Guess what, you're not being oppressed

Give it a rest with the war on Christmas bullshit.

When I was growing up I remember getting Christmas cards that said, "Season's Greetings" and "Happy Holidays" and no one was oppressing Christians.  No one complained, but then again there was the Fox News/Right Wing outrage machine to convince people that everyone hates Christmas.  (I guess all those Christmas decorations in the stores at the same time the Halloween candy goes on sale is proof how oppressed you are)

So, if someone happens to wish you a "happy holidays" before you assume that person is taking a dump on the sweet baby Jesus take a look at your calendar. If the person saying this is saying it at the end of November, they're talking about Thanksgiving, Christmas and maybe even some other holidays.  They're not oppressing you, so put away your fake outrage.

If they are saying it to you in December, again before you assume that they want to burn down your church, again look at a Calendar.  7 Days after Christmas is another big holiday, it's called New Years.  Maybe, just Maybe when someone wishes you a Happy Holiday they might be talking about that other big ass holiday a week later.

And I know this one probably goes right to your sense of persecution, but I once worked in a retail establishment that served a large Jewish clientele (this was before Hannity and O'Reilly declared that a war on Christmas existed).  We said "Happy Holidays" to everyone to cover Hanukkah, Christmas and New Years.  GASP.  Heaven forbid we INCLUDE anyone else in your little War on Christmas pity party.  But there are actually people who aren't Christian, even some Jews...like your friend Jesus.

So, instead being outraged about how oppressed you are when EVERYWHERE you turn in this country it's NON-stop Christmas from Nov 1 through Dec 31, go work on some real social injustice in this country.  Stop complaining about immigrants and how horrible taxes are and why the benefits of those taxes you receive are so much different than the benefits others receive, go behave like your hero Jesus would.  Go wash some feet, go feed the less fortunate than you. YOU go celebrate the real lessons of Jesus instead of complaining about how much everyone hates his made up birthday.

And we all know how likely that is to happen..

Chronology of "the US doesn't torture"

So, I think it goes something like this over the past 13 plus years

US Authorizes torture
Publicly Government States "We don't torture"
Pictures come out, testimony of Torture
Publicly Government States "That's not really torture"
More evidence of torture
Publicly Government States "America doesn't torture, and we surely don't have our allies torture for us"
Everyone in the world accepts as fact that the US did torture, outsourced our torture and probably did more than we'll ever know.
Fast forward to today
Senate report proves we tortured and it didn't work
Publicly Government States "We don't torture, well maybe we did, but we got all kinds of great information out of it (even if we didn't), but we certainly don't talk about it"
Media is outraged that "Holy Shit, the bad guys will know that we tortured because they didn't know it before"
Media has no problem that the Government lied, continued to lie, possibly acted illegally to thwart the Senate investigation, but is really concerned that the people that have hated us for a long time, have engaged in terrorism for decades are going to find out that America tortured their friends, (because they didn't know it before?), but now they're going to be really angry at America.

Grow up idiots.  The Government tortured people, it didn't work, probably created more terrorists.  The outrage should be that we tortured and lied about it, not that this report proves it and was released.