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Who’s on Your Airing of Grievances List?
Today is Christmas Eve eve, which means it’s time to enjoy Frank Costanza’s Festivus, an annual tradition when we participate in the “Airing of Grievances.” This is a special day to skewer those deserving of our ire.
Many folks are on my list, from politicians, journalists and celebrities to my neighbor upwind of me who partakes in the “herb.”
I will start the list with Terry Fine. Terry is a professor at University of Central Florida who wrote an article suggesting Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or even Happy Holidays is “exclusionary.” Instead, Terry wants us to greet each other with “Happy Federal Holiday.” Because guv’ment is our true religion, amirite?
I would suggest that we take a new approach that observes “the holidays” we all have on our calendars, no matter our religion.
My friends and I wish each other a “Happy Federal Holiday.”
Most everyone is included and no one is excluded no matter their religious beliefs or practices. The banks are closed, along with post offices, local, state and federal government offices, and state institutions such as UCF. As long as we live in the United States, these federal and state holidays impact us equally so we might as well celebrate them equally, too.
Obviously the force stupid is strong with this one. If Terry was just some random blogger, it would be laughable. However, the fact she is a political science professor molding the minds of Orlando’s yutes distinguishes her to be on my list of people worthy of grievances.
Imagine the carols sung at Professor Fines annual Federal Holiday party:
Good tidings we bring
To you and any non-gender specific thing,
We wish you a Happy Federal Holiday
And a Happy New Anytime You Wish to Be in this Space/Time Continuum
Merry Christmas Terry!
What/who are on your airing of grievances?
Published in General
My favorite from 2015 was a statement from a leftist who had visited Cuba this year: “You need to visit Cuba before it’s ruined.”
Wow… Forgot Fisher Stevens played an Indian fellow. That wouldn’t fly today. Add to my list offended letter-writers who complain to movie studios.
The list is long and varied- most of which was covered- but the biggest is ISIS destroying ancient artifacts- it “literally” breaks my heart.
All of you.
Coworkers who steal your favorite pen so you only get it back when they’re fired (who’s laughing now!)
People who get mad when others take too long turning into oncoming traffic. You’re not going to pay for the damage if something happens to my car, so you can just go and suck a lemon!
Many people who are idiots and don’t know how to make a left-hand turn.
If there is traffic preventing the immediate turn, the driver should pull forward straight into the intersection. If there’s a light, pull directly under it. If no light, pull into the intersection until near the spot you should be turning, which is NOT at the white stop line on the pavement but about two car lengths forward of that.
Now, when a break in traffic comes, the driver is ready to quickly make the left.
At no time during the turn should the driver of the car making a left-hand turn enter the lanes of oncoming traffic, especially not when actually turning. Those drivers who are lazy or just not paying attention invariably cut off the noses of cars waiting at the intersection into which they are turning.
These are the worst people in the world.
I feel better, even though I’m a day late for Festivus…
Super Sanctimonious Elites who use ‘inclusiveness’ as a sledgehammer to beat us into talking and/or thinking only in ways they approve, and constantly changing what is acceptable.
And large cities. All of them.
People on crowded public transportation who do not remove their backpacks. I don’t know when exactly this became “OK” to do.
It’s really bad on the NYC subway. There are public service ads imploring people to remove their backpacks, but virtually no one does. The trains are full of people looking like they’re about to scale Everest. If everyone on a train car were wearing a backpack, the capacity of the car would be approximately halved.
The backpack wearers have no concern whatsoever about the discomfort their packs cause others. They swing around, knocking into your coffee mug, jamming the packs into your chest and face.
I have a white grease pencil that I use to mark automobile parts, and I have a fantasy that involves holding the pencil, with its cap off, outward from my sternum and enjoying the interesting abstract patterns it would make on the packs, which are almost universally black.
Every single government agency and “enterprise”. Especially the Post Office. And the MVA (DMV). And the IRS. Did I mention that the FDA murders Americans? And the EPA strangles them? And the FBI shoots them?
This post is being read by the NSA.
People who think the world is rational.
Anyone who’s ever said, “We’re being inclusive; you’re not welcome here,” with a straight face.
I regret that I have but one like to give to this post.
Attention driver behind me: Your impatience does not impose an obligation on me. I will turn when/go as fast as I d–n well please.
You managed to get that grievance into only 16 words, counting “250” as a word.
I agree. I’m going to die, not pass. Sounds like I should be collecting $200.
I like the instant death part, myself.
And I thought I was a right wing nut job.
So it’s true that “We do a lot of killing in this country, too, you know.”
Regarding the “Professor of Federal Holidays”: The joke is on her. The federal holidays she is celebrating include Washington’s Birthday (slaveholder); Columbus Day (slave trader and committer of genocide); Jesus’s Birthday (false messiah of people who believe in primitive “sky God.”); Martin Luther King Day (preacher who believed in judging people by the content of their character rather than their skin color, which is the opposite of what we do now).
Speaking as a Canadian. Americans.
Protesters who act like they’re speaking truth to power and fighting for the little guy, but who would immediately join up with the powers that be under a truly oppressive, tyrannical state.
Speaking of poorly executed left turns, I saw a strange accident a few weeks ago. A driver of an SUV was attempting to make a left turn into my youngest daughter’s elementary school. The driver forgot that a green light without a green arrow means yield to oncoming traffic. On top of that, she was probably blinded by the sun and couldn’t see the oncoming car – a smallish Mercedes station wagon.
The station wagon tried to swerve around the encroaching SUV and ended up skimming across the grill of that SUV.
Two thirds of the side of that station wagon, including the driver’s door, ended up attached to the grill of the SUV.
The now almost sideless, and driver doorless, station wagon pulled over on the main road, and the SUV pulled into the school driveway with almost the entire side of a car attached to its grill. It’s victim’s front quarter panel dragging on the ground.
As far as I know no one was hurt.
I don’t know if the SUV driver was Canadian.
But…but…that doesn’t make any sense to me…
Chowderheads who slow up the line at the gas station selecting multiple scratch tickets, different flavors and fauna, all of which is designed to relieve said idiot of the $100 bill he’s waving at the poor clerk behind the counter.
And then, of course, just as he’s wrapping it up, he remembers he needs a pack of smokes.
Having just missed a connecting flight at Dulles, begging for the last seat on a flight to Boston, where I then had to beg three car rental companies for a Ford Crappus to drive 3.5 hours to Burlington VT, then deciding that driving in thick fog and rain was going to result in a car accident, put me in a Holiday Inn for the night, and then, finally, made my way north in better conditions, well, when I pulled off in West Lebanon for gas and a Diet Dr Pepper, well, I wasn’t feeling very charitable.
Good news: All $100 dollars are contributing to this idiot’s demise. Oh, and who, by the way, actually carries $100 bills around? Shady people, that’s who. Who also need a shower and shave. And I’m guessing a job.
Happy festivus!
Clowns.
Or worse… Canadian Clowns
Such as Justin Trudeau?
Billions for Snapchat, but nothing as funny as Seinfeld since the 1990’s?
Make America Laugh Again.
Nothing will ever be as fab as Seinfeld but Modern Family comes in a close second. Take a look but I warn … the neighbors will wonder about that LOL.