Somehow, it fell upon the resident Jew to wish y’all a Merry Christmas…
…which is only appropriate, being that that’s how we roll. (And for the record, expect much more from Yours Truly in the New Year, now that I’m not teaching seven thousand sections of composition.)
Point being, I hope you and yours have a good one, whatever that one may be. (It’s still Hanukkah, isn’t it? Hey, I never said I was a good Jew.)
Happy Holy Days to ewes!
Perhaps you’d care to explain on behalf of your co-religionists why every single Kosher deli in Sydney was closed for Christmas. I mean, it’s a Sunday and all but I don’t see what difference that makes either.
Jeez, everyone knows that Christmas is the day all of the “Kosher deli owners” go to a Chinese restaurant with their families for a sit-down meal!
Always buy your fortune-cookie futures when Hanukkah begins, and sell before the New Year, and you’ll retire a wealthy person, like those of the Kosher persuasion are all purported to be.
Merry Holidays, Happy Christmas, Merry Hanukkah, and Happy Kwanza, to all!!!
KWAZY Kwanzaa.
Hmmmm…
I knew there were two “k’s” in ‘Hanukkah,’ but I forgot there was an extra “a” in ‘Kwanzaa,’ so I’d have to give myself a “C” for spelling out holiday’s.
Thank goodness Ramadan is long over, or I’d throw in an extra consonant, or leave out a vowel, and I would then offend everyone except the Kristians!
Happy WhatTheFuckever!
No money in it? There’s this hole in the wall halal place I know that will also not be open today, because, one imagines, they don’t figure the traffic will make it worth opening up. I know a bunch of chinese places and movie theatres that’ll be open but that’s sort of tradition.
It is the one day of the year when you can be sure that the majority of peeps are eating in.
So I would agree that there is no profit in being open. Likely wouldn’t even break even.
All the good Indian restaurants are packed on Christmas.
Maybe they have Christian staff whom they want to give the day off with their families? Or maybe it’s as Murc suggests, and the locals haven’t learned yet to go out and do commerce on Christmas – i.e. it’s like it was here in the US twenty years ago, when we Jews had the Chinese restaurants and the movie theaters mostly to ourselves.
Of course it’s the resident Jew to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, just as it ought to be the resident Christian’s job to wish everyone a Happy Hanukkah. A spirit of love, respect, & a desire not to offend or belittle another’s religion would demand it.
LGM has its own Irving Berlin!
If only I had talent!
And because Charlie Pierce has already said it better than I ever could, may everybody muddle through somehow.
Also.
Gods damn it, I wish I knew how to copy and paste on my stupid Kindle thingy, otherwise I wouldn’t have to get out of bed to steal your awesome links and post them on Facebook to make me look clever. Damn you, Amazon!
(Alternatively, I could learn how to use my Kindle Ablaze O’ Glory, Call Me Young Gun … but that’s a little too much trouble.)
I really wish Pierce did not have stupid Facebook login commenting on his home place, but on the chance he comes here – thank you, that piece was made of win, and I learned something new from it.
You know me well enough now to know I was responding to your “Also,” right?
I assumed you would like both (how can anybody not like something Charlie Pierce writes?), but was sure you liked the Also.
There are many copies…
Another also for SEK.
Thank you for the well wishes on this most holy of Christian holidays.
And while we can disagree on many things, the hope for peace and good will is something we can all agree on.
And a good new year to you ALL!!
NO!
NO!!!
You don’t get to write stuff like this (from your recent comment on the Wingnuts of Oakland thread), and say that WE all agree on “the hope for peace and good will:”
“@ Fraud Guy:
The pushback you are getting is because everyone here knows that poor people do not commit more crime or have more drug and alcohol problems and property values do not actually go down when the poor minorities move in.
It’s really just a pigment of your coloration…..an optional delusion.”
You don’t get to write something as evil and ignorant as that, and talk about today being the “most holy of Christian holiday.”
You have NO GOOD will, and hence, deserve NO PEACE!
And I’m sorry to say this on “this most holy of Christian holidays,” but – FUCK YOU!!!!
I’m NOT sorry to say it to you, but the people who read this.
The only thing I’m just sorry for is that I can’t say it to you in private and to your face:
FUCK YOU!
Even to you, my misguided friend.
Good luck in the next new year.
My Jesus forgives the ignorance of your Jesus.
Mal,
Thanks for the link. I really appreciated reading it.
But you’re a better person than I am, Mal, because I find it very hard to forgive some people – especially the ones who are sanctimonious hypocrites.
Not that I wish anyone any ill.
I certainly don’t.
I just wish they’d either grow up, or leave, or both.
Thank you Mal, I am going to have to borrow that link for postings on Religiondispatches.org
Happy holidays. Whatever they may be.
Alas, not quite all.
Its this sort of thing which makes me amused when religious right nutterbutters start citing Rand or extolling her psuedophilosophy.
Ayn never had any respect for those types all of her life. She hated religion and though its followers were less than useless.
At least the Randoids were honest about their beliefs. It’s not the thought that counts, its your cash.
Rand never had any respect for any human being.
True enough. But there are 3 things I have to admire her for:
1. Being the inspiration of Rush’s Anthem and 2112
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQEgZNqa8jE
2. Having the chutzpah to openly carry on an affair with a man much younger than her (and married) and browbeat their respective cockulded spouses to sign off on the relationship as if was the natural order of things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_Ayn_Rand
3. Dame Helen Mirren played her in the film version of the incident of #2. [THE SHEER AWESOMENESS OF HELEN MIRREN COMPELS YOU!!!]
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The holiest of Christian holidays is Easter.
Swing and a miss–the most holy of Christian holidays is Easter.
Cheers,
Alan Tomlinson
Don’t you mean Happy Heretical Western Christmas, you Latin schismatics!
So, that’s what the new RC translations mean! Thanks, I was wondering ’cause there is zero chance I’m setting foot in one of their “houses of worship”.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the filioque is an abomination.
Happy annual “get the booze the relatives are coming over and the only way I can handle those fundie freaks is drunk” day to everyone!
All praises to Moloch on this most sacred day. He is truly the reason for the season.
Mithras is the reason, infidel.
I’ll say a prayer that Zoroaster forgives both of you heathens.
God is dead.
She did?
Jeez – “did?”
How about, “died?”
Or, “is?”
Now, THOSE would have at least made some sense.
I must still be a bad boy, because Santa didn’t bring me what I wished for at the places I comment:
“Preview”
“Edit”
“Delete”
I know I’m a f’in dumbass, but I can self-correct some of my own stupidity – but only once I see it in some other form than the one I’m writing on!
So, how about at least “Preview?”
That would take most of the pleasure out of reading your comments for the rest of us. I am sorry that you must suffer for our sins, but that is the way of the world, or so they say.
Mele Kalikimaka!
I am celebrating 12/23, the glorious Heisei Emperor’s birthday.
As well as the glorious me. I almost made Jesus the second most important Jew born on Christmas, but alas! I things do, places to be.
Others born on 12/25:
1642 – Isaac Newton
1821 – Clara Barton
1884 – Evelyn Nesbit
1887 – Conrad Hilton
1899 – Humphrey Bogart
1918 – Anwar Sadat
1945 – Ken Stabler
1950 – Karl Rove
1958 – Rickey Henderson
Devil spawn Ken Stabler was born on 12/25?
Figures.
Merry Christmas to you, too. :)
It’s the 6th night of Hanukkah. It may not be too late.
So, Scott, does this make you the official LGM Shabbos Yid?
Happy birthday to Jesus, Mithras and Sol Invictus!
Yes, that’s what soured the National Review types on Rand. She thought clergymen should go out and get real jobs. You can imagine how that went over with Buckley et al.
I realize no one is supposed to say anything good about Rand on a liberal website but that’s more than a bit much.
I don’t know, seems appropriate to me. Rand was more than contemptful of everybody but the ” industrial egoist,” which, as described, weren’t (aren’t) actual people. So she was basically disrespectful (scornful) of everybody except her own fictitious characters.
She disrespected religion and believers. And she disrespected everyone who did things for the wrong reasons, i.e. did anything for non-objectivist reasons. And she disrespected emotions and those who have them as insufficiently egoistical.
She did talk a lot about ethics and foresight and community, but the absence of those things in people and policies didn’t seem to cause her no nevermind.
In short, all the evidence suggests Ayn Rand was a terrible person whose philosophies provided the intellectual basis for the worst affects of American politics and economics. Liberals don’t go far enough in admonishing her.
You are correct. There was at least one person she respected.