#Christian Traffic Cop

[wutbju]

This little ad was from the 1955 Sword of the Lord. I don’t know much about the Big Brother Tract Band, do you?

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Traffic Officer in Crash at Gananoque," Kingston Whig-Standard. May 22, 1933. Page 10. ---- Lady Missionary Teacher Gives Address in Grace Church Hall ---- GANANOQUE, May 22 - Highway Traffic Officer Ferguson, of Brockville while proceeding east on King Street opposite the Provincial Hotel at 4:15 Saturday afternoon on his new motorcycle, collided with a car driven by Mike Donoughue, Gananoque R. R. 2, Marble Rock Road. It is said that Mr. Donoughue was making a left turn onto Stone Street, and Officer Ferguson, who was behind, could not avoid the crash when the car swing over in front of him. Considerable damage was done the motorcycle, which is one of the latest English models. Officer Feerguson suffered a bruised foot and a cut shoulder when he was thrown from the machine.

Missionary Speaks. Miss Lois Pritchard, missionary teacher, who is home on furlough from Egypt, gave a very interesting ac- count of her experiences when she addressed the Young People's Society of Grace United Church in the lecture hall of the church on Friday evening. She told of teaching in the Holy Land, the customs and habits of the natives, and their aptness in learning.

Miss Pritchard was a classmate of Miss Ina Sheets of the Linklater school teaching staff, Gananoque, at the Ottawa Normal School, and is her guest while in town.

Church Anniversary The ninety-sixth anniversary of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church was observed with special services yesterday, the preacher for the occasion being Rev. Norman McLeod, M.A., PhD., D.D., Moderator of the Sy- nod of Montreal and Ottawa.

A "hard times" dance was staged in the Scout Hall Saturday evening by the unemployed, and was a well attended and altogether successful affair.

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Kaiju Week in Review (March 17-23, 2024)

Mere days to go before a new Godzilla movie... didn't we just do this?

Before we welcome that latest entry, let's look back on one that just commemorated its golden anniversary. With Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla turning 50 on March 21, every member of Toho's Big Five has now hit the half-century mark. The company didn't mark the day itself with much; as has become typical, the celebration of Mechagodzilla (and presumably King Caesar) will be spread throughout the year. I wrote a bit about the magnificent machine, who I consider the best Godzilla antagonist, here. The film itself is one of Teruyoshi Nakano's masterpieces, an onslaught of animated rays and gorgeous explosions. The humans are forgettable, but they keep the pace brisk—and the alien commander Mugal is almost as devilish a villain as Mechagodzilla itself, especially in the English dub. Speaking of that dub, you can watch a video breaking down the entire voice cast here, thanks to the tireless work of the Save All Dubs! group.

Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong #6 finally gets to the good stuff, with Lex Luthor piloting Mechagodzilla and commanding an army of Titans to raze Metropolis while the heroes counter with not one but two giant robots. It doesn't quite measure up to the Godzilla: Rulers of Earth finale, but like that double-sized issue, it required two artists (Christian Duce joined by Tom Derenick) to draw all those characters, and the results are impressive. The story hasn't grown any more complex, but I'm at least interested to see how it all wraps up.

In other Godzilla comic news, a Godziban manga by Sakuju Koizumi has started up, hosted by Telemaga, a tokusatsu-focused Kodansha site. The first installment was pretty short, so I'm guessing these'll be updated weekly. It isn't the first comic version of Godziban, as one called Godziman ran during the 1st Season, but this one's actually illustrated.

Tokyo's Ikebukuro district made Godzilla the honorary chief of police on March 16 to take part in a parade promoting traffic safety. The stunt made international headlines and generated no small amount of angst over Cop Godzilla. I think Gamera would've been better-suited to this campaign myself.

Here's the trailer for Season 2 of Chibi Godzilla Raids Again, revealing Gabara, Gigan, and Titanosaurus's designs. Looks as funny as the first one. Maaya Uchida, who sang the ending songs in SSSS.Gridman and SSSS.Dynazenon, will voice Chibi Minilla. It's gone weirdly neglected by English Godzilla social media accounts, but X user @MakoMattari translated it.

The Music Box Theatre in Chicago has a Godzilla program for the ages scheduled for June 7-13, in honor of his 70th birthday. There's not a weak day on the schedule, but the clear highlight is a 24-hour marathon of the entire Showa series on the 8th, which I don't think has ever been attempted before.

G-Fest has also started announcing guests: Ayako Fujitani (Asagi in the Heisei Gamera trilogy) and Rie Ota (Baragon in GMK), both first-timers. Frankly, they could carry the con themselves if they have to; not sure who I'm more excited to meet!

[nappingpaperclip]

sorry to pop y’all’s white liberal bubbles but even if every white liberal to centrist in the US votes blue, I genuinely don’t think Biden is gonna win due to the amount of voters he has lost in his handling of this genocide.

Do you all genuinely think he has a chance when he has disillusioned not just Palestinian-Americans and the people who care about them, but also Christian and Muslim Arabs, non-Arab Muslims, climate activists, and anyone who cares about immigrants or the fact that he’s bombing other countries??

Like listen to me: when you ask people to vote blue no matter who, who are you asking? Are you asking people who look and think like you?

Can you imagine asking that of an immigrant whose still at risk of being sent to a detention center? A Palestinian-American who has lost family in the genocide? A Christian who sees how Palestinian Christians are being killed in their Holy Land? Muslims who see the violence towards other Muslims both at home and in Palestine? Catholics who see even the Pope calling for a ceasefire but not their own Catholic president?

Can you imagine asking that of a Syrian refugee? Someone who’s family or friends live in Iraq or Yemen or Lebanon or Palestine? A climate activist whose friend got 10+ years in prison on RICO charges for protesting the Willow Project? Climate activists who saw their friend be shot and killed while protesting Cop City? 18 year trans high-schoolers who have to go to school and face the threat of bullying and corrective rape and murder every day? Indigenous people whose stolen land you’re living on, whose land is shrinking thanks to pipelines Biden personally approved?

Can you imagine asking that of women who need abortions because they are at risk of dying but who can’t get them anymore, because Biden held codeification hostage for blue Congressional votes? 18-20 something’s who wake up every day and see the mutilated bodies of children on their timelines? Black people who fear for their lives at every traffic stop, now more than ever knowing that the IDF trains our police? A person living on the streets because they lost their partner to COVID and can’t find work?

Would y’all say it to their faces? Would y’all hear yourselves while you did it? Would you get mad at them for reacting however they react?

These are people who exist btw, in and out of your communities. These are real people with real experiences. Would you still ask that of them, knowing what they’ve been through?

Did you know that Biden has former BlackRock leaders in his cabinet? Yknow, the largest investment company, which invests BILLIONS of dollars every year into private prisons (which includes immigration detention centers), oil companies, deforestation, arms manufacturing, etc. ? Look it up! Remember how Biden promised to address climate change? How he promised to let those kids out of cages? Did y’all forget about them?

Sorry but I just don’t see him winning with the amount of support he has lost, which is why saying “a vote for third party is a vote for Trump” is a fuckin joke. That’s not how the electoral college system even works, and also people voting third party are people who would rather not vote. Trying to organized disillusioned voters to vote for third party rather than not voting is not “gonna make trump win.” Biden’s own actions is going to make Trump win, if anything.

Stop blaming other people who are actually affected by these issues for Biden’s loss of support or if he loses to Trump. STOP BLAMING MARGINALIZED PEOPLE. BLAME BIDEN FOR HIS OWN ACTIONS

[thetruthwilloutsworld]

🚨🚨🚨 The Telegraph newspaper review. It's behind a paywall so I've copied and pasted it - contains Spoilers 🚨🚨🚨

Eleanor Tomlinson and Alfred Enoch star in this sexy thriller set in an alternate-reality Yorkshire that looks more like LA than Leeds.

The Couple Next Door (Channel 4) is a sexy thriller and, if we’re honest, this isn’t Britain’s forte. Put it this way: a pivotal scene in which our two main characters lock eyes in a moment of simmering lust occurs while they’re putting the bins out. 

In an attempt to be less British – and this is a co-production with US network Starz, so it needs to be – the six-part, boxsetted drama has been given a glossy, international look. Hilariously, it claims to be set in Leeds, and you will believe that if you’ve never been to Leeds and are prepared to accept that it looks like LA’s San Fernando Valley, where the weather is great all the time (apart from the scene with the bins. Because rain is sexy). 

It’s enjoyable nonsense. Evie and Pete, played by Eleanor Tomlinson and Alfred Enoch, are a young couple who move into a new home in Truman Show suburbia and are immediately love-bombed by Becka (Jessica De Gouw), a hot yoga instructor who lives across the road with Danny, an equally hot traffic cop who rides a motorbike (because motorbikes are sexy). Danny wears tight, white T-shirts that show off his He-Man physique – he’s played by Outlander’s Sam Heughan – and Becka just wears her underwear when guests pop round. 

To be fair, the guests probably expect that sort of get-up, because Danny and Becka are swingers. Not that The Couple Next Door uses the term, because it’s striving to be far classier than that. Becka and Danny have the hots for Evie, and she – despite suffering a horrendous tragedy and being raised in a Christian cult based in what looks like the village from Emmerdale – is soon turned on to the whole wife-swapping idea. 

Pete, who is fatally nice, is less enthusiastic (Enoch is the only actor here who makes his character behave like a normal person). While all this is going on, a creepy neighbour played by Hugh Dennis is stalking Becka, and Danny starts moonlighting for a local criminal kingpin. The drama ramps up. Evie, who appears at the outset to be a sensible, sweet-natured type, goes fully bonkers by around episode four. 

Every five minutes there’s a complete failure of logic, either in terms of plot or production. Why would a crime boss trying to transport goods under the radar send them out in a car flanked by two police outriders? Why does the show go to the trouble of filming its countryside scenes in Yorkshire but not bother to disguise the architecture in any of the urban shots (it’s Belgium, apparently)? I found the whole thing ridiculous. So ridiculous that I happily binged the lot in two days.

[eretzyisrael]

Groups sympathetic to terror organization Hamas planned and executed a massive rally in New York City on Saturday after vowing to disrupt the Christmas holiday as a means of encouraging people to join the largely anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The groups, including radical liberal groups People's Forum and Palestinian Youth Movement, organized the protests, which drew huge crowds to Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, which disrupted traffic and doubtless left numerous already-panicked last minute shoppers disgruntled at the disruption. Still, this was the groups' explicit goal, as they intended to ensure that there would be no Christmas "as usual" as long as people continue to support Israel. ... ... This marked the second time in less than a week that New York City was disrupted by Hamas protests. Earlier this week crowds of Hamas sympathizers clogged mass transit hubs, causing major disruptions throughout the city.

There were disruptions across the US and across Europe as well.

From the NY Post:

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters converged on Midtown Monday, lugging a blood-red mock Nativity scene and chanting "Christmas is canceled here." "Long live the intifada," the crowd of about 500 demonstrators yelled, using the Arabic word for "rebellion" or "uprising," as they mobbed the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree where revelers were enjoying the holiday. ... At least six arrests -- four for disorderly conduct, one for menacing and one for graffiti -- were later reported near Grand Central Station and Union Square, as protesters and cops clashed, according to law enforcement sources.

More from Breitbart:

On Christmas Eve, a pro-Palestinian caravan of cars disrupted Christmas caroling in Washington Square Park, the Post reported. In Chicago on Christmas Eve, a group of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators targeted the homes of local lawmakers before briefly shutting down Interstate 90 -- the key artery connecting Chicago to O'Hare International Airport -- in both directions. ... The disruptions even reached suburban Memphis, Tennessee, where a pro-Palestinian crowd disrupted Christmas shopping. Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators have been targeting Christmas, and symbols of Christianity, for weeks...

They disrupted a fundraiser for blind children, too.

[bcacstuff]

Wow...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2023/11/27/the-couple-next-door-channel-4-review/&ved=2ahUKEwiyx6HX-eSCAxUaREEAHQunDq0Q0PADKAB6BAhVEAE&usg=AOvVaw2qhh3IaISCzwuZLZSPxIgF

The Couple Next Door, Channel 4, review: nonsensical, ridiculous – and very, very bingeable

3/5

Eleanor Tomlinson and Alfred Enoch star in this sexy thriller set in an alternate-reality Yorkshire that looks more like LA than Leeds

Eleanor Tomlinson, Jessica De Gouw and Sam Heughan in The Couple Next Door CREDIT: Sofie Gheysens/Channel 4

The Couple Next Door (Channel 4) is a sexy thriller and, if we’re honest, this isn’t Britain’s forte. Put it this way: a pivotal scene in which our two main characters lock eyes in a moment of simmering lust occurs while they’re putting the bins out.  In an attempt to be less British – and this is a co-production with US network Starz, so it needs to be – the six-part, boxsetted drama has been given a glossy, international look. Hilariously, it claims to be set in Leeds, and you will believe that if you’ve never been to Leeds and are prepared to accept that it looks like LA’s San Fernando Valley, where the weather is great all the time (apart from the scene with the bins. Because rain is sexy). 

It’s enjoyable nonsense. Evie and Pete, played by Eleanor Tomlinson and Alfred Enoch, are a young couple who move into a new home in Truman Show suburbia and are immediately love-bombed by Becka (Jessica De Gouw), a hot yoga instructor who lives across the road with Danny, an equally hot traffic cop who rides a motorbike (because motorbikes are sexy). Danny wears tight, white T-shirts that show off his He-Man physique – he’s played by Outlander’s Sam Heughan – and Becka just wears her underwear when guests pop round. 

To be fair, the guests probably expect that sort of get-up, because Danny and Becka are swingers. Not that The Couple Next Door uses the term, because it’s striving to be far classier than that. Becka and Danny have the hots for Evie, and she – despite suffering a horrendous tragedy and being raised in a Christian cult based in what looks like the village from Emmerdale – is soon turned on to the whole wife-swapping idea. 

Pete, who is fatally nice, is less enthusiastic (Enoch is the only actor here who makes his character behave like a normal person). While all this is going on, a creepy neighbour played by Hugh Dennis is stalking Becka, and Danny starts moonlighting for a local criminal kingpin. The drama ramps up. Evie, who appears at the outset to be a sensible, sweet-natured type, goes fully bonkers by around episode four. 

Every five minutes there’s a complete failure of logic, either in terms of plot or production. Why would a crime boss trying to transport goods under the radar send them out in a car flanked by two police outriders? Why does the show go to the trouble of filming its countryside scenes in Yorkshire but not bother to disguise the architecture in any of the urban shots (it’s Belgium, apparently)? I found the whole thing ridiculous. So ridiculous that I happily binged the lot in two days.

[beardedmrbean]

A Texas mom was arrested for deliberately striking an off-duty deputy with her car after telling him she was late for work, authorities said.

Susan Navarette Rodriguez, 32, hit Michael Hernandez outside a charter school in San Antonio on Tuesday, August 30, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit.

Hernandez, a deputy with Zavala County Sheriff's Office, was working a second job directing traffic outside IDEA Walzem charter school in San Antonio.

He ordered Rodriguez to stop her vehicle after she intentionally disregarded traffic safety.

Hernandez went to her car and told her to get back in the school drop-off line, the affidavit said.

He informed her that she was not allowed to drive down the path she was on because of heavy footfall from students.

"I don't have time for this, I am late for work," Rodriguez said to him.

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The mom is accused of then turning her vehicle toward Hernandez and accelerating until she struck him.

The affidavit said body-camera footage captured Rodriguez admitting that she had hit Hernandez.

She said she heard the impact when her vehicle collided with the off-duty deputy, but didn't stop and carried on to drop off her child at the school.

Witnesses say she drove to the back of her school to drop off her child, KSAT reported. The station said that Hernandez chased after her and detained her before alerting Bexar County Sheriff's Office.

Online records from the sheriff's office show an arrest warrant was issued for Rodriguez on Thursday, after the body-camera footage was reviewed.

She was booked into Bexar County Jail on charges of failure to stop and render aid and aggravated assault against a public servant, according to online records.

Rodriguez was released Sunday after her bond was set at $25,000.

Her reason for refusing to stop because she was in a rush to get to work prompted a reaction on social media.

"Her job is that important that she almost ran over a cop? I doubt her job will feel the same way," Christian Garza wrote on Facebook.

Cecilia Guerra commented: "Well. She won't have to worry about being late anymore. Talk about stupid choices."

Cyndee MacIntosh wrote that Rodriguez was probably stressed.

"The good news is the cop is fine. He was able to chase her down. This mom was probably stressed out and running late. She didn't want to jeopardize her job. Maybe she snapped," MacIntosh commented.

Newsweek has contact Bexar County Sheriff's Office and Zavala County Sheriff's Office for additional comment. Rodriguez could not be reached for comment.

[s-g-i-h]

“Nam-Beshkmowe”

Acrylic on canvas

12 x 24

Had a lot of fun with this one! Wanted to shoot for a more abstract woodland Potawatomi style, rather than the cartoony or realistic style I’ve usually gone for.

Nam-Beshkmowe translates to Under Lion. This is its name, in reality Nam-Beshkmowe is a type of zagma or underwater panther. Its a type of spirit that lives unseen under water and effects currents and storms. This zagma I wanted to have a kind of cyberpunk horror aspect to it, the idea is that when you see the painting, you see Nam-Beshkmowe everywhere. Nam-Beshkmowe towers above a small figure, in my mind its Wiske, my tribe’s cultural hero and spiritual founder.

Nam-Beshkmow is made up of different things that block us from the world around us, things that we might not notice and exist in an unseen part of our world. I took some symbolism from Potawatomi stories, everyday life, and apocalyptic christianity. I chose to combine these because as much as I dislike christianity and its effects, I can’t deny it is now a daily part of life for Potawatomi, a lot of the time acting in an antagonistic role.

Nam-Beshkmowe has a prideful stance and smug grin, its snake like tongue smelling the air while also acting as a lure. its head fastenned with a picture of Garfield in a broken bleeding screen. This represents modern autonomic computing's ability to constantly adapt to us, our social media constantly shifting to give us a meticulously crafted viewpoint of our world that may or may not actually be real.

Its back is lined with cigarettes, daggers into your lungs. Its throat is made up of video game consoles, radios, and more computing systems which act as its voice box.  Its right paw is hidden out of view, while a left paw made up of a phone, circuitry, and traffic lights is slammed into the ground, suggesting it is standing one handed, with two legs and its tail in the air, challenging Wiske to battle. The shape of the belly is supposed to be like a mix of a train and a deep sea angler, flanked to the right by plastic flamingos to make up its guts. I chose this because my mom loves flamingos so we have them in our yard always, she is a constant inspiration so I always am thinking of her while painting.

Onto the top of the painting is the tail and legs. The right leg is a cop car engulfed in flames, with a bird with a fish in its mouth in the hood’s reflection, a chaotic scene rising from the east. Opposite it is a much calmer picture, a street light glows with fire bugs and a power converter is supposed to convey a gentle electrical hum. However, three eyes appear through the wiring, conveying that although this part of the painting is calm, there is still a malevolent force behind it.

 The center of the tail is made up of a red face wrapped in green vine like wires, hopefully a more jungle-y vibe. I chose this because like how a drummer hits his drum with a drum stick, Nam-Beshkmowe hits us with his tail. The beat it creates destroys and reforms our world. His eyes meet the viewers with a kind of judgemental look while his right braid points to the east while his left braid relaxes. I wanted to have this figure on the tail to be seen as sort of Christ-like, representing Nam-Beshkmowe’s ability to manipulate our view points and create his own narrative. On the figure’s “head” is a satellite, acting as a sort of crown of thorns. Its supposed to mimic the clown make up of old minstrels. On its flanks are solar panels shaped like 12 Sus Amongus guy, and on the top is an machine gun turret shooting down one of three stars. I chose this because part of revelations details how the dragon lifted its tail to the stars knocked a third of the stars out of the sky. I also chose to add this because whenever I go outside for a night walk or drive, there are barely any visible stars where I am

This piece represents a lot to me and how much I’ve grown as an artist these last few years. I plan on making a whole set dedicated to this theme and am almost done with a painting focusing on Wiske!

[cjb-160]

I am

I am Marylin Manson and Julia Jacklin I am Tolstoy and T.S. Elliot

I am tanned leather, brass, and lucite I am hotel suites, vip parking, and charges to the room I am white gloves, table cloths, and fine china I am reservations, and plane tickets I am the resort, and the last resort I am lamb skin, and alpaca. I am 3000-thread-count sheets

I am first dates, milkshakes, wedding cakes, and roller skates I am the beauty and the beast

I am the warning light on your dashboard I am the water in your gas tank I am the squad car tailgating your for 3-miles I am the window you roll-up when driving through that neighborhood I am the longest red light you've ever stopped at I am the new coffee shop, bar, boutique hotel I am the {insert local hangout spot here}

I am the crack in the houses foundation I am the crack, the house, and the Foundation

I am the day before World War 3

I am Doo-Wop and Hip-Hop I am baby Jesus and methuselah

I am the bottle of urine beside your bed I am the pistol.

I am the addict in the attic.

I am the needle and I am the thread I am the pawn shop you gave grandmas ring to I am the long pull on your vape between shifts.

I am the 9-5 and the 6-10. I am the check in the mail I am the pit and I am the bull

I am the artificial flavor in your chewing gum I am the friend that was too young to die I am the fellow and I am the ship I am Othello and Hans Christian-Andersen

I am the side effect worse than the symptom I am tea parties and vineyards I am the used condom on the sidewalk I am the heat death of our quantum existence

I am…too abstract?

I am too black but not black enough I am queer but not gay enough. I am qualified but not good enough. I am big-nosed, bald-headed, unwashed, and unbothered. I am untethered.

I am the creation and I am the demiurge I am the igneous and I am the firmament

I am the Borg

I am the paper your suicide note was written on I am the last time you saw your father I am the last thing he said to you I am the couch you let him crash on for a few months I am the new security code you created when he left

I am the storage unit you change clothes in before and after work I am the blanket you’re wrapped up in while asleep in your car

I am the gift that I never see you wear I am the pot calling the kettle… I am the "come get me," text at 3am I am the "you up," text you left on read I am the unsaved number in your phone

I am the abomination and the salvation of creation I am the mustard and I am the seed

I am the last ps5 at Walmart on Black Friday

I am Mozart and Chopin I am rock, roll, and Rachmaninoff I am Coltrane and Gillespie

I am the kidnap and I am the torture I am the human and I am the traffic I am the sex and I am the worker I am the murder and I am the manhunt

I am Samson’s dreadlocks

I am the dog bark that wakes you from that fever dream

I am the fever dream

I am the con and I am the science I am the jack and all of his trades I am the Coke and I am the cane

I am the stop sign behind that big ass fuckin tree. I am the cop. I am the ticket.

I am the vegan recipe book you haven’t opened yet I am the first parallel park in that city you moved to I am the popping sound in your kneecap

I am the fake number she gave you

I am the burning cross on your front lawn I am the white hood I am the "whites-only" section I am the assailant and I am the victim

I am the rotten avocado on your kitchen counter I am the clown and I am the circus I am bibles and black holes

I am holding your sweater I am the first kiss I am the divorce papers

I am the Sailor and I am the Siren I am the solitary onion ring in your order of French fries I am the diet that starts tomorrow

[flowersforvax]

I'm halfway through God's Favorite Idiot and I'm... still not sure how I feel about it

Originally loved the idea of God just giving a random dude the power of Glowing Sometimes and also Green Traffic Lights Always - not for any important reason, just because She thinks he's neat.

So i'm not a big fan of the realisation that the plot includes a Big Bad Fight between Heaven and Hell (and also i dislike the incredible cop-out of "oh yes, all religions are correct" while just showing an incredibly US-American view of Christianity). Also also the ratio of jokes landing is like 50:50 for me

...I did like the TV preacher who wouldn't recognize God's Chosen if he literally glowed in his face. That part's good.

[mountainsboyhowdy]

I get that secular Christmas music exists and is popular because of cultural Christianity and whatnot and that the holiday has largely become divorced from what it actually celebrates but... like what's the point of Christmas music if you take the christ out of it?

as far as I can tell there's four categories of Christmas songs that get played in public around the holidays:

1. Actually Secular, Seasonal: songs about appreciating winter/loving or missing people. baby it's cold outside. jingle bells. let it snow. etc.

2. About The Holiday: songs about the trappings of Christmas or the desire to be around one's people but not actually about Christ. I'll be home for Christmas. white Christmas. all I want for Christmas is you. Santa Baby. We Wish You A Merry Christmas. Carol Of The Bells. Oh Christmas Tree.

3. Not Literally Jesus But Not NOT Jesus: songs Christmas stories that are meant to introduce children to bibical concepts. this includes any song with:

santa: metaphor for God: omnipotent being who doles out rewards or punishment based on behavior

frosty: metaphor for Jesus. magical birth, teaches children joy and sharing, questions authority (traffic cop), melts and is resurrected by santa, leaves and promises to return.

rudolph: metaphor for... idk the oppressed people that Jesus stood for? lazurus the tax collector? originally ostrasized before being chosen by santa to lead

4. Literal Christian Hymns: songs about jesus/nativity. Oh Holy night. little drummer boy. etc.

of these I think category 3 is where I have beef. this is the train station where the most people get off thinking of Christmas as secular. that the holiday is about gift giving and enjoying the winter. and I'm not saying that people shouldn't celebrate that way but like. that's different from Christmas. sure its how we mark the occasion, but that's not what Christmas is for. it's for Jesus' birthday.

again, the cultural 'meaning of Christmas' gets away from me here.

Im gonna be pedantic and say that Christmas is from Christ-Mass. as in going to mass to celebrate jesus. one could argue that Easter is also a Christmas. and I guess there's dumb Easter movies, too, but it's not as oversold the way Christmas is.

I'm not sure what I was getting at. I'm out of steam.

Anyway. fuck Charles Dickens, I guess.

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[yourbelovedissy]

I’ve been in town w/ a friend and like… we saw I think SEVEN bridges occupied by cops and gigantic fuckin US flags

We stopped for food and she joked abt them having some kinda pompous parade and LIKE UEAH NO THEY’RE LITERALLY DOING LAPS AROUND TOWN

Wtf actual christian nationalist tyranny is going on??? THEY’RE LITERALLY HOLDING UP TRAFFIC I SHIT YOU NOT

[quotidiansacred]

In his bender-induced agony, Amis’s Jim felt like a man who’d been on a cross-country run and then been beaten up by the police, secret police at that. It’s not surprising that the cops would want to get at Jim after his night of debauchery. For we might say that the intoxicated mind is often the un-policed mind. Thoughts run free: There is no longer anyone directing the mind’s traffic. But the result is not always mental snarl or even accidents, but often a free flow of thinking (and sometimes doing) that goes outside the bounds of the normal. After a drink or two, the internal lines blur; we transgress, or at least we’re tempted to. We disobey the standard rules and regulations, or we can imagine doing so. What Freud calls the superego and Christians call conscience clamors less: You can’t quite hear the old parental voice calling from the backbench, Don’t! Cut it out! We’ll have no more of that around here!

[yourbleedingh3art]

ask urself would a clearly mentally unstable person truly want a Child? no bae. she wanted that welfare and medical bc this bitch is a drug addict im sorry theres no way this insanity is purely a sober insanity Ah yep just reread and she got arrested for public intoxication which either means she was belligerently fucked up and disturbing the peace on a reg basis or she pissed a cop off and they wanted to chrge her w something .. either way i have reason to believe substance abuse was a part of her life as is the case with so many stories of domestic violence / police constantly being called to the home / divorce / custody ceding to grandparents... it's too true to life . also whats even more absolutely wild is this IS THE DAUGHTER OF A POLITICIAN. A republican pro gun anti lgbtq "i am a christian" politician. who was literally signing bills into law making it harder for trans people to have rights while his daughter is tying herself to beds and calling the cops on herself. All issues are systematic issues and the club q shooting is only further evidence of that If you have ever felt that the system is "working" please consider youre experiencing system confirmation bias because all systems of government in the united states of america from traffic/roads to school/education to prison/justice/rehabilitation to finances/workplace/capitalism to retail/landlords/cost of living to waste disposal/trash/recycling to war/military/arms system. All of em. and even ones i unlisted. they all arent "working." Bc if they were then problems would not repeat. the problems havent been solved. the "solutions" arent fucking solutions.