My partner emailed this to me:

Santa's Bad Day

A Christmas Story for people having a bad day:

When four of Santa’s elves got sick, the trainee elves did not produce toys as fast as the regular ones, and Santa began to feel the Pre-Christmas pressure.

Then Mrs Claus told Santa her Mother was coming to visit, which stressed Santa even more.

When he went to harness the reindeer, he found that three of them were about to give birth and two others had jumped the fence and were out, Heaven knows where.

Then when he began to load the sleigh, one of the floorboards cracked, the toy bag fell to the ground and all the toys were scattered.

Frustrated, Santa went in the house for a cup of apple cider and a shot of rum. When he went to the cupboard, he discovered the elves had drank all the cider and hidden the liquor. In his frustration, he accidentally dropped the cider jug, and it broke into hundreds of little glass pieces all over the kitchen floor. He went to get the broom and found the mice had eaten all the straw off the end of the broom.

Just then the doorbell rang, and irritated, Santa marched to the door, yanked it open, and there stood a little angel with a great big Christmas tree
The angel said very cheerfully, ‘Merry Christmas, Santa. Isn’t this a lovely day? I have a beautiful tree for you. Where would you like me to stick it?’

And so began the tradition of the little angel on top of the Christmas tree.

I replied back to him with:

This story is bogus.  The reason the little angel sits on top of the Christmas tree is to remind everybody that the little angel is gay -and he’s a bottom!

Sheeshe!  Leave it to the heteros to screw up a perfectly good gay story!

Could you even argue that point with me?

When one meth pipe isn’t enough.
When one 49-year old male prostitute isn’t enough.
When one hate-filled sermon against homosexuality isn’t enough.
When one adulterous affair isn’t enough.
When one prayer session with the President of the United States isn’t enough.
When one congregation of three million souls isn’t enough.
When that isn’t enough…

…You find a new church and you start it all over again in your barn.

h/t Joe.My.God.

From Joe.My.God:

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The man who launched the national anti-gay marriage movement in 2004, shortly after burying his gay father, has gotten divorced.

After 24 years of marriage, many of which were spent under incredible stress and strain during the White House years, the Roves came to a mutual decision that they would end the marriage. They did spend Christmas together with their son, and they plan to spend time together in the future. They maintain a strong friendship, and they both feel that that friendship is a source of comfort and inspiration for their friends and family.

The bottle-nosed douche-bag hates his Dad for being gay, and his own wife leaves him while he proclaims religious sanctity for marriage. Ugh! Let the Michele Bachmanns and Sarah Palin crowds defend the stupidity in this debauchery. Tiger Wood fans can only rejoice.

Republican has-been cartoons

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…Including Sean Hannity, both Republicans are out of office and defunct for their ideology in exchange for their religious zealously.

Orly Taitz, Esq is the Phyllis Schaffley of failure. Corruption and the Den of Inequity are lost onto religious zealots who would rather the American public write in Cyrillic and subversive Catholic-controlled Russian Orthodoxy

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The GOP has latched on to political clowns like Orally Taitz and the..ehem “Liberal” press has given a free-pass for their efforts.  Progressive politics can hail and waive the success of the Limbaugh-version of Gomer Pyle politic for decades to come.

Signed: “Orly Taitz DDS Esq.”

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Two white guys sympathising over the political demise of a washed-up beauty queen from Alaska.  It’s the essence of pot smokers everywhere from the mayor of Alaska’s going up in flames with a Bic and a metal-spoon.

I’m all a sniffle… Poor Sarah! <— NOT!

You were curious:

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The video shows the winner of “Ukraine’s Got Talent”, Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.

The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000.

She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.

It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.

She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.

This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.

In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.

The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.

Kseniya Simonova says: “I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me… The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment.”

Sarah Palin must be running out of excuses for her gaffes. As ThinkProgress noted earlier this week, the former governor was forced to address her “death panel” lie in the wake of PolitiFact’s designation of her claim as “Lie of the Year.” In an attempt to spin the lie, Palin is now calling the “death panel” claim a “metaphor“:

Though Nancy Pelosi and friends have tried to call “death panels” the “lie of the year,” this type of rationing – what the CBO calls “reduc[ed] access to care” and “diminish[ed] quality of care” – is precisely what I meant when I used that metaphor.

This should sound familiar to those who have been closely following Palin’s year-and-a-half in the spotlight. After Palin made the jaw-dropping claim that Alaska’s proximity to Russia counts as foreign policy experience, the McCain-Palin campaign used the “metaphor” excuse to defend the then-Governor:

A senior campaign aide who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity admitted that Palin’s knowledge of Russia may be limited to the way someone from Miami might obtain a general feel for Latin America.

“It is very much being able to look off the tip of Alaska,” the aide said. “Metaphorically, I’m talking about.”

Despite how metaphorical, allegorical, or analytical people attempt to make Palin sound, the truth is that her limitless string of gaffes and missteps are simply nonsensical.