'A Hole in the World'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
What does Target think people are buying? They're buying Christmas gifts, not holiday gifts.Every once in a while, I worry that the message I feel of "if you're not a Christian you aren't part of our culture" at this time of year is just me being paranoid and oversensitive. So nice to be reassured on that front.
Every once in a while, I worry that the message I feel of "if you're not a Christian you aren't part of our culture" at this time of year is just me being paranoid and oversensitive. So nice to be reassured on that front.
Yeah...wait, no it isn't.
Wonkette had a nice response to the White House xmas card issue:
May we suggest heeding National Council of Churches' Rev. Bob Edgar: "I think it's more important to put Christ back into our war planning than into our Christmas cards."
By the same token, though, Trudy's example of Columbus Day is a little different. Columbus Day is not, as far as I know, a traditionally gift-giving holiday. So the stores' decision to throw sales that weekend is up to them, and I don't think any consumers care why they're getting 50 to 75% off or whatever.
I phrased that badly. I just mean that stores don't "celebrate" or "acknowledge" ANY holidays, they're just an excuse for sales.
Every once in a while, I worry that the message I feel of "if you're not a Christian you aren't part of our culture" at this time of year is just me being paranoid and oversensitive. So nice to be reassured on that front.
And don't you forget it!
May we suggest heeding National Council of Churches' Rev. Bob Edgar: "I think it's more important to put Christ back into our war planning than into our Christmas cards."
RIGHT!?!?!??!????
Jesus could be a Special Forces guy who sneaks into insurgent's camps and changes their water to wine, resulting in the insurgent being wasted.
Voldemort?
Damn, beaten to the punch.
To equate the importance of Christmas with Hanukkah or Kwanzaa makes absolutely no sense to me.
Wow. And the thing is, the dude who said this? Very likely has NO idea how insulting it is.
Every once in a while, I worry that the message I feel of "if you're not a Christian you aren't part of our culture" at this time of year is just me being paranoid and oversensitive. So nice to be reassured on that front.
If "you people" want to feel a part of "our culture," you should damn well start by buying lots of gifts for us.
But not from Target.
I just did my job as a consumer and bought K-Bug an iPod. I was going to go through Amazon, but they are "backordered" and it wouldn't be sent until January. Going through Apple, I get it in a week with free shipping. I'm having "Princess K-Bug Rocks" etched on it (but with her real name, duh).
Well, Christmas is, what, second on the list for Christianity? Maybe third? The thing that's always talked about, IME, is that the reason we know about Hanukkah is that it's around Christmas time, not because it's a big!huge!Jewish!holiday! I can't speak to Kwanzaa as much. That's how I read it, trying to be charitable. It's likely I'm being too charitable.