More Smacking
No list of people who need smacking would be complete without the inclusion of Dr. Mike Adams, Ph.D. His most recent column, "The University of North Carolina at Gomorrah (Revisited)," is another one of his emails to a UNC official -- in this one, he whines about being mistreated, while also bragging about how powerful he really is. He then tacks on something about how two Libertarian students were being repressed by the administration.
These seem to be his most heart-felt paragraphs:
Chancellor Sullivan,
In 2004, you carelessly told a member of the UNC Board of Governors to help you "get Mike Adams off your back" following a decision to hire (for $3000) a porn star to speak at UNC-Greensboro the night before I spoke at your university without compensation for hotel and mileage expenses. I say "carelessly," because you were unaware that the Board member was (and is) a supporter of mine.
[...]
But, today, I want to pause to thank the administration for funding two of my later speeches at UNCG – in April of 2004 and, again, in April of 2005. I used the money to buy firearms on both occasions. After I finish this editorial, I will forward pictures of some of the animals I killed for your viewing pleasure.
That's our Dr. Mike: always killing animals for the viewing pleasure of his UNC foes!
Anyway, Mr. Bartholomew of Bartholomew's Notes on Religion (be sure to check out his latest post, "Thai Children Get Rapture Ready" to learn about how some evangelicals have been doing the Lord's work by converting traumatized children to Christianity) tipped us off to a post at Lloydletta's Nooz and Comments, where Eva Young emailed Dr. Mike to ask him about one of his columns, and Dr. Mike replied. One of his emails said in part:
Eva, most people saw it as a parody on Mirecki's cowardice.
You mean that "Religious intolerance in Kansas" was supposed to be a parody?! Gee, I saw it as an another embarrassing and tedious example of Dr. Mike talking to the voices in his head --but now I know better.
But, you are vastly superior - intellectually speaking. You recognized that each time I emailed him, Mirecki actually - quite calmly, I might add - typed in the words "no comment." Are you a feminist professor, by any chance?
That's our Dr. Mike: always thinking he's insulting people by calling them feminist professors!
So, instead of smacking him, let's just shout "vagina, vagina" at him until he assumes the fetal position.
Next for smacking is The Alliance Defense Fund's Demetrios Stratis, who is still fighting the War Against the War on Christmas, despite the fact that everybody but Bill O'Reilly went home to have hot cocoa days ago.
Here's part of the ADF press release disguised as a WorldNetDaily story ("Grinches working overtime in schools" which tells about his heroic fight:
The war on Christmas continues to rage in America's public schools, but so does the counteroffensive.
In Mine Hill, N.J., elementary school officials changed the title and words to "Silent Night" in its "X-mas Files" concert program. [...]
"Silent night, holy night" was changed to "Silent night, winter night" by the officials at the Mine Hill Canfield Avenue School, according to an attorney from the Alliance Defense Fund, which is challenging the action.
Wait, didn't that happen in Dodgeville, WI, and wasn't it debunked by Brad at Sadly, No!?
Or didn't it happen in Egg Harbor Township, NJ, and wasn't it rebutted by Media Matters?
No, my mistake -- actually Mr. Stratis is talking about a completely different incident that didn't happen (see AU.org's "The Religious Right's Phony 'War on Christmas'").
But back to WND, for more exciting war reporting:
"It's remarkable that we even have to debate whether or not it's okay to celebrate Christmas at school," said ADF-allied attorney Demetrios Stratis. "The Constitution does not require government officials to expunge religious observances and expression from public schools. The common perception by many school officials that such expression violates the law is simply in error."
Stratis explained the Supreme Court has never ruled that saying "Merry Christmas" or having a merry Christmas is illegal.
Sure, the activist judges on the Supreme Court TRIED to make it illegal to have a merry Christmas, but their evil plot was foiled, thanks to the Alliance Defense Fund.
School officials refused to accept delivery of Stratis' letter.
I can't say as I blame them -- it's a really long, boring form letter. I bet Mr. Stratis bills the ADF by the hour.
"It seems that these school officials are behaving as though they answer to no one," said Stratis. "Apparently they have forgotten that they are in fact public servants, accountable to the people of this community. It's a sad day in America when a public-school parent needs to retain a lawyer in order to ensure his child can participate in a Christmas concert without confronting official censorship."
And it's a sad day in America when WorldNetDaily regularly prints the ADF's claims without ever contacting the schools being maligned to get their side of the story.
But hey, I guess it would be a pretty boring war if WND's readers learned that nobody was fighting it except for Bill and Demetrios.
P.S.
Although we're all sick of the War on the War on Christmas, it's not fair of us to ignore MichNews guest columnist Chris David, who says that "The 'War on Christmas' Is the Good Fight." We only have time for a sampling of Chris's work, but I think you'll see from it that Chris is a true Christmas warrior:
Now is the time to fight the good fight, securing those traditions of Christ for ourselves and our posterity. And now is the time for conservative Americans to stand up in confrontation of those that would promote a secular agenda, screaming in outrage: “We will not take this any longer!”
These conservative Americans have waged this war for fifty years, never tiring and faltering. [...]
They are represented by women like Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and Secretary Condoleeza Rice, passing on the Christian principles of morality and fighting the ‘War on Christmas’ to preserve our American traditions and celebrate the Christmas season, echoing the principles handed to them by their mothers.
Yes, for fifty years, Ann Coulter has passed on principles of morality (she doesn't care for them because they cramp her style), and has gone to the window and shouted in outrage, "I'm mad as hell at this War on Christmas, and I'm not going to take it any longer!"
And it's been fun every year.
P.P.S.
If you're tired of the War On the War on Christmas music, check out Radio Free Krup: HOLIDAY Music Edition.
Beginning Wednesday December 21st (at 2pm EST) through December 28th, I will be your host for Six Degrees Traveler Radio's Second Annual Holiday Music Spectacular. That's right, two solid, commercial free hours of seriously good Holiday music, featuring:
The Ventures, Pearl Jam, Moce2, an Worker, John Lennon, Polyphonic Spree, Kiki & Herb, Macy Gray, Death Cab for Cutie, Tom Waits, R.E.M. and much, much more! With special guests Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, David Sedaris, Pee Wee Herman and The Simpsons!!
Krup also claims there will be a "very special message of peace, love, and understanding" by a certain world leader, but I'm not sure that I believe him.
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