Well, that’s fine for all you folks, but my own happiest childhood memories center around the Festival of Atlcahualo. Every year we’d join the great procession to the mountaintop shrine on Cerro Tláloc and cheer the priests as they carried one after another of a line of eight-year-old girls -- each specially chosen for her flawless beauty -- up to the altar stone, slashed open their chests, and offered their still-throbbing hearts to Tláloc and Tlaloque. But my favorite part, I have to tell you, was how if any of the children wouldn’t cry, we got to dangle them over pots of burning chili peppers until they produced the floods of tears that augered a bountiful rainy season. So, to any other Aztecs out there who are still sacrificing: a triumphant and fertile Atlcahualo, from our order of Eagle and Jaguar Warriors to yours.
Checking out Kwanzaa on Wikipedia I discover the heart-warming story of its inventor Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett). Under the various Wiki headings there’s “Criminal Conviction and Imprisonment” describing conviction for felony assault and false imprisonment.
The first column I remember blowing the Kwanzaa myth apart came from the late Tony Snow in 1999. Ann Coulter also had a good one later. It still limps on I think because no one actually celebrates it and anti-Christian elites can say "Happy Kwanzaa" as a way to step on Christmas.
I find it hard to believe that she will be accepted at large by Americans. She is wholly unlikable, even when she performs her goofy laugh. But, I suppose celebrating a fake holiday with no associated traditions is charming to the average American.
"Ever since I first shouldered the burden of what has been, each Secretary's Day I huff an entire bottle of Wite-Out, then immediately ad-lib at a public event…"
In seriousness, I'd love to hear what Kamala's father, the upright Jamaican-born economist Donald J. Harris, OM, has to say about family Kwanzaa celebrations.
Question: Do they have Kwanzaa in Wakenda?
Please Lord, begging for mercy...I know we get the leaders we deserve, but Cackles is just too much.
Steve found a new toy a day or two after Christmas 2020 and immediately did his best to break it.
Well, that’s fine for all you folks, but my own happiest childhood memories center around the Festival of Atlcahualo. Every year we’d join the great procession to the mountaintop shrine on Cerro Tláloc and cheer the priests as they carried one after another of a line of eight-year-old girls -- each specially chosen for her flawless beauty -- up to the altar stone, slashed open their chests, and offered their still-throbbing hearts to Tláloc and Tlaloque. But my favorite part, I have to tell you, was how if any of the children wouldn’t cry, we got to dangle them over pots of burning chili peppers until they produced the floods of tears that augered a bountiful rainy season. So, to any other Aztecs out there who are still sacrificing: a triumphant and fertile Atlcahualo, from our order of Eagle and Jaguar Warriors to yours.
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Checking out Kwanzaa on Wikipedia I discover the heart-warming story of its inventor Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett). Under the various Wiki headings there’s “Criminal Conviction and Imprisonment” describing conviction for felony assault and false imprisonment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga
The first column I remember blowing the Kwanzaa myth apart came from the late Tony Snow in 1999. Ann Coulter also had a good one later. It still limps on I think because no one actually celebrates it and anti-Christian elites can say "Happy Kwanzaa" as a way to step on Christmas.
https://jewishworldreview.com/tony/snow_kawnzaa.php3
It’s more fake than I thought. Good grief!
I find it hard to believe that she will be accepted at large by Americans. She is wholly unlikable, even when she performs her goofy laugh. But, I suppose celebrating a fake holiday with no associated traditions is charming to the average American.
You're killin' me smalls!
"Ever since I first shouldered the burden of what has been, each Secretary's Day I huff an entire bottle of Wite-Out, then immediately ad-lib at a public event…"
In seriousness, I'd love to hear what Kamala's father, the upright Jamaican-born economist Donald J. Harris, OM, has to say about family Kwanzaa celebrations.