The Night before Giftmas

Someone just spammed me with this:

In these days of political correctness and not wanting to offend anyone (except possibly Christians), we see manger scenes removed from displays, Christmas trees renamed 'holiday trees' and 'Merry Christmas' replaced by 'Happy Holidays'. Let’s remember what the season is about – celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Why do we say 'Merry Christmas'? Because the birth of the Savior enabled his life, death, and resurrection. Belief in Jesus Christ is necessary for our salvation. And that is certainly a cause for rejoicing. So when someone greets you with 'Happy Holidays', reply back with a smile, 'Merry Christmas'. And so I wish you all a very Merry Christmas! --Bill Yates --Editor, Believer's Weekly

News to me. I hadn't heard druidic talismen referred to as Holiday Trees until now.
That aside, we see once again that christians can't read anything as convoluted as the bible. Which is to say that....

	And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; because he was of the house and lineage of David: To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
	Luke 2.4-8

Since sheep are known to graze in Bethlehem at the end of December, and all....
I'm getting a little tired of all this Reason for the Season shit from these morons. If a deity were the reason for the season, it would be Mithras, upon whom the character of Y'shua was partially based. Basic superhero deity; mother was a maiden; birthday was 25th December; and so on. This fabrication of 'Jesus' doesn't impress people with the ability to research these things.
But we knew that.
And, I suppose, these twerps aren't going away anytime soon. Well: the theists aren't, anyway. Christians haven't got a lot of time left in society, but I'm sure we'll be debating the existence of Zorg13 de Proxima, the Great and Tidy HorseEater, in a few centuries.
Of course Zorg13 exists; how else do you think we got here!
People are stoopid.
In other news: V13 is coming along. I've got a prototype coded out now. I still have a few things to add to it, but the basic function is good. A couple of people have seen it in its current state, and they reportedly dig it. So we're on the right track, I guess.
Heh. So when someone greets you with 'Happy Holidays', reply back with a smile, 'Merry Christmas'. I think you can sue people for that these days....

Let's be careful out there....

Oh. Having mentioned in the last What's New that I didn't really have time to add more merch to wastedinc.com, I managed to add a couple of things after all.
There's some other new stuff as well. Hit Wasted and look around. Remember: there are only 366 shopping days left until...okay, nevermind....
In any case, there will be more neat stuff to buy early next year. Once I get round to putting it all together.
I guess that's about it for now.
More later....
--Gremlin
 
 
 

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