wandering girl's Comments (350)

“"For millennia, CHRIST has been the reason for the season."

um, no.

neither "Christmas" (December 25) nor "the birth of Christ" were celebrated by the early church, and once it was dictated to be a "Christian" date, it was quickly melded into other, non-Christian solstice observances that had taken place (possibly "for millennia").

Oliver Cromwell, good Puritan that he was, outlawed Christmas celebrations in England, and the Puritans here across the pond forbade any observance of the date whatsoever, religious or otherwise.

the traditions we associate with "the season" are pagan Germanic Yule traditions. what *we* think of as Christmas was actually Queen Victoria's interpretation of the holiday (yes, "holiday," from "holy day"), blending good old Anglo-Saxon revelry and licentiousness with her consort's Germanic pagan symbology.

"War on Christmas," indeed. more like "Denial of History" perpetrated by the uber-pious and ultra-ignorant.”

“and these are the same Teabaggists who proudly proclaim themselves "not racists," right?”

“"attacking" the CoC?

last I heard, non-violent protest was still legal in this country. at least until the Republican Christian Racist Taliban takes over.”

“I blame Ronald Reagan.”

“didn't she used to be governor of Alaska?”

“actually, it's stale coffee grounds masquerading as Ceylon's finest.”

“refresh my memory: what's a conspiracy theory the left is promulgating?”

“but to the man with a hammer, all the world's a stage. thus, in defending their "inerrant text" as "science," they can only view Origin of Species as a competing "sacred text."”

“I think your problem is you haven't a clue what or who "Darwinists" are. they certainly don't represent even the majority of those who accept evolution as a scientific fact.

your bias is telling.”

“wow. and to think that it took you just 11 sentences and 2 paragraphs to prove that you are both ignorant and bigoted, have one of the narrowest mindsets on the planet, can't remember Palin is no longer governor, and are willing to stereotype millions of people into your own christianized view of a holiday that was originally a pagan winterfest.”

“amazing. after all these months of comparing Obama to Hitler, calling him a Nazi, and other such filth, they get the chance to see what *real* neo-nazis are like. think this will make them tone down their racist rhetoric?”

“she's mean, nasty, spiteful and vindictive.

we knew this long before her passel of lies she's calling a book came out.

the night of her nomination, we saw the mean and nasty part. within the next few days, several of her fellow Alaskans told us about her spiteful and vindictive side.

and we saw all of it during the scope of both the campaign and her ethics investigations.”

“not if you take it in context. Failin' Palin uses a lot of religious imagery and rhetoric to "support" the righteousness of her cause - which is, apparently, keeping Americans poor, sick, and republican.”

“Obama has a spine. what he doesn't have is spiTe, which Cheney has in spades.”

“and by the way: The Nobel Committee's decision has NOTHING to do with our constitution, our politics, or your opinion.”

“are you also proud to be an Okie from Muskogie? because that's what it sounds like: "I'm not for anything that man stands for, so I won't stand for him!" how nice that you made your way in this country without public school, public health, public roads, public parks, public libraries, national parks, national military, and a national presence in the world. yep, just that one little tiny country of you.

if you read your - pardon me, OUR - constitution, you'll see that America owes its citizens more than what you claim - in fact, the constitution says we're already born with that, and that the country owes us the ABILITY to enjoy those inalienable rights. but I guess you didn't actually read that part, did you?”

“racism and murder: more GOP "family values"”

“very interesting. without challenging any of the author's conclusions, I will say that his work indicates that Obama isn't "a radical, leftist socialist," nor a "true-blue liberal progressive," but a centrist, which virtually all his campaign and his presidency thus far have revealed him to be.

hardly news to anyone who actually *paid attention* to the man.

and yet, there will still be right-wingers who scream that he's as far left as is possible to be, and left-wingers who will feel betrayed that he actually isn't.

he's exactly what I wanted in the White House.”

“"condesension?" I'm sorry, but Sarah Palin owns the copyright on that.

this movement is NOT diverse, it is NOT spontaneous, and it is NOT non-partisan - it is carefully manipulated by the very ones who sold us the Iraq war.

I'm ashamed that the American public is so easily duped as to believe anything the Teabaggers claim. H. L. Mencken was right.”

“right, because the Founding Fathers were protesting the Universal Health Care that Mad King George was forcing on them.

you're a bit late to start fiddling - where were YOU when Mad King George took us into Iraq looking for those mythical WMDs? where were YOU when the Puppetmaster was spying on us AMERICAN CITIZENS? where you YOU when they took your taxes to give to Halliburton? WHERE WERE YOU when they squandered your children's inheritance?

you really believe this economic meltdown started in JANUARY 2009??? my poor misguided fool.

don't give me your sanctimonious words - you know what those unruly crowds are doing, and it has NOTHING to do with "onerous burdens" - it has EVERYTHING to do with partisan politics.

and you obviously didn't even read the article, because it supports NONE of your arguments.

why don't YOU take LESSONS from the founders of this country and stop trying to claim that bankrupting people for medical exigencies is somehow an AMERICAN VIRTUE?”

“"Just escalation in volume and chronic disrespect in the false name of patriotism."

because the type of mustard one uses speaks so much about competency and love of country.”

“I beg to differ. liberal elite women are much too busy getting actual work done in their communities to worry about what soap opera bawl Palin is up to this week.

and don't worry about the health care reform - people now see that she lied, the Republican toadies lied, and the talk show hosts are so full of themselves they can't see their toes. nothing's been derailed. but Palin et ilk have been unveiled as the lying sobs they really are.”

“how come you conservatives didn't address tort reform 7 years ago?

how come you included "illegal aliens" in that 47M, when they don't even exist there?

how come you're addressing this to the "Dems"? oh, yeah - because the Rethugs decided they're just going to whine and be speed bumps in the process.

how do you *know* 80%+ are "happy" with the existing system?”

“oh, would that it were an alien probe as well.”

“food for thought, and worth continuing to look at this as an option.”