Posted on 11/11/2005 12:27:04 AM PST by News Hunter
Or maybe he was likening their talk (and their original non disavowal of the offensive screed, which they have now obliquely reversed by alluding to the firing or quitting of the author) to the passing of intestinal gas.
That sounds like a great idea, to move Christmas to a more convenient time, preferably when the traditional gift items have just started to arrive in abundance.
They want the money, whether they cause offense in getting it or not. Sell outs.
Perhaps, but I am not much of a materialist. I have clothing, food, a roof over my head, and a wonderful wife; a gift from G-d. I am content with these.
It's the Catholic League you moron. Do you have any idea just how conservative the league is. It is made up of the type of people that we wish "W" would be.
For a few bucks you are willing to turn your back on the efforts of a true conservative organization. I hope you choke on your money because in your case it damn sure comes before principal.
I certainly don't see anyone proving him a liar...
Of course. It was a joke.
"Laff" away. Obviously, it wasn't WalMart's position, as many freepers said all along.
I can see now why things have gotten so out of hand, based on people's comments here, acknowledging Kwanzaa criminal day, and putting their heads in the sand about the culture wars we are undergoing. Times have changed from 40 years ago: we have never been under such assault in the history of our country. Not recognizing Christmas is one symptom of the times - be it in advertising or the new "winter break" in schools.
It is successful by pandering to every movement however faux that rebels against our traditional society. Understand that Druids and Greenies are cut from the same cloth.
All good points. Kudos.
Christmas was and is the founding tradition in this nation--not Channukah, not Ramadan, not Kwanzaa. Christmas properly should have primacy over these other cultural traditions.
In a similar manner, traditional one-father one-mother families are the founding tradition of this nation. Just because Bruce wants to marry Roger and Penelope wants to marry Prescilla doesn't mean we ought to apologize for and downplay the primacy of traditional marriage for fear of offending Bruce and Penelope.
A thousand years is hardly "relatively" recent. That is about as long as European civilization has been in existence.
I can't boycott Wal-Mart.
Just no-can-do.
Not on your life.
Fuggedaboutit.
Nothing for me to boycott. I don't shop there now.
;-)
No it won't.
Greeters are not there to greet you. They're there to check bags, packages, coming into the store,
and to stop shoplifters from exiting though the entrance.
The greeter is merely a parrot repeating endlessly the phrase management directs.
It's rather hard to tell by looking which of the 100's of existing religions someone might or might not claim to be. They settled on a phrase which they believed to be non-offense to all but kookburgers.
They should have just used, "Welcome to Great Wal of China Mart"
Christmas itself wasn't (Puritans avoided it like the plague), but the birth of Christ was.
Ramadan falls within the Sept.-Oct. time frame, not near Christmas.
Like I said on another thread, if you put a gun to my head, I couldn't remember whether Wal-Mart cashiers said "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays" to me last year. They might well have said "Praise Baal," for all I know.
Maybe I'm weird, but I'm not looking for a corporation to validate my preferred holiday greeting. All I expect from a corporation is that they obey the law and give me the lowest price on whatever widget I happen to be buying. If they do that, their board of directors could be practicing satanists, for all I care.
Other than being a killjoy, of what purpose would it be to deliberately remove the joy and pleasure from a holiday?
It is my personal opinion that the meaning of any holiday is in the heart of the celebrant. If a person connects Christmas with the birth of the Christ, then it is a Christian holiday. If the person does not associate the holiday with Christianity then it is whatever they feel it is. For many it appears to be a Midwinter Celebration.
For far too many others, it appears to be an occasion for trumpeting ones own superiority.
SD
Yeah. China is a geopolitical and human abuse problem, but it's also quite unlikely they will lose their reason so badly that they will want to nuke their best customer. Taiwan or no Taiwan. Faustian bargain. I do not rigidly abstain from buying Chinese items, but I will do without or go with some other country of manufacture when possible.
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