Merry Christmas...there I said it!

It’s time to take a little break. Christmas is right around the corner, and while the rest of the world is tearing itself apart with the global warming hoax, state-run health care, higher taxes for all, and the end of the world in two years, I think it’s time for the rest of us to sit back and relax a little.

Increasingly, the holidays themselves (The reasons for the season, if you will.) have become faux pas. I’ve noticed more and more that everyday folks are reverting to the socially vanilla “Happy Holidays” instead of wishing me a Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah and I can’t help but wonder why.

Here’s the idea: two thousand or so years ago a baby was born in to a nice lower-middle class Jewish family in the Middle East. This son, after realizing that he didn’t really want to go into the family business of carpentry, decided instead to take up street-corner evangelization. He said a lot of things that made a lot of sense to a lot of people. He also said things to piss a lot of people off. Those pissed off people eventually got around to nailing him to a tree.

One of the things he said that irked people the most was that he was God’s only son. More importantly (and more irksome), he also said that he really, really loved everyone and wanted them all to be forgiven of their sins and come to heaven with him. Christians celebrate Christmas in order to commemorate the idea that God loved us so much that he sent his son to a nice lower-middle class family, so that we’d get the chance to know God personally and hear his message of love and forgiveness.

When someone wishes you a Merry Christmas, all they’re really saying is “God loves you personally and wants you to go to heaven to be with him”. Is that REALLY that offensive of a concept? The message of Christmas speaks to the eternal and the spiritual while the phrase “happy holidays” speaks of commercialism and an acute, temporal, span of time near the end of December.

Hanukkah, while not a High Jewish holiday, is celebrated to commemorate the Maccabbees victory over an oppressive Syrian king. At its core is the idea that the Jews achieved their victory through the strength of God. While I’m not technically Jewish, I can still manage to smile and find the meaning and spirit of Hanukkah a comforting and encouraging one. The idea of an active and protective God should be welcome idea in these troubled times.

Kwanzaa (like Scientology a decade before) was made up in the late 60’s by some goof-ball social malcontent, but its message seems basically harmless and I’m all for black empowerment (and white and brown and yellow and purple empowerment), so…right on.

The point is, let’s not hide behind some crappy slogan like Happy Holiday’s. Let’s say what we mean…
If you’re Christian, stand up and say “God loves you and wants to hang out with you in eternity.” by saying “Merry Christmas”.
If you’re Jewish, stand up and say “God loves you and will give you strength.” by saying “Happy Hanukkah”.
If you’re a Kwanzaa, stand up and say “Kill whitey!” by saying “Merry?…Happy?…er...Delightful?...Kwanzaa”.

No, no. I kid. I kid. Little holiday humor.

Finally, if you’re one of the loud-mouthed atheists that are trying to get the rest of our practices banned or labeled as taboo, don’t say “Happy Holiday’s”. Say what you really mean, “I think you’re nuts and it confuses me.”

We’ll all be better for the honesty.

Scratching our heads...

A stupid person should keep silent. But if he knew this, he would not be a stupid person. ~MUSLIH-UD-DIN SAADI

Now that global warming has been decisively eviscerated, and the debate is truly and finally over, watching these fools run around like well-fed Chicken Littles evokes an odd response in me. Instead of feeling like I am being surrounded by a pack of wolves, I now feel like a group of malevolent (but terribly inept) clowns make up the global warming cabal.

Case in point: Copenhagen Climate Conference 2009. Apparently, talks have derailed after “secret” documents were leaked. These agreements seem to indicate that developing countries will have to curb their carbon emissions. This is obviously an issue for those countries, not only because they would like to be able to continue to “develop”, but they don’t seem to like the superpowers (the U.S., the U.K., and Denmark?) dictating terms unilaterally. Further, the leaked documents also seek to limit the role of the United Nations in future global warming treaties and deals. This is a problem for many less-successful (and dare I say jealous) countries, because the U.N. has now become the vehicle by which the United States can be punished for its success as a nation.

So let’s walk through this. We found out a few weeks ago that the entire anthropogenic global warming (AGW) issue has had to be ginned up by man made global warming “facts” to maintain any sort of credibility. We’ve seen huge companies like NBC (parent company: GE) and Enron dump tons of money in the pockets of politicians to encourage them to legislate their lines of “green” technologies into profitability. We’ve watched the “superstars” of AGW tells us that we should all lower our carbon emissions to save the planet, while they get on private jets and limos as they globe-trot to various conferences and rallies and concerts. Now we get to witness first hand the true “eat the rich” mentality in the AGW movement as these folks go after each other. (Admittedly, with the intention of going after us afterwards.)

Ergo: Anthropogenic Global Warming is simply a device by which rich and powerful people seek to expand their empires and fortunes by deceiving the uninformed and forcing the powerless to relinquish their rights and wealth.

How can anyone still take these people seriously any more?

Post-Script:
Also, I have been upbraided on occasion for calling it “global warming” instead of “climate change”. If the issue truly is climate change and not global warming, then these folks are even sillier than I imagined. Anyone who wishes to discuss the dangers of “manmade climate change” needs to first understand that the climate has been changing for millions of years, well before we ever got here. It's always changing, always has been, always will, no matter what we do. Go read a book, fool.