Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger
All you Christian warriors out there best make ready for battle! Sean Hannity and the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue are now claiming that there is a war on Easter. “Oh no!” you say. “Who would do such a thing?” Why, Lady Gaga, comedian Ricky Gervais, and a few other dastardly demons—that’s who.
I even heard it through the grapevine that the CEO of Easter Bunnies, Inc., is hopping mad. I was told that he’s organized his bunny brigade and worked in co-operation with the president of Hatchling Chicks Corporation to devise a plan to go after anti-Easterites like Lady Gaga and Gervais.
Get your trebuchets ready! I’ll bring eggs. We’re planning to meet in Mister MacGregor’s garden tomorrow at the first light of dawn. We’ll shell the hard-boiled enemies of Easter ova and ova again until they surrender. They won’t know what hit them.
Are you ready to join me and my fellow warriors?
More about the War on Easter:
Stephen Colbert has an excellent summary of the story for us here: Easter Under Attack—Egg Edition
Fox News And Catholic League’s Bill Donohue Invent ‘War On Easter’ (Think Progress)
Easter Brings Out the Crazies (Catholic League)
Hannity – War on Easter (4.21.11) I couldn’t embed video. Here’s the link:
Buddha Is Laughing
Fine then! I’ll bet my constitutional skills up against yours any day. When this country is derailed because of all the Socialist programs and big spending I will be quick to point it out to you. The 16th amendment did not give way to creating a 14 trillion dollar debt. I would guess that over 90% of the electorate have no idea what the constitution says and therefore votes which ever the wind is telling them. Obama will face a much tougher election because unemployment will stay at about 8.5% and with gas increasing in price, that is not a platform for re-election.
Congress can do whatever it wants with a budget and the House has control over all money bills so for you to say that the Republicans had nothing to do with balancing the budget is ludicrous.
Jim,
What you call fact is mostly spin. The stimulus was not passed during the Bush regime. You may be confused with the TARP program. The Republicans had nothing to do with Clinton balancing the budget. You may wan to check your recent history because you are way off on your alleged facts. And as our friends have suggested, leave your religion at the door.
Elaine,
Ahhhh. It’s likely a medium issue as well. This is quite an artificial way to communicate. Let’s call it a wash. 😉
jim’s shift is just about over. heisrisen should be here shortly
Buddha,
I guess I’m still not making myself clear. I was attempting to make a joke–and meant to imply Laissez-Faire Lord might be another name for Free Market Jesus. My fail! It must be the ingestion of too much of the sour cream chocolate cake that I made for Easter that was the cause of that.
Elaine,
Ahhhh. No. Free Market Jesus is merely a transient annoyance. The other one is literally starting to piss me off with her threadjacking. And I’m very hard to make angry. I’ve only been actually angry here three times in all the years I’ve posted here (once for someone insulting my grandfather, twice over articles), but she is really about to earn number four. About every fourth thread she posts on, she hijacks. Enough is enough.
Buddha,
Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to Free Market Jesus. I should have made myself clear. BTW, I hadn’t been following the other thread–but I checked it out after your hijacking comment.
Jim,
This is a legal blog. The bottom line is our Constitution is not based on the Bible no matter how much you might wish it was. You will never get a 10 for content here using religious reasoning, or indeed, poor reasoning and magical thinking like you’ve displayed here today. By in large, the regular contributors minus the trolls and spammers are trained critical thinker or naturally gifted critical thinkers. You are way out of your depth to be taken seriously. You’ll have better luck at the kiddy end of the pool.
Elaine,
No. I’m talking about Ms. Contempt.
By all means, my good fellow, go join your friends in the echo chamber. And drink the Kool-Aid there.
G’day
Buddha,
Are you talking about the Laissez-Faire Lord?
Again, disagreement with cut-downs, name-calling, etc. but no substantive facts to offer to prove otherwise. On Conservative blogs my opinions get a 10 for substance so at the end of the day everything boils down to opinion. Since all of us are bloggers and not in the fight, I guess none of us really matter.
Elaine, I know, but I did not want to be too cruel to the helpless and afflicted.
W=c,
As long as you aren’t worried about making Free Market Jesus angry, I say go with what works best for you.
Buddha Is Laughing 1, April 25, 2011 at 3:42 pm
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but why….I am embracing ‘anti-busy’….and learning (almost) to enjoy it!
Speaking of style over substance, someone we all know is hijacking yet another thread elsewhere. I’ve finally lost my cool dealing with it too. I’m about to the point of starting a petition to get her banned if the Prof. will entertain the idea of cleaning up the playground a bit.
Otteray,
2.0 on substance? I’d call that grade inflation.
BIL & Elaine: Isn’t he cute in how he flails around impotently, trying to get us to come out and play?
I give him an 8.5 on style, but sadly, only 2.0 on substance.
No one will seriously address it, Jim.
Because it’s delusional bullshit.