Political correctness at Christmas

As I was sitting at my granddaughter's Christmas program at her school yesterday, I realized that public schools don't do stuff like that anymore. When I was growing up, we always had some sort of Christmas play or something to dread being in, unless you were one of the future drama class candidates. They weren't secular, either. There was Mary and Joseph, Baby Jesus, and the 3 Wise Men. We had commercial Christmas songs and religious songs. I guess now one of two things has happened to end public school Christmas programs. Either someone complained about the Christian religious aspect of them or the state Department of Education decided they couldn't please all of the people all of the time. We need to get away from this "everyone is entitled" attitude and realized that somewhere someone is always going to bitch about something. It's just human nature. We've gone from majority rule to minority control. This country was founded by Christians intent on stopping religious persecution and allowing religious freedom for all. This means anyone can practice whatever religion they desire. This doesn't mean they can whine about a Christian-themed traditional school program to the point that it gets canceled.

Holy gun sights, Batman!!

Have you seen the news story about the gun sights with Bible verses inscribed on them? Trijicon Inc. in Wisconsin is making gun sights for the US military as well as foreign countries. They apparently are engraving references to Bible verses on the gun sights and have been for years. Well, someone noticed them and started a shit storm about the religious reference. Publicly, the US has to act like they are all fired up about this and how the inscriptions shouldn't have been on there and so on. The first thing I wondered was who is supposed to inspect these things for compliance to the contract? You know the government is probably paying 3 prices for them to start with and should at least look at them occasionally. I sure hope they pay better attention to the critical stuff like jets and helicopters! The bigger issue is that these are Christian references in a world of two extremes: one of "bend over backwards" political correctness and one of trying to kill everyone who isn't Muslim. This whole bit about the sights being used in the Middle East and how it contradicts our "religious sensitivities" is bull crap of the highest quality. Those aren't Christians trying to shoot or blow up our troops! We as a country can't run around trying to kiss everyone's ass because, at some point, we will wind up with poo on our face.

Crazies in the media

Once again, the crazies have grabbed the attention of the media. This time, it is Rush Limbaugh (no surprise!) and Pat Robertson (also no surprise!). Rush has been giving Obama shit since before the election and now he claims that the current crisis in Haiti is just another opportunity for Obama to push his agenda. Of course, he claims his remarks were taken out of context, which he didn't consider when he was babbling on about Harry Reid's comments about Obama. He's a bigot! Nearly every show he does has some sort of racial spin. I'm amazed that Rush has such a large following except for the fact that they are all Republicans who are still pissed off about the '08 election. Pat Robertson, on the other hand, is pure friggin' nuts. Certified caa-razy! Claiming that Haiti was cursed and made a pact with the devil to get out from under French rule is just another page in his book on how to be a false prophet. The Haitians didn't entirely win the battle. Yellow fever wiped out nearly the whole French army. He also claims that his remarks were taken out of context. What discussion could he be having where they weren't out of context? Who else would say that? While it is obvious that Haiti and the Dominican Republic are as different as night and day, that has more to do with politics than God. Haiti has been typically a paramilitary dictatorship with extreme corruption for decades. The past and current leadership doesn't care about the population any more than the Europeans that ultimately wiped out the indigenous people of the island. Returning to Robertson, this nut job consistently makes claims and prophecies that, when they don't materialize or are proved wrong, says that the prayers of people to God somehow averted whatever disaster he claimed was going to happen. I wonder if Limbaugh and Robertson share the same mailing list?