2013 War on Xmas

Sarah Palin has "written" a book on the war on christmas.
Do you honestly believe she wrote it? While I am not going to say she is a complete dim wit, because that would be offensive to all the dim wits in the world, but intelligence isn't exactly a strength for her. I am pretty sure this book was ghost written for her.

So Fox News is starting up the nonsense again, like the do every year. They have the followers in lock step believing every word they say, mostly because they are preaching to the proverbial choir. Fox News tailors the reporting to a particualr audience, telling them what they want to hear. It is a great business model, but leaves quite a bit to be desired in the reporting of actual news.

Here is a collection of articles by The Blaze
http://www.theblaze.com/news/war-on-christmas/

But I have been sidetracked again.

War on xmas?? Tell me where in the US can you get away from xmas? It is EVERYWHERE! I am not complaining about that, even if I am not a big fan of the whole thing and the excess of it all. But how can any sane person say there is a war on xmas when it is just about everywhere you look! It is a visual assault day and night, pretty soon every other song on the radio is going to be xmas music, every ad on tv, and soon every show is going to be xmas. But if someone is refused putting a nativity on a public space it is suddenly a war? In most towns of any size there are plenty of churches all with varying displays, but the one place they are told they can't put them is some affront to christianity?

Finally we come to the history of xmas. The truth of the matter is no one is sure when Jesus was born, it is not related in any scripture or any sort of record. But judging by the details related in scripture it is definitely not the end of December! Most information I have read seems to agree he was born either in the summer or early fall. So why is December 25th the holiday celebrated? What other event falls around that time? What other event was celebrated by prechristian religions? Winter solstice.

Christians co-opted many dates and traditions of pagans to make integration easier, it is a very smart move on their part, good marketing. But try telling these Fox News sycophants this and you will be lucky to get away before they lynch your ass for blasphemy! And believe me the American taliban secretly admire the islamic blasphemy laws!

So it is just a holiday, a holiday that has become so corrupted by corporate greed as to be all but unrecognizable.

Wasn't so bad!

Maybe I was just not paying quite as much attention as I should have, but it seems like the "War on Xmas" was a bit of a non story this year?

It is true that I don't watch O'Reilly or Fox News for that matter. I cannot handle the nonsense they spew and actually let me amend that. I don't watch any news on television, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS or ABC, none of them. So I guess I can't single out Fox News, but I will anyway.

So what is up with the poor persecuted christians? Did they have a good Xmas this year? Did the nasty evil atheists not ruin their Xmas?

Who cares? If you live in the US you cannot get away from Xmas is you tried! It looks like some kind of colorful holiday monster puked over every square foot of the country!

And no I am not being a scrooge, I will never begrudge anyone Xmas. But I do get a little annoyed with the obscene commercialization of it all. And then there is the small matter that Jesus was not born in December, but that is a horse that has been beaten into a bloody mess.

O'Reilly is going off the rails

Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, the champions of christmas.

I saw a video online about the "War on christmas" with David Silverman of American Atheists.

O'Reilly first off is a bit of a nut. He tries to take the angle that christianity is not a religion but a philosophy. That catholicism is a religion but not christianity? Huh?

Here is a Newshound story about this LINK

Bill is losing it! Well, he is losing it as part of his job. Like all the other talking heads on Fox News they are entertainers. They are so far removed from doing actual news they kind of remind me of Honey Boo Boo. They talk a lot, but what they say makes no sense. O'Reilly is playing to his audience, the right wing closed minded sycophants who tend to only view the world as they think it should be. It is kind of like a Kool-Aid induced distortion field.

Bill calls David a fascist. This is absolutely hilarious to me.Bill gets his hackles up, starts leaning toward David, pointing, HILARIOUS!

Good job David!

Pat and the "War on Xmas"

And Pat "Kooky as Coco nuts" Robertson is at it!

Yeah!!!