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Wal-Mart worker 'history' after 'origin' of Christmas
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Posted on 11/11/2005 12:27:04 AM PST by News Hunter

"We at Wal-Mart believe this e-mail between a temporary associate and one of our valued customers was entirely inappropriate. Its contents in no way represent the policies, practices or views of our company. This associate, who was hired less than three weeks ago, is no longer employed by our company."

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To: TennesseeGirl

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.


61 posted on 11/11/2005 6:10:52 AM PST by drlevy88
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To: who knows what evil?

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.


62 posted on 11/11/2005 6:12:11 AM PST by drlevy88
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To: Borax Queen

They want the money, whether they cause offense in getting it or not. Sell outs.


63 posted on 11/11/2005 6:16:38 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: drlevy88
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.

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.

64 posted on 11/11/2005 6:17:00 AM PST by who knows what evil? (New England...the Sodom and Gomorrah of the 21st Century, and they're proud of it!)
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To: Axhandle

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.


65 posted on 11/11/2005 6:20:56 AM PST by em2vn
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To: drlevy88
All that pesky stuff about being Lord might have something to do with it.

I certainly don't see anyone proving him a liar...

66 posted on 11/11/2005 6:25:10 AM PST by sirchtruth (Words Mean Things...)
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To: who knows what evil?

Of course. It was a joke.


67 posted on 11/11/2005 6:25:54 AM PST by drlevy88
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To: weegee
Have to laff at the freepers who said this was another radical Christian conspiracy theory to forward on a bogus boycott.

"Laff" away. Obviously, it wasn't WalMart's position, as many freepers said all along.

68 posted on 11/11/2005 6:27:51 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: nicmarlo

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.


69 posted on 11/11/2005 6:32:16 AM PST by Borax Queen
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To: rhombus

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.


70 posted on 11/11/2005 6:34:49 AM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: GraceCoolidge

All good points. Kudos.


71 posted on 11/11/2005 6:36:24 AM PST by smith288 (Peace at all cost makes for tyranny free of charge...)
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To: MSSC6644
However, Thanksgiving, which marks the beginning of the Holiday Season, is not a part of Christmas. The Jewish Holidays are not a part of Christmas. As much as I hate to say it, Ramadan and Kwanza are not a part of Christmas. But they, whether legitimate or not, are part of the Holiday Season. l

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.

72 posted on 11/11/2005 6:38:07 AM PST by JCEccles
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To: R. Scott

A thousand years is hardly "relatively" recent. That is about as long as European civilization has been in existence.


73 posted on 11/11/2005 6:38:34 AM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: News Hunter

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.

;-)


74 posted on 11/11/2005 6:42:08 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: KateatRFM
It will drive them crazy.

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"

75 posted on 11/11/2005 6:42:09 AM PST by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
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To: JCEccles

Christmas itself wasn't (Puritans avoided it like the plague), but the birth of Christ was.


76 posted on 11/11/2005 6:44:36 AM PST by drlevy88
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To: MSSC6644

Ramadan falls within the Sept.-Oct. time frame, not near Christmas.


77 posted on 11/11/2005 6:44:48 AM PST by Andy'smom
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To: Axhandle
Anyone who gets so worked up about this stuff clearly has a lot of free time and thus must be doing well financially.

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.

78 posted on 11/11/2005 6:45:50 AM PST by Palisades (Cthulhu in 2008! Why settle for the lesser evil?)
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To: R. Scott
If the Christian connection were to be separated from the holiday, how many people would give up the gifts, decorations and parties for a simple church service and family gathering? Traditions die hard – particularly traditions that bring joy and pleasure.

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

79 posted on 11/11/2005 6:48:13 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: ASA Vet

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.


80 posted on 11/11/2005 6:48:29 AM PST by drlevy88
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