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Top 10 Real-Life Grinches (check out #1)
Smithsonian.com ^
| 12/7/09
| T.A. Frail
Posted on 12/10/2009 10:37:58 PM PST by DemforBush
These historical humbugs rival Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch in their lack of Christmas spirit...
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bahhumbug; scrooge
#1 stands out the most to me, because he sounds just like some of the anti-Christmas lefties that are out there right now.
To: DemforBush
#1 = Obama
an American President who doesn’t give his own children Christmas gifts.
Hmmmmmmmm I wonder why???
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posted on
12/10/2009 10:41:01 PM PST
by
DontTreadOnMe2009
(So stop treading on me already!)
To: DemforBush
I have to admit, I agree with a couple of them.
“Have they no workhouses? Have they no prisons?”
To: DemforBush
A side note, and I think of it every year when someone uses Ebeneezer Scrooge as an example of what not to be. Scrooge is remembered for all the wrong reasons. Rather than thinking of him in the terms of a miserly old grouch, he should be thought of in the way Dickens intended - as the product of salvation. Scrooge does something most people cannot; he genuinely sees the error of his ways and does what he can to repent. The story may end, but the implication is that he goes on a profoundly changed man, aware of his own faults and cruelty, using what time he has left to the betterment of others. Scrooge is a hero to be emulated, not a villain to despise. Just my two cents. Merry Christmas.
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posted on
12/10/2009 10:52:45 PM PST
by
stormer
To: PetroniusMaximus
My favorite line...
And I think Alastair Sim is my favorite Scrooge.
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posted on
12/10/2009 10:59:58 PM PST
by
stormer
To: DemforBush
#4 stands out from the others - “Diamond Jim Brady approached the recession-wracked Christmas of 1896 with a resolve to spread his wealth, and so he did, lavishing gifts on acquaintances around the country.”
Stop right there! Not a Grinch!
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posted on
12/10/2009 11:08:23 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: DemforBush
...slow day at the Smithsonian
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posted on
12/10/2009 11:14:59 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: DemforBush
Before he was brainwashed by those three socialist ghosts SCROUGE WAS RIGHT!
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posted on
12/11/2009 12:01:17 AM PST
by
Bookie1066
(It's not going to be Atlas Shrugged but Atlas Shot Back.)
To: DemforBush; DontTreadOnMe2009
“There must be an opportunity to live reasonably comfortable for all the people in the world on economic levels which do not vary too widely either geographically or by groups within a population. This is a simple matter of redistribution of material wealth.” —Brock Chisholm, M.D.
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posted on
12/11/2009 12:08:10 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: PetroniusMaximus
Have they no workhouses? Have they no prisons?
“Then let them die, and decrease the surplus population”...
To: Bookie1066
Oh that is funny. He was not right. He was a creep. He would not give any money to the poor through donations. Conservatives have alwasy donated money to charity. Conservatives give their employees off for Christmas without complaint. Stop being ridiculous.
To: napscoordinator
Conservatives have alwasy donated money to charity.Pretty wide brush you paint with there naps. Just sayin'.
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posted on
12/11/2009 2:12:26 AM PST
by
houeto
(Free Republic will not support RINOS!! Rudy McRomney, et al, can go straight to hell!! -JR)
To: houeto
True. I should have said that conservatives donate money more than liberals. That was written in a FR article last year sometime.
To: BigCinBigD
I wish the pleasure had been indefinitely postponed...
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posted on
12/11/2009 8:52:13 AM PST
by
Darth Tokarev
(Liberalism: Using intellectualism to justify moral cowardice.)
To: stormer
That’s an excellent point, actually. A Christmas Carol *is* ultimately a tale of redemption. Maybe that’s why it’s always been one of my favorite stories, in all of its tv and movie incarnations.
Merry Christmas to you too, btw.
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posted on
12/11/2009 3:00:42 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(Now officially 100% ex-Democrat.)
To: DemforBush
1. Brock Chisholm
2. The Rev. Paul Nedergaard
3. The British officer who ended the Christmas truce of 1914
4. Diamond Jim Brady
5. DJ Dick Whittinghill
6. The U.S. Coast Guard
7. Ambrose Bierce
8. Oliver Cromwell
9. The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
10. James Jameson
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posted on
12/11/2009 3:13:25 PM PST
by
paulycy
(Demand Constitutionality.)
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