A hat-tip to Ohio’s Governor Strickland:

The Christmas manger displays in Shawnee State Park in Scioto County and Malabar Farm in Richland County had been taken down after a complaint from a Shawnee visitor. He argued that large figures representing the Hindu and Zoroastrian religions should be displayed, too.

Strickland spokesman Keith Dailey says the governor decided last week that the Nativity scenes should be restored to the state parks because they’re appropriate and traditional.

More people need to stand up and say, “Oh, you’re one person and you’re offended? Well gee, that’s too bad. Grow up. I’m not caving in to your whining because hundreds/thousands/millions of people would be offended. Deal with it. Get a life.”

Full article here: Governor orders return of Nativity scenes to 2 state parks

How much time before this craziness spreads to the United States?

Writing in todays Medical Journal of Australia, Associate Professor Barry Walters said every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over each childs lifetime.

Professor Walters, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia and the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, called for condoms and “greenhouse-friendly” services such as sterilisation procedures to earn carbon credits.

Be on the lookout folks. And be prepared to use The Mailbox to write your elected officials when the nutjob idea of a “baby tax” jumps the pond and is touted by someone as the “only way to save the planet.”
Full article here: Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expert | NEWS.com.au

What happens when someone makes and honest mistake about a religion these days? Especially a religion of middle-eastern origin? Typically, a lawsuit,  lots of media attention, a bunch of outraged practicers of the faith. Unless that mistake involves someone who is Jewish.

Seems a butcher had put out a display with a sign saying “Haunekah Hams”, unaware that pork and fish are two foods that Jews cannot eat according to their faith. The reaction?

“I just thought it was funny,” Shapiro, who described herself as an unobservant Jew, told the New York Post. “I wasn’t offended in any way. I just thought, here’s somebody who knows nothing about what Jews eat.”

Wasn’t offended in any way. Wouldn’t it be nice if more people were so tolerant?

Full article here: New York store red faced over ‘Hanukkah hams’