Christmas Stamps

2004 Madonna and Child stamp

The internet is agog with rumors of the War on Christmas, the Fight against the War on Christmas, and the Counterattack upon the Fight against the War on Christmas. The USPS will not be issuing a Madonna and Child Christmas stamp this year. The Politburo’s agents have heard unconfirmed reports that the Post Office will not be issuing any more in the future, although as of October, this site showed the USPS plans for 2006 to include a Madonna stamp.

Proper Socialist doctrine (as well as the irresistable opportunity to Photoshop) requires the Politburo to prepare the following stamps, for the consideration of the postal authorities, should the War on Christmas proceed.

Madonna and Kosher Pickle

Madonna and Kosher Pickle

Burqa Madonna

Burqa Madonna stamp

Meat Grinder and Child

Meat Grinder and Child

Madonna Cheneyed

CNN MESS


Madonna and Child, of Camp Crawford

Camp Crawford Madonna and Child


Melissa and Llama

Melissa and Llama

(Suggestions for other revised Madonna stamps will be entertained by the Central Committee, submitted via Trackback, of course.)

Others blogging the War, the non-War, the Fight, and/or the Counter-attack include TBogg, Darleen Click, Ann Althouse (although I do not believe that PJM has cornered the market on Madonna stamps). The latest information seems to suggest that the War has been postponed.

And should the War on Christmas develop, and the Madonna and Child go missing, doubtless we will see these:

Missing

Check out the clever stamps at: Riehl World View, and FistfulofFortnights.

Images by the Politburo’s Stakhanovite Photoshopnik, Jillian.

Trackbacks & Pings

  1. Michelle Malkin on 27 Nov 2005 at 10:00 pm

    THE WAR AGAINST CHRISTMAS

    Well, now that Thanksgiving’s over, the anti-Christmas season has begun. Darleen Click shares the latest salvo. John Gibson’s book is chockful of similar examples of secularists gone wild. *** Ann’s Fuse Box investigates the USPS Christmas stamp iss…

  2. Beautiful Atrocities on 27 Nov 2005 at 11:55 pm

    CULTURALLY SENSITIVE CHRISTMAS STAMPS: BURQA MADONNA

    …

  3. basil’s blog » Breakfast: 11/28/2005 on 28 Nov 2005 at 7:32 am

    […] […]

  4. The Suppressed Blog on 28 Nov 2005 at 1:42 pm

    Post Office Says “Bah Humbug” to Religious Christmas Stamps

    The United States Government has joined the secular war on Christmas. That’s right, the U.S. Postal service will not be selling any “overtly religious” Christmas stamps this year.
    Darleen Click has logged the following account:
    As …

  5. The LLama Butchers on 28 Nov 2005 at 3:49 pm

    Somehow I missed this…

    The Commissar is hosting his reactionary counter-revolutionary contest to replace this year’s missing Christmas stamp. This was one of the official neokulturny proposals: Needless to say, we are officially floored, and are muzzling the inevitable resp…

  6. The Kommentariat on 29 Nov 2005 at 9:57 pm

    Cultural inclusivity at the Politburo.

    A fellow traveler blog, Politburo Diktat, has unveiled a new line of Madonna and child stamps just in time for this busy Christmas season. (Oh dear, I said it again!)…you best report me to the ACLU. Schnell! Schnell!)

Comments

  1. john(lesser) wrote:

    Blasphemer! The Holy Mother was not fond of Kosher pickles.

    Posted 27 Nov 2005 at 4:37 am

  2. beautifulatrocities wrote:

    Oh, this is just so wrong….

    Posted 27 Nov 2005 at 8:35 pm

  3. Patrick wrote:

    I bought two books of Madonna and Child stamps last week.

    Posted 27 Nov 2005 at 10:00 pm

  4. beautifulatrocities wrote:

    I think there should be a Kelly Ripa Madonna, but I’m not doing an effing T/B for it

    Posted 27 Nov 2005 at 10:35 pm

  5. beautifulatrocities wrote:

    Note to Patrick: Which Madonna & which child?

    Posted 27 Nov 2005 at 10:35 pm

  6. Nathan Hamm wrote:

    It’s not that I’m no good at following directions so much as it’s that a post with my photoshop would be terribly out of place on my blog.

    Anyhow, I would have loved to have found the version of this I did about seven years ago as a collage with an old version of the stamp. The Cold bottle in that one was much better and the Madonna was looking lovingly down at the delicious malt liquor cradled in her arms.

    Posted 27 Nov 2005 at 11:09 pm

  7. Patrick wrote:

    Note to jeff: THE Madonna and THE child, ******!

    Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 2:32 am

  8. Dan wrote:

    Not sure if my TB took.
    http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2005/11/madonna_and_chi.html

    Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 2:35 am

  9. Sadie wrote:

    I trackbacked. Your Spam Karma 2 don’t like it.

    Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 7:14 am

  10. commissar wrote:

    Sadie, Dan,

    Thanks for the link! I checked my SK2 ‘moderated’ list, and no TB’s there. And I see some from Basil and Jeff. Not sure what’s going on.

    So I put your links into the post manually.

    Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 7:38 am

  11. Sadie wrote:

    Thanks, Commie. My Wordpress says the TB went thru, so who knows? Lost in the ether. Or maybe my karma looked so bad it got junked immediately. That happens with a few nonsuspect domains that I used to have to rescue on a regular basis.

    Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 11:38 am

  12. Heartless Libertarian wrote:

    You’re absolutely sure the 2006 stamp won’t be Madonna Ciccone and her child?

    Posted 29 Nov 2005 at 10:55 pm

  13. Syracuse Stamp Club wrote:

    The whole story about the USPS ditching the Madonna and Child stamps is a false rumor . . . see the real story by visiting http://www.syracusestampclub.org/blog.htm

    Posted 02 Dec 2005 at 4:15 pm

  14. Jerky wrote:

    So… how does it feel to be such a ******* ridiculous right-wing moron?

    Posted 07 Dec 2005 at 5:09 pm

  15. commissar wrote:

    Well, “Jerky,” since you obviously cannot read, I guess it’s pointless to note that here and elsewhere I distinctly dismiss the notion of a “war on Christmas.”

    Maybe you should have someone read the post aloud to you.

    Posted 07 Dec 2005 at 5:14 pm

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