musik_knut wrote: 
3:1 says they just move the blunt to the Baby Jesus.

 musik_knut wrote: 
Bleh. Not everyone is Christian, Dude. You are certainly closed minded. Where did you ever get the idea that Christians are entitled to all that. Religion should be private for the people who are practicing. Don't shove your beliefs down my throat.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

2 to 1, if any such display would be stolen, it's adios Mr. Marley and his blunt...

With all the hypotheticals and double negatives and parentheticals I can't figure out what anyone thinks.
 
Anyone who thinks their local government or the White House has enough money in the budget that they should put up a nice Kwanzaa display, raise your hands. Okay then shut up about nativity scenes and Christmas displays too.
 
Ah, but what if the nativity scene is provided with private funding? You want to put that on the lawn at city hall, that's okay. As long as  you also allow the Kwanzaa and menorah and a small scale model of Stonehenge and a blinky-light representation of Bob Marley smokin' a giant sparkly one out there too.

 kurtster wrote: 

...and they will tell you, as straight faced as possible, that Christians and symbols of Christianity are not under attack. And they will believe it...while mocking our protests.


EDIT: MERRY CHRISTMAS!

 kurtster wrote: 
Well, that of course makes it right.

For those of us who don't celebrate, it's highly uncomfortable, and my tax dollars are paying for it.

A suburb near us had a memorial to vets that was an eternal flame guarded by a big ass cross. They were sued, and the town removed the cross and replaced it with a memorial that was much more appropriate, and inclusive.

 Jack_Jefferson wrote: 

Perhaps you should contact Obama and ask him why he's still allowing Christmas Trees at the White House, eh ? 

I'm surprised the ACLU hasn't filed suit to stop that yet.

If we can have Christmas and not F**king x-mas, trees in the White House, then we should sure as hell be allowed to have Nativity scenes and the like on town squares and other public property like we have for hundreds of years in this country.

Y'all act like its never been done before.  Get over it, its been going on for a long, long time here.

 hippiechick wrote: 

I am Christian so it is not bullshit to me. Although Sen. Inhofe is not the most likeable of characters...

 Jack_Jefferson wrote: 
I'm of Jewish heritage so it's all bullshit to me

 hippiechick wrote: 
And these A-holes at Faux News are always pointing out that liberals don't have a right not to be offended and that they should grow thicker skin.  I'm so sick of this BS every year from Thanksgiving to Xmas.

Last week, if you recall, Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla) had some emotions because of that time he could no longer participate in a Tulsa parade because they had named it the "Holiday Parade Of Lights." This forced Inhofe into a position where he would have had to validate other holidays of other people who practice other religious faiths. Despite the fact that the parade remained Christmased-out to the max, and had always welcomed Tulsans of all stripes to celebrate their particular holidays, Inhofe had to travel almost fifteen miles in order to find a parade that had the name "Christmas" in it in order to ride his horsey, which is some of the worst religious persecution ever meted out to humans.

Per Alex Seitz-Wald at Think Progress, Inhofe went on Fox and Friends this morning to continue to have emotions over this minor inconvenience he forced himself to face for no good reason:

CARLSON: So, what you're saying is, that it's not like you're not tolerant of other religions. ... What you're saying is — what a lot of people are saying in our society right now — which is if we're supposed to be tolerate of all these other religions, which pretty much everyone accepts, why does it always seem like Christianity is the one to take the boot?

INHOFE: They're the ones to get the hit. ... I think there are a lot people of other faiths who wonder also, why do they always pick on the Christians?

There can be no doubt that Inhofe's personal struggles do not in any way cheapen the suffering of other Christians, such as, say...the congregants of the Our Lady of Salvation Church of Baghdad — which was attacked by terrorists just over a month ago. Right? I mean, Christians are so terribly picked on, in America. Next you'll be telling me that Christians aren't allowed to worship in some parts of Lower Manhattan, or something.

5 Right-Wing Scumbags Bankrolling Dangerous (and Plain Weird) Conservative Causes

 kurtster wrote: 

The question is: who is dumping the material on Wiki? We know US Army Private Bradley Manning provided the first document dump. Is he behind the latest dump? We know he partnered with a group of left wing hackers in Cambridge, MA on the first dump

 cc_rider wrote: 
stoppit.  yerkillinme.

Well, thanks to wikileaks, it seems that Glenn Beck was right about a few more things besides gold.

 BasmntMadman wrote:
 
Obtuse, that's me.

 cc_rider wrote: 
Hmmm...looks like you're trying to say something...and I probably agree with a lot of it...

 BasmntMadman wrote: 
Wait, what are you trying to say? Do you mean that politicians are out of touch with the plight of most Americans? That wealthy people have no idea what most of us go through to get simple things like dental exams and checkups? Are you trying to say that wealthy people in general, and politicians in particular, do not care about the vast majority of working Americans?

 BasmntMadman wrote: 
We (taxpayers) pay $10,000/year!!! for these assholes to have insurance.

DO I HAVE INSURANCE???? NO!!!!! CAN I GET INSURANCE???? NONE THAT I CAN AFFORD!!! F*cker!

Rep.-elect Harris snagged in health care flap

This asshole is about as far-right as they come.  He launched attack ads against conservative Republican opponents in primaries, accusing them of being...gasp...liberals. 

Now this piece of trash wants HIS bennies now that he's in Congress.  He can't understand why there's a whole month before he receives his health care plan!!   Yet he's part of the crowd who complain the loudest about Congress receiving extravagant health care benefits.

And his comment that he doesn't know of any employers who don't offer health care benefits immediately shows how utterly out of touch he is.  Andy, baby, try taking an hourly job in the service sector - medical benefits don't start for a freakin' YEAR, and dental for two.  Schmuck.

Some of the Faithful are trying to put a positive spin on this episode - Harris was just trying a publicity stunt to focus attention on Congressional health care benefits.  That theory blows up when you consider his comment that the private sector offers insurance immediately.  He's saying that the private sector coverage - at least to professionals - is better than Congress'.