wtf?

Snow again?

We got an inch of snow overnight at MurkNorth! It's melted down to about half an inch now, but it was more earlier this morning, and it covered the roads to white. This is now officially freakish! See, we normally get two or three snowfalls in a year, not in a week. And there's more predicted tonight and tomorrow. So this is definitely bizarre.

Pretty, tho'. ^_^

(I suppose that in a normal Big Snow, which we maybe only get one of every few years, we get a few snows in a row. But it never melts away between those, they're cumulative. These are all separated by melts. The previous snow was gone, and then this appeared.)

Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Bill O'Reilly, a big backer of the "war on Christmas" nuttiness going around again this year and who specifically calls anyone saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" a part of it, is selling "Holiday tree" ornaments on his own damn web site - got, what an ass that man is; it's been changed now, but they got screen captures; look for history-altering denials from O'Reilly any time now;

More from the new Pope: in addition to the new no-gay-men-no-matter-how-well-behaved policy, gay men currently in seminary or priesthood are forbidden to teach - again, this is utterly independent of behaviour; being gay in and of itself is a moral crime;

South Africa's Constitution specifically forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation - its Supreme Court has ruled that this applies to marriage rights too, says Parliament must find a way to deal with it;

Malawi rejects Anglican bishop not for being gay (he's not), but for being not anti-gay;

Televangelists vs. Fundamentalist: Televangelist networks fighting "al la carte" cable/satellite options, "We don't just want to preach to the choir; we want to reach the unchurched";

New FCC head warns cable and satellite to clean up or face "indecency" regulation like broadcasters;

New Focus on the Family story against Target;

Kansas University's creationism class cancelled;

FotF's story on South African marriage rights conveniently neglects the South African Constitution's explicit declaration of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation;

FotF urges readers to taunt the ACLU by sending them Merry Christmas cards - "kindness will produce more smoke out of their ears than anything untoward you could think of anyway";

FotF continues asking for more "war on Christmas" stories from readers;

FotF claims "VATICAN RULING ALLOWS EX-GAYS IN PRIESTHOOD," implies endorsement of "ex-gay" fundamentalist movement; it actually doesn't, in general, post-adolescent same-sex attractions are a blanket disqualifier;

FotF drops Wells Fargo as bank over Wells Fargo's GBLT-supportive policies;

FotF: Texas cuts ties with national educational group over the national's support for queer student issues;

Walgreens, Lowes both agree to use "Merry Christmas" and Christmas terminology in place of "holiday" next year;

Lawsuit against California stem-cell research grants continues; attempt to dismiss it early fails;

"Unwritten" policy University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire banning RAs from leading bible-study groups in their dorms lifted;

Focus on the Family ACTION ITEM to flood the FCC with indecency complaints over a show most of their audience didn't even see; this is a repeat, because in the first version of the ACTION ITEM, they didn't include the show's air date and time, which the FCC requires, assuming that complainants have actually seen the show in question;

Concerned Women for America's Robert Knight blasts the "abortion-homosexual connection," talking about how the two "have worked hand-in-hand to destroy the primary of marriage and family and the Judeo-Christian sexual ethic";

LifeNews claims abortion increases the rate of suicide;

Agape Press claims "America's children are getting more aggressive and violent in their dealings with parents and peers," claims it because abortion is legal; also notes that President Bush has given his personal endorsement to the rabidly anti-gay Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colorado), who was the person who introduced the previous anti-marriage and anti-civil-unions Federal Marriage Amendment, specifically praises her work to "defend marriage";

FRC to announce Justice Sunday III in a sermon this Sunday at a Philadelphia Baptist Church;

FRC: "Only 12% of Dutch Homosexuals Marry" - another 10% are in the the previously-allowed domestic partnerships; this article is probably triggered by the fact that the marriage rate has doubled in five years and is climbing sharply as lesbian and gay couples adjust to the idea that they actually can;

FRC ACTION ITEM to urge more anti-"indecency" prosecutions by FCC;

Tony Perkins: "There Are No Atheists in Hurricanes"

WorldNetDaily on New Hampshire legislative commission: silly faggots, marriage is for kids;

CWA wonk Throckmorton says sexual activity causes depression in teenagers;

Traditional Values Coalition: precedents aren't important, overturn Roe v. Wade.

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