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To: My Favorite Headache

Those who can't muster the courage to call it Christmas, won't get my Christmas dollars.


5 posted on 11/19/2005 10:43:20 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne

Did you ever think in your life of calling it a "wishing tree"?????????????? LOL!!!!!!!


7 posted on 11/19/2005 10:44:10 AM PST by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: DoughtyOne

I heard on the radio that J.C. Penney still uses Christmas.


11 posted on 11/19/2005 10:45:36 AM PST by yarddog
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agreed.


14 posted on 11/19/2005 10:46:49 AM PST by Tempest (I'm a Christian. Before I am a conservative.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Those who can't muster the courage to call it Christmas, won't get my Christmas dollars.

They won't get my dollars, either. They mistakenly seem to think that we are a captive audience. They must now content themselves with selling to all their many customers who gather together on December 25th to celebrate WISHING.

Enough is enough . . . and the only way to send that message to these ignoramus corporations is by withholding our dollars. They are so afraid of offending some minority of customers that they blatantly insult the multitude of customers who have made them successful.

25 posted on 11/19/2005 10:50:22 AM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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Those who can't muster the courage to call it Christmas, won't get my Christmas dollars.

Spot on, I have emailed all the retailers that will not wish Merry Christmas and have told them the same. If a few million more would do the same they might just get the message.

65 posted on 11/19/2005 11:12:52 AM PST by Wil H
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To: DoughtyOne

Exactly my thoughts!


121 posted on 11/19/2005 12:34:07 PM PST by chae (R.I.P. Eddie Guerrero He lied, he cheated, he stole my heart)
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hose who can't muster the courage to call it Christmas, won't get my Christmas dollars.

Why should it require courage to call the holiday "Christmas"? We have celebrated Christmas for many centuries without anyone being harmed by it. There is no reason why we celebrate that day as a special holiday other than the birth of Jesus Christ. The big retailers are very happy to to take our money in exchange for their Chinese made Christmas gifts and decorations, but they can't bring themselves to use the proper word for the season.

I noticed a Home Depot flier in my mail yesterday. All 6 pages featured Christmas related items such as Christmas trees, Christmas tree holders, Christmas wreaths, Christmas lights, and many items intended for Christmas gifts. Yet with all that there was NO mention of Christmas as the reason for the season. Every reference to merchandise offered for the Christmas season was prefaced by words such as "winter holidays" or "seasonal gifts" instead of Christmas.

There was another insert from the CVS drug store chain which used the same tactic to avoid using the proper title of the holiday. Scores of ads for Christmas related merchandise but no mention of Christmas. I am utterly disgusted with the entire retail industry. If they want to deny the religious significance of Christmas and still rake in our money for the items which are bought solely for Christmas gifts they can do it without my money. There are still some stores in my small town which aren't ashamed of the name "Christmas", and I would rather give them my business than to further enrich big corporate retailers who apparently have forgotten that they are doing business in a nation in which 90% of the people still celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ instead of the winter solstice, or Gayia, or Mohammed, or some envirowhacko Earth Mother.

I propose a total boycott of every retail chain which refuses to use the name "Christmas" in it's ads. Whether or not anyone else joins with me, I will not trade with retailers who are ashamed or afraid to call Christmas Christmas. I also plan to email or call the corporate offices of every corporation which is denying the reason we celebrate this holiday. Maybe if their Christmas sales fall off and they are told why that is happening they just might realize that what they are doing may be OK in some parts of the world, but it is not the best sales strategy to use here at home in the good old USA where we still celebrate the miraculous virgin birth of God's Holy Child.

137 posted on 11/19/2005 1:01:29 PM PST by epow ("Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people" Prov. 14:34)
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"Those who can't muster the courage to call it Christmas, won't get my Christmas dollars."

Very well said, and it is one reason that I do not miss living in the US anymore. The PC garbage is more then I can stand.


168 posted on 11/19/2005 3:15:54 PM PST by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava)
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Dittos.


175 posted on 11/19/2005 5:16:01 PM PST by twntaipan (What did the comPost know? And when did they know it?)
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