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Conn. lawmaker wants Halloween date change
UPI ^ | October 24, 2011 | UPI

Posted on 10/24/2011 7:34:36 PM PDT by Immerito

HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A Connecticut lawmaker says he wants to change the traditional Oct. 31 date of Halloween to the last Saturday of the month for safety and other reasons.

The change would make the holiday easier for working parents, safer for trick-or-treaters and would boost the economy as well, state Rep. Tim Larson said.

"Halloween is [a] fun night for the whole family, but not so much when you have to race home from work, get the kids ready for trick or treating, welcome the neighborhood children, and then try to get everyone to bed for an early school and work morning," Larson, a Democrat, told the Hartford Courant Monday.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: connecticut; democrat; flashers; halloween; molesters; needles; poisoncandy; predators; raincoats; razorblades; serialkillers; timlarson
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To: Immerito

We to have a curfew need to move Halloween to only daylight hours. Certainly dangerous and scary at night.


41 posted on 10/25/2011 2:12:17 AM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan
Not to mention the C-A-N-D-Y!!! Children should only get carrot and celery sticks.... and have a choice whether to get stick vegetables or to collect money for Unicef.


42 posted on 10/25/2011 3:33:02 AM PDT by Daffynition (“There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.” ~ Homer)
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To: Immerito

So is he going to ask that All Saints Day be declared to always be the day after Halloween?


43 posted on 10/25/2011 3:36:11 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: jtal

lol. I was just being sarcastic.


44 posted on 10/25/2011 4:54:48 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: onyx

Picture explains one of the reasons obamao is figuratively dismantling/pussifying the Corps...Where are all those old-style, turned-commie exMarines when we need them?


45 posted on 10/25/2011 5:34:16 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Immerito

I heard about this on the morning news and it made sense. By the time I get home from work on Monday Oct. 31st there will already be kids running around my neighborhood in the dark.


46 posted on 10/25/2011 5:55:33 AM PDT by McGruff (Hold the House, take the Senate.)
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To: Immerito

halloweek is more like it around here. there was a parade in the city where my kids live on friday for last football game/ halloween, a parade in my town last night, and all week the malls and downtown areas will be doing trick or treating at the stores on various days, costume parties at the bars friday and saturday, most churches will do trunk-or treat sunday and monday nights.
and of course my favourite- GWAR in detroit, which is always the saturday before halloween.


47 posted on 10/25/2011 6:23:15 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
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To: jtal
If you were a kid, you would want Halloween moved. When I was a kid, the Baton Rouge area would move Halloween to Friday if it fell on LSU football home game Saturday night. So I got to trick or treet in my own hood on Friday and then go to my cousins' on Saturday and go out again. Yay!
48 posted on 10/25/2011 7:20:47 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Drill Thrawl

And totally forget about New Years Eve. It’s too dangerous with all those drunks riding around.


49 posted on 10/25/2011 7:25:48 AM PDT by goldi (')
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To: Past Your Eyes
Why does the government have to be involved in it?

it's for the chillrun!

50 posted on 10/25/2011 8:50:42 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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To: Immerito

I hate coming home from work only to see a bunch of kids already lined up at my house to get candy. We used to wait until after 7PM to start trick or treating, now they pretty much start when the sun goes down.


51 posted on 10/25/2011 8:52:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: jtal; napscoordinator

There’s a simple solution. Have the Gubermint declare “All Saints’ Day” a national holiday.


52 posted on 10/25/2011 8:57:30 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOs!!!)
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To: Grizzled Bear; napscoordinator

Actually, in Europe, especially in Catholic countries, this is precisely the practice.

It would be nice to be able to go to mass on HDOOs without trying to squeeze it in before or after work, but we already have too many federal holidays IMHO and the private sector never gives these secondary holidays off (like Columbus Day for example). So for most people it wouldn’t make a difference.

I think the kiddos like having a mid-week festival even if it means they’re a little groggy at school the next day.

Heck in this day and age I’m surprised we still get Christmas off, aka “Winter Holiday”. If the holiday had not become largely secularized we probably would not at this point.


53 posted on 10/25/2011 9:16:27 AM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: Immerito; CaptainAmiigaf

My hubby never forgets my birthday! Why? Because my birthday is Halloween Oct 31st. There will be NO changing of the date of Halloween! :)

Besides, I really wish people would leave some American traditions unscathed. Although Halloween’s origin is a religious eve before All Saints Day, MOST American kids just “celebrate” with costumes, candy and fun. Halloween, Thanksgiving and Fourth of July are ‘holidays’ that we all share despite your individual religion....part of the American experience! And if Halloween offends you or is inconvenient for your schedule, here’s a novel idea: DO NOTHING that day.


54 posted on 10/25/2011 10:04:51 AM PDT by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Unless they haven’t had the good fortune to be born yet.
:(


55 posted on 10/25/2011 10:12:05 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (I'm sticking with Herman. No more second terms!)
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To: jtal

“Nope, it’s dumb and a further erosion of Western and American tradition.”
nail on the head. thanks jtal, for bringing reason to this.


56 posted on 02/02/2016 12:07:24 PM PST by Dirt for sale
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To: Immerito

They should worry more about their high corporate tax rates, ask GE.


57 posted on 02/02/2016 12:08:15 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Immerito

Looney Larson wears a pirate costume on Halloween.

Jes sayin’


58 posted on 02/02/2016 12:20:15 PM PST by Daffynition (*Security, confiscate their coats. Get them out of here. It's 10 below zero out there ~DJT)
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