It really is worth watching in full screen.
A few of my favorites. I'll be adding throughout Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Enjoy!
Joyeux Noel! Muslim 'freedom fighters' defend themselves against French tourists as they picnicked. We all know how oppressive those French picnickers can be...
Mauritanian authorities said they were searching Tuesday for three men suspected of links with a local terror network in connection with the fatal shooting of four picnicking French tourists.
Gunmen opened fire on the tourists after they refused to hand over their money Monday near Aleg, a small town 150 miles east of Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, police said.
The dead included two children. Their father, the sole survivor, was seriously wounded and flown overnight to the main hospital in Senegal's capital, Dakar, where he was in an intensive care unit, said Moussa Samb, spokesman for the hospital.
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The three suspects were tried this year by a Mauritanian court on terror-related charges but acquitted and released. Prosecutors had accused them of being local members of the Algeria-based terror network, al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa, and of training with the group in Algeria.
The man who allegedly arranged the taxi for the three was tried earlier this year on similar charges. He was convicted of having trained with the al-Qaida group in Algeria and given a one-year suspended sentence.
UPDATE: ABC News reports at least two of the perpetrators of this horrible crime have been captured:
Two Mauritanians suspected of involvement in the killings of four French tourists were arrested Friday and officials said they are believed to belong to an Algerian-based terror cell affiliated with al-Qaida.
The two suspects, both in their 20s, have confessed to participating in the Christmas Eve attack, said Lucinda Barbosa, director of judicial police in the tiny West African nation of Guinea-Bissau.
It's Christmas again. But during this season of joy, let's not forget those who sacrificed all their Christmases so people like us could celebrate ours. Please keep them in your mind, your heart, and your prayers.
Track Santa as he makes his deliveries all over the world!
Ride along with Santa in Norad's exclusive "Santa Cam":
The bastards! And all Santa was trying to do is deliver toys to all the good Jewish boys and girls...
I just have one question - Why didn't Santa just fly his sleigh into Israel? Something ain't kosher... ;)
1. No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
2. There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
3. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seemes logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
4. The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
5. 353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enourmous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250- pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. In conclusion -
If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.
Thanks to Dezert-Rose for providing this gem.
I'm an atheist. I don't believe in organized religion, though I don't think religion is necessarily bad. If belief in a faith makes you a better human being, and makes you treat other human beings better, then you should pursue that faith.
Every year around this time, debates arise about whether we should celebrate a holiday which blatantly promotes the Christian faith. Attempts are made to remove CHRIST from Christmas so as not to offend non-Christians. Personally, I'd first rather see SLAUGHTER removed from Ramadan so as to stop offending non-Muslims.
In this world of unending violence and hatred, why are we so focused on renaming a Christmas tree to HOLIDAY Tree? Is it to deflect our attention from life and death matters to such asinine, politically correct silliness?
Christmas is Christmas and always has been. It was never "Winter Festival" or "Holiday Break" or whatever other pc name some try to apply. Christmas was created to celebrate the birth of Christ, whether you believe in Christ or not. Even as commercialism seized the holiday, it was still Christmas. No one is forced to participate. Kwanzaa is always Kwanzaa, Hanukkah is Hanukkah, Ramadan is Ramadan. So why shouldn't Christmas remain Christmas?
Just my non-religious view.
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Oh, and by the way, MERRY CHRISTMAS!
