Idiots in my neck of the woods...

[lady raven]

Just wanted to mention a couple of observations from the past two days.

Of course we have PLENTY of idiots here- I live in OK- but sometimes they still surprise me!

Last night we went to see a local church's Christmas pageant. We are of a relatively liberal denomination (In fact, most of our church's most "prominent" members, including the pastor and his wife, are Dems), but this was a Baptist church. They were doing a "living Christmas tree" program and we went so the kids could hear the pretty music and see the big tree full of people.

There were several traditional Christmas songs in the program. When they got to "Have yourself a merry little Christmas" , my husband and I didn't know whether to laugh or gasp when they sang the second verse; "Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas- let the music play". (Make the yuletide gay)

Isn't it enough to publicly stand in every possible way against the basic human rights of gay people? No- They have to change a Christmas song that everyone knows so that it doesn't mention the word "gay". This has just reached a level of utter silliness. Really.

Then:

Today, I was gassing up the car and heard a couple of rednecks talking about their Christmas plans. One of them said he was going to try to get the whole family together no matter what it took since Obama is going to take away Christmas next year. I'm not kidding, guys. It must have just been the mood I was in today, but I pretended to sneeze so they wouldn't realize that I was snickering uncontrollably.

I wonder what other interesting things I'm going to hear while out and about!

With the twins here, I haven't gotten out a whole lot in recent months, so I've been kind of sheltered with regard to the local idiot brigade...


Edited because I didn't close my parenthesis the first time.

[Bluzmann57]

1. Obama's going to take away Christmas next year?

I think I missed something somewhere. Why didn't anyone fill me in on this? Gee whiz, I miss everything.
You showed great restraint by pretending to sneeze. A lot of people would have just laughed in their faces.

[lady raven]

4. I really was trying to not be noticed at all, but sometimes you just can't help it.

[Ishoutandscream2]

5. I guess teh evil libruls are winning teh war on Christmas

[Enthusiast]

9. Christmas and guns! nt

[panader0]

2. How about "Don we now our gay apparel"?

Did they sing that one too?

[lady raven]

3. They didn't do that song at all. But I wonder what they would have changed IT to. LOL

[Catherine Vincent]

6. Obama taking Christmas away?

Which is it guns or Christmas? I take it they didn't see the video today of Obama and his daughters purchasing a Christmas tree? :eyes:

[jwirr]

8. And hear his shout "Merry Christmas." These people are truly idiots. nt

[rurallib]

7. don't tell them that it is not true about Obama taking away Christmas

let them think that and they can just skip Christmas from here on out. My guess is that they are just looking for a way to keep from spending money in December. ("Sorry kids, no Christmas this year. No presents. Don't blame me.")

[elkston]

10. That's about as stupid as the school board guy who got fired for saying ...

"niggardly".

(I think they hired him back eventually, though -- after consulting their dictionaries).