I love the taste of wingnut in the morning. It tastes like crazy!
Let’s start out our puupuu platter with a taste of “Extolling the female tongue.” Caveat: as Steve M. warned us, it isn’t as good as it sounds. However, we believe that roving tennis bum/super spy Selwyn Duke could someday be the new Carey “Pop” Roberts, so we are going to give him a couple of minutes to make his point.
Man has long known that women were the more loquacious sex, and you’ve probably heard of studies to this effect. A recent book states women have about 20,000 “communication events” (I love these terms the psycho-babblers conjure up) a day, versus about 7,000 for men. But this is nothing new; who didn’t know a bevy of garrulous girls in school?
Yeah, who needs studies when we can all rely on our elementary school experiences with girl cooties?
What is new is the assumption that this imputes superiority to women. […]
What seems to escape most is that this modern exaltation of the lip lies in stark contrast to what wisdom has taught since time immemorial. And the truth she imparts is obvious, which is why sayings encapsulating it abound: “Still waters run deep,” “Empty kettles make the most noise,” “Shallow brooks are noisy” and “There are two kinds of people who don’t say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.”
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To be quite blunt myself, yes, I subscribe to the traditional idea that women are chatterboxes and it’s not their best trait. […]
My mother used to teach us that “Speech is silver, silence is golden.”
What is with Selwyn and the many wise old sayings all about shutting the hell up? Quite a chatterbox, isn’t he?
Next up is Marie JonApostrophe with her take on the War on Christmas.Trees, “Losing Christ to Christmas.”
In this vein, Santa Claus and Frosty the Snowman — beloved and excepted as they are by almost all — are not the reason for the season. December 25 is probably not even the actual birth date of Jesus. But that is what the Federal Government had mandated in 1870 when making Christmas a federally recognized holiday, thereby making any other date officially mote, as it is “the” date.
Hey, I make no exceptions for Santa and Frosty! But I do cede Marie’s point about how Jesus probably wasn’t actually born on the same day as the pagan holiday that the early Christian missionaries wanted to co-opt. But that point is now officially a mote (and not a beam) since a declaration of the Federal Government supersedes the truth, so I guess Jesus actually WAS born on the 25th of December
To this writer, Rabbi Bogomilsky, who is undoubtedly wed to his faith as I am to mine, looked to be offended, and so he was. The mere existence of Christmas tress in the lobby of a Seattle airport is threatening to no one, and exalts no religion over another.
I think that everyone, even a Rabbi, should be able to appreciate the existence of Christmas tress, especially tresses that are bouncin’ and behavin’.
So, now there is nothing. Is everybody happy now? Well, no, but maybe in this latest act of “the world revolves around my sensibilities, Christmas be damned,” maybe we can all start to see past the ribbons, stores, lights, and yes, Christmas trees.
Yeah! What is it with these troublemakers, always looking to be offended because THEIR sensibilities aren’t being catered to? But let’s get beyond the way they selfishly tried to honor THEIR religion, Christmas be damned, and go back to boycotting Best Buy because they offended us by failing to honor our most cherished seasonal greeting.
Now the RenewAmerica Forum wishes to pose a series of leading hypothetical questions. But before you answer, I do have to advise you that anything you might say could be used against you in a court of law, so I’d recomend you have an attorney present during questioning.
Suppose there was a website that featured a wide-open discussion page. Suppose this “forum” allowed all takers to enter and post anything they wanted, until they became so obnoxious and inconsiderate that they forced the administrator to ban them out of respect for others at the forum.
Hypothetically, I’d call this ”just another day on the internet,” and wonder why anybody found it interesting enough to write about. But do go on.
Suppose it became obvious long ago that many posters at the forum were disrupters whose sole purpose was to destroy the forum and the ideals upon which it was based, by continually challenging the very premises of our nation’s founding, especially those which center in the reality of God and the importance of His Word.
Well, in that case I would say that Renew America should alert the FBI, since anybody who would challenge the premise that our nation was founded as a Christian republic governed by biblical laws is probably a commie.
Suppose, as a result, the forum often functioned at “cross purposes” with the national leader whose website sponsored the forum in a genuine effort to educate and strengthen America’s grassroots–and thus the forum often defeated its very reason for being.
Wait a minute – the Renew America forum is functioning at “cross purposes” with Alan Keyes? I guess you CAN make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear!
In any case, I wish Renew America all the best with their plan to restrict the posts which they find disruptive or troublesome (but remember, kids, when liberals do this to conservatives, it’s called “violating their first amendment rights.”) I hope it helps them to get back to their core mission of educating and strengthening America’s wingnuts grassroots.
For a change of pace, here’s Kevin Fobbs with “New Congress should guarantee faith leaders freedom of speech.”
Nobody does it better.
In 2007 a new Congress has an opportunity to erase a law that has paralyzed faith leaders for over 50 years. In 1954 while the U.S. Supreme Court was using the historic “Brown v Board of Education” guaranteeing Blacks their basic U.S. Constitutional rights, then-Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson, the future President of the United States, was initiating a law that would strip hundreds of thousands of religious leaders and their brothers and sisters in faith of the U.S. Constitutional Right to Freedom of Speech and thereby sentence them to self-imposed silence on political and moral issues of the day.
It’s a little known fact that the U.S. Constitution promises you the right to tax-exempt status.
This one act of well-targeted political hubris literally paralyzed ministers under threat of possibly losing their churches if they spoke out from their pulpit about touchy political issues, hot social issues, or volatile moral issues of the day.
Yes, these ministers are literally paralyzed by the possibility that they might have to pay taxes (apparently the phenomena works a little something like curare.) And anyway, why shouldn’t they use religion to endorse a particular political candidate or party? After all, didn’t Jesus use his Sermon on the Mount to tell his followers, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s, and then vote for Bob Davis, the guy who will revamp the tax code to ensure that none of your stuff is Caesar’s”?
It did not matter that this was a right ministers had enjoyed since before the formation of our nation.
They enjoyed a U.S. Constitutional Right before the formation of our nation? I never knew that.
Now a new Congress has the opportunity to put an end to this tragic legacy of Lyndon Baines Johnson that has frozen free speech from the pulpit. The nation needs a “House of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act” bill as a Constitutional protected right for ministers of faith. My minister or your minister, rabbi, priest or religious leader should have their First Amendment rights restored. That should be a no-brainer.
Because everyone with no brain agrees that churches SHOULD be used as subsidiaries of the Republican Party.
You’ve sat in your pew and watched your minister having to carefully craft the sermon so as to not step over the line that restricted him from saying what the spirit of God was telling him. For over 50 years a minister who wanted to speak out on Sunday morning against the issues of the day be it to hold a wayward political figure responsible for his or her stands on moral issues or an elected official who had abandoned the faith in pursuit of temporary political gain.
Um, I think Kevin lost the end of his sentence. But instead of completing it for him (fun as it might be), I’ll just give him a link to the tax code, so he can read it before he embarrasses himself any further: Exemption Requirements.
Lastly, here’s Fee Benamon with a little number called “Compromising our Christian faith.”
I wanted to mention the conference and the above related articles because this is a trying time for Christians.
Christmas time is always the hardest for the Christians.
Christians are being told they can’t openly express their faith for fear of offending someone. But last I checked, we still live in a free society (supposedly). People are scared a Christian will give them some good news. Nobody is going to fall over and die because Christians are sharing their faith.
Yeah! And if it doesn’t kill you when your boss makes you face towards Meca and pray with him every morning, then there’s nothing wrong with it! And if it doesn’t kill kids to practice some pagan rituals during their public school’s Winter Soltice celebration, then everybody should shut the hell up about it, and just go with the flow! Quit being such babies, everybody!
And that concludes our little appetizer platter. I hope you have enjoyed reading it as much as I did reading page after page of badly-written drivel over at the Renew America site.
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