Dear "Protectors of Christmas"

[baby_mouse]

You are like mental patients walking around naked in the streets.

I equate your shrill foolishness with the sad howls of the schizophrenics I used to have to book in when I worked as a receptionist in an Emergency Room.

Watching your minds fall slowly apart is a humbling experience and a lesson to all that our brains are flesh, and that flesh decays. Truly we are all part of the same decaying compost heap.

I think I shall start a religion based on watching TV static, looking for sacred patterns in the screen's buzzing flicker and the white noise blaring over the speakers. It is clear that I would make my fortune in a year.

Once I despised the right wing, now I pity them.

It reminds me of a story I heard once about a psychiatrist who, in his fading years, fell to senile dementia and was admitted to the same hospital he used to run. He would get up in the middle of the night and answer the telephone, get other patients out of bed to examine them. "Nurse, help me with this patient." Oh, dear. So well-meaning. And, of course, a conservative.

Dearest "Protectors of Christmas", is this all that is left that you can protect? Will the curse you've brought to Iraq, Freedom and Democracy fall on Christmas as well? You've enslaved Iraq to free it, destroyed domestic civil liberties in the name of "freedom", installed sock puppet politicians in the name of "democracy", will you now fill Christmas, the season of goodwill to all men, with your silly, poisonous, partisan nonsense?

Well, it would be your style. It's the sort of rude, ludicrously stupid self-obsessed, persecution-complex-driven drivel you've made all your bucks with so far.

Good luck with that.

Yours ("Nurse! NURSE! The screens!"),

baby_mouse


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All those utterly pathetic people who've complained about having "Happy Holidays" on their White House Christmas cards instead of "Merry Christmas"

P.S.

Oh yes, you lot. I think I should just point out here that you are the sort of people who complain about geting a Christmas card with "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" on it. How does that scan with you? Do you remember being like that 4, 5 years ago?

Time to give up. You're drooling.

XXX

bm

[niyad]

1. oh my, that is just perfect!! would you give me permission to repost

this to a couple of my own boards--there are some fundie trolls on them whose heads just might explode!!

thank you.

[baby_mouse]

5. By all means!

Post away! I'm flattered!

xx

[niyad]

7. thank you!!!

[CottonBear]

2. Perfect. n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. I live in a red state

and I've seen "Happy Holidays" up in signs, etc, with no comments from anyone. I think there are some fundamentalists (and I know a lot of mainstream Christians) who are embarrassed with the whole furor.

[baby_mouse]

8. They might very *well* be embarassed.

Really they should do something about it if they don't want their religion to go from the "authoritarian jingoistic clap-trap" box to the "time to call the men in white coats" box. It's been heaving over that precipice fairly perilously for quite some time and now it's teetering dangerously close to "too far gone even for the loony bin".

[EFerrari]

4. Send this to

[e-mail].

The Committee to Save Merry Christmas.

:)

[jayctravis]

6. Are there any brave Jewish people who would mount a satirical

counter protest?

"What has happened to Hanukkah???? Where are all the menorahs and Hanukkah Shopping Catalogs???"

[Karmageddon]

9. Outstanding! Thank you.

Personally, I am LOVING this war on xmas thing. It's just like Terri Schiavo. It shows them off to be the pathetic whining over-reaching bedwetting intrusive abusive intolerant unthinking uncaring self-righteous self-centered self-loathing inconsiderate mindless zombies that they have become. They have gone from scary to hilarious. Real life caricatures of themselves. How can they possibly be taken seriously when they do these kinds of things?

Almost makes me look forward to easter so we can watch them do it again.

[baby_mouse]

10. I waiting for the story

Where a fundie comes and breaks up a Santa's grotto in a department store howling: "It's MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! CHRISTMAS!!! YOU FUCKIN ASSHOLES!!" causing a long line of small children to burst into tears...

[Karmageddon]

11. We need to start correcting their pronounciation of christmas too.

christ is pronounced with a long "i" (as in iced, not as in kissed)

It's Merry chrICEDmas you FUCKIN' ASSHOLES, not KRISSEDmas!!

[baby_mouse]

12. I've always found it more than a little ironic

That to my British ears it sounds like the deep South fundies are talking about Jesus CRASSED.

[Uncle Roy]

14. Michaelmas?

Don't the Brits also pronounce "Michaelmas", ie "The Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels", as "Mickle-mas"?

Then there's "Candlemas", but that "a" is short in "candle" too. Hard to derive a rule.

Are there any other words "X" such that an "X-mas" version exists too? Groundhogmas?

[baby_mouse]

15. Yes, it's "Mickle-mas"

but I can't think of any other vowel-shortening "mas"s.

My brain's telling me that there are loads of words in British English that shorten their vowels with ceratin suffices but I can't remember *any* of them (scritch scrritch)

[Uncle Roy]

13. Nice rant! "Protectors of Christmas" are also "Protectors of Marriage"

Same pathology at work.

The Right-Wingers who start beating the drums on these issues don't really care about the issues one way or the other. They just use the fake issues to rile up (and harness) the resentful emotions of people at the low end of the economic totem pole who are actually being hurt by the Right-Wing's economic policies.

That's What's the Matter with Kansas...

It's tragic, really, and the cynicism of it all is infuriating.

Happy Holidays...

Uncle Roy

[Terran1212]

16. Preaching to Choir -- post on free republic!

[Uncle Roy]

17. Sometimes the choir likes to hear a nice rousing sermon.

It helps confirm us in our faith.

Credo!!!

Roy

[populistdriven]

18. here is a nice rousing song!

http://www.oilfactory.com/video.php?video=249

I posted this in the lounge but they are asleep