The War on Christmas...

[Ashmoria]

there is a war on christmas VACATION.

that mean old harry reid is threatening to reconvene the senate on the 26th so they can get back to work passing stuff that needs passing.

awwwww those senators have it so much harder than the unemployed who would love to be working on christmas.

And the barely employed who don't dare take even Christmas Eve off to be with their families. Why I know folks who even work on -- gasp! -- Christmas Day. And it's not even just out of spite.

yeah my sister (both sisters actually) just started a new job (thank god she found one after the motel she worked at got sold and they fired everyone) and is working on christmas eve and christmas day. we are going to have christmas dinner on the 26th since its her day off. my other sister is a nurse and works most holidays so that nurses with small children can have the day off.

[Farnhamia]

there is a war on christmas VACATION.

that mean old harry reid is threatening to reconvene the senate on the 26th so they can get back to work passing stuff that needs passing.

awwwww those senators have it so much harder than the unemployed who would love to be working on christmas.

And the barely employed who don't dare take even Christmas Eve off to be with their families. Why I know folks who even work on -- gasp! -- Christmas Day. And it's not even just out of spite.

Indeed. That was a very nice suit Senator Kyl was wearing while pontificating about how "disrespectful" it was that he should have to work on the holiday. It's enough to make Baby Jesus cry.

[Muravyets]

And the barely employed who don't dare take even Christmas Eve off to be with their families. Why I know folks who even work on -- gasp! -- Christmas Day. And it's not even just out of spite.

yeah my sister (both sisters actually) just started a new job (thank god she found one after the motel she worked at got sold and they fired everyone) and is working on christmas eve and christmas day. we are going to have christmas dinner on the 26th since its her day off. my other sister is a nurse and works most holidays so that nurses with small children can have the day off.

I think there should be an amendment to the Constitution to create the office of Aunt Edna of the Chamber or something like that, so that any time any Senator or Congressperson starts whining on about, "But wah! This'll eat into my vacation time, boo hoo!", this old woman will rise laboriously from a small chair, walk over to said member, and smack him/her upside their dumb-ass head with one of those hard-sided purses full of candies till they grow the fuck up and get back to work.

I think if we had such a thing, that would pretty much bring the world Peace in Our Christmas Time.

[Ashmoria]

And the barely employed who don't dare take even Christmas Eve off to be with their families. Why I know folks who even work on -- gasp! -- Christmas Day. And it's not even just out of spite.

Indeed. That was a very nice suit Senator Kyl was wearing while pontificating about how "disrespectful" it was that he should have to work on the holiday. It's enough to make Baby Jesus cry.

did you see the bill oreilly thing where baby jesus isnt in favor of excessive charity? steven colbert ripped that apart last night.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colber ... l-democrat

[Ashmoria]

yeah my sister (both sisters actually) just started a new job (thank god she found one after the motel she worked at got sold and they fired everyone) and is working on christmas eve and christmas day. we are going to have christmas dinner on the 26th since its her day off. my other sister is a nurse and works most holidays so that nurses with small children can have the day off.

I think there should be an amendment to the Constitution to create the office of Aunt Edna of the Chamber or something like that, so that any time any Senator or Congressperson starts whining on about, "But wah! This'll eat into my vacation time, boo hoo!", this old woman will rise laboriously from a small chair, walk over to said member, and smack him/her upside their dumb-ass head with one of those hard-sided purses full of candies till they grow the fuck up and get back to work.

I think if we had such a thing, that would pretty much bring the world Peace in Our Christmas Time.

lol

and when they put a hold on something without standing up to defend why it should be on hold. she could smack them upside the head until they defended it or gave it up.

[Farnhamia]

Indeed. That was a very nice suit Senator Kyl was wearing while pontificating about how "disrespectful" it was that he should have to work on the holiday. It's enough to make Baby Jesus cry.

did you see the bill oreilly thing where baby jesus isnt in favor of excessive charity? steven colbert ripped that apart last night.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colber ... l-democrat

Brilliant. Especially the last, acknowledge that Jesus commanded us to help the poor and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

[Ashmoria]

did you see the bill oreilly thing where baby jesus isnt in favor of excessive charity? steven colbert ripped that apart last night.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colber ... l-democrat

Brilliant. Especially the last, acknowledge that Jesus commanded us to help the poor and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

yeah cobert has a strong religious streak. it obviously pisses him off when other christians ignore what jesus said to do.

[Gauthier]

The government should file a formal declaration of war against Christmas, just for the lulz.

[The Rampant Moose]

oh god.. this again.
this thread already happened.

[Farnhamia]

oh god.. this again.
this thread already happened.

So? Why do you hate freedom and Baby Jesus and free speech and my sacred tax dollars?

[Imsogone]

yeah my sister (both sisters actually) just started a new job (thank god she found one after the motel she worked at got sold and they fired everyone) and is working on christmas eve and christmas day. we are going to have christmas dinner on the 26th since its her day off. my other sister is a nurse and works most holidays so that nurses with small children can have the day off.

I think there should be an amendment to the Constitution to create the office of Aunt Edna of the Chamber or something like that, so that any time any Senator or Congressperson starts whining on about, "But wah! This'll eat into my vacation time, boo hoo!", this old woman will rise laboriously from a small chair, walk over to said member, and smack him/her upside their dumb-ass head with one of those hard-sided purses full of candies till they grow the fuck up and get back to work.

I think if we had such a thing, that would pretty much bring the world Peace in Our Christmas Time.

I volunteer. But it wouldn't be a hard purse full of candies, it might be a 15 pound dumbell.. Apt though - use one dumbell to smack another.

[Steenia]

Next week I'm installing the auto-cannon programmed to target carol singers, nothing to do with the war on Christmas, they're just fucking annoying.

Please PLEASE send me the schematics for this when completed. I'll pay.

[Farnhamia]

Next week I'm installing the auto-cannon programmed to target carol singers, nothing to do with the war on Christmas, they're just fucking annoying.

Please PLEASE send me the schematics for this when completed. I'll pay.

I prefer a more traditional method.

[Tekania]

And the barely employed who don't dare take even Christmas Eve off to be with their families. Why I know folks who even work on -- gasp! -- Christmas Day. And it's not even just out of spite.

Indeed. That was a very nice suit Senator Kyl was wearing while pontificating about how "disrespectful" it was that he should have to work on the holiday. It's enough to make Baby Jesus cry.

Perhaps this senator can explain to me what holiday takes place on the 26th of December...

[Tekania]

yeah my sister (both sisters actually) just started a new job (thank god she found one after the motel she worked at got sold and they fired everyone) and is working on christmas eve and christmas day. we are going to have christmas dinner on the 26th since its her day off. my other sister is a nurse and works most holidays so that nurses with small children can have the day off.

I think there should be an amendment to the Constitution to create the office of Aunt Edna of the Chamber or something like that, so that any time any Senator or Congressperson starts whining on about, "But wah! This'll eat into my vacation time, boo hoo!", this old woman will rise laboriously from a small chair, walk over to said member, and smack him/her upside their dumb-ass head with one of those hard-sided purses full of candies till they grow the fuck up and get back to work.

I think if we had such a thing, that would pretty much bring the world Peace in Our Christmas Time.

She can be chairman of the Department of Grow the Fuck Up... And Under-Secretary of Call Someone Who Cares.

[Ashmoria]

Indeed. That was a very nice suit Senator Kyl was wearing while pontificating about how "disrespectful" it was that he should have to work on the holiday. It's enough to make Baby Jesus cry.

Perhaps this senator can explain to me what holiday takes place on the 26th of December...

boxing day!

and its sunday this year!

and....DAMMIT he wants to go back to the good old days when the republicans controlled the senate and they only worked 3 days a week!

[Farnhamia]

Indeed. That was a very nice suit Senator Kyl was wearing while pontificating about how "disrespectful" it was that he should have to work on the holiday. It's enough to make Baby Jesus cry.

Perhaps this senator can explain to me what holiday takes place on the 26th of December...

Well, see, it's very far from Arizona to Washington, and he'd have to fly back on Christmas Day, which for a devout Christian like him is practically a sin, since I'm sure he plans to spend the entire day of the 25th is deep prayer, thanking his savior for all the blessings that have come his way during the year, so then he'd have to leave the bosom of his family to return to Babylon on the Potomac and ... it would be a hardship.

[Farnhamia]

I think there should be an amendment to the Constitution to create the office of Aunt Edna of the Chamber or something like that, so that any time any Senator or Congressperson starts whining on about, "But wah! This'll eat into my vacation time, boo hoo!", this old woman will rise laboriously from a small chair, walk over to said member, and smack him/her upside their dumb-ass head with one of those hard-sided purses full of candies till they grow the fuck up and get back to work.

I think if we had such a thing, that would pretty much bring the world Peace in Our Christmas Time.

She can be chairman of the Department of Grow the Fuck Up... And Under-Secretary of Call Someone Who Cares.

Or maybe the Sergeant At Slap-You-Upside-The-Head.

[Tekania]

Perhaps this senator can explain to me what holiday takes place on the 26th of December...

boxing day!

and its sunday this year!

and....DAMMIT he wants to go back to the good old days when the republicans controlled the senate and they only worked 3 days a week!

I object to your implication that they only worked 3 days a week; simply showing up does not constitute "work" by my accepted definition.

[Wiztopia]

I think the stupidest political correctness is the "holiday tree" instead of Christmas tree.

[Ashmoria]

I think the stupidest political correctness is the "holiday tree" instead of Christmas tree.

aye

but christmas trees are so nonreligious that its kinda silly to associate them with christ at all.

[Aethyopea]

I think the stupidest political correctness is the "holiday tree" instead of Christmas tree.

Oh come on! It's christmas! Can't those who call them "holiday trees" and those who call them "christmas trees" just settle their differences and instead beat up those pricks with the pink aluminum christmas trees?

[Farnhamia]

I think the stupidest political correctness is the "holiday tree" instead of Christmas tree.

Oh, I imagine there are stupider examples. "Holiday tree" isn't too terribly bad, if one isn't Christian but wants to join in the fun. And being politically correct is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. The extremes to which people take it are.

[Rambhutan]

'Christmas tree' - surely you mean Yule log? It's political correctness gone mad I tell you....

[Coccygia]

Brilliant. Especially the last, acknowledge that Jesus commanded us to help the poor and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

yeah cobert has a strong religious streak. it obviously pisses him off when other christians ignore what jesus said to do.

But isn't ignoring what Jesus actually said what Christianity is all about?