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sometimes, the only reaction you can have to the news is… 
Fla. woman claims ‘Merry Christmas’ got her fired:
PENSACOLA, Fla. – A Christian woman claims she was fired from her job because she greeted callers with “Merry Christmas,” but the vacation rental company says it’s no Scrooge and the woman is just a disgruntled employee.
Tonia Thomas, 35, said she refused to say “Happy Holidays” and was fired, even after offering to use the company’s non-holiday greeting. The Panama City woman filed a federal complaint that accuses the company of religious discrimination. She is seeking compensation for lost wages.
“I hold my core Christian values to a high standard and I absolutely refuse to give in on the basis of values. All I wanted was to be able to say ‘Merry Christmas’ or to acknowledge no holidays,” she said Tuesday. “As a Christian, I don’t recognize any other holidays.”
Thomas said she is Baptist.
exactly what christian “values” require the use of the words “merry christmas”, rather than “happy holidays”? “have a merry christmas and a happy new year” is ok, but “happy holidays” is not? is her god REALLY that shallow?
“as a christian, i don’t recognize any other holidays.” well, guess what, ms. thomas, regardless of whether you “recognize” them or not, they exist. they don’t cease to exist by sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling “lalala, i can’t hear you”. acknowledging reality doesn’t require that you participate in those holidays.
but guess what? there’s a whole “12 days of christmas”, which apparently some “christians” idiots have forgotten. it’s more than just a song! the 12 days count from december 25th clear on through january 6th, the epiphany, which is a ~christian~ holiday, so even if lil ms. thomas’ god is really that shallow, even he should be happy that people would recognize the entire season of holidays.
so can we all get over this “war on christmas” bullshit already? happy fucking holidays >:|
we need change, but will we get it?
from Neoliberalism and Bottom-Line Morality - Notes on Greenspan, Rubin, and the Party of Davos:
From the Reagan era onward I have been impressed with how regularly liberal and left-leaning economists I knew, who went to work in industry and finance, very soon became pro-business, anti-labor, and politically right wing. I think that what got to them was not only the impact of association with businesspeople, but the fact that business profitability became central to their own performance. As business economists, wage increases would seem bad—as encroaching on that profitability and threatening inflation and business growth (and stock prices). Tough environmental rules would also hamper profitability; their relaxation by law or friendly (non-)enforcement would enhance it. It was therefore easy to slide into what we may call “bottom-line morality,” with positions on key issues dictated by prospective bottom line effects, but of course rationalized with an ideology that made this all benevolent—in the long run—and made these bottom-line moralists into Good Samaritans as they collected their fat salaries and bonuses while the vast majority waited for trickle-down.
Getting back to Greenspan morality, it is clear from both his Ayn Rand contributions and his writings and public pronouncements of the past 20 years that he views untrammeled capitalism as a “superlatively moral system” not because of businesspeople’s benevolence but because market operations in business’s self-interest will protect consumers—business will not take on undue risk because that would eventually harm their own welfare. Regulation is thus unnecessary and positively damaging by its arbitrariness and bureaucratic bungling.
we’ve seen how well this played out in the banking industry. :| greenspan was ardently supported by robert rubin and larry summers… both now parts of the obama administration.
it’s a start…
The greatest favor the white race did Obama this year may have been to stay home. That’s a far cry from Martin Luther King’s dream, but it’s a start.
this fucking election
LOL, a reminder of this long long long presidential campaign: http://thisfuckingelection.com/
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