man, what a fucked up christmas bush has given us

just watching a snippet of cnn's coverage or rumsfeld trying to bolster the spirit of the troops who are forced to be away from home because of bush's masturbatory war. it's disgusting, but every christmas they do this, they show the troops overseas to somehow tie in the holidays with the war.

it'll be hard for me to enjoy the holiday because of all the bullshit bush has wrought, all the lies, all the dead innocents, all the slaps in the face to christ on his birthday, the obscene horrors of white phosphorous, cluster bombs, daisy cutter bombs, dead mothers, dead fathers, dead old folks and babies by the thousands while carolers sing peace on earth, good will toward men.

joy to the world? i don't want to hear it thanks, not until bush and all his crazy fucking pals are gone will there be joy to the world or peace on earth, so why even pretend that we follow christ when we spit on him so?

There has never been a better Christmas...nor a worse one.

"It was the best of times...It was the worst of times."


Life will always be full of death, poverty, evil, corruption. But life is also full of love and promise. Which one should you celebrate?

But Christmas is a celebration of hope and life and renewal. Let the peace be in your heart even if it is not yet in the world.

and I sure wish I could share it. But here is the recipe.

Start with one dozen eggs, separate them.

Into the yolks, add one box of Confectioner's sugar and ONE GIANT FREAKING BOTTLE OF WILD TURKEY or MAKERS MARK

Then slowly add in two quarts of heavy cream.

Next whip the egg whites almost dry...stiff peaks.

Then fold the cream mixture gently into the egg whites.

Top it with fresh ground nutmeg.

You won't worry about war, poverty or anything else for the rest of the holiday.

You can even refrigerate it for a couple of days, and then when you just can't drink anymore of it you make a cake out of it. You can get recipes online.

over twenty years. Happy whatever you celebrate in late December.

and it's just as good! In that case, add a bit of vanilla. And whip the yolks over a bit of heat to scald them.

Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me...

I know that sounds kind of "Pollyanna", but it would be depressing to let myself think of all that stuff all the time. I know the discussions will lean political once in a while as I gather with family and friends over the next few days, but I'm going to try to keep it to a minimum.

There is something to be said for counting your blessings. In the age we live in, it's very necessary to do that once in a while. Otherwise, well, I would hate to really think about what and who I would become.

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

Thanks for that, Gran:)

Someone told me once that when your problems become overwhelming, it sometimes helps to go to a high peak and look out at the world. It's so big, and you get the sense of how many people there are. Our own problems, at least for the moment, seem very small. It's worked for me. Now I'll always think of that as "standing on this pleasant lea".

But I assure you both, the creed is hardly "outworn".

:)

then and now has been reborn!


tg

The teaching that we are all an integral part of Nature has never been lost, despite the best efforts of the Church to obliterate it. They failed in the Dark Ages, they failed in the Middle Ages, they failed in the Reformation, and they will fail today.

I like the idea of being reborn, though. Very Pagan, that. :)

all faiths will settle into their commonality. Not in my lifetime, I'm sure.

Thanks for bringing the true christian perspective to the OP's point of view.

The only thing I can add is that it will all be over eventually as nothing can truly last forever.

Merry Christmas and God Bless...

for 2 months this year - Nov & Dec! So I have money for Xmas to buy my dad a present. Last year at this time I was filing for bankruptcy.

I hope your Christmas is a marvelous time of peace and joy.

on. This isn't a Christian war, nor is this a Christian administration. It's easy to prove. Just keep quoting the Prince of Peace when they spout this hate. For example (quoting from memory), "When you do this unto the least of these, you do so unto me." Kinda puts their response to Katrina and the New Orleans situation in perspective. Or this one, "When your enemy smites you on the check, offer him the other cheek also." Now tell me again why we attacked Iraq in Christian terms.

At times like these, I find it helpful to remember that Jesus wasn't sent to the cross by the Jews, he was sent to the cross by the church of the time (the sanhedrin). There have always been evil men who have cloaked themselves in religion to do evil things. To me, that is one of the central themes of the new testament, the most central being Love.

The message of Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha or all great spiritual leaders is always peace and is still valid. There just will always be some people who don't get it.

Happy Holiday, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah or just Happy Day. :) God love you for caring!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

The half left off was The New Testament. ;-)

Welcome! :hi:

...here in the D/FW market during the holidays, our news outlets always braodcast greetings from soliders stationed overseas and have done so for as long as I can remember, be it during Clinton, Bush 41, Reagan, or whenever. The key is that those soldiers have family at home down here.

Yes, Nero's regime has put a damper on Christmas, but I'm determined not to let them kill my spirit. I will still wish you Peace on Earth, with good will towards all humankind.

let alone christmas

It's not that I'm an atheist - I usually celebrate along with everyone else (who doesn't like Santa and Christmas trees?). It's my total dismay at what's going on in the world. In a shop the other day I must have looked glum because an acquaintance asked me if something was wrong. I sputtered something about the Senate passing a bill cutting Medicaid and college funding. The acquaintance looked at me as if I was from another planet. I truly hope after the shoppingtravelpartython people wake up to what's going on around them.

when they affect them, personally.

As long as they have beer, the NFL, and bright shiny lights to dazzle them, they will remain asleep.

Take away a man's income, however, and suddenly he's an activist.

What a shallow species we are. :(

to a Bavarian cousin in Europe. Trying to be season appropriate and sending cheerful tidings I am finding impossible, when I know every word will be examined by the government to "detect" any disloyalty. To send the year's highpoints from the US, is impossible to write when the truth is, "this year the USA lost her last vestige of democracy and is now firmly ruled by a Fascist government," is difficult to write in a cheerful tone. But then it probably is just my inarticulateness making it so difficult. I keep thinking there must be some "Springtime for Hitler" type of reference to add some festivity to the message.

That is really the only bastion of hope I have at the moment. I realize I cannot change another person's mind; but I can change mine.

This is a season of miracles. May I be one of them.

put on some music or better yet, make your own.

I'm ignoring the news for the day (though always vigilantly monitoring DU for some new horror of Chimpy's) and you should do the same.

Meditate on peace and think of peace and practice peace today

:hug:

Rock on :headbang:

state. 'Good Christians', they call themselves.

This was my first posting at DU last week and it fits like hand-in-glove with your remarks... This is my Christmas email. It's a bit lengthy but I promise it will have you laughing out loud, in a jovial Christmas mood in record time.

HOW THE GRINCH STOLE FREEDOM
Every Free
Down in Free-ville
Liked Freedom a lot...
But the Grinch,
Who ruled oil, in Texas
Did NOT!
The Grinch hated Freedom!
and the whole Constitution!
Don't ask why he supports Bill of Rights Resolution.
It could be that he never got screwed just quite right.
It could be, while pregnant, his mom drank to get tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his brain was two sizes too small.
But,
Whatever the reason,
His brain or disease,
He stood on the Hill, hating the Frees,
Staring down from the White House, with a sour Grinchy face
At the warm hearts below, of the whole human race.
For he knew every Free, in that big Free-ville nation
Was busy at work, to pay for vacation.
"And they're driving their cars!" he sighed with a moan.
"But after election, they’ll all sit at home!"
Then he growled, with his grinch-fingers nervously thumping,
"I MUST jack up fuel. They need a good humping!"
For, tomorrow, he knew...
...in a TV debate
He’d have to face issues that just wouldn’t wait!
And then! Oh, the truth! Oh, the TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH!
He’d never told it once, at least not since his youth!
Then the Frees, young and old, would sit down for TV.
And they'd listen! And they'd watch!
And they'd SEE! SEE! SEE! SEE!
They’d find out his sick brain, was as small as a pea
Which made Grinch wish his mom, had drunk only tea!
And THEN
They'd do something, he hated most from afar!
Every Free down in Free-ville, would head for their car,
and they’d open the doors, those Frees sure were striving.
Then they’d crank them all up and the Frees would start driving!
They'd drive! And they'd drive!
AND they'd DRIVE! DRIVE! DRIVE! DRIVE!
And the more the Grinch thought of the Fast-Driving-Frees…
The more he slumped into Grinch mental disease.
"Why for fifty-three years I've put up with this sin!
I MUST stop this Free-driving!
...But WHEN?"
Then he got a symptom!
An awful symptom!
THE GRINCH
GOT AN AWFULLY GREEDY BRAIN SYMPTOM!
"I know just what to do!" That Grinch was a mess.
As he decided to fool um in Christian-Cross-Dress!
He made a Christian-Claus hat and coat from our Flag.
Then he chuckled, while thinking of going in drag!
"With this coat and this hat, I'll earn their esteem!”
Is a nightmare in drag the American Dream?
"All I need is minorities, in some high places..."
The Grinch looked for brown or even black faces.
”Hmmm,” mulled the Grinch, “there’s that maid in my house.”
But she seems too feisty and I need a mouse
Did that stop the old Grinch...?
No! The Grinch simply said,
"If I can't find a minority, I'll make one instead!"
So he called Condoleezza. She came from the south
With a horn in the tooth-space, right in her mouth!
He knew with that horn, he’d control what she’d say
Unlike the black General, he’d made go away
THEN
He loaded his oil stocks
In some old empty sacks
And sent them to Houston
With no paper tracks.
As the Grinch blamed the Moslems, while making smart cracks…
Oil prices rose and the economy went down.
And you’d think those Frees would run him from town.
National debt went way up, which the Grinch found quite funny
But he tricked them again by printing more money!
All the Frees seemed asleep. Quiet snow filled the air.
All the Frees dreamt American Dreams without care
How’d he get in the White House? Well, it wasn’t quite fair.
"This is stop number one," that Grinch Cross-Dresser hissed
And he snuck to their car, with a can in his fist.
Then slid in the siphon, a rather tight pinch.
But if gas thieves could do it, then so could the Grinch.
He got gas in his mouth, for a moment or so.
But he knew without gas those cars wouldn’t go!
Then he went to a church, where cars parked in a row.
"These Christians," he grinned, "are too dumb to know!"
Then he slurped and slunk, with a smile most insane,
And sucked on his siphon, like Free candy-cane!
Toyotas and Dodges! Chevys and Fords!
There’s been no worse crime, since Huns ran in hoards!
He filled all his cans, in a manner quite stern
And lit up a match but the stuff wouldn’t burn!
Then called on his phone, while starting to frown
In Houston, they said “it’s too watered down!”
He knew low octane was real cheap to make.
And kept right on trying, while screaming “Petes sake!”
Then an idea arose, in his mind like a boil.
"I’ll go inside NOW and steal heating oil!"
The Grinch grabbed their supply, and started to shove
When he heard a small sound like the coo of a dove.
He turned around fast, and he saw a small Free!
Little Cindy-Lee Free, who was not more than three.
The Grinch had been caught by this little Free daughter
Who'd got out of bed for a cup of cold water.
She stared at the Grinch and said, "Christian Claus, why,
"Why are you taking our heating oil? WHY?"
You know, Grinch wasn’t smart but still oh-so-slick
He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick!
"Why, my sweet little tot," the fake Christian lied,
"This oil will only light up on one side.
"So I'm recalling it back to Houston, my dear.
"I'll fix it up there. Then I'll bring it back here."
And his fib fooled the child. Then he patted her head
And he got her a drink and he sent he to bed.
And when Cindy-Lee Free went to bed with her cup,
HE went to the fireplace to light their oil right up!
Then the last thing he saw, way down the Free-hall
Was a framed Constitution, which hung from the wall
He set fire to the parchment, that nasty old liar.
But while it was burning, the Grinch caught on fire!
Unlike cheap gas, crap burns pretty well
Maybe that con would soon sear in Grinch-Hell!
Then
He did the same thing
Although singed to a cinder
Leaving every car empty
He even stole a fender!

And as sleepy-head Frees, all slept in their bed
He packed the High Court, without using his head
It was quarter past dawn... a good time to snooze
As he loaded the Court, with Nazis on booze…
All unadorned crooks, no ribbons or wrappings!
No tags or tinsel! No trimmings or trappings!
He’d raise fuel prices, as high as Mount Crumpit,
Then call his stock-broker and tell him to dump it!
"He, he, he on Free-Orleans!" he was grinch-ish-ly humming.
"They're finding out soon that relief is not coming!”
"They're waking up now! I know how they'll be!”
"Their mouths will hang open a minute or three…”
"Then, the Frees down in Free-ville will all cry WE SEE!"
"That's a noise," grinned the Grinch,
"That I simply must hear!"
So he paused. And the Grinch put a hand to his ear…
Then he turned on his grinch-nuke-tronic-eavesdrop.
Yeah, he’d stretch the law, when there wasn’t a cop…
But he HAD to hear all of those Free-hearts go pop!
And he did hear a sound rising over the snow.
It started in low. Then it started to grow...
The sound wasn't sad!
Why, this sound sounded merry!
It couldn't be so!
But it WAS merry! VERY!
He stared down at Free-ville!
The Grinch popped his eyes!
Then he shook!
What he saw was a shocking surprise!
Every Free down in Free-ville, the tall and the small,
Was finally free-thinking… with no Rights at all!
He HADN'T stopped Freedom from coming!
IT CAME!
All other dictators would soon learn the same!
And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling: "How could it be so?
It came without a war! It came with no pact!
"It came without changing The Patriot Act!"
And he puzzled three hours, `till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
"Maybe Freedom," he thought, doesn't hang in a frame…
"Maybe Freedom...perhaps...is a much bigger game!"
And what happened then...?
Well...in Free-ville they say
That the Grinch's small brain
Finally wandered away!
And the minute his head didn't feel so up-tight…
He hid like Bin Laden, from the bright morning light…
And he lied like Saddam, right up to his trial!
And he...
...HE HIMSELF...!
Plead insanity, with a smile!

But, mopaul, it's you and people like you who kept bush from being even worse. I know it's hard to imagine him being worse, but remember every time he does something that's a new low even for him, we all tear our hair out and scream (well, I do anyway).

You are part of the peace process, and you are part of the force on Earth that is creating a better life and a better world for future generations, even if within your own lifetime you may not see the benefit around you or even reap it for yourself.

It is not in vain that you strive for a better world, and your efforts are not measured by how you judge your success in this endeavor. Your spirit within you is aware of your contribution, and the Universe around you takes note of what you have done.

Blessings to you and your family, mopaul.

Merry impeachmas

The hypocrisy is sickening. Would Jesus pretend all is well while giving expensive useless gifts to the already wealthy? There is so much suffering going on in the world because of our government...but who wants to think about that?

But then, these guys are anything but Christian


They stole Jesus, we're taking him back...


BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS

It's got a special meaning, even when old rockers give the sign... see how her fingers make little horns? stevie nicks started it I think but while I like her music, she's a self-proclaimed witch. You gotta love candid shots like that!

US consciousness needs a really big boost from all us peacemakers this Christmas.

Try not to suck them in -but push you out .

The BFEE will be wealthy for generations thanks to the "dumb" half of the American voters.