Got beat up a little tonight.
I went to bed late last night after doing a Denver talk show that ended close to midnight. The alarm rang at 5:30 AM for another New York talk show, followed by another at 8:15, then 4 more print media interviews throughout the morning. Next I heard the news that Chambers Dictionary, the leading Europe reference dictionary had given us credit for adding "Chrismukkah" to the lexicon. Here's an excerpt from the article:
"Fancy a spot of shoulder surfing this Chrismukkah? But what would you do with your Yngling or Chelsea tractor?
These are some of the recently-coined words and phrases that made it big during 2004, and are set to be rewarded with inclusion in that famous authority on the English language, the Chambers Dictionary.
Researchers for the Edinburgh-based publication have been monitoring the lexical movers and shakers of the past 12 months and noted the emergence of exotic terms such as Chrismukkah - a combination of Christian and Jewish festivals used on some greetings cards....."
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1419752004
OK, that's pretty cool, I must admit.
Then it was back to packing and shipped today's orders. This evening, after lighting our menorahs, Michelle cooked a delicious baked chicken parmesan with polenta. Minna took her bath and was fast asleep by the time Alan Colmes called from his Fox News Live radio show.
Alan was joined by outspoken Catholic League activist William Donahue, who last week issued a press release denouncing Chrismukkah. Alan is the liberal one on the "Hannity & Colmes" show and I hoped would be pro Chrismukkah. Not to be. These two professional pundits proceeded to pound on me... and I did my best to get a word in edgewise. I don't know how it all came off, but it felt like I got beat up a little tonight.
5 Comments:
Ron, ignore the turkeys like Mr. Donahue and fly with the eagles. You didn't get beat up, they just let loose, as is their wont. But they won't stop you. Look, everybody, before there was this Christian Christmas thing, it was a Roman orgy holiday during the Roman Empire, and had nothing to do with dear little Jesus, who wasn't even called Jesus in his life time. He was little Joshua Ben Joseph. The Christians took a perfectly nice Roman pagan holiday and forcibly turned it into the mass of some make-believe Christ myth figure, and now they have the chuztpah to critcize Chrismukkah! Get a life, Donahue! Christmas itself is a total make believe myth festival in the first place, does not have anything to do with reality. Jesus was never any messiah or son of God, yet look what they do: they say he was born on Christmas Eve. Sure. What's next? That he rose to some make believe heaven?
And as for Hannukah, hey, it's another religions myth story, wonderful, but look, there was no Hebrew God, there was no Christian God, there is no Islamic God, why can''t everyone just shove the superstitions aside and get along?
Ron, keep going. You are at the beginning of creating a new myth for those who need it and relate to it. Good for you. The old religons are so passe. They shoulda been gone with the wind long ago.
Nobody beat up on you. Those are just angels trying to keep you strong and directed. Serve the people who like what you are doing, and ignore the rest. They are all stuck in their own inherited myth-takes!
Anon Y. Mass
The whole idea of the holiday of Chanukah is about the Jews fighting assimilation. Yes that is what the holiday about. It is not about eating potato pancakes or doughnuts. That only shows a major miracle that transpired on Chanukah. The very reason for the so-called necessity for such a holiday called Chrismukkah goes against every principle of Judaism and the Holiday of Chanukah. In Judaism a marriage of a non Jew is not even recognized as a marriage at all. All it is recognized as is a sin. Thus your wonderful Holiday that you made a nice and charming websites about is celebrating a sin. What is next? The Jewish pro-pork eating website? Or the Jewish Lets all eat on Yom Kippur website? The truth is, if the mother is Jewish, the child is Jewish. The father can be a gorilla, it makes no difference. The Truth is a Christian child does not have the right to celebrate Chanukah. Yes he does not have the right. It is a spit in the face to every Jew that actually cares about Judaism. I pity you all, who celebrate it, and for the Jews that do celebrate it, I wish you all a refouah shelaymah. I know, none of you know what it means, go ask your grandmother, if she is still alive. I am sure you all made her very proud by the way. (Note, it was not an insult)
Testing mate
I knew this sounded familiar. This loser went to the trouble of copying this same comment into every post on your blog??? Holy kosher cow! This is the guy the saying "Get A Life" was invented for!
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