Important Stuff -- Or Not: Silent Night, Holy Fight

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Silent Night, Holy Fight

Cold in the night, no one in sight

Winter winds, whirl and bite

How I wish I were happy and warm

Safe with my family out of the storm

Yeah, those are the "new" lyrics to Silent Night, being fed to innocent elementary school students in the Ridgeway, Wisconsin school system. I don't even know what they mean. Is this about some homeless kid? Is this supposed to make children feel bad and overprivileged on Christmas? Somebody in Ridgeway is about to get his chestnuts roasted on an open fire. The conservative legal group Liberty Counsel says the school has also decorated its classrooms with Santa Clauses, Kwanza-themed items, Menorahs and a "Labafana" -- which Liberty Counsel says is a Christmas witch -- but has no Christmas decorations. Liberty Counsel says it will file a lawsuit if the situation is not addressed. The group sent a letter to school administrators. "When a school changes 'Silent Night' to 'Cold in the Night' and secularizes the lyrics, it is hostile to Christianity, and its actions violate the First Amendment," Meanwhile, a Madison, Wisconsin school stopped their students from ringing bells with the Salvation Army, because one parent was offended that the school was working with a faith based charity. I guess that person doesn't care if some kids are "cold in the night." Oh, and in Plano, Texas there is a school that has forbidden the wearing of red and green during the Christmas season. Sounds like a hate crime to me. Yet, ask the liberal TV talking heads, and they'll swear up and down that there is no war against Christmas. Or, if you can find secularists who agree that there is hostility toward the holiday, they'll say they aren't a part of it. They just love to celebrate Christmas, even though they aren't particularly religious. They just don't get it. Every time a person celebrates Christmas without the slightest thought for the birth of Christ, they are diminishing one of the most important events on the Christian calendar. Every time a person decorates their yard with Santa Claus, reindeer, candy canes, and no manger scene, they are trivializing the true meaning of Christmas.

Christmas IS under assault, both by jerks and bigots who hate Christians and by those who just want to feel good without taking on any of the responsibilities of Christianity. We'll talk again when Peter Cottontail comes hop hop hopping down the bunny trail -- the second most important date on the Christian calendar.

1 comment:

J.M. Rob said...: Well said Lone Ranger! Thank you for doing so!; 9:31 PM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.