn be up soon? If so I’ll stick around a bit. otherwise, it’s time for bed.
You sayin’ Reid needs all the balls he can get? certainly ain’t got none now.
bfl, lln always posts right around the 10pm (pacific) hour.
two things.
1. i want to bitch about wes clark, but not in the guest thread.
2. i think you were the person to whom i pledged to call every senator on monday if dodd did attempt a filibuster. if i’m remembering correctly, i have to apologize, i only made it half was through the list. got side tracked by cboldt who misunderstood a unanimous consent agreement that morning. i’ll try to make it up by calling the rest of them after the first of the year but before fisa comes to the senate floor again.
I think I need to move to the PST time zone; maybe when I retire. Then I wouldn’t feel like I was staying up so late ;-)
Um. Lemme see. 10 p. PST is what? Like, 1 here, right? G’night.
Oh yes. Those were pretty much content-less responses to excellent questions.
I want to join you in re Wes.
I couldn’t squeeze them all in that day so I phoned GOPers most of all.
i didn’t even get a content-less response.
oh, good i feel better then.
was bothering my conscience that i hadn’t got to all of them.
I will just say I think leaving the difficult questions unanswered at all.. says the worst about a person.
g’nite to those who can’t make it to late late nite (i just snuck a peak backstage and ES has a good one for you tonight)
1. I missed wes clark ’cause I thought he’d get me bitchin’, too. Might as well do it here. i mean, as long as you didn’t do it in thwe Book salon, right? Can’t do it there can ya? So g’head.
2. I know your comment is directed to ES, but seems to me that’s nuthin’ at all to apologize for. Callin’ 50 people sounds good to me.
When a leader won’t answer questions about leadership.. well that’s leader-shifty.
Awright. Guess I can stick around. On your word, Suzanne. I’m trustin’ you on this.
Sounded to me like a man with presidential ambitions. And not it a good way.
As my Ozark hillbilly grandfather was wont to say, “Useless as tits on a boar hog!”
thanks BL.
i’m with ES – skipping all the difficult questions is just lame. especially weird as he’s saying we need an honest national dialogue about our place in the world – and yet does not seem interested in participating let alone fostering that kind of conversation.
I saw him on Real Time a little while ago and I thought he sucked whereas he had been good before. I just had no interest in him today.
Thanks for the comments Thers…We live in the Boston area and have been
saying Merry Christmas as many times as we can….and it is catching on…
We are hearing it all around!! But, then again, this is liberal country
and we don’t even waste our time with wingnuts!! Not too many here.
Even Mr. Romney didn’t stick around very long….:) He would not have
been re-elected anyway!!
Just sending along my best wishes to all for a Very Merry Christmas and
a Blessed and Healthy New Year!!
Maureen
I think if a general wants to raise lots of money for a senator (Mark Pryor) he ought to be able to say why with ease.
or vice presidential ambitions (maybe as a stepping stone to the presidency?).
That was a biog part of why i though he sucked on Real Time. he was just doin’ Hillary talkin’ points. No matter what. He wasn’t like that when I’d seen him before and he didn’t have a candidate to shill.
Probably. How old is he?
ever here jeremy scahill’s (the guy who wrote the book on blackwater) interview with with wes clark (from jan 2004)? it was on democracy now.
those folks are not afraid to take anyone on. fearless.
Oh shit. he was born Dec. 23, 1944. It’s his birthday. Did he mention that in the Book salon? And that makes him………wow.. older than i thought.
baby girl’s birthday is december 23rd but she is an 88 and not a 44
Hey, don’t we have a EurekaMusicDrop coming tonight?
That means she is twice as good! 8-)
63 is a good age to be president. 71 might be too, if his health is good.
newton, any minute now (5, 4, 3, 2…
Yours. That makes her …… not old.
I will never tell..)
i just don’t like the idea of him being president, no matter his age.
but then i don’t enthusiastic about many candidates. can we have dean back?
That shoulda been a question — “Yours?”
Yeah. That’s fine. I just thought he ws younger. guess he’s in good shape, bein’ in the army all them years an’ all.
It’s after 10 PST by my clock, dearie.
Good job!!
if ya are looking, you will see the green box that says new post posted and click on the link, it will take ya upstairs
It came up right after i posted. that’s why i said “Good job!”
Please, everyone, put X back into X-mas.
Why are the blasted Christians so rude? When the rest of us say ‘Happy Holidays’ we wish good cheer to Christians, Muslims, Jews, Kwanzans, Pagans, etc. Pretty much every religion has some kind of holiday at the winter solstice.
But no, Christians insist that only they should be wished good cheer – the hell with everyone else. That just drives me crazy.
Agree with the general sentiment, but it’s not quite true, at least as far as Muslim’s go: their holidays work on a lunar calendar, so rotate through the year: Eid will be about 10 days earlier next year, and in midsummer in eighteen years time.
Oddly enough, everyone here says Iyi Bayramlar – which means, more or less, ‘Happy holidays’, for religious festivals.
Can’t help seeing the insistence on HC as being anything other than borderline anti-semitism in many parts of the US. Its funny, though, how provincial the whole debate seems to anyone outside the US…
I just laughed aloud. Some people must have a lot of time on their hands that would be better spent clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, nursing the sick, etc.