Happy Holidays...

I sincerely wish all of you a very happy holiday season. I don't care what religion you are (or aren't) or what you choose to do this time of year. I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas because that's what me and my family celebrate during this time of the year. If you are Jewish, please wish me a happy Hanukkah. If you are Muslim, please wish me a prosperous Ramadan, etc. I respect your traditions, even if your tradition is to have no tradition.

What I don't get is people fighting over what is appropriate to display or not to display. And don't get me started on the hypocracy involved in all of it. It seems that the same groups that are for "free speech" are the same ones tearing down the parts that they don't like. Free Speech is the right to offend. Free Speech is the right to criticize. Free speech is the right to give a message that others may not agree with. The ACLU will defend the right for anyone to say anything, but will make sure that citizens of a particular city or county can't display their traditions or their speech. The same people pushing for sexual educational messages in the public arena are the same groups that are pulling the religious symbols (or rather Christian Religious symbols) down. If it is not hate speech, or a vulgar obscenity, then why is there even a question? When I go into an old Italian neighborhood, I enjoy watching the old Catholic customs that they practice during a wedding or funeral procession. I would love to walk through a Muslim neighborhood during Ramadan and see the various lanterns on display of their faith. The feeling I get walking through a predominately Jewish neighborhood during the nights of Hanukkah gives me a sense of peace. Next, the ACLU will be taking away the ancient American Indian traditions in their communities in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. Losing the Christian traditions has exactly the same impact on our culture as it would if you took away those traditions from their respective cultures. A vital and important part of that culture would be lost.

Please, if you get the chance, take a look at a post at the Daily Kos. Read the descriptions of all of these religious symbols. Then read the one about the Christmas Tree, which in their opinion is the Christian Symbol for Christmas (I personally feel it is more secular). Why is it that all of the other symbols are very respectfully described yet the Christmas Tree (which is now apparently religious) is described like this: "We all know that the Christmas tree is really a pagan symbol adopted by our culture to honor crass commercialism at its worst. But in this instance it will stand in as a symbol of Christian rejoicing at the birth of the Savior and the enlightenment he tried to bring to the world."


This isn't just on the Daily Kos. This is the leftist blogosphere that you've been hearing so much about. There is no war on Christmas. There is a war on common sense by the looney left that has been slowly raging into the mainstream. To be honest, it pisses me off that these people are so far gone and dishonest with even the simplest of truths. What does something like this accomplish? Don't offend anyone's religion, unless they happen to be Christians.

I am sure that you will find the same kind of garbage of the far right loonies blogs as well. But to be honest, I don't know where they are because they are not spouted by the media as fact. There are a lot of right wingers that I don't agree with (You know who you are Ann Coulter). But other than her and a few like her, I don't know where to find this kind of unabashed spewing of hypocracy and hatred that is so prevalent on the left. If you know where, please let me know so that I can get pissed off about them as well. On the right, people like them are already thought of as crazies. Find me a normal right leaning person who agrees with the likes of Fred Phelps and his family of escaped mental patients (i.e. Westboro Baptist Church) and I will agree that they are far right crazies.

By the way you can visit their website at http://www.godhatesfags.com/ and read their page on why they are thanking God for today's bridge collapse in Nepal that has left many dead. In my opinion Westboro on the right = Loons on the left (Daily Kos, Randi Rhodes, Al Franken, Rosie O'Donnell).

Isn't it time we were honest with ourselves? I don't know if that will ever happen, but I do honestly have a wish for all of you (even Ann Coulter and Rosie O'Donnell). I wish you a very Happy New Year. And a special wish goes out to those Americans and other countrymen who are away from their families this year fighting for those all over the world. We hope you are all able to come home in 2008. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

mR

I Agree With Elizabeth Edwards--AHHHHHHHHH!

Crazies to the Left, and Crazies to the Right. That's the way the hacks (political and otherwise) are making me feel these days. I almost think that looneys on each side of the aisle are actually drawing those of us in the middle together--you know, the ones with the common sense.


I was listening to Fox News on my way to work this morning and actually caught some banter between Edie Hill and Ann Coulter criticizing Rosie O'Donnell's use of her daughter for political fodder. You probably know what I'm talking about. Playing guerilla dress up to make a political statement. We've come to expect this repulsive and looney behavior from Rosie. Putting your children into a political statement is irresponsible in my opinion. But "responsible" isn't a word I would use to describe Rosie anyway.


Leave it to crazy Coulter to use this attempt to criticize the entire gay community. I believe the quote was something like Rosie "has set gay adoption back 20 years." Well maybe that's what Coulter hopes would happen. But personally I don't see what one has to do with the other. There are good parents and bad parents. When are people going to learn that gross generalization is wrong regardless of what side you are on.

Shame on Edie Hill and Fox News for presenting this woman as an expert on anything other than selling books. Here's something I thought I'd never say: I agree with Elizabeth Edwards on this one. Coulter is destroying the debate by inserting hate, just as the looneys have been on the left for quite some time.

mr


P.S. Thanks to Bernie Goldberg for the "Crazies to the Left...." line.

Is The Looney Left Falling Apart?

Three major blows to the Far Left happened these last weeks. I feel that their true colors are finally showing, and they aren't red, white, or blue. Is a self-imploding event finally happening. I fear not, although it is well overdue. People destructive to the cause (or Kos) are still out there to take up the slack for those that have bitten the dust.

Now, don't get me wrong. I consider myself a moderate (independent-use your own word here). I'm not celebrating that misguided people are crashing and burning. What I am pleased with is that these mainstream "newsworthy" (notice the quotes) hateful and destructive voices have been marginalized, or rather been shown for what they are.

Cindy Sheehan (pictured with Speaker Pelosi, below) is selling her Crawford ranch du-jour to move back to her home state of, wait for it, California. It seems that the left is not far enough left for her. Now, maybe the grieving process can finally get started and the healing can begin. While I have great sympathy for her sacrifice and respect for her rights to speak out. Sympathy only lasts so long, and she overstayed her welcome on our sympathies.

Perhaps the most notable (or is it notorious) collapse this week for the kos is the complete true-color exhibition by Venezuela president Hugo Chavez (pictured below) of what he is--a power-hungry dictator. Far left = free speech, right? Isn't that one of their pillars of truth or something? What is the opposite of free speech? Closing down an independent television station? I don't know how you could get more opposite. Other than maybe harassing those that are speaking out against you--wait, what? Oh, I guess that is happening as well. Yet I've heard no comment from far left angels Belefonte or Danny Glover. All praise to fidel!

The third implosion happened as Rosie O'Donnell quit mid-contract at The View. The Diva can dish it,

but walked away when the dish came back at her.

Now each event alone probably isn't worth writing about. Put all of these events together and within a two week period is almost apocalyptic. Are the Looney's falling apart? I sincerely doubt it. Debate is healthy. But, savage and hateful speech is deconstructive on both sides. It seems to be taking its toll on those involved in it. I just hope that some of the far left-speak activists are paying attention.

mr

ABC used O'Donnell

I apologize, I have been out in Philadelphia this week and haven't had a chance to post. This will be short one ...

According to Rosie O'Donnell this morning on the "The View", her representation and ABC couldn't reach a "contract" agreement and she will be leaving the show at the end of the season in June. Rosie O'Donnell is a mouth piece and we have known that for years. ABC wanted to spice up it's ratings on the "The View" and found a controversial figure. They just followed the first rule of media--Controversy Sells. That's it folks. Nothing more, nothing less.

It's your choice whether or not to continue watching "Dancing with the Stars" or "The Bachelor."

Many recently have criticized ABC for a political bias. I really don't buy into the think that media organizations have a ideological bias. It's all about market research and power. If you think the NY Times has a liberal ideological bias, I hate to burst your bubble. They have a marketing bias that feeds the ideology of their target market. How many of their world wide papers would they sell if they told the unbiased truth? How many papers in Manhattan would they sell if they told you the complete truth? I, for one, don't watch that much ABC to begin with. My boycott of ABC would be less than effective and maybe even less than appropriate.

Now Mrs. O'Donnell is a different story. Rosie has the ideology and ABC was profiting from it. Am I upset that Rosie is gone? Absolutely not. Good riddens. But honestly, I didn't watch "The View" anyway.

I've made my choice and any other would be a little bit shallow. After all, I didn't stop watching Fox News when they brought back Geraldo Rivera.