Tails of a Big Kitty in a Lil' City

Yes, I just retracted my own retraction. And the apology that accompanied it. Yeah, the company may have had reasons to not offend any non-Christians or whatever. Well, ya know what, if they don't want to observe Christmas, then they shouldn't observe Christmas. They should just stay business as usual on December 24 and December 25.

And you know what: I'm not about to get into religious flamewars with any of you. I've said my piece, and I will defend my piece, but beyond that, I'm not hearing it.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

I hereby drop any protests and/or dissent and/or name calling and/or argumentation, etc. regarding the store that I visited yesterday. chance_furlong yetanotherbob (sorry for the errant crediting there) made an excellent comment pointing out something that I didn't even consider: by calling it the Christmas holiday, the establishment would be seen as endorsing a particular religion/faith over others. Precisely because the store did not close on Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, or Solstice, or Festivus, etc. Christmas, in such a sense, cannot be seen in the same light as Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, both squarely nondenominational and nonreligious holidays.

There could be many different reasons--financial, legal, or otherwise--why that store had to avoid endorsing a particular religion over others, and I did not consider these possibilities. As such, I am dropping the "Not Cool" tag from the previous post about the "Winter Holiday" closing. I also would like to apologize to my readers and commenters, especially my civilly dissenting readers and commenters, regarding my lack of insight which led to what can easily and rightfully be construed as a post laden with excessive Christian fervor. (See next most-recent entry.)

I will also note that I heavily altered the setting of the previous post, as well as the sign saying where the store was closed, to protect the not-so-innocent (namely, myself.) No further details will be given here.

And in closing, I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a joyous holiday season.

I was out doing some last minute shopping yesterday, and one of the stores I stopped at had a sign reminding customers of the days it would be closed this year. They had all their late end-of-year closings listed on the sign. They were closed on November 26 and 27 for the "Thanksgiving holiday." They will also be closed from December 31 through January 1, 2010, for the "New Year holiday." And, this store is also closed today and tomorrow for...

...the "WINTER holiday." WTF?????

It's not the "Winter Holiday," dammit. It's Christmas! CHRISTMAS! No matter how pagan the holiday's origins really are, or how secular the day has become, dammit, December 25 is still Christmas! And I, and billions of others, celebrate Jesus' birth on this day, and even those billions who don't celebrate Jesus' birth on this day still recognize it as CHRISTMAS!!! It's CHRISTMAS, dammit! And I'm rightly pissed off that you wish to call it the damn "Winter Holiday!" Like it's not politically correct to say CHRISTMAS anymore!

You know what? If you don't want to call it Christmas -- if it's not a holiday worth recognizing by name -- if it's just not that bleeping important that you just call it the "Winter Holiday" -- then don't f***ing close on those days. Treat those days as "business as usual". You're not closed on Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, or Solstice, or Festivus. No. You're closed on December 24 and 25 -- CHRISTMAS Eve and CHRISTMAS Day. And you call it the f***ing "winter holiday closing."

F***ers.

In related news, this store also had a Hanukkah table and a Kwanzaa table set up by the front door. There was a Christmas tree, too -- tucked back in the corner away from everything else. Or should I call it a "holiday tree"?

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...goes jointly to Mark Sanford and Tiger Woods because I haven't given either of them one yet because I've been asleep at the wheel here, and I apologize for that. For those of you who hadn't heard about either, the tl;dr:

South Carolina governor Mark Sanford went missing in 2009, and later admitted to have flown to Argentina multiple times to see a mistress, cheating on his wife, with public funds. Sanford resigned as Chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

Tiger Woods, arguably the greatest golfer to ever have lived, admitted to cheating on his wife with what has discovered to be more than a dozen waitresses, escorts, and other women, and has taken an indefinite leave from golf (while his wife, Elin, has taken an indefinite leave from him.)

This brings the number of various people and/or organizations that have received Not Cool awards or Really F***ed Up awards in 2009 to twenty-three. Feel free to review them all at http://bucktowntiger.livejournal.com/tag/not+cool for we will be voting on which is the Most Not Cool of 2009 starting on Tuesday.

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Also, there were nine Not Cool awards given in 2009, but there will not be a poll for what was 2009's Most Not Cool. That award goes to U.S. Airways pilot Chelsey B. "Sully" Sullenberger, who saved 155 passengers and crew by making a spectacular emergency landing in the Hudson River. Congratulations, Sully!

...goes to the author of the Stop Avatar blog, who wants everyone to protest the movie Avatar because it does not depict any non-heterosexual relationships. The author of the blog suggested that protesters go to the movie, but remain standing for its entire duration. The author also suggested that protesters buy all the tickets to the movie in bulk, and then refuse to attend, because "an empty theater sends a message." Lastly, the author warned those of us living in "Middle America" in states that voted for John McCain in 2008 to be extra careful because there may be "incidents."

The full title of the blog is "Stop Avatar: The Future is Transgender NOT Straight," implying that in the future, everyone will be transgender. One transgender Shopwrecker has already stated that the blog does not speak for the T community. Hopefully this blogger doesn't speak for anyone reading this. The blogger definitely doesn't speak for the queerty.com staff.

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...goes to Democrats in Congress for being neo-Republican Joe Lieberman's metaphorical female dogs.

Reports are that Democrats in Congress, to save Senator Lieberman's crucial vote, is scrapping the Medicare buy-in for Americans age 55 to 64. This, after Democrats scrapped the "public option."

So, what the hell does this gutted health care reform bill actually do? Nothing. Nothing, except force 30 million Americans who couldn't afford private insurance previously, to buy private insurance they still can't afford.

My girlfriend said it best: "Change You Can Believe In My Ass."