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Posted by Administrator (admin) on Dec 15 2005 at 9:55 PM
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My pre-teen son saw President Bush on the news today answering questions about the Iraq war. Later, he asked why, if there were no terrorists or weapons of mass destruction (at age 11 he knows these words) in Iraq before the war, we went to war.

After taking some time to think about this I said something like, 'Well, our intelligence agencies (I had to explain this a bit) thought that Iraq did have these things and convinced the President that Iraq was a danger to the United States. Apparently, they made a big mistake.'

He said, 'How could they make such a big mistake?'

Another pause from me. Before I could answer he had another question, 'If someone made a mistake like that, wouldn\'t the President want to know how it happened?'

A long pause. Finally, I could think of no answer other than what was really on my mind. I said, 'I don\'t know why the President doesn\'t seem to care about why he was given bad information. I know that if I was President I would be furious that I had sent young men and women to fight a war in a foreign country for false reasons. I\'m not sure why a President would not seem to care about this.'

Now it was his turn to pause. Finally he said, 'Is President Bush a bad man?'

A really long, uncomfortable pause as I played over all the reasons why a young man should not think of his country as run by dishonest, questionably-motivated, people. I said, 'You know, I didn\'t agree with all of the policies of Presidents Reagan or Bush Senior, but I thought they were decent, respectable men. I\'m not sure what to say about President Bush and his administration.'

We sat quietly for awhile and then changed the subject."

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Married to Christmas
Posted by Administrator (admin) on Dec 15 2005 at 9:54 PM
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Used to be the only displays we were treated to around this time of the year were colored lights, blow-up snowmen, stars hung from everywhere and the occasional sprig of mistletoe sought out by the lovelorn. But over the past few years we can look forward to in your face displays of vitriolic Rad-Cons carrying out Christ’s message of love by threatening to sue stores and harass governments for using the phrase “happy holidays.”

It’s not that we have a lot to worry about, but we do. But what concerns these people during this “hap, happiest time of the year” is that their base isn’t being stirred up enough. So the only holiday spirit they seem to pour is the whine of “they (who ever the hell that is) are taking Christmas away from us.”

These champions of the so-called beleaguered Christian faith overlook that we have heads of televised mega-churches in $2,000 suits telling us that the government should “take out” certain world leaders, and we are not talking about for a movie and pie and coffee at Bakers Square. Hard to see where this conceal and carry crazy crowd has to worry about worldly protection. Nothing like using faith as a weapon rather than a shield.

What is laughable is for the most part this message is being carried in imperfect vessels such as Oxycotin freak Rush Limbaugh, Loofah Boy Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity who breaks that false witness thing many times.

What’s wrong with calling it a Christmas Tree in the State Capital rotunda or singing carols in the public school? First of all, we share this state with a lot Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, atheists and maybe even a few Wicans and a pluristic host of others. And if you haven’t noticed – and no is blaming Conservative Republicans for being way observant – those people are growing more numerous, even with the Patriot Act.

And by the way, this minority – for now – pays a good share of the taxes for these rotundas and schools where the rad-cons want to have their Christmas pageants.

Then what about the idea of Christmas generosity? The highly non-partisan Miss Manners points out that the derided concept of being PC is really an exercise in manners. So how about having at least this time of the year?

Even if these rad-cons practiced real Christian piety, it still doesn’t buy them the privilege of shoving Merry Christmas down the collective throats. Talk about ruining a good idea.

These are the people who think they can make us feel like moral inferiors because they push for precepts that are barely visible or even non-existent in the Bible, people who want to post the Ten Commandments in front of every public building maybe because they forget what’s on them.

The point is here is a crowd that loves playing Scrooge the rest of the year lecturing us about keeping Christmas. I don’t have to go through the list of unchristian values they try to legislate every week.

You kind of wish the rest of the public would get wise to what this annual ritual of fake or ill-informed anguish is all about. The are being played for rubes, but quite likely they will eventually tell the bogus piety crowd to celebrate Christmas the way the rest of us do, in our homes, in our churches and in those times when we are around a group made up of Christian friends.

Used to be one of the things people who worried about the commercialization of Christmas would say was “put Christ back into Christmas.” In 21st century America those of us who espouse the Christian faith should be a little more aware of this, but especially for the hypocritical Rad-Cons it should really be “let’s put Christ back in Christian.”