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[apocalypsos]

Today's pieces of wisdom from Bill O'Reilly --

1. Macy's changed their December greeting from "Merry Christmas" from "Happy Holidays" because the liberals want to get rid of religion so it's easier to legalize gay marriage.

2. Fahrenheit 9/11 has a better chance of getting nominated for a Best Picture Oscar than The Passion, even though a documentary has never gotten nominated for Best Picture (as far as I can remember) and once you got past the whole heavy religious stuff, The Passion wasn't that bad.

3. The man discussing the awards season with O'Reilly (who was actually making good, educated guesses on who might get nominated) suggested Johnny Depp as a nominee for Best Actor for Finding Neverland, and O'Reilly scoffed derisively. (Shut up, O'Reilly. The only person who's more of a lock for a Best Actor nomination than Johnny Depp is Jamie Foxx forRay.)

*sigh* If I listened to any more than an hour of that show a day, I'd probably go to the radio station and smack him upside the head with a boat oar.

In other news, my mother and cousin (who never go to the movies on Christmas Eve) are probably going to pick me up at the bus station that day after they go see Meet the Fockers. Yeah, I don't get it, either.

EDIT: I just joined domilie because I'm such a Charlie/Claire shipper, the OTP has ridden past my anti-RPS barricade into the land of sincere love of Dom/Emilie fics. *sigh*

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[fmith.livejournal.com]

Macy's changed their December greeting from "Merry Christmas" from "Happy Holidays" because the liberals want to get rid of religion so it's easier to legalize gay marriage

Wait, what? Does that even make sense?

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

...do you have the original pic for your icon? *stares*

[fmith.livejournal.com]

one (http://img64.exs.cx/img64/6580/ehhjason18vc.jpg), two (http://img95.exs.cx/img95/7122/ehhjason26yk.jpg), three (http://img95.exs.cx/img95/1964/ehhjason32kq.jpg).

Possibly my favorite photoshoot ever.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't. That was the first time in months I've done a double-take.

[matildarose.livejournal.com]

It's that leap of logic that makes me blink.


A+B does not equal BS, folks.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

You should have head the ramble that got him from "Macy's is changing its holiday greeting" to "It's to help legalize gay marriage." I may have whiplash, it changed direction so fast.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

Of course it does. It makes perfect sense. You see, "Merry Christmas" is an ancient Christian blessing. It was first said by Jesus himself on his seventh birthday, and the secret formula has been handed down and encoded in the language over the course of almost two thousand years.

"Happy Holidays", on the other hand, derives from the Black Speech of Mordor Hell, and is a dark and powerful incantation that means anyone who listens to it is suddenly married to the nearest person of the same gender.

Or so I'm told.

... Seriously, shit like this makes me want to grow up to be a mad scientist. Then I could have an Ev0l Plot!!1! to make everybody Gay! Gay! Gay! and then we wouldn't have all this trouble with breeders wanting to get married. All future generations would be cloned in my labs, from a carefully selected gene pool of really, really pretty people.

Of course, I would also become gay, but that's cool. I'd just make sure to brainwash Johnny Depp.

[fmith.livejournal.com]

I am somewhat tempted to friend you, if you talk this way all the time.

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

I love your icon!

[auguris]

I like this plan! Where do I sign up?

[filmbuff.livejournal.com]

Your icon has exceeded the allowable limit of awesome.

[maechi.livejournal.com]

I can't believe all the conservative anger over the Macy thing. When was it such a horrible thing to try to be welcoming to all particular religions, & not just the 'big' one? (But then again, we're dealing with conservatives who consider their religion to be the only valid one -- so I think I answered my own question.)

Oh, brother.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought.

Happy Holidays is really shorthand for Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Joyous Yule, Yay Festivus, Happy Crimbo, Happy Agnostica, etc.

Because not everybody wants to cram it all into one all-inclusive word of Agnosticrimboyulehanukkwanzmas like I do.

Re: Oh, brother.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I would be sincerely impressed if you could say that out loud. There might be real worship involved. :)

Re: Oh, brother.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Wow, Trollprincess worship? Really? Okay.

Re: Oh, brother.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

...of course the word has gotten longer now since I was informed Festivus and Ramadan were left out.

[namey.livejournal.com]

To be fair, most religions think theirs is the only valid one... that's kinda the point...

</tonguecheek>

[maechi.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yeah, I know what you're saying. (Although mine doesn't & there are a number of religions that aren't as fanatical about being the one true religion as conservative Christianity.)

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

The One Religon- to rule them all!

[wufeidragon.livejournal.com]

Who painted that? Your icon, I mean. I know I've seen it before.

[wufeidragon.livejournal.com]

OhhH! I figured it out. It's from an animorphs book cover. Right. Riiight. It's been a long time since I've seen one of those. But I remember I thought her lips were pretty.

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

Yep, it’s from #2: The Visitor. That one’s always been my favorite cover.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Macy's changed their December greeting from "Merry Christmas" from "Happy Holidays" because the liberals want to get rid of religion so it's easier to legalize gay marriage

Right. Because Christianity is the only "religion", and certainly the only one with a holiday happening this month. ::spits on ground::

Excuse me, I have to go hang out with reasonable, intelligent Christians now to counteract the antipathy that remark stirred up in me towards the religion in general.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

The more I see from the guy, the more my brain plots a book called "Everything I Know About Being an Asshat, I Learned From Bill O'Reilly." ;)

Slightly tangential amusement, a friend of mine informed me that he long thought that <3 meant "Asshat". See? There's the little hat sitting atop the little ass... And thus, that's what it has come to predominantly mean in my brain.

And I'll stick with my nicely pagan ways, and wish you a Merry Solstice, or a Cool Yule. ;)

J

[acetal.livejournal.com]

I can sympathise. Sometimes I get stuck listening to Libertarian talkback radio at work all day.

Considering I regard Libertarianism as the politics of selfishness, it's torture.

At the moment there's a bill going through parliament on Civil Unions. That is, effectively allowing homosexual couples to get married without calling it marriage. It's not quite on a par with marriage, but there's no way a gay marriage bill would get through as such. Anyway, you can just imagine the bigots coming out of the woodwork. It's very ugly.

Of course, I come home and get to listen to it all over again. *sighs*

You don't know the half of it....

[grissecon.livejournal.com]

I'm working at Macy's right now, we got a whole "special briefing" on how to handle questions about our, I quote: "choice to forgo "Merry Christmas" as our greeting this year."

Absolutely ridiculous, specially when you take into account that the store carries about 5 different nativity sets but not a single menorah. Sheesh.

It's the whole martyrdom thing...

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

It's got to be. "Christians" like that just aren't happy unless they believe they're being persecuted.

I heard another one (Lars Larsen) claiming that he was going to be *more* militant about wishing people Merry Christmas to get across the idea that *he* celebrated Christmas...and it apparently never even occurred to him that the assumption of Christianity as the baseline for society *might* be offensive to those of us that don't celebrate.

On the fandom side of things, has he said anything about the decision that was handed down from the Golden Globes regarding Farenheit and Passion? Neither is eligible for Best Picture -- the Globes rules specifically confine documentaries to Best Documentary category, and only English language films are eligible for the big prize.

Obviously the Oscars aren't restricted like that (Life is Beautiful, anyone?), but honestly -- in the face of such fare as "Ray" and "Finding Neverland", Passion at least doesn't stand a chance.

Wow. Pre-caffeinated fangirl rants. Fear them. *g*

Re: It's the whole martyrdom thing...

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

The thing that they said about The Passion that I agreed with is that the only nomination it'll probably get is Best Cinematography. It was a beautifully filmed two-and-a-half-hour snuff film.

O'Reilly was also trying to argue that Jim Caviezel was going to get nominated for Best Actor for playing Jesus, and if he didn't, O'Reilly was going to get people to boycott the movies. The same with if Fahrenheit 9/11 gets nominated for Best Picture. And he tried to argue the box office for both movies as proof The Passion should get nominated over Fahrenheit 9/11. Yeah, the Oscars is the last place you can use box office as an excuse to nominate one movie over another. (Plus, either movie would have to beat out Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ray, Finding Neverland, Collateral, Sideways, Kinsey, and Closer, all of which have gotten better reviews and more nominations so far this awards season.)

Anyway, getting back to that Best Actor category, to nominate Jim Caviezel for The Passion, they'd have to eliminate Jamie Foxx for Ray, Paul Giamatti for Sideways, Johnny Depp for Finding Neverland, Jim Carrey for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Liam Neeson for Kinsey, Kevin Bacon for The Woodsman, Bill Murray for The Life Aquatic, Tom Cruise for Collateral, and Jude Law for Closer, and those are just the ones that I can come up with off the top of my head. This has been a really healthy year for performances worthy of a Best Actor nomination, and quite frankly, I expect those first five to be the lineup we'll see when they announce the Best Actor nominations. (Jim Carrey's the only one I'd switch out, but if I did, it'd be for either Kevin Bacon or Jude Law, whom Hollywood would like to give an Oscar on both accounts.)

[william-mize.livejournal.com]

Why do you torture yourself so, listening to O'Reilly?

I wouldn't cross the street to piss on him if he were on fire.

There, there poppett. Just put your tape of "Lost" in and watch it instead ;>