{"id":167,"date":"2005-12-01T13:06:17","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T19:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?\r\n\r\np=167"},"modified":"2005-12-01T13:17:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T19:17:24","slug":"our-top-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/our-top-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Top Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if I’m amused or exasperated by the recent struggle<\/a>
\n over what to call the national sacrificial tree: Christmas or Holiday? Dead <\/p>\n

is most accurate.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine the look on Jesus’ face if he came into your living room and saw your Christmas tree? “What the <\/p>\n

hell is that?”, he’d ask.<\/p>\n

From libertine secular humanist to the most hidebound bible literalist, everyone must realize that that <\/p>\n

the solstice tree comes to us from pagans or polytheistic Romans, not from the bible or Jesus. Part of the Christian Conquest of Europe <\/p>\n

(and the world) involved co-opting anything they couldn’t suppress or destroy.<\/p>\n

So, by all means, call it the Capitol <\/p>\n

Christmas<\/em> Tree. Just don’t overlook the irony. <\/p>\n

Almost as ironic as Christian enthusiasm for pagan symbols is the <\/p>\n

decision of the Albuquerque Journal to elevate this to the MOST IMPORTANT STORY OF THE DAY. Or do I misconstrue the meaning of its <\/p>\n

placement just below the banner across the front page. Perhaps in today’s news bizness that’s just the place for the piece that gets us <\/p>\n

to plunk our dollar down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The \n\nCapitol Holiday, er, Xmas Tree<\/div>\n

I feel sorry for writer Michael Coleman if this is what it <\/p>\n

takes to get one’s stories on the front page.<\/p>\n

If that place is for stories with both a national and local twist, the Journal <\/p>\n

could have elevated the story in which both of our Senators are pursuing the intimacy and duplicity of the Oil Industry with BushCo. Or <\/p>\n

how about the following, which languishes deep in section C (and is missing from the HTML equivalent). mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Group Says LANL Plutonium Missing<\/em><\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n

[mjh: Jesus Christ! Is this not<\/em> news?]<\/span><\/p>\n

POJOAQUE \u2014 More than 660 pounds of <\/p>\n

plutonium<\/strong> at Los Alamos National Laboratory is unaccounted for, a Maryland-based environmental watchdog group said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research compared public records data from the nation\u2019s weapons and disposal sites <\/p>\n

with a 1996 Department of Energy report detailing plutonium waste inventories. IEER researchers discovered large inventory discrepancies <\/p>\n

at Los Alamos, said institute president Arjun Makhijani, who co-authored a report on the findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if I’m amused or exasperated by the recent struggle over what to call the national sacrificial tree: Christmas or Holiday? Dead is most accurate. Can you imagine the look on Jesus’ face if he came into your living room and saw your Christmas tree? “What the hell is that?”, he’d ask. From … Continue reading Our Top Story<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}