christmas on December 25

How We Came To Celebrate Christmas on December 25th

In the 4th century, the Catholic Church and its officials decided to institute the birth of Jesus Christ as a holiday. Although the date of his birth is not pinpointed in the Bible, Pope Julius I chose December 25th to celebrate this occasion.

When Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan forces took over England in 1645 they vowed to rid England of decadence and, as part of this effort, Christmas was cancelled.
The tree was celebrated as a pagan tradition long before the birth of Christ.

Remember that Jeremiah is a book of rebuke and the theme is the partial destruction of the chosen of God in Israel for disobedience:


Jeremiah 10: 1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Bob says The wiccans or witches are angry that Christians stole their holiday

Bob says in other words, God says: Do not do these customs - like decorate tree's

For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Bob: DECK THE HALLS....FALALALALA.....

They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.

Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.


But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

Charles II was later restored to the throne by popular demand andwith him came the return of the popular Christmas holiday. The pilgrims -- English separatists that came to American in 1620 -- were even more othodox in their Puritan beliefs than Cromwell. As a result,Christmas was not a holiday in early America. In fact from 1659 to 1681, the celebration of Christmas was outlawed in Boston. Anyone exhibiting the Christmas tree was fined five shillings.

After the American Revolution, English customs - including Christmas - fell out of favor. Congress even sat in session as a regular work day on December25, 1789, the first Christmas under America's new constitution. It was not until well after the Civil War, on June 26, 1870, that Christmaswas declared a federal holiday, to be observed on December 25th to this day.

This is when America was falling away from the roots of Christianity.

Man pays alimony to ex-wife is now a man...?

Ananova:

Man unhappy to pay ex-wife - now she's a man

A Florida man is fighting to stop paying maintenance to his ex-wife - because he had a sex change and claims she's now a man. Lawrence Roach, of Seminole, says his ex-wife has had a sex swap op and is now living as a man.

He is going to court and says he should be allowed stop paying his $950 monthly alimony payments, reports Bay News 9.

"This isn't right. It's humiliating to me and degrading," he said.
"You know, I'm a man and I don't want to be paying alimony to a man. If you can't be married to a man legally, how can you legally pay alimony to a man? Good questions for the court to decide.

"Roach and his ex-wife, who Bay News 9 did not identify, divorced 18 months ago after being married for more than 17 years. Only in Amercia....

sounds pretty sick to me...

Bob

Seattle Airport removes Xmass tree - Rabbi Complains

The Airport Authorities at The Seattle Tacoma International have removed their Christmas trees from this airport following a a complaint and threat of a lawsuit from Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky of the Central Organization for Jewish Learning.

Bob's comment: I do not even put up a tree for this month, and I wonder why this rabbi has so much power in the USA.

The airport was being threatened with a lawsuit unless they put up an eight-foot menorah. The Port of Seattle airport authority knuckled under then they removed the Xmass trees before a lawsuit was to be filed, an airport spokesperson commented.

"We decided to take the trees down because we didn't want to be exclusive," said Terri-Ann Betancourt, spokeswoman for Seattle-Tacoma.

"We're trying to be thoughtful and respectful, and will review policies after the first of the year."
However, Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky of the Central Organization for Jewish Learning felt that the airport had missed the point of his suggestion, which was to add "light to the season".
"They've darkened the hall instead of turning the lights up," his attorney, Harvey Grad, explained.

I wonder if Michael Savage or Bill O'Reilly will cover this news story....

Remembering Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Day

65 years ago today, Japan attacked U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
We forgot the lesson of Port Arthur and the Russian navy that was heavily damaged in a sneak naval attack by Japanese forces. Japan sailed up to the harbor and torpedoed the ships of Russia.
In less than two hours on a Sunday morning, waves of Japanese naval warplanes inflicted a heavy blow on America’s military:
• 18 ships in Pearl harbor were sunk or severely damaged, including the USS Arizona.
• 188 U.S. airplanes were destroyed, 159 damaged.
• 2,403 members of the U.S. military were killed, 68 civilians were killed; and 1,178 were wounded.
The attack on Dec. 7 put America into WWII and this was a day that President Franklin Roosevelt said would "live in infamy" . Funny how Admiral Yamamato was educated in the US at an America University, Yale I believe.

I hope that Red China is not allowed to do the same one day...after all they killed our troops in Korea and Truman was more worried about a great general having his hands tied in fighting that winning a conflict and US troops dying...

Defense Lawyers and Police

A policeman was being cross-examined by a defense lawyer during a felony criminal trial, and the attorney was busy trying to destroy the policeman's credibility in front of the jury....

TRUE STORY....

Q: "Officer -- did you see my client fleeing the scene?"

A: "No sir. But I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the alleged offender, running several blocks away."

Q: "Officer -- and who provided this description?"

A: "The police officer who responded to the scene of the crime."

Q: "A fellow police officer provided the description of this so-called offender.
Do you trust your fellow officers?"

A: "Yes, sir. I do and with my life."

Q: "With your life? Let me ask you this then officer. Do you have a room where you change your clothes in preparation for your daily police duties?"

A: "Yes sir, we do!"

Q: "And do you have a locker in the room?"

A: "Yes sir, I do."

Q: "And do you have a lock on your locker?"

A: "Yes sir."

Q: "Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with these same police officers?"

A: "You see, sir -- we share the building with the court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room."

The courtroom erupted in laughter, and a prompt recess was called.

crackaddicts.com

If there were ever a site devoted to crack addicts ...

I would suggest www.crackadicts.com and have this story placed there...
I do not know if this is a real website...

Man stopped to smoke crack during police chase
from Ananova news

A US thief was arrested after he repeatedly stopped during a police pursuit to smoke crack.
Bob says: Wow is this wild or what?
Police say the man, who is 45 years old and is from Stratford, Connecticut, had been driving a stolen car in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The police chase began after he attempted to pay for gasoline with stolen credit cards belonging to the car's owner. With police on their way, he abandoned the car and ran off on foot, reports the Connecticut Post. After climbing over a fence, he stopped to smoke crack before running off again, the police officers say.

He headed off through the local seaport, and went to stand on a boat - where he had another crack break. The man was still on the boat smoking crack when officers apprehended him.

I give this guy an E for effort for his report card...

Bob