“Joy to the world….all the boys and girls….joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea….joy for you and me!”….so said the Three Dog Night. Does that date us – 1971? Nah….how about “Old Fashioned Love Song”? Or “Never Been to Spain?” Those were all Three
Dog Night hits in 1971. So here we are some 35 years plus later …..thinking about what a “good politician” might be doing on Christmas. In those days….everyone knew that “all the politicians” were awful. What has happened since then?
In 1971, we were in the middle of a long war in Vietnam. The Watergate debacle was about to change what we knew about elected officials forever. Hey, the Democrats were in charge
of the Senate and the House. Barbra Striesand was protesting quietly our involvement in the Vietnam conflict. Hey, does any of this sound familiar? Maybe that’s why they just came out with a movie called: “Deja Vu”.
Today, communities are not allowed to exhibit memories of Christ. They are not allowed to place banners on entries to their cities that say: “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”, City Parks and Public Buildings are not allowed to exhibit images of the Ten Commandments, offer any reference to a Judeo-Christian heritage, most retail sales stores are forbidden from mentioning Christ or Christmas and now even some home owner associations are forbidding residents from displaying a Traditional Christmas Wreath, or images of Santa Claus. Forget about Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts mentioning that their Troop leaders are “Gay”. Those days are long gone!
So what are the people we elected to serve us doing during Christmas? No doubt they are hiding out…downing a few toddies at the local high dollar bar and grill. They are probably meeting in Private Clubs……smoking cigars and drinking pricey cognac.
They are probably complaining that by the 14th of January…they will have to go back to work making life changing decisions for “their” dumb proletariat. So, what do you think? Should we send them a Christmas card?
It is the end of 2006, and after 40 years of a full time Legislature, almost nobody will say, as a group, the state legislature is a professional body. Even after the “Fix All” term limits was passed, these leaches can’t be thrown out of office, the titles just change.
The experiment is a failure. It is time to return to a part-time legislature with-out term limits.
Of course it would need to be grass-roots, so we can start with Orange County supervisors and make these 200k per year bottlenecks part-timers too, to start.
yes a christmas card with a pink slip attached.
This sounds a lot like the Bill O’Reilly “War on Christmas” hogwash. You, like he, make a lot of accusations that are meant to stir up the emotions of the people, yet you provide no documentation to back them up.
You claim, “most retail sales stores are forbidden from mentioning Christ or Christmas”. Can you provide anything that can back this up? While I believe that most establishments prefer that employees say “happy holidays”, I doubt they are forbidden from mentioning Christmas as you claim.
You went on to say, “now even some home owner associations are forbidding residents from displaying a Traditional Christmas Wreath”. This is not entirely the truth if you are referring to the Denver area HOA banning the wreath. In that case, it was an overzealous right-winger that opposed a couples use of a Christmas wreath that included a peace symbol. He went so far as to claim that the symbol was a “promotion of Satan”.
Imagine the nerve of those people promoting peace during Christmas. What do peace and Christ have to do with one another? Hmmm?
If this isn’t what you were referring to, than please tell what was.
Then finally you said, “Forget about Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts mentioning that their Troop leaders are ‘Gay'”. Again let me remind you that it is the scouts and their supporters made up of religious extremists that have worked hard to keep scouting a bastion of bigotry.
Anyone who buys into this ridiculous “War on Christmas” garbage are members of the “dumb prolitariat”.
Instead of sending Christmas cards to the politicians do me a favor and send us all some facts to back up these claims.
Sean my boy,
Actually, the Home Owners Association we were referring to
is located right here in Costa Mesa, California. Fundamentally,
people are spooked by the “Politically Correct”….us too
group! “We just don’t want trouble..is the standard line of
the day. If in fact you doubt….
the “Cosmic Consciousness…..of
Bad Santa”…..you better look at
the recent attack on Seattle Airport….demanding equal time..
for God or Gods or Graven Images…
like St.Nicolas..himself.
Factor in the fact that all the
major Malls and their tenants are
afraid of losing Muslim shoppers..
and boy oh boy…! So, what about
our elected officials? What do
they have to say on the subject?
Are their arguments…”your” arguments? Well then, give us an
address and we will send you a
Christmas Card too!
All this talk of the PC/secular boogeyman is nothing more than a lot of hype stirred up by right-wing extremists in hopes of inflaming others to join their cause.
When I go to shopping malls in this and other areas I can tell it is Christmas from the decorations and the Santa Claus’. So what are you talking about?
This so-called “War on Christmas” is a fallacy promoted by the likes of the pervert Bill O’Reilly, the drug addict Rush Limpbaugh and you.
I don’t see it or feel it anywhere I go. I only hear about it when radical righties use it to stir up the emotions of fear and hate.
Send me that card.
Sean.
Christmas is about the birth of Jesus Christ. While you report seeing “decorations and Santa Claus” in our malls ask yourself this question. Aside from the commercialization of the birth of Jesus, as a percentage, how many Nativity scenes have you seen be it on display or in the alleged Christmas cards your receive?
If you have some time please come and join members of our church choir as we sing Christmas carols in front of our Nativity scene in Mission Viejo next Tuesday from 6-8 p.m.
Our Nativity scene is located at the intersection of La Paz Road and Chrisanta, east of Interstate 5. The Jewish display is next to ours while the Muslim and the Baha’i faith’s displays are located across the street.
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah and Joyfull Kwanzaa to all!