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		<title>Celebrate the Holidays the &#8216;You&#8217;ve Been Gored&#8217; Way: Festive Ideas for Believers and Skeptics Alike</title>
		<link>http://biggovernment.com/lbleidner/2011/12/10/celebrate-the-holidays-the-youve-been-gored-way-festive-ideas-for-believers-and-skeptics-alike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Bleidner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With just a few shopping days until Christmas, &#8220;You&#8217;ve Been Gored&#8221; offers&#8230;.

&#8230;Holiday Ideas for Green Grinches &#38; Climate Change Believers!
CCB &#8211; that&#8217;s Climate Change Belief &#8211; is a religion. It has a God (Gore) and prophets/saints (DiCaprio, Sting), but where are the holidays? Christmas and Chanukah offer great reasons to eat, drink and get crazy. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With just a few shopping days until Christmas, &#8220;<a title="You've Been Gored by Larry Bleidner" href="http://tinyurl.com/6rqd7lc" target="_self">You&#8217;ve Been Gored</a>&#8221; offers&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="You've Been Gored by Larry Bleidner" href="http://tinyurl.com/6rqd7lc"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-387644" title="Santa Gore " src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/12/Santa-Gore-21.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="337" /></a></p>
<p>&#8230;<strong>Holiday Ideas for Green Grinches &amp; Climate Change Believers!</strong></p>
<p><strong>CCB</strong> &#8211; that&#8217;s Climate Change Belief &#8211; is a religion. It has a God (Gore) and prophets/saints (DiCaprio, Sting), but where are the holidays? Christmas and Chanukah offer great reasons to eat, drink and get crazy. But ALpostles, convinced that all human activity damages Gaia, are such a gloomy  bunch.</p>
<p>So enviro-doomsayers, pull up an old cable spool next to the artificial, non-denominational log, grab a bowl of recycled waste-punch and get in the spirit with these fun holiday ideas.<span id="more-387544"></span></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a Grinchy carol you can sing (but not too loudly &#8212; that produces too much CO2.).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I’M DREAMING OF A GREEN, GENERIC HOLIDAY SEASON</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(Sung to the tune of White Christmas)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>I’m dreaming of a green, generic holiday season</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>the kind this planet used to know</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>where there are no damn people</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>or non-secular church steeples</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>or Humvee tire-tracks in the snow</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em> </em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>I’m dreaming of a green, generic holiday season</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>with every hemp-pulp, soy-ink card I write</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>may our days be somber and few </em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘til there’s no more GHGs, and no more you</em></p>
<p><strong>Green Holiday Cards </strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Have you noticed the new trend in holiday cards? In lieu of a Nativity or Menorah, there’s a goofy abstract. On the back, it tells how the card was made of recycled condoms, Big Gulp lids and pureed medical waste, then printed with soy ink. It claims that profits are going to the sender’s pet charity – usually something green. How sweet. And utterly meaningless.</p>
<p>Want to be a Planet Savior this year? Recycle and re-address last year’s card.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="You've Been Gored by Larry Bleidner" href="http://tinyurl.com/6rqd7lc"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-387620" title="Recycled Holiday Card" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/12/Holiday-Card4-300x161.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="161" /></a></p>
<p><strong>The Burning MANnenbaum </strong> (for CCDs &#8211; Climate Change Deniers)</p>
<p>To Deep Greens, having a whorishly decorated tree-corpse rotting in your living room is SICK. Who cares what they think? Blend old with new traditions, and have a BURNING MANNENBAUM.</p>
<p>Sure it will take a little extra doing, but isn’t that what the holidays are all about?</p>
<p>Grab the chain saw, hop in the Kenworth, and drive out to where the old-growth pines loom large. Pick your victim and slice it down. When you’re done, treat yourself to a couple cold ones, and be sure to leave the empties on the stump as a warning to the rest of ‘em.</p>
<p><a title="You've Been Gored by Larry Bleidner" href="http://tinyurl.com/6rqd7lc"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-387576" title="Burning MANenbaum" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/12/Burning-MANenbaum1.jpg" alt="" width="476" height="349" /></a></p>
<p>Once you get the tree home, raise it up with a block and tackle. If this is a tad daunting, google “Industrial riggers;” they’ll take it from there. Have them bring a cherry picker so you can get up high enough to carve arms and legs on it. At dusk, douse it with your accelerant of choice and brighten the neighborhood with holiday cheer.</p>
<p>Estimates claim one Burning Mannenbaum leaves a 27,000 ton carbon footprint. Let the Deep Greenies have their “Composting Dude.” Your Burning Mannenbaum will be seen from satellites and remembered by neighbors for <em>years</em>.</p>
<p>Your efforts will light up the kids&#8217; faces (and your zip code), save a tree from winding up as pulp for DiCaprio’s inevitable biography, and might just be your introduction to some fine civil servants from the fire department and law enforcement.</p>
<p>Have some punch and cookies on hand for the merrymakers this majestic sight will surely draw!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="You've Been Gored by Larry Bleidner" href="http://tinyurl.com/6rqd7lc"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-387648" title="YOU'VE BEEN GORED" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/12/Gore-Cvr-Cropped-w-border-221x300.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="300" /></a></p>
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		<title>Best Buy Ditches &#8216;Christmas&#8217; But Celebrates Muslim Holiday in Fliers</title>
		<link>http://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2009/11/27/best-buy-ditches-christmas-but-celebrates-muslim-holiday-in-fliers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warner Todd Huston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas. Who needs it? Not Best Buy, that&#8217;s for sure. After all, Best Buy is loathe to use that hateful word in its advertising. It&#8217;s so &#8220;religious&#8221; and tinged with racism, America, and tradition. It makes Best Buy shudder to think of using that foul word, Christmas. But, advertising for the Muslim holiday of Eid [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christmas. Who needs it? Not Best Buy, that&#8217;s for sure. After all, Best Buy is loathe to use that hateful word in its advertising. It&#8217;s so &#8220;religious&#8221; and tinged with racism, America, and tradition. It makes Best Buy shudder to think of using that foul word, Christmas. But, advertising for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha? Heck, why not? What could be more welcoming and tolerant?</p>
<p>And so, Best Buy has issued a Thanksgiving sales flyer wishing all good multi-cultural, Muslim loving Americans a <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/23/a-storm-is-brewing-at-best-buy/">happy Eid al-Adha</a> this year.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t you feel your heart warming already? Isn&#8217;t your PC bone tingling with happiness? And aren&#8217;t you secretly gleeful that those rotten, evil, reactionary, hatemongering Christians are getting theirs&#8230; even if Christians <em><strong>do</strong></em> make up about 75 percent of the United States?</p>
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<p>Well, let&#8217;s give Best Buy a hand for its politically correct sales flier excising that horrid Christmas nonsense and being enlightened enough to help us all convert to the &#8220;Religion of Peace.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thanks be it to Allah and Best Buy for helping us forget little things like the Khobar Tower bombing, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Towers, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, 9/11, or that silly little incident with Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood. It was but a trifle, after all.</p>
<p>In this happy Eid al-Adha season we can thank Best Buy for its sacrifice, too. For its sacrifice of America to its enemies, for the sacrifice of our traditions, religious principles, and culture to an alien, hostile ideology. We can thank Best Buy for helping organizations like CAIR to spread its message of cultural jihad.</p>
<p>Yes, thanks Best Buy for showing us how to be better &#8220;Americans.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now go ye forward and shop, America. Happy Eid al-Adha to everyone. And don&#8217;t let PETA stop you from buying that goat. And don&#8217;t mind us, folks. We are just committing cultural suicide is all.</p>
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		<title>Friday Free-For-All: Black Friday Edition</title>
		<link>http://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/11/27/friday-free-for-all-black-friday-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the first official day of what will likely be a disappointing (in terms of retail sales)  holiday season:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today is the first official day of what will likely be a disappointing (in terms of retail sales)  holiday season:</p>
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