Comments on: Wingnut Crap of the Season: Holiday Edition http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:30:15 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: slouching http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1162531 slouching Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:03:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1162531 <p>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.</p> 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.

]]> By: billinturkey http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161853 billinturkey Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:48:35 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161853 <p>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.</p> <p>Oddly enough, everyone here says Iyi Bayramlar - which means, more or less, ‘Happy holidays’, for religious festivals.</p> <p>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…</p> 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…

]]> By: GMFORD http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161841 GMFORD Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:14:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161841 <p>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.</p> <p>But no, Christians insist that only they should be wished good cheer - the hell with everyone else. That just drives me crazy.</p> 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.

]]> By: wigwam http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161744 wigwam Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:20:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161744 <p>Please, everyone, put X back into X-mas.</p> Please, everyone, put X back into X-mas.

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161721 Beerfart Liberal Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:10:45 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161721 <p>It came up right after i posted. that’s why i said “Good job!”</p> It came up right after i posted. that’s why i said “Good job!”

]]> By: Suzanne http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161711 Suzanne Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:06:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161711 <p>if ya are looking, you will see the green box that says new post posted and click on the link, it will take ya <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/late-late-nite-e-dance-card-for-blue-dogs/" rel="nofollow">upstairs</a></p> 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

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161708 Beerfart Liberal Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:05:21 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161708 <p>Good job!!</p> Good job!!

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161704 Beerfart Liberal Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:03:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161704 <p>It’s after 10 PST by my clock, dearie.</p> It’s after 10 PST by my clock, dearie.

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161702 Beerfart Liberal Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:03:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161702 <p>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.</p> 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.

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161700 Beerfart Liberal Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:02:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/22/wingnut-crap-of-the-season-holiday-edition/#comment-1161700 <p>That shoulda been a question — “Yours?”</p> That shoulda been a question — “Yours?”

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