Where have I been?

I've been elsewhere. I've moved my blogging over to LiveJournal and I haven't been cross-posting back here. I loved Blogger when I first started this, but to organize my thoughts I have to keep four or five Blogger blogs going at once, and over at LJ I can tag my entries for better organization.
Check out my Live Journal.

Did he REALLY say that...

President Washington and Lincoln approved and used "electronic surveillance" on the citizens of the United States? I hope every history teacher in America goes to work this week and tries to instill a better knowledge of American history than the Attorney General has.

More atrocities...

Once again, Janet Parshall demonstrates her lack of knowledge in history, sociology, crime, and religion. Calling gay-adoption "state sanctioned child abuse" has got to be making Satan throw a few fist pumps in pleasure. I know a few gay couples with adopted children, and those children are fine kids, active in church, polite to adults, you know, the things we want to see out of kids in general.
Her next comment, blaming Matthew Shepard for his own death, is offensive to the extreme and shows the cunning way conservative ideologues spin the truth. Shepard's "lifestyle" was a contributing factor in his death. Of course it was, the same way being black "led to" the lynching of blacks in the south, or the same way being a Jew "led to" the deaths of millions in concentration camps. Shepard died because two bigots saw him as less than human, which is the biggest sin in book. Well, maybe second biggest.
And don't get me started on her limited knowledge of religion. God did not institute marriage. Humans did.

A mystery

Why is it I go through my entire day and react to things and think "I need to blog about that" and once I get to a computer, I can't remember what it was or think of anything to say?

Merry Christmas from the War Front

It is Christmas Eve, and I hope you are all finding time to nice to one another. After all, the days are starting to get longer, almost everyone I meet is in a good mood because of the holiday, and my shopping is done. Wrapping is a different matter. I even have a package going out to my family, which I don't think I've done in years. But this year, I have managed to keep a good Christmas. I have not felt guilty over being a grinch, in fact, all of my grinchlike tendencies have faded away. The only time I've lost my temper was yesterday, and that was because of the clutterfucked state of our apartment. Christmas has contributed to that, but not much of it.
Today I plan on resting for as long as possible. Tonight I have dinner at the in-laws and we'll open gifts, then Stephanie and I will change into our good clothes and go to church at 9, where we'll sing carols at 10:30 and have a service at 11. It will be a long night in the war on Christmas.
What war?
Apparently, there is a War going on right under our noses and nobody has noticed except the folks at FAUX NEWS. They're fighting like hell to keep Christmas a religious experience, by talking up the birth of Christ and killing in his name (wait, that's Ann Coulter, sorry). Apparently, the USA is so Christian that Christmas has always been celebrated in the same way, except when it wasn't, especially with Santa Claus and all that, who didn't really make an appearance until 1822, long after Congress was in the habit of meeting on Christmas day.
I just have to laugh. Do I have a problem with the public squares having Christmas Trees? No. Holiday Trees? No. Christmas is a wierd holiday because Christians gave it away. We gave it to consumerism (see Yuleman vs. Anti-Claus) as a gift. Funny how we don't see a lot of John 3:16 signs around Christmas, God loved the world and gave His son. That's what Christmas is all about. The gift of Godhood in human form. It seems natural, if only a modern convention, to mimic that generosity, but we've let it go too far. We let it get to a point where non-Christians celebrate Christmas.