I really want to get a job at Fox News so I can get my hands on the teleprompter. I really need to know if he would read anything that is put on it or if he actually comes up with this stuff on his own? [ QUOTE ] John Gibson: The way this apears in schools for instance, we now don't call it the christmas break, it's the…
I assumed everyone knew that Christmas was deliberately chosen by the early Church to coincide with the winter solstice... Perhaps it is my parochial education that makes me such a dangerous Trivial Pursuit combatant, yeah?
whee! this thread turned out exactly how i thought once i saw "War on Christmas", O'Reilly, and mediamatters.org (who are *completely unbiased by the way)... the thing about schools calling it "Winter Break" instead of "Christmas Break" came from a school where the only (or one of the only) Muslim student(s) at the school…
What's so important about whether or not a store uses the phrase "merry christmas" in it's advertising? Cry about it at church. Advertising is evil anyway. I'm perfectly happy with celebrating a season of giving in the winter, with family, feasts, and decorations, without all the marketing and religious bullshit. And not…
MERRY WINTER SOLSTICE! I'm seriously getting sick of the Christian Right in this country... these people are just fucking insane. Holiday means "holy day," and they consider Christmas a holy day, right? Why is that a problem for them? I read about some Christian group who were outraged at the Presidential Christmas card,…
There are many things that science can't fully explain either, but you never see anyone get militantly argumentative about gravity or the big bang theory... Or evolution... Wait, no. Anyway, those theories try to give you a ruleset with which to predict future events (e.g. when the needle will hit the ground after you let…
[ QUOTE ] There are many things that science can't fully explain either, but you never see anyone get militantly argumentative about gravity or the big bang theory... Or evolution... Wait, no. Anyway, those theories try to give you a ruleset with which to predict future events (e.g. when the needle will hit the ground…
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 http://www.billoreilly.com/show?action=viewTVShow&showID=534 Talking Points Memo A victory for traditional America "The Hillsborough School Board near Tampa has reversed its decision to remove religious holidays from school calendars. We reported the story last week, the folks in Florida rose…