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Pikaoh posted:Alright, now in mirror world. A Danish cartoonist draws an image of Jesus operating one of the many torture devices used during the Spanish Inquisition. I wonder, would peaceful protest/political correctness be destroying are country then? Remember Piss Christ? .jpg)
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Zalb posted:Remember Piss Christ? I don't recall anyone burning down the suburbs in Chicago over it  I am seriously lucky that my family doesn't really use email for much of anything aside from planning family reunions every few years or for work. Then again, I have to live vicariously through you guys, so...
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Gripen5 posted:Of course I will believe that a bunch of odd ornaments taken at extremely close range had to come from no other place than the White House Christmas tree.
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Ya, wasn't that a project for students?
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ManoliIsFat posted:Ya, wasn't that a project for students?
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Childlike Empress posted:No signs or anything indicating that it was a student project. Not that that means any ornaments on the tree represented the Obammunist Atheist Gay Death Panel Plans for America, but I just remember thinking, "With all this nice, elegant stuff around, wtf is up with Crazy Tree?" Old ornaments were sent to schools around the country for children to decoupage. But they were also sent to community organization. This is how, for example, Hedda Lettuce's ornament got there: quote:“I was doing some volunteer work with SAGE at the Gay Community Center in NYC. SAGE is an organization that helps elder gay people by providing them social activities and a community space to hang out with their peers," says Hedda Lettuce. The fact that it's on the tree is all the fault of Simon Doonan, creative director for New York's Barney’s department store, who was in charge of decorating the trees this year. Thanks, Doonan, for stirring up a nontroversy.
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Speaking of Christmas, I just received this e-mail from one of my organization's members.Huge Jerk posted:In your attempt to remain neutral or politically correct by stating Happy Holidays you have offended me. Have you ever stopped for a second and given it any thought that you might offend those of us who believe in the celebration of Christmas for what it truly is, the birth of Christ? It is so typical of a company to take this politically correct stance or "way out". I suppose it has become easier to offend those of us who believe in the true meaning of Christmas. I have been a loyal member for many years and want to let you know that I am very disappointed in your organization for taking this position. Our Newsletter posted:December 22, 2009 - Happy Holidays! 
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Childlike Empress posted:Speaking of Christmas, I just received this e-mail from one of my organization's members. It's ok. It would only make him mad and defensive. Ignorance is bliss.
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The thing is that Happy Holidays encompasses both of the New Years Holidays, Christmas and Hannukah. It's a hell of a lot easier to say "Happy Holidays" than it is to say "Merry Christmas (or Hannukah if you're Jewish) and have a good New Years!" but a lot of people don't seem to understand that. I say Merry Christmas and I don't really care what people say to me personally. If they're Jewish I just say "whoops sorry" and make a mental note for the next time I see them.
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Toad on a Hat posted:The thing is that Happy Holidays encompasses both of the New Years Holidays, Christmas and Hannukah. It's a hell of a lot easier to say "Happy Holidays" than it is to say "Merry Christmas (or Hannukah if you're Jewish) and have a good New Years!" but a lot of people don't seem to understand that. You assume that the people who make a fuss about this actually care about respecting a non-Christian person's holiday or cultural customs and aren't simply all about rubbing their awesome Christianity in everyone's face. This is a faulty assumption.
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Zwabu posted:You assume that the people who make a fuss about this actually care about respecting a non-Christian person's holiday or cultural customs and aren't simply all about rubbing their awesome Christianity in everyone's face. True. Maybe I just want an ideal world sometimes
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Toad on a Hat posted:True. Maybe I just want an ideal world sometimes Well there you go, in an ideal world, no one would give a flying gently caress.
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I can't stand the whole "Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays" thing. I used to think that it was almost exclusively Christians who got upset about Happy Holidays, but lo and behold, this year I was proven wrong when a pagan friend of mine put a rant up on Facebook about how offended he is that people had the gall to wish him a Merry Christmas. I'll tell ya who's never getting a card from me ever again.
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Plom Bar posted:I can't stand the whole "Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays" thing. I used to think that it was almost exclusively Christians who got upset about Happy Holidays, but lo and behold, this year I was proven wrong when a pagan friend of mine put a rant up on Facebook about how offended he is that people had the gall to wish him a Merry Christmas. I can't tell if a pagan getting mad about people celebrating Christmas is incredibly ironic or makes perfect sense.
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Mornacale posted:I can't tell if a pagan getting mad about people celebrating Christmas is incredibly ironic or makes perfect sense. It WOULD make perfect sense if he were a pagan for reasons beyond "I'm a twenty-something Fine Arts student and want to be different from the rest of you sheeple" His paganism is recent, you see.
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I'm sad that I live on the liberal island of Seattle. I desperately wish someone would call me out over some happy holidays instance just so I could ask them what I should do when I change it to Merry Christmas and a Jew sends in his exact same complaint. But noooooooooooooo, we have to have metro busses with Santa declaring "Yes Virginia, there is no God" and common sense. This is America, I need someone to hate and blame all my problems on. Intel&Sebastian fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jan 5, 2010 |
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I'm sad that I live on the liberal island of Seattle. I desperately wish someone would call me out over some happy holidays instance just so I could ask them what I should do when I change it to Merry Christmas and a Jew sends in his exact same complaint. Now you know.
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Got this from my mom yesterday...it was the first crazy fwd email I've responded to, I was so disgusted by it and the fact that anyone would find it worth passing on. Not to mention it took me all of 10 seconds to look it up on Snopes and see that it's fake. Seriously...the implication that lazyass coloreds sit around with their thumbs up their asses while hardworking white amurricans bootstrap it on up is insulting, racist, and ridiculous. quote:Emergency Weather Bulletin
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Schweig und tanze posted:Got this from my mom yesterday...it was the first crazy fwd email I've responded to, I was so disgusted by it and the fact that anyone would find it worth passing on. Not to mention it took me all of 10 seconds to look it up on Snopes and see that it's fake. Yes, how dare those lazy Americans demand that the government they pay taxes to help them when us REAL AMERICANS just start shoveling! Not like there is a difference between losing power to my house, and having it flooded out and uninhabitable, nope. quote:No one looted. You mean that, in nearly four feet of snow, with severe wind, people were not out looting? 
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jackpot posted:Except for Detroit I thought that part of the country was all white people anyway. Yeah, they purposefully cherry picked a part of the country that didn't have minorities. If you read the article. The original version was for Iowa, Wyoming, and the Dakotas, and later ones were of Colorado, and now its Michigan. They aren't going to bring up when NYC had a severe storm that caused power outages to to over 70,000 customers, 500 of which (including me) were without power for 5 days. But granted, I am pretty sure it was a summer storm, so not nearly as bad overall. I didn't get a FEMA trailer.  God, that was an epic failure of a government mandated private monopoly. But then again, they all are. But that is a story for another time and another thread.
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I take offense at the assertion that victims of Katrina didn't have the "work or die" attitude, it's just that a lot of them actually died.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I take offense at the assertion that victims of Katrina didn't have the "work or die" attitude, it's just that a lot of them actually died. The whole drat thing is offensive. I did point out in my response to her that having several feet of snow outside with no power, and five feet of rank, fetid water IN YOUR HOUSE are two completely different situations...not to mention when you are destitute to begin with your options are kinda limited. But whatever, she's a GOOD CHRISTIAN. Jesus was just kidding when he said all that poo poo about helping out the less fortunate and not passing judgement or whatever.
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Schweig und tanze posted:The whole drat thing is offensive. I did point out in my response to her that having several feet of snow outside with no power, and five feet of rank, fetid water IN YOUR HOUSE are two completely different situations...not to mention when you are destitute to begin with your options are kinda limited. Yeah I was trying to be a bit sarcastic with mine. I'm right with you though, even ignoring the fluidity of the facts and location of this MOMENTOUS WEATHER EVENT, the smugness and ignorance of the basic facts of hurricane katrina is just disgusting. Something else that strikes me, can you think of anything that defines "elitist" better than a bunch of people from MICHIGAN thumbing their noses at Katrina victims because they survived a snowstorm? edit: I need to stop reading this thread, it's making me feel like Terri Schiavo is still around.
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Just got this gem, from a buddy of mine, who, oddly enough, has parents that immigrated here.quote:If u cross the north Korean border illegally u get 12 years hard labor...if u cross Iranian border illegally u get detained indefinitly....cross the Afghan border u get shot ....cross the Saudi border u will be jailed .....cross the Chinese border u will never be heard from again....cross the Venezuelan border u... will b branded a spy and your fate sealed...cross the Cuban border u will b thrown n prison to rot.....however ..cross the U.S. border illegally...u get a job, a drivers license, a social security card, welfare benefits, food stamps, credit cards, subsidized rent or a loan to buy a new house, free education, free healthcare, the right to vote, and all without speaking a word of english.....makes ya think a little bit huh? Dang Mexicans taking all our jobs!  
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How the gently caress do you cross the Cuban border? Get a boat and start rowing? So, what that letter's saying is that the USA isn't a lovely 3rd world dictatorship with draconian laws. I'm glad I live here.
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Armyman25 posted:How the gently caress do you cross the Cuban border? Get a boat and start rowing? The thing that's worse is that both of our parents immigrated here (he knows who my parents are), so to think that he'd rather they had been shot or tortured or jailed is so monumentally disingenuous it's not even funny. His response to me was something to the effect of "Well our parents did it the LEGAL way, they WORKED HARD (bootstraps!), and all these illegals nowadays just expect everything handed to them on a silver platter!" 
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quote:cross the U.S. border illegally...u get a job, a drivers license, a social security card, welfare benefits, food stamps, credit cards, subsidized rent or a loan to buy a new house, free education, free healthcare, the right to vote, and all without speaking a word of english.....makes ya think a little bit huh?
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Where is his contact for SS cards, I know a few people that would love to get one.
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There's actually plenty of opportunities to get shot in Afghanistan it's just that people are so excited after getting into the country it's the first thing they do.
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Craftics posted:Just got this gem, from a buddy of mine, who, oddly enough, has parents that immigrated here. Wait the Afghan govt. controls its border now?
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quote:This is so scary. If true, it may be a warning sign about freedom in America. Man, Patriot act was one thing but I cant make funny faces in the ATM security camera what the gently caress?! (It's not real: http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/camera.asp)
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Schweig und tanze posted:Seriously...the implication that lazyass coloreds sit around with their thumbs up their asses while hardworking white amurricans bootstrap it on up is insulting, racist, and ridiculous. So what´s the deal anyway, has the "for the people" part of government been completely eliminated? I mean, wtf is even the point of government if not to help in times of crisis. In fact, I believe I read an academic theory on sovereignty somewhere that stated the very *definition* of government is the body which is called upon in time of crisis. But gently caress... hurr... coloureds!
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Just got this one:quote:
Didn't research any of these points yet as I'm at work.
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email posted:A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. Fixed. The quote doesn't even sound like Jefferson, or even any 18th- through 19-century figure. 
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SpergyGirl posted:Fixed. People don't really internalize poo poo like that or contextualize and appreciate intellectual history unless they're philosophers or lawyers or historians or some other breed of nerd.
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