Maybe Rev. Sanders should take a look at her state's rankings (44th Overall and 47th in Healthcare) and ask her Jesus why Arkansass is doing so poorly in those areas.
Huckabee-Sanders got elected on name recognition and precious little else. By all appearances she has lived in the fundamentalist bubble from birth. A few things worth pointing out. There is no definitive evidence Jesus ever even existed. No one knows who wrote the gospels, and there are no original copies of them. Although things are attributed to Jesus no one has any idea what he actually said, because he didn't write anything down. We know a lot about the Romans because they DID write things down. The Romans were pretty good map-makers by the standards of their age, and the town of Bethlehem doesn't appear on any of them. There is no record of the Romans ever having conducted a census that required people to return to their place of birth, because what would be the point. When I see the kind of condescending smugness coming from Huckabee-Sanders I'm left with little doubt as to how the world got this screwed up.
Egypt did it, but only with people who worked in another part of the country that the one they were registered for taxes : sailors, merchants... And with the Nile, it was easy to cross the country in a few days, which wasn't possible in the Roman empire.
Why is her letter written as though Arkansas had never actually celebrated Christmas until she decided to WHEREAS all over the place? Did she single-handedly invent Christmas? What the hell is that all about?
I have tomorrow and Thursday off but I work Friday. I’m sure she’s giving them Friday off so they can have a long weekend rather than having to go back one day then have a weekend. Not that I actually attribute any kindness to her specifically, just some pragmatic thinking.
I wish I had Friday off too, I would go visit my mom, but I didn’t put in for it early enough and I was beat to the punch by three other people. So, since part of my job is to cover for those who are out of office, I will be doing three other people’s jobs that day, and they all have very different jobs. I expect it to be very slow, orders-wise, and I won’t be doing invoicing, so I won’t actually be too busy. Still would have been nice to spend Christmas with my dying mother. But with the play and other activities, I wasn’t able to manage my time all that well this month.
I honestly don't know if Sarah Huckabee Sanders is unaware of the State / Church violations she is committing, or if she's simply clueless. Her response to the FFRF suggests a bit of both, but this can't be the first time she's run afoul of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Sadly, I suspect that more money has to be wasted in court to demonstrate her error to her in no uncertain terms, before she'll get the hint.
Churchlings like her are purposely obtuse. You can "teach them" lessons but they're unteacheable. No matter how many financial penalties a court may impose they won't learn. BECAUSE it's someone else's money they use to pay the court penalties. Churche$ use the congregation's & congregant's.money. Hucksterby uses state funds. When courts personally put the penalties onto the obtuse churchling individual itself, then perhaps maybe possibly they might learn. Maybe.
This is why I will insist that offenders like Huckabee need to be hit PERSONALLY, in their own wallets. Do that and all manner of State / Church offenses would likely all but vanish.
She doesn't give a holy flying fornication about separation of church and state. After all, she has the "King of Kings" as well as (probably) the Roberts Christian Nationalist Supreme Court on her side.
“The @FFRF took issue with me closing state offices to celebrate Christmas…”
No, the FFRF didn’t take issue with you for closing state offices for the holiday. The FFRF took issue with you proclaiming the completely religious and highly unlikely story pulled directly from Christianity is the truth. They said as much. No one gives a flying fart about the state employees having a couple days off. They’re pointing out the unconstitutional language you used to announce the time off. They’re telling you that you crossed a line and better get back over to the correct side of it.
One of Trump’s lackeys — it might have been Bessent — “explained” Trump’s math. You see, if you lower the price by 80%, you would have to increase the price by 500% to get it back to the price that it was before. Trump is just approaching the math from the other side.
One of the independent media commenters observed that Trump hasn’t lowered any pharmaceutical prices by 80% so the backwards math is purely hypothetical.
She doesn't believe church/State separation exists. She 100% KNOWS it exists and tailors her every action to its destruction. This is not ignorance, it is arrogance.
"she told them that they should use that time with their families “giving thanks for Christ’s birth."
An Atheist, an ex-Muslim and a Pagan have a feast and exchange presents on December 24th*. No religion involved. Winter solstice celebrations, and many other things, predate christianity.
"and three wise men from the East. It presaged his ministry, which was not focused on the wealthy or powerful but rather on the poor, powerless, and meek"
If the wise men existed, they would have been high priests/astrologists, add the gifts of gold, myrrh and incense, and several days or weeks of travel, that doesn't exactly sounds like poor and powerless.
* Or any convenient date. Once, we celebrated it in early January because my sister was sick.
I was raised Catholic. We were taught that somehow (I still can't really explain how) Jesus and his dad are the same guy. He was upset at people breaking his rules and he couldn't just forgive us for breaking his rules, so he became a physical being like us so that we could kill him, which then allowed him to forgive us for breaking his rules.
No, that was Kristie Noem, former governor of South Dakota, who now as the head of Homeland Security has turned her attention to treating human beings as dogs. Worse really.
Maybe Rev. Sanders should take a look at her state's rankings (44th Overall and 47th in Healthcare) and ask her Jesus why Arkansass is doing so poorly in those areas.
Can't be bothered. She's too busy being a preacher to be a governor.
Huckabee-Sanders would likely go out of her tiny little mind at the mere suggestion a religious holiday other than her own be honored by government.
Huckabee-Sanders got elected on name recognition and precious little else. By all appearances she has lived in the fundamentalist bubble from birth. A few things worth pointing out. There is no definitive evidence Jesus ever even existed. No one knows who wrote the gospels, and there are no original copies of them. Although things are attributed to Jesus no one has any idea what he actually said, because he didn't write anything down. We know a lot about the Romans because they DID write things down. The Romans were pretty good map-makers by the standards of their age, and the town of Bethlehem doesn't appear on any of them. There is no record of the Romans ever having conducted a census that required people to return to their place of birth, because what would be the point. When I see the kind of condescending smugness coming from Huckabee-Sanders I'm left with little doubt as to how the world got this screwed up.
Egypt did it, but only with people who worked in another part of the country that the one they were registered for taxes : sailors, merchants... And with the Nile, it was easy to cross the country in a few days, which wasn't possible in the Roman empire.
Details, details! 😝
How could you make the baby jesus cry, and so close to his birthday with your facts and logic?
However, never fear there are many ways to calm a crying baby and to find redemption.
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Why is her letter written as though Arkansas had never actually celebrated Christmas until she decided to WHEREAS all over the place? Did she single-handedly invent Christmas? What the hell is that all about?
It's two - Two - TWO idiocies in one! Virtue-signaling and territory-marking!
Territory marking! 💩
It DOES seem as though she needs to pee on EVERYTHING, don't it?
December 26th? Why, I do believe that's Boxing Day. The day AFTER xmas. A day where the needy receive gifts.
Perhaps Sanders should be part of the spirit THAT day and give give give to her state.
She gives the poor the finger every chance she gets.
I have tomorrow and Thursday off but I work Friday. I’m sure she’s giving them Friday off so they can have a long weekend rather than having to go back one day then have a weekend. Not that I actually attribute any kindness to her specifically, just some pragmatic thinking.
I wish I had Friday off too, I would go visit my mom, but I didn’t put in for it early enough and I was beat to the punch by three other people. So, since part of my job is to cover for those who are out of office, I will be doing three other people’s jobs that day, and they all have very different jobs. I expect it to be very slow, orders-wise, and I won’t be doing invoicing, so I won’t actually be too busy. Still would have been nice to spend Christmas with my dying mother. But with the play and other activities, I wasn’t able to manage my time all that well this month.
Boxing Day - when the peasants trade places with the Lords.
I honestly don't know if Sarah Huckabee Sanders is unaware of the State / Church violations she is committing, or if she's simply clueless. Her response to the FFRF suggests a bit of both, but this can't be the first time she's run afoul of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Sadly, I suspect that more money has to be wasted in court to demonstrate her error to her in no uncertain terms, before she'll get the hint.
Churchlings like her are purposely obtuse. You can "teach them" lessons but they're unteacheable. No matter how many financial penalties a court may impose they won't learn. BECAUSE it's someone else's money they use to pay the court penalties. Churche$ use the congregation's & congregant's.money. Hucksterby uses state funds. When courts personally put the penalties onto the obtuse churchling individual itself, then perhaps maybe possibly they might learn. Maybe.
This is why I will insist that offenders like Huckabee need to be hit PERSONALLY, in their own wallets. Do that and all manner of State / Church offenses would likely all but vanish.
BINGO!!!
She is not governor for the well being of her constituents. Remember the overpriced lectern she waste taxpayers dollars on just to flatter her ego.
She learned that from Donny.
People like her never get those hints…
She doesn't give a holy flying fornication about separation of church and state. After all, she has the "King of Kings" as well as (probably) the Roberts Christian Nationalist Supreme Court on her side.
She does know and doesn't care.
“The @FFRF took issue with me closing state offices to celebrate Christmas…”
No, the FFRF didn’t take issue with you for closing state offices for the holiday. The FFRF took issue with you proclaiming the completely religious and highly unlikely story pulled directly from Christianity is the truth. They said as much. No one gives a flying fart about the state employees having a couple days off. They’re pointing out the unconstitutional language you used to announce the time off. They’re telling you that you crossed a line and better get back over to the correct side of it.
Lying liars goin' lie.
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I’ve reduced my expectations that Sanders will ever do the right thing by 300, 400, 500, and even 600 percent.
It went up to 1400% yesterday!
I missed that one.
One of Trump’s lackeys — it might have been Bessent — “explained” Trump’s math. You see, if you lower the price by 80%, you would have to increase the price by 500% to get it back to the price that it was before. Trump is just approaching the math from the other side.
Yes it was Lutnick doing that backwards math!
You misspelled "Nutlick".
One of the independent media commenters observed that Trump hasn’t lowered any pharmaceutical prices by 80% so the backwards math is purely hypothetical.
Thank you for correcting my error. I didn’t have a lot of confidence about it being Bessent but couldn’t think of Lutnick’s name.
Alternative math!!
The same percentage Donald Trump has promised to lower prescription drug costs. It's a miracle!
It is 71 degrees in the MidSouth. I am about to go out in public in Arkansas in my "Axial Tilt -It's the Reason for the Season" T-shirt.
Not even the hottest part of the day and it's 72F here in SATX.
For your sake, I hope SA is San Antonio and not San Angelo....Goat Roper Capitol of the World.
Wear Kevlar. Them Christians lookin for sumtin to shoot on theys day off.
If it gives you any solstice, it's 38F (3.3C) here in Iowa.
78°/26° with a feels like of 87°/31° at 1:21 pm EST.
She doesn't believe church/State separation exists. She 100% KNOWS it exists and tailors her every action to its destruction. This is not ignorance, it is arrogance.
Entirely too likely.
"she told them that they should use that time with their families “giving thanks for Christ’s birth."
An Atheist, an ex-Muslim and a Pagan have a feast and exchange presents on December 24th*. No religion involved. Winter solstice celebrations, and many other things, predate christianity.
"and three wise men from the East. It presaged his ministry, which was not focused on the wealthy or powerful but rather on the poor, powerless, and meek"
If the wise men existed, they would have been high priests/astrologists, add the gifts of gold, myrrh and incense, and several days or weeks of travel, that doesn't exactly sounds like poor and powerless.
* Or any convenient date. Once, we celebrated it in early January because my sister was sick.
The Huckster’s performance art is worthy of a negative 5 star rating. Time to throw Rotten Tomatoes at her. Aim for the eye
"Jesus was the Messiah and became a teacher and leader, and He would be crucified, suffer for the sins of all mankind"
Can someone explain to me exactly how that "suffer for the sins of all mankind" thing works?
I was raised Catholic. We were taught that somehow (I still can't really explain how) Jesus and his dad are the same guy. He was upset at people breaking his rules and he couldn't just forgive us for breaking his rules, so he became a physical being like us so that we could kill him, which then allowed him to forgive us for breaking his rules.
Wait, what...?
Former catholic here too (by birth, not by choice). It didn't make sense when I was young, and still doesn't make sense now.
So when someone said "Jesus motherfucking Christ" they were being literal, right?
Vampire God. Must have blood.
Bad hangover for a weekend then whisked off to a spa.
"you missed the point" says the point misser.
Just like Sanders to be the pot calling the silverware black.
Such passion for a season and festivities stolen from Pagans.
Sanders is something of the equivalent of Europeans planting their flag in the soil of the "New World" and proclaiming it theirs by divine right.
There has to be an amazingly long queue of Arkansas’ citizens waiting to got out of that destitute and poorly led state.
Question du jour:
What has Sarah Huckleberry ever done to benefit anyone besides herself?
Leaving aside the constitutional issues, it’s just intentionally rude. A slap in the face to non-christian state employees.
I'm sure HuckaSands feeling is that anyone who doesn't like it can just fuck off.
I’m from Iowa and so understand that impulse in a governor….
Wasn't it your former Gov. who bragged about a killing a dog for being "untrainable" or I am misremembering the state and doing Iowa a disservice?
No, that was Kristie Noem, former governor of South Dakota, who now as the head of Homeland Security has turned her attention to treating human beings as dogs. Worse really.
My apologies to Iowa for confusing it with South Dakota. And my condolences to SD for spawning such an evil creature.