Aren’t you feed up with the whole "happy holidays" alternative to saying "Merry Christmas"? The music group Go Fish sings about what Christmas really commemorates. It is not the boast to the economy or the giving and receiving of gifts that is most important.
Click on the YouTube video above to hear the Go Fish group's sing and the listen to the narration of comedian Brad Stine on the subject of Christmas . . . Here are the lyrics of the Go Fish song:
It's Called Christmas with a Capital "C"
Well I went to a coffee shop
To get a cup of mocha
The lady at the counter said, "Happy Holidays"
I said, "Thanks lady I am pretty hap
"But there's only one
Holiday that makes me feel that way."
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(chorus)
It's called Christmas
It's called Christmas
What more can I say?
It's about the birth of Christ
And you can't take that away
You can call it something else
But that's not what it will be
It's called Christmas
God's got a law
And we have pretty much destroyed it
We gonna get judged
There's a way to avoid it
But Jesus came down
To take the punishment from me
He did it for you too
So maybe you can see why
(chorus)
It's called Christmas
What more can I say?
It's about the birth of Christ
And you can't take that away
You can call it something else
But that's not what it will be
It's called Christmas with a capital "C"
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. . .
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Have a very Merry Christmas and
a Happy and Healthy New Year!
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. . .
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So, I was listening to the radio this morning and it appears that this organization called the Federation for American Immigration Reform (have you heard of them?) are inviting 22-radio talk show hosts to broadcast in Des Moines next Thursday and Friday. I didn't think much of it until today at our church meeting our pastor told us that this group is made up of population control activists. I did a little digging when I got home and I think he was right!
ReplyDeleteI guess that I'm not surprised but when I started looking around I found that most of the radio talk show hosts are our allies?!?!? They support life. What are they doing appearing under the umbrella of this group and giving them credibility. Look at some of the things FAIR's founder and current board member said:
TANTON: Well, they were actually taken in 1978, to get ready for 1979. We [Federation for American Immigration Reform] got our tax ruling from the IRS in about August of 1978. We had arranged from some other contributions before that. One of the early contributions went to the ZPG Foundation [Zero Population Growth] and was subsequently re-donated to us when we finally got our IRS ruling. Pg. 29
TANTON: I don’t remember the exact sequence now in which people joined me on the board [Federation for American Immigration Reform], but certainly Sherry Barnes was on of the very first people. Sherry had served with me on the ZPG [Zero Population Growth] executive committee, and I knew her quite well. She worked for Planned Parenthood in New York and was a free thinker who was able to deal with topics like immigration, unlike some of our other colleagues at ZPG. So she was key. Then there was Bill Paddock, who had been on the board at ZPG. He had left it by the time, but he understood our point of view. So that made three of us. Pg. 30
TANTON: Let’s see, the fifth person in that original group was Sidney Swensrud, the former chairman of Gulf Oil. Sherry knew Mr. Swensrud from his work at International Planned Parenthood and the Association for Voluntary Sterilization, and she thought he might be interested. Pg. 30
TANTON: All five of the first board members, along with our executive director, came out of the population and environmental movements. The thing that got us all into this in the first place was the very high-level concern in the 1970s about population growth, and the population arguments were the ones we put forth initially. But we found they didn’t seem to carry as much weight with others as they did with us. Pg. 34
All quotes taken from “A Skirmish in a Wider War: An Oral History of John H. Tanton, Founder of FAIR”
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
...and my Pastor gave us this information as well:
FAIR AND THE PIONEER FUND
The Pioneer Fund was founded in 1937, based on the monetary endowment of Wickliffe P. Draper. Draper started the Fund in order to further his interest and goal of purifying the American gene pool by encouraging the descendants of white colonialists to procreate. Since that time the Pioneer Fund has become a centerpiece in keeping scientific racism alive through allocating grants for pseudo-academic studies. The Pioneer Fund serves as a primary supporter of the eugenics movement and has given it both the space to grow and the chance to politicize its research and theories.
The Fund can also be held partly responsible for the successes of several of its grant recipients. The Fund has given significant amounts of money to the likes of: J. Philippe Rushton who received $333,405 between 1994-1996, to research such topics as “cranial size and IQ in Asian Americans” and “brain size and cognitive ability: Correlations with age, sex, social class, and race; Roger Pearson who receive $568,000 between 1981-1991 and $159,500 between 1994-1996, to help argue that a breeding program be started to save the white race from inferior gene pools.
In years past a major contributor to FAIR has been the notorious Pioneer Fund (See Profile), an organization known for its support of racist, biological determinist and eugenic research and advocacy. According to the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism, Pioneer had contributed in excess of $1.2 million to FAIR between the time of its founding and 1996, $600,000 of which came between 1988 and 1994.
JOHN TANTON ON EUGENICS
“As with the euthanasia, active eugenics will deservedly continue to be rejected by most persons, but passive eugenics should elicit their support.”
The Case For Passive Eugenics
April 24, 1975
John H. Tanton, M.D.
Founder and Board member of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
JOHN TANTON ON POPULATION
“All five of the first board members, along with our executive director, came out of the population and environmental movements. The thing that got us all into this in the first place was the very high-level concern in the 1970s about population growth, and the population arguments were the ones we put forth initially. But we found they didn’t seem to carry as much weight with others as they did with us.”
April 20-21, 1989
A Skirmish in a Wider War: An Oral History of John H. Tanton
“Will the present majority peaceably hand over its political power to a group that is simply more fertile? As Whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion? … Perhaps this is the first instance in which those with their pants up are going to get caught by those with their pants down?”
John H. Tanton, M.D.
Paper for the WITAN study group, 1986, as referenced in Jean Stefanic & Richard Deldago’s
No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America’s Social Agenda
(Temple University Press, 1998), p. 11.
JOHN TANTON ON FAIR LEADERSHIP
“One person who attended those [FAIR] advisory meetings several times was Sally Gamble Epstein. Sally was from Washington and had worked in Planned Parenthood and population matters for many years. She also worked on the board of the Pathfinder Fund, an international population group centered in Boston . Another advisory board member was Janet Harte from Corpus Christi , Texas . Janet had also been very active in Planned Parenthood. Another person was Dorothy Blair of Naples , who also had been an enthusiastic Planned Parenthood supporter . . .”
April 20-21, 1989
A Skirmish in a Wider War: An Oral History of John H. Tanton
“You may not remember, but one of the reasons that we were able to get Sidney Swensrud to come to our board was that he had been on the board of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization, and they had a rule that rotated everybody off every three years.”
April 20-21, 1989
A Skirmish in a Wider War: An Oral History of John H. Tanton
Dick Lamm
FAIR Board Member
Former president of Zero Population Growth
Former governor of Colorado
“I first met him [Dick Lamm] at a ZPG annual meeting in Estes Park , Colorado where we occupied the podium together. After talking about the population problem, we had a great joke-telling session, as I recall.”
April 20-21, 1989
A Skirmish in a Wider War: An Oral History of John H. Tanton
Bill Paddock
Founding FAIR Board Member
Former president of the Environmental Fund (Now known as Population-Environmental Balance)
“Population-Environment Balance, or BALANCE, is a grassroots membership organization committed to stabilizing U.S. population in order to safeguard the carrying capacity of the United States .” http://www.balance.org/
Finally, I just heard on WYLL (Chicago), a Christian station will be sending Sandy Rios there! I guess people only embrace the celebration of life when it suits their needs. Anyway, I thought you should know. Below is the list of folks appearing with this group.
Organizers named the radio talk show hosts who will participate in broadcasts next week in Des Moines on illegal immigration:
- Jan Mickelson, WHO-AM, Des Moines .
- Michael McKoy, KWQW-FM, Des Moines .
- Randy Renshaw, KSCJ-AM, Sioux City .
- Roger Hedgecock, KOGO-AM, San Diego .
- Jack Rice, WCCO-AM, Minneapolis .
- Mark Reardon, KMOX-AM, St. Louis .
- Bill Manders, KKOH-AM, Reno , Nev.
- Dan Rivers, WKBN-AM, Youngstown , Ohio .
- Steve Gill, WLAC-AM, Nashville , Tenn.
- Sandy Rios, WYLL-AM, Chicago .
- Martha Zoller, WDUN-AM, Gainesville/Atlanta, Ga.
- Jim Cates, KMAJ-AM, Topeka , Kan.
- Gary Sutton, WBSA-AM, York , Pa.
- Michael Koolidge, WRHL-AM, Rochelle , Ill.
- Jon Justice, KQTH-FM, Tucson , Ariz.
- Inga Barks, KERN-AM and KMJ-AM, Bakersfield/Fresno, Calif.
- Fred Flanagan, WRKS-AM, Waukegan , Ill.
- Vicki McKenna, WIBA-AM and WISN-AM, Madison/Milwaukee, Wis.
- Ernie Brown and Jay McFarland, KRLD-AM, Dallas , Texas .
I thought you should know and I hope you speak out on this outrage! Speaking out against illegal aliens is one thing but establishing a relationship with a population control/eugenics organization that has a broader agenda is another!
God Bless,
Darryl
Thanks, Darryl, for your comments.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure I agree with your assertion that F.A.I.R. supports abortion/population control. I need to do more research myself.
Illegal Immigration is a problem and I believe other organizations such as NumbersUSA.com is trying to highlight this tremendous problem.
The problem is that our borders are porous. Our president does not want to secure our borders. Our congress does not want to secure our borders. Therefore the bureaucracy is ineffective in doing its job.
There is no enforcement of existing laws. Why are businesses allowed to employ illegals?
Why are our prisons filled with illegals?
Why do legal immigrants have to wait while millions of illegal aliens flow through the border along with possible terrorists and diseased individuals?
Abortion is a problem. Homosexuality is a problem. Illegal aliens are a problem. And terrorism is a problem. I would classify these as the major issues we face today.
I favor controlling our borders.