Bill O'Reilly And His War On Christmas!

[mr.Curmudgeon]

If you know anything about Blowhard O'Reilly and his incessant whining about Liberals and their supposed "WAR ON CHRISTMAS"...be sure to follow up with him and visit his OWN website and hover above 'About Bill'.

'Holiday Gifts?'

I don't care who ya are, dat's funny right der.
mrC

[mr.Curmudgeon]

MERRY CHRISTMAS BILL O'REILLY!!!



mrC

[missioncontrol]

Does Christmas have WMD's??

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Does Christmas have WMD's??

I know after my Grandma's Christmas spinach dumplings my arse is a dirty bomb!


mrC

[missioncontrol]

ewwww that's something we didn't need to know.

I regret anking about the WMD's carry on with your war. 

[hulkster]

yeah he's a little crazy, but it does piss me off when people cant say merry Christmas anymore.  yes im a Christian, but if i went around saying happy kwanza, even if someone did get offended, they wouldnt do anything about it.  its just cuz the majority of people in the US celebrate Christmas, and there are a few retarded liberals out there pitching a fit cuz they are being "offended".  bull crap. 

if anyone should be offended it should be the Christians.  our sacred holidays have been butchered.  instead of the true meaning of easter, we hear about bunnies and candy and thats ALL thats said.  instead of the birth of Jesus, we get ho ho ho, and its all about friendship and the family and NOTHING else.  if i went around saying "happy january 17th!  its all about beer and pretzels!"  instead of "happy Martin Luther King Jr. day"  i'd be critcized by everyone and their mom. 

even the hippies and atheists can see all this crap that is going on. 

[missioncontrol]

it never made since to me that the two major religious holidays involve make believe characters.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

yeah he's a little crazy, but it does piss me off when people cant say merry Christmas anymore.

But that's the point...no one is stopping you from saying Merry Christmas anymore. Just because schools choose not to sanction any particular holiday, doesn't mean it makes sense to extrapolate a BAN ON ALL THINGS CHRISTIAN!  That's unreasonably paranoid.

There's no "War on Christmas"...the majority of the "Happy Holidays" B.S. is perpetrated by corporations that are happy enough to broaden the "Holiday" market. I know this because I work directly with marketing people. I have helped develop and sell products for numerous companies, and I've been privy to merchandising meetings where the marketing guy has specifically changed "Merry Christmas" to "Happy Holidays" because his company will sell more product that way. Why do you think O'Reilly himself used the term "Holidays" on the very page he's trying to hock his gaudy products? So he can make a few extra bucks from consumers of other denominations.

O'Reilly (in particular)is  trying to blame Liberals for de-Christianizing the holidays, then he turns around and stabs Jesus in the back to sell of few extra "Holiday" baubles with his ugly mug pasted on them.

I'm an atheist and I say "Merry Christmas" from time to time because it's a freakin' pop-culture term. If I'm talking to someone of noticeable ethnicity I'll make an effort to figure out what holiday they celebrate and make my well wishes accordingly. Why can't we just accept that business is business, and no one is stopping you from wishing me (or anyone else) a Merry Christmas!  (Accept maybe Bill O'Reilly!) 

mrC

[JackTucky]

That link has been there since Thanksgiving.  Holidays means Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Art

[mr.Curmudgeon]

That link has been there since Thanksgiving.  Holidays means Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Art

Good, that settles it. So there's no problem with "Happy Holidays" after all.



mrC

[DrewKaree]

it never made since to me that the two major religious holidays involve make believe characters.

Trying to offend all the leprechaun's so they kick yer ass for saying St Patrick wasn't real, hey?

And I don't care what you say, arbor day IS about trees.  Everyone should have wood on arbor day.

I said wood

[mairsil]

Harry Kwahamas Everyone!

[CthulhuLuke]

i really hate to say it as I very very rarely bring anything political ever to forums like this, but its in the everything else so I don't mind.
The christmas vs holiday is just another thing to distract America from the war.  We watch polls about whether "christmas" should be ok in the general public while the polls for actually important things such as.. oh I don't know.... 2,000 American soldiers dying become "old news." 
Just another reason why I don't watch non-local news.

[DrewKaree]

Harry Kwahamas Everyone!

RamaHanuKwanzMas to you.

2,000 American soldiers dying become "old news." 

Interesting that the implication is that we the people can't walk and chew gum think and talk about more than one thing at the same time and that somehow we've forgotten about "The soldiers dying in Iraq".

Dunno why you fret about it, since even BLIND people can't escape that fact, what with the ghoul-watch and constant reporting of the deaths of our soldiers.  Here's an idea, since you think it's taking our "focus" off of that fact.  A little homework for you, if you will.  Tell us if you aren't told at least 5 times before a week goes by about how many were killed in this coming week and what the body count is now.

In the meantime, everyone try to keep the shiny objects out of sight, lest we all get further distracted

[Dexter]

Trying to offend all the leprechaun's so they kick yer ass for saying St Patrick wasn't real, hey?

Principal Skinner:
"Don't be silly, everybody knows leprechauns became extinct years ago"

[missioncontrol]

happy holidays makes more since than season's greetings.




and what do you mean leprechauns are extinct. Why tis just yesterday I saw a picture of one onmy box of lucky charms

[Stingray]

-S

[Havok]

yeah he's a little crazy, but it does piss me off when people cant say merry Christmas anymore.

But that's the point...no one is stopping you from saying Merry Christmas anymore. Just because schools choose not to sanction any particular holiday, doesn't mean it makes sense to extrapolate a BAN ON ALL THINGS CHRISTIAN!

[mr.Curmudgeon]

The idioits over at Lowes tried to call their Christmas Trees "Holiday" Trees, who the freak else is going to buy one of those things for anything else other than Christmas? Are you trying to appeal to non-christians to by a fake tree in the November\December timeframe?

Now that's just stupid. Nobody said marketing guys were bright. There's a reason they don't sell Christmas Dreidel's for Kwanzaa!


mrC

[Crazy Cooter]

O'Reilly is just as bad as those he rips on.  Look in his store at the Jessica's Law stuff.  $3.50 for a sticker?  Where does all the profits go?  (hint: his initials are B.O.)

FYI: (ripped from cbs) "The Jessica Lunsford Act would put an electronic monitoring device on every sexual predator released into the community, for as long as 30 years."

Seems to me the best solution is not to release people that are that much of a threat, but what do I know?

[DrewKaree]

FYI: (ripped from cbs) "The Jessica Lunsford Act would put an electronic monitoring device on every sexual predator released into the community, for as long as 30 years."

Seems to me the best solution is not to release people that are that much of a threat, but what do I know?

And so the EE thread goes

I most certainly agree with you on that solution.  Time and again, it's been demonstrated that without drastic measures, they almost certainly will reoffend, so why the hell let them out AT ALL?  I'm for the deserted island strictly for sex criminals so they can all see/experience what their crimes do to the victims, but someone here said the British tried that with Australia, and now we have BrokenBones. 

I'd like to go a step further and skip the electronic EXTERIOR bracelet, and go with the chip like they do with animals....add a GPS thingy in there too.

What I'm questioning is why the rash of female teachers seem to be treated WAAAAAY less harshly.  If you swapped out the female teacher and male student and told the SAME story about some 40-year-old MALE student and his female student, there'd be nightly stories on your local news about "OMG WHADOWEDO WHADOWEDO?!?!?"  Instead, it's looked at as "man, talk about every boy's fantasy!"

Heck, just look at the disgust we have when a priest does it.  Why should a female teacher be any different?  They wanted equal rights, now give it to 'em

[PetitMorte]

MERRY Christmahaunakwanzaka to one and all!

[Crazy Cooter]

Didn't mean to derail the thread  .

I just wanted to point out the hypocrisy of O'Reilly.

But while we're there... don't we have an island off the coast of Washington state filled with offenders?

[Stingray]

Didn't mean to derail the thread  .

I did, but it didn't take. Don't make me drop my pants.

-S

[mr.Curmudgeon]

I did, but it didn't take.

You're abortions/flags picture is losing it's power.

Don't make me drop my pants.

Is that how you wish people a Flappy Holidays?

Ok....that was stupid.


mrC

[DrewKaree]

I did, but it didn't take. Don't make me drop my pants.

-S

Bro, don't try to steal MrC's credit for his Bad Santa move.

Don't make me drop my pants.

Is that how you wish people a Flappy Holidays?

Ok....that was stupid.


mrC

A sentiment that crosses party lines

btw, do they let you have 'net access while they're booking you? 

Hopefully they send you to that island off of Washington before you ditch the sweatpants next time

[Stingray]

Is that how you wish people a Flappy Holidays?

Ok....that was stupid.


mrC

Stupid? Yes. Did it make me laugh? Also yes.

-S

[Bones]

but someone here said the British tried that with Australia, and now we have BrokenBones.

[DrewKaree]

And here I was just minding my own business.....

Does that purse you're carrying have a special Tampax pocket?

[Bones]

Yes. It is right next to the compartment for my ben-wah-balls.

[Ed_McCarron]

"I'd like to go a step further and skip the electronic EXTERIOR bracelet, and go with the chip like they do with animals....add a GPS thingy in there too."

Nah, the chip is too subtle.

Stick with the big, bulky, external dongle.

Oh, and brand a big 'S' on their foreheads.

[Stingray]

.

Oh, and brand a big 'S' on their foreheads.

Awesome.

-S

[Ed_McCarron]

Shoots that plan down.

How would we tell if they were actual 's'exual predators, or just 's'tingray groupies???

[Stingray]

Stingray groupies look like pro cheerleaders.

-S

[DrewKaree]

Stick with the big, bulky, external dongle.

I don't even want to know how you know they are so equipped

[Bones]

I have made my thoughts pretty clear here before. Sex offenders should be executed.

Sex offenders where children are the victims should be executed then brought back to life and executed again.

[DrewKaree]

Sex offenders where children are the victims should be executed then brought back to life and executed again.

Twice.

Hey, I can live vicariously through your rage!  I'm getting the hang of this Stingray-itis!

[Stingray]

Sex offenders where children are the victims should be executed then brought back to life and executed again.

Twice.

Hey, I can live vicariously through your rage!  I'm getting the hang of this Stingray-itis!

Cool. I'll just live vicariously through your vicariousness.

-S

[DrewKaree]

A vicar somewhere is wondering if he'll ever have any more "iousness"

[Stingray]

A vicar somewhere is wondering if he'll ever have any more "iousness"

Oh yes, certainly, yes indeed, I find the grounds delightful, and the servants most attentive and particularly the little serving maid with the great big knockers, and when she gets going...

-S