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But yes, on the goatse.
Maybe the shirt is a message from their inner passive-aggressive liberal trying to outsmart them and escape.
BACK: "99% of you can fuck off is what conservatives mean"
that's when we elect a T-Shirt to be president. Can't you see that they are very important to Slog and society?
Instead of fighting to put Christ back in Chritmas why do you fight to get Christ back in Christian. When Christians start acting more like Christ and less like an assholse then they can lecture us about Christmas.
We may be stuck with current Congressional district boundaries until after the 2020 census as @14 alludes, but we should start focusing RIGHT FUCKING NOW on winning state legislative races and advocating non-partisan redistricting commissions in the 37 states that do not use them exclusively. We should have started in 2000. We lost a lot of ground (not to mention lives and money) sitting around pissing and moaning during the Bush years.
Democrats can win even in heavily Republican-favored districts if they're sufficiently motivated to do so. If Dems control more state legislatures ASAP, they'll be in a far better position to influence the next round of redistricting in 2020-22.
We'd be better off educating and motivating D-leaning voters now than endlessly pointing and laughing at Republicans' hamfistedness.
I think.
At least that's what they told me at the Ultra-Secret R.E.A.L. Liberal Society meeting/hazing/induction ceremony last year. Maybe it's different now.
Gotta take the good with the bad; ignore the dark side at your own peril.
And fuck off Republiklans. Merry Fuck Off and I hope you die on New Year's being gunned down by a drunken Mel Gibson screaming Merry Goddamn Christmas while spraying the room with his AK-2ndFuckin'Amendment-47 given to him by Wayne LaPierre in celebration of a cakeless goddamn birthday.
"My way is good!" is almost always less offensive than "Not-my-way is bad!"
Not to get too nit-picky, but you DO worship the same god as Christians, and Muslims too for that matter; that's why collectively we call Judaism, Christianity and Islam "Abrahamic religions", because they all spring from a single godhead: Yhwh, Jehovah, Allah - the names may be different, but it's still the same old man in a bathrobe. It's the little details about who is or isn't considered a messiah that has had them all killing each other like nobody's business for the last couple of Millennia.
This "Happy Holidays is a war on Christmas" bullshit is a lie. And liberals keep playing into their bullshit by taking the bait.
http://blackfridaydeathcount.com/
"I was Helvetica Bold before Helvetica was cool."
those fuckers ain't even human
Yes.
That isn't a liberal shirt?!
Also +1 to @1-38
But the extremes on either side can be vexing. I went to a "holiday tree" lighting the other night that featured a choir that sang a sappy song about helping, a traditional Hanukah song, and a song about solar energy that was set to the tune of "Angels We Have Heard On High". The whole thing was so ridiculously Seattle that I had the urge to stage a live Nativity scene right then and there, but I didn't have a manger handy (although there were plenty of asses in attendance).
On the other hand, an office that I am aware of cancelled their annual Holiday Party because two "religious" people got bent out of shape because they were not calling it a Christmas Party, and another "religious" person who doesn't celebrate Christmas got offended by the whole thing. (All three of them make a big deal of leaving their Bibles out on their desks, and spend most of their days sending prayer request e-mails back and forth, which is apparently more important than work)
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas…
@48: I was stocking shelves one day and a few things of fruit cake had come open during shipping so we marked them out of stock and shared them among the employees and it was tasty actually.
I thought it was higher than that, actually. Most Chinese immigrants *I* know are Evangelical. I suspect it has a lot to do with why they're here in the first place, since the Communist party's official stance on such dangerous cults is that they're dangerous cults. Making them, at best, unwelcome. Then there's Filipinos, who are mostly Catholic, and really, only *look* Asian, since they're actually Pacific Islanders.
Apparently I was wrong, but I'm not exactly taking a sample of people across America. :)
Either way, not every Christian (capital C or otherwise) sees the world quite this way, either. So this only really appeals to paranoid Christian types who think they're surrounded by attacking forces every day of the year.
Seattlites are fortunate that we were less affected by the recession than most cities. However, housing prices and rents are rising faster here than ANYWHERE else in the country. If action is not taken quickly to allow Seattle to impose rent control, we will lose our recent growth in web and startup businesses. Wages will rise to keep up with rents. Prices per square foot will quadruple in record time. And higher wages will drive companies out.
I have seen this happen with the banks in San Francisco. Bank of America and Wells Fargo moved out. So did the other large companies. The only companies left in town were the law firms. Rents then went down with recessions, and came back as dot-coms and web startups increased.
But today 6 people, share-renting a 2-bedroom apartment, is nobody's idea of dignity. You have professionals living in closets and living rooms.
Even though new Seattle apartment units are coming available, due to a building boom several years in the planning, they will soon fill up with those paying extremely high rents. And single family dwelling prices are already going through the roof, including rents on these SFD's. Seattle real estate prices have definitely recovered from the recession, and then some.
Before the situation gets out of hand, placing extreme pressure on wages and on people, I plead with you to introduce a bill removing the current state prohibition of rent control in Washington State, RCW 35.21.830. We must act now or see a situation where Seattle turns into San Francisco. And we wouldn't want that, would we?