MSNBC: HUCK, THE CONSTITUTION AND 'GOD'S STANDARDS'

From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy

WARREN, Mich. -- Huckabee's closing argument to voters here this evening featured a few new stories and two prolonged sections on illegal immigration and Christian values.
These two topics usually feature prominently in Huckabee's stump speech, but last night he got specific, promising to build a border fence within 18 months if elected and elaborating on his belief that the constitution needs to be amended.

"[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards," Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Huckabee often refers to the need to amend the constitution on these grounds, but he has never so specifically called for the Constitution to be brought within "God's standards," which are themselves debated amongst religious scholars. As a closing statement he asked the room of nearly 500 supporters to "pray and then work hard, and in that order," to help him secure a victory in Tuesday's GOP primary.

Tomorrow Huckabee will visit two polling places in the morning before taking off for South Carolina where he will watch Michigan's returns come in.

Leave Britney Alone........really...

Dr. Phil cancels Britney Spears show

By JO PIAZZA in Los Angeles and STEPHANIE GASKELL in New York DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Monday, January 7th 2008, 4:07 PM

Dr. Phil's planned sitdown Monday with Britney Spears' parents dissolved into accusations he was exploiting the troubled singer's emotional crackup.

The TV shrink insisted he canceled the taping with Jamie and Lynne Spears "because the Spears situation is too intense at this time, and out of consideration to the family."

A source close to Dr. Phil McGraw said it was Britney's parents who cut him off, furious he blabbed about her mental state after visiting her in the psych ward at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

"As soon as Jamie realized Dr.Phil was making public statements about Britney, including assessments of her condition, he got angry," the source told Life & Style magazine. "He started making phone calls to everybody in the family, telling them not to cooperate."

The show was to air Tuesday.

STOP RIGHT THERE!!!!!

So, Dr. Phil is just like everyone else who has latched onto Britney in order to make hay while her sun sets.

I have a dear friend who, like Britney, lived too much and lived too much for society's tastes. And like Britney, her family did all they to force my friend to conform, up to and including calling out the nice young men in the cream white coats. She is now away from these people and maybe she can have a chance to heal naturally.

And maybe that is what Brit needs......no kids to hinder her now, maybe she can just slip away and get herself together....meaning make herself stronger to withstand the brunt of the attacks on her still to come.

Phil McGraw is an attention-seeing quasi-quack, in my opinion, whose only concern are his book sales and the ratings of his marginally successful TV show.-dp

Britney Spears was held in the hospital overnight after going berserk when ex-hubby Kevin Federline's bodyguards came to pick up her two baby boys. She was said to be stunned by Dr. Phil's visit and many of McGraw's psychiatric colleagues blasted him.

McGraw - now called Dr. Shill by some critics - went on CBS' sister show "Entertainment Tonight" to defend himself.

"I've been working with this family behind the scenes for a long time, longer than you can imagine," he said, refusing to apologize for trying to help.

"Somebody needs to step up and get this young woman into some quality care," he said.

Translation: standard brainwashing techniques have not worked....maybe some waterboarding might have done the trick......unless she like that kinda thing-dp

Spears doesn't seem to be in a rush to get help: After checking out of the hospital Saturday, she was in Palm Desert, Calif., with Adnan Ghalib, a 35-year-old paparazzo whose friends and colleagues say may sell Spears out.

"[Ghalib] has always played Britney's 'knight in shining armor' but there is this opportunistic side to him and he could just be in this for the big payday at the end," a friend told TMZ.com.
"He's an interesting character," a former photo editor said of the "charming" Ghalib. "He knows his way around the ladies."

So ANOTHER piece of dung to use Britney as....I don't even know what to say anymore. Family...phony doctors....boyfriends....ex-husbands. None of these people care about Britney Spears, outside of the meal ticket she represents to them.

Remember that Chris Crocker video? The one that has the gay Tennessean bawling about Brit? Boring new ones into the likes of Perez Hilton. The one where he was accused of over acting rivaling most actors on Mexican novellas? Now looking at it, maybe Mr. Crocker was prophetic beyond imagining.

And as for "Leaving Britney Alone?" The way things look, do that might be the best thing for her.

P*ss off a NoNeck: SHOP OLD NAVY!

Seems that every year I have to go through this....to explain why this so-called "War on Christmas" is so idiotic....and deal with the idiots who keep this stupidity going.

Consider, if you will, the fdact that between the fourth Thursday in November and the second day of January, we go through Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Kwanzah, Christmas, and the non-Jewish new year. That's five holidays in 42 days, give or take a day. For some that's a lot to remember. And, a lot of people you might wind up disrespecting.

I mean, thanks to the wonderful folks at Wikipedia, here are ALL the holidays one has to keep track of:

Winter greetings are often strung together. The English greetings often begin with saying "Have a...", written "Wishing you a..." or sometimes end in "...to all!" as a declaration.
Happy Holidays - Canada, United States
Buone Feste - Italian
Felices Fiestas - Spanish
Season's Greetings - Usually refers to upcoming winter holidays, but technically could refer to any season.
Happy Thanksgiving - Canada, United States
Happy Turkey, short for Happy Turkey Day - United States (informal), referencing the traditional meal.
Merry Christmas - Australia, United States, The phrase is often immediately followed by and a Happy New Year.
Happy Christmas - United Kingdom
Merry Xmas - Written English (often informal), referencing the Greek word Χριστος, for Christ.
Merry Yuletide, Good Yuletide or Happy Yuletide - English, can generally refer to the period of cultural festivities surrounding Yule, Winter solstice, Christmas and the New Year.
Merry Midwinter - English greeting, generally for the period of the winter solstice.
God jul - Swedish, Norwegian, lit. "Good Yule"
Hyvää joulua - Finnish
Glædelig jul - Danish
Joyous Yule - Usually a Wiccan or Neopagan greeting for the Winter solstice
Joyeux Noël - France, Quebec, Louisiana, Switzerland
Buon Natale - Italy
Frohe Weihnachten/Fröhliche Weihnachten - German for Merry Christmas
Mele Kalikimaka - Hawaiian, is preferred over the traditional American "Merry Christmas" in the U.S. state of Hawaii; made popular worldwide by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1950 in song
Nollaig Shona Duit - Ireland, (Irish Language), lit. "You have a happy Christmas".
S'Rozhdestvom Kristovym! (С Рождеством Христовым!) or, more commonly, simply S Rozhdestvom! for the informal Christmas greeting, while the traditional religious greeting is Khrystos razhdayetsya! (Христос рождается, meaning "Christ is born!") and the traditional response is Slavite! (Cлавите!, meaning "Let us glorify him!"). - Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic countries
Feliz Navidad - Spanish lit. "Happy Nativity"
Happy Kwanzaa - English greeting used before Kwanzaa.
Wesołych Świąt - Polish greeting used before Christmas (literally 'Happy Christmas').
Habari Gani - Swahili for "What's the news?" is the daily greeting for each of the seven days of Kwanzaa.
Happy Hanukkah or Happy Chanukah - English
Chag Sameach - Hebrew for "Joyous festival", used for most Jewish festivals.
Gut Yontiff - Yiddish for "good holiday" used for non festival holidays.
L'Shanah Tovah - Hebrew, Lit. "a good year". Common greeting during Rosh Hashanah and Days of Awe. It is derived from L'shanah tovah tikatev v'taihatem, lit. "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year".
Have an easy fast - the solemn greeting for Yom Kippur.
Happy New Year - often yelled at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
Kul 'am wa enta bi-khair - Arabic for "May every year find you in good health"
Taqabbala Allahu minna wa minkum. - "May God accept from us, and from you."
‘Īd mubārak - "Blessed Eid" is used to greet at the end of Ramadan on Eid ul-Fitr
‘Īd sa‘īd - "Happy Eid"
Bayramınız Mübarek Olsun - Turkey
Selamat Hari Raya or Salam Aidilfitri - Malay and Indonesian
maaf lahir dan batin - Lit. "Forgive my physical and emotional (wrongdoings)"
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_holidays

That's a lot to remember.

Then there are those who are atheists......or maybe should be.

So, many of us simply say "Happy Holidays" or "Seasons' Greetings," just to be on the safe side with folks we don't know and the proper "Merry/Happy Cristmas/Chanukah/Kwanza" tho those we know if it applies, and we think nothing of if.

Unless you are Bill O'Reilly. Or Donald "NoNeck" Wildmon. Or any of the Christmas Warriors who have been takinbg up precious oxygen for the past 8 years because of this.

Prime offender: the American Family ASSociation, Wildmon's group. Brer NoNeck, when he is notrailing against television programs that do not suit his xenophobic/homophobic nature, has harrased companies like Target, Wal-Mart, and Best Buy.

This years bulleyes are attached to PetSmart and Old Navy.

The war against PetSmart is pers onal to me because a person I am very fond of works at a local store. I do notknow how she feels about this phony controversy, burt she is a good person, and people who hire good people these days deserve to be patronized. Even more so if they are respectful to all

But the real headache comes in terms of Old Navy. Old Navy has said HH instead of MC for years. But leave it to NoNeck and his Tupelo Posse to try to mak a mountain out of...well, there isn't even a molehill.

In my email today:

Help Sink Old Navy's Blockade

Dear Donald,
You would think a company that gets the vast majority of its business from Christians would be respectful of its customers.
Such is true of companies that don't have an anti-Christian bias. But not at Old
Navy. Old Navy has put a blockade around Christmas. Old Navy, Gap and Banana
Republic are owned by the same company. And all three boycott Christmas. At
these stores, Christmas isn't allowed because a handful of non-Christians are
offended.

STOP RIGHT THERE! That "handful" of people includes a Jewish population in this country which ranges from 4 to 7 million people, up to 2.5% of the country. That would fill a big hand. Add a nearly extra million for atheists, and that's a lot of people...who spend money.

Old Navy doesn't want to offend non-Christians. But they sure don't worry about
offending Christians. They will take your money, but they will not recognize
Christmas. Old Navy doesn't sell Christmas gifts. They sell "holiday" gifts.
They don't close their stores on Christmas. They close on "holiday." They don't
observe "Christmas morning," they observe "holiday morning." They don't wish
customers a "Merry Christmas." They wish them a "happy holiday." Old Navy
boycotts Christmas.

Such parsing. This guys's worse than Bill Clinton.

Old Navy has been boycotting Christmas for years. And despite thousands and
thousands of requests to recognize Christmas, they refuse to do so. In fact, Old
Navy is so adamant about boycotting Christmas that they have blocked incoming
e-mails requesting they recognize Christmas. When an Old Navy store manager was
asked if the word "Christmas" was used in his store, he answered: "We have a lot
of Christmas gifts in our stores, but the word 'Christmas' is not used here.
Everything is 'holiday.'" Old Navy even makes a joke of Christmas by offering
video greetings called "Happy Chrismukkah."

At least it's not Virgin Mobile. Happy Chrismahakwanzakaa, people.

Everyone has the option to say what they believe. But having shoved down your throat. My suggestion is to shop Old Navy, PetSmart, Virgin Mobile, and anyone else who has told these "protectors of the Baby Jesus," thatwhen you say "HappyHolidays," you INCLUDE Christians too.!

Ho. Ho. Ho.