Category Archives: Holidays

14 Feb

Caption This

VP Biden proposes and gets passed through congress a ban on assault-style, military bows that use high-capacity quivers of more than 10 arrows…just in time to avert a valentine’s day massacre by Cupid, a well-known mass-shooter.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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1 Jan

Happy New Year!

“Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.”
- Quote appears in 1755 edition of Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin

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25 Dec

Merry Christmas from Flopping Aces

One of my favorite videos…our military is all over the globe at this moment, from Afghanistan to Africa. Keep them in your thoughts. Merry Christmas to all the readers and authors of Flopping Aces.

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25 Dec

Christmas Funnies

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Sunday Funnies contains 76 photos.

“According to a new poll, most Americans think Santa Claus is a Democrat – which is really odd because when I think of a fat, old white man who hires unskilled labor, I think Republican.” -Conan O’Brien “Christmas is less … Continue reading

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4 Dec

War On Christmas? [Reader Post]

Posted in Holidays, Religion, War on Christmas | 199 Comments | 1,216 views
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22 Nov

Thanksgiving Day Funnies

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Sunday Funnies contains 49 photos.

Happy Thanksgiving!

“[Yesterday], after Obama pardoned a turkey at the White House, the turkey forgave him for the bad economy.” -Jay Leno

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31 Oct

Halloween Funnies

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Sunday Funnies contains 36 photos.

“So far for Halloween, sales of Obama masks are 30 percent higher than the sales of Mitt Romney masks. That makes sense. I mean, what’s scarier than four more years of this economy?” –Jay Leno

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8 Oct

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…”


“In fourteen hundred ninety-two/ Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

“He had three ships and left from Spain/ He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.”
– Source Unknown

I’m old enough to remember a time when Christopher Columbus Day was a national holiday that was widely celebrated rather than shamefully downplayed and derided. Columbus has become the symbolic white devil harbinger of all that is evil about America’s founding: genocide and manifest destiny imperialism; slavery and racism; annihilation and exploitation of peaceful, “noble savages” living in harmony with the environment.

Posted in American Exceptionalism, Anti-Americanism, History, Holidays, Immigration, multiculturalism | 19 Comments | 1,669 views
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19 Sep

International Talk like a Pirate Day Open Thread

Ahoy thar, ye band o’ scurvy scallywags! Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Feel free ta discuss anything ye’d like in this ‘ere open thread; just make sher ye talk like a pirate, or yer landlubbin’ comment will find itself walkin’ the plank! Aaarrrrgh!

Posted in Daily Distraction, Holidays, Humor | 8 Comments | 297 views
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4 Jul

4th of July – A call to return to the simplicity of our Founding principles

Despite July 2nd as the actual day the Continental Congress voted to approve a motion by the VA delegate Richard Henry Lee, calling for the colonies’ independence after a year of fighting with the British, July 4th became the official … Continue reading

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