I would have thought landing on an X-ed-out runway with trucks and people on it was the more serious source of violations, as well as the bigger act of dumbassery. If you or I did that, we’d already be down for a year minimum, easy.
The War on Christmas stuff is just posturing for his base. Oklahoma, remember. That landing was sheer recklessness that easily could have killed people.
You pagans can go celebrate Saturnalia, if you like. You do know why Christmas is 12/25, right?
Here’s how I see it:
On the one hand we have Thanksgiving, Hannuka, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Years. Several specific holidays celebrated around the same time.
On the other hand, we have the presents, the lights, trees and decorations, the cookies and sweets, the colors red and green, Santa Claus and his elves and reindeer, charity to the poor, peace on Earth and goodwill, feasts and family reunions, and all the other secular, non-sectarian observances and trappings of the season.
On the third hand we have the fact that many of the aforementioned traditions have their origins in Pagan Saturnalia and Yule, not the Christian tradition of the birth of Jesus.
On the fourth hand we have the fact that we’re talking about a multi-week season of observances–not just Christmas Day, Dec. 25th–during which most people get multiple days off, hence “holidays”.
On the fifth hand we have the fact that Dec. 25th was chosen to observe “Christ Mass” during the Dark Ages in order to co-opt the popular, existing seasonal traditions. So the nomenclature is based on a scam.
So given all that, you’d think that people could open up and recognize the multi-faceted quality of the Holiday Season rather than engage in all this reverse-PC humbuggery.
It’s grossly unfair to dumbasses to compare them to Inhofe. The guy is a full on retard who makes Sarah Palin look reasonable by comparison.
On a side note, it’s okay with me for him to refuse to ride in a holiday parade that does not recognize that it is a Christmas parade. Grandstanding about it is not okay, but that is too much to expect from a guy stupider and more disagreeable than a rabid skunk.
All the winter holidays.
No, it actually connotes genuine inclusion.
Why should any of them be broufght to the fore. None are more important than any other. Certainly there is no reason whatsoever for a public event to specifically endore Christmas.
What horrible persecution. How do you stand it?
This is the best you can do?
No, it’s pretty much just butthurt, conservative fundies who think they’re being persecuted if they see the word “holiday.”
Holiday holiday holiday.
It was a holiday season before Christianity, Christians don’t own it, and it’s inappropriate for Christians to try to decide what the winter solstice celebrations should be called or what their purpose should be. The real meaning of the holiday is to celebrate the death and resurrection three days later of the Invincible Sun. I am personally offended by the fact that Wal-Mart doesn’t have signs recognizing Sol Invictus. Such persecution is intolerable. This must be how the Jews felt under Hitler.
Are Christians the only group that feels excluded because others are included? What’s the word for that? It’s like a mix of arrogance, ignorance, and bigotry.
I do hope the parade can somehow survive without a Senator on a horse.
Have you been getting your news from e-mail forwards? It has always been the National Christmas Tree.
Sorry - I was referring to the Capitol Christmas Tree, which was the Capitol Holiday Tree for several years.
Glad to have cleared that up for you, since there are several Christmas trees of note in Washington.
Except that this principle is the wrong one to stand on.
Inhofe and his fellow Okie Coburn are the kinds of people for whom it is more important to be seen as the right kind of conservative than it is to do anything useful. As long as they continue that behavior, I’ll think less of Oklahoma, Oklahomans, and the people they send to the Senate.
I note the awfully conspicuous [citation needed] there.
:dubious: Most kind.
My fault for not being more precise at the outset.
Some Christians need a sense of proportion nailing into them.
Happens. Can we at least agree, though, that a parade of lights has no innate association with Christmas, unlike a fir tree covered in lights and jingly things?
Merry Christmahanukwaanzakah to you, too! 
And pagans too!
Oh, well, even without Inhofe they’ll still have the front end of the horse.
That’s easter. We’re only working with november through January holidays here.
My favorite line from a response to the article:
Wait… the crescent moon offends me. It is now a half-eaten oatmeal cookie. Take THAT Islam!