It’s 2013 AD, Stupid!
I finally got given a new calendar, at Pronto, that good-value buffet resto in Pondok Indah Mall.
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Used to be lots of banks and other businesses handed them out to all and sundry but that generous custom seems to be on the wane.
I still try to buy a nice big one with lots of glossy photos of dangdut starlets.
Like these three lasses from Jogja, performing as the Trio Cecak – the Gecko Trio. I have quite a few cecak darting about my ceiling, but alas not these ones
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However…speaking of calendars….
A very good article in the Washington Times last month drew attention to the absurd posturings of that dreadful character Lincoln Chafee, who is Governor of Rhode island.
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Chafee and ‘Holiday Tree’
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Defying not only popular opinion but also his own R. I legislature, he persists in calling the State Christmas Tree a ‘holiday tree!’
As the author of the WT piece points out, if the PC elite truly want to expunge symbols of America’s historic identity as part of Christendom, the dolts will have to invent an entirely new calendar. It’s surely intolerable that we should be counting our years from the Birth of Christ.
There is of course a variety of calendars to choose from. We have a holiday here in the ‘world’s largest Muslim democracy’ for the Muslim New Year, and the more holidays the better, most think.
But if you ask any Indonesian, of any creed, what year it is, he or she will no doubt eye you anxiously, but then reply ’2013.’
All that silly nonsense about sticking an E onto BC in history books etc. is just that – nonsense. Typing Before Common Era may give pinkos a thrill but it still means Before Christ.
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On the other hand, AD may well be problematic, since in the USA, at least, the left-libs have actually started referring to The Manchurian as some sort of Messiah.
http://www.examiner.com/article/barack-obama-compared-to-jesus-christ
Their new era (new order?) may be deemed to have begun in 2008. Thus poor Hillary’s man occupied the White House in the B.O. era!
So in addition to re-writing the Constitution (instead of just flouting it, as Obama does daily) we may see a move to emulate those French Reolutionaries who decided to start a new era with a Year One. (For us normal conserative folk, consolation lies in the indisputable historical fact that the revolutionaries’ new era lasted not much longer than three US presidential terms)
Yonks, 
Ati, 
Yonks 10:49 am on January 2, 2013 Permalink |
Slow day for post thoughts today Ross? The left has starting referring to Obama as the messiah…really? (oh, I assume you mean those who voted for him, that’s kind of lot of people). Seriously who really cares if someone offers a greeting of Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas?
ross1948 11:52 am on January 2, 2013 Permalink |
It is a slow day altogether today,Yonk. Some two weeks of partying has de-energised me considerably, though perhaps you lead a quieter life given your irrepressible need to comment.
But before you do, I wish you would check links, or at least look at the photo included.
If somebody paints a huge picture of Obama in crucixion mode, this is clearly regarding him as some sort of Christ-like figure, as was the linked comment from another left-lib ‘celebrity.’
Yonks 3:54 pm on January 2, 2013 Permalink
I did indeed check the links and it is about as valid as the fringe right high lighting Timothy McVeigh as some sort martyr to the new Republic. Hardly the opinion of the majority of Conservatives (or even a significant percentage).
Point being it is hyperbole in the extreme to suggest ‘in the USA, at least, the left-libs have actually started referring to The Manchurian as some sort of Messiah” Skipping over the Manchurian conspiracy silliness, the “left libs” you are talking about as some great mass, is actually what…two people? three? mmmmmm… I though the mass media was left lib in your opinion and yet I have not heard CNN refer to Obama as Christ? (as a side issue can Beck get any more childish? Although he is increasingly grasping for relevance since losing his major cable stop so I do understand his motivation).
“Some two weeks of partying has de-energised me considerably, though perhaps you lead a quieter life given your irrepressible need to comment”
Ah, no my life is fairly busy but it really is not much of an imposition to comment on your posts. With your hyperbole and passion you tend to leave fairly large openings for comment. A shame really, like the Tea Party and their Ilk you raise some valid points from time to time but by taking it to the extreme you degrade your position and remove any possibly of logical outcome.
ross1948 5:07 pm on January 2, 2013 Permalink
You have a nice day too!
PS As an afterthought, thanks for comparing me to the Tea party – a grand bunch of folks, America’s best.
Ati 12:55 pm on January 3, 2013 Permalink |
I care, Yonks.
If we meet Muslim people at Idul Fitri, I do not say Happy Holiday. I wish them Muslim day, if they will receive it.
So on Christian day, it is polite to say same for Christian people too.
Why do you not?
Yonks 11:31 pm on January 3, 2013 Permalink
While I have no idea what ‘Muslim’ day you are referring to. I am sorry but if someone offers happy holidays or merry Christmas I happy to receive both and worry not which it is.