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Touche`...
...both sides of this controversy need to lighten-up and honor the spirit of the season instead of squabbling over semantics.
posted by
metalrat
on December 21, 2008 at 9:28 PM
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Merry Christmas to you, too.
You are a hard person to read.......
I do hope your Christmas is a happy one for you and your family.........
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on December 21, 2008 at 3:08 PM
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good work gome, good work!
posted by
RITE2SPIN
on December 21, 2008 at 1:15 PM
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Bah! Humbug!
I always wanted to type that word. Who really wants to be a scrooge anyway at Christmas .. if they are honest? Great Post Gome! ~Peace, OTA
posted by
Blue_feathers
on December 20, 2008 at 4:37 PM
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gome
I couldn't have said it better myself!
posted by
Nautikos
on December 20, 2008 at 4:33 PM
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AMEN
well stated
posted by
muley12
on December 20, 2008 at 3:56 PM
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Well done and if only the politically-correct, hypersensitve, people of different religions who foolishly choose to settle in these Chrisitanized North Americas of ours can actually read those words of wisdom!
There you go! Now you have to take this post over there to Washington state and put it right in between the atheist sign and the nativity scene! Problem solved until next Christmas! Oops not that word again!
posted by
mordent
on December 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM
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Merry Christmas to you too!
I love it, I wrote a poem a week or so ago to the very same effect "A holiday jingle for the haters".
posted by
calia14
on December 20, 2008 at 11:26 AM
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happy Qwanzhanukkaholidayomkippur
posted by
calmcantey75
on December 20, 2008 at 2:22 AM
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Kabu - my primary beef with so called controversies such as this are that
they are poorly chosen battles.
There are many considerations entailed in constructing the framework to an ultimate goal of creating just, democratic societies. Every contributing member to a free society is entitled to exactly the same deal as the next person but sometimes making the determinations of what advances us along this path are not crystal clear. The Christmas name controversy is a dispute on paper so to speak, it may be technically something that should be changed but there are so many other immeasurable and intangible aspects.
posted by
gomedome
on December 19, 2008 at 9:46 PM
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WileyJohn - thank you - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well
posted by
gomedome
on December 19, 2008 at 9:11 PM
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Re: TAPS. - that notion of bad children being thrown in the devil's sack is
gomedome, when you stop to think that I was a child in the 1940's, I was pretty much a throwback to the past myself. LOL. We knew that Mom always said it in gest and Daddy never said any such things ever. He never threatened. He didn't have to. We were perfect when he was around. All he had to do was give us a certain look and we trembled in our boots.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 19, 2008 at 9:10 PM
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Re: Just my opinion. That's all I know.
Mystereo - same here and until I have it demonstrated to me what the real objections are in this debate, I have no intention of changing.
posted by
gomedome
on December 19, 2008 at 9:10 PM
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Re: and you have a great midwinter yourself
Xeno-x - Happy Festivus
posted by
gomedome
on December 19, 2008 at 9:07 PM
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Re: Good post.
ammon - an historical first so I will say thank you
posted by
gomedome
on December 19, 2008 at 9:07 PM
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TAPS. - that notion of bad children being thrown in the devil's sack is
a throwback to the past. I wonder how modern day psychologists would view it?
posted by
gomedome
on December 19, 2008 at 9:06 PM
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Fledgeling_Phoenix - thank you and thanx for stopping in
posted by
gomedome
on December 19, 2008 at 9:01 PM
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TexasGem - again thanx for stopping in
posted by
gomedome
on December 19, 2008 at 8:41 PM
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Oh Bravo I too am sick of so much political correctness I could throw
up my supper and that would be a shame because Friday night is Pizza night.
Where is the Australia that I grew up in raised my ungrateful kids in? Happy Holidays and seasons greetings but I notice that retailers of all Faiths or no Faith happily sell sell sell their stock to Christmas shoppers. At least for a few days of the year most of the world stops and thinks about love and peace and that has to be a good thing.
Have a really Merry Christmas with a cherry on top.
posted by
Kabu
on December 19, 2008 at 7:52 PM
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Gomedome
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year my friend. Shalom
posted by
WileyJohn
on December 19, 2008 at 7:43 PM
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Just my opinion. That's all I know.
posted by
Mystereo
on December 19, 2008 at 7:07 PM
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and you have a great midwinter yourself
posted by
Xeno-x
on December 19, 2008 at 2:58 PM
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Good post.
posted by
ammon
on December 19, 2008 at 12:39 PM
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You have no fight with me, I love tradition.
My childhood was loaded with Czechoslovakian traditions
including the threat that a bad child would be
thrown in the devil's sack and
carried off to hell, and for the good children
Santa's brownies would leave candy on the window sills.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 19, 2008 at 11:42 AM
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lol...
I knew I liked you.
posted by
Fledgeling_Phoenix
on December 19, 2008 at 10:40 AM
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leave our cultural traditions alone....I AGREE!!!
posted by
Texas_Gem
on December 19, 2008 at 8:09 AM
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