Some People Really Believe In What They Don't Believe In?

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Gunz Up
wants to know:

Did you manage to get your Christmas cards sent to the prisoner detainees who despise you and everything you stand for? No matter what it is?

If you know what you stand for.

Or do you just hate?

Most of our readers know that I rarely drift off into politics. That's best left to Mom. But I've tried to let this article I read on FOXNews.com go all day. It's just the most ridiculous thing I've read in a while. I just couldn't let it go anymore.

Here's to insanity.
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California Man Sets Himself, American Flag, Christmas Tree on Fire to Protest Religious Names

Saturday , December 23, 2006

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A man used flammable liquid to light himself on fire, apparently to protest a San Joaquin Valley school district's decision to change the names of winter and spring breaks to Christmas and Easter vacation.

The man, who was not immediately identified, on Friday also set fire to a Christmas tree, an American flag and a revolutionary flag replica, said Fire Captain Garth Milam.

Seeing the flames, Sheriff's Deputy Lance Ferguson grabbed a fire extinguisher and ran to the man.

Flames were devouring a Christmas tree next to the Liberty Bell, where public events and demonstrations are common.

Beside the tree the man stood with an American flag draped around his shoulders and a red gas can over his head.

Seeing the deputy, the man poured the liquid over his head. He quickly burst into flames when the fumes from the gas met the flames from the tree.

The deputy ordered the man to drop to the ground as he and a parole agent sprayed him with fire extinguishers.

"The man stood there like this," the deputy said with his arms across his chest and his head bent down, "Saying no, no, no."

The man suffered first degree burns on his shoulders and arms, Milam said.

Kern County Sheriff's Deputy John Leyendecker said the man had a sign that read: "(expletive) the religious establishment and KHSD."

On Thursday, the Kern High School Board of Trustees voted to use the names Christmas and Easter instead of winter and spring breaks.

All I can say is: Christmas Christmas Easter Easter Christmas Christmas Easter Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus. Christmas Easter.

I'm sorry, Father.
Forgive him also.
And open his eyes.

but sometimes I just want to strike the match for people like this.

And shut my mouth.


But help me to

Remember,

It was the Veteran, not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.

It was the Veteran, not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It was the Veteran, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to fair trial.

It was the Veteran, not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to demonstrate.

It is the Veteran, who salutes the flag,
who served under the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.

Written by: Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC

and my hat is off to the schools that realize it's always been Christmas and Easter break for as long as there's been a break.