If the War on Christmas gets you steamed, Yule be boiling over at this news: The forces of political correctness in Oregon state public schools issued a new official calendar that omits the Christian holiday from the month of December.
The Oregonian educrats claimed it was a mere oversight. But while they so easily forgot the day marking the birth of Jesus, they were very careful to remember such “multicultural” events as Kwanzaa, the winter solstice (holy to Wiccans and druids) and the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
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And the more crunchy regions of the US aren’t the only front in the seemingly never-ending war on Christmas.
In Devon, England, a school has banned children from wearing angel wings at their annual nativity scene play because they did a “risk assessment,” and decided that angel wings are too dangerous.
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It’s the great “Ewe-dini!”
That’s what the Sun newspaper of Britain has dubbed a stunning sheep from Wales that has learned to use its tongue to pick the latch to its pen and escape.
The farmer who owns the wandering wooly even had to install a security camera to keep the sheep from going on the lam.
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The luckiest person in Massachusetts last week may just well have been a man who had a heart attack while playing football in a park.
Moments after coronary victim Rick Kezima collapsed, a runaway dog ran over to him, closely followed by the canine’s owners.
The owners, Kristen Hillner and Steven Gallant, just happened to be a defibrillator saleswoman, who had one with her, and a state trooper who knew CPR.
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Back during the days of Communist Russia, the nation was a dark and benighted place.
Now, however, if the Russians need light, at least they have cellphones.
That’s what the staff at one hospital had to resort to when the power went out while a 22-year-old woman was giving birth. They all pulled out their phones and used the glow to light the procedure.