Santa and his plans have nothing to do with religion.dinopello wrote:MSNBC (the most godless liberal media on the tube) has a breaking news banner that says "Santa Makes Final Plans for Christmas" and the anchor is talking to the weatherman about Santa's travel plans and the intervening weather.
dolanbaker wrote:I think that I'll stay this side of the pond.
It's not as mad here!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25488259
Marks & Spencer has apologised after a Muslim member of staff refused to serve a customer trying to buy alcohol.
The retailer said it usually tried to assign "suitable roles" to staff who could not handle certain items because of their religious beliefs.
It said this policy had not been followed in a case highlighted by the Telegraph over the weekend.
Consuming alcohol is forbidden in Islam, and some Muslims refuse to handle it at all.
An unnamed customer told the newspaper they had tried to buy a bottle of champagne from an M&S store in London, but the member of staff "was very apologetic but said she could not serve me" and asked the customer to use another till.
A spokesperson for M&S said: "Where we have an employee whose religious beliefs restrict food or drink they can handle, we work closely with our member of staff to place them in suitable role, such as in our clothing department or bakery in foods.
Subjectivist wrote:Dino, associating the crazies from a tiny church with a congregation numbering less than 20...
dinopello wrote:Does the right wing think they make any headway with the phony war on Christmas meme?
vision-master wrote:Roger Rabbit get's all his sheeple beliefs from GLP.
Pops wrote:Another retweet from the Outrage Of The Day propaganda machine.
AgentR11 wrote:Pops wrote:Another retweet from the Outrage Of The Day propaganda machine.
Hope this isn't too divergent; but American news, both left and right is absolutely dominated by "outrage of the day" type articles, meant to drive click counts and comment posts which cause more click counts and more advertising revenue.
Recently... I did something, myself, about it. I subscribed to a news source whose articles are, for whatever reason, completely lacking any of the "outrage" pieces. They're just missing. If there is any hint at an underlying source of one, its very muted, and with no word choices that would provoke anything more than a vague, "that's odd" comment.
Yes.. I subscribed to the Financial Times of London.
I am finding it a bit hard to go cold turkey from my daily dose of outrage, but I scold myself when I open the google/drudge news article accumulators.... Instead of outrage, the articles are dry, information filled, and couldn't provoke an emotional response from an unstable psychopath. Much less entertaining, but much more informative.
Not saying FT would be appropriate for all, but surely there is a suitable, but dispassionate source of informational reporting available, if one were to seek it out.
It will be less fun to read though.
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