1 I'd like to interrupt this broadcast to bring you more of ME!!!

2 (Insert Kanye West joke here)

3
Charlie Brown?

Never heard of him.

4

@1:

Can it, Barky, we're sick of your blathering!

/

If only we could say this to duh won.....

5 Obama just cut a commercial where Drew Brees throws a pass to an actor playing "Jesus" and Obama intercepts it, then gets in "Jesus'" face, and shouts "How ya like me now?" He says the commercial is for the purpose of "promoting volunteerism."

6 Hate speech! Not inclusive enough! What about our Muslim Citizens! They feel humiliated!

7 Seriously, though, can you imagine if this were made today? It'd be about recycling and using pigtail lightbulbs.

8 yeah, no way that Charlie Brown special gets made today. it's practically subversive.

9 even when I was a kid that stood out, because almost all other Christmas fare is the vague corporate feel-goodery that has been determined to be of the broadest commercial appeal.

10 I was just listening to "Christmastime is here". Isn't that from "It's a Charlie Brown Christmas"? Diana Krall sings it. It's beautiful.

11 Schulz and Melendez had to battle network executives over the religious aspects back in the day, too.

12 Thank you, Ace. =)

And Merry Christmas, brother.

13

Obama just cut a commercial where Drew Brees throws a pass to an actor playing "Jesus" and Obama intercepts it, then gets in "Jesus'" face, and shouts "How ya like me now?"

He says the commercial is for the purpose of "promoting volunteerism."

Wouldn't it be funny if, say, a certain group of people took to the streets to demonstrate in opposition to this 'hate speech' directed at their religion?  If they protested by breaking windows and burning cars and beating people up.....

oh, wait,..........

14 I thought Charlie Brown was also somewhat suspect until I learned in his obit that Charles Schultz battled depression.  Now I love Charlie Brown.

15 It could be done today.  I could totally see House doing it just to throw people off.  But genuinely?  Maybe.  The extended scene in the SGU episode where they were flying into a star and a pretty sizable chunk of the crew gathered to recite the Lord's Prayer suggests it's possible.

On anything marketed to kids (aside from Veggietales), probably not.

16 "The Charlie Brown Winter Solstice Special" Brought to you by Greenpeace, in collaboration with, ACORN. Allah Willing.

17 You could probably do a modern-day retelling of the story with Mary as a knocked-up sex worker and Joseph as a gay friend who volunteers to be Jesus' dad after she makes the "wrong" choice to gestate him, and some judgemental Republicans refusing to let her give birth in the E.R. because Mary's pimp doesn't give her health insurance. 

But yeah, not in anything for kids.

18 Video: So This Is Christmas (Honoring Those Who Serve) http://bit.ly/80sVlp

19 “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

And we can pop into the pub on the way back, and have a couple o' pints, lads!

 -- Stuff that Luke Left Out of the Final Copy

(which explains why they where in haste)

20 Like I said when Gabe posted the video earlier in the week I think:

Thank you Sparky.

R.I.P.

21 Merry Christmas ace!

22 Merry Christmas Ace and fellow Morons.

23 thank you for everything, Acey! Merry Christmas.

24 Merry Christmas all.  And I really mean that.

25

The vid of the soldiers is a good one. Proof that you can find peace, love and joy no matter where you are. God Bless each and every one of them.

Thanks, Ace, and Merry CHRISTmas to all the fellow morons.

 

26
I don't know a single Italian who is proud of Domenic the Christmas Donkey.

27 One Christmas wish I have is that celebrities, athletes, and politicians would stop telling us in PSA's to "give something back to the community"

This implies that everything you have was handed to you and nothing you have was earned by your own efforts.

Do recipients of government cash "give something back"?

28 5 Obama just cut a commercial where Drew Brees throws a pass to an actor playing "Jesus" and Obama intercepts it, then gets in "Jesus'" face, and shouts "How ya like me now?"

He says the commercial is for the purpose of "promoting volunteerism."

No endzone dance? Oh, and don't forget to "give something back to the community" in addition to the income, property, sales, estate and other taxes and "fees" you give to the community before they ask for your spare cash

29 Question:

Are the morons who post here regularly the "Base of Ace"?

30 Speaking of troops, Anybody else hear about that Salvation Army Major shot in front of his children down in Arkansas?  What kind of monsters do something like that?

31
I consider all you Aceholes.

32

Do recipients of government cash "give something back"?

Only if they're getting 'unemployment' checks. 

I've wondered for a long time why funemployment money is taxable, but all the other gimmes are not...perhaps because funemployment is to be considered temporary?

33

If welfare bennies became taxable, the resultant wailing & gnashing of teeth would be *music* to my ears. 

 

34 "Give something back" is like "Pay it forward" it's all the feel-goodiness of Christianity minus Christ.  I just wish they'd acknowledge their religion and have their own holidays.

35 Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly does 'pay it forward' mean?

36

Oh, BTW--

Merry Christmas M&M's.  God bless us, every one.

37 "Pay it Forward" was a fluffy movie that was basically the Gospel story (be nice to everyone and inspire them to be nice to others, randomly, and the world is a better place) minus Christ's divinity (all about the effect in this world) and therefore ressurection (which makes the end painful to watch).  Basically this kid gets the idea to do good deeds for three random people (from his schoolteacher who hooks up with his mom) and tell them rather than thanking him to do three random good deeds for other people, and it being a Hollywood script, it magically snowballs, because everyone was just looking for an excuse to give away their Ferrari.  Of course he eventually tries it on someone who's not all happy feely and we get a reinactment of what would have happened to Ghandi if the Brits had been half as stubborn as they were with us.

It was a bad date, so I may be biased.  The phrase may have been around independantly of the movie, but I doubt it.

38
There's a game on tonight.

And the Titans 2.5-point favorites!

39 Merry Christmas fellow Morons, So, they pre-empted Charlie Brown this year for one of Obambi's speeches. Without looking, can anyone tell us what the speech was about. Anyone? I think this would make a good symbolic commercial against all liberals. Go ask Joe Public if they remember the speech that preempted Charlie Brown. Comedy gold would surely ensue. In fact, ask some democratic congresscritters and put that in the commercial.

40 Thanks, Methos.  You've given me much more than a great explanation; you've saved me the rental fee *and* an hour or so of my life, should I ever see that movie on a shelf somewhere!

41 Here's an amazing version of a very old classic.  Merry Christmas all.

42

Every generation says what the heck happened to the values we were raise with but these last 50 years of change seem particularly loathsome.  The 60's seemed the end of peace between decadence and morality.  I know the 50's were idealistic and not all measured up but we strived for normalcy and greatness. 

     My generation came of age in the sixties and seventies.  The Pill was invented, allowing women to have more indiscriminate sex without getting pregnant but it didn't work that way.  More and more out of wedlock births occured.  VD runs rampant.  Ladies burned their bras and stepped down off the pedestals. Congradulations, now men speak to a woman like they are Longshoremen and the ladies think nothing of it.  Families are breaking down.  The kid who sets down to dinner with his or her Mother, Father and blood siblings is far and away the exception. 

     Artist once strove to lofty achievements, glorifying God and showing men and women at the peak of perfection.  No longer.  Now pictures of crucifixes in urine are called art.  Hollywood, always a decadent place,  at least didn't try to insult the values of the country or audience.  It is clear they have an open distain for conservative philosophy.  They remind me of children stamping their feet at the authority of their parents, only now with the money and megaphone of media, they have very big feet with which to stomp.

     Artists say they want to move people out of their comfort zone.  They have.  I truely no longer understand the left.  There is no rationality on their side, only anger and want.  I could simply rant and scream (and have) but not tonight.  I just set here perplexed and worry for my country.  If it will survive and will I be able to stand it.  I think this could be fodder for a thread some slow news day but an adult beverage would be helpful as it wouldn't be a fun night. 

     I am glad to have Ace and you M & M's.  As goofy as you act you are some of the saner people I know.  You make me laugh.  

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