‘Nuff said….

And the unlikely culprit who is sanitizing and secularizing Christmas?  The Church of England:

Churches are making traditional Christmas carols politically correct by removing words such as “king”, “son” and “virgin”, it is claimed.

Enduring favourites such as Hark the Herald Angels Sing and God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen are being altered by clergy to make them more “modern and inclusive”.

But churchgoers say there is no need to change the popular carols and complain that the result is a “festive car crash” if not everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet.

It comes just a day after a Church of England vicar banned his congregation from singing O Little Town of Bethlehem because he believed its words do not reflect the suffering endured by modern residents of Jesus’s birthplace.

Another clergyman has rewritten the Twelve Days of Christmas to include Aids victims, drug addicts and hoodies.

Steve Goddard, co-editor of the Christian website Ship of Fools, which is running a competition to find the worst example of a rewritten carol, said: “It’s a festive car crash.

The result:  Chaos!

Oh what a tangled web we weave….

For years the Washington State Capital has had a Christmas tree in the Capital rotunda.  yes, they wimped out years ago and labeled it a “holiday tree”, but for all the political correctness, it is a friggin Christmas tree.

A Jewish group added a Menorah to the display, then another religious group petitioned to add a nativity scene, and won.

That brought us to the present debacle.

An atheist group placed a “winter solstice” sign that denounced all religion. 

And the fun started, as local groups expressed outrage.  The was transparently intended to be insulting and it worked.

It even made Bill O’Reilly’s show, featuring local horses ass David Goldstein (who also has a blog called horsesass)…

…twice, as it made his show again when he went head to head against Megyn Kelly of Fox News.

And the two latest news stories are that someone took the sign, it conveniently turned it in to a radio station, and it is back in place; and that a local pastor is seeking to place a clear anti atheism sign nearby

I offer up front that because of the mail in vote delays, many of these races are not actually certified, so there is a possibility that some results may shift.

I am not betting on it, but it is possible.

I posted my thoughts on Elections in general yesterday, and I still remain somewhat disgruntled.  I was reminded that moving to an adjacent county would offer me my ballot again, and I admit it is tempting, but I do like the area I live in, so no.  And that county also practices Instant Run Off Voting, which I also oppose, and of the two, mail in ballots is the lesser evil.

This election there were sever contentious matters on our local ballot which bear further reflection, because frankly the results were a bit of a surprise.

One of the bigger surprises was Dan Satterberg who appears to be winning the King County Prosecutor.  Dan was the ’protégé’ of late King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng, and has been serving as interim prosecutor pending this election.  The reason this is a shock?

The stories speak for themselves.

‘Santa Claus does not exist’ school tells stunned kids

A primary school has been accused of spoiling Christmas for pupils after a lesson telling them that Santa Claus does not exist.

Children as young as nine were told that only ’small children believe in Father Christmas’.

And yesterday their parents criticised teachers for taking the ‘magic’ out of the festive period.

The blunder came after the Year 5 pupils were given seasonal worksheets containing various festive classroom exercises.

One began by informing the children that ‘many small children believe in Father Christmas’.

It then went on to explain that thousands of letters sent by these children to Santa every year are actually answered by the Post Office.

Not content with the spolier, they then asked the kids to play grinch:

The youngsters were then asked to write a pretend letter from the Post Office to a child explaining why their requests for presents had been refused. (emphasis added)

To be sure, let’s not blame Sasha, she had no idea about it and was apparently "stunned" when she found out.

This is just another example of an official taking preemptive action when none was required, correcting imaginary wrongs and soothing unruffled feathers.

Pretty bad when the officials are idiots and their implied victims have more sense.

When did Christmas Carols become such a problem for crying out loud? 

 Olympic skater Sasha Cohen "stunned" by Xmas flap

Olympic figure skater Sasha Cohen was "stunned" to learn that a U.S. high school choir had been ordered to stop singing Christmas carols at a holiday show because she is half-Jewish, her mother said on Thursday.

A city official accompanied by a police officer caused a stir by silencing the carols on Tuesday night as Cohen signed autographs after a performance in Riverside, California.

Riverside Mayor Ron Loveridge has since apologized to the student choir, the Rubidoux High School Madrigals.

Well that’s something.

To some, the incident appeared an example of excessive political correctness in the United States over the celebration of Christmas — which some conservative commentators have characterized as a "war on Christmas.’