The Romans were doing their own research…
How would that work? I think it was about taxes too. I am not sure why that would fill up the Inn.
Yeah, that part never made any sense to me. Wouldn’t having everyone moving about make it harder to conduct a Census?
In any case, it seems we’re not the only ones who think it’s nonsense.
Of course, “That’s ridiculous!” never stopped anyone from believing something, so the “Travel for the census” bit has become solidly fixed to the Christmas story.
I love the modernization of the Christmas story that the inn was full due to holiday shoppers! And the animals were brought in to breathe on Baby Jesus to keep him warm (not that they were seeing what tasty morsel was sitting in their food bowl).
Maybe the whole thing was a scam to increase the wealth of certain inn-owning government officials.
…and that’s another part hat bugs me. Sure, it was December and all, but it was December in the Middle East! It’s not like it was going to be snowing. This image of them huddling up for warmth seems to be entirely caused by Euro-centric thinking that just assumes December is going to be below freezing.
According to Weather Underground, the low in Bethlehem this Saturday will be 37F.
In the pocket of Big Hotel, you mean? Some ancestor of Paris Hilton?
Trump Manger🏯
It was spring. The shepherds were out in the fields with their flocks. It’s only December in Christian fantasy because they subsumed the Saturnalia celebration, which took place in December.
Madison Cawthorn says conservatives should drop out of college.
Just when you think conservatives couldn’t get any more dumb, they find new ways. Next they’ll be suggesting you drop out before you hit high school where all the CRT indoctrination begins (in reality, it doesn’t).
Repubs really do want an uneducated populace. Ignorance is strength!
He forgot to remind them that to get the maximum benefit from this strategy, they should also be white male conservative Christian millionaires from affluent families receiving millions of dollars in insurance settlements. Hey, if it worked for him, it can work for you!
Big Caravanserai.
In addition to all the other wrong things with this, how does one have “doses” of a disease?
Maybe it’s the inverse of being a little bit pregnant. 
A bunch of unvaccinated anti-maskers who hung out with the inventor of Cuecat at a QAnon convention in Tulsa a few weeks ago have all come down with fever, congestion, shortness of breath, and lack of sense of taste and smell.
So naturally, they’ve come to the only logical conclusion as to what happened to them - the Deep State poisoned them with anthrax.
Any chance that Obamacare could be expanded to include brain transplants?
And just where do you think you’ll get the braaaiiins?
Dan