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Posted on 12/17/2007 9:29:57 AM PST by XR7
An e-mail fracas at North Seattle Community College hits on why "the most wonderful season of all" causes us so much angst.
Here in Seattle, the phrase "Merry Christmas" has been largely expunged from public discourse. Haltingly and awkwardly, we wish each other happy holiday; we talk vaguely about a holiday season; we plan parties that by all appearances look like Christmas parties, but we never call them such. This despite every indication that Christmas, at least the consumerist trappings of it, is alive and well. Every Starbucks sign hawks a peppermint latte; the sound of Barbra Streisand belting out "Jingle Bells" can be heard all over town; whole city blocks are lit up like, well, like Christmas trees. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Seattleites more than any other citizenry I've witnessed seem to love themselves some Christmas lights. (Although not without challenge.) No doubt darkness by three o'clock in the afternoon has something to do with this, fueling one's desire to push back with gaiety against the dreariness of a Northwest winter.
So it came as no small surprise when the very people who are supposed to be stormtroopers in the so-called war against Christmas — college professors — leapt to the defense of a North Seattle Community College staff member who was chided for referring to "Christmas cookies" in a recent e-mail message...Apparently she sent out an order form for cookies, and these were supposed to have been holiday cookies, but she called them Christmas cookies. The reference slipped past most people's radars but was noticed by a human resources officer whose job it apparently is to sit in a mistletoe-free cubicle somewhere in the district, monitoring e-mail for vague religious references...
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I am moving to seattle in 08. You better damn well believe it will be Merry Christmas.
Here’s a card I got:
To All My Democrat Friends:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.
To My Republican Friends:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Whenever someone wishes me “Happy Holidays,” I always reply with “Merry Christmas.”
“Blessed are those who find no offense in me.” - Jesus
He saw it coming the second time even back then.
Which part?
Merry Christmas!
TS
Libertina, we'll have to welcome steel_resolve to the Puget Sound Chapter of Free Republic.
“Ah, let me have a solstice sandwich and a kwanze cup cake”
“OK Santa, anything else?”
“And a Christmas cookie please”
“How dare you!! Get out of my establishment, and take those reindeer with you.”
“Whenever someone wishes me “Happy Holidays,”
I reply what holiday?
Greenlake I think
...and Happy Holy Days to you, too.
I like Greenlake, although during most of summer you can’t swim their due to goose and duck poop. You shouldn’t be too far from the Woodland Park Zoo, which while not as nice as Point Defiance Zoo, is still very nice.
Hope you like rain, because we only have two seasons: Wet, and slightly less wet.
Have a sensational seasonal celebration of your selection. As for me and my house, we’ll celebrate the CHRIST mass.
Ohhh boy, are you in for a culture shock. Greenlake is as close to liberal ground zero as you can get. I fled Greenlake/Wallingford in August of 1982.
Welcome to the area, we need conservatives.
Sigh, yeah, that’s what I hear...
I will likely be in the Olympia to Seattle area in late 2008 or sometime in 2009. Together, we can give them some grief. :)
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