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[neadods]

I'd credit, but I've forgotten where I got these.

Creation Museum Report Readers must be fond of science and tolerant of the word "horseshit."
Did you know, for example, that Adam is responsible not only for the fall of man, but also for the creation of venom? It didn’t exist in the Garden of Eden, because, well. Why would it? Weeds? Adam’s fault. Carnivorous animals (and, one assumes, the occasional carnivorous plant)? Adam again. Entropy? You guessed it: Adam. Think about that, won’t you; eat one piece of fruit and suddenly you’re responsible for the inevitable heat death of the universe. God’s kind of mean.

... But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah

For those who didn't know about "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog" - (LJ feed at chaucerhathblog), ol' Jeffy's talking about the Televisioun Lyne Up of Galfridus Chaucer, Clerke of the Kinges Werkes, which includes "Sectes in the Borough," "Flight of the Lombardes," "The Privy Seel Offyce," and "Doctor Hwaet." “That ys fanTASTick,” he saith yn the rare tymes whan he ys of good chiere. He fighteth many enemyes, includinge the Cybermonks, the Daneleks, and folk who thinke that “Geats” is pronouncid “geetz.”

Dear "Patriots:" If you really loved America as much as you say you do, maybe you should actually LEARN ITS HISTORY. Kentucky Governer Ernie Fletcher tried to dodge posting a church-donated 10 Commandments in a school by making them part of a display "meant as a tool for teaching children civic literacy." Now, it's bad enough that someone in Government was pushing the "our laws were founded on the 10 Commandments" canard, but to teach "civic literacy" by stating that the Stars and Strips flag and the song "The Star-Spangled Banner" were used in the American Revolution is a bit much. Yeah, the War of 1812 was pretty much "American Revolution II: The British Empire Strikes Back" but in 1781, that tune was still a drinking song. Betcha won't teach that to the kiddies!

The latest salvo in the "War on Christmas" is Bill O'Reilly getting his knickers in a knot over christmas trees with white lights instead of colored ones. It's unChristian, y'see. I wonder what he would make of that bastion of blasphemy, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement, which flanked the alter with two huge trees decorated entirely in white lights and white doves every Christmas when I was growing up.

Dead of adorable.

I find this also adorable, mostly at how matter-of-fact/bored they are when the cameras aren't rolling. Simms looks a little resigned to me; I wonder if this is before or after David dropped him after a take!

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[fyrdrakken]

Yeah, back when my mother had the interest in decorating the house, the rainbow chasing lights had just come out and a couple of years we had the gutter edge of the roof, flower beds, and the grassy teardrop in the center of our round driveway all outlined in rainbow lights. And then there was the "tree" we made with strings of rainbow lights and a pole for the center. Small town out in the sticks, and the only complaints we ever heard were from Dad about how we could land aircraft by the lights. (Pfah. As if he weren't involved in prior years when we took red, white, and green strands and swapped out bulbs to get three red/green/white ones to outline the entire roof with. Including being up there with a staplegun trying to figure out how the heck to perfectly outline every edge and peak with a single strand without doubling back.)

At our current location, the most we've ever bothered with was gutterline, a window, and the front door, in plain red and green. Thankfully, we get the complaints about the lawn needing mowing, but seasonal decorations can be as over-the-top as the neighbors want to make them -- and some of them have a lot of trashy fun...

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

"Seasonal decorations can be as over-the-top as the neighbors want to make them -- and some of them have a lot of trashy fun..."

Same in my neighborhood. I still applaud the fellow who, in response to all the six-foot-tall inflatable Santas/elves/reindeer, went out and got an enormous inflatable menorah--the thing was big enough to kill and eat passers-by--and covered every available surface in blue and white lights.

[fyrdrakken]

We do get a lot of the inflatable goodies, and a few blocks away there's a really nice neighborhood that I've formed the habit of cruising through on Christmas night on the way home from having spent the day at Dad's parents', because a lot of the houses go all out. And there's also the one I love that takes advantage of its second-floor balcony (do you still call it a balcony if it goes the entire length of the front of the house? or is it a deck?) to stick a Santa mannequin and other life-sized figures out on display. (They do similar in October, albeit differently-themed.)