Merry Christmas!

For our Libertarian/Conserative/Republican friends:

Here’s wishing all of you a

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!

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We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2006, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

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Good News

This is the only good news Michael Totten could find in Egypt. It came in an exchange with Egyptian blogger Big Pharaoh, who was showing him around Cairo:

“Can we talk about politics out in the open?” I said.

“Yes,” he said. “We can say whatever we want.”

“Is it because we’re speaking in English?”

“No,” he said. “We could do it in Arabic, too.”

“You’re not worried about the secret police?”

“Not any more,” he said. “It is a real change from last year. Last year there was no way. But it’s better now, more open. Do you know why?”

“No,” I said. “Tell me.”

“Because of pressure from George W. Bush.”

That is the only piece of good news I have to report from Egypt.

The rest of Michael’s excellent post is a litany of the many political problems and challenges Egypt faces. It’s sad, and (despite the above) not particularly optimistic. When I finished reading it, I felt very sad for the Big Pharaoh, who seems to be torn between wanting to help Egypt become a modern secular society and escaping to America (or Canada, his second choice apparently only because it would make it easy for him to visit America. There’s some interesting discussion, with some local insight, on the situation in Iran as well. Though sad, it’s an insightful piece and well worth reading…

New Rules

The Junkyard Blog does what it does so well with a terrific satire piece that you won’t want to miss. As a taste, here’s the conclusion:

To review: Do not invade countries harboring terrorists. Do not capture terrorists and keep them for any duration, and do not interrogate them about ongoing or future attacks. Do not profile terrorists, making it easier to stop them. And do not monitor communications between terrorists or anyone else. Republicans and conservative Christians are the real enemy, so forget about that mumbling, swarthy guy with the bulges under his sweater who looks to be between 18 and 35 and concentrate on the owner of your local tire store who happens to go to church and votes Republican. Because he’s the real enemy!

So basically, just so we’re all clear on this, when you’re fighting terrorists who want to destroy your civilization, you can’t do a damn thing about it except demonize people who have no connection to terrorism whatsoever. Hey, if you’re lucky the caliphate will at least bring good health care when Dar al Islam reaches your neighborhood.

Have a nice day. Inshallah.

Now take a moment and go read the whole thing!

Toleration

Tolerate this!, says Jay. And he further comments:

Liberals seem to live by the axiom, “Do as I say, not as I do.” No matter what grand ideals they profess, they hold themselves entirely blameless for disregarding them; regardless of how contradictory their words and deeds are.

Take the professed Liberal doctrine of “diversity” and “tolerance” for instance. Ah, such noble, admirable ideals! Everyone will get along just fine if we just accept and embrace that we’re all different and we can all get along. Such an idyllic, utopian world view!

And what a frickin' pity that Liberals wouldn’t recognize such principles if they reared up and bit 'em square on their ass.

Hell, judging from the conduct of the average ACLUer and their Leftist cohorts in the Democrat party, the only “diversity” they respect is the kind that’s put on display by those goose-stepping clowns who parrot the Liberal platform word-for-word. Everyone else of every race, religion and ideology who refuses to kowtow to the Leftist agenda gets marginalized as an “Uncle Tom,” “extremist,” or “hater."

Add to that mix the Liberal hypocrisy in which they claim that they’re “inclusive” and “tolerant” of differing views. They pay a lot of lip service to such virtue, but when the rubber hits the road, these “inclusive, tolerant” Leftists expect everyone in the mainstream to keep their views to themselves while every Left-wing lunatic fringe group gets to monopolize the public square.

The sheer magnitude of this hypocrisy has become painfully apparent in the past several years, especially during the Christmas season. No longer content to criminalize public displays of any and all things Judeo-Christian, Liberals now seek to annihilate any and all public reference to the birth of Christ during the very season in which that birth is celebrated.

Seems these “tolerant, inclusive” people just aren’t content with getting the Ten Commandments removed from the public squares of a nation that is over 90% Christian. And these “tolerant” little Liberals certainly weren’t very happy about a harmless three-letter word spelled “G-O-D” that was in our nation’s Pledge of Allegiance and on our currency. Oh no…now they have to destroy every reference to the reason for the season while propping up fake holidays such as Kwanzaa.

Suffice it to say that I think it’s high time that the majority shrugged off the tyranny of this ridiculously small Leftist fringe and told them, in no uncertain terms, to practice some of that tolerance they preach and keep their intolerant, mean-spirited, anti-Christmas bellyaching to themselves.

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